Honestly it sounds like he wants to make sure you're "cooked" as a positive recommendation should his next employer call you.
on the other hand mmmm cronuts yes please I will take your bribe
Uh...I've had a picture of a Snorlax in my office for about a year because of him.
This guy was getting a positive recommendation from me after the first week I met him because he cares a lot about doing good work even for what is only a 20 hour a week graduate student position.
I had a co-op (4th year university engineering student) that was doing software support / development that was running circles around half the 10+ year dev/support team. They didn't like him because he did was asked, in a timely manner and was able to be helpful while troubleshooting issues with the frontline staff.
When it was time for him to leave, he had one more term of school to do, I had to do his "Need improvement" section. If it wasn't going back to the school, I would have put "Not dropping out to get hired". After graduation he got hired on at a more major software development company and has been there ever since.
Since him (at that company and my current one) I've helped hire about a half dozen other people. None of them were as good as him. Good people are so hard to find .
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FaranguI am a beardy manWith a beardy planRegistered Userregular
So one of my new tasks now is to intermittently send requests from our customers to a rep that then pleads their case to their client. Said rep's name is Tron.
The urge to yell out "Fight the system, Tron! FOR THE USERS!" each time is intoxicating.
So one of my new tasks now is to intermittently send requests from our customers to a rep that then pleads their case to their client. Said rep's name is Tron.
The urge to yell out "Fight the system, Tron! FOR THE USERS!" each time is intoxicating.
So one of my new tasks now is to intermittently send requests from our customers to a rep that then pleads their case to their client. Said rep's name is Tron.
The urge to yell out "Fight the system, Tron! FOR THE USERS!" each time is intoxicating.
You should sign your requests, Alan1
One of the cute things I loved about Tron 2.0 (the game), was the AI referring to Jethero (Jet) Bradley as "Alan2".
Two internal e-mails in one day about the company posting record profits in the first quarter. I give two fucks about it because it because most of that $562 million will not be used wisely. Sure, there might be some profit-sharing boost for a brief period, but all of our in-house infrastructure is being slowly gutted.
So its been in the news that the guy at my work who said he'd built a bomb had his house raided and today a bunch of police detectives have turned up.
According to the manager who opened his locker for the police there was an object therein that could be best described as a 'over ten knives glued together'.
What seems odd is how little his close co-workers are surprised.
Random call from the museum I was working at, letting me know that after they reopen they're looking into reopening the position I was contracting with the last couple years, and wanted to tip me off about it ahead of any official postings.
I'm provisionally cool with where that might lead.
How were the knives glued together? I'm a pretty resourceful sort of fellow, but I'm trying to wrap my head around the configuration.
Wolverine style or shuriken style are my only ones so far.
In the words of Oglaf, "A double-edged sword cuts both ways, but the 100-bladed swordball slashes the shit out of everyone."
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mightyjongyoSour CrrmEast Bay, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
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Impromptu paid weekend trip to Redmond? Yes please!
Slightly dampened by the fact that the first thing out of my boss' mouth was "Are you interviewing for Microsoft?" as soon as he heard the word "washington"
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
So its been in the news that the guy at my work who said he'd built a bomb had his house raided and today a bunch of police detectives have turned up.
According to the manager who opened his locker for the police there was an object therein that could be best described as a 'over ten knives glued together'.
What seems odd is how little his close co-workers are surprised.
I forgot to mention that I actually used a watering can at work.
I might work at a harvest moon game.
Kochikens
You have swapped your job from ushering the chickens into the Underworld for the more light-hearted chicken beauty parlour assistant, where they have tiny watering-can showers and are fed delicate slices of radish because they are VIP chickens.
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
I forgot to mention that I actually used a watering can at work.
I might work at a harvest moon game.
Kochikens
You have swapped your job from ushering the chickens into the Underworld for the more light-hearted chicken beauty parlour assistant, where they have tiny watering-can showers and are fed delicate slices of radish because they are VIP chickens.
All of my performance reviews came back from the 'calibration' process (that's where they make sure that you're not vastly overrating your own department as compared to the rest of the company) and they all came back at what I'd put them.
