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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    To be fair, the public holidays ("bank" holidays) are a quirk of my employer, usually they're rolled into four weeks paid holiday entitlement.

    I've never worked anywhere that specified a certain number of sick days, though.

    That must be nice.

    Ok so I'm an idiot. Is japan saying he has 20 days vacation, and 0 holidays because he has to work during the (for example) 10 holiday days, and those ten days are just added to his 20 days vacation, which basically amounts to 30 days vacation?

    I get 26 days paid holiday (assuming a five day week).

    Most UK companies give 20 days paid holiday. The Public holidays are a little weird in this situation, since you have to agree to work them (i.e. you can always opt to take those days as holiday, but it comes out of your entitlement if you do).

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I should really stop looking up covers of songs I love on youtube.

    I just found a video of Sum 41 doing Raining Blood :(

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    I CAN'T RUN A PHALLA.

    I AM A FAILURE AS BOTH A MAN AND A PROVIDER.

    ffffuuu

    We know. You're seriously supposed to get help with a major one :P

    I never realized how fucking unpredictable my schedule is. I spent most of the day flipping a house in another city at the sudden request of my father.

    What the fuck? Now I don't even know when I should post the narration since i've delayed the game by an entire day. Not to mention that it's incomplete. Sigh. I want to flail/scream/cry.

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    Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Sheep wrote: »
    I work for a TV, internet, and phone company.

    I get a call from upper management. Like, 500K a year BMW owning white guys that give me the evil eye when I haven't trimmed my beard in a while.

    "Have you heard of any problems with the HD and Premium channels today?"

    No sir.

    "Hmmm. We're having a problem with 404. Can you check it out for me?"

    Sure.

    *Checks out test TV*

    That's one of the music channels and it's coming in fine.

    "Really? What are you seeing?"

    Rick Astle... Oh. I know where this is going.

    "Hahahah *click* "

    This is absolutely fantastic.

    You know I bet they play WoW too.

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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    We did have the marketing director from Savannah down last month. Made him get us a pitcher of starbucks coffee because he said we looked cranky that morning.

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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    I CAN'T RUN A PHALLA.

    I AM A FAILURE AS BOTH A MAN AND A PROVIDER.

    ffffuuu

    We know. You're seriously supposed to get help with a major one :P

    I never realized how fucking unpredictable my schedule is. I spent most of the day flipping a house in another city at the sudden request of my father.

    What the fuck? Now I don't even know when I should post the narration since i've delayed the game by an entire day. Not to mention that it's incomplete. Sigh. I want to flail/scream/cry.

    I just assumed you were hung over.

    *edit since you edited, Post the narration whenever its done, apologize in the thread, vote ends normal time tomorrow.

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    I CAN'T RUN A PHALLA.

    I AM A FAILURE AS BOTH A MAN AND A PROVIDER.

    ffffuuu

    We know. You're seriously supposed to get help with a major one :P

    I never realized how fucking unpredictable my schedule is. I spent most of the day flipping a house in another city at the sudden request of my father.

    What the fuck? Now I don't even know when I should post the narration since i've delayed the game by an entire day. Not to mention that it's incomplete. Sigh. I want to flail/scream/cry.

    I just assumed you were hung over.

    Nah I never had time to be hung over. Speaking of that why must people show up at my door with alcoholic beverages and send me on wild and crazy adventures?

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Man say what you want about my Phalla but at least I made the narrations run on time

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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Man say what you want about my Phalla but at least I made the narrations run on time

    With how late his phalla was, the narrations being late isn't too surprising :)

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Man say what you want about my Phalla but at least I made the narrations run on time

    I know right? My game is a disaster. I took an awesome thing and made it not awesome.

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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Man say what you want about my Phalla but at least I made the narrations run on time

    I know right? My game is a disaster. I took an awesome thing and made it not awesome.

    Less chatting more narrating. Must know how people died and how others are still alive.

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I feel so bad. I think i've created an unredeemable monster.

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    DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2008
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Doc wrote: »
    I get 4, grows to something like 6. But I work for the Finns. :)

    How did your old bosses at Boeing react to your quitting?

    I don't really get much vacation at my current job. I am taking 6 days off in December though to check out France. I've never been off the North American continent before.

    They were expecting it, since I'd outright told them that I was looking for another job.

    When I told them that I was getting a ~50% raise in the process, they kind of realized that there was no way of keeping me.

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    SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    DeShadowC wrote: »

    This is great. I would seriously love my job more if I had upper management pull something like this.

    Well, for the record, I recently gave my two weeks notice, they called and offered me a promotion/raise to a really good position (to keep me with the company), so I refused another job offer I had. Then they filled all three of those open positions with people outside the company.

    So... there's a big conflict going on inside me about it.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Can you do like a barebones update with just the relevant info, no flavor

    I did that a few times, because I figured being late with the updates while typing up the narration proper was a bit like making a bunch of friends late to go out because you had to spend some "alone time" in the bathroom

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sheep wrote: »
    DeShadowC wrote: »

    This is great. I would seriously love my job more if I had upper management pull something like this.

    Well, for the record, I recently gave my two weeks notice, they called and offered me a promotion/raise to a really good position (to keep me with the company), so I refused another job offer I had. Then they filled all three of those open positions with people outside the company.

    So... there's a big conflict going on inside me about it.

    This is why you get these things in writing.

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Can you do like a barebones update with just the relevant info, no flavor

    I did that a few times, because I figured being late with the updates while typing up the narration proper was a bit like making a bunch of friends late to go out because you had to spend some "alone time" in the bathroom

    Well I got all of the important things out of the way I just need narration to clarify some events. PMs are all out. The dead are known. But yeah narration. .

