God Damn Job, Now, Finally, In Its Right Forum, So Everyone Whose Brain Has Been

[hannah]

I know I have a 9-5 job starting on Monday, which should last me four weeks, and then I think I have another full-time job starting in the beginning of May, but this was after having two interviews and then getting an email today saying you don't get the job, and then another email saying oh but we do have another job for you, and then another email saying you can have it when you graduate college, and a final email being all oh shit sorry we forgot who you were but yeah you can still have the second job I guess. So I'm confused. Ah, but my mother is here and we're getting pizza!

[El_Josharino]

My boss keeps telling me to bring him some homebrew. Today he mentioned it while I was incredibly busy with a lot of crap, and I go, "Yeah, I'll bring some sometime when I remember it." And he goes, "Yeah?! I'll get you your paycheck sometime when I remember it." Next week I'm going to take him a sixer and remind him I'm overdue for a raise. If I don't get it I think I'll just drink that sixer at my desk.

[El_Josharino]

Oh also, at the end of the day today one of the dudes in my office sent an email to the top dogs that was essentially, "Hey, I dunno if you dudes have noticed, and it's been especially so this week, but Josh is pretty incredible."

So I've got that going for me. Which is nice.

[Augo]

Ahh at least one of the Aug's is getting some recognition for busting serious ass.  I'm fucking sick of my thankless, worthless piece of shit job and I expressed this frustration today by submitting three online applications to various organizations and foundations dealing with conservation and trees and great stuff like that.  Not sure if I'll get any bites as I'm degreeless and generally experienceless, but I've got my fingers crossed.

Also, while I'm engaging with you on the internet, dear brother, I acquired a cd of songs tonight that I think you will entirely dig and I will make you listen to them the next time I see you.  Just a fair warning.

[El_Josharino]

Sounds good.

[Augo]

You said it, man.

[Wally]

Back to work tomorrow. Boooo!

[diesel_powered]

15 hour day! I gotta work at 1 tomorrow! Wooo!

[Maaik]

Just got this all-employee email:

Esteemed Colleagues!

 

Someone’s leftover food has died and crossed over to the “after lunch” world!  But it needs your help in crossing over to a better place.  Could you please come, claim it and give it the proper send off it deserves, all of us here would be ever so grateful.  (I hear the dumpster out back has lots of free plots)

 

Thanks! 

ahh, office life.

[C of heartbreak]

One time my co-worker Hector and I were doing a service on a bus. Hector opened the safety compartment to check the fire extinguisher, and found a plate of Boston Market that looked like a particularly nasty science fair project.

[Maaik]

woah!  bad news!

[peacocks]

I want to quit one of my jobs.

A couple weeks ago at work I told my boss I needed to talk to her and offered to bow out of one of the days I work if she has too many people and she said "Oh nooo I want to keep you!"  Then left the store without saying anything.

I've called out of work for two weeks straight.  This week I've called my boss a few times but she never answers her phone and doesn't call me back even when I say I really need to talk to her, even when I called out an hour before my shift.  I'm going in there tomorrow to pick up my pay check and I have no idea what is going to happen.  How can a boss force you to keep your job?  I want to leave on good terms but I don't think she's going to let me.

[El_Josharino]

On Wednesday morning one of our stores called in. This store had been having problems with their internet connectivity for a few days and had a tech from their ISP on site. This internet repairman apparently couldn't figure out how to repair their internet. So they called us, the cash register tech support poeple. And dude is like, "For some reason they have 2 networks on their computer! One says "POS" and one says "Internet". I tell dude that the POS is their point of sales network, ie their register system, and that it's a purely internal network completely independant of the internet connection. Just worry about the internet one, I tell him. He says that when he plugs his computer straight into the modem it works fine, but when he plugs their computer into the modem it doesn't work. Apparently this is the extent of the troubleshooting he's trained to do. I have him check to make sure the pc's internal IP is automatically configured. Then I say, "Can you ping the router?" He says "Huh?" "Try to ping the router." "What, you mean from that command thingy?" "Yes, from the command thingy." "I type 'ping' and what?" "Ping space router address" No reply on the ping. "Type ipconfig... what does it say for IP address" He tells me the address. It's something weird that it shouldn't be. "What's the default gateway?" Again, something off the wall. Or different from the router address anyway, which is strange enough for me. Me: "What's the router address?" "192.168.2.1" "That should be the same as the default gateway. Why wouldn't it be?" "....." "You sure there aren't any devices between the pc and the router?" He's sure. "Try and do a release and renew." Pause. "Hey, it's working now!" "Good." "I don't know why that worked." "Yeah man, me neither. You're the internet expert, I'm just the cash register tech support." "Umm. yeahokaybye." Click.

