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Vacation's over in the [Jobs] thread

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  • KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Today on lunch duty at the basketball courts the kids tried to give me the basketball.

    I told them, no I'm not shooting the ball. I am crap at basketball.

    The kids kept pushing.

    So I said fine , and just before I took the shot the chant started, which was, "air ball, air ball" repeated by everyone on the courts. Everyone stopped and started watching me.

    So I leaned back, aimed and shot.

    So I sunk it outside three, not super clean, but in, everyone cheers, and I turned to the crowd, shrugged and loudly proclaimed that I am never shooting a basketball again.

    Blake I-Have-Never-Once-Missed-A-Basket T

  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    I wish I could sleep in. My day off and I still woke up at 4am something, an hour before my alarm to wake up for work. I just want to sleep to a nice 8 or 9 am on my day off.

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  • L Ron HowardL Ron Howard The duck MinnesotaRegistered User regular
    Listen. If you're in a meeting, teleconferences especially, and you're not paying attention, please just hang up and save everyone the time.
    I get tired of spending X number of minutes talking about something, coming to a conclusion, and then, right before moving on, someone chiming in with clarification of something that was brought up while we were clarifying. I get it, you want to work. So do we all, but I hate spending 10 minute recapping the last 20 that we spent talking about this. You had your chance to bring this up while we were talking. Your name was even mentioned. Stop embarrassing yourself and wasting everyone's time because you can't be arsed to give more than a slight amount of attention to the meeting you are needed in.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    I passed my Masters degree with a merit.

    Thank god I don't have to go back!

  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Listen. If you're in a meeting, teleconferences especially, and you're not paying attention, please just hang up and save everyone the time.
    I get tired of spending X number of minutes talking about something, coming to a conclusion, and then, right before moving on, someone chiming in with clarification of something that was brought up while we were clarifying. I get it, you want to work. So do we all, but I hate spending 10 minute recapping the last 20 that we spent talking about this. You had your chance to bring this up while we were talking. Your name was even mentioned. Stop embarrassing yourself and wasting everyone's time because you can't be arsed to give more than a slight amount of attention to the meeting you are needed in.

    I had this yesterday as a double doozy - the person who spends THE MOST time talking is the one who pays the least attention, but talks a ton to make it seem like they are. They also repeat everything someone else already said/addressed.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    I passed my Masters degree with a merit.

    Thank god I don't have to go back!

    Congratulations, Liiya!

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    I passed my Masters degree with a merit.

    Thank god I don't have to go back!

    Does this mean that you're in the hood now?

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I tried to go to weavers job and get a toblerone after making sure no one punched the atm....again.

    Left with a parking ticket.

    Also witnessed a phone breakup at 3 am, with her on the street, crash bags in hand, still arguing on the phone.

    My dryspell said "single" but my brain said "deals with their problems at 3 am and storms out the apartment with crash bags"

  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »
    My mom is the worst about that. At my grandparents' and my aunt's funerals she spoke for 45+ minutes, basically telling their entire life stories. I definitely understand that they were important to her but it was well over half the total time of the service. They were by far the 3 longest I've ever been to.

    A couple months ago at my parents' 50th anniversary party she got up to speak, led with "as the pastor at the second strangest wedding I've ever attended said...", and then proceeded to explain why the wedding was so strange. She then spent about 15 minutes saying some very nice things about being married to my dad and finished without ever delivering the quote.

    Dude! My mom too. Like, it's unbelievable how long she'll talk, and it's really uncomfortable in social situations. If it's a group out for dinner everyone's just sitting around looking kind of sad and bored 30 minutes in because no one else has even been able to say a word.

    My brother calls them "momologues".

    Considering the pattern mentioned here and the people that I've seen do this, I feel like it's a problem of Baby Boomer women.

    If I’m being generous, I imagine that coming from the generation of women with the largest percentage of stay at home moms, and that whole stepford wives ideal they were presented with, has resulted in very bored, friendless women desperate for some attention. My mom has the same tendencies and she admitted she turned from a really shy person to the person who’d tell every grocery store clerk her life story because she was in such dire need of adult human interaction. And now her kids have grown and she has more friends, but she’s still stuck in that habit.

    But also I have the most issues with baby boomer women, every single bad public interaction I’ve had has been with a baby boomer woman (which feels traitorous to say, but it’s also true). Again, it feels as if the boredom contributed to a lot of nosiness and interference.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Thanks guys <3

    The actual graduation ceremony isn't until next year and my level of caring about university has dropped massively, so that'll be odd to attend. I'm just very glad I can carry on enjoying my job: this time next week I'll be in Copenhagen thanks to work!

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Yay!

    You just missed the good weather here.

    Sorry.

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    Yay!

    You just missed the good weather here.

    Sorry.

    Oh no have you caught the tail end of the hurricane too? Or is it just back to chilly again?

