Ooh, it's work venting time! Worked 28 hours from Wednesday morning to Thursday noon, then worked Friday morning to Saturday just before noon. About 2 hours of sleep each of those nights, mostly because of garbage calls that could have waited until morning easily. Had to fight hard to get a single day of vacation approved, and I am forced to use up multiple vacation days to get it. (The other days are off, but they really ought to count as sick leave. It's not like I can reasonably just ignore a brain tumor...)
Hi, Chat! I've missed you and your role somewhere to dump my misery and angst so my burdens are lightened! It's like sharing Nightmares! Have a Tale of Terror!!
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Chu does it ever bother you when other people point out the shitty things about your job, even though you agree and sometimes point them out yourself? Even though you know it's coming from a place of sympathy? (sometimes it bothers me, when it happens in my life and vicariously from your posts cause I'm often in similar circumstances, but I am a broken sensitive weirdo so maybe that's just me)
Meh, I'm more critical of Bleric and Bowen about job shitiness. I think Chu doesn't really hate his job.
Yeah I didn't mean to call you or anybody out, nobody's doing anything wrong.
It's a personal insecurity thing, I mostly do hate my job and I think expend a lot of energy trying not to focus on that, so when family or friends are like "Oh, wow, you have to work on Sunday and can't come to this cool awesome fun party we're having?! That sucks!" every single Sunday, part of me is like... yeah, I fucking know. Thank you for reminding me.
I had a retail job part time while studying, so for like 7 years I worked most saturdays around the year. None of my friends ever learned this sufficiently and were often surprised that I couldn't come to their sweet saturday things they planned 10pm on a friday...
Ooh, it's work venting time! Worked 28 hours from Wednesday morning to Thursday noon, then worked Friday morning to Saturday just before noon. About 2 hours of sleep each of those nights, mostly because of garbage calls that could have waited until morning easily. Had to fight hard to get a single day of vacation approved, and I am forced to use up multiple vacation days to get it. (The other days are off, but they really ought to count as sick leave. It's not like I can reasonably just ignore a brain tumor...)
Hi, Chat! I've missed you and your role somewhere to dump my misery and angst so my burdens are lightened! It's like sharing Nightmares! Have a Tale of Terror!!
i do like helping people. it's nice when someone is grateful that i find something for them, or when i have a customer intentionally get in my line because they know i'm fast or friendly or something. i particularly enjoy helping seniors. for many of them, their trip for groceries is their only social outing for weeks. it is a pleasure to make sure it goes well and they get some socialization.
i don't like having such a variable schedule, but that's probably not in the top ten things i dislike about my job. i strongly dislike shift work in general due to the thorough lack of autonomy. getting a day off for some reason- even an emergency- is stressful. stepping away to use the restroom is stressful- i'm to notify people, and even if i do that it can still be very frowned upon in a way that borders on a verbal warning from superiors. leaving in the middle of the day- to pick up a friend at the airport, to go to the dentist, to go to the dmv- is extremely challenging and often impossible. people complain a lot in office work about micromanagement but shift work- especially when it's customer facing- is a whole other level. my job particularly is primarily to stand at the focal point of the store directing traffic and helping people, so my absence, even super temporarily, is very noticed and frowned upon. i hate that. other than my breaks or my lunch, i have no downtime. i have to be 'on' for eight hours. i hate how high stress my job is. the number of things i have to multi-task on a busy day is boggling. walking from one side of the store to the other to get some money to loan a dcrawer, i get called three times to override some register function, two customers stop me to ask where we have potato starch and gluten free pasta, one employee asks me if he can have off tomorrow last minute due to some event, one of my bosses calls me and tells me to change fuel prices, a customer complains to me about not having enough baggers, and another employee calls in sick with no notice and-
i don't care if people trash on retail. it is p shitty. i know not every office worker has the sort of job i envy, with the level of autonomy and breathing room i desire. but plenty of my friends do. i hope i can make that transition eventually.
