"Hey Kap. Just calling to let you know what time you start tomorrow."
"Awesome. Thanks!"
(Stuff about what I need to bring on my first day. IDs and such)
"Oh but you don't need to bring a lunch"
I jokingly said "Oh because you're celebrating my hire? Haha."
"Actually yes. We're having a catered lunch to welcome you. Is that ok?"
Yes ma'am. You may throw a catered lunch to celebrate my arrival. I will never say no to that.
"Hey Kap. Just calling to let you know what time you start tomorrow."
"Awesome. Thanks!"
(Stuff about what I need to bring on my first day. IDs and such)
"Oh but you don't need to bring a lunch"
I jokingly said "Oh because you're celebrating my hire? Haha."
"Actually yes. We're having a catered lunch to welcome you. Is that ok?"
Yes ma'am. You may throw a catered lunch to celebrate my arrival. I will never say no to that.
I might legtimately tear up if someone told me this.
This is absolutely the same trick as the "baby brought you a gift!" Thing parents do to engratiate older siblings to a newborn. But that's great because it totally works! Associating the new person with getting free food is a great idea that I'm stealing.
Speaking of emails, got this in an auto-reply from someone after they made a reservation online.
To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand.
If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.
This is a new one to me, and no, I am not filling out that form.
LOL they can get fucked.
No, you booked the reservation. This is your problem
We've had a customer that did that. We tried to hate him to death.
On that note, we haven't seen those bounces for months, so maybe it worked.
Next month my company is taking everyone across the offices to a fully paid trip to Copenhagen for a few days (except lunches).
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Det er dejligt!
Seriouly, everything you're writing about that place seems great. I'm happy for you (maybe also a bit jealous)
honovere on
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Because the district changed the payroll system and moved all non-teachers to a time clock in the middle of the summer all my extra summer work pay gets delayed till next month's pay check.
Just had a customer call up and say their system wasn't turning on.
Then they hit the power button and the system turned on.
Best. Customer. Ever.
I dunno if there's a name for it, but I call stuff like this "Quantum HelpDesk Problems". Problems that go away as soon as someone who is not the user tries to observe them.
I've been on both sides of this whole situation, and yeah. This happens a LOT.
This happened so much with one of my old colleagues that she stopped bothering to explain the issue, just asked me to come stand next to her desk for a bit while she tried again.
Worked every time.
I can also do this. Stuff magically starts working when I am near.
The corollary to this, however, is that there are an equal number of people around whom things just break. You can give them a perfectly working electronic device, show them exactly what to do, and as soon as they try to use it on their own it will glitch out
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Jacques L'HommeBAH! He was a rank amateur compared to, DR. COLOSSUS!Registered Userregular
Can’t remember who it was in here that originally brought it up, but I’ve officially been given permission by the head of circulation to begin giving the carts names. I think I’m gonna start with Shelvy Duvall.
Can’t remember who it was in here that originally brought it up, but I’ve officially been given permission by the head of circulation to begin giving the carts names. I think I’m gonna start with Shelvy Duvall.
Can’t remember who it was in here that originally brought it up, but I’ve officially been given permission by the head of circulation to begin giving the carts names. I think I’m gonna start with Shelvy Duvall.
What do you do?
Names carts, he couldn't have been more clear about that
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Jacques L'HommeBAH! He was a rank amateur compared to, DR. COLOSSUS!Registered Userregular
Can’t remember who it was in here that originally brought it up, but I’ve officially been given permission by the head of circulation to begin giving the carts names. I think I’m gonna start with Shelvy Duvall.
What do you do?
Library circulation clerk and, as of this shelving cart, God's Work.
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For the second time in 3 days I am the only secretary in the office. And as the bosses that are here are tied up with parents calling to complain about their child's placement and/or curriculum writing with teachers who came to work for a day, and as my work is mostly caught up on with everything else being weeks or more away, I have another easy day ahead of me.
You have not known pain until you try to rely on the SF Muni. Arrival times will come and go with no trains. Sometimes 40 minutes pass when they're supposed to be every 10-15.
Can’t remember who it was in here that originally brought it up, but I’ve officially been given permission by the head of circulation to begin giving the carts names. I think I’m gonna start with Shelvy Duvall.
Clearly when I left my last job I didn't expect to ever apply for an academic position, because I never wrote down the grant numbers on the grants I won.
I spent 2 hours last night combing through records of UK government departments that no longer exist, trying to track stuff down.
The best thing I found was the guy who made a freedom-of-information request to demand a list of research funding supplied to private firms by one particular business investment organization. Which was already freely available (and rather better organized) via a prominent link on their website.
New job is going good. I'm mostly doing busy work because a surprise audit fell on this week.
They also send a weekly email with open positions out to all employees, and of course an angry level info sec job gets posted. Oh well, I still have over a year in my graduate program. I'm ok biding my time and doing more broad security work
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So, of course, my first project is a choose-your-own-adventure parodying the typical corporate office environment.
HOW TO COOK FOR NEW EMPLOYEES
I might legtimately tear up if someone told me this.
That is like a mainline directly to my lizard-brain happy place.
Today I forgot my train pass
This job is a lot harder than I thought
We've had a customer that did that. We tried to hate him to death.
On that note, we haven't seen those bounces for months, so maybe it worked.
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F.
Det er dejligt!
Seriouly, everything you're writing about that place seems great. I'm happy for you (maybe also a bit jealous)
Sucks.
The corollary to this, however, is that there are an equal number of people around whom things just break. You can give them a perfectly working electronic device, show them exactly what to do, and as soon as they try to use it on their own it will glitch out
I know, right? How are they not paying for lunches?! Unbelievable.
That's how they get you. I bet every meal is like £50
The devious schemes of Big Lunch.
What do you do?
Names carts, he couldn't have been more clear about that
Library circulation clerk and, as of this shelving cart, God's Work.
3 minutes
2 minutes
3 minutes
THIS IS TYRANNY
I told your planning board not to dig train tunnels through a tesseract, but noooooooooooo
You have not known pain until you try to rely on the SF Muni. Arrival times will come and go with no trains. Sometimes 40 minutes pass when they're supposed to be every 10-15.
Still beats driving
It's going to be pizza. You can have some. Also, I'm proud of you.
Wouldn’t be an issue if I had an assistant already!!!
I can start in six years.
They're leaving off the lunches?
Cheap bastards.
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If my plan to start my own business works out I may never have to do another job interview again! Talk about an incentive.
Huh, Geico gave me the 50% less quote, but I need to see what they left out compared to the $380 esurance quote.
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It was @timspork's ghost
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
You can always hire someone to do the interviews for you.
Although, wait...
I spent 2 hours last night combing through records of UK government departments that no longer exist, trying to track stuff down.
The best thing I found was the guy who made a freedom-of-information request to demand a list of research funding supplied to private firms by one particular business investment organization. Which was already freely available (and rather better organized) via a prominent link on their website.
They also send a weekly email with open positions out to all employees, and of course an angry level info sec job gets posted. Oh well, I still have over a year in my graduate program. I'm ok biding my time and doing more broad security work