d4ky posted:holy moly enayeneh, are you me? we pretty much have the same life, except I don't work as a server anymore. it all really, really sucks ass tho, especially the fuckers WHO FIND ANY EXCUSE TO NOT TIP. the only useful thing I ever learned from that job is to always tip at least 18-20%, unless the service was terrible. I don't have any useful advice, except to say that fucking around with arduinos and things of that nature is a great distraction, and it's prob the only thing that will keep you from climbing a clock tower with an uzi. welp, that's my post! thanks for reading!
always tip all of the money you have ANYTHING LESS AND YOURE A N UNFORGIVABLE MONSTER
i am literally an insane person so i don't talk about this enough but i actually think of my career goals in terms of socialism. like i believe that you have to "serve the people" and i try to think of how i can contribute the most to global revolution. oh my god i feel so ridiculous saying that. but another part of me was trained to believe that only business/professional success matters. and i think a lot of young people think in similar terms but just find different bourgeois ways of coping with it - academia, NGO complex, aid work, social work, writing professionally, stuff like that. so i spend a lot of time trying to think of some way to sort of reintegrate into society but retain a radical perspective and do something worthwhile in terms of building the sort of society i'd want. and also just doing it in a healthy way so that i don't just hurt myself or something.
i sort of know what things i want to be competent in, and have some idea of how i could contribute, but i haven't been able to convince myself that there will be a concrete career built out of it, which makes the whole thing sort of feel like a leap into the dark. so instead i keep thinking in terms of studying history, like taking the things i'm interested in and focusing on their development (like, Chinese economic history), rather than like comparative socialist economics itself, which is basically nowhere in mainstream economics departments. and i would vastly prefer to be an economist, but i don't know if i can grind through all the mainstream right-wing stuff.
anyway i applied to university last week for a second degree and that's got me nervous but we'll see what happens.
but i did get high allllll the motherfuckin time and subsequently get lost as a motherfucker so maybe it all worked out in the end after all
getfiscal posted:employment sounds horrific. i usually found incredibly easy jobs to do (mostly independent office work) and i still had constant panic attacks. when i woke up today i had a long panic attack about the idea of returning to work soon. fortunately i calmed myself down and ended up reading a third of a book about toussaint l'ouverture, which is good because i haven't read much over the past year or so.
i am literally an insane person so i don't talk about this enough but i actually think of my career goals in terms of socialism. like i believe that you have to "serve the people" and i try to think of how i can contribute the most to global revolution. oh my god i feel so ridiculous saying that. but another part of me was trained to believe that only business/professional success matters. and i think a lot of young people think in similar terms but just find different bourgeois ways of coping with it - academia, NGO complex, aid work, social work, writing professionally, stuff like that. so i spend a lot of time trying to think of some way to sort of reintegrate into society but retain a radical perspective and do something worthwhile in terms of building the sort of society i'd want. and also just doing it in a healthy way so that i don't just hurt myself or something.
i sort of know what things i want to be competent in, and have some idea of how i could contribute, but i haven't been able to convince myself that there will be a concrete career built out of it, which makes the whole thing sort of feel like a leap into the dark. so instead i keep thinking in terms of studying history, like taking the things i'm interested in and focusing on their development (like, Chinese economic history), rather than like comparative socialist economics itself, which is basically nowhere in mainstream economics departments. and i would vastly prefer to be an economist, but i don't know if i can grind through all the mainstream right-wing stuff.
anyway i applied to university last week for a second degree and that's got me nervous but we'll see what happens.
thank u v much for this post and i used to think of things in the same way, and i guess, still actually do but reality has forced me onto a different course~
i wanted to just go to college forever and study everything because learning felt so amazing and i wanted genuinely improve the lives of others perhaps spread political awareness or some lame bullshit lol but then my parents were like "yo so how are you gonna pay for that college shit" and i was like damn yo my family is poor as fuck and then soemtimes i didnt have food
so now im a stupid piece of shit that smokes weed all the time, hardly (literally almost never) reads anymore, and talks like a moron b/c i dont got no brains anymore but it sure does sound funny (and feel oh so right)
discipline posted:god bless you donald, you are fighting such tough battles and they will make you stronger when you conquer them
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We noticed that you yawned three times yesterday -- I don't know what you do with your off time, but you can't be up partying all night and drinking and then show up to work tired, you need to take responsibility for your work. I don't think you were drinking because you yawned, that would be ridiculous, but I assume since you are young person that you do and that's unacceptable.
