The Horrors of the "Professional" World - Stories that will make you wonder how we exist.

[Goofy Logic]

Sounds like he owes more like leg-breaking amounts of money.

I'm wondering if a mob is involved. The fact he vanished like the Hound of the Baskervilles was after him makes it sound like the cops were the least of his worries.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm wondering if a mob is involved. The fact he vanished like the Hound of the Baskervilles was after him makes it sound like the cops were the least of his worries.

Sounds like he was stealing just to pay the vig and ultimately couldn't even do that. Or, possibly worse, borrowing and stealing to gamble to try to pay it back and then losing that, too.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

He took out big cash advances on his credit cards in the last three months, too. It's all adding up to either drugs or gambling, and I'm pretty sure it isn't drugs.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Hell of a mess you found yourself into, Karl. I hope they catch him before he can burn all the money in gambles.

For me, another new month starts and i got two new coworkers. I'm thankful the taiwanese chick left because she was extremely nagging and she had strange conundrums on her mind and asked my opinion about them constantly, like if the cashier in ther supermarket was racist because she didn't said "hello" to her.

So, i got a couple of tales to share. First is again with a bunch of chinese people that got a room for themselves. They brought with themselves a lot of drinks and these last days were hot as hell. Those days we had the shared fridge stuffed with bread and so they didn't had a place to place their drinks. And so instead of asking me or the other staff to take some bread to the other fridge, they came up with an incredibly bright solution: to put their drinks in the room sink and fill it with cold water. And so they kept the cold water running on the sink for 6 hours. Later in the day i saw that the room below was drenched because the fuckers kept the water running for so long there were leaks. When they left the sink also smelled horribly because the last day they washed their dishes and clothes in it.

I also have a smaller one, but on that case it was understandable because the girl was mentally handicapped and the parents did her best to restrain her.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Looks like I need to start polishing my resume. Things are so unsettled at work. When the plant manager has to use his personal business card to order toilet paper because no supply company will accept orders otherwise...

At least my paycheck hasn't bounced yet?

 

[UQ 770]

He skimmed a Coke machine, maybe another 300.

That's committed, this guy is either nuts or he's in way over his head. If the cops don't pick him up in the next few weeks he's probably gonna be sleeping with the fishes.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Looks like I need to start polishing my resume. Things are so unsettled at work. When the plant manager has to use his personal business card to order toilet paper because no supply company will accept orders otherwise...

At least my paycheck hasn't bounced yet?

Better abandon ship before the ship drags you, bud. If you are in a good relation with your boss or coworkers try to be commited and professional about it, but if not jump off because they are not going to cover your ass when things turn ugly.

Today i also asked my brother about the gig on the movie festival for when i go back home for winter (low season is a snooze fest around here) and it's still not clear due to a huge stink over the contractors. Still, i was overworked as hell in the movie festival but i earned a hefty amount of money (1K eurodollars in a month is a ton of money) and we were a very tight crew.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Better abandon ship before the ship drags you, bud. If you are in a good relation with your boss or coworkers try to be commited and professional about it, but if not jump off because they are not going to cover your ass when things turn ugly.

That's why I'm kind of depressed about it. I like my boss. I like my job. I have over 4 weeks of PTO a year. I have an actual cubicle and computer I don't have to share with 20 other people. Now I'll have to start at the bottom again, and it sucks.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

That's why I'm kind of depressed about it. I like my boss. I like my job. I have over 4 weeks of PTO a year. I have an actual cubicle and computer I don't have to share with 20 other people. Now I'll have to start at the bottom again, and it sucks.

Good lord man. It truly sucks to start from the bottom but also let go of a boss with which you have a good relationship with. Just hope you don't get fucked over on the new job and they have in account your experience, bruv.

Stay strong.

 

[Sped Xing]

I have an actual cubicle and computer I don't have to share with 20 other people. Now I'll have to start at the bottom again, and it sucks.

I thought cubicles WERE the bottom. If your job involves a computer, how can you even do it if you have to share with 20 people?

Why is work such a nightmare for so many people?

 

[neverendingmidi]

I thought cubicles WERE the bottom. If your job involves a computer, how can you even do it if you have to share with 20 people?

Why is work such a nightmare for so many people?

