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I'm very seriously considering leaving Security. The idiots that manage my garage, from another garage across the river, insist that it's now my job to fix the gate arms after some brainless college kids pop the gates. Apparently, I'm now a mechanic, also. I hate my job. :(Do you even have the tools to fix the gate arms? And if you werent in Security, what other field would you look into?I do now. I bought a rubber mallet over the weekend. That idiot janitor told me to use a brick. Yeah, I'll use the brick alright, right upside *redacted*. *sigh*
I'm good with computers, both hardware and software. But everyone wants experience, and you can't get experience without doing the work. I wish I knew where to look for entry-level positions.
Say it with me: "I worked freelance for X years."
Every time you helped a friend you were actually working freelance pro bono. Leave out the pro bono part. You did independent troubleshooting and network solutions on a freelance basis for many years. That's experience.
Ahem. Probably shouldn't have said pro bono for this particular post placement.
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It's all about creatively lying when it comes to jobs.
Make no mistake: they lie to you. They will spoon feed you crap about how they care or have a great corporate relationship with employees or that they have competitive pay...but try to compare your paycheck with a coworker and watch them lose their s+*&. They'll claim benefits need a "temporary reduction" because they're in the red, but as soon as they're in the black no benefits will return because they know you'll work without them. They'll claim you're valuable and outsource your job to India. Corporations are lying s##!sack monstrously disgusting entitees, and "reframing facts so they're more palatable" is 1/100th of what they deserve.
I'm damn good at interviews. If I get one I almost always get the job. I know corporate BS talk.
That being said today's was a waste of time. S~~&ty barely more than minimum wage fulltime job with no benefits. I would lose medicaid and essentially be losing money when I factor in my medication and doctor's costs. I did the math twice. :-( Stupid pharmaceutical costs. One med is over 500 a month. Just one of my three for a disease considered a legitimate disability (but not enough to get actual disability help) by the US government.
I might have to take it, though. Nothing else replied.
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I don't lie on my job applications, I firmly believe that if presented with the opportunity I can absolutely shave an angry bear with a skid loader.
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I'm very seriously considering leaving Security. The idiots that manage my garage, from another garage across the river, insist that it's now my job to fix the gate arms after some brainless college kids pop the gates. Apparently, I'm now a mechanic, also. I hate my job. :(Do you even have the tools to fix the gate arms? And if you werent in Security, what other field would you look into?I do now. I bought a rubber mallet over the weekend. That idiot janitor told me to use a brick. Yeah, I'll use the brick alright, right upside *redacted*. *sigh*
I'm good with computers, both hardware and software. But everyone wants experience, and you can't get experience without doing the work. I wish I knew where to look for entry-level positions.
Claim from your boss rubber mallet costs. Also check jobwebsites and where graduate students have been applying.
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Three more Office eps to go, then we watch what I want to watch.
Oddly I'm drawing a blank, aside from the early seasons of Lost, before it starts going sideways in time.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia!
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My BF's IT woes. They are calling him for every stoopid problem they could fix themselves on their end. Worse still, they called him to fix a problem at the wrong location. How is he supposed to fix a problem at a place where the problem doesn't exist?
I believe their answer to your question is "Well, he's in IT! I'm sure he can figure it out! Remote or whatever it is!" Of course, they're complaining about their monitor making a noise that only they can hear, but he should be able to to hear that over his computer speakers.
Translation: I know his pain. All too well.
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Hmmm…
My name?`
My (full) name has 13 letters, 4 vowels and 9 consonants
I'm very seriously considering leaving Security. The idiots that manage my garage, from another garage across the river, insist that it's now my job to fix the gate arms after some brainless college kids pop the gates. Apparently, I'm now a mechanic, also. I hate my job. :(
Assignment creep sucks. I hate coming in, in the morning, getting told "why didn't you do/fix X?!"...its almost always because I didn't expect that particular thing to be a part of my every expanding portfolio of assignments.
That said, it isn't really a good comparison…being a security guard is (or should I say 'Should be') a much more well-defined set of assignments, then mine ^^I do now. I bought a rubber mallet over the weekend. That idiot janitor told me to use a brick. Yeah, I'll use the brick alright, right upside *redacted*. *sigh*
I'm good with computers, both hardware and software. But everyone wants experience, and you can't get experience without doing the work. I wish I knew where to look for entry-level positions.
Nothing can hurt from keeping on looking, John. Its abundantly clear that computers (and programing) is where you're passions lie, so I truly hope you find something in that field so you can hang up the garage keys.
Actually, it was arthritic pain in the fingers. Makes it hard to type on the keyboard. That, plus pain in the elbows, and the shoulders. *sigh* Growing old sucks.
*Pats John on the back and offers him a glass of scotch*
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Had a very interesting all-RP Kingmaker session. They're coming around to just how many issues running a country has.
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It was a dark and stormy night...
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...and NobodysHome was wondering: Should I run Shattered Star before running Return of the Runelords?
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I'd run Shattered Star and forget Return.
Not a fan of Return so far.
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My plan is to run Shattered before Return.
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I don't want to jinx it, but WW may have a job at last.