Wisconsin area dudes, I do not recommend AT&T.

[Aglaya]

Just got promoted which is really great for me, and also, it turns out, for the cafe in general.  There are a lot of people who have been there forever and are terrible at their jobs and are so resentful that I got promoted over them that two of them have already quit.  So hooray, all around!

[elpollodiablo]

Hey, C! I didn't even know you'd given up sellin cars. Grats!

[Aglaya]

Oh yea, months ago I stopped that.  Turns out you genuinely cannot make a living trying to sell cars honestly.  I'm the lead at a new Barnes & Noble cafe now, which I'm enjoying a lot more than I thought I would.  Actually, I kind of love it a little.  It seems kind of silly, but this is about the happiest I've ever been in a job.

[bethany_m]

I'm doing my write up for my annual review which is Friday.  I got promoted last year and things have been kind of rough for a number of reasons since then and I'm feeling pretty lousy as I write out the last six months.  I don't think I'm going to get fired (i highly doubt that I will get fired anyway) but this isn't much fun and I'm not looking forward to the review. 

*ugh*

[El_Josharino]

So I do tech support, y'know, where people call us to fix shit. They call us on the phone, you see. And on Saturday afternoon our phone service went down, and came back up on Sunday afternoon. Nothing could come in or go out. So Sunday was pretty slow which was sweet because I was hungover. This morning phone service goes down again. We're like what the hell. We call the phone company and we're like, "hey, while you're working on this can you reroute the calls to one of the boss guys' cell phones?" and they say sure. So we're waiting for that to happen. Wait a couple hours. Still nothing coming in. Finally the phones come back up. Everything works fine for awhile. Then they finally got around to rerouting the calls. So all of a sudden we stop getting calls and bossman gets inundated with support calls. Kind of hilarious. So we call phone company again and say, "Hey, we don't need this forwarded anymore" they're like cool. And then all of a sudden nobody is getting any calls. We get curious and someone calls the support number from their cell phone. It's going to someone's personal line at some completely different company. We're like oh shit. Call phone company back and we're like, "Hey, fix this already you incompetant dickbags," and finally they do and people can reach us again.

Even though I feel a little bad for the random lady who was getting our calls for awhile, the whole thing was honestly pretty hilarious to me. Moral of the story, Qwest is a terrible provider of any service.

[The_Tourist]

jesus christ.

i've been working with no help doing the work of 2+ people for the past month and have done a damn good job.

my boss gave me a jumbled mess of contracts that she had misorganized...while fixing it i stuck the organized piles into the wrong envelopes and they went to the wrong people. people respond with "oh they got mixed up, don't worry we'll send them to each other and get them to you by monday".

bosses reaction = yelling and bitching so loud that people from down the hall come and complain. it's times like these where i wish i worked for someone who wasn't completely insane.

[ellaguru]

Well, I thought my inability to orchestrate stuff in a timely fashion was going to cost my boss a couple hundred bucks (which never looks good), but it turns out I am just unable to figure out that my deadlines aren't as soon as I thought. So that's good, in a small way.

[C of heartbreak]

Bah, I cost my employer hundreds of bucks every day.

[ellaguru]

Yeah, I have this stupid thing where I am totally cheap with, and hate wasting, other people's money. Which is even more stupid because I pretty much don't care about wasting my own - which is generally in short supply.

[FreddyKnuckles]

you should go work for the government

[C of heartbreak]

Yeah, wasting taxpayer money is so much easier and more fun, because nobody cares really.

[Andrew_TSKS]

well, but he's canadian. for all i know, the canadian government is very responsible with their money.