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    SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sheep wrote: »
    DeShadowC wrote: »

    This is great. I would seriously love my job more if I had upper management pull something like this.

    Well, for the record, I recently gave my two weeks notice, they called and offered me a promotion/raise to a really good position (to keep me with the company), so I refused another job offer I had. Then they filled all three of those open positions with people outside the company.

    So... there's a big conflict going on inside me about it.

    Wait, so they offered you a better position, you refused an offer from somewhere else because of this position, and then they pulled the offer?

    Well at least they can only use that trick one time. What do they expect to do once you find another offer?

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    NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I took 2 months off purposely unemployed between my last job and my current job, since I had money saved up. My bosses were really confused when I put in my two weeks and they asked "Aw, well we're going to miss you here. Where are you going to be working?" and I said "I'm not sure yet."

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    an_altan_alt Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Tav wrote: »
    I should really stop looking up covers of songs I love on youtube.

    I just found a video of Sum 41 doing Raining Blood :(

    Here, this should make you feel better

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    Pony wrote:
    I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.
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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Doc wrote: »
    I get 4, grows to something like 6. But I work for the Finns. :)

    Where are you working now? I ask primarily because I always get the impression that my career would have been in a similar industry to you had I not freaked out and dropped out of uni.

    For perspective, a good number of the people I went to university with now work at BAE, and a couple of them work for Qinetiq.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Watching teen girl celebrities grow up is the creepiest thing

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    SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    What do they expect to do once you find another offer?

    They're kinda screwed because, during the drama concerning ANOTHER position I was promised but didn't get, I was the only tech to learn alot of the shit that's going on back here.

    I'm not bitter about the other position, because I was promised it off the record, and understand what happened with that one.
    Nocturne wrote: »
    I took 2 months off purposely unemployed between my last job and my current job, since I had money saved up. My bosses were really confused when I put in my two weeks and they asked "Aw, well we're going to miss you here. Where are you going to be working?" and I said "I'm not sure yet."

    I'm entertaining the idea of crashing at my parents for about two months to get up the cash to do the same.

    EDIT
    This is why you get these things in writing.

    Judging by how I haven't seen a specific co-worker on the internal messenger client for about a week, they reneged a job offer for him as well.

    And he did get it in writing, cause he knew I wanted that position too.

    So I think he quit, which explains why he disappeared.

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    an_altan_alt Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    ITT: me demonstrating that I don't know how to like to youtube properly

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    Pony wrote:
    I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.
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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    an_alt wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I should really stop looking up covers of songs I love on youtube.

    I just found a video of Sum 41 doing Raining Blood :(
    *snip*

    oh man, why would you do that? D:

    it's not as bad as The Trooper

    or

    Chop Suey!

    Chop Suey! is worse

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elki wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.
    See I'm kind of the same way but people really wanted them and I had to do them but it is nice to be appreciated once in a while you know

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    NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I've never participated in a phalla evar.

    I may try to change that sometime.

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    an_altan_alt Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Tav wrote: »
    oh man, why would you do that? D:

    Because I enjoy making people suffer. Duh

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    Pony wrote:
    I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.
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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sheep wrote: »

    Judging by how I haven't seen a specific co-worker on the internal messenger client for about a week, they reneged a job offer for him as well.

    And he did get it in writing, cause he knew I wanted that position too.

    So I think he quit, which explains why he disappeared.

    Honestly if I have it in writing you're giving me these things, and I turn down another job because if this, followed by you not giving these things to me, you're going to be contacted by a lawyer.

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elki wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.

    Elki knows the score.

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    DeShadowCDeShadowC Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elki wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.

    Elki knows the score.

    Less chatty.

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    gundam470gundam470 Drunk Gorilla CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.
    See I'm kind of the same way but people really wanted them and I had to do them but it is nice to be appreciated once in a while you know

    I always appreciate good narrations.

    Shinto was a great storyteller in the phallas he hosted.

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    an_alt wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    oh man, why would you do that? D:

    Because I enjoy making people suffer. Duh

    My first thought was "Holy shit they made Manson's music even worse."

    The Dope Show is his only worthwhile song.

    e: And the Fight Song, and that other one.

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    an_altan_alt Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    The space voyage phalla was pretty epic as well. People put a lot of time and effort into running a game, but I'm still amazed how much skill and imagination goes into some of the writing.

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    Pony wrote:
    I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.
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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    Sheep wrote: »

    Judging by how I haven't seen a specific co-worker on the internal messenger client for about a week, they reneged a job offer for him as well.

    And he did get it in writing, cause he knew I wanted that position too.

    So I think he quit, which explains why he disappeared.

    Honestly if I have it in writing you're giving me these things, and I turn down another job because if this, followed by you not giving these things to me, you're going to be contacted by a lawyer.

    Union legal representation ftw.

    It's basically the only reason I'm a member of one. That, and the bargaining power if the company decides that it's mass redundancy time.

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I tried to have a whole unreliable narrator thing going on

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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    DeShadowC wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.

    Elki knows the score.

    Less chatty.

    There's a barebones update.

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited November 2008
    Elendil wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    I honestly don't think anyone read my narrations

    Fuck narrations.
    See I'm kind of the same way but people really wanted them and I had to do them but it is nice to be appreciated once in a while you know
    Yeah, I only did them in the mod forum for authenticity's sake, and everyone seemed to enjoy them.

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