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I tried lint rolling my shirt and putting it into a plastic bag, there is dog hair in my car too. It somehow managed to make absolutely no difference... There is no escape from all that fur.
ASimPersonCold...... and hard.Registered Userregular
Everyone remembers that scene in Hunt for Red October when Jack Ryan is at that Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting and everyone is yelling at each other and he yells over all of them "YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
I tried lint rolling my shirt and putting it into a plastic bag, there is dog hair in my car too. It somehow managed to make absolutely no difference... There is no escape from all that fur.
You guys are treating the symptoms. You need to combat the source.
I tried lint rolling my shirt and putting it into a plastic bag, there is dog hair in my car too. It somehow managed to make absolutely no difference... There is no escape from all that fur.
You guys are treating the symptoms. You need to combat the source.
So good things are on the horizon. Very good things.
EDIT: Ehh, I've got some time.
So, basically, I've been on the team for about six months. And I think it's fair to say, I've been busting my goddamn ass for every minute of it. Trying to learn as much as possible, and impress as many people as I can along the way. And I guess it worked. About a month ago, our team had a meeting with one of our Process Improvement team, to talk about some recent changes we made to procedure in our building to run it better, more efficiently. Not only did we hear that our numbers spiked so much since these changes were implemented, that we've decided to roll them out worldwide, but my comments and feedback impressed her so much (and one of my bosses' boss, who was sitting in on the meeting) that she made it a point to talk about it, to approximately everyone. So over the weekend I was kind of the talk of the town, she went around collecting feedback from my leaders and her own peers, and apparently everyone was in agreement over how great I am. I run a great stockroom, I'm excellent with both the Cast and the Guests. So I've got a one on one with one of our area managers a week from today, which is mostly going to be coaching me on interviewing for leadership, and conducting future one on ones with other high level management and executives. The other day, she also brought HER boss over to meet me personally and shake hands, gushing the whole way about how in the short time I've been with the team, how amazing I am. So after over two years of being part time and scraping the bottom of the barrel, it's entirely possible I could end up being promoted twice in about a year. It's all really intimidating, but also so incredibly validating to try and have your work speak for you, and actually succeed
So good things are on the horizon. Very good things.
EDIT: Ehh, I've got some time.
So, basically, I've been on the team for about six months. And I think it's fair to say, I've been busting my goddamn ass for every minute of it. Trying to learn as much as possible, and impress as many people as I can along the way. And I guess it worked. About a month ago, our team had a meeting with one of our Process Improvement team, to talk about some recent changes we made to procedure in our building to run it better, more efficiently. Not only did we hear that our numbers spiked so much since these changes were implemented, that we've decided to roll them out worldwide, but my comments and feedback impressed her so much (and one of my bosses' boss, who was sitting in on the meeting) that she made it a point to talk about it, to approximately everyone. So over the weekend I was kind of the talk of the town, she went around collecting feedback from my leaders and her own peers, and apparently everyone was in agreement over how great I am. I run a great stockroom, I'm excellent with both the Cast and the Guests. So I've got a one on one with one of our area managers a week from today, which is mostly going to be coaching me on interviewing for leadership, and conducting future one on ones with other high level management and executives. The other day, she also brought HER boss over to meet me personally and shake hands, gushing the whole way about how in the short time I've been with the team, how amazing I am. So after over two years of being part time and scraping the bottom of the barrel, it's entirely possible I could end up being promoted twice in about a year. It's all really intimidating, but also so incredibly validating to try and have your work speak for you, and actually succeed
That's awesome! Congrats!
+3
MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
So yesterday we all came in to work to find our supervisor was taking the next two days off. Hilariously, she didn't leave us support for anything, so everyone was freaking out at the start of the shift. I coordinated with another supervisor to get a chat room going for my team as well as some space for people to submit adjustments that are over 15 bucks. So next thing I know, people are asking me what to do in every situation and seeking advice for unusual problems and whatever. I did a little to make it easier for my team and somehow suddenly got elected the new team leader.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
+2
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited July 2013
On the other hand, yesterday I won football 3-1 and saw Pacific Rim, but that's because it was Saturday. Although I was on call for the biggest release rollout since I started working at the Ministry, 8 years ago. So I guess I was working.
The..thing...is that, because of how they brought us on, there's actually quite a bit of room for what is effectively a promotion.
