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Thesaurus posted:It's easy to gripe about working for the government, but I'm extremely cognizant of having a relatively large amount of separate pools of sick AND vacation leave that I have an entitlement to use. I remember telling someone about a former job that counted unscheduled leave on Mondays and Fridays from your vacation leave instead of your sick leave and she was astonished at the idea of paid leave. Florida sucked, that job sucked, I thought having to use paid vacay to cover paid sick leave sucked...turns out that last one was one of the few good things about Florida.
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AHH F/UGH posted:I got a $50 gift card one time from my company I got a $25 one for working at my government job for five years and they taxed me on it.
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Aug 26, 2021 06:07
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When I got hired at my new second part-time job, they just changed the official uniform right as I started working. I felt like such a dork coming in to work when everyone else could wear their company issue t-shirts or the old uniform because they didn't have to change over yet. Now we all look like members of the dork army and I feel a tiny bit better.
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Aug 26, 2021 20:20
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Trainee PornStar posted:loving Dell switches.... Username/post combo right here, folks.
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Sep 22, 2021 03:26
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I have a coworker at my second job who refused to get it because of personal freedoms or whatever, claimed some sort of religious exemption for it, and has to get a weekly swab. Congrats on your freedom to get q-tip skullfucked I guess. (At my other job, one of the last holdouts ended up getting the vaccine after witnessing one of the other last holdouts get a really bad case of COVID.)
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Nov 14, 2021 19:37
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I've worked at places (and chances are if you're posting in this thread that you've worked at these places too) where you have to come in even if you're visibly sick and a manager has to decide if you're sick enough to be sent home. At a work place where you can just call in, there's no excuse not to.
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Dec 2, 2021 19:46
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Mantle posted:What is this story? The recent tornado that ripped through Illinois went through an Amazon warehouse where the workers were specifically told not to leave even though there was a goddamn tornado and at least eight of the workers died from said goddamn tornado ripping through said goddamn Amazon warehouse. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063522811/emergency-response-continues-in-kentucky-after-deadly-tornadoes-in-south-and-mid Amazon can take their "we do so much more for our employees than just pay them $15 an hour" streaming TV advertising bullshit and shove it.
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Dec 14, 2021 05:12
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kntfkr posted:kohls is paying 17 an hour where i is Earlier this year I got a second part-time job to make ends meet. The library job in which I have a master's degree that I've trained for for most of my life pays $11 an hour, and that's after multiple raises. I took a job as a lunch lady/receptionist at one of the local college's dining halls and even after bumping base pay a $15 an hour they were still having problems filling positions. And because this is the south, everyone's blaming the shortage of workers willing to put up with corporate wage-slave bullshit as "nobody wants to work."
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Dec 14, 2021 20:07
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I made a reservation booking using the new system and forgot to include two data points. I'm not the only one who forgets these data points. I just got an email from the boss sent to all employees: since all bookings go to her for approval, she's going to immediately reject any bookings missing the data points, and if customers get mad that their bookings weren't approved, it's our fault for not adding the data. I get that she's frustrated, and that email was probably cathartic to write and send, but for someone constantly after us about professionalism and positive training, she's being a gigantic hypocrite.
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Mar 28, 2022 17:39
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Splicer posted:Would you prefer to tell shareholders about the three dead engines or advise them of the flight's exciting opportunity to progress to a multi-engine environment? Only if the shareholders are onboard said aircraft mid-flight.
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Apr 27, 2022 13:59
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I notice you've been sidestepping the lick question. Are geologists not allowed to lick rocks?
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May 21, 2022 03:51
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Both my part-time jobs are having niche problems and I'm on lunch break at one trying to troubleshoot the other and all I want to do is tell both that I've run out of fucks to give and they should just work it out amongst themselves. I also hear plenty of that "hurr durr nobody wants to work" and I say nobody wants to pay benefits and I get ignored.
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Jun 22, 2022 19:26
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I'm interviewing for a full-time job on the other side of the state. I have two part-time jobs, and my bosses at both don't want to lose me, but they also don't have the power to offer me full-time. The downside of being a local government employee, I guess.
