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I love my job (jk work is balls)
Vann Diras
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in fact I love it so much, I don't even need to get paid for it
which is exactly what's happening! at least until the sixteenth. because apparently payment information for all your employees isn't that important and gets tossed around a lot. and gets lost! so instead of getting paid today like I am supposed to I will have to wait about a week.
so what about you guys? enjoying your respective jobs and/or careers? bosses done anything annoying lately, or are they so awesome they practically radiate cool?
welcome to the job thread make yourself at home
which is exactly what's happening! at least until the sixteenth. because apparently payment information for all your employees isn't that important and gets tossed around a lot. and gets lost! so instead of getting paid today like I am supposed to I will have to wait about a week.
so what about you guys? enjoying your respective jobs and/or careers? bosses done anything annoying lately, or are they so awesome they practically radiate cool?
welcome to the job thread make yourself at home
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Steam
Yeah we had some Chinese couple buy our little fast food franchise and now she's giving my shifts to her 17 year old daughter and her friend. Apparently it's just for two weeks and she'll call me soon, but she doesn't speak English very well and also she doesn't like me. She also doesn't call my house to tell me when I need to work, and doesn't accept my calls, but gets pissed if I don't show up to work. I guess she expects me to read her mind to realize I'm not working my usual days.
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Steam
hi5
you would be the raddest grandpa
I enjoy my job because of the lack of stress but I get paid shit for doing it which makes it kind of suck. The only good thing is that I have a semester and a half left of school before I can start grad school and hopefully get an assitanceship...6 years of college and then 3 years of grad school is sounding more and more like balls every day though..
Almost everyone cheered, some were pissed because they needed the overtime money.
Well, I don't miss work, but I miss having money. You know, money to buy things with. Because apparently people at stores don't like it when you give them your personal IOU.
Fucking deadbeats.
IOU 1 breadz
It's because you eyes aren't slanty-like; you need to get a Scooby Doo mask and change your name to Gang Bang Fu and tell her that you're from Shanghai. If you're kind of chesty, just tape em down. It might take some time to get the whole project in motion, but it'll be worth it when you whip the mask off in front of her and say, "I never washed my hands after I went to the bathroom!"
Yay
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my acting for animation teacher made 'em
Steam
olo RACISM
Below are some examples of things that have happened to me due to my high voice and pleasent attitude. People think I'm a (hot) woman.
Me: Alright, you should be all set
Store(Woman): I Hope so girlfriend.
Me: I’m a guy for the record.
(Silence)
(Click.)
Store: Sorry, I have these fat fingers and this tiny little calculator
Me: Oh.
Store: Thank you so much for your help.
Me: No problem.
Store: You know what Mel Gibson looks like Hun?
Me(Inundated so I let the “Hun” part go): Uh, yes.
store: I look nothing like him. Sorry to disappoint sweetie.
Me: Oh, uh…okay.
And various non-high-voice-related mishaps:
Store: Hi I just wanted to make sure everything was good because they’re about to cut the powe-
And the power goes out.
Store: I just squirted hand sanitizer all over myself and my second assistant.
Me: On Purpose?
Me: So you should be all set.
Store: Alright.
Me: Alright, Cool.
Store: Alright
Me: Okay.
Store: Alright
Me: Okay.
Store: Okay.
Me: going to hang up now.
Store: Alright.
Store: Hi I have an issu-
Me; (Hiccup)
Store; Do you have the Hicups?
Me: I do <Hicup>
Store; What’s your middle name.
Me: …Joseph?
store; Bet their gone now.
Other fun things I do: Tell stores the registers they use don't produce the 2.1 gigawatts of electricity needed to run, that the droids I'm looking for are not in the register, and various other standard help desk douchebaggary.
Steam
This happened at a job I worked two summers ago. I was a temp, and had no part in the pay process, but guess who had to tell around 400 employees they weren't getting paid that Friday? D: Then the company loaned small amounts of money to some employees until the pay situation was resolved. Guess who had to tell various angry people that they couldn't have their check until they paid off their debt?
I also had to tell people who quit that they couldn't have their last pay check until they turned in their work id, which some of them swore up and down (and at me) that they had turned in. This was technically against the law for the company to do.
Is it racism, sir, or is it irony? I postulate that an example of racism would be if I walked up to an Asian kid, flashed a 'J' in American Sign Language and said, "What's up, my ninja?"
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I really should be doing homework, though. But PA lurking/ sporadic posting usually beats out doing Math 113 (Calc 2) or CS235 (Data Structures and Analysis).
kill me now.
One part of me is saying 'you stupid bastard you had a sweet deal' and yet the other, larger part of me is saying 'but you were more depressed and lonely than at any other time'
Time will tell how good a decision it was. Riding high on the 'being unemployed in a shitty economy' wave has its perks. Like sleeping in until noon and eating a lot of take out.
You know the one. She's completely incompetent, but that's okay because she doesn't care about her job at all. She asks the same questions weekly, but doesn't ask them often enough to avoid screwing up large chunks of work that I have to fix. She's morbidly obese, and the moment she shows up the entire place instantly reeks of baby powder and institutional beef stew. The kind of beef stew they serve at hospitals and low-income public schools. I've had to make up imaginary sinus allergies because sometimes I just can't keep my nose from wrinkling with revulsion when she approaches my workstation.
Someday she's going to choke to death while engulfing an entire ham and when I get the news I'm not going to be able to conceal my glee and everybody will know what a terrible person I am.
i hate you
You stupid bastard. You had a sweet deal.
and for some reason or another my log in for our system has been changed
I now can't log in unless I spell my name wrong.
it's almost getting comical
So now I'm in Portland, with no money, don't know a soul, and barely a job. But at least it is Portland right?
I've been thinking about moving to Seattle or NYC and this is a concern I have.
so much
Under federal law, you are allowed to attack the building, and kill no more than 3 people in retaliation for this dickiest of moves.
I though so too when I started. First day they said 'you're going to Vancouver tomorrow, go pack your shit'.
But then over the last 7 months I've become increasingly distant from friends, both metaphorically and literally, had zero sleep and been so wired all the time I burned out around Christmas. I met my university lecturer before New Years for drinks and he punched me in the neck when I told him. I had the perfect job and I hated every second. And I quit when most of the people I know would do anything to have it.
My life is like a shitty Romcom.
I can sort of identify. how much were you traveling, scarab? like, were you pretty much always in some different place? because as cool as that would be, it would be a seriously depressing and lonely job
You won't need one. UK newspapers have 5 employees between them. You could wash up dead on their doorstep and be hired. How do you think I got work there, being as professionally lazy as I am?
this is currently happening to me
i am applying to other jobs but i live in a city that was already depressed economically when the credit crunch hit
Ah well, with the economy the way it is I'll probably wind up selling insurance or something in a call centre