Right now I'm not even a regular temp, I'm an overflow temp. They brought us on to help cover the extra volume they anticipate during the go live of the new back-office software.
If I do a good job of that, in 7-9 months (or maybe sooner?) I could get picked up on a rolling 6 month contract as a long-term temp.
If a do a good job of that, I can get hired on permanently.
And then I start the process of trying to get a promotion to level 2. Which will kind of suck, since right now there's ~32 level 1s (counting all temps), and 6 level 2s (there were only 5 until the guy training us got promoted).
Beyond that, there's 6 level 2s and 6 level 3s. Then there's the team leads, the supervisors (2 each), the manager, and like four other people that do support (training, incident management, etc).
So, it's a pretty broad base, especially since they're bringing in more temps after next week. But! It'll be a great experience either way.
Every night on the way to work, I bike through a street full of cats, both owned, and stray. I have proceeded to give each one a name. Blanca, Jag, Bibs, Chimera
But there is one in particular that I wish to take home. His/Her name is Fuzzbutt the Younger (Fuzzbutt the Elder is owned by a nice family). S/he's a small teenage kitty, and looks so pathetic. Their long hair is dirty, and it's always squinting as if it's got an infection. But, it's rather friendly, and doesn't seem to be very agressive at all.
Unfortunately, my place has a one cat policy, and I don't know if anyone would want the cat (or even if it's actually a stray. If it's owned, I'm going to have a stern talk with the owner).
I am the same. I actually adopted our youngest kitty away from another tenant in my old apartment building.
To be fair, she belonged to his girlfriend, who insisted on keeping the kitten with him, and he was constantly letting her out (despite there being several pit bulls in the neighborhood that are virtually always outside wandering). Also the guy was pretty obviously a heavy drug user.
Oh and also this was in the middle of winter when we had snow, and he was insistent that if she really wanted in, she'd come to the door.
So when I heard a quiet meowing outside my door one night, the girl and I let her in, gave her food, and that was that. He never even asked about the cat.
my job is weird
in a span of a week it went from
"youll be in nashville for a month"
to "you'll be in nashville for 2 weeks"
to "nah, now we're sending you to brisbane instead"
i should know for sure where the hell im going by tuesday
@javen congratulations dude, that's the best way to do it
i have no education and i'm an analyst for a top global engineering firm with over 30k people
aint no way i couldve pulled that out of my ass had i not worked as hard as i have
work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen
The..thing...is that, because of how they brought us on, there's actually quite a bit of room for what is effectively a promotion.
Right now I'm not even a regular temp, I'm an overflow temp. They brought us on to help cover the extra volume they anticipate during the go live of the new back-office software.
If I do a good job of that, in 7-9 months (or maybe sooner?) I could get picked up on a rolling 6 month contract as a long-term temp.
If a do a good job of that, I can get hired on permanently.
And then I start the process of trying to get a promotion to level 2. Which will kind of suck, since right now there's ~32 level 1s (counting all temps), and 6 level 2s (there were only 5 until the guy training us got promoted).
Beyond that, there's 6 level 2s and 6 level 3s. Then there's the team leads, the supervisors (2 each), the manager, and like four other people that do support (training, incident management, etc).
So, it's a pretty broad base, especially since they're bringing in more temps after next week. But! It'll be a great experience either way.
Almost in the exact same position here.
I spent ten minutes Friday morning hunting for the team lead who I was working with on Thursday afternoon to tackle the project we had laid out only to found out she was off sick for the day.
So I went hunting for manager, any manager until I found one:
"Cathy, apparently every supervisor except you is invisible to me, so I'm going to make myself and Keysha available and you can put us to work. The last thing I want to do is sit around on company time and surf the web when I need to be learning the ins and outs of this job."
*blink*blink*
"Cathy, are you ok?"
"Mike, if I had five of you I could ... just ... I could run this entire floor. Where have you been all my life?!?"
"Trying to get here, obviously. So, what's on the books today? Benefits or Worker's Comp?"
"Worker's Comp. You and Keysha will work with Manny, he'll show you how to knock out prorated stuff as well as work-jargon-work-jargon-work-jargon."
"Alright, lemme fill up my coffee and I'll be right there."
By day's end, I got put together with my actual supervisor and had to leave Cathy and the rest of the WC team.
"Are we gonna see you on Monday?"
"Absolu- ... wait, why wouldn't I be back in Monday?"
