^^^^ 45K - 55K entry level with a masters

3/18/2008 2:08:01 PM

you have to get a masters to make 50 thou?

that can't be right...you can make 50 thou less than 12 months out of high school

3/18/2008 2:09:46 PM

i was having a really shitty day at work

but this video made me happy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PpzkHhgcZG4

3/18/2008 2:33:11 PM

Quote :

"How did you know he was like Milton before he started working there?"

through the grapevine, and he stopped by to visit a couple of times before he actually started. it was weird.

3/18/2008 2:40:21 PM

omg blah spotting!

3/18/2008 2:55:45 PM

The Xerox color laser printer in my office. Prints beautiful output, but damn if it isn't the most finicky piece of printing equipment I've ever worked with. Jams instantly if you don't use the right paper (it likes 24#), jams frequently even with the correct paper, occasionally pops up a "service error" and won't print at all unless it's power cycled, takes about 200 years to warm up...sigh.

Print quality is too nice to get rid of it though. :-/

3/18/2008 3:27:29 PM

milton shuffling his feet as he walks around

milton moving his corvette up to the front visitor parking after about 4pm so he can look at it

3/18/2008 4:32:41 PM

jabba the hut looking into my cube.... what are you looking at?

3/18/2008 4:58:44 PM

Dinner?

3/18/2008 5:05:55 PM

sometimes i get annoyed if theres a lot of hot women around cause i want to do them

3/18/2008 5:06:45 PM

Quote :

"Twelve pages of this sad shit. Most of it be shit you wouldn't even have to be putting up with if you had the guts to say something to the people bothering you. "

Being politically incorrect is professional suicide in lots of workplaces.

God forbid someone misconstrue a complaint as political incorrectness.

3/18/2008 5:13:09 PM

If you're so intimidated by that kind of nonsense that you'd give up the simple pleasure of being satisfied with your work environment, you don't deserve to complain in the first place.

3/18/2008 5:19:11 PM

here's a not very interesting story. but its funny if you work somewhere thats anal about procedural crap.

Quote :

"3. boss/owner insisting you do things a certain way even when your way is more efficient and less time consuming"

the other day, i overheard one of my newer coworkers getting whined at by his supervisor for not following paperwork procedure. apparantly the sup had been going back looking over the recent info logs -- and dude had been consistently leaving one section blank.

so the boss is basically bitching because of some technicality thats really just a waste of time. i mean i do it, because if they wanna pay me to waste time then i don't care. (plus, if i ever have an idea or want to do something outside of protocol, i ask what they think before i do it.)

so the supervisor said something about him not filling out that part on the log. the coworker looks back at him and says "it'll be ok, it's implied". i was sure dude was gonna get the ole "come with me to my office" treatment.. but the sup just walked away. didn't even tell him to do it right the next time. totally accepted his response and left.

it wasn't annoying. it was the opposite, actually. "it'll be ok" pretty much translates to "why are you bothering me with this stupid bullshit? there's a reason i didn't do it to begin with". and i found that to be pretty funny.

i like being positive

3/18/2008 6:02:11 PM

please do not vaccum my office while i am working in it.....it will be ok if you skip a day

3/18/2008 6:20:23 PM

does not having a workplace count?

3/18/2008 6:26:12 PM

engineers are the most anal people in the world.

caller: "can i display the items in the configuration application 1, 3, 2 instead of 1, 2, 3 the way they're automatically propagated by the builder gui thingie?"
me: "why?"
caller: "b/c i want to"
me: "it's not visible to any end user, and automatically parsed into that order by the builder, what does it matter"
caller: "IT MATTERS TO ME "

3/19/2008 7:59:39 AM

Haha. I had one call like that. The guy was doing something to make his portal crash, but it only occurred when he purposely entered something invalid into a specific field which only the developers could access.

3/19/2008 8:46:05 AM

people who ask the same damn questions every fucking week about the same shit and NEVER think to

LOOK A FUCKING THING UP

damn people there is a reason we have a search function, a shared contact list, and GOOGLE

for gods sake use your brain

3/20/2008 12:33:01 PM

The new receptionist here:
Her accent. It's SOOOOOOOOOO southern-ish. It really does sound theatrical and fake. I can't tell yet

Her voice. She pretty much yells ALL the time. She has no concept of volume control.

3/26/2008 4:26:31 PM

milton: "how do you spell discrepancy?"

person 1: "d....i....s...c....uhhhh....ummmm...."
person 2: "w...w...w...dot...g...o...o..g..l..e...dot com"
laffs

milton: "well give me something to start with so i can spellcheck it"

person 1: "yeah that should have been enough..."
laffs

people are dumb

3/26/2008 4:31:21 PM

Those 'while you were out' message pads?


