So I have to go to Sweden for two weeks for work in a couple weeks... it appears my T-Mobile plan will cover data and text without a problem, but calling is $0.20/min. Considering I'm on the phone for at least two hours a day (and I can see being there will increase that even more), is there a better calling option I should look into?
I'm struggling to play nice at work today. And the fact I'm trying to be healthier means that I only have a sliced up apple to eat as a snack. Can someone send me a truck of Reece's?
Put some peanut butter on those apple slices. There, now you have a healthy and satisfying snack.
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Just applied to a crazy new job, even though I'm pretty happy where I am. This new one is a newly created position and would involve working with some really top-end firms though, so it would be pretty cool. It would be really tough to leave the team I manage though. Guess I'll work through that mental math if I get an offer.
I'm struggling to play nice at work today. And the fact I'm trying to be healthier means that I only have a sliced up apple to eat as a snack. Can someone send me a truck of Reece's?
Open the bottom left drawer in your desk. You will find a red phone.
Pick up the receiver, no need to dial.
Simply say "It's time."
Darth Waiter will know what to do.
Are you sure it's not:
Open the bottom left drawer in your desk. You will find a peanut butter cup.
Reach into the drawer, take it.
That was Darth Waiter's snack.
Sorry about your fingers.
If it's in your drawer or on your desk, it's your Reese's.
However, you can donate it if you like, I won't say no.
So! I currently live in Germany (which I moved to for a job) and am applying to yobs in the US and Canada. Companies are reticent to look at overseas candidates because of visa issues and moving costs. Fortunately I am a citizen of both US and Canada and also put aside a lump of money as a 'move back to the States if I need to' fund. I wouldn't be expecting a company to pay more than they pay for any move normally.
Is there an effective way to bring this up in a cover letter quickly that doesn't feel like putting the compensation cart before the 'you are actually interested in me' horse?
I'm struggling to play nice at work today. And the fact I'm trying to be healthier means that I only have a sliced up apple to eat as a snack. Can someone send me a truck of Reece's?
Open the bottom left drawer in your desk. You will find a red phone.
Pick up the receiver, no need to dial.
Simply say "It's time."
Darth Waiter will know what to do.
Are you sure it's not:
Open the bottom left drawer in your desk. You will find a peanut butter cup.
Reach into the drawer, take it.
That was Darth Waiter's snack.
Sorry about your fingers.
If it's in your drawer or on your desk, it's your Reese's.
However, you can donate it if you like, I won't say no.
Sorry - too late. I've already been to the vending machine. I fail at being strong and having discipline. But I'm in day 1 of 2 doing my old job and I'm pissy about it.
Edit: I'm working with my health coach at work, trying to bring down my weight and blood pressure. I just wrote this in celebration of my weekly check in tomorrow upon finishing my Reece's.
Ode to a Health Coach
By Lindsay Q. Lohan, Esquire
Dear Health Coach, I’m Sorry
I’m weak and not strong,
But I’ve been doing two jobs
For simply too long.
I said I’d do better
But I’m sneaky and a cheater
And it doesn’t help at all
That I’m a big ol’ stress eater.
Tonight I’ll work out -
I’ll make my heart flutter
But right now I’m much happier
Full of chocolate and nut butter.
I’m feeling quite guilty
My self-control was quite low
But it’s better than leaping
Out the fourth floor window.
So please don’t be mad
Don’t yell and don’t holler
But I’m heading to the break room
Can I borrow a dollar?
So! I currently live in Germany (which I moved to for a job) and am applying to yobs in the US and Canada. Companies are reticent to look at overseas candidates because of visa issues and moving costs. Fortunately I am a citizen of both US and Canada and also put aside a lump of money as a 'move back to the States if I need to' fund. I wouldn't be expecting a company to pay more than they pay for any move normally.
Is there an effective way to bring this up in a cover letter quickly that doesn't feel like putting the compensation cart before the 'you are actually interested in me' horse?
Eh, if you can slip it into the resume, all the better, as half the people out there don't read or get cover letters.
