Here's another f...in' job rant from Laguna!

Yesterday, they sent out an email saying we were no longer allowed on the internet at work! No one would give an answer as to WHY it was done (only some guesses from co-workers: people downloading things that managed to have virus[es] in them causing major problems on the network, or people viewing "work-inappropriate content" .. you know what I mean)

Someone completely went off on our site director this morning over it. He said that there's a *chance* that it's only temporary. What a bunch of bullshit.

Anyway, not quite as much ranting from me. Perhaps it'll die down soon and people will start to not give a damn anymore, and we can get back to business as usual.
I'll try to put my rants up, and maybe a few other posts if I have a comment, question, etc...

Until then.... I went to WalMart on my lunch break and bought a couple decks of cards, etc. to play with at work. hahahaha Don't want us on the internet? Fine, we'll ignore our customer for pure entertainment! And we did....

(Admittedly, some customers remained on hold an extra minute or two, or had to repeat themselves a few times due to us playing cards.... mwahahaha .. maybe the idiot management will learn--they can't stop us!)

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lol, Im surprised my internet hasnt been taken away. They did an internet usage report for me and my two co workers. I cant tell you how funny it was. I had like 23452345 million webpages downloaded. My co workers had like 100. I accounted for 90% of the usage.

Not that it really matters, the people here love me. Crack a few jokes and everyone forgot what the report was on.

Whats really funny is that IGN VN accounted for 90% of my web usage.

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RIP Shiloh

YOU GUYS ARE LUCKY i work in a slave driving japanesse sushi bar run by one mean slighly racist manager and one very very very lazy manager. to make a long story short i need a raise!!!!!!
P.S. This break thing you guys get explain it to me i dont understand it?????

Its the thing I get every day but never take since Im to busy working.

Luckly I still squeez in posts while I do my work.

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Whats your job yarr, canadian telemarketer?

Professional Yarrberry Cosplay Expert

PYCE for short

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Ok, time for me to add my work rant in. Grab a drink because this is going to be a long one.

It all started around February. I work as a Software Engineer at the Philadelphia Boeing Site. At the time I was doing communications software for the new Comanche helicopter. I get into work and find one of the “Go Team!” e-mails from the head of the IDS (Integrated Defense Systems) Team telling us that the future was bright and all that crap. Fast forward to right after lunch. Here I am just surfing through my news sites when I come across an interesting article on CNN.com. Headline: Government cancels Comanche program. Hmmm… can this be right? This certainly doesn’t feel like a bright future to me. Well, after everyone in the nation OTHER than the employees here were informed of the cancellation, the government finally decided that it might be a good idea to tell us we just hit the cutting block.

Fine, now being a software engineer in a company that still needed 500 more throughout the country I wasn’t too worried. Sure I might have to move to Mesa (oh darn, sunshine and warm – please don’t throw me in that briar patch). What was the real kicker is that we were to continue business as usual until the official letter of termination came in. Yeah, because everyone was really giving it 100% now. Two weeks later we get the letter and officially are told to idle until we get our new assignment. We’re given a special I’m-Getting-Paid-To-Do-Nothing charge number and are basically told to just sit there and surf the net until our new assignment comes in. Sounds great right? Wrong. It took them two MONTHS to get people reassigned. Yes, that’s right. The military paid Boeing to keep people idle for two months. Well at least I have a new assignment now. What’s this? Could it be light at the end of the tunnel?

So now I have this nice new assignment doing Communications software for the Future Combat Systems project. There’s only one teensy weensy problem. No one has really bothered to get us the software we need to do our jobs. Granted, they re-imaged all our computers, unfortunately the new imaged contained nothing more than Windows and Office. So here I am now, with a new assignment and absolutely no tools to do my job. The current news on the grapevine is that we’re looking at a couple weeks before we can hold to get the software licenses. Maybe then I can be productive – given that I remember how to do real work.

On the bright side, I’ve had enough time to read almost every FFXI site on the net.

/sigh

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Being a Gov't Contractor seems pretty pimp imo.