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Jul 30, 2022 19:39
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Serious_Cyclone posted:I'm sure that's a reason why fried chicken is a large part of the culture, but I don't get why it's invoked like some huge insult. "lol they eat fried chicken and watermelon", and? You ever try fried chicken and watermelon? It's delicious. Minstrel/blackface shows had a lot to do with it too. I was raised Jewish in the south and a lot of the food stereotypes about Jews and Jewish food went right over my head as a kid. The black and poor white ones didn't. Got to college and it was quite the cultural exchange. Anyway, vaguely thread relevant: I'm glad I have jobs now that let me have Yom Kippur off no questions asked instead of trying to give me the Judaism litmus test.
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Sep 23, 2022 19:03
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McGavin posted:How does that work? Do they peek at your weiner or what? I never had a bat mitzvah because my conservative Jewish mother didn't think girls should have them, so apparently this makes me not Jewish? Or something? I also don't look Jewish or act Jewish according to previous workplace supervisors. I've also been accused of making up Yom Kippur because the only Jewish holiday people know is Hanukkah, if that.
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Sep 24, 2022 00:56
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Apparently the label scrapers I use in book mending are the perfect tool for prying up pee- or vomit-stained carpet squares. Yet another tool I have to bring from home because I don't want people using it and not returning or cleaning it. 
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Sep 29, 2022 18:24
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Public library. It happens maybe once every other month. I think somebody discovered that the sticker removal tool has just the right leverage to pry up a carpet square without having to touch it and has since shared this discovery with the rest of the team.
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Sep 29, 2022 21:45
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To be honest, the thing that I want most from a full-time job is paid time off. Even more than health insurance.
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Oct 3, 2022 17:05
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Cyrano4747 posted:Hard disagree. I totally agree. Thing is, I'm already on Medicaid and I already have a sizable amount of medical debt. Health insurance and PTO are the top two things I want from a job, but PTO is just a smidge higher on the list.
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Oct 3, 2022 17:17
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I guess today I'm the dumb poo poo doing work? I've been shared out to another department at one of my jobs. The department head position is open and they're seeking applicants, but I don't want to apply for it. Yes I need full-time work. I am stupidly overqualified for that job. It doesn't look require a degree at all, and I have two. My ideal scenario is that the assistant to the vacant position gets that position, and I get the assistant's position. The assistant and I get along great. They don't have a degree, and this is probably as high as they're going to be able to climb without one. I would much rather have the assistant position, and work one job for 40 hours a week rather than two jobs 50 hours a week. Apparently I should be putting my career first and only looking out for myself and all of that. But in my mind, if the hiring committee for this vacant position is going to Passover the assistant, who knows their stuff and has been doing the job for months now, in favor of someone completely new to the company, then the hiring committee are a bunch of idiots. 10 years ago I was the assistant in a similar scenario, and they brought in an outsider who was theoretically competent on paper but did not prove to be doing the actual job, and it sucked. This is not the same workplace that keeps borrowing the mending supplies for nefarious purposes. No, this is the prestigious workplace, and I should be thinking whichever deity that I worship every night that I was lucky enough they hired me.
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Oct 7, 2022 20:19
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Dumb poo poo your work does: Tell him you've got a beefaroni to settle with him
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Nov 5, 2022 19:52
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The head of the IT department at one of my jobs absolutely hates Macs, and most of our wireless AV equipment will not work with Macs for that reason. If someone books our meeting room space in person, we can ask them about their technology needs and we can troubleshoot at the time of booking, but if somebody books online, there's a fair chance that they will bring something that refuses to work wirelessly with our network, and because IT refuses to update the online booking form with questions about technology needs for bookings, and if it's a Mac, we don't have the cables to hardwire somebody into the system. Fortunately the presenter was pretty gracious about the whole thing.
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Nov 5, 2022 22:37
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I spent the first 2 hours of today trying to sort out a catering order I had made for mandatory workplace holiday. Fun that somehow did not get transmitted to the restaurant through their online ordering app. But I spent most of my day at work trying to complete a deadline that got shortened by a week because when people were figuring out deadlines, they accidentally used the organization wide timetable and not The department timetable, because of course we need to get our bullshit done so we can pass it on up to the next person in the chain. And late to the other job. And I will have to ask a co-worker if they can drop me off at my car that's parked on the other side of town in a parking garage where I don't hope they don't tow me.
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Dec 12, 2022 22:01
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It is deader than disco in the office yet somehow I get bugged for stuff nonstop during my 30 minute off-the-clock lunch break. Where were y'all an hour ago?
