spelling hammer anyone?

I'm pretty sure that was intentional on Oogie's part.


But if I was you, I wouldn't be calling for the return of the spelling tools. They might just kill you.

Lol, I meant that his day sounded a lot like the spelling hammer...not that he needed to have it used on him, as I assumed it was intentional

Ah, I thought it was a 50/50 chance that's what you meant. I went with the funnier one.



But I'm also not sure anyone's given Oogie a license to use the spelling stick either.

You need a liscence?
Can it double to be used to catch fish?

Hm... okay, but only if they're bad at spelling.

*retro22 pouts...

fine then, be that way

and my job continues to suck like a black hole......I will be looking for a new job soon, hopefully securing one by next week.

Hey, good luck Aaron. Hopefully this new job will be one that will actually let you spear people.

I'm actually looking for additional employment right now, since we can barely afford to pay for daycare with a second kid, and still pay for everything else. I'm looking at joining the Air Force Reserves part time, since there's a base here in town.

Uhh... you do know there's the whole Basic training thing, then AIT which can take 3-4 months, and then they dont even have to post you back to your local base, right?

Yeah, I understand all that. My dad has a full time job with the Reserves, so I know what's involved. And unlike active duty Air Force, the Reserves actually try to assign you to the base closest to home if you're part time.

*nods* it's not a bad job if you can handle the sacrifices that go with it. When they tried to recruit me, I wasn't ready. Someday it may be a different story, we will see. In any case, good luck to you.

I'd just like to say that 10 hour shifts officially suck balls.




Great big hairy sweaty balls.




With sweat on them.




And hair.




Big ones.

Thanks for the update.

I, respectfully, disagree, (you moron.)
4 - 10 hours days rocks the sox off 5 - 8 hour days.

respectfully.

Not when
A: You're part time anyway so you already get extra days off, and
b: Those four ten hour shifts are all on Saturday nights.

*nods* for full time work id side with gelf, for part time work id side with dave...

in personal experience...

i worked an open to close shift(people kept calling in sick and leaving and shit...) which is 9am-11pm...

god, now THAT sucked....

oh, did i mention i was wicked sick....AND it was a day before my birthday?

Hairy BIG balls...


*shrugs* feel better dave

I had to work a 7am to 10pm shift at the Hellmouth once. I will agree with the sucking. And I too am still looking for something else. The STL job market sucks bigger balls than Daveage's job.

Well, it should - It's a larger market, so it has access to bigger balls...

Seriously, you should all move to Australia... Unemployment is at record lows... And I'm sure we can find a Hellmouth down here for you Oogie, just so you feel at home...

lol dave, make a HoH farternity of sorts in australia ...wow...we'd all be on an island together...

anyone else sensing a pattern?

Just to chime in on the long shifts suck contest, at the job I held before my last job, I frequently had to work long hours for no apparent reason beyond mismanagement. (I was idle during most of my actual work hours, but was required to be there; the overtime came in when it was finally possible for me to do something, and I was required to get it done by Deadline.) My record was 8 am to 4 am, and unfortunately, it wasn't a one-time occurrence.

Yeah, I reckon that would just about have made me violently psychotic...

Yeah, I'm going to side with dave on this one...

*twitch* my overly long shift senses are tingling...0.0

Guess it's nice that at my job, the most they can require you to work is 12 hours, and that almost never happens. Now, I can pull a double shift and work 16, but thas on a voluntary basis.

I dont dispute that long shifts suck (I worked 14 hours today). I just dispute that:

a. 10 hours qualifies as such
and
2. 4 - 10 hour days is not that all time best shift imaginable.

meh, worked an 8 hour shift today when it was sposed to just be a quickie of 4 hours ...idk how that happened :-p...ah well, wasnt too bad.

OMF-ingG, I'm going to get fired! For the first time in my life, I have a job which I apparently cannot perform satisfactorily! It isn't that I don't work hard. I work my ass off, and do all the bitch-work 'cause it has to get done, and no one else will do it. But apparently I'm not cheerful and ass-kissy enough, because the customers seem to hate me! Even though I exceed expectations isn all other aspects of my job (I take on more responsibilities, I statistically make the fewest mistakes, and my cash drawr always in balance), the aspect considered most important by the management is customer "mystery shops," wherin certain select customers fill out review forms about their banking experience. Almost all of my customer reviews have been negative since I started this job. Apparently I seem akward and unconfident, I don't make enough eye-contact, I'm quiet, and I don't make a "positive statement." I actually got a written warning about it yesterday, and if I don't improve I'm going to get fired. Never mind that they'd all be burried in paperwork and tiny menial chores without me. Screw 'em all. I'm already putting in applications elsewhere.

[/rant]

Sounds like a good idea. You might find a job that's more to your liking, or at least less on the stupid side.

Personally, I don't know why anybody in management would possibly think "Be more confident or you'll get fired" is an ultimatum with any positive outcome.

