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[ SECRET POST #2712 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2712 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Hemlock Grove]

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[The Walking Dead Game/Toy Story 3/etc]

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03.

[Long Live the Queen]

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04. [repeat]

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[Rupaul's Drag Race]

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[Dr Who - An Adventure in Space and Time]

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07. http://i.imgur.com/TEcm28n.gif
[moving gif]

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[Conchita Wurst, Daniel Gildenlow]

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09.

[petals on the wind]

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[Until the Full Moon]

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(Homestuck, John/Jade)

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[Homestuck]

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14. [WARNING for rape]

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15. [WARNING for suicide]

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16. [WARNING for abuse?]

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17. [WARNING for suicide]

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Rants only related to work! Bonus points if you tell us what your job is, because I'm nosy and curious.

My rant is that I still don't really have one. I do freelance stuff, but can't live off it. And the frustrating thing is: if I take a full-time job, I won't have time for the freelance (which I don't want).

So ideally I'd get a part-time job for two days a week which is even more of a challenge.

Also I hate job hunting with the passion of a thousand burning suns. Been playing ith the idea to just temporarily work abroad more and more.

I am just a checkout operator. I have no control over the products the company offers. I have no control over the price they are sold at. I have no control over the 5p charge on plastic bag the government is apparently bringing in. If I had any control over any of these things, I would not be sitting here putting your stuff in front of a machine until it beeps.

Yup. Been there done that as a cashier. "Why are these so expensive???" Like I have some kind of control over that? lol

Unpaid internships should be illegal. Fuck them. It's bullshit that I have to do the work you're too lazy to do, stress out and exert myself so much for something completely uncompensated. Oh wait, just so I can put your name on my resume for a job that won't even consider me otherwise.

I mean, it's one thing maybe if you're actively teaching me and it's essentially a mentor, skill-teaching internship. But it's not, not by a long shot. Ugh.

Internships in general are complete bullshit. I think the only ones that really teach anyone anything are the ones in the medical fields. Otherwise, they all just exist so companies can have cheap or free servants.

Yeah, basically. And some companies basically just havve a fresh load of interns every year which saves them a lot of cash.

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This week's actually been okay? No one died, like last week. And yeah, that fucked me up because the last memory I have of her is rubbing her shoulder and telling her it'd get better while she cried about how much pain she was in and about how much grief her family was giving her about losing weight. Not a good last memory to have of someone.

Gossip is people still think I'm rude, unhelpful, and don't know what I'm fucking doing... but whatever. My conundrum the other day was: do I just explain things poorly, or is what I'm trying to impart just incomprehensible to some people? Because I'd explain something and ten minutes later the same person would come back with the same question. There's only so many ways to explain this concept without trying to draw diagrams (which won't help at all).

People who make it clear they're in it for the money drive me nuts. I know a lot of people ARE in it for the money, but do they need to make it so obvious?

Hey, dickrod new manager. I'm sorry you inherited the scheduling mess left behind, but could you prioritise giving hours to the peeps who don't have a second job?

For fuck's sake this is not a living wage, and it's going to be expensive to come to work because paying for a buss pass is half my monthly earnings.

My new boss telecommutes. At first he was awesome with giving me feedback. But for the last couple of days he hasn't answered any emails until hours after I sent them, which has made doing the actual work I'm supposed to difficult.

Customers who call with loud background noise drive me nuts, because they get all pissy when you need to repeat themselves. I know sometimes turning off/down the TV or going to a room isn't an option, but if it is, do that. Either way, don't take it out on me.

Also, peoplewholeavemssageslikethis. I only write with one hand; I need you to go slooowly.

I'm a phlebotomist and usually pretty accurate in my sticks. Actually, over last month, most of my sticks were perfect.

But today - the one time my supervisor decided to observe me - I accidentally gave my donor a hematoma. I don't do well under pressure, dammit! D:

So basically I help do building operations (don't want to say specifics). I'm helping run a big event next week, and one the week after. I won't be there for the second one because I quit. But the second one is SO unbelievably unorganized. I've been asking for specifications all week for the second one. We SHOULD have had them a week or two ago. But the person running it can't provide them.