I know we have some. There's a message up here dated today, that didn't get handed to the recipient

But...

It's nowhere to be found.

3/26/2008 5:27:33 PM

i tell a coworker a story or something about some news bit i heard, and i'll say "i was reading on cnn.com that (new facts)..."

later on, that same coworker will tell others that same story without citing sources

sometimes, even gives the same story back to me like he found it himself

we're not scholars here or anything so he's not gonna fail "work 101", but for real- who does this?

i think it's more humorous than annoying

4/11/2008 9:09:41 AM

I'm doing online data review of a drug study and the head of my department (I refer to her as Cunt Face) will come storming into my office with a grin on her face and RUN next to me behind my desk like she's trying to catch me not doing work and is like "HOW'S THE REVIEW GOING!?!??!" and then stands there for like 3 minutes then leaves...SO fucking annoying. I've been in the process of trying to throw her under the bus for months now...It will happen one day though I've been compiling information...

4/11/2008 9:25:20 AM

Oh man I give this thread a 10/10!!!!

I'm the admin/receptionist at my job, so I get to see a lot of stupid people!

My quirks are:

*People that don't close the doors when going to the supply closet
*People that can't take the extra 2 seconds it takes to place someone's printout INSIDE their mailbox instead of putting it on the table in front of the mailboxes.
*Talking to your child about her piano lessons and grades while on speaker phone!!! CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE ugh
*Forgetting your key fob and making ME have to come and open the door for you.
*Being a lazy ass and not walking to my desk to put your name on the list for Lunch n Learn so you send an email out asking if I can do it for you when you just left 2 minutes ago to take a smoke break!
*People that complain about the free lunch the get every Friday. Go buy your own damn shit if you don't want what I order!
*Taking the long trip to my desk to have me put 2 things in an envelope when you could have done it in the time it took you to walk to my desk!


Oh man there's so much!!! I'm gonna go back to reading more of this thread though!!!

GG synapse

4/11/2008 9:40:36 AM

Quote :

"calling a coworker by their secret nick name"

That reminds me...
At my last job we had this guy who was so far out in left field that he was a little scary. Imagine you're asking how to set up failover on Intel network adapters and a 50 year old dude segways from that into a tirade about how he is arming himself because he is afraid of the US Government. One day someone nicknamed him "The Jackal" and it stuck as a term we used in our circle.

We drew up some bitmaps in MSPaint of bloody knives or corpses with the words "The Jackal" written on top. It was just one of those stupid inside jokes that really aren't funny to anyone except the people involved, but we thought it was hilarious. It was all good because that dude would see the drawings, but he had no idea he was The Jackal. One day he walked up while we were chatting and one of the n00bs said "The Jackallllllllll" like it was a friendly term. Talk about awkward.

[Edited on April 11, 2008 at 9:52 AM. Reason : s]

4/11/2008 9:51:08 AM

Other things loud ass Cunt Face has said that I hear (she's one of the speakerphone people, but she's already loud so it's double bad)

*"That's like me and my husband, we use TWO methods of contraception *cackle cackle*" (I'm like, yeah I'm sure it's him telling you he's either tired or has a headache and please don't make him fuck your fat rolls again)

*"Rachel (her high school aged daughter) got her PERIOD HAHAHAH!!"

*"JEFFREY (her middle school aged son) has SOOOO many girlfriends he just can't decide on one!" (that's because he's going to be gay when he grows up, I've seen him, I know this)

Then she'll yell at her kids because they got B's in honors classes and apparently "that won't cut it" and yells on her daughters voicemail that she should answer the phone and to immediately call her back because she hasn't heard from her in 30 min. She's so overbearing on these damn kids - her daughters gonna get to college and get gang banged within the first week and her son's gonna grow up to be a drag queen.

Then this other chick who's technically my boss is always throwing out there that her family spends $400 a week on groceries for her, her husband and 2 sons. I'm like "what the FUCK are you people eating?"

4/11/2008 10:24:34 AM

Call up a buddy on speakerphone and start loudly talking about this high school chick named Rachel that you bwned.

4/11/2008 10:56:10 AM

And talk about how you didn't use a condom because she hadn't gotten her period

4/11/2008 11:05:47 AM

very little notice given for traveling

no, im not going to hop a flight this afternoon.

4/11/2008 11:13:06 AM

wtf, it's friday.

4/11/2008 11:16:21 AM

lol, depending on where that flight was to...id take it
thats how i went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago.

i really hate our Friday meetings. we used to have them on Friday afternoon close to the end of the day and they would always run over and we would have to stay late.

now, we have them friday mornings and people will not shut the fuck up. its like we have 5 mini meetings going on at one time and most of the shit only applies to less than 10% of the people in there.

we were supposed to have food brought in but the rec. is out and has been all week so none of the other admins picked anything up.

