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  • Fucking hell. Gonna need to challenge that at the Federal level.
  • Today I discovered that I befriended a torturous monster. FUCK YOU JOE!
  • Wow Florida, I know you have had issues with some bullshit but that is a new one.
  • It was so fucking hot in this house yesterday I ended up sleeping in the basement without covers and I still woke up in a puddle of sweat. Fortunately it's cooler today thus far.
  • edited July 2012
    Ugh. I got fired from my new job, because I was late twice (a 6am flight to Chicago that I rescheduled at my own expense, and the subsequent team meeting that I missed due to the time difference). While I admit that both of those were definitely my fault, I didn't think it'd be such a big deal. The worst part was, I found out when they closed my Google apps account, and I spent two hours troubleshooting it (on Saturday morning) and worrying that the entire company's account was cancelled before my boss gave me a call.

    On a positive note, I got some freelance clients today, and I already have two interviews scheduled for early next week. Still, it sucks. I really liked my coworkers, and the office was right in my neighborhood. They also liked the work that I did, and said the firing was solely due to those incidents.
    Post edited by YoshoKatana on
  • Christ, being late just twice got you canned? That's bullshit, dude. I feel like they should have at least given you some warning or just docked it from sick/vacation time or something.

  • Christ, being late just twice got you canned? That's bullshit, dude. I feel like they should have at least given you some warning or just docked it from sick/vacation time or something.
    Yeah, I getting the feeling if those were just the sole issues you would still have a job. I have known some strict policies but even with them being late twice was not a termination worthy offence.
  • It's an excuse. You don't fire a good worker for being late twice.
  • Docking it from sick/vacation time would be totally fine with me.

    I was late once before (about a month ago. I had asked to work from home, and they refused, so I hurried in to the office), and they talked to me about it, but it wasn't like a "final warning" kind of talk.
  • Client asks for a quote but gives me no information. Make a snazzy checklist for them so I can get a good idea of the scope of their project and what they want me to do for them. Client sends me three pictures of car parts with no further information.

    I'm just breaking into this biz and it's already reminding me of CfH.
  • Got fired from my tutoring job after one week of work - apparently a parent complained.

    I probably deserved it, but that job was going to let me afford a modern desktop this school year.
  • What was the complaint and were you allowed to at least state your side of the story?
  • I didn't ask for specifics. I probably should have, but I doubt it would have changed things.

    At least the job wasn't critical to me making rent, so it's not a terrible problem.
  • It's unimportant if it would've changed anything. It's so you at least know why you were fired, and then you can decide whether it was actually your fault and improve, or the parent was a dumb cunt.
  • I must agree with Nine here.
  • "That Lingiki guy was just too awesome for my son/daughter! He had to be stopped!"
  • It's unimportant if it would've changed anything. It's so you at least know why you were fired, and then you can decide whether it was actually your fault and improve, or the parent was a dumb cunt.
    If I get fired, you better believe I'm going to find out why.

  • It was my first time teaching, and I have to say I was pretty crappy.
  • I've been teaching for a week now and I suck. Thankfully some of my kids seem to actually be learning how to use Unity. Maybe not correctly, but...
  • edited July 2012
    "That Lingiki guy was just too awesome for my son/daughter! He had to be stopped!"
    Well fuck you too for disproving my statement!
    If I get fired, you better believe I'm going to find out why.
    If you get fired I'm sending in the ninjas.
    Post edited by Not nine on
  • Two of my friends that got married last year are now getting divorced. Never would've thought it would happen to them. Just goes to show that you sometimes never know the outcome of these things.
  • If I get fired, you better believe I'm going to find out why.
    If you get fired I'm sending in the ninjas.
    If GTMR gets fired, I'll drop by and say hello.

  • Toy Story 4 has been green-lit.
  • Toy Story 4 has been green-lit.
    Rumours, it hasn't been confirmed.

  • AMD's video driver support for laptops is officially fucking awful. I was looking for driver updates to solve what appears to be a memory leak in my card's DirectX software, and the automatic updater decided to give me the last driver designed for my laptop, which was in fact older than the one I currently had installed.

    Now, laptop video drivers are designed to be model-specific. However, the thing about this particular driver, which incidentally is the one my laptop originally came with, is that it's fucking broken. So broken, in fact, that trying to use hardware acceleration on Flash videos (including YouTube, among others) will occasionally crash my fucking computer. It has been two and a half years, and they still haven't seen fit to put out a driver update for my laptop. I've only been able to get around it by using drivers optimized for this card but other laptop models, and now AMD's "smart" updating software won't let me do that.

    My afternoon will now be spent yelling at tech support.
  • Due to becoming unexpectedly ill with a cold today, I collapsed at work. I was sent home today (being very generously given a ride home by one of my co-workers) and now I'm sick in bed. Fuck!
  • The only time I ever collapsed at work was actually at the Katsucon afterparty for staff many years ago. Scott, Pete, and I were there, and had ultra-flu. I collapsed at the table and slept for a while at one point.
  • Due to becoming unexpectedly ill with a cold today, I collapsed at work. I was sent home today (being very generously given a ride home by one of my co-workers) and now I'm sick in bed. Fuck!
    Did you get sick throughout the day, or did you stubbornly go to work even though you were sick?
  • Americans generally go to work sick, or else they lose pay/vacation days.
  • Americans generally go to work sick, or else they lose pay/vacation days.
    Yuuup. Many don't get paid vacation, like my parents. I had to help them out when my mom had her gallbladder surgery and was out for awhile. Her not getting paid for a few weeks really hurt them, thus me giving them money. My old place didn't have paid sick/vacay either. Luckily I rarely got sick, and I took my laptop with me everywhere. My new place is awesome and we get paid time off, but we are even luckier to be allowed to work from home when sick, yay. Most Americans not so lucky :(
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