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Watching the sense8 "Christmas special"
It seems that Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah has been used soooooo much more than usual this Christmas season by so many different shows.
Was this always used around Christmas? It never felt like a Christmas song. I know why it would see an uptick obviously, but for the holidays specifically seems odd.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Chu does it ever bother you when other people point out the shitty things about your job, even though you agree and sometimes point them out yourself? Even though you know it's coming from a place of sympathy? (sometimes it bothers me, when it happens in my life and vicariously from your posts cause I'm often in similar circumstances, but I am a broken sensitive weirdo so maybe that's just me)
Meh, I'm more critical of Bleric and Bowen about job shitiness. I think Chu doesn't really hate his job.
Yeah I didn't mean to call you or anybody out, nobody's doing anything wrong.
It's a personal insecurity thing, I mostly do hate my job and I think expend a lot of energy trying not to focus on that, so when family or friends are like "Oh, wow, you have to work on Sunday and can't come to this cool awesome fun party we're having?! That sucks!" every single Sunday, part of me is like... yeah, I fucking know. Thank you for reminding me.
We told my parents about the always sunny episode where dee gets a cat stuck in the wall and Charlie starts putting more in the wall
And my mom goes "oh, like your grandmother!"
Wut.
She tells us they gave my grandmother a cat to watch for a day or two and when they went to pick it up grandmother was all "oh yeah i haven't seen that cat in a while"
They're all WHAT and find there's a hole in the wall of her apartment the cat went in. Grandmother was unphased by this hole existing and the cat missing.
The cat was retrieved and is safe, no worries.
Good ol' Cats-in-the-Wall Margaret
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
if anything, kid presentable, i feel insecure about venting about my day. my friends have abilities- business acuity, programming knowledge, whatever- that the market values at over a hundred thousand dollars a year. so i sometimes feel patently ridiculous saying AT THE GROCERY STORE TODAY...
Also I am depressed af so I haven't expended the effort to set up a big planned thing. Do people still have my phone number? I get to penn station at 3pm next Sunday. I'll be leaving for the airport at like 6pm on Tuesday. No firm plans so if anyone wants to fuck or suck etc
Where are you going?
philadelphia from the 6th to the 8th, nyc from the 8th to the 10th, chicago from the 10th to the 14th.
if anything, kid presentable, i feel insecure about venting about my day. my friends have abilities- business acuity, programming knowledge, whatever- that the market values at over a hundred thousand dollars a year. so i sometimes feel patently ridiculous saying AT THE GROCERY STORE TODAY...
Problems are problems and venting can be therapeutic.
I actually feel that ridiculousness in reverse where complaining about my issues would probably make me look like SKFM or engage the worlds tiniest violin orchestra. But they are still problems and matter to me.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Also I am depressed af so I haven't expended the effort to set up a big planned thing. Do people still have my phone number? I get to penn station at 3pm next Sunday. I'll be leaving for the airport at like 6pm on Tuesday. No firm plans so if anyone wants to fuck or suck etc
Where are you going?
philadelphia from the 6th to the 8th, nyc from the 8th to the 10th, chicago from the 10th to the 14th.
i do like helping people. it's nice when someone is grateful that i find something for them, or when i have a customer intentionally get in my line because they know i'm fast or friendly or something. i particularly enjoy helping seniors. for many of them, their trip for groceries is their only social outing for weeks. it is a pleasure to make sure it goes well and they get some socialization.
