The Not Happy Thread

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  1. SethLoki

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    No chance I'd say. Ever. Do what you will with claws and quill. He does all his scenes from a 4 star hotel with green screen—never been in the woods in his life.
     
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    Thanks man, come round when you like. We'll have a barbecue, hot tub, see - maybe you'd like to try a few of my outfits? I'll call @CT, and @Harbourface, she's always here with her rat suit. Attagirl, eh..? Ciao.
     
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    "I could care less about people's lives."

    You guys are real beacons of humanity.
     
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    Oh, I understand now @12

    I have a problem with Facebook - grandma & aunty reading/snooping on grandson's 2am posts. Poor lad sticking Darger [sp] art on screen - and dumb people calling him a paeedo, that level of ignorance...quite distressing. ANd I was the one who put him on to Darger, or some paedo, can't remember the name exactly.
     
  5. Iain Aschendale

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    Huh, my post didn't post earlier, but whatever.

    Insomnia. I thought about the future, which is always a mistake. Mathematically, I'm fucked, never going to retire.

    Whaddya gonna do about it? Nothing, as usual. Something will come up.
     
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    Quote of the fucking year. God I want to put that on a T-shirt. That deserves a micdrop @Homer Potvin !
     
  7. NoGoodNobu

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    So how the mandatory 80hr unpaid time off worked out is that I requested very specific dates that coincided with when my family's business needs extra hands & were looking to hire part-time help.

    But the first days requested off were yesterday and today (because President's weekend) only my supervisor (who is in China) would NOT get back to me until yesterday morning at 7AM local LA time. {actually, she responded to me everyday I messaged her from a Thursday till Monday—she just wouldn't say she approved the requested dates}

    So I of course had gotten ready to go into work as per usual only to get the approval AFTER my parent's morning shift had already begun and I needed to drive from LA County to Southern Orange County, and I had to change out of law firm fancy attire into ranch suitable working clothes, pack for the overnight & next day's work, and so basically lost a whole half day's pay.

    I informed my supervisor that the reason it had to be those dates was because I can't afford rent without working full time and that I needed to receive affirmation in time so I could inform my parents so they could schedule workers accordingly (and not hire someone) and so I could drive down in time to work.

    So I missed half a day's pay and my parent's work doesn't technically pay the same hourly wage as my new job (because before when I was full time for my parents, they threw in the perk of free rent which more than compensated for the difference) so I'm going to see if my student loans (private & federal) are willing to charge me less for two month cause yeah.

    I am super grateful for my parents though who tried to find a beneficial solution for me.
     
  8. big soft moose

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    I can't help feeling you'd be better off picking up some bar work - all that driving is going to seriously impact the amount you actually make
     
  9. Shenanigator

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    Double check the law on this, but I believe our state (CA) is one that requires employers to pay you "show up time" if you have not been properly notified and go into work as expected. If the email arrived after your show up time for the first job, you may be due a couple of hours pay. Check it on the state's employment law website. I forget what the minimum show up time is--an hour, or a half day, but it used to be the law here, because in the past a few times I had to be paid because of it, and I was non-Union. CA has some of the strictest employment laws in the nation, in the employee's favor.
     
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    In L.A. it's typically easier to get a job doing Lyft than a bar shift, and it's more flexible. Per my last Lyft driver, you can turn on your Lyft availability on a whim when you're short on cash if need be. I suppose you can with Uber, too, but the people I know who drive for both like driving for Lyft a bit better. LA rents are skyrocketing so fast (our local economy has been good for several years), bar work as an extra to help make rent is a quickly disappearing thing.
     
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    I actually do have a second part-time job, but it's this sort of set-your-own hours sales gig I'm fairly good at.

    But the real reason I chose it, is because I can write off all my gas from LA to OC so long as I meet & chat with my supervisor about whatever new products which she's always willing to do and is not difficult to schedule a meet time with.

    And the time off is at least scheduled in good sized chunks so that I can be at the ranch for a few days (originally I was planning to work the whole weekend, but again the supervisor would not approve the requested time off they told me was mandatory to take until Monday morning).

    But yeah, I'm considering looking out for various employment options if this is going to be a consistent problem.

    (But to be fair, the firm is restructuring due to some harsher restrictions that make the previously bread-&-butter cases of the firm nearly obsolete so that income has been tight for the past month until we start bringing in new sorts of clientele with different case matters)

    I actually do know about this law because I just sent it to my friend, because one of her employers tried to cheat her out of her pay even though she was there for her scheduled work and they said she'd only work the last half hour of her scheduled shift—which was several hours later than when she showed up for her scheduled start. She actually had several labour laws in her favour, which I sent to her which she shared with her overall supervisor who then compensated her for the total.

    My biggest issue is I don't want to rock the boat too much at my new job because a lot of workers got let go for their performance the past three months, most of whom've worked there much longer than I have.

    And I just really don't want to be fired to further help their payroll issue and then be forced to go job hunting for another full time job to afford the rent of my new apartment.
     
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  12. Homer Potvin

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    Yeah, don't be that guy/gal... they have a tendency to be sacrificed as a message to everyone else.
     
