Still not sure how my JHS history teacher brought a civil war revolver to school and operated it (with powder only) on the football field.
Different times I guess.
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BrodyThe WatchThe First ShoreRegistered Userregular
I didn't take AP chem, but our teacher decided to use dry ice bombs to display Boyle's Law, but also a student slipped her a 20 to buy extra dry ice, and then we stayed out on the field when the rest of the class went inside, and one of the dry ice bombs went off in his hands and his friends drove him to the ER and it was a mess.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
It was not an AP class since I was shut out of taking psychology as a senior, I had to take civics again with the people that missed it before and the foreign exchange students
Needlessly to say it was far better than your usual class or AP class. I took AP math {beginning trig basically} But due to my bizarre fight with the senior councilor {one of two women I felt that earned that unfortunate name for a female dog} I was shut out of taking a lot of AP classes. I only got put in math because the Math teacher wanted to make an example of me of why you don't ditch and goof around [he was PISSED I knew how to do basic trig and use a slide rule as it was one of the few times I got thrown out of a class and barred from returning}
In one of my science classes the power went out midday, so to entertain us our teacher hooked up a soap dispenser to one of the gas lines for bunsen burners and made gas bubbles, then lit them when they reached the corrugated metal ceiling and we watched the flames run down the length of the classroom.
20+ years later, holy shit how did he get away with that?
Now to talk about my brutal week at the hell known to men
Due to an arson at one location across town the other stores across the city picked up the black friday freight
The brutal part of the week was once again due to incompetent managers as why does dairy get 4 to 5! people and I am in frozen with one other expected work 11+ pallets of freight
The reason my fingers get f'd is due to my skin gets ultra dry during the fall and winter so working with boxes and the rough n tumble nature of work my fingers crack open and tear open along the splits and such
I know they will not remove me from frozen because it means they have to train and build a team instead of comming to work to chill. As people point out I am a "good worker" so sadly they can count on me to finish and do my upmost job. The overall manager for overnights is out for medical reasons so they have the day time manager {the backroom manager refused because a lot of people were just indifferent to him seeing how he runs cap 2 a source of much of the grumbling and complaints from overnights}
Another thing pages back when I posted that notice by the timeclock
They denied my PTO time because??
I put it back in but I am not going to go back to that hell until Thursday night because I will enjoy my 3 day weekend even though I am angry and quite tired
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
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lol I'm sorry you have to... request PTO for days when the store is closed??? Uhhh?? That's fully fucking wild.
Over here in Singapore Monday started with an emergency situation that had me working from 8 a.m. til midnight. Two other stakeholders I was working closely with overseas were dealing with a colo on-site installation from a vendor and two major medical situations that left one of them single parenting while escorting their own parent to and from chemotherapy. Then the solution for the problem ended up needing to be implemented manually due to concerns about possible security issues if we automated the fix, which my badass hardworking team hauled ass to complete. But it wasn't clear how badly off the scenario would be after I fell asleep so I started work again today at 6 a.m.
Now it's 5:15 p.m. and I am completing one more task due by EOD before I can call it a day:
I am part of the IT management team doing a survey by request of the CIO and each time I answer a question, the count of total questions to answer goes up.
Now I am on 22/164.
Now I have answered 22 and am on 23/175.
My important question: is this hell?
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
So, it keeps happening to me.
There's a guy with my name in a major role at a major IT and design company and I keep getting e-mails from lazy HR headhunter types trying to recruit him. So far not-me has been contacted by productivity app Asana, a company that's trying to "innovate gift cards" and now fucking DoorDash.
Hi [MY FIRST NAME]!
Hope you're well and had a good week! How are things at [COMPANY]?
I wanted to reach out because DoorDash is currently hiring a Senior Design Manager to lead our Consumer Product team within our Product Design organization. Your background and leadership experience with [COMPANY] caught my eye, and I wanted to share more about our team's long-term vision for this leadership role and see how that may align with your personal career goals!
DoorDash is focused on empowering local communities and hardworking people (DoorDash Impact report). We are looking for impactful Design leaders that enjoy driving business decisions, managing people and impacting the product vision. We also recognize that every team’s needs are different, and that most of us want some level of flexibility in how we work. We’ve introduced a hybrid approach to work and collaboration, determined by the team leaders who are driving our business forward.