So! I currently live in Germany (which I moved to for a job) and am applying to yobs in the US and Canada. Companies are reticent to look at overseas candidates because of visa issues and moving costs. Fortunately I am a citizen of both US and Canada and also put aside a lump of money as a 'move back to the States if I need to' fund. I wouldn't be expecting a company to pay more than they pay for any move normally.
Is there an effective way to bring this up in a cover letter quickly that doesn't feel like putting the compensation cart before the 'you are actually interested in me' horse?
@Wassermelone are you a government contractor at all? What type of jobs are you looking at/what areas?
So! I currently live in Germany (which I moved to for a job) and am applying to yobs in the US and Canada. Companies are reticent to look at overseas candidates because of visa issues and moving costs. Fortunately I am a citizen of both US and Canada and also put aside a lump of money as a 'move back to the States if I need to' fund. I wouldn't be expecting a company to pay more than they pay for any move normally.
Is there an effective way to bring this up in a cover letter quickly that doesn't feel like putting the compensation cart before the 'you are actually interested in me' horse?
@Wassermelone are you a government contractor at all? What type of jobs are you looking at/what areas?
I work in video games doing concept art - theres a couple hubs for those jobs such as Montreal, Seattle, Austin, Bay Area etc
Really I just look for the jobs and then go where that takes me
@schuss - That might be the better way to go about it - thanks
So a co-worker of mine has gone and told my boss's boss that I haven't been doing part of my job.
Except it actually isn't part of my job, and my boss has confirmed that I am not contracted to perform that duty. (Some of his other reports are, and I could be, but it's optional for us.) Except my co-worker has, I suspect, lied to my boss' boss about how this works, and so now he's coming after me, talking about how they'll need to recover the hours that I'm not spending doing this duty that I'm not supposed to be doing.
This is the second time this particular person has come after my wages illegitimately, the first time after a strike in which he admitted to not having read our back-to-work protocol before saying that we could lose hours, in direct contradiction of the protocol that was signed.
I've gotten my union representative involved, and I'm pretty sure once I get the right people in the room with the right paperwork, this goes away. Except this is still eating up a huge fucking chunk of my time that I'm not paid for (graduate student, hourly TA wages), and even then, that doesn't deal with the fact that it's this co-worker, who has a reputation for being a creating toxic environments and has previously sabotaged me on other work that we've done together including lying to our mutual co-supervisor then. In fact, my refusal to perform this duty in the first place is because I expressly want to avoid contact with this co-worker. I've been documenting as best I can, but even when I look at it, I don't have enough to prove any serious malfeasance on my co-worker's part.
So, job thread, help please!
Do I alert my PhD supervisor about this? (He's not actually in the department (cross-appointment) so I'm not sure what he can do for me.)
What do I tell my immediate boss about this? AFAIK, he knows nothing about what's going on.
At what point do I just lawyer the hell up? That's pretty ridiculous over ~$150, but I'm so mad, I'll gladly pay $1000 just to stick it to them.
How do I get my goddamned time back? I feel like I should be compensated for having to deal with this BS, given that this problem is one entirely created by the department's own incompetence and ignorance.
How do I deal with the actual problem of my co-worker going out of their way to make my life hell by exploiting the stupidity of our bosses?
Edit: I've talked to another person who's had to deal with this malicious co-worker before, and they advised me to "fight back," and that it took them fighting back just to get moved to another office away from this co-worker, because the department refused to deal with it initially.
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I'm struggling to play nice at work today. And the fact I'm trying to be healthier means that I only have a sliced up apple to eat as a snack. Can someone send me a truck of Reece's?
Open the bottom left drawer in your desk. You will find a red phone.
Pick up the receiver, no need to dial.
Simply say "It's time." @Darth Waiter will know what to do.
But seriously, if he shows up in a white van with free candy on the side, run.
Otherwise he'll kidnap you & take you over to the other thread.
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So a co-worker of mine has gone and told my boss's boss that I haven't been doing part of my job.
Except it actually isn't part of my job, and my boss has confirmed that I am not contracted to perform that duty. (Some of his other reports are, and I could be, but it's optional for us.) Except my co-worker has, I suspect, lied to my boss' boss about how this works, and so now he's coming after me, talking about how they'll need to recover the hours that I'm not spending doing this duty that I'm not supposed to be doing.
