Where [Jobs] Grow on Little Jobbies!

mully

Job thread!

Let us talk about all sorts of job related things.

How are your co-workers, if you are employed?

What skills do you have? How can you improve upon them?

Let's talk about resumes and cover letters.

Job postings and lay offs.

Any good links?! Post them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siAbiwPyccg

Abracadaniel

mully

Watching this now, Dan. Thanks!

Muggins

Woah

woah

how'd you get that fancy schmancy green title thing there

Muggins

Also fuck crunch

but I guess crunch while getting paid hourly with overtime is nice in the end.

Tef

Well I was beaten, but at least I can say I was beaten by the best

Donovan Puppyfucker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFOBx6j0l8

mully

I used square brackets, and it picked it up, because Vanilla is awesome and it is the best forum software available in the internet market right now.

Tef

THE

BEST

I thought I did use square brackets :? I'm a bad and also posting from my phone so

TrippyJing

Is this where Tef attempts to create a job opening through assassination?

mully

i think it's got a little table of "words to highlight if square bracketed" somewhere - so like, NFL would work and JOBS would work and FOOD would work, but [WATERBOTTLES] or [@ICYLIQUID] would not.

Isoldae

I am not hating my job right now.

I like the people I work with which is a lot more than I could say at my last job.

Duke 2.0

Unused OP topic

Post locations around DC where furloughed staff drink their budget beer

Orikaeshigitae

can't a man walk down the street without being offered a job.png

Burning Organ

Today I get to try to convince my bosses that I deserve at least minimum wage as set by Finnish law when working more than 34 hours a week in IT.
This isn't something one should have to do, ever.
Needless to say if they ain't paying I ain't working.

Tonight I might get drunk.

mully

let us know how it goes, Burning. That blows.

Prolegomena

Where I come from a "jobbie" is a poop

Donovan Puppyfucker

Prolegomena wrote: »

Where I come from a "jobbie" is a poop

Billy Connolly taught me that.

miscellaneousinsanity

OP of the year

OPOTY

IvanIssacs

miscellaneousinsanity wrote: »

OP of the year

OPOTY

OPOTYAY

Magus`

I got a (minor) promotion to shift lead at work so.. yay? More a title change than anything else.

Mojo_Jojo

Doot doot. Pasting screen captures of excel spreadsheets into powerpoint.

Exciting stuff.

Dis'

Question for the many wonderful/smart/attractive technical and engineering type people in the job thread; know a good OCR program that works well with camera images?

Got a problem with barcode stickers being dissolved off and am trying to work out an efficient and automation friendly way to scan an etched serial number instead.

JoeUser

@msuitepyon

What about this?

DrZiplock

Boss: *yelling over the full volume music at 7:15am* "Is that Mars, Bringer of War?!"

Me: "Yep!"

"I'm not going to enjoy our one on one in an hour am I?"

"Nope!"

godmode

Ok so. I have an interview this week. Recruiter "A" told me about Position "A" and I'm scheduled to interview Thursday at 3PM. Yesterday, Recruiter "B" (who works directly with "A") told me about Position "B" and asked if I was interested. I said "Yes, please!" So he said he'd call back, because they wanted to interview someone this week. So I wait. Yesterday afternoon, A calls me back and says, "Listen, [Some Lady] here only wants to send two or three candidates to interview for B. If you had to choose between A and B, which would you prefer?" I tell him that my qualifications are probably better suited for B, and that they're the same distance from my home so there really is no advantage to either besides I probably have a better shot at getting it. Then he tells me that this lady has her own candidates in mind, so it sounds like she's trying to elbow me out so she can submit her own people, which would be super fucked up and would force me to stop doing business with this recruiting agency. Hopefully I'll get good news today, but I was very firm about my interest in Position B as it does sound like it would be a better fit than A.

Burning Organ

They want me to sign a fucking nda before even discussing the pay.
The nda doesn't apply to that.

I've already been working for them for a while without pay which was incredibly stupid and I realize that and NOW they want me to sign an NDA. To protect the customers, apparently.

This is not how you conduct business. I am not signing that until I get money for the work I already did, and I'm probably not going to get that money anyway.
Just going to stop wasting my time with this. Would rather go back to the grocery store working as a cashier if getting paid is going to be like pulling teeth from my dick.

Fencingsax

So I am applying to work as a teacher in Japan.

DrZiplock

Burning Organ wrote: »

They want me to sign a fucking nda before even discussing the pay.
The nda doesn't apply to that.

I've already been working for them for a while without pay which was incredibly stupid and I realize that and NOW they want me to sign an NDA. To protect the customers, apparently.

This is not how you conduct business. I am not signing that until I get money for the work I already did, and I'm probably not going to get that money anyway.
Just going to stop wasting my time with this. Would rather go back to the grocery store working as a cashier if getting paid is going to be like pulling teeth from my dick.

Whoa, what? Why are you working without pay and is there a signed contract somewhere that says "you work for us and we pay you"?

Beasteh

my job is fairly shit-ass

Burning Organ

DrZiplock wrote: »

Burning Organ wrote: »

They want me to sign a fucking nda before even discussing the pay.
The nda doesn't apply to that.

I've already been working for them for a while without pay which was incredibly stupid and I realize that and NOW they want me to sign an NDA. To protect the customers, apparently.

This is not how you conduct business. I am not signing that until I get money for the work I already did, and I'm probably not going to get that money anyway.
Just going to stop wasting my time with this. Would rather go back to the grocery store working as a cashier if getting paid is going to be like pulling teeth from my dick.

Whoa, what? Why are you working without pay and is there a signed contract somewhere that says "you work for us and we pay you"?

Just going to say there was some confusion and leave it at that.

honovere

Apparently water is shut off for the whole office after a pipe damage an still a good 4 hours of work ahead today. Should probaly dial down my liquid intake.

DaMoonRulz

I think this person's parents like Dr Seuss took much.

Penelope Papantonopoulos

Burning Organ

Greek family?
Buddy of mine knew someone named Poppalipididaios or something like that.

DaMoonRulz

Tell it to Queen Dopplepopoulos

Erin The Red

Curse this booty-ass coffee!
I drink it to wake up, but it is booty-ass coffee and causes SEVERE INTESTINAL DISTRESS.
Which is another way to wake up, I guess.

:whistle: The best part of waking up
Is screaming from your butt :whistle:

Sticks

Abracadaniel wrote: »

I love this video. Even though I'm not a design guy, he still has a ton of interesting advice.

Raijin Quickfoot

I find out how much my raise is today!

Butters

I need to find out if I can put some kind of script together that removes the usage from "???" in any emails I am copied on. It's so god damned obnoxious and annoys the crap out of me.

Sassori

I need to find some motivation today. If anyone knows where I can get some please share.

Silmaril

Sassori wrote: »

I need to find some motivation today. If anyone knows where I can get some please share.

Sorry. I'm fresh out, and have been for sometime.