i don't like having such a variable schedule, but that's probably not in the top ten things i dislike about my job. i strongly dislike shift work in general due to the thorough lack of autonomy. getting a day off for some reason- even an emergency- is stressful. stepping away to use the restroom is stressful- i'm to notify people, and even if i do that it can still be very frowned upon in a way that borders on a verbal warning from superiors. leaving in the middle of the day- to pick up a friend at the airport, to go to the dentist, to go to the dmv- is extremely challenging and often impossible. people complain a lot in office work about micromanagement but shift work- especially when it's customer facing- is a whole other level. my job particularly is primarily to stand at the focal point of the store directing traffic and helping people, so my absence, even super temporarily, is very noticed and frowned upon. i hate that. other than my breaks or my lunch, i have no downtime. i have to be 'on' for eight hours. i hate how high stress my job is. the number of things i have to multi-task on a busy day is boggling. walking from one side of the store to the other to get some money to loan a dcrawer, i get called three times to override some register function, two customers stop me to ask where we have potato starch and gluten free pasta, one employee asks me if he can have off tomorrow last minute due to some event, one of my bosses calls me and tells me to change fuel prices, a customer complains to me about not having enough baggers, and another employee calls in sick with no notice and-
i don't care if people trash on retail. it is p shitty. i know not every office worker has the sort of job i envy, with the level of autonomy and breathing room i desire. but plenty of my friends do. i hope i can make that transition eventually.
i think you will
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Also I am depressed af so I haven't expended the effort to set up a big planned thing. Do people still have my phone number? I get to penn station at 3pm next Sunday. I'll be leaving for the airport at like 6pm on Tuesday. No firm plans so if anyone wants to fuck or suck etc
Where are you going?
philadelphia from the 6th to the 8th, nyc from the 8th to the 10th, chicago from the 10th to the 14th.
I am so excited for you
Strange that you spelled Toronto wrong three different times and three different ways, but that's okay!
if anything, kid presentable, i feel insecure about venting about my day. my friends have abilities- business acuity, programming knowledge, whatever- that the market values at over a hundred thousand dollars a year. so i sometimes feel patently ridiculous saying AT THE GROCERY STORE TODAY...
Problems are problems and venting can be therapeutic.
I actually feel that ridiculousness in reverse where complaining about my issues would probably make me look like SKFM or engage the worlds tiniest violin orchestra. But they are still problems and matter to me.
in an ideal world i guess i wouldn't feel bitter about a friend complaining about yacht fuel prices and also i'd feel comfortable saying how many call outs today i had at work and how stressful it made me (without worrying that the listener is disdaining the idea of selling people groceries being stressful)
but the insecurities and resentments are pretty ingrained i think, especially across class
i don't think it is easy to suppress them in order to be a decent friend and listener but i do my best
i do like helping people. it's nice when someone is grateful that i find something for them, or when i have a customer intentionally get in my line because they know i'm fast or friendly or something. i particularly enjoy helping seniors. for many of them, their trip for groceries is their only social outing for weeks. it is a pleasure to make sure it goes well and they get some socialization.
i don't like having such a variable schedule, but that's probably not in the top ten things i dislike about my job. i strongly dislike shift work in general due to the thorough lack of autonomy. getting a day off for some reason- even an emergency- is stressful. stepping away to use the restroom is stressful- i'm to notify people, and even if i do that it can still be very frowned upon in a way that borders on a verbal warning from superiors. leaving in the middle of the day- to pick up a friend at the airport, to go to the dentist, to go to the dmv- is extremely challenging and often impossible. people complain a lot in office work about micromanagement but shift work- especially when it's customer facing- is a whole other level. my job particularly is primarily to stand at the focal point of the store directing traffic and helping people, so my absence, even super temporarily, is very noticed and frowned upon. i hate that. other than my breaks or my lunch, i have no downtime. i have to be 'on' for eight hours. i hate how high stress my job is. the number of things i have to multi-task on a busy day is boggling. walking from one side of the store to the other to get some money to loan a dcrawer, i get called three times to override some register function, two customers stop me to ask where we have potato starch and gluten free pasta, one employee asks me if he can have off tomorrow last minute due to some event, one of my bosses calls me and tells me to change fuel prices, a customer complains to me about not having enough baggers, and another employee calls in sick with no notice and-
i don't care if people trash on retail. it is p shitty. i know not every office worker has the sort of job i envy, with the level of autonomy and breathing room i desire. but plenty of my friends do. i hope i can make that transition eventually.
