Got a senior accountant position at Trident Seafoods. Going to be doing some cost, and some regular financial/corp accounting. The team there seems nice and the environment appears to be not very stressful. It's a bit of a commute for now, but we may be moving to accommodate that. It's a lateral move, salary-wise, but I am able to start right after my current job is wrapping up in a couple weeks so I'll be able to have no gap in paychecks and then I can use my full severance and vacation payout for paying off debt and stuff.
Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited June 2015
So, let me tell you folks some work stories.
First: The Swollen Knowledge
So my coworker, the director of our summer day camp, has been a close friend of mine for near eight years. And we've been getting closer through this job, but not in a romantic way. She's engaged and I love her fiance and I'm super pumped for her wedding in August (I'm the official partymeister for it). No, her & I are exchanging really personal bits of info. We have discussed intimate elements of our bodies and are generally getting more comfortable with each other in a physical sense (she took her top off in my car as we drove to a bar one night). Well, this dialogue happened this morning:
Me: Sammy, you know swamp ass? Well yesterday I think I had swamp body. Sammy: Okay, I have to tell someone besides my fiance this. You know how I said I am going commando about 50% of the time. Me: Ugh... Yes? Sammy: Well Wednesday I wore those Capri pants and my labia become swollen from all the sweat. Me: GOOD GOD WOMAN! Sammy: I know! I got home and just looked at it in the mirror, it was so gross! Me: AUGH!!!!!
Second: The Unknown Mom-beast
A mother has been getting angry at us because I have requested she show her ID when she picks up her children at the end of the summer camp. This is our city's policy with children being picked up and generally just a good safety measure. Well this mother doesn't like the effort of having to go retrieve her ID from the car so she gave me some grief about it Wednesday. I told my coworker and the mother gave her equal grief when the topic was brought up. Well at the end of today she came in and immediately opened up with, "Listen, I left my ID at my home which is 45 minutes away and I am not going to go get it and you can't hold my children away from me so I'm taking them right now." So I told her I wasn't going to hold her children from her but was going to check in with my supervisor regarding the situation. She continued to fester with rage and after I told her about our city's policy she tried to chew me out. She later called asking for my supervisor's name and my name in a, what I can presume, attempt to try to get my fired. Well, my supervisor joked about this afterward, so good luck there lady.
Thirdly: The Lady of the Lake er... Pool
I met up with my coworker and my supervisor after work for some hotdogs & beers. Early into the dinner I brought this up:
Me: So, we aren't city employees right now. Them: Okay. Me: There is an employee at the city pool who is... I'm enticed. Supervisor: No! Coworker: Wait, which one? Some of them are pretty young. Me: The one working today, who's friends with one of our employees. Coworker: Oh, her? No! No..... I heard she's crazy! Me: Oh my.... Coworker: Crazy!!! Me: You really shouldn't say that to guys, it excites us. Supervisor: Don't hit on her! She's a city employee and she's crazy and we have to work with her for nine more weeks.
So we ate & drank and near the end of the dinner I drifted us back into that familiar topic.
Me: So, just to reconfirm I am getting the go ahead to hit on that pool employee? Supervisor: NO! Me: This is outrageous. Supervisor: You can't hit on her! You can't hit on anyone working for the city! Me: Oh, the entire city is just cock-blocking me here!?! Supervisor: JUST STOP TRYING TO FUCK EVERYONE IN IT!!!!
ain't into having read that first story. not stoked about that little part of my night.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I'm going to community college for my certification training, and I just got this in my email. It just seems so much like something Dean Pelton would send out I had to laugh.
Dear Students,
[college] placed benches around parts of the perimeter of the downtown campus as a pilot program with the goal of providing a venue for people - our students, faculty, staff and community - to sit, relax, read and talk. However, in the past months and, in particular, in recent days we have seen an increase in the number of people using the benches for all the wrong reasons; this has required more attention from Dallas PD and from our officers. I understand and appreciate that there are diverse views - positive, negative and neutral - surrounding the placement of these benches.
In order to protect the integrity of the college, the benches will be removed starting this morning.
