The office: Chatter about your job

I may have been presented with an opportunity to get out of the ops room and into a front-line command role. Maybe. Possibly.

I'm going to be all over this one as soon as I get home.

Can't resist a chance at excitement can you Jonesy.

Ok, I can understand my mother interrupting me while reading my scenes, but my sister is a theatre major and should know to wait a minute if I am holding papers and talking.

Also have to sort out why I wasn't listed on another audition despite scheduling mine last month. Probably just fell through the cracks, but still annoying.

Lerad: Remind her if she forgets unless it was important. Oh the joys of scheduling issues.

This Sunday I am working at a Verizon store for a few hours in the evening because of believed hype by apple about the new iphone. -_-

edited 15th Sep '14 9:56:19 PM by TuefelHundenIV

ugggggggh hype. good luck with that, tuef.

The point is, it felt great saying that. Now to hobble to rehearsal on a pulled muscle or somesuch. I'm seeing a doctor tomorrow and popping some ibuprofen in the meantime. Good thing I play a concert violist and not a marching one.

Since it is in the latter half of the evening it will be close to closing so I am hoping the bulk of the hype will be spent by then. They also finally repaired the rather large crack in the parking lot today. Not just squirt some tar into into like some clumsy petrol filled truck teenager but actual repairs. They graded it down to the dirt and put in new asphalt and compacted it down properly.

Today I was up from 6 and will go to sleep at 11. Tomorrow I shall be up for much the same hours doing much the same things. Doctors appointment, work, acting. Farewell, sleep patterns.

Nothing worthwhile ever comes easy. When you're an A-lister, this'll all be worth it.

• Go to online application for jobs at a chain

• I'd like to apply for the same position at three locations

• Application wants me to upload a resume. I do.

• Application is automatically populated with badly-parsed info from resume. Fixing it is more work than writing it fresh.

• Other applications are automatically populated with info from first application.

• At least applying to the others has been designed to use info from previous applications, so I won't have to do this again.

• Other applications do not have the resume from previous one, demand I upload it again.

• Applications of course erase all the correct info to populate with the broken stuff it reads from the resume document.

• Nevermind on applying to the other two.

Been working at the local Domino's for about a week now, and I'm starting to get a feel for the other drivers.

Including today's discovery, the store's Blue Falcon.^note The more polite form of Buddy Fucker, as in playing the game "Fuck your buddy"

Both of us at work, and it's a slow day. I was only scheduled for a few hours, and he was scheduled until 11pm (store closes at midnight). Through some swapping of hours I'm still not clear on the fine details about, I get the 11pm out time.

Only he neglected to mention that the next to last driver to leave has to wash the dishes, including the equipment used to prepare the food, which would not be a negligible task even if the water heater didn't absolutely suck and run out of hot water so quickly.

All told, I didn't get home till almost midnight. The fucker.

Hurray, (my ) machine now produces black cable ties now!

Truly it was the moment I was waiting for.

But I don't have to be an A-lister to work with Guillermo del Toro, do I?

I went downstairs (away from my phone) for less than five minutes and when I came back I had a missed call and voicemail from a manager in Austin interested in my application.

I just had the worst rehearsal ever. My schedule for today was wrong so I was half an hour late and had to read from completely different scenes than the ones I'd memorized.

Oh dear

Just chalk it up to experience and better luck next time!

Had a Radio Shack rejection email this morning. And the Barnes and Noble manager said I wasn't what they were looking for now, since I won't be available for a month and they're looking for people to start now.

Yes, my sole consolation is that rehearsals can only get better from here. I plan to completely memorize my 6 remaining scenes by Tuesday because I've been using the script as a security blanket.

One of my co-workers finished up her two-week notice on Friday. And what did she do as she was leaving? Drop a month's worth of bank work on my desk. That she had promised she'd finish before she left. That I need to close August for a company by Tuesday. I think it was the first time in my life I've been so mad I couldn't see straight.

Pros: Maybe if I prove myself to be industrious and get it all done without throwing a tantrum my new boss will push through the raise he hinted at when he saw how underpaid I was according to the company's own pay grades.

Cons: No life until Wednesday.

.../sigh Could be worse.

Either that or your boss will realise that you're willing to work really hard for crap money and leave things as they are. That's how management types think.

I've had that done to me. Best of luck.

Oh good lord I didn't think of that. So either way I could be screwing myself over. BAH!

Thanks. I mean, I expect some slacking after giving notice. It's not right, but it's understandable. Just... uuuuurrrrrrgh

I wouldn't even give them that. You can slack off once you're off. I've just been transferred out the damn country FFS, and whoever took over my desk found everything up to date, an A4 page telling them the situation, and a couple of bags of Starmix in the top drawer.

This is not difficult - don't fuck your co-workers over.

Jonesy's in the news again...

Well, not really. It was outside of our engine's area by a considerable distance, so I was just there in the Incident Support Vehicle (aka 'Ice Cream Van') handing out air tanks and bottled water. It seems like every shout we get for the ISV these days is within a 5 mile radius of Laurencekirk. It might be an idea to get them one of their own.

edited 23rd Sep '14 4:15:14 AM by InverurieJones

I got fired from the run. Maybe I will only have one acceptance or rejection per audition next time.

edited 26th Sep '14 7:08:11 PM by Leradny

Eh it might be a good thing, but I know it sucks for you. They sounded kinda sketchy and schizoid with simple things like scheduling and what you were supposed to be doing at rehearsal.