Available locations: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York
If you're open to it, we would love to connect and share more in detail with you.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
[NAME REDACTED]
...and like, previously I've written back joking e-mails about carefully reviewing their offer and Bong Joon-Ho's 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture winning film "Parasite" before deciding not to do identity fraud.
...but knowing what I know about DoorDash and the position I would be interviewing for and how it would impact policy at DoorDash...
kinda thinking about doing some identity fraud for the greater good.
In academic job news, I have an on-campus interview for a teaching-focused position that will, obviously, include a mock lecture. It's been nearly two years since I had an in-person course so I'm gonna need to derust for that.
Seems a bit cruel to make you do a lecture designed to be mocked, but I don't know the first thing about academia, so.
As a software engineer I mock my tests all the time! I even have automated tools that generate the mocks for me, it really speeds things up.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
I got screamed at today by a gaurdian today because I suggested their child, who refused to follow instructions today to enter the room, might not follow instructions when we take him on an excursion to the zoo.
I got screamed at today by a gaurdian today because I suggested their child, who refused to follow instructions today to enter the room, might not follow instructions when we take him on an excursion to the zoo.
Ain't nobody play better than they practice.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
I got screamed at today by a gaurdian today because I suggested their child, who refused to follow instructions today to enter the room, might not follow instructions when we take him on an excursion to the zoo.
“Your child is an insolent little shit who has brought shame on your house” is a hard pill to swallow for some folks.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Kane Red RobeMaster of MagicArcanusRegistered Userregular
Today I picked up two parts of the quality review table; the hold tag with them had a single word, "Incomplete." Incomplete, what motherfucker? I'm going to start decimating the inspection team until they can produce usable reports, this is a constant issue
I got screamed at today by a gaurdian today because I suggested their child, who refused to follow instructions today to enter the room, might not follow instructions when we take him on an excursion to the zoo.
“Your child is an insolent little shit who has brought shame on your house” is a hard pill to swallow for some folks.
That implies that they themselves aren't the shame, when that's usually the case. Most teachers I talk to say kids are rarely the the problem, it's usually the parents and their actions that get their kid to a place where they're insufferable.
I got screamed at today by a gaurdian today because I suggested their child, who refused to follow instructions today to enter the room, might not follow instructions when we take him on an excursion to the zoo.
“Your child is an insolent little shit who has brought shame on your house” is a hard pill to swallow for some folks.
That implies that they themselves aren't the shame, when that's usually the case. Most teachers I talk to say kids are rarely the the problem, it's usually the parents and their actions that get their kid to a place where they're insufferable.
Though in fairness I had a parent get angry at me the other day because their child wasn't paying attention in my class. Upon talking with her further I figured out that the child actually had an IEP and no one from the district had told me they were supposed to get extra services. So yeah! I could totally understand why the parent was upset, and as usual I'm at the front lines getting shit upon because someone fucked up.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
*first thought* We have a Treasury?
*second thought* I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Careful with that second thought. While it's ostensibly under the umbrella of DHS now, the Secret Service still acts as the enforcement arm of the Treasury, and a group of people that trace their history back to Alan Pinkerton don't have much of a sense of humor. The 5 or so USSS agents I've interacted with in connection to my being in the Finance portion of the casino industry have all had a fantastic case of RBF.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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L Ron HowardThe duckMinnesotaRegistered Userregular
I think joining a new place in November was the right idea.
They've got a big project that requires all hands and is due in the new year. There are a bunch of holidays coming up. My vacation doesn't roll over, so I have to take all of it...
I'm having a very pleasant onboarding period.
Also I got word from an old colleague that where I used to work is really a shitshow now that I can't pop in to solve every problem so that's gratifying to hear.
*first thought* We have a Treasury?
*second thought* I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Careful with that second thought. While it's ostensibly under the umbrella of DHS now, the Secret Service still acts as the enforcement arm of the Treasury, and a group of people that trace their history back to Alan Pinkerton don't have much of a sense of humor. The 5 or so USSS agents I've interacted with in connection to my being in the Finance portion of the casino industry have all had a fantastic case of RBF.
I understood all of that up until RBF. But I looked it up and RBG pops up pretty quick, as a legit result not a typo.
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BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
*first thought* We have a Treasury?
