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Erin The Red

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We are all stuck at work, probably. Or looking for work. Or dreading the idea of work.
Come and share your woe, that it may multiply!

minirhyder

So I gotta say.
I don't really get red pandas.
They're like...glorified raccoons.

Oh god what have I done

Waits for the villagers with pitchforks

Erin The Red

But raccoons are cool. I don't see the problem

ALSO: We managed to bust ass and get a project done and delivered to the group that has been dragging ass on answering questions we needed answered. I tell representative of said group that we should be done by day's end and his response was "took long enough." He then turned around and walked off.

If I stabbed him I would go to jail. There is truly no justice.

facetious

So I've got about a month and a half left at my summer job, and I'm still loving it but I am starting to look for other things so I don't have to go back to my restaurant for the winter. Ideally I'd find something like my job year-round, or something I can do in the winter/spring and come back here.

But then I saw this morning that there's a job posting for my other dream job - namely, as a footman in the royal household of England. I really want to apply even though I lack a passport (and am cursing myself for dithering so much about acquiring one).

Erin The Red

facetious wrote: »

So I've got about a month and a half left at my summer job, and I'm still loving it but I am starting to look for other things so I don't have to go back to my restaurant for the winter. Ideally I'd find something like my job year-round, or something I can do in the winter/spring and come back here.

But then I saw this morning that there's a job posting for my other dream job - namely, as a footman in the royal household of England. I really want to apply even though I lack a passport (and am cursing myself for dithering so much about acquiring one).

What's a footman? Wikipedia says it's like a servant? You can be Alfred to the Queen's Batman?

IvanIssacs

God save the Queen.

PwnanObrien

IvanIssacs wrote: »

God save the Queen.

Well if she has to fight Killer Croc, yeah, she's going to need all the help she can get.

Phyphor

facetious wrote: »

So I've got about a month and a half left at my summer job, and I'm still loving it but I am starting to look for other things so I don't have to go back to my restaurant for the winter. Ideally I'd find something like my job year-round, or something I can do in the winter/spring and come back here.

But then I saw this morning that there's a job posting for my other dream job - namely, as a footman in the royal household of England. I really want to apply even though I lack a passport (and am cursing myself for dithering so much about acquiring one).

Passports take like a couple weeks to get? The work visa would be harder

see317

PwnanObrien wrote: »

IvanIssacs wrote: »

God save the Queen.

Well if she has to fight Killer Croc, yeah, she's going to need all the help she can get.

Bah, she may need someone to hold her back, maybe to pull her off her brutally beaten foe before she has a chance to tear out his throat with her teeth, but she doesn't need any help to take down the likes of Croc.

Look into the face of a hardened killer.

tynic

An american footman? well I never!

driving half the day tomorrow to get to a conference, then driving half the day to get back on Friday. And today I spent two hours animating videos of humphrey bogart and anthony hopkins because apparently it was urgent that a french planetarium have a robot that can impersonate these people at a moment's notice.

I need to pack ...

Nocren

Just got a temp offer for an internal help desk position at Apple. This isn't the same one I applied to earlier this year with a different company so I'm good to go. Took the aptitude test and discovered, hey, I have aptitude. Gonna talk to the recruiter tomorrow morning and figure out things.

Orikaeshigitae

A kid selling chocolate covered almonds just wandered into the development area. I gave him a weird look and went to lock the front door after a few minutes. He was in the conference room, staring at the TV speculatively.

This is such a weird office.

Phyphor

Hmm I just took a look at the UKBA immigration page and they've made it much harder to get in! You basically can't without a job offer anymore (or an ancestry visa)

Brovid Hasselsmof

I can't imagine any Americans would be allowed to work around the British royal family.

You might try and start another bloody revolution.

see317

Is it cool to post links to job listings here? There are a couple of openings in my company that may of interest, and I figured it's safer to ask permission then beg forgiveness.
I'm not the person hiring or interviewing, so I can't really do more then point in the general direction of HR's inbox and ask for resumes.