    Hopefully we'll all be getting tipsy on the boss' company card.

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    No hurricanes, only an earthquake but that was over in Jutland. No, it's just windy and rainy and not at all the nice and slightly confusing late-summer weather we had last weekend.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Janson wrote: »
    Mayabird wrote: »
    My mom is the worst about that. At my grandparents' and my aunt's funerals she spoke for 45+ minutes, basically telling their entire life stories. I definitely understand that they were important to her but it was well over half the total time of the service. They were by far the 3 longest I've ever been to.

    A couple months ago at my parents' 50th anniversary party she got up to speak, led with "as the pastor at the second strangest wedding I've ever attended said...", and then proceeded to explain why the wedding was so strange. She then spent about 15 minutes saying some very nice things about being married to my dad and finished without ever delivering the quote.

    Dude! My mom too. Like, it's unbelievable how long she'll talk, and it's really uncomfortable in social situations. If it's a group out for dinner everyone's just sitting around looking kind of sad and bored 30 minutes in because no one else has even been able to say a word.

    My brother calls them "momologues".

    Considering the pattern mentioned here and the people that I've seen do this, I feel like it's a problem of Baby Boomer women.

    If I’m being generous, I imagine that coming from the generation of women with the largest percentage of stay at home moms, and that whole stepford wives ideal they were presented with, has resulted in very bored, friendless women desperate for some attention. My mom has the same tendencies and she admitted she turned from a really shy person to the person who’d tell every grocery store clerk her life story because she was in such dire need of adult human interaction. And now her kids have grown and she has more friends, but she’s still stuck in that habit.

    But also I have the most issues with baby boomer women, every single bad public interaction I’ve had has been with a baby boomer woman (which feels traitorous to say, but it’s also true). Again, it feels as if the boredom contributed to a lot of nosiness and interference.

    A friend of mine's mother is a judge. She's pretty sociable and enjoys conversation. But because she's a judge, she does not get much of a chance to chit-chat during the day. So every time we see her, we get her opinion on Every. Single. Thing. that is going on in anyone's life.
    Still, nice person.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    No hurricanes, only an earthquake but that was over in Jutland. No, it's just windy and rainy and not at all the nice and slightly confusing late-summer weather we had last weekend.

    Oh ho hum I'm glad for the heads up, I'll be taking an extra scarf and thickest coat!

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    No hurricanes, only an earthquake but that was over in Jutland. No, it's just windy and rainy and not at all the nice and slightly confusing late-summer weather we had last weekend.

    Dang you might as well be describing here. Well other than the earthquake

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    It's big important hardware launch day. Which means goofy swag from all of our vendors.

    I claimed this dude.

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    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    It's big important hardware launch day. Which means goofy swag from all of our vendors.

    I claimed this dude.

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    Rawr.

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I kind of love the hardware dragon

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    They're always chasing that elusive higher framerate

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    So the new office we'll move to in December is pretty much the same travel time (just under 30 minutes), but it's on the same line so no switching. :+1:

  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    Today I got my raise in arrears.

    Tonight I party hardy.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    The folks at Deadspin asked for epic quitting stories.

    The readership delivered:

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    There was a Taco Bell that someone removed the C from Now hiring Closers that made it worth a laugh

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I have two similar quits that were good.

    First was a Little Caesars, I was hired for the kitchen, I went to orientation (a god damn 45 minute drive) and after had a voicemail (Hey our shaker boarder quit we need you to cover) so I went in, and had an awful 8 hours dancing with a size. It was 90 degrees out, and they had me do it a full 8 with no break. I was just at orientation and all of this was against company policy.

    I got yelled at, I got spit on, someone threw a soda can at me and my boss kept yelling at me to dance more. After it was over I went in to clock out "Well I'm glad I don't have to do that ever again"
    Boss: 'Oh well, our guy quit so...thats your job now. Your the shaker boarder now. Remember tomorrow you need to dance more'

    I just handed her the sign and said "Bitch you dance". Not loudly, or forcefully because heaven forbid my brain lets me actually be badass, but she heard me and before she could say anything I said I quit. I never even got paid.

    Second one was a SubWay inside a gas station, owned by the gas station. The manager told me day one that they fire everyone every 6 months or so because thats when they start getting lazy, and then fucked off for the rest of my shift leaving me to figure out what to do for my whole shift which I was alone for. The next day I got a call for a better job offer and I went in to turn my uniform and when they asked why I was quitting I told them I figured I'd save them 6 months.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    I have actually achieved my career and education role/goal. It took five years but I have done it and I'm very happy in it.

    Liiya on
  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    In a world full of miserable minimum-wage jobs, sign dancer person has got to be one of the most miserable

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    @timspork's ghost

    Okay the orange walls at NCIS aren't real but today when I was down there for training I found out they do have a popcorn maker with classic red and white striped popcorn boxes

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    This week was nuts.

