The Bitch Box

OccultHawk · 07-26-2019, 05:42 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, 07:35 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, 07:49 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, 08:46 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.

WWWP · 07-26-2019, 11:08 PM

I misrepresented the situation. I was sending the emails as per protocol, the instructions for the project stated to offer help to others once you've finished. Our department is rapidly expanding thanks to gavin's new budget, so I'm definitely not concerned about layoffs but regardless I know to keep my head down. Mine is a good problem to have I suppose, I'm sure there will be a time when I wish I had nothing to work on.

But OH re: your recommendations I actually did just join two internal committees that involve a lot more public outreach and self guided projects outside of my job description so really I just need to make it through what is apparently the slow season.

edit: also i have a volunteer orientation this weekend at the local rape crisis center. i guarantee you my next bitch in this thread will be about how i have no free time.

Mondo Bungle · 07-28-2019, 02:36 AM

pretty much the hottest girl in existence took an immense interest in me the other day like you wouldn't believe. Constant heart melting eye contact. Then I had to go and be a dumbass and say that I was homeless, so she bought me a pizza before heading out and that stubborn part of my mind keeps thinking that she might have thought that I only saw her as a charity case. And now I'll probably just never see her again for the rest of my life.. Pussy loser over here.

I'm mad.

Mondo Bungle · 07-28-2019, 03:01 AM

**Marie Monday** · 07-28-2019, 04:01 AM

That hurts to read man

Mondo Bungle · 07-28-2019, 04:10 AM

I mean it's not that serious.

OccultHawk · 07-28-2019, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

pretty much the hottest girl in existence took an immense interest in me the other day like you wouldn't believe. Constant heart melting eye contact. Then I had to go and be a dumbass and say that I was homeless, so she bought me a pizza before heading out and that stubborn part of my mind keeps thinking that she might have thought that I only saw her as a charity case. And now I'll probably just never see her again for the rest of my life.. Pussy loser over here.

I'm mad.

I’m sorry, dude. That’s really rough. Did you get her number or email or anything?

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