Thank you.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I dunno, I'm not downtown often enough to see. Probably a mix of homeless and drug dealers, I'm pretty sure I saw a couple selling pot around there a couple of weeks ago.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Got a senior accountant position at Trident Seafoods. Going to be doing some cost, and some regular financial/corp accounting. The team there seems nice and the environment appears to be not very stressful. It's a bit of a commute for now, but we may be moving to accommodate that. It's a lateral move, salary-wise, but I am able to start right after my current job is wrapping up in a couple weeks so I'll be able to have no gap in paychecks and then I can use my full severance and vacation payout for paying off debt and stuff.
A week ago: "I wont be in to see the rota as I'm away, will I just be in on Sunday like usual next week?"
Manager: "Yes!"
Today, friend: "Why aren't you in work? You are on the rota."
ARGH.
Ahh sure feels great to be told everyone was freaking out and asking where I was. I am pretty pissed off about this. Luckily I am not the first person she's done this to.
I feel like I might be becoming a That Guy in IT, specifically the one who hoards his knowledge so that only he has it. I work for a smallish company of software engineers, and over the last couple years we've started taking on more virtual world projects. Now, not a single person has been hired into the company on the basis of their skills with 3d modelling, graphics, game design, any of that; as far as I know they don't even ask about it during interviews. Over the past few years I've picked up some skills in Blender and GIMP and OpenSim etc, and over the past few months I've started on Unity. Even bought some design software personally on Steam which I've been using at work, because the company sure ain't buying any. I'm pretty sure there's solid months I've spent just practicing things in Blender, during slow times. The upshot of this is that I probably know more about virtual world development tools than anyone else at the company, at least I would like to think so.
Recently the only other person at the company who knows anything about Unity said they'd be leaving in a couple weeks, while we have a couple of VW projects running at the same time...and I'm the only other one slotted to be doing any real work on them. Now, they will be putting some literally brand-new hires onto the projects, but given that like every other hire they have no experience in any of this, odds are they'd be getting up to speed about 6 months after the projects are due. And...I'm actually kind of torn on how much I should be going out of my way to educate them on stuff. I mean, no one's asked me to even talk to them as yet, but it would make those projects easier if they knew as much about the tools as I do. On the other hand, I feel like my being 'The VW Guy' is the only leverage I have at getting any sort of decent raise during my next review. Like, if I were also to quit in the next month, at least one of these three projects would probably crash and burn. And the sooner I'm replaceable, the sooner I lose any hope of getting paid what I suspect I'm worth.
Sometimes I wonder if the bosses even realize how unlikely it is that they can sign up for these contracts and have people on staff able to do them. That I haven't been asked to even talk to the new guys makes me think they figure any Comp Sci major can just pick it up like another programming language or something. Object oriented programming is not useful when you're trying to rig a skeleton and animate it to climb up some ladders, I can tell you that.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Well yesterday was interesting. Base manager drove to Joburg to collect the new batch of volunteers, and got into a head-on collision when a car overtook a lorry on a blind corner. So had to drive three hours to the hospital to meet them and we all stayed in a hotel for the night. Thankfully nobody is seriously injured (a miracle considering the state of the minibus), but what a fucking start to their trip.
I feel like I might be becoming a That Guy in IT, specifically the one who hoards his knowledge so that only he has it. I work for a smallish company of software engineers, and over the last couple years we've started taking on more virtual world projects. Now, not a single person has been hired into the company on the basis of their skills with 3d modelling, graphics, game design, any of that; as far as I know they don't even ask about it during interviews. Over the past few years I've picked up some skills in Blender and GIMP and OpenSim etc, and over the past few months I've started on Unity. Even bought some design software personally on Steam which I've been using at work, because the company sure ain't buying any. I'm pretty sure there's solid months I've spent just practicing things in Blender, during slow times. The upshot of this is that I probably know more about virtual world development tools than anyone else at the company, at least I would like to think so.