Seriously. The threat of termination is a huge boost to my confidence! It also doesn't help that there's been a rash of robberies in my town. Two of my younger sisters work at the same bank as me (different branches), and one of them was robbed not long ago. The bank blows. RAWR! *flail*

Uhm, I think we should keep you away from any sharp, or explosive, objects.

Aww... Can I still play with regular fire and flamables? So long as they aren't explosive?

Sure, that's always acceptable around here. Come to think of it, we've gone an unusually long time without something burning down lately...

*Slovman burns down Chaomancer's house.

*GelfOgre roasts a marshmallow... but is too full to eat it so offers it around.

Dang, I missed all the fun! o_o; Ah, well...


*Marzarelo fidgets with her zippo.

@Slovman - HOLY SH*T! Your avatar does move! I thought I was hallucinating! XD

Some jerkoff bureaucrat in MD has decided because the building I work in will still be physically open, then us contractors have to come to work on December 26th and January 20th even though there has been a PRESIDENTIAL proclamation declaring the federal govt. closed those days and there will be no civil servants here.


Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!! MUST. DESTROY. SOMETHING!!!!

That is just plain stupid. Someone needs to hand that jerkoff bureaucrat a note stating that it would be both simpler and cheaper to just close the building.

I not only have to work on Christmas, but because both our director and secondary director have the day off, I have to direct the four hour morning show and the noon show by myself, despite only have the minimal of training (I've literally only done two noon shows previously, and both times had somebody else helping me).

Are you directing or TD? or both? I've done both, and that sux beyond the telling.

Just directing. And I honestly don't feel prepared for it. But, I guess it's time to cowboy up and just do the show.

Our usual TD actually has to TD and direct every Saturday morning, and the prospect of covering his shift scares the hell out of me.

Ohkay, now generally I really like my job, but this incident goes here. Last Friday I get in a scuffle with an inmate, and only get a scraped knuckle. Tonight, we get into another scuffle with another inmate and I don't get hurt at all. Here's the kicker now. About an hour after the fight tonight, I'm doing a round in my Activities Dept. and while shutting the porter closet door I get my finger shut in the door. The outcome? I break the tip of my left index finger in two spots and am now possibly off work for the next 6 weeks. Way to go me!!

Hey, watch out for those doors man, they're crazzzzzzy.

BWWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Insane prisoner? No problem...

Enraged inmate? Easy enough...

Fork Guy? Disturbing, but OK...

Door? RUN FOR THE HILLS!

Sorry, man, I don't mean to take the piss... Well, actually I do... This has me in stitches! (Mostly because you're not seriously hurt, excepting what you did to yourself)

Thanks HP. I needed that laugh...

What Dave said, oh man, ya oughtta come to Hays for awhile then.

Man that sucks. While it is ironic, i hope you heal quickly man.

I've said for a long time my job's the worst of all. I may have proof to back that up now.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?...199&catid=3

Two things. First, they don't even get the name of the business right. Second, read the comments below the story. They're great.

Wow. That's rather scary... glad you're all right, and yes, that's definite evidence in the "terrible job" department.

To be honest, I think people often underrate the importance of elements of the job that don't necessarily have anything to do with the job itself. It sounds, from the comments, like this is not an unexpected thing in that area. Even if the job weren't bad, being in a bad area would make it worse than it would otherwise be. Added in that you don't like your job, and it starts looking like a bad situation all around.

I can definitely empathize; one of the things I disliked about my most recent job was the fact that it was located within a couple blocks of two different drug rehab centers (of the "open door no-we-don't-actually-check-to-see-they-don't-have-drugs variety"), an "alternative" school (for juvenile delinquents), the city bus station and the Greyhound bus station (so there was a large number of vagrants moving through the neighborhood at any given time). While nobody bothered me beyond the occasional "can you spare a dime?", it's hard to not be wary when dealing with people who have fried their brains, as their actions are unpredictable; further, I did not want to leave my car where I couldn't see it, as vandalism and theft were not uncommon there.

While I'm still struggling to find new work and make ends meet, I'm glad to be out of there. Hopefully you and I both can find better work in better locations soon.

Just learned the hard way that no matter how much your job sucks, don't leave it until the ink is dry on the paperwork for the next one.

When I left my former employers, I thought I'd be out of work briefly at worst. I had promising leads, jobs that I was on the fast track to getting. They all dried up. They went with someone else, or in some cases, decided they couldn't afford to hire anybody after all. You'd think they'd check their budget first, but while that was the first time I've ever had that happen, it wasn't the last; it's happened a few times since as well.

I've been out of work since late April of 2008. If pressed, I could have stayed on longer at that job. I would have hated it, but being unemployed -- at least by the common sense definition if not by the jackassed way unemployment figures are officially calculated -- is not really pleasant either. Even if I wound up getting laid off from there a few months later, which seems highly likely given the way that company was going and seems to have gone, I would at least have been collecting unemployment checks for some of the time afterward. As it is, my income since I left there 16 months ago has consisted solely of my meager tax returns, raiding what little I had in my retirement account, and sales on eBay. I haven't found work. I haven't even gotten a commission job for a one-and-done website or anything like that.

