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Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a Paycheck - 1/18/2008 3:03:46 PM   
KRANWEST


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Status: offline 		Three letters....one pitiful, measly acronym that still manages to flaunt all the awful weight of a "Khmer Rouge" or "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome".

In less than two years I've accumulated TWENTY-FIVE "Records of Discussion" (R.O.D.'s), each for a different and unique infraction. They're like parking-tickets for minor "on the clock" fuck ups; get too many and you're flushed away, like another useless company turd.

"This is, without a doubt, the worst employee record I've ever seen. It looks more like a rap sheet than a worker file" E------ tells me during eval time. He's thunderstruck....incredulous.....simply flabbergasted that I'm still alive and kicking in my "professional" capacity. Chumps like him just don't get it.

E------'s face is pallid....emaciated like Swamp Thing with a wicked bad meth habit. There's a touch of Don Knotts in that sad-looking visage, and, much like Deputy Fife, I'm sure that E------ would also blow a hole in his foot if given half a chance.

Five hours out of eight, I'm reading the regional papers, masturbating in the handicap restroom (the only one that locks), or playing death-defying games of Extreme, One-Man Leapfrog in the deserted "emergency stairwell". I'm apathetic: a good-for-nothing, 24-year old tick with his head lodged in the company payroll.  Still, I receive a full paycheck, and laugh at chumps like E------, who puts his nose to the grindstone for two buck more per hour.

Would anyone else like to share their workplace experiences?  Feel free to fire away.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/18/2008 6:05:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		   " another useless company turd"  kinda seems like you're describing yourself there.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/18/2008 7:09:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Greylynn

 " another useless company turd"  kinda seems like you're describing yourself there.

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No. 

I'm describing useless company turds.  If I were describing myself, I would have said "........and now, for a description of myself.........."  Okay?

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/18/2008 7:11:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I miss Tre...He was happy. He didn't bitch about a meaningless job. He was deep. He thought about desecrating crack ho's or creating a Mantopia.

What happened? I feel like my brother was just kidnapped or some hooker drugged me and stole a kidney.

Come back to us. Quit your job and fulfill your destiny...Tre, I am your father.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/18/2008 8:10:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you don't want to do your job, why have one? Or at least, why not get a job that agrees with you more? I always hated the fucks that sat around on their ass, but pretended to be working when the "big guns" walked in. They were often times the ass kissers and gossipers too. And they loved taking credit for other peoples work.....crap-eating, salad-tossing, tea bagging, cock sucking, crab-infested fucking sons and daughters of lope-eared jackasses!

Sorry, your post brought back some memories. I'm not directing all that at you past the initial questions. Just ranting....and thinking malicious thoughts........

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/18/2008 10:49:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have worked for myself for most of my life exit out 25 years with uncle...ITS work or no pay check, what am I going to do fire myself,hell no I like to eat regularly..It amazing that positions like this is available but some of my friends have turned into fat cats with this same situation...bounty

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 1:27:37 AM   
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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 1:32:50 AM   
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ORIGINAL: NaiveTempest

crap-eating, salad-tossing, tea bagging, cock sucking, crab-infested fucking sons and daughters of lope-eared jackasses!

sooo.... how do you really feal about these people?

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 1:38:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		It obviously aint a needin advice thread...

Me? I get paid to tell people that the cases and products that they worked their asses off for months or even years is shit and basically call them idiots for even having come up with such things, and I get away with it all because apparently someone somewhere thinks i'm "of a higher and informed opinion".

You know, sorta like here except I get free continental breakfast and lunch, not to mention cash.

Ah well, back to the book, later ya'll.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 7:26:28 AM   
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if not, i get paid to party with rock bands and i love it!  working 2 to 3 nights a week ...doing almost absolutely nothing but reviewing a couple of bands ...snapping pictures and then it's off to the parties!




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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 2:36:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: NaiveTempest

If you don't want to do your job, why have one? Or at least, why not get a job that agrees with you more?


Unfortunely, I put off "higher learning" post-high school until a month-and-a-half ago.  "Good" employers in this area aren't exactly head over heels loco to hire someone with no education.  So, until I strike oil, or stud myself off to a nymphed-out, rich widow, I'll have to wait until my degree is finished.



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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 2:39:11 PM   
KRANWEST


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ORIGINAL: Rumtiger

It obviously aint a needin advice thread...

Me? I get paid to tell people that the cases and products that they worked their asses off for months or even years is shit and basically call them idiots for even having come up with such things, and I get away with it all because apparently someone somewhere thinks i'm "of a higher and informed opinion".

You know, sorta like here except I get free continental breakfast and lunch, not to mention cash.

Ah well, back to the book, later ya'll.


Now that sounds that a sweet job.  I get free meals, but in no circumstances do I enjoy the pleasure of calling someone an idiot for chasing a pot of gold for longer than necessary.  Nice..................very nice.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 4:04:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Honestly, I think about 9/10ths of america only go to work every day because its a paycheck. Its a means to live. Most people dont give a shit about theyre job as long as they have one.

My job is to tell people that they cant get plates for theyre car because it pollutes too much. You ever want to see angry angry people, try telling them theyre car is a rotten, stinking pile of shit, and they cant get plates because of it.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/19/2008 5:51:08 PM   
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ORIGINAL: youngsubgeoff

Honestly, I think about 9/10ths of america only go to work every day because its a paycheck. Its a means to live. Most people dont give a shit about theyre job as long as they have one.

My job is to tell people that they cant get plates for theyre car because it pollutes too much. You ever want to see angry angry people, try telling them theyre car is a rotten, stinking pile of shit, and they cant get plates because of it.


Hmmmmmm.  I'll bet you have to possess major customer service skills to avoid the tirade of "What the fuck do you mean 'I can't get plates for my car?  You're a fucking asshole. Blah, blah, blah"
 
I wonder how many times a day you have to fight the urge to engage an angry dipshit in some hard-core fisticuffs.  Not bad.  Keep em' comin'.

 

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/20/2008 7:07:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, 99% of our customers are ok. its that 1% that you need to learn to bite your toung and resist stabbing them with your pen.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/20/2008 7:21:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am a.........manager......with 3.5 guys working for me. Sometimes that involves doing diddly squat if there isn't squat to do, most of the time it involves doing what the other 3.5 didn't have time to do. I'm also filling in for a customer service rep that we currently do not have. I fired her and told the owner that I could do what she was taking all day to do in a couple of hours a day. Business is slow, it is saving the company $25K a year or so, and it helps keep me busy enough to get through the days without spending all day doing diddly squat.

I certainly do not love my job, but the pay is okay. I can do it for another 3-4 years and then I will be self employed.

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RE: Doing Diddly-Squat at Work, but Still Accepting a P... - 1/20/2008 2:34:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I fired her and told the owner that I could do what she was taking all day to do in a couple of hours a day.



Ouch.  Did she cry?  I've seriously heard that about three-fourths of "shitcanned" employees at my company wax tearful when they're getting escorted outside of company property. 

Sometimes I hope and pray to receive some sort of work-related injury on-the-job, so I can head straight towards "disability"-ville.  God........................I can smell that unearned check as we speak.

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