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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:07 pm 
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I guess thats a key then, no overhead..go to the client, i take it?


I believe that's known as an "outcall".

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:15 am 

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On paper I should be happy. I have a full time job with benefits. They pay isn't great, especially not for NYC, but I scrape by. On a good day I can be okay with it.

Other days I get so frustrated I'm prone to fits of rage and can't shake the sense that I'm throwing my life away. Even if I could have gotten back into grad school, the pay in academia is even shittier and the jobs even more scarce.

I told my parents that every day I spent in the office made me more of a socialist. It's funny 'cause it's true.


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:54 pm 

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I love my job. I sit on a train all day and go back and forth. I sit and sleep a lot and get paid to do it. The one thing I hate is how the RR thinks how things should be run and they go and do the opposite and royally fuck things up. Most of the (upper) management haven't a clue what's going on the ground.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:06 pm 

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Real bummer at work for me.

Someone wrote on the bathroom wall, above the urinals "the bouncers here blow each other."

I do a lot of odd jobs at the bar for extra money, besides cooking full time. I do sound for the club occasionally, work the door, check ID's, work the back door checking stamps, and I also managed to get some straight up bouncing shifts.

So at the end of the night, after carrying drunk hipsters who pass out in the bathroom, laid out on the sink with one foot in the urinal after getting bombed at an 80's dance party, I'm waiting around with the other bouncers to get paid out.

I didn't want to mention anyway, wanted to be kind of subtle about it, and not too forward, so I whip my dick out, expecting blowjobs. Naturally I'd reciprocate. All the other dudes just start looking at me kind of funny, like "wtf not cool dude". Needless to say, no blowjobs were given or received. The writing on the wall turned out to be full of lies, and I haven't gotten any bouncing shifts since.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:06 pm 

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Love my job. The pay is great, benefits, & it's easy. The only downfall, is it's shift work.


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:09 pm 

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Got a rare call from my boss at home tonight after working all day. Mentioned something about this project we're working on needing to be done sooner than expected. So what the fuck, I turned around and came back to work and will still get here early tomorrow. I know that almost all of this will come to absolutely nothing. At least it's pay day.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:13 pm 
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FUCK MY JOB.

Everyday I wake up at 5:15 to go to that fucking place to see motherfuckers I don't like and do shit I don't care about. And, I guess while I am at it, fuck myself for being addicted to the paycheck and the moderate comforts it allows me.

God damn I wish the studio never closed.


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:56 pm 

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HA! Just emailed my boss all the work I've done tonight for a supposedly important 10AM meeting tomorrow morning. He just wrote back to say the meeting is now tentative and probably won't happen. MINT!

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:38 pm 

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After today's"Holiday Party" I realized it could be a hell of a lot worse. I really should be happy with it, even if it isn't what I wanted.....


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:36 am 

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willb wrote:
Love my job. The pay is great, benefits, & it's easy. The only downfall, is it's shift work.

Im in the same fuckin boat. I really worked hard to get where I am and pretty much enjoy what I do. Im just tired of working weekends, nights and holidays.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:46 am 

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bass sic wrote:
willb wrote:
Love my job. The pay is great, benefits, & it's easy. The only downfall, is it's shift work.

Im in the same fuckin boat. I really worked hard to get where I am and pretty much enjoy what I do. Im just tired of working weekends, nights and holidays.

thats my life ..weekends and holidays..i dont mind nights..just leave my weekends and holidays alone..

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:59 am 
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HA! Just emailed my boss all the work I've done tonight for a supposedly important 10AM meeting tomorrow morning. He just wrote back to say the meeting is now tentative and probably won't happen. MINT!


so typical. that fucking sucks.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:31 am 

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And I'm back at my desk after a few hours sleep. Still not complaining. It's payday and there's a killer rock show tonight.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:06 am 

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I got called in early. My boss tried to call me like 10 times yesterday. Being my day off, I had the phone ringer off. He finally called me at 9AM this morning, I was planning on coming in early to do some work for a catering/party I have tomorrow, but apparently the kid working Thursday, who also works Friday mornings, flipped the fuck out yesterday, for about the fifth time, so hopefully he's all done. The bad side of that is that I have to go in even earlier now.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:55 pm 
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Extremely pissy right now. I have a shit ton to do and i get constant interruptions from people yelling around me, people asking questions, the phone constantly ringing and constructions noises from the conference room (it's right next to me)... It's only 10 am and i'm already ready to snap...

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:38 pm 

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i love my job but im not allowed to fire this dude who HR told me to fire almost a year ago. that makes life hell sometimes.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:23 pm 

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I like the job I was hired to do. The hours are kind of fucked sometimes. In theory it's 9-5 M-F. It's common that load in/set up times can be jacked. for instance yesterday's gig couldnt be loaded in or set up the day before because the hotel had the room booked for a holiday dinner and party. This meant we had to do it at 4 am and then put in 14hrs. I get to be involved with some cool stuff. Sometimes not so much. Mind numbingly dull in fact. Those dull ones are tough if I have to run on minimal sleep.


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:14 pm 

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I just got a new boss recently. The first day we spoke and he told me he doesn't micro-manage. I kind of laughed when he said it because ever since that's all the fucker does. I now just agree with what he has to say and they i do everything he ask my own way.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:07 pm 

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Pretty much struggling with the fact that I'm officially an unofficial "manager" at work. I've been there longer than anyone except the people who have been there for a long, long time (I think there are two of them left, and they each work two days a week), and now even people who technically don't do the same job as me or anything come up to me and ask them what they should be doing. I realize now that some people constantly need to be told what to do, and it's now part of my job to tell them.

Not exactly happy about this situation, I prefer the imaginary fry and grill cooks who work under me, who I talk to, but actually who only exist in my head.

There's a wheel guy who reads the ticket board for me also. He is also not really there and a product of my imagination. I get lonely.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:48 pm 
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For 22 1/2 years I loved my job. It had it's moments of idiocy, boredom, etc, but i got to jump out of perfectly good aircraft while in flight, sleep in the woods, shoot guns and blow shit up. A boy's fantasy come true.
Ultimately, it fucked me up body, mind , and soul, so that all I can do is self-medicate, and thrash loud, evil music on the drums, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:54 pm 
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For the last 10 years I've travelled the world, drunk free piss and met some hot chicks, all in the name of banking.

My new boss is an absolute cock who knows nothing and all of my time is spent educating him.

Time to move on.


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:00 am 
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For the last 10 years I've travelled the world, drunk free piss and met some hot chicks, all in the name of banking.

My new boss is an absolute cock who knows nothing and all of my time is spent educating him.

Time to move on.


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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
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 Post subject: Re: Bitching about work
PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:47 am 
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my boss is a really nice woman, but she's definitely an airhead. we recently got new printers/scanners at work, it was a big deal cuz it totally changed how we print stuff out and whatnot. then there was a problem with things being printed double-sided, people were overlooking the second side because they weren't used to it and multiple documents were being printed on the same sheet of paper, so my boss told us all to switch to single-sided printing, to avoid all of these problems. yesterday she was in a meeting with her boss and she sent out an email asking us WHY WE PRINT THINGS SINGLE-SIDED. i sat and stared at the email for a few minutes just to make sure i was reading it correctly. this type of thing happens a lot.

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