I feel p. good about that because I was NOT looking forward to trying to justify a lower review than I'd wanted to give.
So headquarters here is spread over several buildings. Our meeting rooms are all over the damn place and nobody can find them. Currently one of the buildings has named meeting rooms after every president who has appeared on US currency (and the one non-president), because ha ha, we're a bank. HR just sent out an email saying that the rooms in my building are due to be renamed, only we get to decide.
I am currently calling in all favors to get people to vote for my Sith Lord theme. I desperately want to be unsure whether I'm meeting vendors in the Darth Revan or the Exar Kun room.
So headquarters here is spread over several buildings. Our meeting rooms are all over the damn place and nobody can find them. Currently one of the buildings has named meeting rooms after every president who has appeared on US currency (and the one non-president), because ha ha, we're a bank. HR just sent out an email saying that the rooms in my building are due to be renamed, only we get to decide.
I am currently calling in all favors to get people to vote for my Sith Lord theme. I desperately want to be unsure whether I'm meeting vendors in the Darth Revan or the Exar Kun room.
Hail the Emperor!
You'll just end up starting arguments about Canon vs EU.
So headquarters here is spread over several buildings. Our meeting rooms are all over the damn place and nobody can find them. Currently one of the buildings has named meeting rooms after every president who has appeared on US currency (and the one non-president), because ha ha, we're a bank. HR just sent out an email saying that the rooms in my building are due to be renamed, only we get to decide.
I am currently calling in all favors to get people to vote for my Sith Lord theme. I desperately want to be unsure whether I'm meeting vendors in the Darth Revan or the Exar Kun room.
Apparently I will be rolling the hogs to start the day and end the day, for a total of 6 1/2 hours. I think tomorrow I'm gonna have to tell my boss my body cannot do that.
Either he'll change one of those blocks or he'll terminate me. So there's that to look forward to.
So I'm a TA. We were on strike in March. It's finals marking season. I get that there are a lot of finals to mark and a lot of TAs to do it and hard to organize them all, but I've been doing this for 5 years, and I've never had this happen to me.
We were originally all scheduled for 8 hours each today. Tuesday, 5:30 PM, we get an email saying that finals marking will happen today and tomorrow. Okay.
Wednesday, 12:30 PM, we get an email saying that finals marking will actually only happen today and tomorrow morning. Oh, and also I have 12 hours of marking to do, instead of 8 (hours reallocated from work I missed during the strike, which is okay and already paid for according to our return-to-work protocol). And there's this vague hint that if we don't show up early enough, the other TAs might finish all the marking and if there's no marking left for us to do, then we'll get our pay docked for the hours missed. Which is not allowed under our negotiated settlement, to use our already paid March hours to deprive us of April hours/pay, and basically pits us TAs against one another to compete for work, and threatens to deprive TAs of work that was contractually promised to them in January.
I am completely infuriated and send a couple angry emails asking for clarification. I go in this morning, and their excuse is that they made a mistake and never meant for marking to be done on Friday anyways and that they must have misunderstood our new contract protocols because they didn't really read it that carefully, and I should just have assumed that they were acting in good faith and contacted them privately. And I'm like, so you expected me to work 12 hours marking today on half a day's notice, and are excusing your violation of our collective agreement with your willful ignorance, and when you send a mass email misrepresenting and threatening our rights we're supposed to assume that you mean well?
Am I overreacting here? I know that I live in the rarefied air of academia but I am pissed to all hell.
Got a job offer today, it's not ideal. Lots of work, carp hours, low pay.... And it doesn't start for a month. So hopefully I can find something better before then. If not, Well I need to pay bills, so I'd take it.
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Huh. This guy is an actual Apple big wig. Also this is a super Apple style presentation.
Uh...I've had a picture of a Snorlax in my office for about a year because of him.
This guy was getting a positive recommendation from me after the first week I met him because he cares a lot about doing good work even for what is only a 20 hour a week graduate student position.
Not that I'm biased or anything. (I totally am.)