This is the second time this particular person has come after my wages illegitimately, the first time after a strike in which he admitted to not having read our back-to-work protocol before saying that we could lose hours, in direct contradiction of the protocol that was signed.
I've gotten my union representative involved, and I'm pretty sure once I get the right people in the room with the right paperwork, this goes away. Except this is still eating up a huge fucking chunk of my time that I'm not paid for (graduate student, hourly TA wages), and even then, that doesn't deal with the fact that it's this co-worker, who has a reputation for being a creating toxic environments and has previously sabotaged me on other work that we've done together including lying to our mutual co-supervisor then. In fact, my refusal to perform this duty in the first place is because I expressly want to avoid contact with this co-worker. I've been documenting as best I can, but even when I look at it, I don't have enough to prove any serious malfeasance on my co-worker's part.
So, job thread, help please!
Do I alert my PhD supervisor about this? (He's not actually in the department (cross-appointment) so I'm not sure what he can do for me.)
What do I tell my immediate boss about this? AFAIK, he knows nothing about what's going on.
At what point do I just lawyer the hell up? That's pretty ridiculous over ~$150, but I'm so mad, I'll gladly pay $1000 just to stick it to them.
How do I get my goddamned time back? I feel like I should be compensated for having to deal with this BS, given that this problem is one entirely created by the department's own incompetence and ignorance.
How do I deal with the actual problem of my co-worker going out of their way to make my life hell by exploiting the stupidity of our bosses?
Edit: I've talked to another person who's had to deal with this malicious co-worker before, and they advised me to "fight back," and that it took them fighting back just to get moved to another office away from this co-worker, because the department refused to deal with it initially.
Yes, still tell him.
Tell him what you wrote above. He needs to know. He also needs to escalate that to his boss because he already got involved.
Probably not worth it.
You probably won't.
By doing #1 and #2.
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Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
If you have access to a gym, you could use the shower there.
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Spongebath, yo
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Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Spongebath, yo
We frequently don't have water, sometimes for multiple days. I can have a sink-shower, including washing my hair and shaving my legs, in 1.25l of water.
Presumably Weaver doesn't shave his legs so it should be even easier!
I'm setting up special part run with tight tolerances. Set things up to produce it and set the indicator mics to gage using shop floor standards. These standards are allowed to vary by half the total amount I'm allowed on the part. This is rather tricky and really needs to be validated by, QC preferably using their better standards or even on the CMM. Tell the operator to run three parts then get QC to validate them and I go on my way.
See QC later and mention it, they respond "Yea, they all read fine by the gage you set."
An hour and twenty minutes into my forty minute commute, I was feeling pretty good because I was only two minutes away from work and getting out of my car, so of course traffic came to a dead stop for twenty minutes.
We're supposed to be better at handling snow, people!
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Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Shower the night before?
Well yeah, but that's not the problem. Weaver's saying he won't be able to shower in the morning before going to work.
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Shower the night before?
Well yeah, but that's not the problem. Weaver's saying he won't be able to shower in the morning before going to work.
I think the point is, shower the night before and go in to work mostly as clean as you would be by showering in the morning, instead of losing out on a full day of pay.
Honestly the idea of not going to work because you couldn't shower that morning is kind of nuts to me.
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OrthancDeath Lite, Only 1 CalorieOff the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPAregular
A couple of years ago, due to some storms I lost hot water for 4+ days several times in the middle of winter. So we just had to suck it up and deal with washing from a bucket. Basically boiled the kettle so I had a small quantity of hot water to add to a bucket of cold water so that it was non-scalding.
Then basically it's:
1) use a container to wet yourself with water, trying to get as much back in the bucket as possible
2) Lather up
3) use a container to pour water over to rinse off
4) Use Dry Shampoo if your hair is greasy
It's not pleasant and relaxing like a shower, but it does at least do for basic hygiene.
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Also you can roll in mud and then rub against a convenient tree in order to dislodge parasites
A couple of years ago, due to some storms I lost hot water for 4+ days several times in the middle of winter. So we just had to suck it up and deal with washing from a bucket. Basically boiled the kettle so I had a small quantity of hot water to add to a bucket of cold water so that it was non-scalding.