Recently the only other person at the company who knows anything about Unity said they'd be leaving in a couple weeks, while we have a couple of VW projects running at the same time...and I'm the only other one slotted to be doing any real work on them. Now, they will be putting some literally brand-new hires onto the projects, but given that like every other hire they have no experience in any of this, odds are they'd be getting up to speed about 6 months after the projects are due. And...I'm actually kind of torn on how much I should be going out of my way to educate them on stuff. I mean, no one's asked me to even talk to them as yet, but it would make those projects easier if they knew as much about the tools as I do. On the other hand, I feel like my being 'The VW Guy' is the only leverage I have at getting any sort of decent raise during my next review. Like, if I were also to quit in the next month, at least one of these three projects would probably crash and burn. And the sooner I'm replaceable, the sooner I lose any hope of getting paid what I suspect I'm worth.
Sometimes I wonder if the bosses even realize how unlikely it is that they can sign up for these contracts and have people on staff able to do them. That I haven't been asked to even talk to the new guys makes me think they figure any Comp Sci major can just pick it up like another programming language or something. Object oriented programming is not useful when you're trying to rig a skeleton and animate it to climb up some ladders, I can tell you that.
Yeah, if you're going to put some effort into making yourself expendable, then you need to make sure that you're appropriately recognised and rewarded for it. Just doing it will get you jack shit. It's not only possible but very likely that your bosses genuinely do not realise the situation. Your task is to bring them gently to that realisation.
On one hand, I'm sad that I'm going into work tomorrow and having a one day weekend, but I'm covering for a guy because his wife had a stroke so I feel like a jerk for feeling sorry for myself
Well, it looks like I get to work ten hour days for the next eight days because of our systems being merged for United records and the last lingering shreds of Continental records.
Roughly thirty hours of OT on a single paycheck is going to be pretty cool, but goddamn that's a lot of hours.
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
Today at work I am loading the set of Singin' In The Rain into trucks bound for a theater in Southern California. The irony of the fact that a SoCal theater is doing a run of Singin' In The Rain amid the state's worst drought in hundreds of years is not lost on my coworkers.
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DynagripBreak me a million heartsHoustonRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I learned that my manager put in for mine, and a few other people's, promotions but they were rejected out of hand
Due to "market conditions". Sucks for me.
Two fun things today:
Lady I sold an Iphone to the other day came in
Lady: I want to return this phone. Its terrible and I hate it. I'm going to the other store on the other side of town.
Me: I apologize you didn't like the phone, was there also a problem with the service I gave you that would make you not want to shop here?
Lady: No, but I was just over there and they wouldn't return this and said you guys arn't a real store.
Me: Well...I can promise I am not a man selling a monkey's paw
Lady: blank stare
Me: So why don't you like your iphone?
Lady: I put a passcode lock on it and was out of town this weekend and for got it and couldn't get into my phone.
Me: Oh...thats not just an Apple feature, if you put a passlock on the phone you can't access the phone without inputting the passcode.
Lady: Why, thats dumb
Me:Well you can just leave it unlocked
Lady: THEN ANYONE COULD GET IN MY PHONE!
I talked her out of it, but man, really?
Then my shittastic boss told me 'something came up' and now I have to work tomorrow, my day off, in exchange he might be able to work for me Tuesday. Might. Oh and he said I might need to work on the 3rd, my other day off this week. I think if he says I have to work either Tuesday or the 3rd I'm going to tell him to fuck off.
SheriResident FlufferMy Living RoomRegistered Userregular
I took 2 days off for my birthday, then I had my regular days off for the weekend, then I called in for tomorrow cuz why not
I'd feel bad, except we went from 8-10 hours of mandatory OT (due to response time) to 0 OT allowed AT ALL (even voluntary) within a week and got NO THANKS or recognition at all
They literally went "mandatory OT for the rest of the week is cancelled. No voluntary OT next week, hope you didn't need to pay your bills"
Take a picture of the room as it normally appears, print off that picture in large scale and tape it to the windows so that from the VPs office everything looks normal.
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I dunno man, something about this sounds fishy.
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Stop trying to fuck everyone
Only try to fuck some people
And if someone says 'don't try to fuck this person'
I'm sure you can find someone else to try and fuck that will work out for everyone
I dunno, I'm not downtown often enough to see. Probably a mix of homeless and drug dealers, I'm pretty sure I saw a couple selling pot around there a couple of weeks ago.
No Doubts here
@The Geek
Hooray! Congratulations! :biggrin:
Good luck, don't fork it up
Manager: "Yes!"