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    Yeah, my goal is to be not only valuable but irreplaceable

    And while I believe I've dazzled them with my technical & substantive editing, I'm still not quite up to muster for the case coordinator bit.

    (It'd help if they had job trainings & instructions for how things are to be done, but hey, I'm a big girl and am going to prove I won't drown just from being pushed immediately into the deep end—hopefully.)
     
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    For the sake of your sanity, in L.A. no matter how good you are, drop that expectation. Seriously. I don't mean don't be great at your job. I mean, drop the expectation that you can make them think you're irreplaceable. You will make yourself miserable. In L.A. it's like employer psychology 101 to keep the employees nervous, because there are constantly so many newbies moving to town, of all professions, it works in the employer's favor to keep the employees walking on eggshells. Especially with rents skyrocketing. The really bad employers will even say, at every opportunity, "We get XX number of applications every single day..."

    So, yeah, strive for excellence, but never expect the employer to think you're irreplaceable. ETA: Most people here arm themselves by constantly sending out resumes even when they're not actively job searching. Everyone's got a gig on the back burner.
     
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    Yep and remember that you might fall in love with the job, but the job doesn't fall in love with you. Or as an American friends of mine says " I love the fucking Marine Corps, and Corps loves fucking me."
     
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    Job training? Instructions? In Los Angeles? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Rarely happens here. The deep end is the L.A. welcome.

    As soon as you have the procedures down, take those notes you made for yourself while you were learning and volunteer to write the manual...and immediately add it to your resume before your employer can blink.

    Gives the employer tangible proof that you know what you're doing, and writing manuals is a skill few employees possess.
     
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    Yeah, don't be that guy/gal either. I've been there and had my throat cut on numerous occasions. Everyone is replaceable. Even Tom Brady. The first thing I do when I build a staff is make sure everyone's job is covered, that at least two people can do anything that needs to be done at any given time. And if I sense that someone is evolving into a position that is too unique to be replicated, then I change the position because no successful business can ever be exposed by a thin depth chart. Or--and this is far more common--be held hostage by someone who thinks they can't be replaced and therefore deserve more money, affection, and belly-scratches than everyone else.

    ETA: I'll second what @Shenanigator said about training manuals and procedures. That's the simplest shit in the world and companies, even wildly successful companies, fail to do that all the time. And then they wonder why they can't get the crew on the same page. Drives me up the frigging wall.
     
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    'Give o'er. Management can go to fuck,' she said and threw the pinny in his fat face. 'Fry your own chips, shithead,' she said, 'talk to me like that one more time and my Dad will come down here and smash your face in.'
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    'Ye what, sweetheart? I have to thump Ronald Mcdonald? Well, I don't want to, especially. Let me finish my tea, and I'll be down.'

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    I don't want to crush your dreams, but that really doesn't happen anywhere ever. If you can learn to do a job, it's a pretty sure bet that someone else can learn to do that same job with nothing more than a couple of weeks bump in workflow to get through the learning curve. Not only that, but most decent bosses have enough experience with people unexpectedly leaving for whatever reason that they'd never allow someone to become remotely close to being irreplaceable in the first place. Not to say that you shouldn't work hard and strive for excellence, but it's also a good idea to watch what goals you put your energy into.
     
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    Normally, I'd agree with you. The problem is, L.A. is rife with flakey employers who will do anything not to pay you at all while keeping the employees walking on eggshells. (That's why California got a law that employers cannot forbid employees from discussing their salaries with each other.) So employees here kind of have to finesse the art of passive-aggression, in an oh so friendly way.

    This is not the laid-back place the media would have people believe. It's cutthoat as hell, except they smile at you and pretend to be your best friend while fucking you over.
     
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    Agreed. You can't. But not everyone is cut out for entrepreneurship, and we business owners / independent contractors still need good employees. o_O
     
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    Well, it looks like this is the end for my combat boots I've had and loved for the past three years...:(
    I tried to take good care of them, but someone stepped on the back of one of them in the hallway and ripped it open somehow.
    I know I won't ever find the exact same pair.
    Yeah, it's just a pair of boots, but I feel like they helped make me who I am today, if that's possible.
     
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    If it's a seam rip and they're leather, a shoe repair person can sew them. ETA: They can also resole them, put on new heels if they're worn down...There's a lot you can do to keep them going, and it's not expensive to do. I have a pair of riding boots I keep going that way.
     
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    My gas got shut off this morning. Got home after work to a tag on my door saying a tech showed up to swap out the meter and couldn’t gain access, (nobody was home-excuse me for having a job too) so he shut off the gas. Did he just assume someone would be home middle of the day?

    I raised enough of a stink with customer service they’re coming back out tomorrow, until then I have no heat, no hot water and it’s supposed to get into the 30s tonight. At least I have my wife to keep me warm.
     
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    That sucks, but the two of you should be able to stay comfortable once you get into bed. Mrs. A and I never use the bedroom heater at night, and it's been getting below freezing here lately. Just pile up lots of blankets, and (no innuendo intended) remember you'll transfer heat to each other better if you're not dressed under those blankets. Anything that happens as a result is up to you, but in all seriousness, pajamas don't keep you as warm as skin to skin contact.
     
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