Then basically it's:
1) use a container to wet yourself with water, trying to get as much back in the bucket as possible
2) Lather up
3) use a container to pour water over to rinse off
4) Use Dry Shampoo if your hair is greasy
It's not pleasant and relaxing like a shower, but it does at least do for basic hygiene.
Not proud to say it but I don't have a heater and sadly this is what I do to shower
I am not going to get into why they took away the gas from me as I really don't understand it
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Shower the night before?
Well yeah, but that's not the problem. Weaver's saying he won't be able to shower in the morning before going to work.
I think the point is, shower the night before and go in to work mostly as clean as you would be by showering in the morning, instead of losing out on a full day of pay.
Honestly the idea of not going to work because you couldn't shower that morning is kind of nuts to me.
Doubly so when you consider that plenty of people shower at night rather than in the morning
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Spongebath, yo
We frequently don't have water, sometimes for multiple days. I can have a sink-shower, including washing my hair and shaving my legs, in 1.25l of water.
Presumably Weaver doesn't shave his legs so it should be even easier!
Can't you just train one of the elephants to spray water all over you? We have been doing it since caveman times!
I have worked and still work with people whom thinking that showering is for not them
They smell so bad like onions or BM it's so bad at times I want to vomit
I mean I know we skipped showers at times because we did not have the time while in the field in the Corps but these people smell bad
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Shower the night before?
Well yeah, but that's not the problem. Weaver's saying he won't be able to shower in the morning before going to work.
I think the point is, shower the night before and go in to work mostly as clean as you would be by showering in the morning, instead of losing out on a full day of pay.
Honestly the idea of not going to work because you couldn't shower that morning is kind of nuts to me.
Doubly so when you consider that plenty of people shower at night rather than in the morning
For sure. I mean for me they're functionally equivalent (with the differences being personal preference) but even if you somehow see a morning shower as objectively superior, it doesn't seem like losing a day's worth of wages over.
Ugh gotta try to get my shift covered on Sunday because the city is shutting off the water main from 12am to 530pm and fuck going to work without basic personal hygiene. Sure I could douse myself with a couple gallons of cold jug water, but I'd rather not.
Spongebath, yo
We frequently don't have water, sometimes for multiple days. I can have a sink-shower, including washing my hair and shaving my legs, in 1.25l of water.
Presumably Weaver doesn't shave his legs so it should be even easier!
Can't you just train one of the elephants to spray water all over you? We have been doing it since caveman times!
Considering it's probably the elephant's fault that they're out of water, they owe her.
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Put some peanut butter on those apple slices. There, now you have a healthy and satisfying snack.
Sigh.
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It's the little things, you know?
Now if we could just get the funding for my plane ticket to Japan.....
Yay interview going well! What are you feeling conflicted about?
If it's in your drawer or on your desk, it's your Reese's.
However, you can donate it if you like, I won't say no.
So! I currently live in Germany (which I moved to for a job) and am applying to yobs in the US and Canada. Companies are reticent to look at overseas candidates because of visa issues and moving costs. Fortunately I am a citizen of both US and Canada and also put aside a lump of money as a 'move back to the States if I need to' fund. I wouldn't be expecting a company to pay more than they pay for any move normally.
Is there an effective way to bring this up in a cover letter quickly that doesn't feel like putting the compensation cart before the 'you are actually interested in me' horse?
Sorry - too late. I've already been to the vending machine. I fail at being strong and having discipline. But I'm in day 1 of 2 doing my old job and I'm pissy about it.
Edit: I'm working with my health coach at work, trying to bring down my weight and blood pressure. I just wrote this in celebration of my weekly check in tomorrow upon finishing my Reece's.
Ode to a Health Coach
By Lindsay Q. Lohan, Esquire
Dear Health Coach, I’m Sorry
I’m weak and not strong,
But I’ve been doing two jobs
For simply too long.
I said I’d do better
But I’m sneaky and a cheater
And it doesn’t help at all
That I’m a big ol’ stress eater.
Tonight I’ll work out -
I’ll make my heart flutter
But right now I’m much happier
Full of chocolate and nut butter.