Other than hospitality, I've worked in a fair number of "arch" industries. Construction, painting, sales, IT, retail, stock processing, and I've been in a supervisory/management role as well as being a shitty grunt.
People who trash on others for their job just lack perspective...and class.
Man some of y'all have been out of retail for a while, huh? :P
Even when I worked retail I had a reasonably consistent shift.
I worked at a gas station and we had a 6a-2p shift, a 2p-10p shift, and a 10p-6a shift
same start/end times for every shift, so you could at least plan your life a little without wondering if you'd need to come in a 1:45p or 12:00p or some random shit
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Ooh, it's work venting time! Worked 28 hours from Wednesday morning to Thursday noon, then worked Friday morning to Saturday just before noon. About 2 hours of sleep each of those nights, mostly because of garbage calls that could have waited until morning easily. Had to fight hard to get a single day of vacation approved, and I am forced to use up multiple vacation days to get it. (The other days are off, but they really ought to count as sick leave. It's not like I can reasonably just ignore a brain tumor...)
Hi, Chat! I've missed you and your role somewhere to dump my misery and angst so my burdens are lightened! It's like sharing Nightmares! Have a Tale of Terror!!
Aersien you're a psych resident, right?
If yes I apologize for always choosing to come in around midnight when I need to see a crisis worker >_>
if anything, kid presentable, i feel insecure about venting about my day. my friends have abilities- business acuity, programming knowledge, whatever- that the market values at over a hundred thousand dollars a year. so i sometimes feel patently ridiculous saying AT THE GROCERY STORE TODAY...
Problems are problems and venting can be therapeutic.
I actually feel that ridiculousness in reverse where complaining about my issues would probably make me look like SKFM or engage the worlds tiniest violin orchestra. But they are still problems and matter to me.
in an ideal world i guess i wouldn't feel bitter about a friend complaining about yacht fuel prices and also i'd feel comfortable saying how many call outs today i had at work and how stressful it made me (without worrying that the listener is disdaining the idea of selling people groceries being stressful)
but the insecurities and resentments are pretty ingrained i think, especially across class
i don't think it is easy to suppress them in order to be a decent friend and listener but i do my best
Also I am depressed af so I haven't expended the effort to set up a big planned thing. Do people still have my phone number? I get to penn station at 3pm next Sunday. I'll be leaving for the airport at like 6pm on Tuesday. No firm plans so if anyone wants to fuck or suck etc
Where are you going?
philadelphia from the 6th to the 8th, nyc from the 8th to the 10th, chicago from the 10th to the 14th.
i do like helping people. it's nice when someone is grateful that i find something for them, or when i have a customer intentionally get in my line because they know i'm fast or friendly or something. i particularly enjoy helping seniors. for many of them, their trip for groceries is their only social outing for weeks. it is a pleasure to make sure it goes well and they get some socialization.
i don't like having such a variable schedule, but that's probably not in the top ten things i dislike about my job. i strongly dislike shift work in general due to the thorough lack of autonomy. getting a day off for some reason- even an emergency- is stressful. stepping away to use the restroom is stressful- i'm to notify people, and even if i do that it can still be very frowned upon in a way that borders on a verbal warning from superiors. leaving in the middle of the day- to pick up a friend at the airport, to go to the dentist, to go to the dmv- is extremely challenging and often impossible. people complain a lot in office work about micromanagement but shift work- especially when it's customer facing- is a whole other level. my job particularly is primarily to stand at the focal point of the store directing traffic and helping people, so my absence, even super temporarily, is very noticed and frowned upon. i hate that. other than my breaks or my lunch, i have no downtime. i have to be 'on' for eight hours. i hate how high stress my job is. the number of things i have to multi-task on a busy day is boggling. walking from one side of the store to the other to get some money to loan a dcrawer, i get called three times to override some register function, two customers stop me to ask where we have potato starch and gluten free pasta, one employee asks me if he can have off tomorrow last minute due to some event, one of my bosses calls me and tells me to change fuel prices, a customer complains to me about not having enough baggers, and another employee calls in sick with no notice and-
i don't care if people trash on retail. it is p shitty. i know not every office worker has the sort of job i envy, with the level of autonomy and breathing room i desire. but plenty of my friends do. i hope i can make that transition eventually.