"Some people don't handle being left in the air for their entire first week; some of them have quit after only a few days."
"Well, it sounds like some people are whiny babies who need a reality check. See ya Monday."
Thank you. It feels ... normal(?) ... for me coming from the blitzkrieg pace of the bar industry.
From my perspective, it's just the chaos and confusion from merging United and Continental Airlines; mergers like that, with conflicting operations at every level of activity ... yeah, it can take a long time for the dust to settle and it's just something you either deal with or you don't. I spoke with a buddy back in Dallas and she's been in operations management (or a job just like it) for-fucking-ever. Her opinion is that it could take up to five years to integrate the companies with all things moving at the normal pace, seven years with unusual fuck-ups.
My side-mission is to get both myself and my mom (who got me in the door) permanent positions within the company; she's been 'contract-temp' for two years now and if anyone deserves a break, it's my mom.
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IpseDixitTreat me like a pirateAnd give me that bootyRegistered Userregular
So my boss stated that he wants to groom me to become the main estimator for the shop, and to be the shop opener
He then went on to say that he can see me staying with the company for a long time
my job is weird
in a span of a week it went from
"youll be in nashville for a month"
to "you'll be in nashville for 2 weeks"
to "nah, now we're sending you to brisbane instead"
i should know for sure where the hell im going by tuesday
@javen congratulations dude, that's the best way to do it
i have no education and i'm an analyst for a top global engineering firm with over 30k people
aint no way i couldve pulled that out of my ass had i not worked as hard as i have
work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen
Hah well we got bodied, placed last in our pool. I guess some of these parents take it quite seriously, like, practice together. Some of them came in wearing matching track suits and had like kneepads and headbands and sweat towels and whatnot.
It also did not help that we were playing fake volleyball. I am not sure what the real name is for it but it is basically to volleyball what soft tennis is to tennis. Japan loves its soft sports. So yeah, the ball is really light and floaty, you are only allowed to use one hand while hitting, there are eight people per team but the playing area is probably half the size of a regular volleyball area. I did okay while at the net, I could keep things alive, but after every service change you had to rotate places, and the rest of the teachers were just not on the level of what the teachers were bringing.
And now I'm off to go drinking with the school coffee guy. And just the school coffee guy. When he said that we were going drinking tonight I did not realize that he meant we as in "you and me" I thought he meant we as in, you know, everyone. Lost in translation I guess. I am sure he is going to drag me around to some snackbars, oh joy. Apparently some of the other teachers are doing a different drinking event and said I could call them if I needed rescue.
My plan is to line up a nomihodai (all you can drink booze) that ends just in time for me to get back for when the last day of EVO starts streaming (around midnight my time) so I can be nice and tanked and watch fighting games.
Thank you. It feels ... normal(?) ... for me coming from the blitzkrieg pace of the bar industry.
From my perspective, it's just the chaos and confusion from merging United and Continental Airlines; mergers like that, with conflicting operations at every level of activity ... yeah, it can take a long time for the dust to settle and it's just something you either deal with or you don't. I spoke with a buddy back in Dallas and she's been in operations management (or a job just like it) for-fucking-ever. Her opinion is that it could take up to five years to integrate the companies with all things moving at the normal pace, seven years with unusual fuck-ups.
My side-mission is to get both myself and my mom (who got me in the door) permanent positions within the company; she's been 'contract-temp' for two years now and if anyone deserves a break, it's my mom.
A brilliant moment in my career was ~2 years in (after just getting my second promotion) when I asked my boss point blank: "I do what I say I'm going to do, mention when I don't know something and generally ask for work if I don't have any, yet somehow I'm a top performer? Am I missing something?"
His response? "That's more than 90+% of people do"
Welcome to corporate america. If you have thick enough skin to deal with all the BS, it's really not that hard.
+3
smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
It was really hot this weekend. Which is bad news when you deliver pizzas, because nobody wants pizza on a weekend when its bbq weather.
So my boss told me to take 3 days as holiday, and I went camping in Wales and ate bbq, slept under the stars and spent today on a beach.
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Shuppet / Pumpkaboo / Drifblim,
Yeah, that's me, in my cube right now at 2:20 AM.
You got it.
Well maybe if you paid me more....
You guys are treating the symptoms. You need to combat the source.
Shave the dogs*.
*
EDIT: Ehh, I've got some time.
