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How was yours?

Pretty rough. I've got a kid whose behavior is throwing off the whole class. We had a meeting with teachers, therapists, and the principal and reached the conclusion: "we are at a damn loss." Also the enrichment class I teach on Fridays pretty much sucks. Something to learn from, I guess, but it's frustrating after all that preparation. Oh well, at least it's over, and now it's Thanksgiving break!

I work everyday but Thursday next week.

That day will be spent playing Skyrim(if the leveling mod is out by then) if not, then WoW/Fear2 with a nice bottle of red wine.

Go me.

Well, that should be nice. Are you going to do it with a plate of turkey balancing on your legs?

Cajungal said:

Well, that should be nice. Are you going to do it with a plate of turkey balancing on your legs?

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@Your First post:I remember when I was in school, an unruly child was paddled and sat in an office alone everyday till the behavior changed or was expelled. Classroom disruption? 0%

As for the turkey? Nah, I'll be having Mongolian grill, which now that I think about it, I make with Turkey, so then it's a yes!

I'm beginning to think that might be the only thing that helps this kid's impulse control. No matter what the consequence, he would rather say what he wants/do what he wants and face it than hold it in. That trait could be a credit to him, but he uses it in destructive ways. He's fascinating, really. I made a little head-way this week, but it's going to be a year-long battle.

My new boss likely got her job more for what's going on between her legs than her ears. Does that qualify as a bad work week or should I take this to another thread?

Nah that's totally valid Sera.

My boss is the type that has everyone in the office do their own jobs, plus each of us do a little bit of her job, so that she never has to be in the office but to sign documents every once in a while. I feel your pain.

Anytime me or my one co-worker aren't around for a couple days, we come in and it looks like a bomb went off.

Work wasn't bad until I got haranged into staying late, which threw off the whole evening.

Commuting? That has been absolute shit this entire week. I think it's been over a year or more since I've seen such a piss-poor commute week in my area. Big pile of rusty fuck.

I pretty much blew off a few days of work that I couldn't afford to blow off. It's probably going to impact Thanksgiving now.

I'm afraid I'm going to get fired.

I had a great work week.

Not looking forward to next week though. I'll be on the road a lot. Quebec City, Trois-Rivieres and Ottawa. It should pass quickly though.

I've gotten incredibly behind on paperwork thanks to me being more inclined to slay dragons in a fictional world than going into the office and working on it.

Otherwise it was a quiet week for major crimes. Fresh snow and sudden cold will do that. I feel bad for the GD guys dealing with the insane amount of traffic issues.

SeraRelm said:

Anytime me or my one co-worker aren't around for a couple days, we come in and it looks like a bomb went off.

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This. The guy who does overnights on my days off doesn't think most of the non front desk duties are his job, so everyone else is left to do the restocking and cleaning he doesn't want to do.

He gets his 40 hours in by working double shifts (don't ask), but I get more done in three hours than he does in 16.

I worked half a day Monday and was out sick the rest of the week. It shouldn't bother me because I'm not enjoying my job at the moment but it does. I feel like a loser.

i spent the week talking to lawyers, financial advisors, Doctors, and inlaws.

so fuck all of you.

I had a good work week. Worked with a new tech who is smart, hard working, geeky just like me, fun to talk to, and a girl.

Only thing wrong with her is that she's married already.

I got treated like shit by a group of holier-than-thou strangers that decided they were the most important thing at the college this week. My only recourse was to serve their every need, because the vp in charge of me would do anything to avoid a conflict where he might look bad. So despite being the director of software development, I got to be used like a call center lackey all week.

Granted, all that really hurt was pride, I guess, but I mostly feel like I spent a week doing nothing but worthless shit just to keep my boss from having to deal with angry strangers that aren't even attending the school.

I love my new job but I hate the way my coworkers dink around all the time. I mean the instructor has to actually say "do you have something share with the whole class?" and she has to tell them to put their cell phones away (because it is the LAW). I would have kicked them out.

