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Dex posted:Yeah hmm it's almost like benny's the kind of weirdo broken child who would try to take his parents to court over comic books or something. This laundry list of inadequacies is the exactly why I suggested Benny may be better off just filing for disability. No matter how simple or repetitive a boring, easy job might seem to the average person, for Benny it will always hypothetically be that shopping carpark full to capacity with buggies flyinng everywhere. That Damn Satyr fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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vxskud posted:I have trouble believing you can't get even a little work through a temp agency, I've worked for several over the years and most of the time they had a place for me within a few days at most. This has not been my experience or the experience of others I know who have tried to temp.
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BrainParasite posted:This has not been my experience or the experience of others I know who have tried to temp. It must be very location-dependent. Where is Benny located?
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Starter Wiggin posted:As the one year anniversary approaches, I thought I'd take stock of what I've accomplished since Benny's has begun his journey. In the last year I have completed my AmeriCorps term of service, applied to countless jobs, been offered 7, accepted 1 and am moving states this week for my new job. Yeah, it's weird to think about. In this last year, I moved, quit my old job, got a new job, got a raise at the new job, and got married to boot.
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Lol goons will use any loving chance they get to talk about their lovely lives and the mundane things they accomplish in them.
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Minimalist Program posted:Lol goons will use any loving chance they get to talk about their lovely lives and the mundane things they accomplish in them. I stayed at my job and got a green card. Three citizenships, coming up.
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Mellophant posted:It seems like you're sabotaging yourself on purpose by this point. Oh yeah right, like Benny could do anything on purpose. I think this thread is a testament to his inability to succeed in the most basic of fashion. Benny - that's the ticket! Stop trying to be successful, and start intending to fail. With your uncanny ability to gently caress up whatever you set out to accomplish you should fail out of attempted unemployment and into a Fortune 500 CEO position in about a week.
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Minimalist Program posted:Lol goons will use any loving chance they get to talk about their lovely lives and the mundane things they accomplish in them. 'finally a chance to make this thread about me' - every goon in every thread
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That drat Satyr posted:This landry list of inadequacies is the exactly why I suggested Benny may be better off just filing for disability. No matter how simple or repetitive it might seem to the average person, for Benny it will always hypothetically be that shopping carpark full to capacity with buggies flyinng everywhere. Benny is not going to be getting disability in the US for being a dipshit.
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Minimalist Program posted:Lol goons will use any loving chance they get to talk about their lovely lives and the mundane things they accomplish in them. It is kinda mean spirited.
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Wangsbig posted:'finally a chance to make this thread about me' - every goon in every thread Well I don't know about you but I'm not like this at all
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:Benny update? Benny the Snake fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Benny the Snake posted:I called every company on my 20 list and about a fourth have actual positions open. I have no idea what this sentence means.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I have no idea what this sentence means. "I called 20 companies on a list I made, and .25 of them had positions open" I think? Why is it only a list of 20, I don't know.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I have no idea what this sentence means. He's called 20 companies and 5 of them have positions available. I mean, it's Benny-esque, but I didn't think it was that un-parseable  nerve posted:I think? Why is it only a list of 20, I don't know. Because that's the bare minimum required to get unemployment benefits.
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I shouldn't have to put any effort into parsing it, he's supposed to be a loving writer.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I shouldn't have to put any effort into parsing it shouldn't, and yet Benny the Snake posted:Wouldn't I have to of majored in business for that?
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Jan 31, 2014 01:05
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He still hasn't told me what kind of comic books we're talking about here.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I shouldn't have to put any effort into parsing it, he's supposed to be a loving writer. Seemed perfectly clear to me; a loving fraction is effort? Would him describing it a one quarter have helped you enter it into a calculator and yield the correct answer of 5? Should he have described it as 25% instead? It seems absurdly nit-picky to me, unless he's writing this for grade school children. Edit: I read it again and realized my brain autocorrected half of the unparseable bits. 20 list? Benny, what the gently caress dude. Do you read or think about what you write? Blitter fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Blitter posted:Seemed perfectly clear to me; a loving fraction is effort? Would him describing it a one quarter have helped you enter it into a calculator and yield the correct answer of 5? Should he have described it as 25% instead? The running punchline here is he claims to be an English major yet routinely makes atrocious grammatical errors.
