Another Job Thread? I could do that at home with MS Word!

Orikaeshigitae

Wherein we discuss our similarities to the character of Biblical trials in finding employment.

Moriveth

I currently work two jobs. It's going fairly well so far. I'm tired in the mornings but since my first job has me moving around a lot I wake up fairly quickly.

Also, coffee helps. I know it's not supposed to really wake me but hell I'll take a placebo effect.

Indie Winter

like the great Onan, I can't stop masturbating

Mysst

seriously karl, how is the lumberjack business up there? I'm gettin sick of computers and sitting down all day

Abracadaniel

Smart Hero wrote:

We have customer contact info from an initiative to go paperless for our billing, so we sent out letters for several months informing our customers of the change, and collecting, updating, and inputting their email addresses into our ERP system. Now we want to branch into email marketing. Several people feel we can just use the contact information we've already gathered to start sending them advertising because 'they're our customers.' I've tried explaining the difference between transaction email and commercial email, the double opt-in best practice, and the diminished goodwill with customers who gave us their contact info to receive business docs suddenly, and without their consent, receiving advertising. So now instead of agreeing, we're using some internet lawyer site to see 'how bad it could be' if we just go ahead and start sending stuff anyway. All of this is clearly defined on the FTC's website, but noooo we have to use some internet lawyer website (which I've checked into and they can't actually give legal advice and have been sued for false advertising) 'to make sure.' And honestly, I'm not even that concerned about the penalties, I think we'd probably fly under the radar in that respect. It's the total lack of respect for our customers, and the wasted time attempting to advertise to someone who never asked for it that makes me want to put my foot down about it.

Rankenphile wrote:

I'm confused. Tell it to me in Star Wars

Smart Hero wrote:

Okay, so like let's say some Bothan spies hook you up with the Death Star plans

Orikaeshigitae

I always knew this day would come.

http://www.starbucks.com/career-center/retail-positions

Orikaeshigitae

Mysst wrote:

seriously karl, how is the lumberjack business up there? I'm gettin sick of computers and sitting down all day

The job market here sucks, yo. Better than where I came up, but oddly not by that much.

Mysst

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

I always knew this day would come.

http://www.starbucks.com/career-center/retail-positions

if there's one thing I learned about being a barista, it's that you treat the job like you're fucking Tom Cruise in Cocktail

Butler

I am doing a two-day course in January that will license me to drive a forklift. Bitches love forklift drivers.

Brolo

I think I need a new job.

Gonna wait for January, then it's time to update the portfolio and get out of this place.

Losing ~3 hours a day in commute is just too damn much.

Abracadaniel

Butler wrote:

I am doing a two-day course in January that will license me to drive a forklift. Bitches love forklift drivers.

I never got to learn when I was in our warehouse because I was the UPS clerk and 'just did stuff with the computer all day'

M.D.

someone get me a job for a video game company but i wanna be like in logistics or something :c

Moriveth

Butler wrote:

I am doing a two-day course in January that will license me to drive a forklift. Bitches love forklift drivers.

I drive a forklift! It's fun, actually.

Main thing to remember is just how much the tighter the turn is on a forklift versus a car. Shit's ridiculous.

Mysst

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Mysst wrote:

seriously karl, how is the lumberjack business up there? I'm gettin sick of computers and sitting down all day

The job market here sucks, yo. Better than where I came up, but oddly not by that much.

well, I guess I'll just move to cali and do gay-for-pay

Scudo

I've been told I was being made permanent over a month ago, and they've been dangling this mythical recquisition and official offer in front of me since. I know a lot of folks have been out for the holidays and we've had some leadership changes (new guy has signed my rec, apparently) but my contract only goes through the end of the year, dudes!

Maybe I will get a week off until they get me the paperwork? Or maybe they'll pull the rug out from under me, because I don't trust corporate suits/employers/white people.

Brolo

Scudo wrote:

I've been told I was being made permanent over a month ago, and they've been dangling this mythical recquisition and official offer in front of me since. I know a lot of folks have been out for the holidays and we've had some leadership changes (new guy has signed my rec, apparently) but my contract only goes through the end of the year, dudes!

Maybe I will get a week off until they get me the paperwork? Or maybe they'll pull the rug out from under me, because I don't trust corporate suits/employers/white people.

never trust whitey

Orikaeshigitae

Rolo wrote:

Scudo wrote:

I've been told I was being made permanent over a month ago, and they've been dangling this mythical recquisition and official offer in front of me since. I know a lot of folks have been out for the holidays and we've had some leadership changes (new guy has signed my rec, apparently) but my contract only goes through the end of the year, dudes!

Maybe I will get a week off until they get me the paperwork? Or maybe they'll pull the rug out from under me, because I don't trust corporate suits/employers/white people.

never trust whitey

Macro9

Why y'all gots to be hating on Whitey Ford?

Orikaeshigitae

Summary of Experience

No previous experience required

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Munkus Beaver

Scudo wrote:

I've been told I was being made permanent over a month ago, and they've been dangling this mythical recquisition and official offer in front of me since. I know a lot of folks have been out for the holidays and we've had some leadership changes (new guy has signed my rec, apparently) but my contract only goes through the end of the year, dudes!