I am also ticked off at some people who call in. I work at a call center helping with issues for a company I can't say >.> But these jackasses call in and just do not listen. I explain to them how i cant tell them this or that or I explain policy to them. They just wont listen. They think if they keep talking to me Ill just suddenly say something I am not supposed to. Well no I wont because I am the one taking the call. I am the one who is keeping her job. Fuck off.

I also had some great callers tonight. One lady enjoyed chatting with me so much it took 15 minutes to get her off the phone lol .She was cool though. I enjoyed it.

Oh but one of my coworkers is a little too touchy feely for my taste. I was sitting across fromm him at a table resting my head on my hands and he poked my nose. I was like wtf lol... sorta and he said you know when you see something cute and you have to pinch it's cheeks. That's what it was. Oook.

Took the week off because i had way too many days left, and they don't let me keep them for next year...

Guess the universe had to balance it out somewhere...

I wonder, if you get fired, would i win the lottery?

My work week went by in the a flash.
I work at a Montessori kindergarten. It has it's ups and downs. I'm currently bickering with my Chinese co-teacher because I feel she undermines my authority in class. I'm trying to figure out how to solve this problem without going to the principal about it. I have to work with this woman for at least another year. I've also been designated official english-chinese translator, despite the fact there are other bilingual chinese staff at the school. Yay, I doubled my workload without doubling my pay! Woo!
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@Li3n said:

Took the week off because i had way too many days left, and they don't let me keep them for next year...
Guess the universe had to balance it out somewhere...
I wonder, if you get fired, would i win the lottery?

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There's only one way to find out. Don the monkey suit.

I work with college faculty.

Shegokigo said:

I work everyday but Thursday next week.

That day will be spent playing Skyrim(if the leveling mod is out by then) if not, then WoW/Fear2 with a nice bottle of red wine.

Go me.

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You should get some Mead instead, to stay in spirit of the game.

Work week just started. Yesterday I had a ridealong, which sucks. She also would not. Shut. Up. *mimes self-headglocking*

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Work week just started. Yesterday I had a ridealong, which sucks. She also would not. Shut. Up. *mimes self-headglocking*

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I had to go on a ride-along for a criminal justice class. I got a very different picture of my hometown after dark, especially after Officer Penyak asked me to put on a kevlar vest.

Yeah, Savannah's not THAT bad... yet. With VERY few exceptions, the dirties here prefer to run from the police rather than take us on.

Well, the thing is, we're right on a state line and there's a lot of through traffic, so lots of transient crime. Also, the massive housing projects.

Yeah, that will happen.

Also, I didn't mean to say that ridealongs in general suck - I just prefer patrolling solo, because it's a way for me to clear my head and sort things out.... meditation via V-8, if you will.

Riding with someone else, you kinda can't stay silent... especially when it's an overeager Citizen's Police Academy applicant. *chuckles*

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Yeah, that will happen.

Also, I didn't mean to say that ridealongs in general suck - I just prefer patrolling solo, because it's a way for me to clear my head and sort things out.... meditation via V-8, if you will.

Riding with someone else, you kinda can't stay silent... especially when it's an overeager Citizen's Police Academy applicant. *chuckles*

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Ah, the eager beaver vs the grizzled loner. I smell sequel.

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Work week just started. Yesterday I had a ridealong, which sucks. She also would not. Shut. Up. *mimes self-headglocking*

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Hope you can avoid that sequel OC! You have me cracking up at the term headglocking!

I was only scheduled to work monday and saturday next week.

I'll be working everyday but sunday and thursday, now. Disregard down time, acquire pittance.

Could be worse I guess. At least it's not retail.

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Work week just started. Yesterday I had a ridealong, which sucks. She also would not. Shut. Up. *mimes self-headglocking*

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If I promise to be quiet could I ride along with you sometime OC? You seem like you see alot of interesting stuff

I can think of a few ways you can get a ridealong with OC. You'd have to sit in the back, though.