I am dirt fucking poor. It doesn't matter how much I work. I am poor. In order to make what little money I do make, I have to give up my weekends and torture myself at a job I hate. And when my teeny little paycheck comes in every couple of weeks, I put it most of it into savings so that I can GO TO SCHOOL and GET A REAL JOB and MAKE REAL MONEY. But do you know how long that will be until I am able to do that? Forever!! And that's if I can even get into the program I want to get into. Hopefully, by July 3 I will have been able to save 1500 dollars. Over six full months all I will have saved is 1500 fucking useless dollars. I was promoted at my work and supposed to be able to make more money and work more hours....YEAH FUCKING RIGHT!!! And now I have to take a summer course in order to apply to the masters program I want in January, so that is less hours that I'll be able to work. I feel like I want to kill someone. There is no amount of ranting I could do right now to get across how frustrated I am. But let me try.

My phone line is crossed with someone elses. So random people from another house PICK UP THE PHONE WHILE I AM ON IT. And then people call for them and the call GOES TO MY HOUSE. The phone rings, and I pick up AND SO DO THE ASSHOLES FROM THE OTHER HOUSE. Where the hell is the phone company?? FIX THE FUCKING PROBLEM ASSHOLES!!!!

Okay, and also, my grandfather is dying. He is at home, refuses to go to the hospital, given up on life dying. My family drove to Montreal to say goodbye to him. I may never see my grandfather again. My grandmother will be left by herself in her home. Christmas will never be the same again. When she sends me birthday cards what will she sign them? Just "love from Nana"? Its not right. I can't sleep at night its all that I think about. I don't think I'm strong enough to handle this.

And then, I have to worry about money. I have to worry about whether I will have the marks to get into grad school. If I will have the money to get into grad school. I have to get my driver's license. And when I do get my liscence, I won't be able to tell my grandfather. This is supposed to be my relaxing summer, but I don't feel very relaxed. I feel poor, angry, sad, and frustrated. And my friends' are like, "oooh, look at me, I'm getting offered real jobs in the carreer path I chose and my life is perfect." Or my cousins are like, "oohh, look at me I don't have to work and everything I want falls into my lap." My 27 year old cousin in Montreal is still in school and HE ISN'T EVEN WORKING OVER THE SUMMER. He is a MAN and he doesn't even care that he isn't working to support himself. Instead, he will apply for a bursury and get it because he has no money. But he has no money because HE DOESN'T WORK.

Okay, I'm tired now.

First, youre to pretty to have to worry about Money. Thats why youre dating me remember?

Second, thats to bad about youre grandfather. Theres no way of getting around that.

Dont worry so much, you always get what you want and nothings going to change that.

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RIP Shiloh

I need another couple of minutes to rant about the phone.

I was just on the phone with my mom for 10 minutes and that bitch in the other house picked up TWO TIMES!! GET OFF OUR FUCKING PHONE!!!!!!

Secondly, my mom called Bell to tell them how ridiculous this is, and you know what they told her? They said, we'll fix the problem, but if we have to go to your house to fix it it will cost 100 dollars.

So let my understand. We go to Montreal for the weekend to see my dying grandfather, and when we come back, Bell fucked up our phone line and some dumb ass family we've never met is fucking with our minds and picking up the phone constantly, and we would have to pay for them to fix it??? Am I going insane???

Message to the family on our phone:

STOP PICKING UP THE FUCKING PHONE! YOU FUCKING CUNT, YOU KNOW ITS FOR US - ITS ALWAYS FOR US - STOP PICKING UP THE PHONE. AND STOP LETTING YOUR DUMB ASS SON PICK UP THE PHONE. USE A GOD DAMN CELL PHONE UNTIL THIS IS CLEARED UP. WHEN YOU SIT ON THE PHONE FOR HOURS, NO ONE CAN CALL US BECAUSE THE LINE IS BUSY - AND ITS OUR FUCKING PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS HAS BEEN OUR LINE FOR 12 YEARS, YOU ARE NEW IN TOWN - PEOPLE OUR CALLING US, NOT YOU, YOU FUCKING STUPID WHORE. I HATE YOU. I HATE YOUR SON. LEAVE US ALONE.

I find it really really funny.

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RIP Shiloh

Funny? I need to call you right now to tell you about how I could get tickets to the Family Guy at Just For Laughs. I would like to go over it with you. But she won't GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONE! How's that for funny?

Quick Run yarr i have heard storys about guys that joke with her when she is pissed. *Talisin Runs in fear*

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wow... that really sucks

I just now got a chance to read it all because .. well, quite honestly I don't have that much time to do this stuff when I'm at home... heh
Anyway...


Wow, that sucks. Too bad about the phone line. Our line was not quite that bad, but still somewhat crossed with a neighbor's. It didn't ring at both places or anything, but if we were on a call and so was the other family, we could hear their conversation if we listened hard enough. It was loud enough to CLEARLY understand them when it rained...