    Switch: SW-7690-2320-9238Steam/PSN/Xbox: Drezdar
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I am ostensibly on my way to achieving my career goal, which is just "Be a paralegal, I guess."

    So that's cool!

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    I have actually achieved my career and education role/goal. It took five years but I have done it and I'm very happy in it.

    Can you take over the world next? I feel like the only excesses would be public gardens

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    So speaking of good ways to get quit, here's a good way to get fired

    Normally we get the mail for our building sometime between 12-1. Sometimes it's a little late due to weather or whatnot (days after holidays are pretty bad for this), but our regular mailman is usually pretty prompt and quick to let us know a time estimate for him sorting the mail if he's late.

    We must not have had the regular guy today, because the mail just straight up did not arrive. And at 4 we take the outgoing mail down, so my coworker goes to take it down... And comes back up with the mail.

    Apparently what had happened was the guy delivering the mail got to our building, decided "Fuck it,", turned around with all the mail for the building and returned it to the post office, saying his shift was done.

    Which, goddamn dude.

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    I called in to work today to update management on my situation. Hospital kinda fucked me a little by waiting till end of business day today to send me a form they need to complete my FMLA and time-loss paperwork. Looks like the soonest I can be back at work now is the 26th, October 2nd at the latest. I start physical therapy on the 25th.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I have never quit in epic fashion, but I once heard the tale from someone on another forum who was/is a bit of a war history enthusiast. He used to work at a grocery store, never said which one, and when he quit it was in full Prussian military uniform marching into the store and singing German marching songs at the top of his lungs. He handed in his resignation to an employee, because the manager was cowering in the back and had locked the door, and walked out to find a police car waiting for him, called by said manager. After talking with them they gave him a warning and he returned home to an angry dad who the manager had called.

  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    Man, my best story is tame compared to some of these. At my old job we had a guy who was on the last day of his two week notice. He had been completely professional up to this point, so there was some concern when he didn't show up for his shift on the final day on time.

    Manager calls him an hour after his shift was supposed to start, his reply? "I'm down in the cafeteria eating an omelette, I'll be up when I'm done."

    He showed up to his desk a half hour later to find the manager waiting with a box full of his stuff so he could be escorted out the door asap.

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    I had a co-worker give his two weeks notice, and on his last day he showed up probably a little drunk. He left for lunch that day and just never came back.

    Which is fine.

    Except he still has my copy of Uncharted 4. =[

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • Al_watAl_wat Registered User regular
    I worked at a collection agency for a few months like 10 years ago and I just stopped going one day. Didn't call or contact them, just stopped going. They had intentionally fucked with my pay and started screwing with me when i balked at their illegal attempts to make me work during stat holidays.

    I decided they weren't worth my time, they werent worth giving notice, they werent worth anything. Fuck them.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    So speaking of good ways to get quit, here's a good way to get fired

    Normally we get the mail for our building sometime between 12-1. Sometimes it's a little late due to weather or whatnot (days after holidays are pretty bad for this), but our regular mailman is usually pretty prompt and quick to let us know a time estimate for him sorting the mail if he's late.

    We must not have had the regular guy today, because the mail just straight up did not arrive. And at 4 we take the outgoing mail down, so my coworker goes to take it down... And comes back up with the mail.

    Apparently what had happened was the guy delivering the mail got to our building, decided "Fuck it,", turned around with all the mail for the building and returned it to the post office, saying his shift was done.

    Which, goddamn dude.

    This is...more common than you think. I've heard stories of delivery workers squirreling away letters through their careers.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I have never quit in epic fashion, but I once heard the tale from someone on another forum who was/is a bit of a war history enthusiast. He used to work at a grocery store, never said which one, and when he quit it was in full Prussian military uniform marching into the store and singing German marching songs at the top of his lungs. He handed in his resignation to an employee, because the manager was cowering in the back and had locked the door, and walked out to find a police car waiting for him, called by said manager. After talking with them they gave him a warning and he returned home to an angry dad who the manager had called.

    Here's the thing - if the manager was Jewish, that story becomes a lot less funny, and a lot more cringeworthy.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I have never quit in epic fashion, but I once heard the tale from someone on another forum who was/is a bit of a war history enthusiast. He used to work at a grocery store, never said which one, and when he quit it was in full Prussian military uniform marching into the store and singing German marching songs at the top of his lungs. He handed in his resignation to an employee, because the manager was cowering in the back and had locked the door, and walked out to find a police car waiting for him, called by said manager. After talking with them they gave him a warning and he returned home to an angry dad who the manager had called.

    Here's the thing - if the manager was Jewish, that story becomes a lot less funny, and a lot more cringeworthy.

    Question.

    Do you seriously think I would tell that story, intending it for humor, if the manager had in fact been Jewish?

    Because that little "here's the thing" is basically you implying something rather horrible about me from out of nowhere and I don't particularly appreciate that.

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