Other than hospitality, I've worked in a fair number of "arch" industries. Construction, painting, sales, IT, retail, stock processing, and I've been in a supervisory/management role as well as being a shitty grunt.
People who trash on others for their job just lack perspective...and class.
yeah i've worked many positions and probably deserved none of them. chu is a hard worker who well wherever he goes.
jobs are hard and people who shit on any position have never been in those positions.
if anything, kid presentable, i feel insecure about venting about my day. my friends have abilities- business acuity, programming knowledge, whatever- that the market values at over a hundred thousand dollars a year. so i sometimes feel patently ridiculous saying AT THE GROCERY STORE TODAY...
Yes, this and your other post all speak to me.
Enjoy your vacation, sorry I kinda hijacked your thing and projected my shit onto it!
Man some of y'all have been out of retail for a while, huh? :P
Even when I worked retail I had a reasonably consistent shift.
I worked at a gas station and we had a 6a-2p shift, a 2p-10p shift, and a 10p-6a shift
same start/end times for every shift, so you could at least plan your life a little without wondering if you'd need to come in a 1:45p or 12:00p or some random shit
a lot of my veteran checkers who've been there for a decade+ get to have the same schedule every day. jelly. for a bunch of reasons (varying vacations, multiple people wanting the same shift, managers having to fill body-shaped-holes when someone is suddenly sick or quits) they have decided we don't get consistent shifts.
if anything, kid presentable, i feel insecure about venting about my day. my friends have abilities- business acuity, programming knowledge, whatever- that the market values at over a hundred thousand dollars a year. so i sometimes feel patently ridiculous saying AT THE GROCERY STORE TODAY...
chu this is wrong thoughts. you're not some sort of undesirable dumb without worth.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Also I am depressed af so I haven't expended the effort to set up a big planned thing. Do people still have my phone number? I get to penn station at 3pm next Sunday. I'll be leaving for the airport at like 6pm on Tuesday. No firm plans so if anyone wants to fuck or suck etc
Where are you going?
philadelphia from the 6th to the 8th, nyc from the 8th to the 10th, chicago from the 10th to the 14th.
Man some of y'all have been out of retail for a while, huh? :P
Even when I worked retail I had a reasonably consistent shift.
I worked at a gas station and we had a 6a-2p shift, a 2p-10p shift, and a 10p-6a shift
same start/end times for every shift, so you could at least plan your life a little without wondering if you'd need to come in a 1:45p or 12:00p or some random shit
a lot of my veteran checkers who've been there for a decade+ get to have the same schedule every day. jelly. for a bunch of reasons (varying vacations, multiple people wanting the same shift, managers having to fill body-shaped-holes when someone is suddenly sick or quits) they have decided we don't get consistent shifts.
BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
btw @simonwolf I tried out Battle Brothers and I am sold. I had a few failures to launch (died in the first couple battles), but then I finally had a party that grew to 8 members and was really rolling along ... and then I got over-confident and we got absolutely slaughtered by an impressively well-armed band of brigands >_>
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Hi, Chat! I've missed you and your role somewhere to dump my misery and angst so my burdens are lightened! It's like sharing Nightmares! Have a Tale of Terror!!
I had a retail job part time while studying, so for like 7 years I worked most saturdays around the year. None of my friends ever learned this sufficiently and were often surprised that I couldn't come to their sweet saturday things they planned 10pm on a friday...
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yes we all do this constantly. welcome.
