Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 249053 times)

superaielman · « **Reply #1550 on:** September 02, 2009, 11:30:48 PM »

The do nothingness of the job getting to you that much?

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1551 on:** September 02, 2009, 11:37:24 PM »

That's wise, yes. I personally have problems seeing really, really enjoying a job (I don't have a big job of my dreams, so to speak, since I drastically divorce what I work on from my personal pleasures. Once you engage a responsibility, it can certainly be fulfilling, but it's no longer simple fun), but there are very clear limits to one's acceptance of a poor environment. Since the very way people handle the workflow there seems to get in your nerves, it's hardly reprehensible to hate the job. >_>

I'd recommend tossing your resume around, though. If nothing else, you are very unlikely to be fired as things go, and the experience won't look bad on your papers for future reference. Who knows, you might get a job that doesn't totally suck.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1552 on:** September 02, 2009, 11:39:54 PM »

That, and that the work that I do end up doing gets sucked up into the vacuum that is "corporate." It's kind of meta how the notes I take about the progress we're making on projects talk about the meetings we've had talking about progress -- all while making no progress, by the way, because we're talking about it instead.

I just need something that has Meaning, whatever that might be to me. "Assisting" in the publication and distribution of high school math and science textbooks is about as far from that as I can imagine being without switching to another field entirely. I'd almost rather be picking up trash on the side of the highway.

Jo'ou: That's the plan. I'm a little tied to my current geography, though, what with a lease and Andrew's job ('cause, you know, he loves it so much), which limits my options severely. Still. I had that exact thought about throwing my resume out there.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1553 on:** September 02, 2009, 11:44:29 PM »

That's the best plan of action you can take, really. I did a similar thing in that I started trying out admission exams for the motherload that is government work when I started my job (odds are I'll quit as soon as one of those organs call me). I even kinda like it, but I want something that gives me more leeway to delve deeper and deeper into academia (which government benefits give you). That and getting a paycheck for barely working at all is fine with me when I consider a job just a utility for me to sustain my living.

Although this does put the whole JET effort into a whole new light, and that may well be a far better course of action for you in this case. Probably would anyway in the long run, but.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1554 on:** September 03, 2009, 12:39:20 AM »

Quote from: Lady Door on September 02, 2009, 11:39:54 PM

I just need something that has Meaning

He... he... heee... hehehahahahaha. Oh. That's great. Heh. Heh. A job with purpose. Ha, ha ha... ha ha ha ha ha.

Fudozukushi · « **Reply #1555 on:** September 03, 2009, 04:34:02 AM »

Normally, I don't talk about myself. I'm boring as hell. Even compared to normal boring people. But today I have a story. I went to the Water Park with my four little cousins. We had good fun. My favorite part was the wave pool. Four of us had six inner tubes(the extra two were for our feet YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) We got pushed back to the start by the waves, but I wouldn't have that! I screamed like a maniac, jumped off my tube and dragged all three of them(I have three arms!) to the front of the pool. We repeated a slightly less manly version a bit later.

Later, after I'd returned home, we here emergency vehicles. Dear Mother looks out and sees the windows on my car broken. Later, when our neighbor comes home he says the windows were fine when he left at 9ish. So the neighbor says the little shits who shot out my windows used a goddamn BB gun. And our neighbors girlfriend says she saw some brats with some kind of gun.

Hey, funny tidbit, I spent 400 dollars on BB guns and accessories years ago.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1556 on:** September 03, 2009, 09:11:31 AM »

Ha, ha, ha. Justice! Not really. (notevernotevernotevernotever)

Grefter · « **Reply #1557 on:** September 03, 2009, 09:33:58 AM »

Adapting to corporate setting is difficult and horrible. It becomes easier when you are jaded and cynical about the whole thing. I move data from an excel spreadsheet every day into an incredibly rigid broken database which has next to no transparency to how it automates things so that people can put the data from that into another system that is far simpler for all that it is still rigid (much much better system). These people can all read the spreadsheets just as well as I can and do it better than they can read the database I work with.