Tef

One time when I was in the USA I was staying up in a cabin near Lake Tahoe and went outside to have a smoke. I hear this grunting and snorting and being night time, I couldn't see shit so I automatically assumed it was a bear. "SHIIIIT" I think to myself as I scramble back towards the cabin, slipping and sliding everywhere on the icy path only to realise it's a couple of racoons just chilling next to our bins. We stop and stare at each other for a bit and one of them kinda raises it's paw up like it was waiting for some food, eyes looking up at me expectantly through it's little bandit mask.

On a related note, the fact that y'all coons was pretty disconcerting for me because here in Australia, that word is a hella racist term for the aboriginal people of Australia. 'Make sure you don't leave any rubbish out! Those coons will be on it like white on rice!' 'W-what?!'

Brovid Hasselsmof

Yeah coon is a nasty term for black people in the UK.

But then we call cigarettes fags.

Fyndir

see317 wrote: »

PwnanObrien wrote: »

IvanIssacs wrote: »

God save the Queen.

Well if she has to fight Killer Croc, yeah, she's going to need all the help she can get.

Bah, she may need someone to hold her back, maybe to pull her off her brutally beaten foe before she has a chance to tear out his throat with her teeth, but she doesn't need any help to take down the likes of Croc.

Look into the face of a hardened killer.

PwnanObrien

smof wrote: »

Yeah coon is a nasty term for black people in the UK.

But then we call cigarettes fags.

I'm pretty sure those are offensive terms everywhere.

Invisible

Non-work related question for UK people: was Broadchurch really big in the UK? Cause BBC America hypes it like crazy and I've watched it all and it was good, but BBCA has a tendency to oversell and I'm curious if it was treated as "the best drama from the UK since Downton Abbey."

Kakodaimonos

If they don't want people coming into work sick, they really need to give people sick days. Yes, you silly HR person. You can't have it both ways. And then she goes and gets bitchy after I point out that little conundrum. I really don't see the problem if one of my devs stays home when he's got the death flu. He gets all his shit done on time or ahead of schedule. Unlike HR.

Kadith

Kakodaimonos wrote: »

If they don't want people coming into work sick, they really need to give people sick days. Yes, you silly HR person. You can't have it both ways. And then she goes and gets bitchy after I point out that little conundrum. I really don't see the problem if one of my devs stays home when he's got the death flu. He gets all his shit done on time or ahead of schedule. Unlike HR.

Sounds a lot like socialism to me.

Darth Waiter

PwnanObrien wrote: »

I'm pretty sure those are offensive terms everywhere.

Depending on the makeup of the crowd you're in, using the truncated version of the word 'raccoon' in America will get you into a world of hurt.

But if you're going for 'ironic lynching' then you'll be set!

Invisible

HR serves a valuable role in every organization and as soon as I find out what it is, I'll let you know.

Abracadaniel

Bllllluuuuuuh

Friend of mine and I keep talking about how cool it would be to open up a cool coffee place in the Orlando area. We're both coffee nerds, and we think we could maybe do something cool, and his dad has been looking for a neat project to invest in but ahhhhhh the whole thing sounds utterly terrifying

Shazkar Shadowstorm

shows me for not reading emails from IT

apparently there is emergency server maintenance from 8PM CDT to 6AM CDT

which includes exchange server

and i was editing something to send to my boss, which i did, welllll before thing went down

then she was sposed to send it to client tonight after reviewing

but i do not think she did before e-mail went down.... which means she did not read the e-mail from IT either

ohhh well, i know she got it, nothing to be done, e-mail is down

Shazkar Shadowstorm

Abracadaniel wrote: »

Bllllluuuuuuh

Friend of mine and I keep talking about how cool it would be to open up a cool coffee place in the Orlando area. We're both coffee nerds, and we think we could maybe do something cool, and his dad has been looking for a neat project to invest in but ahhhhhh the whole thing sounds utterly terrifying

dan how good of a shot can you pull

make a youtube video

if you succeed then you should do this

actually you should do this anyway, follow your dreaaaaaaaams

Kadith

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

shows me for not reading emails from IT

apparently there is emergency server maintenance from 8PM CDT to 6AM CDT

which includes exchange server

and i was editing something to send to my boss, which i did, welllll before thing went down

then she was sposed to send it to client tonight after reviewing

but i do not think she did before e-mail went down.... which means she did not read the e-mail from IT either

ohhh well, i know she got it, nothing to be done, e-mail is down

No one reads emails from IT.