I also noticed that you've been showing up late. How late is that? Oh I'd say about one to two minutes every day or so. Really you should be showing up 15 minutes early every day -- that's what my favorite inspirational NFL coach said. I mean one to two minutes is, also, completely unacceptable. It doesn't matter if there's traffic, you should be on time on the dot or early every single day. We know this because of your punch card.
Also, I know you're a month in at this point, and it's August, but you really have asked for too much time off at this point. I know it's only three days, but we get slammed and really need you for those three days up to and at Christmas and wanting to be with your family in the Bay Area is not really going to work for us.
I also know that you were hired primarily to take on the internet-side of the business, but our owner requires that you know how to do every single job in the store before you can go on the computer. You also must be supervised at all times on the computer. I'm sorry that he has refused to train you to do anything, and grunts whenever you ask a question about how he would like it done, and then screams at you if you don't do it the specific way that he wants it (but never communicated to you in the entire time you've worked here) but that just sort of comes with the job here.
So, do you think you can make this work for us?
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So, we've noticed that you've continued to ask a lot of dumb questions. What questions are those? Well, like, for example yesterday, you asked in the last five minutes what you should do to help wrap up. You should really already know what you need to be doing. I understand that you had already done all of that, but, you know what I'm saying.
We've also noticed that you let your personal life really cut into work by talking about your life when prompted to. You also took us up on our offer to take a half day off to go visit your mother in San Diego, which we said would be okay if it took another day or two, but then totally took that back when it actually ended up being as much time as we both agreed when it started raining so hard that one of the freeways closed up and you almost got into a car accident. We also didn't like that you didn't stay in touch with us even though you were in contact with the CEO of the company who signed off on this and said that everything that was going on was okay while you were in constant communication with him. That's really the only personal life thing, but yeah, stop bleeding all over us please.
Also, we've noticed that you make some small errors sometimes. We claim that this is more-so than the rest of the team, but we have no proof of this and in fact I myself have made the same errors in front of you on multiple occasions. It's like, here's the picture: you have some leaks in the dam of your work. You put all of your fingers in the holes, but there are still a few leaks. We tell you to plug the leak, so you move your hand, but then the leaks you were covering up start to leak again. What we really need is someone with more fingers.
We were also displeased at the fact that, on multiple occasions, you failed to supervise yourself. We understand that you are not a supervisor, nor are you paid to be one, even though you have been supervising and training your replacement for months, but, regardless, you should be completely self-supervising. We, the supervisors, cannot be supervising your work constantly, we're too busy. We also didn't like that you picked up a call during work, even after you got the okay from us, and even though we field personal calls all the time without asking permission from anyone and are even in the middle of helping you. We feel that your lack of self-supervisory ability was what led to a few of the major errors in this company over this past month, such as when product left the facility without a supervisor giving it a final check-off (even though a supervisor was standing right there, and responded affirmatively to you when you asked if he had "got everything under control here?" which is really not specific enough of a question) or like the other time when a product made it all the way from assembly out the door with a major error which was the failure of at least 6 or 7 employees including the entire supervisory staff, but we primarily blame you. It doesn't matter that you were doing the job of 4 people at that time without any help or supervision (who we had before, let go, and ended up hiring a fresh crop of 4 people after this error to replace you), you needed to catch that error.
If you really want to do well at this job in the future, we suggest that you self-manage, really pull yourself up, show us that you are management material, take pride in what you do, and control your own destiny.
As a result of all this, even though we told you that your employment was secure a month ago and that we'd warn you of any potential changes to your employment status, and even encouraged you to take on a new vehicle loan and promised you a raise, we're afraid we're going to have to let you go. Do I mean fire or lay off? Oh, I mean fire. *laughs*
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AmericanNazbro posted:Impper posted:at my job i chilled so hard that i froze then they laid me off. is till dont have a job! but im fly
I think you should get a job, and also, get me a job. Also, hello impper.
Sup Bro
aerdil posted:was never a deadken fanboy for teh record, only ever an ironic impper fanboi
discount bin impper
jeffery posted:ladies and gentlemen please welcome, Dowwwwww Jooooooooones!!
Squalid posted:enanynenh you could go work in the salmon canneries or on a boat in Alaska/Canada this summer, camp on the beach w/ the other cannery workers and smoke a lot of fine BC Bud
this sounds amazing but i cant move out of kansas because moving anymore than a short drive away from my family sounds horrifying
i cant leave my momma ;_;