When it was time for him to leave, he had one more term of school to do, I had to do his "Need improvement" section. If it wasn't going back to the school, I would have put "Not dropping out to get hired". After graduation he got hired on at a more major software development company and has been there ever since.
Since him (at that company and my current one) I've helped hire about a half dozen other people. None of them were as good as him. Good people are so hard to find
The urge to yell out "Fight the system, Tron! FOR THE USERS!" each time is intoxicating.
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
You should sign your requests, Alan1
One of the cute things I loved about Tron 2.0 (the game), was the AI referring to Jethero (Jet) Bradley as "Alan2".
So tired of this shell game.
According to the manager who opened his locker for the police there was an object therein that could be best described as a 'over ten knives glued together'.
What seems odd is how little his close co-workers are surprised.
Wolverine style or shuriken style are my only ones so far.
Way too flimsy, tried it when I was ten, didn't work out so well.
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Don't look at me like that, I was ten.
I'm provisionally cool with where that might lead.
In the words of Oglaf, "A double-edged sword cuts both ways, but the 100-bladed swordball slashes the shit out of everyone."
Slightly dampened by the fact that the first thing out of my boss' mouth was "Are you interviewing for Microsoft?" as soon as he heard the word "washington"
Hi I heard something about knives
Did he belong to the janitorial staff?
I might work at a harvest moon game.
@Kochikens
Were you using it to distribute the wine you had just turned some water into?
Or is this a different workplace than chicken jesus?
At least I now have like 1000 pens from the vendor booths.
I think you mean, there wasn't any punishment until now.
I'm still below the poverty line
Have you met her?
Can you make an island out of them?
A veritable penisland?
That was my girlfriend that was all over you. I'm pretty...
Actually never mind, that sums me up pretty succinctly right there
You have swapped your job from ushering the chickens into the Underworld for the more light-hearted chicken beauty parlour assistant, where they have tiny watering-can showers and are fed delicate slices of radish because they are VIP chickens.
Oh no it's all the same job?
I feel p. good about that because I was NOT looking forward to trying to justify a lower review than I'd wanted to give.
Oh I'd have to step my game way up to get your attention
Well now I feel like an ass. I was going to say pretty reserved and shy.
But fuck it, let's have coffee.
I am currently calling in all favors to get people to vote for my Sith Lord theme. I desperately want to be unsure whether I'm meeting vendors in the Darth Revan or the Exar Kun room.
Hail the Emperor!
You'll just end up starting arguments about Canon vs EU.
Why not after The First Emperor of These United States Edward Norton The First?
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
"That is an OG computer!"
-referring to one of those white MacBooks. This was said out loud by a teacher.
Either he'll change one of those blocks or he'll terminate me. So there's that to look forward to.
We were originally all scheduled for 8 hours each today. Tuesday, 5:30 PM, we get an email saying that finals marking will happen today and tomorrow. Okay.
Wednesday, 12:30 PM, we get an email saying that finals marking will actually only happen today and tomorrow morning. Oh, and also I have 12 hours of marking to do, instead of 8 (hours reallocated from work I missed during the strike, which is okay and already paid for according to our return-to-work protocol). And there's this vague hint that if we don't show up early enough, the other TAs might finish all the marking and if there's no marking left for us to do, then we'll get our pay docked for the hours missed. Which is not allowed under our negotiated settlement, to use our already paid March hours to deprive us of April hours/pay, and basically pits us TAs against one another to compete for work, and threatens to deprive TAs of work that was contractually promised to them in January.
I am completely infuriated and send a couple angry emails asking for clarification. I go in this morning, and their excuse is that they made a mistake and never meant for marking to be done on Friday anyways and that they must have misunderstood our new contract protocols because they didn't really read it that carefully, and I should just have assumed that they were acting in good faith and contacted them privately. And I'm like, so you expected me to work 12 hours marking today on half a day's notice, and are excusing your violation of our collective agreement with your willful ignorance, and when you send a mass email misrepresenting and threatening our rights we're supposed to assume that you mean well?
Am I overreacting here? I know that I live in the rarefied air of academia but I am pissed to all hell.