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My boss just found out about my criminal record (and other tales of employment)

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My co workers just found out I am leaving

    awkward

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Awkward as in really upset, or awkward as in planning a party?

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Awkward as in, I feel awkward

    I thought my boss would tell them

    I don't know

    They never noticed my engagement ring, or at least, didn't ask me about it

    So they don't know Mori exists and so I haven't wanted to say 'oh hey I got a fiancé visa'

    Fortunately they haven't asked me how I plan to live out there when I don't have a job

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Is it a close work place?

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  • PkmoutlPkmoutl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Tell them Olive Garden is a national chain here.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    MikeRyu wrote: »
    Is it a close work place?
    There are only 7 of us working here so I guess so yes

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh that is close. That sounds pretty cool actually. Small groups are more interesting places to work usually.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah the guys here are all lovely

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My boss is so old fashioned

    It is all men here

    I am the only female, and that is because my position is that of secretary/administrator

    He was interviewing women for my job and said 'oh I know it is politically incorrect but I have to have a young female in your position because I think a female voice should answer the phone and older women are too set in their ways'

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  • space_satanspace_satan __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I work in a job that requires running, I don't run, I prefer to smoke a lot of cigarettes. So i hired a dude to run for me. It's awesome that I hired someone for the sole purpose of running. The interview was like, "how fast can you run? and could you stop someone if they were running from you?"

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't have a job : (

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Janson wrote: »
    My boss is so old fashioned

    It is all men here

    I am the only female, and that is because my position is that of secretary/administrator

    He was interviewing women for my job and said 'oh I know it is politically incorrect but I have to have a young female in your position because I think a female voice should answer the phone and older women are too set in their ways'

    He just wanted to covet that impeccable voice for his own gains.

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  • space_satanspace_satan __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    I don't have a job : (

    Can you run? If so, can you catch someone running from you?

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    I don't have a job : (

    Neither do I. Let's hug.

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    2 weeks after starting my last full time job I had to tell them I was leaving in 4 weeks to go back to uni, since I had unexpectedly received an offer for a course I applied to some time before hand

    imagine how awkward that was

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I was the only male who worked there and I presume that was the only reason they hired me, since I look so damn spiffy in a suit. Funnily enough I was a receptionist.

    It was a bizzaro office, I tell you what.

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oden wrote: »
    I was the only male who worked there and I presume that was the only reason they hired me, since I look so damn spiffy in a suit. Funnily enough I was a receptionist.

    It was a bizzaro office, I tell you what.

    Did everyone call you sweetheart and pinch your butt?

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  • OdenOden Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    no they called me petal and checked me out when I moved a few years worth of archive boxes

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oden wrote: »
    no they called me petal and checked me out when I moved a few years worth of archive boxes

    I bet it was like the Diet Coke ad you stud.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    I don't have a job : (

    Can you run? If so, can you catch someone running from you?

    I can run, but i'm not big on perspiring. I like a nice job where they give me lots of money to tell poor people what they can and can't do.

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  • PkmoutlPkmoutl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    I don't have a job : (

    Can you run? If so, can you catch someone running from you?

    I can run, but i'm not big on perspiring. I like a nice job where they give me lots of money to tell poor people what they can and can't do.

    We have that here in America.

    It's called the Department of Labor.

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    I don't have a job : (

    Can you run? If so, can you catch someone running from you?

    I can run, but i'm not big on perspiring. I like a nice job where they give me lots of money to tell poor people what they can and can't do.

    Communism is the best way.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Pretty much everything in the social state sector involves doing it to a certain degree.
    It's probably fitting that that's what I'm most qualified to do.

    Jobs I'm applying for
    - Carities Commission Customer advisor - telling poor people charities who to give the money too
    - Connexxions COntact Worker - telling stupid/poor 16 years olds what to do now that they've dropped out of highschool
    - Refugee Action service advisor - telling poor (non-english) people to do... basically anything we tell them to

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  • PkmoutlPkmoutl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'd love that second one.

    "Go back to school. That's what you should do, you fucking dolt."

    See, I'm perfect for the job.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Pkmoutl wrote: »
    I'd love that second one.

    "Go back to school. That's what you should do, you fucking dolt."

    See, I'm perfect for the job.

    It's funny because my highschool wouldn't allow connexxions to come and give their little presentation about "post age 16 career choices", as far as they were concerned everyone was staying on and eventually going to university. I didn't even know you could leave school at 16.

    Also, I love the diversity questionnaire at the end of these forms
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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Many people left school at 16, but then our high school wasn't attached to a college

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  • MikeRyuMikeRyu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I went to a separate college at 16. Then a different one at 17. It all went wrong around that time.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I work 14 hours a day in a thankless job for an 125 dollars a month. Yay.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited September 2008
    Weaver wrote: »
    I'm in IT support and I want out

    I want to sit in the bookstore down at Pike's and help people find good books and read local published zines
    Gee why don't you slurp some dicks while you're working at the gayest job in the world

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I work 14 hours a day in a thankless job for an 125 dollars a month. Yay.
    Eep. I hope that gets you further in Israel than here!

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    hi toby : )

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Janson wrote: »
    I work 14 hours a day in a thankless job for an 125 dollars a month. Yay.
    Eep. I hope that gets you further in Israel than here!

    Nope. But that's the IDF for ya. Can't afford to give people big paychecks in a draft based army.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    hi toby : )
    Hello Anthony

    My flat is getting t'internet on Monday

    We're getting like a 50Mb line

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    D:

    Do you get accommodation/food provided?

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  • DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I start my new job next week.

    I currently work tech support, so this week I've been easing off on the tact.

    I just told someone they were having problems accessing a website because they "couldn't bloody spell".

    Fun times.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    im at work every weekday morning at 3:45am till 12:45pm

    so im out for the afternoons which is nice

    i also work every other saturday morning at 5am, but those are only 4 hour shifts so its easy OT

    i enjoy television, but it gets redundant after a while (same stories the same time of year) but natural disasters and murders usually liven things up a bit

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    Pkmoutl wrote: »
    I'd love that second one.

    "Go back to school. That's what you should do, you fucking dolt."

    See, I'm perfect for the job.

    It's funny because my highschool wouldn't allow connexxions to come and give their little presentation about "post age 16 career choices", as far as they were concerned everyone was staying on and eventually going to university. I didn't even know you could leave school at 16.

    Also, I love the diversity questionnaire at the end of these forms
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    My school let us know that we could leave, but that we'd be scum if we did so. Unless we didn't get enough A-C grades at GCSE, in which case then just quietly booted you out.

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Janson wrote: »
    I work 14 hours a day in a thankless job for an 125 dollars a month. Yay.
    Eep. I hope that gets you further in Israel than here!

    Nope. But that's the IDF for ya. Can't afford to give people big paychecks in a draft based army.

    what do they have you doing?

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  • DeicistDeicist Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Janson wrote: »
    I work 14 hours a day in a thankless job for an 125 dollars a month. Yay.
    Eep. I hope that gets you further in Israel than here!

    Nope. But that's the IDF for ya. Can't afford to give people big paychecks in a draft based army.

    what do they have you doing?

    Killing Arabs.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    hi toby : )
    Hello Anthony

    My flat is getting t'internet on Monday

    We're getting like a 50Mb line

    oh thank god
    I'm displaying Toby-withdrawal symptoms already

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