She's changed the setup a thousand times (I have to make floor plans even though those do not come standard so I have to make something shitty by hand on paint). Today I found out she wants to have ~300 people have lunch at the same time in a space that seats 100. When I told her that this wasn't possible she spazzed out at me, trying to pin it on me (i.e "you knew how many people would be at this conference"). I tried coming up with several options, citing how other large events have been run. But she didn't like anything. So I sent her to my boss because fuck if I'm dealing with that.

She also said that it couldn't be changed because "she already sent out the agenda to everyone." Which she SHOULD NOT have done. Because she needs to run stuff by us so we can give her the OK.

So this is a giant mess and I'm glad to be done with this in a week. This workplace is so stress driven that I can't take it with my anxiety. I'm going to do whatever I can and just be done.

The best part is that this is all stuff I had no idea I'd be doing when I took this job AND I've never been formally trained in it. So I'm basically one of the main people running two events when I have no training. Yet I know more about what I'm doing than she does.

If I wasn't leaving in a week I'd honestly have walked out today.

If I wasn't leaving in a week I'd honestly have walked out today.

I know that feeling. I quit my job as a pharmacy technician for one of the major retail pharmacy chains, and on my second-to-last day, it was a nightmare. We were hours behind on orders, we didn't have enough people so that as long as all three stations that had to deal with customers had people, there was no one filling prescriptions. If I wasn't already leaving, I would have walked out.

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I hate that I feel like I'm not qualified for anything and that the dream job I interviewed for a month ago still hasn't made a decision.

I wish my coworker would stop listening to her music on her phone without headphones. I don't need to hear your shitty phone speakers blasting out music while you walk thru the building.

That's really obnoxious. Is that even allowed?

Nurses: Please check that silver box in your med room called a refrigerator before you call me looking for your drugs. It's probably in there. Thank you.

I work in a department store (yay!retailohfuckinghelljustshootmenow).

And I want to tell everybody who is reading this, that if you have ever wandered through the shoe department, trying on five or six or seven pairs of shoes, leaving random shoes tossed on the benches, on the shelves, on the floor, without a thought to the poor slob with the Million Papercuts of Doom who's going to have to pick those fuckers up and put them back in the boxes and then explain to a manager why you have six shoes with lost mates, you are a crappy person.

If you let your kids do it, too, then you are a shitty human being and I hope your kids are dipping your toothbrush in the toilet when you're not looking.

I want to hang a huge goddamned sign back there: "WE ARE NOT YO MOMMA! PUT THEM BACK IN THE FUCKING BOX."

And people who chew tobacco and spit in our wastebaskets deserve a special level of hell, where they will have to swim in tobacco spit for all eternity.

I used to work shoe dept. so I feel you.

argh, some people are so bad about strewing things all around. Clothing, too.

I feel like there has to be a better way to track the dollar values of food and non-food purchases from our primary supplier. As it stands, I have to write them by hand on every single invoice from said supplier*. Calculating them is a snap, but I have difficulty writing clearly, so it can take me as many as two hours to write and calculate for a thick stack of invoices. I enter them all into the computer beforehand; can't we do something with that? Or would it really take the folks at FAST** that much longer to calculate the numbers themselves?

* To be clear, our supplier categorizes purchases as food, non-food, and miscellaneous. I look at the miscellaneous to see which ones are food and which aren't, adding their values to the appropriate category. If we don't have any miscellaneous on that invoice, I'm just taking the values on the last page and writing them by hand on the front page.

** All I know is that they're called FAST and they pay the invoices. I have no idea why they need to know the values of food and non-food.

Actually, all of my rants have been resolved. I should go on vacation more often.

I've had a pretty rough time with my job, to be honest. I don't want to go into too much detail, but let's just say it was stressful and I was worried that I may lose my job. Maybe too much so, but I've worked so hard to get here it just felt miserable that all of that may just crumble away. I've been working harder though and trying to make up for my mistakes. It's been making me feel awful though.

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