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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Only chumps drink sprite

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Pepsi is alright. Its no RC cola, but its ok I guess.

    Cherry Dr.Pepper is the best brown soda.

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Coke Zero or Cherry Coke Zero are my usual go tos.

  • KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    Sprite is good when I'm sick and eating chicken noodle soup.

  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    Mori and I obtained the dates of our work Christmas parties to give to his parents so we can have the kids sleep over at their house on those days.

    My work’s party is on a Monday, which at first seemed odd, but thinking about it it makes sense for a 7-day retail store to hold a party on a Monday; Mondays/Tuesdays are typically our quietest days and so the maximum number of employees are able to attend on a Monday.

    I’ve been hearing a lot about how legendary my work’s Christmas parties are, so I finally asked the store manager why they’re so legendary.

    Store manager: Well, there’s copious amounts of weed. And food. A lot of food. Really great stoner food.
    Me: What about entertainment?
    Store manager: Um... there’s weed. A ton of it. And free Ubers so no one has to drive.

  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Every place I've worked at has always had these stories about their legendary parties, be it the summer BBQs or holidays and they always seem to have ended right before I get there.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    the best work Christmas parties I've been to were thrown by the bookstore

    those were legitimately great parties

    at one of them I got trashed and talked to this guy who claimed he was a disciple of Frank Dux

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Oh no someone brought in cake

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    I might be signing up to my next and final stage of formal qualifications/exams sooner than I thought! A couple of people at my work are wanting to start soon and we might as well go together and support each other.

    Considering it'd take about two years before I have my actual exam it isn't too bad but I kinda liked not having to study! (I won't really have to start studying for at least a year minimum).

    Exciting?? Scary??

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Oh no I ate cake

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    My work and my fiancee's work Christmas parties are the same day.

    Fiancee's has an open bar and no food

    Mine has a cash bar and free dinner

    Both have raffles but mine has AMAZING prizes

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Janson wrote: »
    Mori and I obtained the dates of our work Christmas parties to give to his parents so we can have the kids sleep over at their house on those days.

    My work’s party is on a Monday, which at first seemed odd, but thinking about it it makes sense for a 7-day retail store to hold a party on a Monday; Mondays/Tuesdays are typically our quietest days and so the maximum number of employees are able to attend on a Monday.

    I’ve been hearing a lot about how legendary my work’s Christmas parties are, so I finally asked the store manager why they’re so legendary.

    Store manager: Well, there’s copious amounts of weed. And food. A lot of food. Really great stoner food.
    Me: What about entertainment?
    Store manager: Um... there’s weed. A ton of it. And free Ubers so no one has to drive.

    You ever been to a Christmas Party on weed?

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • FFFF Once Upon a Time In OaklandRegistered User regular
    My work used to have Christmas parties with Bingo for prizes, even $5,000 cash for a couple prizes.

    As of last year it was unceremoniously changed to a Christmas luncheon (also I hate that word). The only good part of that being, they gave us all $125 gift cards to grocery stores, which I used to buy some really expensive alcohol.

    Huh...
  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    Ours are usually two drink tickets, food and pretty great door prizes.. Nearly 3 years ago at my department Christmas party I won a ukulele for having the ugliest sweater. I now go to a monthly ukulele club. So, win?

  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    I might be signing up to my next and final stage of formal qualifications/exams sooner than I thought! A couple of people at my work are wanting to start soon and we might as well go together and support each other.

    Considering it'd take about two years before I have my actual exam it isn't too bad but I kinda liked not having to study! (I won't really have to start studying for at least a year minimum).

    Exciting?? Scary??

    I'd lean more toward exciting. I find that the longer I've been out of school the harder it is to get back into good study habits, so the sooner you get to it the easier it will be. This is strictly for the benefit of future-Liiya though, it might not be a ton of fun for present-Liiya.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I've taken 1 week of vacation this year, namely: this week.

    Somehow it's the same week that three professionally-relevant talks, two teaching skills seminars, two chapter meetings, and one extremely relevant ethics talk are all happening. After about two months of bupkis going on.

    of course it fucking is.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Daimar wrote: »
    Liiya wrote: »
    I might be signing up to my next and final stage of formal qualifications/exams sooner than I thought! A couple of people at my work are wanting to start soon and we might as well go together and support each other.

    Considering it'd take about two years before I have my actual exam it isn't too bad but I kinda liked not having to study! (I won't really have to start studying for at least a year minimum).