Source: I've worked that schedule.
i don't like having such a variable schedule, but that's probably not in the top ten things i dislike about my job. i strongly dislike shift work in general due to the thorough lack of autonomy. getting a day off for some reason- even an emergency- is stressful. stepping away to use the restroom is stressful- i'm to notify people, and even if i do that it can still be very frowned upon in a way that borders on a verbal warning from superiors. leaving in the middle of the day- to pick up a friend at the airport, to go to the dentist, to go to the dmv- is extremely challenging and often impossible. people complain a lot in office work about micromanagement but shift work- especially when it's customer facing- is a whole other level. my job particularly is primarily to stand at the focal point of the store directing traffic and helping people, so my absence, even super temporarily, is very noticed and frowned upon. i hate that. other than my breaks or my lunch, i have no downtime. i have to be 'on' for eight hours. i hate how high stress my job is. the number of things i have to multi-task on a busy day is boggling. walking from one side of the store to the other to get some money to loan a dcrawer, i get called three times to override some register function, two customers stop me to ask where we have potato starch and gluten free pasta, one employee asks me if he can have off tomorrow last minute due to some event, one of my bosses calls me and tells me to change fuel prices, a customer complains to me about not having enough baggers, and another employee calls in sick with no notice and-
i don't care if people trash on retail. it is p shitty. i know not every office worker has the sort of job i envy, with the level of autonomy and breathing room i desire. but plenty of my friends do. i hope i can make that transition eventually.
It seems that Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah has been used soooooo much more than usual this Christmas season by so many different shows.
Was this always used around Christmas? It never felt like a Christmas song. I know why it would see an uptick obviously, but for the holidays specifically seems odd.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Good ol' Cats-in-the-Wall Margaret
philadelphia from the 6th to the 8th, nyc from the 8th to the 10th, chicago from the 10th to the 14th.
Problems are problems and venting can be therapeutic.
I actually feel that ridiculousness in reverse where complaining about my issues would probably make me look like SKFM or engage the worlds tiniest violin orchestra. But they are still problems and matter to me.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
are you going to see the sharks!
i think you will
I am so excited for you
Strange that you spelled Toronto wrong three different times and three different ways, but that's okay!
there's no reason for them to start and end at random times if the store hours are consistent
It's usually p enjoyable work
The problem, as with most jobs, are the people :P
in an ideal world i guess i wouldn't feel bitter about a friend complaining about yacht fuel prices and also i'd feel comfortable saying how many call outs today i had at work and how stressful it made me (without worrying that the listener is disdaining the idea of selling people groceries being stressful)
but the insecurities and resentments are pretty ingrained i think, especially across class
i don't think it is easy to suppress them in order to be a decent friend and listener but i do my best
Other than hospitality, I've worked in a fair number of "arch" industries. Construction, painting, sales, IT, retail, stock processing, and I've been in a supervisory/management role as well as being a shitty grunt.
People who trash on others for their job just lack perspective...and class.
I worked at a gas station and we had a 6a-2p shift, a 2p-10p shift, and a 10p-6a shift
same start/end times for every shift, so you could at least plan your life a little without wondering if you'd need to come in a 1:45p or 12:00p or some random shit
Aersien you're a psych resident, right?
If yes I apologize for always choosing to come in around midnight when I need to see a crisis worker >_>
sharks you say
yeah i've worked many positions and probably deserved none of them. chu is a hard worker who well wherever he goes.
jobs are hard and people who shit on any position have never been in those positions.
Yes, this and your other post all speak to me.
Enjoy your vacation, sorry I kinda hijacked your thing and projected my shit onto it!
yes! i land p late on the 10th and leave p early on the 14th but i am there all day 11-13
I love all peoples.
a lot of my veteran checkers who've been there for a decade+ get to have the same schedule every day. jelly. for a bunch of reasons (varying vacations, multiple people wanting the same shift, managers having to fill body-shaped-holes when someone is suddenly sick or quits) they have decided we don't get consistent shifts.
(except down their blouse
at the titties)
chu this is wrong thoughts. you're not some sort of undesirable dumb without worth.
The ones that travel on land, as they say
I do not like it sam I am
you get a hella nice boat for the price of an apartment