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You'll never guess what happened at my [Job] thread today...
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Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered User regular
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXmaFPn604This is the job thread.
You should know how it works by now.
Hiring, firing, coworkers, customers, and the only catch there is: you can only get a job by first having experience, you can only get experience by first having a job.
And we all pretend like that it all makes perfect sense.
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Two staff were killed, and another seriously wounded.
So the first thing that I did this morning was observe 2 minutes silence to mark the deaths of two staff members a week ago.
A number of our offices in the region were closed for a few days, and every office in the entire country will be closed for an hour this afternoon during the memorial service.
Now, for me, working in ministry head office it's not exactly like being in a service centre, and I am a long way removed from front line customer interaction, so I don't really know anyone who even knows the people who were directly affected. I am several degrees of separation from the tragedy.
But I am a part of the same faceless bureaucratic machine that apparently incensed someone enough to go postal in a small South Island town specifically targetting the people working there.
A review is underway of safety and security at all of our sites, starting with front line positions, but ultimately will stretch to include us here in the 70's concrete office blocks behind parliament where I work.
I'm not sure how I feel about any of this at present.
Either way, it was a hell of a thing to come back into the office to from a tropical beach holiday, let me tell you.
That's horrid.
Did they get the guy?
Satans..... hints.....
Edit: yes, they did catch the guy, rather soon after the shooting.
I have worked with, and have many friends who either are or were case managers at one point or another. Many of the people around me right now started in a front office, or have worked at one in one capacity or another.
I haven't even really processed it yet, although it's all kind of new to me. I'm not even sure what people who have worked front line offices must be going through.
I'm a little stunned, and across an ocean. I have no words for what it would be like to be closer to the tragedy.
I remember hearing about this last week. What an utterly awful thing.
It's such a bizarre and horrible feeling when these sorts of horrors that you would normally only read or hear about somehow manage to creep into proximity to your own life in some way.
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Welp. With some happier news, i got my annual raise the other day! Something like another 4 or 5 an hour (i have to check my pay stub on the computer to see the true amount). And today i start this week long cryogenics course. Ive already got my priorities set, im not going to fuck this up - I WILL get a seat in the back away from all the managers, damnit.
Also this is me waking up at 3am for some reason because as a shift worker my sleep schedule is just totally fucked up
I'm sorry, buddy.
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I've been to Guelph.
It's a lovely place.
Didn't see any gilfs though.
Oh those sweet summer children.
Then it looks like this imaginary brochure is a pack of lies.
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Two jobs, both want to schedule me for 25-30 hour weeks (Bookstore/office worker deal)
Bookstore absolutely ignores my requests for just 10-15 hours a week until I'm done with school because well, 55 hour work weeks + 17 hours of classes is pretty much impossible to balance.
So I'm going to have to talk to the owner today and tell them to either cut me back immediately, like this very week, schedule they've made be damned, or that I'll probably have to walk because I have such little free time that I'm fucking up in class.
jesus dude
I'm so sorry.
I think it's seen better days.
I think it tried to take on a truck and lost.
Was this written in the voice of Rorschach, because that's how I'm reading it.
Apparently I shaved my facial hair this morning in such a way that my neutral expression looks like I'm scowling, and smiling just makes me look sad.
Just now, with the instructor stepped out of the room, an operator goes off saying "we dont gove a rats fucking ass about equations we just wasted the whole god damned morning on this bullshit".
Except the guy running the course walked in right as the operator said all that stuff.
Ah jeez
For about 2 months now I have gotten zero interviews or calls, recieved a few letters denying me.
Three weeks ago I got a phone call from Company A for a job, went to the interview and the main guy had home emergency and missed it. I called them for a follow up after Labour Day, scheduled a second interview for last Thursday and they cancelled it 3 hours before hand. Asked to reschedule for Friday or Monday, I said Friday. Friday 3 hours before interview they cancelled again and asked for Tuesday. They contacted me today to assure me tomorrow's second interview will go forward.
Saturday I went to a job fair for Company B and talked to the people there and how it would be a career change and what not, the screening was done by the manager, production manager, and lead operator. I recieved a phone call today telling me I passed the screening and want me to schedule an interview.
Today I recieved an email from Company C, telling me that I am in conserdation for a job I applied to.
Company A is very small (<10 employee's) and I would have about 5-6 job roles. Some of which I want more experience in for my future.
Company B is global company, very good benefits but extremly strict about days calling off or being late.
Company C is a global company, not sure about anything else.
Ironically all deal with Aerospace industry.
Right now I like the idea of working for a small laid back company, but the multiple interview cancelations and general organization of the company concerns me. However company B probably has better benefits/retirement and would be doing more specialized work and I know they do internal promotions.
Suggestions or thoughts?
I plan on calling company B in about an hour or so to schecule an interview later this week or next.
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