So, basically, I've been on the team for about six months. And I think it's fair to say, I've been busting my goddamn ass for every minute of it. Trying to learn as much as possible, and impress as many people as I can along the way. And I guess it worked. About a month ago, our team had a meeting with one of our Process Improvement team, to talk about some recent changes we made to procedure in our building to run it better, more efficiently. Not only did we hear that our numbers spiked so much since these changes were implemented, that we've decided to roll them out worldwide, but my comments and feedback impressed her so much (and one of my bosses' boss, who was sitting in on the meeting) that she made it a point to talk about it, to approximately everyone. So over the weekend I was kind of the talk of the town, she went around collecting feedback from my leaders and her own peers, and apparently everyone was in agreement over how great I am. I run a great stockroom, I'm excellent with both the Cast and the Guests. So I've got a one on one with one of our area managers a week from today, which is mostly going to be coaching me on interviewing for leadership, and conducting future one on ones with other high level management and executives. The other day, she also brought HER boss over to meet me personally and shake hands, gushing the whole way about how in the short time I've been with the team, how amazing I am. So after over two years of being part time and scraping the bottom of the barrel, it's entirely possible I could end up being promoted twice in about a year. It's all really intimidating, but also so incredibly validating to try and have your work speak for you, and actually succeed
I mean, I'm in my new leather recliner at home, but I'm working. I have a dog laying next to me.
Best way to endlessley pour over code is with a dog.
You need to add a good beer or glass of bourbon to maximize the effectiveness.
I'll be sitting on the deck with the dogs, a glass of Double Jack IPA and cleaning up some of the stank ass code my coworkers checked in.
It's only weird when they talk back.
Which isn't often.
Corgi on the other hand likes to get everyone elses code to work for his goals.
Dante is not bright and generally just licks the keyboard.
That's awesome! Congrats!
Strategically place the keyboard on your crotch and enjoy the ride.
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I'm in a similar frame of mind as @rankenphile.
That is awesome.
But I will not Awesome you.
Because I am seething in jealousy.
Fuck yeah, football and Kaiju, gettin' paid.*
*:Actually, I get TOIL for on-call. Close enough.
The..thing...is that, because of how they brought us on, there's actually quite a bit of room for what is effectively a promotion.
Right now I'm not even a regular temp, I'm an overflow temp. They brought us on to help cover the extra volume they anticipate during the go live of the new back-office software.
If I do a good job of that, in 7-9 months (or maybe sooner?) I could get picked up on a rolling 6 month contract as a long-term temp.
If a do a good job of that, I can get hired on permanently.
And then I start the process of trying to get a promotion to level 2. Which will kind of suck, since right now there's ~32 level 1s (counting all temps), and 6 level 2s (there were only 5 until the guy training us got promoted).
Beyond that, there's 6 level 2s and 6 level 3s. Then there's the team leads, the supervisors (2 each), the manager, and like four other people that do support (training, incident management, etc).
So, it's a pretty broad base, especially since they're bringing in more temps after next week. But! It'll be a great experience either way.
But there is one in particular that I wish to take home. His/Her name is Fuzzbutt the Younger (Fuzzbutt the Elder is owned by a nice family). S/he's a small teenage kitty, and looks so pathetic. Their long hair is dirty, and it's always squinting as if it's got an infection. But, it's rather friendly, and doesn't seem to be very agressive at all.
Unfortunately, my place has a one cat policy, and I don't know if anyone would want the cat (or even if it's actually a stray. If it's owned, I'm going to have a stern talk with the owner).
I feel bad....I want to adopt all the kitties....
WoW
Dear Satan.....
To be fair, she belonged to his girlfriend, who insisted on keeping the kitten with him, and he was constantly letting her out (despite there being several pit bulls in the neighborhood that are virtually always outside wandering). Also the guy was pretty obviously a heavy drug user.
Oh and also this was in the middle of winter when we had snow, and he was insistent that if she really wanted in, she'd come to the door.
So when I heard a quiet meowing outside my door one night, the girl and I let her in, gave her food, and that was that. He never even asked about the cat.
in a span of a week it went from
"youll be in nashville for a month"
to "you'll be in nashville for 2 weeks"
to "nah, now we're sending you to brisbane instead"
i should know for sure where the hell im going by tuesday
@javen congratulations dude, that's the best way to do it
i have no education and i'm an analyst for a top global engineering firm with over 30k people
aint no way i couldve pulled that out of my ass had i not worked as hard as i have
work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen
Almost in the exact same position here.