[Edited on April 11, 2008 at 11:19 AM. Reason : sdf]

4/11/2008 11:19:22 AM

4:00-5:00 conference calls...
ON A FRIDAY

Don't they know I'm usually out of here by noon if I even come in at all.

4/11/2008 11:21:45 AM

^^hire me! I'll get ya food if you actually appreciate the gesture!

fucking vultures I work with are like FREEEEEEEEEEEEE and push you outta the way!

4/11/2008 11:23:14 AM

Quote :

"very little notice given for traveling no, im not going to hop a flight this afternoon."

had this happen a few times


Bossman: We're gonna need you to meet with this client for dinner.

Me: Yeah, no problem.

Bossman: You have your passport right?

Me: wtf

4/11/2008 11:36:27 AM

Speaking of...I'm about to leave right now to pick up lunch for these fools! I so want to leave and never come back

4/11/2008 11:40:09 AM

Quote :

"fucking vultures I work with are like FREEEEEEEEEEEEE and push you outta the way!"

No shit. We used to have a lot like that. They'd be first in line start eating before half the food was even set out, had no problem getting large portions of good stuff even when there wasn't much to go around, etc. Then they'd get a "take-home-plate." Damn hoarders.

4/11/2008 11:43:08 AM

coworkers who hand me a long list of things with no explanation on any of them and then leave because they're hungover

4/11/2008 11:44:27 AM

Jesus shit is pretty annoying. Let me preface this by saying that I have no problem with Jesus or religion, but it seems that people in the south have NOTHING else to talk about. Not so much at my current job, but at my previous jobs people LOVED talking about some Jesus, their church, bible study, how they don't believe in evolution, etc. After a while that shit gets pretty annoying. When I lived in Cleveland, you never had someone you just met ask "what church do you go to?"

4/11/2008 11:44:29 AM

That would drive me insane.

4/11/2008 11:45:28 AM

my immediate supervisor (we call him the mag) tried to argue with me wednesday about whether or not i know how to use the plot scanner. and it was all because i scanned ~20 drawings in color instead of black and white. so he continues to go on about how incompetent i am, i just told him i was supposed to be out the door an hour ago, but i stayed to try to get these shop drawings done, but i'm leaving now...

i'm seriously about to have a meeting with my boss and tell him i can't work under the mag anymore.

luckily i had yesterday and today off so i didn't have to deal with his shit.

oh yeah, and the deal with the shop drawings, we received them 3/18 they were due back to the shop by 4/4. i wasn't even made aware of the drawings until 4/7 and the mag is on the phone telling them, "yeah, sorry they're late, we don't have them finished.. we're pathetic.." no... you're pathetic. arg

4/11/2008 11:52:04 AM

blah annoys the piss out of me at work

4/11/2008 11:57:59 AM

4/11/2008 12:01:18 PM

Quote :

"i tell a coworker a story or something about some news bit i heard, and i'll say "i was reading on cnn.com that (new facts)..." later on, that same coworker will tell others that same story without citing sources sometimes, even gives the same story back to me like he found it himself we're not scholars here or anything so he's not gonna fail "work 101", but for real- who does this? i think it's more humorous than annoying "

yeah - i have a coworker that does this too. he basically regurgitates the previous evening all things considered and market place during lunch the next day (so basically the 6-7 time block on npr). we are all sitting there going "yeah, i heard that too buddy"

****

co-workers bitching about how $150k for a couple isnt rich and how they deserve a tax rebate too in front of me

4/11/2008 12:03:23 PM

i'm not going to post about work but I am going to post about class...

there is this one bitch who sits in the front of the class that ask "questions" that she already knows the answer to but asks anyways just to answer the question herself to sound smart

4/11/2008 12:05:27 PM

unions

4/11/2008 12:11:54 PM

Quote :

"co-workers bitching about how $150k for a couple isnt rich "

its definitely not

not even close

4/11/2008 12:25:49 PM

A household income of 83,500 puts you in the top 20% of income earners

When politicians talk about no tax cuts for the rich, it's these people they're talking about

4/11/2008 12:31:39 PM

people who want to go to lunch with you, but always end up needing "just a few more minutes"

4/11/2008 12:41:09 PM

what do you do Slave Famous?

4/11/2008 12:56:52 PM

boss: mmm yea ....ahh we have sort of a problem here...

me: what kinda problem?

boss: you apparently didnt put one of the new coversheets on your TPS report...

4/11/2008 12:58:45 PM