I could steal his hat, and or ticket book!

Gusto said:

I'm afraid I'm going to get fired.

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Yeah. I get like that every couple of weeks, too.

--Patrick

My new job is going pretty well. I'm done with my hell week and get the next two days off.

My old job? So glad I left.

When I left, the management consisted of Abul, the GM (ok guy for the most part) Branden the AM (total dick) Chris, a shift lead (also a good guy) and me (asshole).

So when I left they started to train up Lauren to be a shift leader, which was honestly a good idea as she was one of the best workers there. Fast forward to now and Abdul is in Pakistan visiting his father who was gotten ill, and Branden tried to fire Lauren mostly just 'cause. After the District manager, Steve, intervenes and reminds him that not only is it Abdul's decision only but the reasons Branden cited for the attempted termination weren't good enough. So apparently today (Saturday, one of the busiest days of the week) Branden "goes for a smoke real quick" and walks off the job. When people went to go look for him they found an unsent email on the computer going on and on about how the staff had created a hostile work environment and how Brandon was going to sue Steve.

So Abdul can't be reached because, you know, Pakistan and Lauren isn't technically a shift leader yet because she hasn't completed her training. It's essentially up to Chris to work open to close until Abdul gets back. The real kicker is though, that Chris doesn't know how to do a lot of the functions that a GM needs to know. Inventory was due today and I don't think he did it. I felt so bad when he told me about all of this that I actually went in and showed him how to place orders and stuff.

And of course Steve, the district manager, isn't actually helping that much at all. He sent over the GM from another store to help for a bit and made the schedule for next week but hasn't told Chris if he's actually going to have to work from open to close or what. All Chris knows is to expect overtime.

And speaking of overtime, that's the majority of Chris' raise. Instead of making more money he'll be allowed to work overtime.

Don't ever work for Dunkin Donuts if you find yourself in a position to have to consider that kind of job.

At least not that franchise. I've had moments like that.
Her: "Why am I scheduled to work Holiday? I don't want to work Holiday."
Me: Explains seniority, holidays, and this thing called the Request Off process.
Her: "Well I don't want to work Holiday."

Holiday rolls around, I'm wrapping up the midnight shift (the regular guy had requested it off), shift change rolls around...an she doesn't show. I end up working a double on Holiday because she has responsibility issues.

Honestly, though, I have a hard time being mad at her about it. A couple months later, her mother hears voices and shoots up the family, killing the dad and wounding her and her brother. That's more than just ordinary karma at work.

--Patrick

You made me work Holiday!

Oh your mom killed your family?

Alright, that's fair. We're good.

PatrThom, you have placed Madonna in my head. For that, there is no forgiveness.

I hear she shows up lots of places, especially this time of year.

--Patrick

Yes, Madonna appears all over, to punish bad children by thrashing them with birch switches or taking them in her coal bucket back to hell.

I was listening to madonna all morning >.> haters

PatrThom said:

At least not that franchise. I've had moments like that.
Her: "Why am I scheduled to work Holiday? I don't want to work Holiday."
Me: Explains seniority, holidays, and this thing called the Request Off process.
Her: "Well I don't want to work Holiday."

Holiday rolls around, I'm wrapping up the midnight shift (the regular guy had requested it off), shift change rolls around...an she doesn't show. I end up working a double on Holiday because she has responsibility issues.

Honestly, though, I have a hard time being mad at her about it. A couple months later, her mother hears voices and shoots up the family, killing the dad and wounding her and her brother. That's more than just ordinary karma at work.

--Patrick

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Until I got to the shooting the family part, that was a no show, no call, goodbye, you're fired.

We've had a few of those with the 3-11 shift. I would typically end up grabbing a few extra hours to keep the manager from working a mess of full double shifts.

That drama's OT bought me a new computer, new TV, and a new iPhone this year.