But one call to BellSouth and they got it fixed up the next day, no prob...

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Woohoo!
There's only one supervisor most Saturday's that works. And the Campaign Manager doesn't work weekends. Soooo.... The supervisor said today that she doesn't care if we use the internet or not. So here I am, on Saturdays, able to use the Internet.... Wheeeeee!

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I miss your rants so much!!!! These boards aren't the same without you!

lol Thanks...maybe my ranting is good for something other than stress relief (gives some people a laugh, I suppose).


I guess today's topic is Warranty
I'm sure someone out there can define Warranty. But the stores, for some reason, will tell people that their phone is covered under warranty, but "we're out of stock, so go call them and they can ship you a phone." That works out well, call the insurance and they'll ship one. Right? NO! For one thing, Warranty is free (or $10 max, for this case). The insurance payment is $50. Tell me how it's fair that the store is out of stock and so the customer has to pay an extra $40? ....


Then, there's the ever-present idiot customers:
Me> Is your phone damaged, are there any scratches, cracks, or anything on your phone?
Cust> Nope, no scratches.
Me> Ok, have you dropped your phone in water?
Cust> No, hasn't been near any water at all.
Me> Ok, what you'll want to do is have the people there at the store replace it under warranty.
Cust> Oh, they said they couldn't replace it under warranty.
Me> Why not?
Cust> Because there's a couple small scratches on the bottom of the phone.
Me> *smacks forehead* Ok.............


And the next problem is Water Damage. Why is this a problem? It wouldn't be, usually. But here's how it goes...
Customer calls, we suggest they have the store look at it for possible warranty. Customer gives the phone to the store. Store rep goes in the back with the phone and comes back a few minutes later: "Oh, your phone has water damage, we can't cover it under warranty."

Now, that's not a problem normally, but when the customer KNOWS they have never had it around water, and there's no chance it got water on it, what DID happen to that phone? Our theory:
- The store takes it back to the back and "examines" the phone, not really looking at it at all. Not wanting to replace it and lose a little money on a defective phone, they SAY it has water damage (since the customer would notice if you took a Hammer and Smashed it...lol) Just so their reports of incoming money looks better ($50 > $10, right?).
- The other theory, which we prefer and think is what really happens, is they take the phone in the back, spray it down with a little water bottle, and bring the phone back: "See the moisture here? It's obviously water damage...."


What should YOU know to protect yourself?? Never let that phone out of your sight! You never know what might happen to it!

(Aliens might steal it. Yes, we've had someone say that. Antennas do fall off the phone by themselves if you aren't careful. Yes, just fell off, nothing at all done to the phone.)

Stupid people? Yes, most definitely....

(/end rant.....for now)

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customer<---well my favorite one is i dont want any mushrooms so recook it
me<-----hhhhmmmm ok --->>in my head(pssh yah right i am just going to take the mushrooms out i am not going to cook another meal because u where stupid and did not tell the waitress you didnt want mushrooms)
5 secs later
me<---here you go sir
customer<---thank you


my favorite one is when a party of 10 order like 6 orders but someone is allergic to shrimp and i got to cook them seperate then cook the other people's food then they complain that it took so long and i just want to scream you are the stupid people who dont want your stupid chicken cooking with shrimp so stfu please i dont care if the food takes 5 mins because i am the only one up there at the grill ok

Here it is....

So today, I come in to work, everything's fine. No complaints because my schedule was actually well spaced out today.
So my first break comes along, I talk to one of our Escalated Calls people. Apparently another one of them go fired over the weekend (yay!) because they have been on extended LOA for medical reasons and were asked to provide doctor's documentation by Friday or they would be terminated. Saturday, open of business, they're gone. I quite honestly didn't like that person, so .. GOOD!

But wait... there's bad news....

The day continues on, and my supervisor finally arrives at work (everyone works odd hours, so it's never a sure thing that you work the same hours as your supervisor..no big deal though). A few minutes after that, we get an email: It's been fun, but I turned in my 2 weeks notice today.

Well shit, that sucks. I liked to have her as a supervisor--never really got on to anyone about stats being a bit off or anything. Gave a little extra time off the phone if you needed it. Just an overall good person for management. I'm still not 100% sure about why she turned in her notice, but from best I can gather from others, she was just tired of the job. Really sucks, but... 2 weeks left, make the best, right?