*second thought* I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Careful with that second thought. While it's ostensibly under the umbrella of DHS now, the Secret Service still acts as the enforcement arm of the Treasury, and a group of people that trace their history back to Alan Pinkerton don't have much of a sense of humor. The 5 or so USSS agents I've interacted with in connection to my being in the Finance portion of the casino industry have all had a fantastic case of RBF.
I understood all of that up until RBF. But I looked it up and RBG pops up pretty quick, as a legit result not a typo.
"Resting Bitch/Bastard Face"
Think Judge Dredd, but even less warm and fuzzy.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
*first thought* We have a Treasury?
*second thought* I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Careful with that second thought. While it's ostensibly under the umbrella of DHS now, the Secret Service still acts as the enforcement arm of the Treasury, and a group of people that trace their history back to Alan Pinkerton don't have much of a sense of humor. The 5 or so USSS agents I've interacted with in connection to my being in the Finance portion of the casino industry have all had a fantastic case of RBF.
I understood all of that up until RBF. But I looked it up and RBG pops up pretty quick, as a legit result not a typo.
"Resting Bitch/Bastard Face"
Think Judge Dredd, but even less warm and fuzzy.
"No, Ma'am, the government does not have a sense of humor that we're aware of."
Starting jan 1st I will be the Telecommunications Division manager, and instead of supervising 5 people directly, i will oversee one experienced supervisor, one new supervisor and one highly specialized role.
When i started 5 years ago I had no leadership experience, when I became IT manager I had no supervisory experience
failing upward works, would highly recommend.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Starting jan 1st I will be the Telecommunications Division manager, and instead of supervising 5 people directly, i will oversee one experienced supervisor, one new supervisor and one highly specialized role.
When i started 5 years ago I had no leadership experience, when I became IT manager I had no supervisory experience
failing upward works, would highly recommend.
Sometimes I think I want to do this, just sometimes. But I have no idea how you get allowed to be a supervisor when you have zero supervisory experience, it seems like most of the time they aren't interested in letting you try.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Starting jan 1st I will be the Telecommunications Division manager, and instead of supervising 5 people directly, i will oversee one experienced supervisor, one new supervisor and one highly specialized role.
When i started 5 years ago I had no leadership experience, when I became IT manager I had no supervisory experience
failing upward works, would highly recommend.
Sometimes I think I want to do this, just sometimes. But I have no idea how you get allowed to be a supervisor when you have zero supervisory experience, it seems like most of the time they aren't interested in letting you try.
The first time I was able to get supervisory was when there were no other options they wanted to use (the people that had prior experience were beyond dense)
With my wife, they passed her up to give it to someone else who came in to work solely to fire off an "I quit" email like two weeks later.They were then forced to have her cover for him, and opted to put her in the position permanently after two months.
It really feels like getting your foot in the supervisor door is a case of "You've got no other choice and nothing to lose, let me try."
Starting jan 1st I will be the Telecommunications Division manager, and instead of supervising 5 people directly, i will oversee one experienced supervisor, one new supervisor and one highly specialized role.
When i started 5 years ago I had no leadership experience, when I became IT manager I had no supervisory experience
failing upward works, would highly recommend.
Sometimes I think I want to do this, just sometimes. But I have no idea how you get allowed to be a supervisor when you have zero supervisory experience, it seems like most of the time they aren't interested in letting you try.
The main reason I still have oversight over my original department is that there's no one to replace me
But when I suggested one of my staff who is a candidate for the supervisory role take a supervisor class the CEO rejected sending anyone who wasn't already in a supervisory role. (so then me and the only other manager who also included themselves in the recommendation went because lol)
Starting jan 1st I will be the Telecommunications Division manager, and instead of supervising 5 people directly, i will oversee one experienced supervisor, one new supervisor and one highly specialized role.
When i started 5 years ago I had no leadership experience, when I became IT manager I had no supervisory experience
lol I'm sorry you have to... request PTO for days when the store is closed??? Uhhh?? That's fully fucking wild.
My sister's last job was like that. Office closed for weather reasons twice, but the employees had to use PTO. Like...what? They can't come in if they wanted to, ya'll are just being geese. It was wild.
We had a departmental meeting, and I got to inform everyone that I won't work a full week until the week of 10 January. And that's my birthday week, so I might take a day in there too.
And people, managers! were happy for me! The people who have to pick up my slack welcome it!