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Jan 6, 2023 18:03
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Coworkers are discussing how tasty mayonnaise and Velveeta sandwiches are.  Gonna put my other earbud in and try to enjoy my lunch.EDIT: and someone's microwaving broccoli to death. I brought my Drake fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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I have a missing mail delivery. The person who picks up our deliveries from Receiving downstairs is currently wandering around and talking to people and doing everything except his job. Can't find him. I have stuff to do, so I emailed him. Maybe I'll hear back from him tomorrow? Tonight I'll have a blackberry cider and curse the lifer and legacy employees.
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Feb 1, 2023 22:05
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All this hose talk reminds me of Fireman Bill.
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Feb 9, 2023 07:19
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Feb 21, 2023 19:20
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MrQwerty posted:Those craft scissors are expensive as hell and they are real nice, as is the heavy-rear end tape dispenser (plus it's got a new roll of ESD tape in it!), and I was always gonna take one of the safety team placards lol. Hoard those scissors. Hoard those loving scissors. I ended up buying a nice pair of titanium coated scissors and keep them in my work locker along with my x-acto knife because I was tired of people borrowing them and either returning them dirty or not returning them at all.
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Feb 24, 2023 22:01
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goatface posted:Quality mugs like that aren't meant to be used! For my 5th anniversary at one of my jobs, I got a logo mug full of candy. We were having a hard time selling the mugs to the public because they were neither microwave nor dishwasher safe. It's now a pen holder at my other job.
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Can y'all stop talking about how gross the bathrooms are in great detail right next to my desk while I'm eating lunch please?
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Apr 5, 2023 18:32
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Takes No Damage posted:Proud member of the TRC Technically Robbing Crew All caught up on everything, just shitposting and eating leftover event pizza while being ready for anything.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:05
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I've been slowly poaching friend co-workers from one workplace to come work with me at the other. They get a raise and some benefits, and also qualify as in-system candidates for bigger and better jobs with the place. Though my female coworkers like chatting with each other in the multi-stall bathroom and I just don't get it. When the stall door closes, talking is not very high on the priority list. I guess once you hit 60 or so, you just stop caring?
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May 19, 2023 18:57
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We have about 10K to spend on books before the end of the fiscal year and I raided my WorldCat wishlist for suggestions. You can buy a lot of books for 40 million. Just saying.
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May 25, 2023 20:16
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Escape From Noise posted:Nah. That's fair. I'll cut it out. Don't you dare. To quote, Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:I for one am shocked and appalled that someone on something awful would just post. I guess the dumbest poo poo my work has done of late is people trying to order after the fiscal year cutoff?
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Jun 7, 2023 00:32
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Comstar posted:I was asked in an interview for a tech support role on what was the most recent book and magazine I had read. This was back when magazine's actually existed. I get this in library interviews a lot. I've always wanted to answer, do you mean the book that I'm actually reading or the one that I'm supposed to say I'm reading in interviews?
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Jul 10, 2023 05:20
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There was a big to do a couple of years ago at a family-owned restaurant in the next town over, where the servers had to tip out to the back of house staff and one of the servers brought a civil suit against the restaurant owners, and the owners countered with evidence that the server in question had been busted for marijuana possession at some point. It was this whole big stupid thing, and the community rallied around the restaurant and its owners because how dare one of the peons question the bosses about fair labor. Only place I've ever been to that managed to screw up mac and cheese. Seriously, gently caress that place.
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Invalid Validation posted:Do they like pay them to go back home? Do they pay for relocation? There’s so many questions. Forget it, Invalid Validation, it's Singapore.
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I work for the state government. We're closed every year between Christmas and New Year's Day. Whatever days aren't on a weekend or officially made part of the state holiday, we have to use PTO to cover. I just started this year. I don't have a lot of PTO to begin with. I'm also pissed that job downtime based around a holiday I don't celebrate prevents me from working, instead of working those 32 hours and banking it for religious holidays I do observe (like, this coming Monday).
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I'm loving ecstatic that accounts payable may reject my attempt at fiscal responsibility and question my stewardship of the multi-million dollar fund entrusted to me because a loving lump sum gives them loving sticker shock. You derps rubber-stamping a series of invoices in the hundreds but questioning a singular invoice in the thousands with a discount attached to it makes me question y'all's personal budgeting skills.
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