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    MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    I have a good attitude and know my worth, it's just way sooner than I expected. I had hoped to finish the year with this company, now I'm unsure if I'll make that. The good news like I said is that I've seen the inner, grimy works of how people actually get hired in today's market.
    That skill is so very important. Nowadays, it seems companies care so very little for their employees, that the only way to do well is to gain new skills and keep looking for the next opportunity. The days of staying with an employer long term are disappearing.
    Good luck.

    If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
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    MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    And I'm annoyed at Verizon fios because I will never be able to use then, and am stuck with time warner for the foreseeable future.
    They will only wire up our building if a certain percentage sign on for service. And that will not happen. I get why they do it that way, it's just annoying that they moved up to our neighborhood, just not our building.

    If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    The nicest part of my quiet graveyard job is having plenty of time to work on extracurricular activities - plenty of time to write, plenty of time to handle the minutia of producing a thing.

    The meanest part of my quiet graveyard job is finishing said minutia, being at maximum hype levels for a weekend shoot, and then looking at the clock - realizing I'm still stuck here for another three hours, and then realizing I'll have to return here a night after wrapping on the kind of thing I wish I did every day.

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Boston's public transit system has become completely unreliable lately.

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Oh good. One of my paras is sick again today. Now we wait to see if the other one is also sick.

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    What is para short for?

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    New arcade machine in the break room.

    Got to watch the CEO destroy someone at Street Fighter.

    Is that CEO's name Jesse? It sounds like someone I know.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
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    BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    It's 5 AM and I'm in the airport for business reasons.

    Wasn't business travel fun back in the 60s? why can't it be like that instead of this depressing hellscape. God this place feels like a condemned hospital. But only now do I realize that the most angry, depressed people here are the businessmen in suits.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    My boss and my trainer brought in potato chips, tortilla chips and four different kinds of dip.

    For breakfast.

    These people are food criminals.

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    NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Boston's public transit system has become completely unreliable lately.

    Late-ly?

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Okay, there's a tray of bite-sized veggies from the store, one of those party platters ... but there's enough ranch dressing to drown a horse.

    I will not be party to this heinous assault of cholesterol.

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    honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    We raised our interns well. Last day of internship an she made us a giant amount of chocolate chip cookies.

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    L Ron HowardL Ron Howard The duck MinnesotaRegistered User regular
    So some goose decided it was best to schedule a meeting at 8:30. Me, being awesome, decided I'd get in before then. It's not even 8 yet, I'm tired, and am the only one on my team here. I also don't normally get up for another 25 minutes.
    Am grumpy.

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    So some goose decided it was best to schedule a meeting at 8:30. Me, being awesome, decided I'd get in before then. It's not even 8 yet, I'm tired, and am the only one on my team here. I also don't normally get up for another 25 minutes.
    Am grumpy.

    Sleep under the meeting table. Wake up half way through.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Just came across a scanned document with a very unusual date on it:

    0/31/15

    What month is that zero called?

    Is that 'month' supposed to be when the ball drops in Times Square?

    Apparently there are 31 days in that month; are we dealing with something like quantum mechanics here, are the days actually passing in some sort of non-Euclidean space-time?

    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    Why do I taste pennies and why is there red everywhere?

    Can I name this month 'Nullification' and would the discoverer of said month be mad at me for presuming to do so?

    What kind of holidays can we expect to have in Nullification?

    Does non-Euclidean comp time exist and how soon can I start earning it?

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    MadEddyMadEddy Creepy house watching youRegistered User regular
    I might barf at work today.

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    The 0 month is actually the month that all the creatures of legend stole once science started taking over the lands of men.

    They thought they were safe, hidden in an untrackable period of time as they had created it before the number 0 existed.

    Battletag BYToady#1454
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    NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    Just came across a scanned document with a very unusual date on it:

    0/31/15

    What month is that zero called?

    Is that 'month' supposed to be when the ball drops in Times Square?

    Apparently there are 31 days in that month; are we dealing with something like quantum mechanics here, are the days actually passing in some sort of non-Euclidean space-time?

    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    Why do I taste pennies and why is there red everywhere?

    Can I name this month 'Nullification' and would the discoverer of said month be mad at me for presuming to do so?

