If your boss is an S.O.B tell him to S.H.O.V.E the J.O.B - new job thrad

[nonotyet]

Comedy Sportz as a team-building exercise for your annual stupid all-staff meeting=kind of fun
improvising in a group with by turns the CEO and COO of your organization=NO SIR

[bethany_m]

Time to get a hair cut and buy some interview clothes.  Let the job hunt begin! 

[fishjim]

Yeah, bethany. Kick some job-hunting ass!

[peacocks]

Some awful buttholes drilled holes in the gas tanks of 3 out of 5 of our work trucks! One of them is the one I use in the field. They didn't even do it right there is gas and gross stuff running all down our little parking lot. My tank only had a little more than a quarter left in it!

[jebreject]

Please God let me find a job where I don't have to fire people on a semi-regular basis. Two people Friday, three today, possibly one or two tomorrow. I can't do this any more.

[fishjim]

Oh man, jeb. That sounds awful. From your post to God's ears.

[nonotyet]

guys how advisable is it to ask your coworker who is very clearly having a tantrum (because you work with adults) in your office that has nothing to do with you to stop throwing tantrums and/or to grow the fuck up

[Trousers and Pat]

well here I am back to only working 12 hours a week. Which means, for now, I'm still hanging around in boxer shorts and have to think really hard to figure out which day it is.

[Thermofusion]

I got an offer from a company in Aurora, IL. Is that somewhere I'd want to live?

[YojimboMonkey]

Depends. Did you like the Wayne's World movies?

[YojimboMonkey]

For real though, it's I guess the largest Chicago suburb and you can get downtown (or get there from downtown) relatively comfortably on the Metra. I don't get there too much but there was a decent brewpub in town (the Roundhouse, formerly Walter Payton's Roundhouse, then America's Historic Roundhouse after the Payton family pulled the rights to Sweetness' name, and now Two Brothers Roundhouse) whose brewmaster was a buddy of mine that had some financial difficulties and ended up getting bought out. So one of the better breweries in Illinois currently has a presence in Aurora. Which is pretty good. Also there's this theater there that a couple buddies of mine keep trying to get me to go to, they serve beer and food and often have events with celebrities (B-listers to be sure but tell me you wouldn't go see a Back to the Future marathon hosted by Doc Brown? Well, I didn't, but mostly because Aurora is pretty damn inconvenient for me to get to and the buddy who wanted to drag me there had to back out last minute)

[Thermofusion]

Access to Chicago is a huge plus. I'm more concerned with how my Southerner skin would cope with the average January high of 29.

Still, I'm kind of in beggars-can't-be-choosers mode, because my job hunting has been generally fruitless. Even though they're not offering me much more than what I make now, or offering any relocation assistance, I'm pretty tempted to bite just out of desperation. Also I'm gratified and surprised that they'd consider me without conducting an in-person interview (chalking this up to talking shop about the Cubs with the HR manager over the phone and having really, really awesome references)

[jebreject]

If you move to IL I will threaten to hang out with you but then probably never really do it

[RoyBiggins]

I lived in aurora for a couple months earlier this year, and it's not bad. It's, you know, not Chicago, but Chicago is SUPER accessible to it.  I'd hang out with you for sure.

[RoyBiggins]

O Hey, you also probably know this, but if not: your moving expenses will be tax-deductible if you move out here.  I can help you with that, as I am a Chicago Area tax professional. w00t.

[JamesSchneider]

High five Midwest lptjers! Despite my proximity to Chicago, I've yet to make it down. I would like to find an excuse to do so, maybe in the new year.

On the topic of this thread, I've spent the last 9 months having a constantly shifting schedule. I work as a line cook 3 nights a week on 10-12 hour shifts, then 35 or so hours doing dialectic behavioral therapy for adults with dual-diagnosis developmental disabilities and mental illness. I love the work for the most part, and while the hours are a bit much - lots of back to back shifts, unpredictable scheduling week-to-week - it seems bad form to complain about overemployment in Michigan in 2011. Anyway, as of next week, I will be starting in on a new, set in stone weekly schedule for the DBT work. This means I will have consistent, planned after-school time and meals with my fiancé and daughter 4 nights a week, up from 1-2. I am so excited I can barely stand it.

[Thermofusion]

If I take that job, I will definitely hang out with all of you. And I will track down and club blucas over the head and drag him to the hang-out spot if that's what it takes (apparently that's what it takes)

[fishjim]

High five Midwest lptjers! Despite my proximity to Chicago, I've yet to make it down. I would like to find an excuse to do so, maybe in the new year.

On the topic of this thread, I've spent the last 9 months having a constantly shifting schedule. I work as a line cook 3 nights a week on 10-12 hour shifts, then 35 or so hours doing dialectic behavioral therapy for adults with dual-diagnosis developmental disabilities and mental illness. I love the work for the most part, and while the hours are a bit much - lots of back to back shifts, unpredictable scheduling week-to-week - it seems bad form to complain about overemployment in Michigan in 2011. Anyway, as of next week, I will be starting in on a new, set in stone weekly schedule for the DBT work. This means I will have consistent, planned after-school time and meals with my fiancé and daughter 4 nights a week, up from 1-2. I am so excited I can barely stand it.

I'm so happy for you, JS. Dialectic behavioral therapy saved my life - or at least kept it kicking while I was getting my meds & livelihood back on track.

[peacocks]

just had to call 911 for my coworker who is 6 months pregnant and turned 40 yesterday 

[fishjim]

sorry to hear that, peacocks. thinking of her -

[peacocks]

she and the baby are OK but the doctors don't know what the problem is- they don't think it's anything serious. So, that's a relief.

[peacocks]

blaaah I am struggling to get 1 work done today. It took 2 months for me to get sick of being in the field and only 1 week to get sick of sitting at a desk. I can't wait for december.

I do like wearing pretty clothes, washing my hair, and not eating at 711/taco bell/subway every day.

[Em]

Yesterday we had an hour-long staff meeting, the main theme of which was that we all need to be consistent in the way we discipline our boss's out-of-control seven-month-old gigantic puppy who comes to the office and eats trash and occasionally people's lunches. Good times.

[peacocks]

oh good lord that is bizarre.

one of the old owners of my company used to bring his dog but he was really skittish and quiet. He'd come over to your desk and hang but wouldn't get into anything and if you tried to be all "hey buddy!" he'd leave. More like a cat, really.

[YojimboMonkey]

Is there, or can we discuss and develop, an etiquette for napping at work?