Well, I'm alone and bored here waiting for some simulations to complete for a paper I'm publishing, and PatrThom's post is signed Patrick. I can't help but read it in a Patrick Stewart voice (WARNING: poor Patrick Stewart impression).

DarkAudit said:

Until I got to the shooting the family part, that was a no show, no call, goodbye, you're fired.

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I entertained myself during the double by filling out her write-up/termination paperwork, yes.

fade said:

I can't help but read it in a Patrick Stewart voice (WARNING: poor Patrick Stewart impression).

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Unsolicited, yet completely inspired. Would buy again.

--Patrick

Gusto said:

I'm afraid I'm going to get fired.

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Yup.

Go read my reply in the other thread. Focus on the word sexy, then surf by the crush forumite thread page.

Gusto said:

Yup.

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What? Whoa man. You're the most stable person on here! I can't believe you of all people got fired. Sorry to hear that.

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What? Whoa man. You're the most stable person on here! I can't believe you of all people got fired. Sorry to hear that.

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I just struggle with working in a project-oriented environment. I can't deny it. I did good work but it but it was more a matter of "Look how well I juggled these three balls! Oh, I was supposed to be juggling 5? Whoops."

For the most part, things have worked out better following the ownership/management transition at the consulting firm that I work for than I thought they would, and I haven't yet been let go due to lack of work (emphasis on the word "yet"); but of the four projects I was handed last week, two were things I couldn't do/had no knowledge of processes for, and the other two went from being multi-week, high-hour projects to being single day, low hour projects. And, what with the holiday coming up this week and the Christmas/New Year's Day breaks coming up next month and in January, it looks like it's going to continue to be mind-numbingly slow here.

It's one of the two projects that I could work on that annoys me the most though. It went from being "take these 5 documents and what you know about the forums/can glean from the forums and turn them into a single source of data that's a useful and easy to follow troubleshooting guide" to being "read through these guides and the forums, find anything we've missed, and hodgepodge them in to the existing docs." So something that had originally looked like it was going to take about a week to research and at least a day to reformat and rewrite, wound up taking a couple of days to gather data and 45 minutes to write up. I'm sure the person who gave me the project is going to be very happy with the results, but it could have been much better had she not put some of the constraints on it that she did.

Pretty sure that I--that is, unless you don't have to lay restraints down on ghetto, emotionally disabled kids--have some of you retail kids beat. The cop, maybe not. But everybody else, I'll bet. Two more full days, and then freedom! But these kids are going to be guh until after January.

I dislike thanksgiving week. In broadcasting, it only means we have to cram 7 days of work into 3 days instead of 5. I'd rather we just didn't get the time off, to be honest.

Given the choice of sitting at home trying to find something to do and having several gaming options, and sitting at work trying to find something to do with no gaming options, I'd prefer being at home - but I hear ya Gas - sometimes the time off just doesn't seem worth it, and if I'm lucky enough to have stuff to do at work, I'd much rather be doing that than sitting at home doing nothing.

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Given the choice of sitting at home trying to find something to do and having several gaming options, and sitting at work trying to find something to do with no gaming options, I'd prefer being at home - but I hear ya Gas - sometimes the time off just doesn't seem worth it, and if I'm lucky enough to have stuff to do at work, I'd much rather be doing that than sitting at home doing nothing.

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With my job, the time off never seems worth it. Thanksgiving, Christmas, whatever. It's always just 9 times more work before and after the absence, along with interspersed phone calls from work and VNC sessions during the absence.

Agreed Gas. I'm going to be off from Thu-Sun. However I will be working extra hours Today-Wed to make up for the loss. It's just ridiculous.

I'll probably be up to my ears in elbows on Fri. Really, the single thing I am looking forward to most is the extra day of pay.

--Patrick

Having a feast for the kiddies tomorrow. On the plus side, there will be food. On the minus side, all the kids are going to damn well make sure to get to school tomorrow for all of the food.