It buys me music though and I don't shoot myself at night. You get used to it if you stick with it LD. There can even be some pleasure in it eventually if you have something engaging to deal with at least monthly. Just stay away from management roles. You just kind of have to get your meaning from outside your job.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1558 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:15:27 PM »

You just have to visualize something that you're throwing all your emotions and humanity into until it is all gone. Sure, that's essentially your job swallowing your soul and eating at you, but, hey, you think you're special? You think you're gonna get a fulfilling job that doesn't eat away at your humanity? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Not happening, unless you plan to be really, really, really, really poor. Or a scientist of some kind.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1559 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:17:48 PM »

Yay for science!

Cotigo · « **Reply #1560 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:22:34 PM »

Yes. Yay for science.

<The whining that would have been here has been edited to save your time.>

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1561 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:31:53 PM »

Even science can be really boring when it's a routine, anyway. The way our minds behave can be a fascinating thing.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1562 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:35:05 PM »

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHA

OH MY GOD I AM JUST DYING OF LAUGHTER RIGHT NOW

Shale · « **Reply #1563 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:37:28 PM »

Oh, great, we broke her. Whelp, Andy's gonna be pissed.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1564 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:39:14 PM »

Do you know what just happened?

Not 5 minutes ago?

THEY ELIMINATED MY JOB.

EFFECTIVE TODAY.

Xeroma · « **Reply #1565 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:40:43 PM »

... ugh. Sorry to hear that ._.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1566 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:44:38 PM »

They've offered me a "lateral move" to the marketing department as an assistant, which is a touch more creative/dynamic but otherwise pretty similar (though has a hell of a lot more requirements, but I meet them anyway, woo hoo salary renegotiations). Though the people in marketing are more fun. I either take that or get two weeks' severance. I have to decide today.

AGH. Watch what you wish for, etc.

Taishyr · « **Reply #1567 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:45:55 PM »

Take it, keep looking for a better job while you have one right now?

Dunefar · « **Reply #1568 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:46:00 PM »

Take the job. No need to gamble on getting a new one.

Shale · « **Reply #1569 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:49:10 PM »

Ohboy. Well. That just plain blows.

I'd say go for the marketing job. not much hope for it to be any good - I've seen how advertising assistants work in our company, and it's not exactly a bed of roses - but it's money. Nothing's stopping you from looking for a better job at the same time.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1570 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:50:28 PM »

Quote from: Lady Door on September 03, 2009, 05:44:38 PM

They've offered me a "lateral move" to the marketing department as an assistant, which is a touch more creative/dynamic but otherwise pretty similar (though has a hell of a lot more requirements, but I meet them anyway, woo hoo salary renegotiations). Though the people in marketing are more fun. I either take that or get two weeks' severance. I have to decide today.

AGH. Watch what you wish for, etc.

Just take it. You keep a living, you get a possibly less soul-sucking environment. You'll be able to keep the plans you had in mind that way to boot.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1571 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:51:11 PM »

See? Bitch about your soul crushing job and they do something about it.

The system is king and we are its pawns.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #1572 on:** September 03, 2009, 06:29:31 PM »

Quote from: Lady Door on September 03, 2009, 05:44:38 PM

They've offered me a "lateral move" to the marketing department as an assistant, which is a touch more creative/dynamic but otherwise pretty similar (though has a hell of a lot more requirements, but I meet them anyway, woo hoo salary renegotiations). Though the people in marketing are more fun. I either take that or get two weeks' severance. I have to decide today.

AGH. Watch what you wish for, etc.

Do what Tai says. Sorry to hear about that, but at least they aren't throwing you out the door blind, deaf, and dumb.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1573 on:** September 03, 2009, 06:32:34 PM »

They sort of tossed that one on me out of nowhere. I am not too surprised -- my job, after all, is a colossal waste of funds -- but to have it thrown on me today and have to be decided today was surprising.

Still hilarious.

I will be speaking with the head of the Marketing Department after the big company meeting that will likely announce that benefits are being cut and we now need to pay them to rent office space. She has the option to pass over hiring me, so we'll see!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1574 on:** September 03, 2009, 06:36:54 PM »

Good luck there. Hope things end up alright!

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Author Topic: DIE SUPER!!! - G'morning, 2009! (Read 249053 times)

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