He had an interview this morning with the owner of a restaurant chain he met through a mutual friend. Allegedly the guy is going to email him an offer for day manager, guaranteed 30-40 hours a week, only one evening or weekend day a week. The salary won't be great, but it will be *enough* to get us by until he can get something better, and he can still drive Lyft early in the mornings, so he can keep the Lyft car to use for his commutes. And tomorrow he's working for an aikido buddy who's a GC, cash under the table, so at least we'll have grocery money until my next payday. Things have been a little scary.
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Oh, and my student who had the petit mal last Thursday was back in class today (Friday we had teacher inservice, so he wasn't here).
Happy, excited, totally sweet, acted like nothing at all had happened, except he was scared and nervous right before nap. (Yeah, I would have been, too.) Still no word from his mother about what the pediatrician said.
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I'm really hoping it turns around for you, LM. *hugs*
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Thanks, Mort and Vany!
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Clocked in. Good evening, everyone.
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Fair enough. I only work on more night then I'm off so not to bad.
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The third season is best. IF you went through the first liking it it really only got better. Legend of Korra is kind of a sore spot for me first and second season are good. Its gets real weird after that however.
Also it needed more Adult Aang flashbacks
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Hearing a child's laughter is one of the most beautiful experiences in the world. Except when it's 3am, you're sound asleep, and you don't have kids.
Leaving the Halloween month strong I see.
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♫ Why beer becomes geckos in the fright ♫
♫ Nuts be shears lonely whiskers of sum blighted observation ♫
♫ Bees strumming sin, elves dirty night ♫
♫ The vroom kit stings deflect the bars that slide trees bored in stations ♫
♫ Guy boppped a bold Stan out of sight ♫
♫ Sloping to mind from strong besotted birds or dingy wallabies ♫
♫ She burned a sea and then did lay Sorry toys aren't dating for ewe ♫
♫ Not gotta rot to bake free today come true ♫
♫ Where's button sat a thundered hand for sore wood never too ♫
♫ I guess it rains down in Africa ♫
♫ Wanna make some grime to due the strings glee severed lad ♫
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That don't make no sense.
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Makes perfect sense to me.
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Finished acension 5 on defect. I took the portal to the boss because I realized fighting my way up I wouldnt be able to make it. The deck was a very offensive claw deck. Not much in the way of defense as I had utterly no orb cards nor relics. No capacitor, no Defrag. Not bad for an acension 5 run.
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24 cards:
All for one
Core surge
Auto shields
Darkness
FTL
Self Repair
Ball Lightning
Charge Battery+
3x Claw
2x Coolheaded+
Go for the Eyes
Hologram
2x Hologram+
Leap+
Recursion
Stack
Steam Barrier
TURBO
Dual cast
Zap+
Relics:Cracked Core, Symbiotic Virus, Anchor, Shruiken, Pen Nib, Orrery, Red Mask, Peace Pipe, Pentograph, Pandoras Box.
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Was poking around Netflix last night and I had a very belated surprise.
I've heard people talk about it, but always thought that "Keeping up with the Kardashians" was an ironic way of saying "I'm watching The Kardashians" rather than the show literally being named Keeping up with the Kardashians.
And now it sounds not only boring, but exhaustingly boring.
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♫ Why beer becomes geckos in the fright ♫
♫ Nuts be shears lonely whiskers of sum blighted observation ♫
♫ Bees strumming sin, elves dirty night ♫
♫ The vroom kit stings deflect the bars that slide trees bored in stations ♫
♫ Guy boppped a bold Stan out of sight ♫
♫ Sloping to mind from strong besotted birds or dingy wallabies ♫
♫ She burned a sea and then did lay Sorry toys aren't dating for ewe ♫♫ Not gotta rot to bake free today come true ♫
♫ Where's button sat a thundered hand for sore wood never too ♫
♫ I guess it rains down in Africa ♫
♫ Wanna make some grime to due the strings glee severed lad ♫
ABLEIST LORRAINE DROWNING ARTHUR'S CAR.
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No one has noticed my Red Dead Redemption 2 thread.
Spoiler alert, I came up with the best horse name, ever.
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43 degrees and raining, the perfect weather for working!
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I honestly don't see how we're going to get anything done today, yet here I sit in Windsor, the town built by bovine growth hormones and cloned cattle waiting for the co-worker.
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Co-worker referred to me as "classically trained" the other day.
What does that even mean, I learned from a cheerful old hippie in Seattle.
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An hour wasted waiting, and it's getting colder.
This is fun.
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Slow it is today.
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My BF's IT woes. They are calling him for every stoopid problem they could fix themselves on their end. Worse still, they called him to fix a problem at the wrong location. How is he supposed to fix a problem at a place where the problem doesn't exist?I believe their answer to your question is "Well, he's in IT! I'm sure he can figure it out! Remote or whatever it is!" Of course, they're complaining about their monitor making a noise that only they can hear, but he should be able to to hear that over his computer speakers.
Translation: I know his pain. All too well.
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Was poking around Netflix last night and I had a very belated surprise.
I've heard people talk about it, but always thought that "Keeping up with the Kardashians" was an ironic way of saying "I'm watching The Kardashians" rather than the show literally being named Keeping up with the Kardashians.
And now it sounds not only boring, but exhaustingly boring.
You went up notches in my book, by teaching me a thing I didn't know!
Also, trap now set.