    Exciting?? Scary??

    I'd lean more toward exciting. I find that the longer I've been out of school the harder it is to get back into good study habits, so the sooner you get to it the easier it will be. This is strictly for the benefit of future-Liiya though, it might not be a ton of fun for present-Liiya.

    You make a very good point! Present day me wants to just sit and drink tea at my desk all day. Future me knows it's gotta be done.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Oh, crap. Another regional director got promoted, and this time it's a region and department I actually wouldn't mind overseeing. Kind of the best-case scenario for me under the current structure, actually. Among other things, I'd be overseeing Honest Jedoc's Successor's Down-Home Bookateria, which is nice.

    I guess I got to apply for it and spend some time having anxiety over job interviews, huh? Dammit, I'm going to have to buy a second pair of shoes to go to job interviews.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Oh, crap. Another regional director got promoted, and this time it's a region and department I actually wouldn't mind overseeing. Kind of the best-case scenario for me under the current structure, actually. Among other things, I'd be overseeing Honest Jedoc's Successor's Down-Home Bookateria, which is nice.

    I guess I got to apply for it and spend some time having anxiety over job interviews, huh? Dammit, I'm going to have to buy a second pair of shoes to go to job interviews.

    In two years we’ll be hearing about Jedoc’s Bookateria of Congress.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    I'm starting to wonder if I sound angry or annoyed when I'm not? Because like I report on an issue that I've encountered to my manager and they thank me for reporting it and later on they apologize for me having to deal with it even though reporting issues is part of my job since we're kind of like the problem-spotting/solving part of the company?

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    I allow myself a single cherry coke zero in the morning

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    About six months back I applied for a really cool sounding job that matched me to an uncanny degree and was offered an interview. Pre interview they sent me some stuff that made it clear the job would be a 30-40% pay cut for me, so I declined interview and moves on

    They've just got back in touch. Apparently they couldn't find anybody with an appropriate profile and have managed to substantially increase the salary. It's still a pay cut but now I know they can be pushed harder than they thought it seems worth a conversation.

    Still taking a job with a pay cut just seems abhorrent. It would be in a university though so salaries are generally fairly bad but there may be better perks

    Either way, better news than I've had recently which has been a struggle to find anything that excites me

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  • Moridin889Moridin889 Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    About six months back I applied for a really cool sounding job that matched me to an uncanny degree and was offered an interview. Pre interview they sent me some stuff that made it clear the job would be a 30-40% pay cut for me, so I declined interview and moves on

    They've just got back in touch. Apparently they couldn't find anybody with an appropriate profile and have managed to substantially increase the salary. It's still a pay cut but now I know they can be pushed harder than they thought it seems worth a conversation.

    Still taking a job with a pay cut just seems abhorrent. It would be in a university though so salaries are generally fairly bad but there may be better perks

    Either way, better news than I've had recently which has been a struggle to find anything that excites me

    The bolded there is a lie. They don't want to pay people and no one qualified will take the job.

  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    About six months back I applied for a really cool sounding job that matched me to an uncanny degree and was offered an interview. Pre interview they sent me some stuff that made it clear the job would be a 30-40% pay cut for me, so I declined interview and moves on

    They've just got back in touch. Apparently they couldn't find anybody with an appropriate profile and have managed to substantially increase the salary. It's still a pay cut but now I know they can be pushed harder than they thought it seems worth a conversation.

    Still taking a job with a pay cut just seems abhorrent. It would be in a university though so salaries are generally fairly bad but there may be better perks

    Either way, better news than I've had recently which has been a struggle to find anything that excites me

    Penssssssionssssss?

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Moridin889 wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    About six months back I applied for a really cool sounding job that matched me to an uncanny degree and was offered an interview. Pre interview they sent me some stuff that made it clear the job would be a 30-40% pay cut for me, so I declined interview and moves on

    They've just got back in touch. Apparently they couldn't find anybody with an appropriate profile and have managed to substantially increase the salary. It's still a pay cut but now I know they can be pushed harder than they thought it seems worth a conversation.

    Still taking a job with a pay cut just seems abhorrent. It would be in a university though so salaries are generally fairly bad but there may be better perks

    Either way, better news than I've had recently which has been a struggle to find anything that excites me

    The bolded there is a lie. They don't want to pay people and no one qualified will take the job.

    Oh yeah absolutely. That was me being unclear

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Oh no I ate cake

    Mori if you're digesting cake right now I swear to God

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited October 2018
    Welp, I'm working for the weekend that I really needed off for the last 13.5 years.

