I just got done with a 9 day stretch at my current place of employment with no days off. I racked up at least 12 hours of overtime in that period and I am so glad to have the next couple days off.
What have been your hell days? Have you worked stretches at a time which were beneficial to your monetary status but sucked ass because you were at Best Buy all the time?
Come on motherfuckers, when has your job payed dividends for you in the long run while you sufferd in the short term? I want tales of woe!
Last I worked a twenty-hour bar shift for a wedding at a hotel, which had a reception of three hundred people, all clamouring for pints of coke because they were cheap bastards who weren't willing to pay hotel prices for real booze. There was a constant stream of customers using up the glasses at a rate our KP's couldn't keep up with, so I ended up serving drinks in Irish coffee mugs. Normally in these types of events I get to wolf down a decent amount of leftover food, but it was a Moroccan themed wedding, and it was all overly-sweet thirst-inducing pap (who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put sultanas in real food?).
All for five quid an hour and all the comments on the price of drinks I could take.
i just spent the last 20 minutes crawling around in dirty dusty ass cables to try and find the framesync that one of our graphics computers runs through
i find the front, then go around the rack into the back of it, dont touch a thing, and it fixes itself
i dont trust this motherfucker in the least, i know as soon as i look away from it, itll crap out again
I just got done with a 9 day stretch at my current place of employment with no days off. I racked up at least 12 hours of overtime in that period and I am so glad to have the next couple days off.
Unless you work in a chain gang or on similar levels of physical labour, I feel no pity for you at all.
I'm on my days off atm but when I get back on Friday I'll be working 9-12 hr days straight thru till Christmas day then I have 2 days off . Gotta love hospitality
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I was laid on the couch in front of the TV since Saturday afternoon with general man-flu.
I watched so many movies that I've been recording for rainy days that they've blurred into one. The League of Extraordinary Mean Girls on 34th Street: When Nature Calls."
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The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
I get two weeks off for the holidays. most of it is holiday time (meaning paid time off), but I am required to use 3 days of vacation over the break, which is crap. i mean, i can't even work extra to offset it. i have to burn 24 vacation hours.
I get two weeks off for the holidays. most of it is holiday time (meaning paid time off), but I am required to use 3 days of vacation over the break, which is crap. i mean, i can't even work extra to offset it. i have to burn 24 vacation hours.
Yeah I hear ya Wook. Here we get 20 annual leave days a year, and 7 of those they force us to take over the Christmas break.
I don't have a job this Christmas, so I don't have to work! Which leaves me plenty of time to research my dissertation and find out that I got all the wrong books out of the library before I left uni for the holidays. It's not like I can do anything else, as I have no money and there's nothing to do in this town.
I don't have a job this Christmas, so I don't have to work! Which leaves me plenty of time to research my dissertation and find out that I got all the wrong books out of the library before I left uni for the holidays. It's not like I can do anything else, as I have no money and there's nothing to do in this town.
I had to sleep at work this last weekend because of a blizzard. I got no sort of pay for this, because I get paid salary. Which is bullshit.
Yeah but you weren't working.
Though hahah that is pretty shitty.
Were there other people?
Oh yeah other people were there so it wasn't so bad. We had me, the chemist, and technicians for both the day and night shift stranded at work. So plenty of other people were there too, plus we got to watch The Dark Knight on a huge projection screen after work on Saturday.
I get the 25th off, back in the 26th then off the 27th. Then it's back to normal up until new years where I get new years day off and then back to normal again. Whooo retail
I'm gonna be working half days except for Christmas eve and christmas, which I'm taking off. I like being in the office around the holidays, because there's no one else there to disturb my silent zone of productivity.
I guess one time I worked about 90 hours in one week to get some stuff done. The company made Hell of money on it though. And so did I. But goddamn it sucked immensely while I was doing it.
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Not one gap in customers the whole time.
Spent the entire time hateful and wishing some death on my fellow shithead human beings
MORE!
Oh wait.
You're like some kind of fucking Trojan.
Not actually that bad when you think about it.
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Now the parents are absolutely shitting me. Won't shut up about me not getting a job. No shit I don't want a fucking job it's the fucking holidays
I worked 9 days straight, the overtime is for a 7 day period.
Moron.
I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of my impending holiday break for which I'll be getting paid.
All for five quid an hour and all the comments on the price of drinks I could take.
Yeah but you weren't working.
Though hahah that is pretty shitty.
Were there other people?
If I could turn the volume up for math involed I would.
i find the front, then go around the rack into the back of it, dont touch a thing, and it fixes itself
i dont trust this motherfucker in the least, i know as soon as i look away from it, itll crap out again
Unless you work in a chain gang or on similar levels of physical labour, I feel no pity for you at all.
I watched so many movies that I've been recording for rainy days that they've blurred into one. The League of Extraordinary Mean Girls on 34th Street: When Nature Calls."
No-one understands you, right?
No, not so much self pity as a deep sense of shame
Yeah I hear ya Wook. Here we get 20 annual leave days a year, and 7 of those they force us to take over the Christmas break.
Middle of a 30 hour stint of writing here. Heyooooo!
I don't have a job this Christmas, so I don't have to work! Which leaves me plenty of time to research my dissertation and find out that I got all the wrong books out of the library before I left uni for the holidays. It's not like I can do anything else, as I have no money and there's nothing to do in this town.
Yay Christmas!
Ok I'll bite.
Why?
Because I have made no worthwhile accomplishments in my life, have no worthwhile life experiences and am 2 years behind the curve regarding anything.
EDIT: Oh yeah and it's all my fault
Me too! Yay! I have no money yay!
Oh yeah other people were there so it wasn't so bad. We had me, the chemist, and technicians for both the day and night shift stranded at work. So plenty of other people were there too, plus we got to watch The Dark Knight on a huge projection screen after work on Saturday.
Oh that's right, you're still 18. I keep forgetting that.
so did you get in that girl's pants at that party or what