Maybe I will get a week off until they get me the paperwork? Or maybe they'll pull the rug out from under me, because I don't trust corporate suits/employers/white people.

Probably the rug. You don't avoid telling someone good news for that long. I may have colored expectations since I went to the hospital last month at the impetus of my employer and was told I would have a job to come back to.

Edcrab

I had a dream that I got employed by a corporation to sort through some junk in an abandoned office complex, with the additional proviso that they had to take blood samples from me at the close of every working day to ensure that I was still alive

I remember thinking that it was a pretty good deal, all things considered

It had a flexi-time plan and everything

Mysst

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Summary of Experience

No previous experience required

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Cocktail

DrZiplock

Mysst wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Summary of Experience

No previous experience required

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Cocktail

I am the last barman poet.
I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make.
Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake.
The sex on the beach, the schnapps made from peach,
The Velvet Hammer,
the Al-La-Bam-A Slam-a!


I make things with juice and froth: the Pink Squirrel, the 3-Toed Sloth. I make drinks so sweet and snazzy:
The Iced Tea, The Kamikaze, The Orgasm, The Death Spasm,
The Singapore Sling, The Dingaling.

America you've just been devoted to every flavor I got.
But if you want to got loaded,
why don't you just order a shot?
Bar is open.

Liiya

I had a dream that there was a large metal scorpion in the shop trying to get at me, it nearly stung me but I trapped it under the mop bucket.


Today the information for Valentine's Day came via UPS. Oh god. My hands are going to die and I am going to lose my temper.

Also my boss still is being useless, hoopla!

Yukira

Liiya wrote:

I had a dream that there was a large metal scorpion in the shop trying to get at me, it nearly stung me but I trapped it under the mop bucket.

This needs to be made a picture.

Stale

DrZiplock wrote:

Mysst wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Summary of Experience

No previous experience required

8->

Cocktail

I am the last barman poet.
I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make.
Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake.
The sex on the beach, the schnapps made from peach,
The Velvet Hammer,
the Al-La-Bam-A Slam-a!


I make things with juice and froth: the Pink Squirrel, the 3-Toed Sloth. I make drinks so sweet and snazzy:
The Iced Tea, The Kamikaze, The Orgasm, The Death Spasm,
The Singapore Sling, The Dingaling.

America you've just been devoted to every flavor I got.
But if you want to got loaded,
why don't you just order a shot?
Bar is open.

Everytime I watch that scene I want to be a fabulous 80s bartender

Edcrab

Yukira wrote:

Liiya wrote:

I had a dream that there was a large metal scorpion in the shop trying to get at me, it nearly stung me but I trapped it under the mop bucket.

This needs to be made a picture.

I thought the god-awful aluminium stag was bad enough

Jasconius

I have very little work at my job this week. I am ahead of the curve on every project and all of our upcoming stuff is stuck in proposals.

Which means it is read the internet time

DrZiplock

Stale wrote:

DrZiplock wrote:

Mysst wrote:

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Summary of Experience

No previous experience required

8->

Cocktail

I am the last barman poet.
I see America drinking the fabulous cocktails I make.
Americans getting stinky on something I stir or shake.
The sex on the beach, the schnapps made from peach,
The Velvet Hammer,
the Al-La-Bam-A Slam-a!


I make things with juice and froth: the Pink Squirrel, the 3-Toed Sloth. I make drinks so sweet and snazzy:
The Iced Tea, The Kamikaze, The Orgasm, The Death Spasm,
The Singapore Sling, The Dingaling.

America you've just been devoted to every flavor I got.
But if you want to got loaded,
why don't you just order a shot?
Bar is open.

Everytime I watch that scene I want to be a fabulous 80s bartender

Pretty much, yea.

I did a bit of light flair from time to time behind the bar, but some of that is just because it can often be more efficient in terms of speed and delivery.

Liiya

Edcrab wrote:

Yukira wrote:

Liiya wrote:

I had a dream that there was a large metal scorpion in the shop trying to get at me, it nearly stung me but I trapped it under the mop bucket.

This needs to be made a picture.

I thought the god-awful aluminium stag was bad enough

Those aloominum stags were a sight for sore eyes.

HeavyVillain

did someone buy those stags or did people have to much taste to do it

Yukira

You know someone did.

Liiya

They were bought. IN FACT, before Christmas he bought two 4ft wicker 3d reindeer and they sold too. The flower market is full of strange things.

Jasconius

strange, dark things


things that twist the mind

HeavyVillain

who gos into a flower shop and thinks man I really want that metal deer

other then SUPERVILLIANS who want to use metal animals in some mad plan

Liiya

I just think people where I work are mental now. That is what it must be.

Edcrab

That certainly seems to be the most logical explanation

Indie Winter

HeavyVillain wrote:

who gos into a flower shop and thinks man I really want that metal deer

other then SUPERVILLIANS who want to use metal animals in some mad plan

METAL DEER?!

Abracadaniel

Jasconius wrote:

I have very little work at my job this week. I am ahead of the curve on every project and all of our upcoming stuff is stuck in proposals.

Which means it is read the internet time

yep. catching up on podcasts, too.

Indie Winter

uuuurgh terrible nerd joke I hate myself

Abracadaniel

i thought it was solid