    What kind of holidays can we expect to have in Nullification?

    Does non-Euclidean comp time exist and how soon can I start earning it?

    Lousy Smarch weather...

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    Dis'Dis' Registered User regular
    honovere wrote: »
    We raised our interns well. Last day of internship an she made us a giant amount of chocolate chip cookies.

    If you trained her too well then the cookies will be poison and she will have your job on Monday!

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    hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    New arcade machine in the break room.

    Got to watch the CEO destroy someone at Street Fighter.

    Is that CEO's name Jesse? It sounds like someone I know.

    The CEO bought the Street Fighter game for the company expressly for the purpose of destroying one of her/his employees?

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    MadEddy wrote: »
    I might barf at work today.

    I told you not to spit on that witch doctor.

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    MadEddyMadEddy Creepy house watching youRegistered User regular
    You told me no such thing! You were egging me on.

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Caught one mouse. Probably Cornelius.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Hey, before the thread closes, is anyone amenable the concept of a Pandora thread so we can all share our work mix-muzak? I feel like I need to branch out. It could also be used for stuff like workout channels, household chore channels, yard work, homework ... let's just go nuts.

    But I know jack shit about sharing channels and keeping profiles semi-secure so I might need a little help.

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    PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    Pandora's blocked at my work :(

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    mcpmcp Registered User regular
    New arcade machine in the break room.

    Got to watch the CEO destroy someone at Street Fighter.
    We have a ping pong table, and a pool table.

    I don't use them.

    If we had an arcade machine, I would get zero work done and eventually get fired.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    MadEddy wrote: »
    You told me no such thing! You were egging me on.

    I have no recollection of those events, Senator.
    Psykoma wrote: »
    Pandora's blocked at my work :(

    Yeah, same here, but my phone mostly does okay. It could also be for the other reasons! Doing laundry to the dulcet tones of someone else's favorite band! Making fun of your friends for liking New Kids on the Block! The possibilities are limitless!

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    NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    You gotta try some spotify deedubs

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    honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Dis' wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »
    We raised our interns well. Last day of internship an she made us a giant amount of chocolate chip cookies.

    If you trained her too well then the cookies will be poison and she will have your job on Monday!

    No worries there. Just a 2-week school intern.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    We have a ping pong table but only have space to fold it out if business is a bit slack.

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    KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    You gotta try some spotify deedubs

    Then you can finally listen to the best playlist. Slayers Raining Blood on repeat 100 times.

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    JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    I remember there was a thread for a shared Spotify playlist ages back, but then people started adding too much stuff or deleting each-other's songs and things like that.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    You gotta try some spotify deedubs

    Is that like Force Heroin? Because I'm totally down to do some Force Heroin.

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    NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Uh sure

    It's Pandora but also with the option to listen to entire albums instead of just random radio

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    N1tSt4lkerN1tSt4lker Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    What is para short for?

    Paraeducator. Kind of like a classroom aide, but with some educational training, and they work as secondary instructors in a class, mostly for one-on-one differentiation or intervention while the classroom educator works with the main class.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Uh sure

    It's Pandora but also with the option to listen to entire albums instead of just random radio

    *sigh*

    Yes, I know.

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    FaranguFarangu I am a beardy man With a beardy planRegistered User regular
    hippofant wrote: »
    TheStig wrote: »
    New arcade machine in the break room.

    Got to watch the CEO destroy someone at Street Fighter.

    Is that CEO's name Jesse? It sounds like someone I know.

    The CEO bought the Street Fighter game for the company expressly for the purpose of destroying one of her/his employees?

    I can see that going over better than if the CEO was getting destroyed:

    "I am the best at street fighter, let's go!"

    "Wait, you picked Guile? Cheap!"

    "My jump should have beaten that flash kick! No fair! I'd totally be beating you right now if you'd picked Ryu or Ken."

    "OMG THROWS ARE BULLSHIT PACK YOUR DESK YOU ARE FIRED."

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    NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Uh sure

    It's Pandora but also with the option to listen to entire albums instead of just random radio

    *sigh*

    Yes, I know.

    fine! more force heroin for me then!

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Hmmm, Aircraft with a nose number of 420.

    Must be Snoop's.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Geth is all about the digggity-dank.

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