I was in the Navy at first, at best you could use one of the common computers in an office open to everybody in your division (about 40+ people for me) if you wanted online. And if you were junior you got kicked off after about ten minutes.. My next job was a constantly moving workstation job where my only personal area was the locker my safety gear was locked in and the little bag I had my personal tools in.

Getting a cubicle of my own was amazing. I can eat lunch in there with a padded chair rather than a hard stool in the lunch room!


Do I have really low standards?

 

[Sped Xing]

I was in the Marine Corps; I only had to even touch a computer once a year to click through a sexual harassment class, despite there being no women at all. No chairs, though.

I've only had one job where I used a computer, and that was my own which I carried with me.

I'm keeping in mind that not everyone prefers the same kind of activities as me. I'd really loathe being trapped inside an office with a boss staring at me all day long, but that's not the point. What I find really preposterous is having to share something you need in order to do your job. I never had to get out of a truck so someone else could drive, or hand over a flashlight or share gloves.

I did get in trouble for telling a guy that my malfunctioning trailer was malfunctioning. Why would you snitch on someone that way? At least get some silver, Iscariot.

 

[UQ 770]

That's why I'm kind of depressed about it. I like my boss. I like my job. I have over 4 weeks of PTO a year. I have an actual cubicle and computer I don't have to share with 20 other people. Now I'll have to start at the bottom again, and it sucks.

There's a bunch of semi-industrial jobs open right now that are paying pretty well. I thought I scored when I moved from one of those to my first real office job. I learned pretty quickly that modern offices have more in common with Demolition Man than Office Space these days. After that, I couldn't hoof it back to industrial faster. Standing all day in the heat kind of sucks but some of them pay highway robbery since they desperately need people with an IQ above their wasteline that can pass a drug test. Most of them require little to no training as well. No uniforms or dumb office politics either. Just make sure to ask about mandatory overtime, that can kick you in the nuts depending on how they do shit around the holidays.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

Manual labor is how I lost so much weight so fast. It's almost like I'm getting paid for exercising, which strictly speaking I actually am.

 

[Adamska]

Looks like I need to start polishing my resume. Things are so unsettled at work. When the plant manager has to use his personal business card to order toilet paper because no supply company will accept orders otherwise...

At least my paycheck hasn't bounced yet?

If they are struggling to get toiletries, that's time to look for a new job. It's gonna die or you're gonna be laid off soon since that's a serious red flag that the company is failing.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Jesus Christ, it just never ends with my fugitive ex-manager. I called his ex-wife, who I've met a bunch of times, just to check on her. Guess who can't pay the rent with the manager in the wind? Guess who was getting a lockout on their apartment? Guess who had no money to move, or to pay deposits on a new apartment? All of this with two small children and a small dog. Who the fuck does something like that?

I went ahead and paid her rent for another month and I'm going to rent her a u-haul and pay a couple of my maintenance men to move her next month. When she finds a new apartment I"m going to pay her deposit and first month. My manager left her with literally no money and not even enough warning to get any money together. I also slipped her a couple hundred dollars for food and made sure her church is going to take care of utilities this month.

Charity begins at home, I guess. This is much more targeted and personal in scale from the charitable giving I usually do. It's a change, seeing the people I'm helping instead of it being largely impersonal and abstract.


Fuck, though, it's like a neverending giant vacuum cleaner sucking franklins outta my wallet.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

Manual labor is how I lost so much weight so fast. It's almost like I'm getting paid for exercising, which strictly speaking I actually am.

This is one of the reasons i want to have a farm: manual labour will keep you more or less hale and hearty as long as you have a good diet. Plus, exercise will keep you in a good mood too so it's pretty much a win-win situation.

 

[Sped Xing]

I hope she's not the type to decide you're a mark. She do

This is one of the reasons i want to have a farm: manual labour will keep you more or less hale and hearty as long as you have a good diet. Plus, exercise will keep you in a good mood too so it's pretty much a win-win situation.

I don't want to go work goats in twenty minutes. The threat of physical labor has me in a bad mood.

That, or talking to the illinois nazis on A&H. One of this things has irrigated me.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

I hope she's not the type to decide you're a mark. She do


I don't want to go work goats in twenty minutes. The threat of physical labor has me in a bad mood.

That, or talking to the illinois nazis on A&H. One of this things has irrigated me.

Thing is i want no animals. Bees at most, but no animals. If possible i would like to assemble a brewery and make beer and mead at a small scale.

 

[Sped Xing]

Why do you hate animals? They're cute.