Wrong...
Not 10 minutes later, we get another email from her. This one reads: Even though I did turn in a 2 week notice, I've been asked to leave today.

No other words from her, she boxed her stuff and walked out of the building....


I now have no supervisor. No one has a clue what to do. No one knows who's going to replace her, just that she will be replaced eventually. I'm just in shock over the whole thing. Going from a good day, to soon losing a supervisor, to immediately losing one, all within a matter of minutes....

All I can say is, wow....

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very interesting rants...one question however...
what is this..."work" you speak of?

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RIP Shiloh

A new development....

I spoke with one of the other supervisors. The only thing that's even RUMORED for the replacement supervisor is one of the Bi-lingual (Spanish/English) guys from another campaign (same building, just does something completely different).

So, if that happens, we have the following situation: He comes over here, takes about 2 weeks of training to figure out our system and policies. Then he starts the supervisor position here. No big problem right? Wrong. We're getting a new campaign here soon (Rumored to be OnStar for Chrysler, should be a fairly good job). This supervisor is already planning to go start there once the time comes to open those positions. That's supposed to be in August.

You're going to tell me we're going to train someone for 2 weeks, on top of any excess time to figure out if it's actually going to happen that way, and he's only going to stay around for what? A month? Two at most? How stupid is that!

The second problem is: A lot of us that are already here have been working our asses off to get promoted. We already know how the systems work, and only would require MAYBE a day of telling how to log in to what little we can't get at now. How difficult would that be?

Not only that.. But if they take the person that's being considered, then we have to go through the same process in August when this one moves elsewhere. That should be good, having to train YET ANOTHER supervisor, when we could have just trained the first one now and been done with it. Stupid? Yep....


Ugh...

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Large established Corperations are just plan out retarded. Its like the left hand had no clue what the right is doing.

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RIP Shiloh

Hey, I GOT A FUCKING RANT, here's for my god damn dad.

Let me explain a few things, my mom and dad are 25 years apart. My mom being 45, and my dad being almost 70. If that doesn't seperate what i might have incommon with my dad, the fact he was in the Air force, which makes him a total pain in the ass about things being clean, and an over all ASSHOLE (Yes people, that would explain it).

Ok, my father, while almost 70, acts like a fucking 14 year old. If something doesn't go his way, he does 1 of 2 things.

1) If it's something to do with my mom, if she doesn't understand something he said, he shakes his head, and does an asshole kind of laugh, like a "You're a dumbass" kind of laugh.

Now, my mom is a bit on a slow side i pick on her sometimes about it, however i don't laugh at her, i laugh with her. I have a very laid back mom, (Thank god i get along with one of my parents). Plus, my dad acts like no one knows what he's talking about..

..well he's right. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK HE'S TALKING ABOUT. I'm pretty quick on understanding things, but even then i go..."What the hell is he talking about?"

If you Randomly break into a song a bad 1950's singer might do, no one will fucking know where it comes from. Only person i see might doing it is a 50 year old homeless person crying to himself and holding a bottle of vodka.

2) He litterly goes from a 69 year old man, to a 12 year old boy that has a, "No one understands me" train of thought

Anything can start this, all he does is say "Forget it" And either go upstairs to his room, or go down into the basement to play with his radio.


Now, he has had surgery like 4-5 months ago (don't ask where) and has had 2 heart attacks past couple of years, as i understand, is falling apart in a sense. And i would be pretty pissed off too, cuase that just sucks.

But.. this has happend even before the heart attacks and crap. He's been this sarcastic old asshole that has a very short temper for a LONG time. You honestly can't tell when he's making a joke or not.

Not to mention, like i said above, i can understand why he might be a bit bitter. However, there has to be a line drawn somewhere, when you just need to wake the fuck up and not be such an asshole.

I was talking about this to my mom the other day. All i'm going to think of him as when he dies, it just an asshole that's been suddly pissing me off over the years. To my kids and grandkids, i'm going to have nothing nice to say about him... and he really doesn't realize that. I really don't want to feel like the jimminy fucking cricket anymore in this family. I got my mom to stop smoking... that's it i'm done. My sister is never around anymore, and my dad is just intolerable, and it's pointless to try to get him to change, since he obviously hasn't realized how he acts for years.

As a certain someone would say...

"I've said it before, i'll say it again. You REALLY need to get a girlfriend"

Pity sex anyone?

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