I spent ten minutes Friday morning hunting for the team lead who I was working with on Thursday afternoon to tackle the project we had laid out only to found out she was off sick for the day.
So I went hunting for manager, any manager until I found one:
"Cathy, apparently every supervisor except you is invisible to me, so I'm going to make myself and Keysha available and you can put us to work. The last thing I want to do is sit around on company time and surf the web when I need to be learning the ins and outs of this job."
*blink*blink*
"Cathy, are you ok?"
"Mike, if I had five of you I could ... just ... I could run this entire floor. Where have you been all my life?!?"
"Trying to get here, obviously. So, what's on the books today? Benefits or Worker's Comp?"
"Worker's Comp. You and Keysha will work with Manny, he'll show you how to knock out prorated stuff as well as work-jargon-work-jargon-work-jargon."
"Alright, lemme fill up my coffee and I'll be right there."
By day's end, I got put together with my actual supervisor and had to leave Cathy and the rest of the WC team.
"Are we gonna see you on Monday?"
"Absolu- ... wait, why wouldn't I be back in Monday?"
"Some people don't handle being left in the air for their entire first week; some of them have quit after only a few days."
"Well, it sounds like some people are whiny babies who need a reality check. See ya Monday."
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to learn something new every single day I'm at this job.
I think I will try to keep a list of these things.
Thank you. It feels ... normal(?) ... for me coming from the blitzkrieg pace of the bar industry.
From my perspective, it's just the chaos and confusion from merging United and Continental Airlines; mergers like that, with conflicting operations at every level of activity ... yeah, it can take a long time for the dust to settle and it's just something you either deal with or you don't. I spoke with a buddy back in Dallas and she's been in operations management (or a job just like it) for-fucking-ever. Her opinion is that it could take up to five years to integrate the companies with all things moving at the normal pace, seven years with unusual fuck-ups.
My side-mission is to get both myself and my mom (who got me in the door) permanent positions within the company; she's been 'contract-temp' for two years now and if anyone deserves a break, it's my mom.
He then went on to say that he can see me staying with the company for a long time
Woo!
I was just informed that we will be playing against the parents today in volleyball.
And being the tall foreigner in the office I have been asked to play the net and spike the ball as hard as I can.
... I think I am being used to exact revenge for having to work on a Sunday.
Don't think of it as being used.
Think of it as being the fist of an angry workforce, eager to teach parents the importance of not-fucking-with-Sunday.
nashville to brisbane is quite the leap
It also did not help that we were playing fake volleyball. I am not sure what the real name is for it but it is basically to volleyball what soft tennis is to tennis. Japan loves its soft sports. So yeah, the ball is really light and floaty, you are only allowed to use one hand while hitting, there are eight people per team but the playing area is probably half the size of a regular volleyball area. I did okay while at the net, I could keep things alive, but after every service change you had to rotate places, and the rest of the teachers were just not on the level of what the teachers were bringing.
And now I'm off to go drinking with the school coffee guy. And just the school coffee guy. When he said that we were going drinking tonight I did not realize that he meant we as in "you and me" I thought he meant we as in, you know, everyone. Lost in translation I guess. I am sure he is going to drag me around to some snackbars, oh joy. Apparently some of the other teachers are doing a different drinking event and said I could call them if I needed rescue.
My plan is to line up a nomihodai (all you can drink booze) that ends just in time for me to get back for when the last day of EVO starts streaming (around midnight my time) so I can be nice and tanked and watch fighting games.
A brilliant moment in my career was ~2 years in (after just getting my second promotion) when I asked my boss point blank: "I do what I say I'm going to do, mention when I don't know something and generally ask for work if I don't have any, yet somehow I'm a top performer? Am I missing something?"
His response? "That's more than 90+% of people do"
Welcome to corporate america. If you have thick enough skin to deal with all the BS, it's really not that hard.
So my boss told me to take 3 days as holiday, and I went camping in Wales and ate bbq, slept under the stars and spent today on a beach.
Yes, that will do nicely.
I am in today for at least eight hours.
I do love my job, but man. I think I'm taking a three day weekend this next Friday.
I'm sure that'd work.
Alarm never went off this morning. I am going to be late. Dammit
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