Does anyone have experience with MyGreatLearnings for courses to share? I am specifically looking at the Applied Data Science program. It is very relevant for a direction my career could go. I'm a bit gunshy about the time commitment required. They told me approximately 15hr per week.
I've taken the thread titles advice and updated my CV to get a new job after 3 years at my current company.
2 years in my current role has seen the business steadily transition away from any kind of equitable treatment of it's non-sales staff and the sheer desperation of people working in our service teams due to understaffing, escalating workloads, and no attempt at remedying their suffering has pushed me to the point where I can no longer bring myself to work for this company.
I don't want to go into to much detail cos it upsets me but the sales team has 2 concurrently running incentives that they qualify for through trying to achieve their KPIs. The budget allocated to this is 12600 a quarter.
Our service team who is paid 1/2 or 1/3 as much as sales has a incentive as well. The budget for this is 260 a quarter. It's seems kind of petty to complain regarding money in this instance but it reflects that the service team are busting their asses working 50,60,70 hours weekly and getting nothing where sales get commissions and other bonus' to encourage additional work.
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I'm proud that my generation is granting our potential children the gift of blissful nonexistence. If the boomers had the foresight to do the same, we wouldn't be living in their basements and killing Applebee's or whatever vague conceptual murder Business Insider is pinning on us this week.
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Girlfriend barely called.
Coworker punched in face and police called on him for pinning the dude that punched him.
Hooligan that assaulted another coworker bragged about having his wallet in front of said coworker and police and was not arrested.
Realized my 401K email was never responded to, no retirement package as of yet.
Still haven't started my benefits for this year, will do now.
Need to buy work pants because uniform clusterfuck is still clusterfucking.
Will buy LED dog collar for neighbor because the black lab is as dark as this fucking parking lot, and her owner is almost as dark my late father.
I also reacted to a funny story by defaulting to planning to telling him about it the next time I saw him. He's been dead and buried 7 years.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Different times I guess.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Needlessly to say it was far better than your usual class or AP class. I took AP math {beginning trig basically} But due to my bizarre fight with the senior councilor {one of two women I felt that earned that unfortunate name for a female dog} I was shut out of taking a lot of AP classes. I only got put in math because the Math teacher wanted to make an example of me of why you don't ditch and goof around [he was PISSED I knew how to do basic trig and use a slide rule as it was one of the few times I got thrown out of a class and barred from returning}
20+ years later, holy shit how did he get away with that?
The brutal part of the week was once again due to incompetent managers as why does dairy get 4 to 5! people and I am in frozen with one other expected work 11+ pallets of freight
The reason my fingers get f'd is due to my skin gets ultra dry during the fall and winter so working with boxes and the rough n tumble nature of work my fingers crack open and tear open along the splits and such
I know they will not remove me from frozen because it means they have to train and build a team instead of comming to work to chill. As people point out I am a "good worker" so sadly they can count on me to finish and do my upmost job. The overall manager for overnights is out for medical reasons so they have the day time manager {the backroom manager refused because a lot of people were just indifferent to him seeing how he runs cap 2 a source of much of the grumbling and complaints from overnights}
Another thing pages back when I posted that notice by the timeclock
They denied my PTO time because??
I put it back in but I am not going to go back to that hell until Thursday night because I will enjoy my 3 day weekend even though I am angry and quite tired
Over here in Singapore Monday started with an emergency situation that had me working from 8 a.m. til midnight. Two other stakeholders I was working closely with overseas were dealing with a colo on-site installation from a vendor and two major medical situations that left one of them single parenting while escorting their own parent to and from chemotherapy. Then the solution for the problem ended up needing to be implemented manually due to concerns about possible security issues if we automated the fix, which my badass hardworking team hauled ass to complete. But it wasn't clear how badly off the scenario would be after I fell asleep so I started work again today at 6 a.m.
Now it's 5:15 p.m. and I am completing one more task due by EOD before I can call it a day:
I am part of the IT management team doing a survey by request of the CIO and each time I answer a question, the count of total questions to answer goes up.
Now I am on 22/164.
Now I have answered 22 and am on 23/175.
My important question: is this hell?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
There's a guy with my name in a major role at a major IT and design company and I keep getting e-mails from lazy HR headhunter types trying to recruit him. So far not-me has been contacted by productivity app Asana, a company that's trying to "innovate gift cards" and now fucking DoorDash.
