Jobs, I know most of us have one.

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:39 pm

Blockbuster sucks because corporate is making a bunch of lame-o rules. Now we have to meet all these sales goals, and if we don't we have to call the regional manager and explain why we didn't. If we need a day off, we need to ask for it 3 weeks in advance. It's just getting stressful.

CaseyDidder · Post by **CaseyDidder** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:47 pm

Riot wrote:Blockbuster sucks because corporate is making a bunch of lame-o rules. Now we have to meet all these sales goals, and if we don't we have to call the regional manager and explain why we didn't. If we need a day off, we need to ask for it 3 weeks in advance. It's just getting stressful.

ahh I love being union personally.

I can't get fired :O EXTREME Job security too. But when I go management I lose that

good thing every manager likes me -_-x Kissing ass is a must in a work enviroment if you want to get promoted. to bad most union workers see working hard as kissing ass -_-x oh well

Grubb · Post by **Grubb** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:55 pm

CaseyDidder wrote:Kissing ass is a must in a work enviroment if you want to get promoted.

How true, how true.

Haha, I guess over the years I've become quit the expert butt-kissing brown noser.

I used to get away with all kinds of crap at the movie theater I worked at. All I had to do what tell the boss I liked his/her shirt or something. everyday.

Original Sin · Post by **Original Sin** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:05 pm

I'm also in a Union. It has good points, and it has bad points.
The good thing is, I can't get fired on a management whim, unless I'm laid off, which has to go by seniority, so I can be singled out for a lay off or anything. The bad thing is, the union protects the lazy people.
So, if someones not doing their job, a job that my job depends on, there's nothing we can do about it, and we all fall behind. This happens almost every night at work, by the way...crazy bitch on second shift doesn't do her job right, and we have to pick up the pieces, and are still responsible for meeting our production on top of it.

LikeableRodent · Post by **LikeableRodent** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:06 pm

CaseyDidder wrote:...to bad most union workers see working hard as kissing ass -_-x oh well

Yeah, it's a damn shame that people would assume they'd be promoted based on merit instead of brown-nosing.

I recently decided to stop being a lazy bum and get another job, so I'm starting work at ResNet next week.

Previously I've worked at:
McDonald's (1 year)
Papa John's (2.5 years)
Sommers Building Maintenance (3 months, summer job)
The Picture People (3 months, summer job)

dancing queen iu · Post by **dancing queen iu** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:25 pm

Sales associate at IU Bookstore.

Basically just standing around, eating when the managers aren't around, and ringing people up. Minimum wage, but I love my coworkers.

Ryan Dognaux · Post by **Ryan Dognaux** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:02 pm

I'll be working at the Indianapolis Zoo again soon... basically I sit on my ass and sell very overpriced parking/admission/ride tickets to people who don't want to be there in the first place and are only there because of their kids.

I love it, 7.25 an hour, part time,.

SirPhobos · Post by **SirPhobos** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:54 pm

i work as a quality auditor at hewlett-packard.

malictus · Post by **malictus** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:26 am

I'm a programmer for the Variations2 project at IU. I'm salaried & make my own hours writing music software for a living; couldn't ask for much more than that! Only downside of the job: it's funded from a federal grant whcih ENDS this September so I have to find something else to do....

In the past I've worked as:
- AI and 'visiting lecturer' in music theory at IU (a 'visiting lecturer' does all the work of a professor but gets paid shit

)
- Village Pantry checkout guy for about 4 years while I was a student - believe it or not I absolutely loved this job because of the people I worked with
- Blockbuster
- Burger King (I only lasted a week!)
- Assembly line for one summer making car stereo speakers

CgSquall · Post by **CgSquall** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:24 am

Ryan, you forgot people on first dates. The Zoo is a good place for a first date if you can't think of anywhere else to take them without being wayyy too cliche(a movie and dinner is too freaking cliche and overused)

XxJennaxX · Post by **XxJennaxX** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:03 am

I work at Outback Steakhouse in Avon. It's decent b/c I love the people I work with and the environment, but quite frankly, I hate customers b/c they bitch too much, which is my only complaint. And I just got Employee of the Month.

Original Sin · Post by **Original Sin** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:16 am

I could never be a waiter...so many people at restaurants bitch at the waiter or waitress for things that generally aren't their fault. I don't really have the patience, or the people skills to put up with things like that.

dancing queen iu · Post by **dancing queen iu** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:21 am

Being a waiter was the best job I've ever had. I worked at this place back in Toronto where I'm from, a little pub in my town. It was soooo much fun. All the people I worked with were wonderful, so was my boss, and I actually loved working friday and saturday nights when it got really busy. This summer I'll be 19 so I'm going to start bartending there (in Ontario you have to be 19 to bartend and drink), and I'm REALLY excited. I've always wanted to bartend, and this place is pretty upscale, so it's all good, since I'm going to basically be apprenticing under like the master bartender for a while and he's going to teach me like everything they teach you in bartending school. Fun summer for me.

yamcha61 · Post by **yamcha61** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:55 am

I work for the YMCA as an activity leader. It is by far one of the best jobs ever!! You can actually get paid to goto places and play DDR. (they are hiring people for summer camps if anyone is interested)

Grubb · Post by **Grubb** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:12 am

XxJennaxX wrote:I work at Outback Steakhouse in Avon. It's decent b/c I love the people I work with and the environment, but quite frankly, I hate customers b/c they bitch too much, which is my only complaint. And I just got Employee of the Month.

Hey! I had a friend from High School who worked there. But, I doubt she still does.

Did you ever work with a really, really short girl named "Rita" ?