Topic: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread. (Read 213887 times)

Scheherazade · « **Reply #375 on:** November 20, 2008, 10:36:34 AM »

Quote from: BizB on November 20, 2008, 09:26:30 AM

I would go see her during her office hours.

Walk into her office.
Slam your bookbag down onto her desk.
Sit down with an exasperated sigh.
Pull out 8 blank sheets of paper and place them on her desk one at a time while counting them out loud in Sesame Street's The Count voice.
Then, just sit there and stare at her until she calls campus security.

xD I could do this, but I actually like my school...

Quote from: Joe Sixpack on November 20, 2008, 10:23:55 AM

Make a couple changes to show how the crusades led to the events that were in your first paper.

That won't work. She wants the paper to basically give the entire story of Saladin vs. King Richard, with the time-line including Saladin's rise to power and King Richard's decision to actually go to Jerusalem, and then their war against each other. If there's anything about the other Christian churches, my prof is likely just to throw the thing back at me with a big red "f" on it.

BizB · « **Reply #376 on:** November 20, 2008, 05:58:32 PM »

Is she trying to teach you how to do research, or how to think?

Scheherazade · « **Reply #377 on:** November 20, 2008, 07:56:06 PM »

She is supposed to be teaching us how to think. She seems to be settling on teaching us how to research.

Honestly, I can handle it. I rewrote the paper, I think it's really good, and I'm sure I'll get a good grade on it. It's just that this is History 101. Doing something like this in "Research Methods" or maybe an actual upper-level history course would be totally understandable. But this is a general education requirement class, and it just doesn't seem like a reasonable assignment.

RelandR · « **Reply #378 on:** November 20, 2008, 10:10:07 PM »

I'm confuzzeled, I thought that your chief complaint was the 11th hour switcheroo rather than the reasonableness of the assignment per the class level.

Are you saying that a 3 week assignment having to be trashed with 48 hours to do it over is ok for a higher level class?

Scheherazade · « **Reply #379 on:** November 21, 2008, 01:13:07 PM »

Quote from: RelandR on November 20, 2008, 10:10:07 PM

I'm confuzzeled, I thought that your chief complaint was the 11th hour switcheroo rather than the reasonableness of the assignment per the class level.

I'm saying that the last minute change was unreasonable....I meant that I could understand giving only two days to complete an assignment like this in a higher level class, but that the original three week window is more appropriate for a general education class.

Quote from: RelandR on November 20, 2008, 10:10:07 PM

Are you saying that a 3 week assignment having to be trashed with 48 hours to do it over is ok for a higher level class?

I don't think it'd be right to have to trash the original assignment, but I think a 48 hour time period is okay for a higher level class.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #380 on:** December 03, 2008, 12:50:45 AM »

Me: Thank You for calling The Snowbird's Idea of 'Roughing It', how may I help you?

Guest: Are you located on Idiot's Road?

Me: No, we are on The Snowbird's Idea of 'Roughing It' Boulevard.

Guest: Well, can I get there from here?

Me: Where is here?

Guest: Idiot's Road.

Me: Where on Idiot's Road? What direction are you going?

Guest: I don't know.

Me: Then I can't help you.

Guest: Why not?

Me: Because I have no idea where you are.

Guest: You mean you don't live around here?

Me: *sigh* Can you see any landmarks? Road names?

Guest: No.

Me: Are you driving now? Or have you pulled over?

Guest: Yes.

Me: Yes to which?

Guest: What?

Me: What is on second, Who is on first, and I-Don't-Know is on third.

They totally didn't get it. I was bummed.

12AX7 · « **Reply #381 on:** December 03, 2008, 01:44:26 AM »

Humor appeals to intellect; drama to emotion.
</ high school drama class>

xolik · « **Reply #382 on:** December 05, 2008, 04:59:45 PM »

Guess who just found out that he's now the Apple administrator? (hint: me)

No budget for training, sorry. Have fun. Oh and we need these new servers up and running, bound to our AD domain and backed up ASAP.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #383 on:** December 05, 2008, 05:01:06 PM »

Quote from: xolik on December 05, 2008, 04:59:45 PM

Guess who just found out that he's now the Apple administrator? (hint: me)

No budget for training, sorry. Have fun. Oh and we need these new servers up and running, bound to our AD domain and backed up ASAP.

Oh lucky-ducky you.

How do you feel about that?

ivan · « **Reply #384 on:** December 05, 2008, 05:08:30 PM »

Yikes.

I hate it when something with a 3% market share is treated as an equal in the workplace.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #385 on:** December 05, 2008, 05:15:25 PM »

Quote from: ivan on December 05, 2008, 05:08:30 PM

Yikes.

I hate it when something with a 3% market share is treated as an equal in the workplace.

