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The Batlord · 07-12-2019, 06:46 PM

I'll bet that would cover subsidized weed for everyone too.

OccultHawk · 07-12-2019, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug McClasky

I'll bet that would cover subsidized weed for everyone too.

To the tune of about 4 grand per year per person.

Which makes me think Yang’s UBI plan would “cost” around three times our current on record military budget.

WWWP · 07-26-2019, 03:38 PM

I need to strengthen the whole make-a-simple-project-take-all-week skill that office workers seem to innately have. Why does it take me 20 minutes to do something it takes my coworkers all day to do? I am still new and have a fair amount less work, sure. But like, why does everyone seem to be drowning in their work while I’m over here twiddling my thumbs all week because I complete all my tasks by the time I take my first 15 (I have sent out an email every day this week by 12pm to the entire department asking if anyone has work they need help with or any type of menial tedious task they don’t want to do because I am bored out of my mind and no one has taken me up on it). My bf says I’m just going too fast, I have to pace it out. But I don’t have the attention span for that ****, I need like a guaranteed 8 hours of mental stimulation to convince myself not to call out every day. Literally am currently writing this in an excel spreadsheet so it looks like I’m working. Earlier I wrote out the addresses of my entire caseload twice onto envelopes. I have literally nothing to do and have two and a half more hours to do it.

WWWP · 07-26-2019, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

that sounds terrible

it's literally either this or i have parents in crisis dropping by the office unexpectedly with some ****ed up **** to cry out on my shoulder

~~jwb~~ · 07-26-2019, 04:16 PM

I have this dog at work that always tries to hump my leg when I take her out and today I found out apparently that's cause she thinks she's the dominant one in the relationship. I got something for her ass tomorrow though.

WWWP · 07-26-2019, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

I have this dog at work that always tries to hump my leg when I take her out and today I found out apparently that's cause she thinks she's the dominant one in the relationship. I got something for her ass tomorrow though.

Omg, phrasing

OccultHawk · 07-26-2019, 04:42 PM

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I have sent out an email every day this week by 12pm to the entire department asking if anyone has work they need help with or any type of menial tedious task they don’t want to do because I am bored out of my mind and no one has taken me up on it

I’d be careful about this because you don’t want to be responsible for something that could lead to justifying a layoff. Everyone pretends to be busy at work whether they are or aren’t. Remember, people aren’t working to get work done, they’re working to keep their lights on.

Do you think maybe you could spearhead a new project or goal? Like maybe an outreach to help kids in juvie with their school work. Or maybe a nutrition awareness campaign or start a community garden. Or maybe you could prepare some kind of presentation you could give to school teachers just about abuse or poverty in general.

On teacher workdays we had people from the community come in and talk to us about what might be happening in the community that we don’t see.

Maybe all that is impossible. Do you think your bosses might be open to the possibility of you expanding your job description if you came up with a doable proposal?

mr dave · 07-26-2019, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I’d be careful about this because you don’t want to be responsible for something that could lead to justifying a layoff. Everyone pretends to be busy at work whether they are or aren’t. Remember, people aren’t working to get work done, they’re working to keep their lights on.

This.

And even if you're the productive worker the layoff would likely be self-inflicted since you're the one shaking up the status quo. It's a bitter pill to swallow and one I've cut my own neck multiple times to avoid swallowing to my detriment. As I enter middle age as an educated but unemployed individual I'm starting to think the variety of names in the list of past employers is now flagging me as an unreliable and therefore un-hireable individual - regardless of whatever hot economy hype a hollow politician bellows from their face hole.

My last "look busy" project was trying to figure out how to macro the hell out of an Excel sheet to turn it into a graphic visualizer. Theoretically, if you reduce the cells to 1x1 they function like the pixels in your monitor...

OccultHawk · 07-26-2019, 06:49 PM

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As I enter middle age as an educated but unemployed individual I'm starting to think the variety of names in the list of past employers is now flagging me as an unreliable and therefore un-hireable individual - regardless of whatever hot economy hype a hollow politic

It’s crushing

I’m not sure I really believed it until I got stuck in the quicksand

Makes life hard af- real talk

The Batlord · 07-26-2019, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I’d be careful about this because you don’t want to be responsible for something that could lead to justifying a layoff. Everyone pretends to be busy at work whether they are or aren’t. Remember, people aren’t working to get work done, they’re working to keep their lights on.

Do you think maybe you could spearhead a new project or goal? Like maybe an outreach to help kids in juvie with their school work. Or maybe a nutrition awareness campaign or start a community garden. Or maybe you could prepare some kind of presentation you could give to school teachers just about abuse or poverty in general.

On teacher workdays we had people from the community come in and talk to us about what might be happening in the community that we don’t see.

Maybe all that is impossible. Do you think your bosses might be open to the possibility of you expanding your job description if you came up with a doable proposal?

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Originally Posted by mr dave

This.

And even if you're the productive worker the layoff would likely be self-inflicted since you're the one shaking up the status quo. It's a bitter pill to swallow and one I've cut my own neck multiple times to avoid swallowing to my detriment. As I enter middle age as an educated but unemployed individual I'm starting to think the variety of names in the list of past employers is now flagging me as an unreliable and therefore un-hireable individual - regardless of whatever hot economy hype a hollow politician bellows from their face hole.

My last "look busy" project was trying to figure out how to macro the hell out of an Excel sheet to turn it into a graphic visualizer. Theoretically, if you reduce the cells to 1x1 they function like the pixels in your monitor...

Thirded. Either you're making your own job look unimportant or making other people look incompetent. I highly doubt your co-workers appreciate all the emails either.

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~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I have this dog at work that always tries to hump my leg when I take her out and today I found out apparently that's cause she thinks she's the dominant one in the relationship. I got something for her ass tomorrow though.