Abracadaniel

I love it when, on the rare occasions it happens, Google Apps goes down.

"AHHHH THE EMAIL ISN'T WORKING, WHAT DO WE DO"

"Something...else?"

Thankfully since I moved all the transactional stuff over to Mandrill invoices and shipping notifications and whatnot all still go out without issue.

Molybdenum

please tell me you giggle a little bit whenever you say Man Drill

Darth Waiter

Kadith wrote: »

No one reads emails from IT.

Got in touch with one of the IT guys today, tried to get my web-mail reinstated:

"Okay, no problem, I'll just send you a new password that you can reset whenever. Aaaaaaaand done."

" ... Did you just send that to my personal gmail account or to the company email?"

" ... So, what's your gmail?"

*sigh*

Lars

Well, I went in for my audition for the Busch Gardens Halloween event.

I was the first freakin' person they called up in front of everyone to tryout during the first set of auditions (as if I wasn't nervous enough already, having never acted or had an audition before).

Apparently I did well though, because I made it through all the auditions and got hired. One of the other people that got hired even commented to me that he thought I was the best one in the group, but I'm like 90% certain he was just being nice and making conversation.

So now I'll be working 7 days a week for most of the next two months (Mon-Thur at my normal office job, Fri-Sun at Busch Gardens). Hopefully I don't go insane. I also won't be getting to see my wife very much, but we need the extra money for Christmas time so hopefully it'll all work out.

Also, I learned something important about auditions. It sucks to go alone. Virtually everyone else that was auditioning was there with a group. I did manage to eventually socialize a little, though.

mcp

Kadith wrote: »

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

shows me for not reading emails from IT

apparently there is emergency server maintenance from 8PM CDT to 6AM CDT

which includes exchange server

and i was editing something to send to my boss, which i did, welllll before thing went down

then she was sposed to send it to client tonight after reviewing

but i do not think she did before e-mail went down.... which means she did not read the e-mail from IT either

ohhh well, i know she got it, nothing to be done, e-mail is down

No one reads emails from IT.

sad but true

Shazkar Shadowstorm

i guess i will go to sleep and ignore it since nothing can be done till like 9am tomorrow

mcp

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

i guess i will go to sleep and ignore it since nothing can be done till like 9am tomorrow

this is the correct answer

sadly, a lot of people think the correct answer is to yell at IT

Abracadaniel

Yeeeep.

So, so many useful things I've sent to our CS Dept

"Oh hey, while I was working on another thing, I found a great way to notify you when an order that was placed on credit hold, had the hold removed, but hadn't yet been printed, to make sure you print it so it can go out to the warehouse to be picked and shipped, here's some detailed instructions on how to set it up and also I already made custom ones for each of you CS guys so it's literally just a few mouse clicks"

*one week later*

"WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ORDERS BEING TAKEN OFF CREDIT HOLD AND NOT BEING PRINTED"

:?

Abracadaniel

Molybdenum wrote: »

please tell me you giggle a little bit whenever you say Man Drill

No I just think of Spark Mandrill from Megaman X

Abracadaniel

Invisible

The only emails I get from IT are fake spam emails to see if I'll open them or put them in the network spam folder. The only one that I got close to clicking was for free food, because all it takes for me to compromise security is the offer of free food*.

*not really

mcp

Invisible wrote: »

The only emails I get from IT are fake spam emails to see if I'll open them or put them in the network spam folder.

w... what

Abracadaniel

I keep having to send out regular reminders to staff about spam because somehow they haven't figured out that

nobody at work uses eFax on a regular basis, and certainly not internally
nobody at work has an American Express card (except for like, three people)
nobody at work has a Verizon account

And then as soon as I send it for the next several days I get everyone forwarding their spam to me going "WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH THIS?"