Today, friend: "Why aren't you in work? You are on the rota."
ARGH.
At the same time.
Homeless people having sex on skateboards.
First one, then the other.
but they're listening to every word I say
The joke is, he never fixes it in post.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Ahh sure feels great to be told everyone was freaking out and asking where I was. I am pretty pissed off about this. Luckily I am not the first person she's done this to.
Improper communication
I'm not trying to fuck everyone in my small town.
Just the good looking folks, which are in the minority.
I mean, it is slim pickings around here.
Nothing gets fixed in post.
I just liked the idea of you pulling a Bill O style flip out about it not being red.
Fuck it! We'll do it live!
As if such a thing we're possible.
You probably need to enhance as well.
but they're listening to every word I say
Recently the only other person at the company who knows anything about Unity said they'd be leaving in a couple weeks, while we have a couple of VW projects running at the same time...and I'm the only other one slotted to be doing any real work on them. Now, they will be putting some literally brand-new hires onto the projects, but given that like every other hire they have no experience in any of this, odds are they'd be getting up to speed about 6 months after the projects are due. And...I'm actually kind of torn on how much I should be going out of my way to educate them on stuff. I mean, no one's asked me to even talk to them as yet, but it would make those projects easier if they knew as much about the tools as I do. On the other hand, I feel like my being 'The VW Guy' is the only leverage I have at getting any sort of decent raise during my next review. Like, if I were also to quit in the next month, at least one of these three projects would probably crash and burn. And the sooner I'm replaceable, the sooner I lose any hope of getting paid what I suspect I'm worth.
Sometimes I wonder if the bosses even realize how unlikely it is that they can sign up for these contracts and have people on staff able to do them. That I haven't been asked to even talk to the new guys makes me think they figure any Comp Sci major can just pick it up like another programming language or something. Object oriented programming is not useful when you're trying to rig a skeleton and animate it to climb up some ladders, I can tell you that.
Yeah, if you're going to put some effort into making yourself expendable, then you need to make sure that you're appropriately recognised and rewarded for it. Just doing it will get you jack shit. It's not only possible but very likely that your bosses genuinely do not realise the situation. Your task is to bring them gently to that realisation.
Do you have some holiday days...?
Not pleased
It sucks for that dude and his wife and no mistake
doesn't make the short weekend for you any more pleasant
good of you to cover him though
Roughly thirty hours of OT on a single paycheck is going to be pretty cool, but goddamn that's a lot of hours.
Due to "market conditions". Sucks for me.
Lady I sold an Iphone to the other day came in
Lady: I want to return this phone. Its terrible and I hate it. I'm going to the other store on the other side of town.
Me: I apologize you didn't like the phone, was there also a problem with the service I gave you that would make you not want to shop here?
Lady: No, but I was just over there and they wouldn't return this and said you guys arn't a real store.
Me: Well...I can promise I am not a man selling a monkey's paw
Lady: blank stare
Me: So why don't you like your iphone?
Lady: I put a passcode lock on it and was out of town this weekend and for got it and couldn't get into my phone.
Me: Oh...thats not just an Apple feature, if you put a passlock on the phone you can't access the phone without inputting the passcode.
Lady: Why, thats dumb
Me:Well you can just leave it unlocked
Lady: THEN ANYONE COULD GET IN MY PHONE!
I talked her out of it, but man, really?
Then my shittastic boss told me 'something came up' and now I have to work tomorrow, my day off, in exchange he might be able to work for me Tuesday. Might. Oh and he said I might need to work on the 3rd, my other day off this week. I think if he says I have to work either Tuesday or the 3rd I'm going to tell him to fuck off.
I'd feel bad, except we went from 8-10 hours of mandatory OT (due to response time) to 0 OT allowed AT ALL (even voluntary) within a week and got NO THANKS or recognition at all
They literally went "mandatory OT for the rest of the week is cancelled. No voluntary OT next week, hope you didn't need to pay your bills"
Not even a "hey good job"
So I get an extended extended birthday weekend
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So I'm all alone in an empty open plan office with about 30 desks.
Everything is silent.
This is weird.
Unfortunately the VP's window is across the courtyard, else the ramparts of Schreibtischfestung would already be rising.