...and like, previously I've written back joking e-mails about carefully reviewing their offer and Bong Joon-Ho's 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture winning film "Parasite" before deciding not to do identity fraud.
...but knowing what I know about DoorDash and the position I would be interviewing for and how it would impact policy at DoorDash...
kinda thinking about doing some identity fraud for the greater good.
As a software engineer I mock my tests all the time! I even have automated tools that generate the mocks for me, it really speeds things up.
Satans..... hints.....
"Department: Treasury Services"
*first thought* We have a Treasury?
*second thought* I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Ain't nobody play better than they practice.
“Your child is an insolent little shit who has brought shame on your house” is a hard pill to swallow for some folks.
That implies that they themselves aren't the shame, when that's usually the case. Most teachers I talk to say kids are rarely the the problem, it's usually the parents and their actions that get their kid to a place where they're insufferable.
Though in fairness I had a parent get angry at me the other day because their child wasn't paying attention in my class. Upon talking with her further I figured out that the child actually had an IEP and no one from the district had told me they were supposed to get extra services. So yeah! I could totally understand why the parent was upset, and as usual I'm at the front lines getting shit upon because someone fucked up.
Careful with that second thought. While it's ostensibly under the umbrella of DHS now, the Secret Service still acts as the enforcement arm of the Treasury, and a group of people that trace their history back to Alan Pinkerton don't have much of a sense of humor. The 5 or so USSS agents I've interacted with in connection to my being in the Finance portion of the casino industry have all had a fantastic case of RBF.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Sincerely wishing you the best of luck on your $20/hr raise that you absolutely deserve!
They've got a big project that requires all hands and is due in the new year. There are a bunch of holidays coming up. My vacation doesn't roll over, so I have to take all of it...
I'm having a very pleasant onboarding period.
Also I got word from an old colleague that where I used to work is really a shitshow now that I can't pop in to solve every problem so that's gratifying to hear.
"Resting Bitch/Bastard Face"
Think Judge Dredd, but even less warm and fuzzy.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
"No, Ma'am, the government does not have a sense of humor that we're aware of."
When i started 5 years ago I had no leadership experience, when I became IT manager I had no supervisory experience
failing upward works, would highly recommend.
Sometimes I think I want to do this, just sometimes. But I have no idea how you get allowed to be a supervisor when you have zero supervisory experience, it seems like most of the time they aren't interested in letting you try.
The first time I was able to get supervisory was when there were no other options they wanted to use (the people that had prior experience were beyond dense)
With my wife, they passed her up to give it to someone else who came in to work solely to fire off an "I quit" email like two weeks later.They were then forced to have her cover for him, and opted to put her in the position permanently after two months.
It really feels like getting your foot in the supervisor door is a case of "You've got no other choice and nothing to lose, let me try."
The main reason I still have oversight over my original department is that there's no one to replace me
But when I suggested one of my staff who is a candidate for the supervisory role take a supervisor class the CEO rejected sending anyone who wasn't already in a supervisory role. (so then me and the only other manager who also included themselves in the recommendation went because lol)
:bro:
Naturally, it reminded me of this classic
My sister's last job was like that. Office closed for weather reasons twice, but the employees had to use PTO. Like...what? They can't come in if they wanted to, ya'll are just being geese. It was wild.
wish list
Steam wishlist
Etsy wishlist
But someday I'll be rich and I'll need my own yacht.
And people, managers! were happy for me! The people who have to pick up my slack welcome it!
It's really kind of incredible.
2 years in my current role has seen the business steadily transition away from any kind of equitable treatment of it's non-sales staff and the sheer desperation of people working in our service teams due to understaffing, escalating workloads, and no attempt at remedying their suffering has pushed me to the point where I can no longer bring myself to work for this company.
I don't want to go into to much detail cos it upsets me but the sales team has 2 concurrently running incentives that they qualify for through trying to achieve their KPIs. The budget allocated to this is 12600 a quarter.
Our service team who is paid 1/2 or 1/3 as much as sales has a incentive as well. The budget for this is 260 a quarter. It's seems kind of petty to complain regarding money in this instance but it reflects that the service team are busting their asses working 50,60,70 hours weekly and getting nothing where sales get commissions and other bonus' to encourage additional work.
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!