I have been unable to make my car payments since this past May. And today they took the car. No final notice. No notification of intent to repossess. Apparently they don't need that in Oregon, or at least they think they don't, and I can't seem to find clear evidence either way. I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I had more time.

Even if I were to get a job right now, tomorrow, I probably can't get it back. The chances of getting enough money to pay off the late payments and the cost of repossession before they sell it are probably pretty slim. And that's if they'll even accept it. It's hard to determine just what the laws in Oregon regarding repossession are from an internet search, but there's some suggestion that they may not have to return the car unless I pay off the debt in full -- i.e., the entire value of the loan -- before they sell it. And of course, once they sell it, I'll be liable for any amount of the loan that remains after they apply the sale price to their repo costs and the debt. So when I do finally get a job, I'll have a garnishment, and my credit will be utterly trashed.

On a side note, while I acknowledge this is all essentially my own fault, I do find it galling to have to let Chase have the car. Yes, these were my actions that led to this, and these are the consequences of my actions. But it's difficult to swallow when those consequences are meted out by a company who begged off the consequences for their actions. JP Morgan Chase is one of the many companies whose ineptitude led them to the brink of disaster, requiring a government bailout because they were "too big to fail." And of course their first action upon receiving the bailout was to get bigger by buying "WaMu". In a just world, a company which survived on the good grace of the government which show some grace to the common people. But as most kids learn at an early age, this isn't a just world, and so there's been no leniency in their policies -- nor, for that matter, has there been an adequate degree of civility in their communications with me. Make no mistake, even if I had been able to prevent losing my car, I would consider Chase's involvement in any future loans a deal-breaker.

But that's all beside the point right now. Right now, I'm feeling pretty much sunk. I've lost my car, and will have to borrow one of my father's until I'm able to acquire another one (fortunately, I can do this, but I hate to; it means he'll only have the truck to drive while I'm borrowing it.) I have only a few job applications out, and two of them are minimum wage -- which after the probable garnishment isn't likely to be enough to do anything with. Truthfully, right now I don't even know just how I'm going to pay for my web hosting in a week, though I'm reasonably sure I can figure out something by then.

I guess right now the plan is to just keep trying to find some kind of work. I hate to write the car off as lost, but right now, it doesn't seem like there's any part of that which is in my hands. When I get a job and a paycheck or two, I'll probably by some cheap clunker just so I have a vehicle of my own while I work on slowly getting the garnishment, however much it winds up being, paid off. And work on saving up enough for another new car. Without credit. It won't be easy saving up $25,000 or however much in cash, but my credit at that point won't be good enough to secure any sort of car loan, and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to. I've always hated -- not just disliked, but actively hated -- ceding control of even a small aspect of my life over to any person or group of people that don't have any interest in my well-being, and that describes every credit agency in existence. So at least for now, I've no intention of using them. I've never had a credit card, and I don't particularly feel inclined to. I have a line of credit at my current credit union (I do prefer those to regular banks), and I'll admit it's tapped out right now (it's just big enough for one monthly car payment, you see). But I'll be working on paying that off as soon as I can, and then not touching it again. (And for that matter, changing credit unions as soon as that's done; the current one has pissed me off sorely more than once in the past few years, and unlike the car situation, it's not over anything I can say is my fault.) No more car loans. Had two, this is the second. First one was for a used car. Didn't have any problems with that loan, but... like I said, I just don't like ceding control. It may be hard to save up enough money to pay for a car in full, but it's not as hard as giving up the car. About the only thing I can see myself voluntarily buying on credit is a house. Anything less just doesn't have a good enough risk-to-reward scenario, that I can see.

And next time I find a job intolerable, I'll make sure I have another one before I leave.

Needless to say, but that really sucks, man. Sorry to hear the ghouls finally got you.

And I remain absolutely flabbergasted that you've been unemployed so long. I know the economy is bad, but it's hard to believe an experienced programmer couldn't get on somewhere. I just wish I was independently wealthy and could afford to pay you to tend to the Halls.

As for quitting your old job before you had a new one...it's really hard to say if that was a "bad" move. Certainly not a "good" one with all that's transpired since, but you really did hate it, and there's very little worth staying in a situation like that.

I was ready to quit my job during the winter, and I doubt I could have held out much longer had our asshole store director not been transferred out and our current one come in. And as someone without a degree or a trade, I would have been in an even shittier position than you. I just got lucky that the change in power came when it did.

Loans...I've never had one aside from my brothers. I don't like the sensation of owing anymore than you do. Of course, that means I have absolutely no credit, which seems to actually be worse than bad credit in some cases.