    Tried to ask my boss for saturday off instead and he said he was working his daughter's birthday to get Saturday covered already.

    Thats parent code for shove it up my ass, right?

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I love when people are sick at work, then pretend like they're not sick and go "oh it's just allergies" and get super defensive when you start lysoling/alcoholing everything then you wind up sick with what they had the next day.

    Why the fuck can't you just stay home? I really wish we'd separate our sick time from our vacation time because these fucks just try to save it for an additional week of vacation.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Hello yes hi this is me on vacation with a nasty cold.

    Please use your sick days

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    It’s good we have unlimited sick days / nature of our job can be done remotely

    So then it’s fair to like see someone who looks sick and demand they gtfo and go home

    poo
  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    edited October 2018
    Tox wrote: »
    Hello yes hi this is me on vacation with a nasty cold.

    Please use your sick days

    If you have them.

    Which is not a given in the US.

    (To be clear: if you do, then fuck yeah, use them, you dummies. If not, then it's hard to demonize someone for trying to pay their bills so desperately while their employer has created an unsafe work environment.)

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Well we do have sick days so I'm going to demonize them.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Well we do have sick days so I'm going to demonize them.

    Call them from home as you are dying from the cold and tell them it's just allergies.
    And then change their username to itwasjustallergies and reset their password to that and they should never ever live it down.

    PSN: jfrofl
  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I think I'm coming down with another cold or something. My out-of-practice immune system plus living with a toddler means this is probably just my permanent state for the next 4 months.

  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    I think I'm coming down with another cold or something. My out-of-practice immune system plus living with a toddler means this is probably just my permanent state for the next 4 months.

    Kids are like ultra germ carriers. My wife was always sick once our daughter started going to other kid areas. Also when she worked with kids for a while.

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  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Radiation wrote: »
    I think I'm coming down with another cold or something. My out-of-practice immune system plus living with a toddler means this is probably just my permanent state for the next 4 months.

    Kids are like ultra germ carriers. My wife was always sick once our daughter started going to other kid areas. Also when she worked with kids for a while.

    My wife started as a teacher's aide at a school attached to one of the local kids-with-medical-issues hospitals a couple weeks ago. She comes home and pretty much starts a decontamination procedure, now.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Got some new shoes for work but I had to go a size up because my feet are wide and while my feet don't feel constricted I do feel super awkward about the space at the tip of the shoe.

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  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    edited October 2018
    bowen wrote: »
    I love when people are sick at work, then pretend like they're not sick and go "oh it's just allergies" and get super defensive when you start lysoling/alcoholing everything then you wind up sick with what they had the next day.

    Why the fuck can't you just stay home? I really wish we'd separate our sick time from our vacation time because these fucks just try to save it for an additional week of vacation.

    Oh yes, this is our yearly reminder:

    [job] thread get your [jab]. Flu season is upon us.

    The CDC is reporting that last year's flu season was so deadly/large because only 40% of eligible adults were vacinated. This was the lowest in about 7 or 8 years.

    thatassemblyguy on
  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2018
    Ever since our social worker took over our breakfast thing, suddenly I am having very full and enjoyable breakfasts. Usually I would be lucky if I had a croissant or bagel, but yesterday and today I had a bowl of Cheerios AND a toaster waffle. And for only $5 more per month than we were giving the other lady. And she says she's got enough leftover that she might do monthly special lunches or something. What a difference, night and day, it's been.

    Goose! on
  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I love when people are sick at work, then pretend like they're not sick and go "oh it's just allergies" and get super defensive when you start lysoling/alcoholing everything then you wind up sick with what they had the next day.

    Why the fuck can't you just stay home? I really wish we'd separate our sick time from our vacation time because these fucks just try to save it for an additional week of vacation.

    Oh yes, this is our yearly reminder:

    [job] thread get your [jab]. Flu season is upon us.

    The CDC is reporting that last year's flu season was so deadly/large because only 40% of eligible adults were vacinated. This was the lowest in about 7 or 8 years.

    That's a fair bit of ass-covering. It was also the least effective flu vaccine of the last decade or so, providing zero immunity against what ended up being the most prevalent strain (and the year before was the second least effective, which IMO contributed to the low vaccination rate). Not that I expect perfect clairvoyance from the CDC, predicting which strains will require vaccination is fucking hard, but. Worth pointing out.

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