That's not what would bother me... I think the part that would get my goat is the lack of training offered to someone whose primary job is WINDOWS admin.

xolik · « **Reply #386 on:** December 05, 2008, 06:39:46 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on December 05, 2008, 05:01:06 PM

Oh lucky-ducky you.

How do you feel about that?

It's a challenge for sure, but I think I can pull it off. Since coming aboard here as initially a Windows Domain Admin, I've tacked on SQL admin, mainframe security admin, Exchange admin and now Apple OS admin, which has a splash of Unix since that's pretty much what's under the hood of OS X.

As for no training, I suppose they feel my single semester of "Introduction to Linux" was good enough.

ASK ME ABOUT GETTING NO ADDITIONAL PAY

ivan · « **Reply #387 on:** December 05, 2008, 06:44:47 PM »

Ok.

What about getting no additional pay?

xolik · « **Reply #388 on:** December 05, 2008, 07:41:09 PM »

Quote from: ivan on December 05, 2008, 06:44:47 PM

Ok.

What about getting no additional pay?

There wasn't any. 'Satisfaction of a job well done' my ass. You think I'm a door?

ivan · « **Reply #389 on:** December 05, 2008, 07:43:27 PM »

Didn't you recently get into some kind of trouble with a door?

12AX7 · « **Reply #390 on:** December 05, 2008, 08:40:05 PM »

i used to get in trouble with the doors all the time, until jim started getting weird and pullin his stuff out everywhere. that's just not the kinda trouble i was lookin for ya know?

12AX7 · « **Reply #391 on:** December 05, 2008, 08:41:43 PM »

Wait; so you're a Door and Windows Admin now?

xolik · « **Reply #392 on:** December 05, 2008, 10:27:00 PM »

Quote from: ivan on December 05, 2008, 07:43:27 PM

Didn't you recently get into some kind of trouble with a door?

Damn things keep being all cheerful for me.

*Door: "It gives me great satisfaction to open for you, and close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

Stupid doors. Here I am, brain the size of a planet...

ivan · « **Reply #393 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:57:54 AM »

It's a sign of aging when men switch to boasting about the size of their brains.

Hey, bay-buh, I am HUGE up there. Ask me anything: I will leave you sat-is-fied.

dcrog · « **Reply #394 on:** December 08, 2008, 01:18:29 PM »

Quote from: xolik on December 05, 2008, 10:27:00 PM

Damn things keep being all cheerful for me.

*Door: "It gives me great satisfaction to open for you, and close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

Stupid doors. Here I am, brain the size of a planet...

Marvin, is that you?

RubberFingerStan · « **Reply #395 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:22:43 AM »

I used to take my lunch brake at the cafe. Then I ate in my car. Then I started taking lunch at my desk. Now I just don't eat.
Soon, I won't leave to even go home. Maybe only when I smell.
What is it called when you turn your cubicle into your apartment...
My mouse pad has a hole in it...my desk is three shades lighter from my arms rubbing it dull.
My forefingers have hard tips for fast typing that doesnt end for minutes at at time. My keyboard has no markings on it.
My mouse wheel has a flat.
My stomach has a permanent horizontal bruise from rubbing against my desks edge.

...I don't even wear shoes around the office anymore...

Wunderkind · « **Reply #396 on:** December 19, 2008, 02:34:54 AM »

Well, it's just another day at Dumb-Fucks-R-Us.

I just found out through a nasty e-mail from my boss that someone from my department has been telling guests to turn off their firewalls in order to access the hotel's wireless internet. When I find that person I'm going to stalk them into the parking lot, shove them into my trunk, and leave them tied to a tree in the middle of friggin' nowhere with a television and VCR set that plays nothing but "Deliverance".

I will return occasionally to rewind the tape and see if they've died yet.

12AX7 · « **Reply #397 on:** December 19, 2008, 04:50:20 AM »

And put fuel in the generator?

Wunderkind · « **Reply #398 on:** December 19, 2008, 05:14:48 AM »

Yeah. That too.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #399 on:** December 23, 2008, 08:56:21 AM »

It turns out I might be getting fired. But I have to wait until January 5th to find out.

Apparently, security is now checking people's bags on their way out the door, but they opted out of telling anyone on 3rd shift. So I just mosied on out like I always do, running down a mental list of shit I have to get done before I can go to sleep, and when I hear someone call my name, I wave and say, "I have to go." and keep walking.

I got on the road and realized there might have been a problem and my replacement had been trying to get a hold of me, so when I got home I called to make sure the hotel didn't collapse around her. I found out that I had supposedly refused to allow a search and that I was going to be terminated.

I talked to my boss and after a certain amount of talking had been done it went to, "I'm just going to write you up for now, but we still have to wait and see what the general manager decides."

I'm thinking, "You're going to write me up for being distracted and poorly informed. God, this is the best job evar."

I'm saying, "Yes ma'am, thank you ma'am."

I hang up the phone and realize they aren't paying me enough to put up with this shit.

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