I’m feeling quite guilty
My self-control was quite low
But it’s better than leaping
Out the fourth floor window.
So please don’t be mad
Don’t yell and don’t holler
But I’m heading to the break room
Can I borrow a dollar?
Wooooo....
Eh, if you can slip it into the resume, all the better, as half the people out there don't read or get cover letters.
@Wassermelone are you a government contractor at all? What type of jobs are you looking at/what areas?
I work in video games doing concept art - theres a couple hubs for those jobs such as Montreal, Seattle, Austin, Bay Area etc
Really I just look for the jobs and then go where that takes me
@schuss - That might be the better way to go about it - thanks
It'll be nice to have the extra money!
Except it actually isn't part of my job, and my boss has confirmed that I am not contracted to perform that duty. (Some of his other reports are, and I could be, but it's optional for us.) Except my co-worker has, I suspect, lied to my boss' boss about how this works, and so now he's coming after me, talking about how they'll need to recover the hours that I'm not spending doing this duty that I'm not supposed to be doing.
This is the second time this particular person has come after my wages illegitimately, the first time after a strike in which he admitted to not having read our back-to-work protocol before saying that we could lose hours, in direct contradiction of the protocol that was signed.
I've gotten my union representative involved, and I'm pretty sure once I get the right people in the room with the right paperwork, this goes away. Except this is still eating up a huge fucking chunk of my time that I'm not paid for (graduate student, hourly TA wages), and even then, that doesn't deal with the fact that it's this co-worker, who has a reputation for being a creating toxic environments and has previously sabotaged me on other work that we've done together including lying to our mutual co-supervisor then. In fact, my refusal to perform this duty in the first place is because I expressly want to avoid contact with this co-worker. I've been documenting as best I can, but even when I look at it, I don't have enough to prove any serious malfeasance on my co-worker's part.
So, job thread, help please!
Edit: I've talked to another person who's had to deal with this malicious co-worker before, and they advised me to "fight back," and that it took them fighting back just to get moved to another office away from this co-worker, because the department refused to deal with it initially.
But seriously, if he shows up in a white van with free candy on the side, run.
Otherwise he'll kidnap you & take you over to the other thread.
If you have access to a gym, you could use the shower there.
Spongebath, yo
We frequently don't have water, sometimes for multiple days. I can have a sink-shower, including washing my hair and shaving my legs, in 1.25l of water.
Presumably Weaver doesn't shave his legs so it should be even easier!
Great, now I'm gonna be singing Hairspray all day!
It is purely a box ticking exercise for regulatory purposes. I wish we could literally just tick the box
Guess I'm sitting up at this circulation desk all day and probably eating lunch up here.
See QC later and mention it, they respond "Yea, they all read fine by the gage you set."
*Screams Internally*
We're supposed to be better at handling snow, people!
Shower the night before?
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Well yeah, but that's not the problem. Weaver's saying he won't be able to shower in the morning before going to work.
I think the point is, shower the night before and go in to work mostly as clean as you would be by showering in the morning, instead of losing out on a full day of pay.
Honestly the idea of not going to work because you couldn't shower that morning is kind of nuts to me.
Then basically it's:
1) use a container to wet yourself with water, trying to get as much back in the bucket as possible
2) Lather up
3) use a container to pour water over to rinse off
4) Use Dry Shampoo if your hair is greasy
It's not pleasant and relaxing like a shower, but it does at least do for basic hygiene.
Not proud to say it but I don't have a heater and sadly this is what I do to shower
I am not going to get into why they took away the gas from me as I really don't understand it
Doubly so when you consider that plenty of people shower at night rather than in the morning
Can't you just train one of the elephants to spray water all over you? We have been doing it since caveman times!
They smell so bad like onions or BM it's so bad at times I want to vomit
I mean I know we skipped showers at times because we did not have the time while in the field in the Corps but these people smell bad
Man, I love camping.
For sure. I mean for me they're functionally equivalent (with the differences being personal preference) but even if you somehow see a morning shower as objectively superior, it doesn't seem like losing a day's worth of wages over.
They are talked to nothing more
and they smell
Considering it's probably the elephant's fault that they're out of water, they owe her.