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Blitter posted:Do you read or think about what you write? There's only so many times I can quote "have to of", and yet it's always relevant. But it's okay, because it's online writing, so the answer to that question is "no".
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Keep trying Benny, you're doing what you're supposed to.
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we need a chart of jOBS APPLIED OVER TIME because this is getting unfuckingreal
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Benny really does live in the armpit of California, though. The only way it could be worse is if he lived in Bakersfield or Riverside.
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Blitter posted:Edit: I read it again and realized my brain autocorrected half of the unparseable bits. 20 list? Benny, what the gently caress dude. Do you read or think about what you write? Exactly. Also a strange choice to use numerals for twenty but type out 1/4 in the same sentence.
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natetimm posted:Benny really does live in the armpit of California, though. The only way it could be worse is if he lived in Bakersfield or Riverside. Doesn't he live up near the Pomona area? Calling that the "armpit" of CA is a stretch.
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Benny, is your mom letting you keep your comic books in the house?
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WampaLord posted:Doesn't he live up near the Pomona area? Calling that the "armpit" of CA is a stretch. California's pretty big, there's a lot of armpit if you don't have a car and don't live in in the area that has proper mass transit. I don't actually know where Benny lives, but I do recall him saying it was pretty backwater.
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Ursine Asylum posted:California's pretty big, there's a lot of armpit if you don't have a car and don't live in in the area that has proper mass transit. He lives pretty close to LA, it's not nearly as backwater as he's making it out to be. E: VVV I could have sworn he mentioned leaving near the Pasadena/Pomona area, but gently caress me if I'm searching through 88 pages, I got work to do.
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I thought he went to Chico state. North of Sacramento and south of Redding.
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He lives in Chino and went to Cal Poly Pomona
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nerve posted:He lives in Chino and went to Cal Poly Pomona This is correct. I've helped him look for job listings on Monster, and that's the area. Not to encroach on Benny's privacy, but he's talked with me about the comics he enjoys. He's mentioned liking Scott Snyder and Brian K. Vaughan, particularly his comic "Saga" - and he gave me this link to get me to check it out: http://io9.com/10-reasons-you-should-be-reading-brian-k-vaughan-s-sag-756300575 So... they're comics, but in my opinion not really something great enough to write home about, unless there's something I've completely missed.
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nerve posted:He lives in Chino and went to Cal Poly Pomona Hah! I was right after all. Well, close enough at least. I'm sure Chino sucks, but calling it backwater and "the armpit of CA" is going way too far. The kid's an hour away from Los Angeles proper, he has tons of loving opportunities if he would learn to drive and get a car. I just plugged it into Google Maps. From Chino to the Staples Center (heart of downtown LA) is literally a one hour drive, and that's including LA's traffic. Don't blame his location on his lack of options, he has tons. WampaLord fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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That drat Satyr posted:This is correct. I've helped him look for job listings on Monster, and that's the area. Saga is legit awesome and easily Brian K. Vaughan's best work (Pride of Baghdad, Y The Last Man). Liking Saga has absolutely nothing to do with being Benny. Saga is a brilliantly fun and exciting story about two aliens in a terrifyingly dangerous world wracked by genocidal civil war whose most daunting task is raising a baby.
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Hell, he could stand by the loving Home Depot, practice his Spanish and maybe get some day laborer work. His English might be awful, but he's obviously, based on just his writing and posting, ESL. Of course, he'll have to make sure he doesn't hit the foreman's car with a wheelbarrow.
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kizudarake posted:His English might be awful, but he's obviously, based on just his writing and posting, ESL. I have no idea where you got that from.
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kizudarake posted:Hell, he could stand by the loving Home Depot, practice his Spanish and maybe get some day laborer work. His English might be awful, but he's obviously, based on just his writing and posting, ESL. He's not fluent in Spanish, he said so earlier. English is his first language, he's just not very bright. Some people just aren't! I think this thread would be a lot shorter if goons could accept that.
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A whole year and the only things that have transpired on the job front are the boss's wife getting whacked in the head with a pan and a car getting hit by a shopping cart.
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kizudarake posted:Hell, he could stand by the loving Home Depot, practice his Spanish and maybe get some day laborer work. His English might be awful, but he's obviously, based on just his writing and posting, ESL. lol if you think Benny can handle any sort of physical labor.
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