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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Nov 4, 2012 17:34:57 GMT -6
No, the family didn't lock me in the attic, but it sure feels like it.
No, my couch mates - Auntie has been working her behind off. As in 50-60 hours a week, due to a time crunch on a migration project for one of the company's larger accounts. Auntie has been teaching the new guys how to do the job, which means having to actually BE IN THE OFFICE, since I can't exactly teach them by remote. To top it off, Auntie has been tasked with learning the jobs of a couple of other folks and writing the documentation for ALL the jobs.
One might think that is a lot to ask of a contractor, which is how I landed the job. However, since I took it all on my plate, the big boss thought it was deserving of being made permanent. Which is what happened on November 1; I ceased being a contractor and was issued a shiny new ID badge and told to pick out a spiffy new smartphone. I chose the HTC One X.
So, Auntie is going to be a busy little lady through the end of the year at least. However, it doesn't mean I don't enjoy the company of my favorite sofa buddies - it just means I spend my time being either dog tired or running about like decapitated poultry.
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Post by verbaltoxin on Nov 4, 2012 19:41:43 GMT -6
Thanks for checking in! I'm glad you're gainfully employed, but yes, 50-60 hrs/week is rough.
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Post by Ed Becker on Nov 6, 2012 4:11:20 GMT -6
Glad to hear you landed the gig! Hopefully the hours get more sane once the dust settles and you get these people up to speed.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Nov 6, 2012 6:28:39 GMT -6
Ed Becker: Glad to hear you landed the gig! Hopefully the hours get more sane once the dust settles and you get these people up to speed. It's weird - after three work days, the manager made me her "stealth manager". Added to my list of duties is to keep an ear open for potential problems that people may not be comfortable bringing to her or the team lead. This involves me listening to the team on both sides - the desktop support guys and the project managers running the migrations. The first two issues we discussed involved a contract agency that is violating the state labor laws and one technician that seems to have issues with women in charge. This sucks big time because the manager, the team lead, two project managers and one migration lead are all women. However, this job is a lot of fun.
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Post by hobblekitty on Nov 6, 2012 13:12:36 GMT -6
Congrats Auntie Cheesus, I wish you continued success! :-)
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Post by LucklessWonder on Nov 6, 2012 23:14:09 GMT -6
If they make you stealth HR, I'm looking for work, and willing to relocate anywhere south of Canada and north of Mexico...
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Post by pmoneyallstar on Dec 26, 2012 20:57:43 GMT -6
So, I'm posting this here cos' I refuse to start a new thread about my personal life. I did post about TNA tickets, but only cos I'm Sharing my excitement with you. Because of you guys I prolly wouldn't have even been watching Impact.
Anyways..i was let go today from my job. Funny thing is I actually didn't do anything to get fired. I've been that guy who was dependable and wasn't afraid to work lots of hours and be the go-to-guy.
I had to actually ask for a reason and the ones they gave were piss poor.
sucks..etc..
Truth is, I'm afraid I wasn't friendly enough with the managers husband, who is a roid-riddled bow-legged bouncer who loves MMA, ROCKY AND GOODFELLAS...
You know the type. LOVES to talk about his "prison days" and war stories of bouncing. He runs the place even though he doesn't do any work cos His wife is running the joint for the owner.
Meanwhile, the bouncer leaves the club a few times a night to smoke weed and pop something, as he's always dozing off during his shift.
On the other hand there's the other bouncer who is the son of the new owner and he's another idiot. I'd be surprised if this place even stays open the next year...
Anyways, whatever...
It's time to have my "I got fired" beers.
Tomorrow is another day and all that..
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Post by Ed Becker on Dec 27, 2012 0:03:16 GMT -6
Sorry to hear that P$. Hopefully they don't jack you around on anything you may be entitled to or in you getting another gig.
Been there myself, getting blown out for my 10th anniversary. The PD didn't have the balls to fire me himself so he had the GM do his dirty work giving me a litany of bullshit reasons for 20 minutes when I knew I was probably on my way out anyways, he would've been better off with the 5 minute "we're changing direction, blah blah." The business manager was cool enough to handle it as a layoff so I got some severance and they didn't fuck with my unemployment.
Hope you're able to get something quick.
/btw, the aforementioned GM was shown the door almost a month to the day of my dismissal for allegedly having his hand in the cookie jar... I see similar parallels with your situation.
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Post by verbaltoxin on Dec 27, 2012 12:35:25 GMT -6
Guess I'll never make it up to DiCarlo's. I hope everything shakes out well for you, Pi.
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Post by pmoneyallstar on Dec 27, 2012 19:37:11 GMT -6
Thank you guys for all the positivity!!
Admittedly, I don't really have many close friends and a very small family, but I consider you guys a great bunch.
I owe it to you now to update you on my situation....
Things are looking up already..
Stay tooned
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Post by Ed Becker on Dec 28, 2012 5:03:29 GMT -6
If you have work lined up, I would say  Take care, bud... |
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Dec 28, 2012 6:27:45 GMT -6
Mr. Allstar, we have faith in you being able to walk in and find a new job with ease. An ability like yours is a gift. Oh, and if y'all ever decide to move down to Texas, we have many gentlemens clubs in need of a good DJ, excellent schools and I run a resource class for former NYers in Texas.  |
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Dec 28, 2012 16:39:08 GMT -6
Smiths: Do you do Bar Mitzvahs? Mitzvahs, handfastings and Navaho wedding ceremonies. Oh, did you mean P$?
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Post by pmoneyallstar on Dec 28, 2012 20:06:51 GMT -6
Ok so I'm now gainfully employed with Nite Moves.
Yes, another strip club. Lol
Here's the kicker..
So I was fired for this "awesome" deejay from Florida.
He never showed up for work last nite.
He was actually hired by Nite Moves last week...and never showed up...
My firing gets a Florida tag and a fail tag...
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Post by Ed Becker on Dec 29, 2012 5:39:45 GMT -6
pmoneyallstar: Ok so I'm now gainfully employed with Nite Moves.
Yes, another strip club. Lol
Here's the kicker..
So I was fired for this "awesome" deejay from Florida.
He never showed up for work last nite.
He was actually hired by Nite Moves last week...and never showed up...
My firing gets a Florida tag and a fail tag...
Goddamnit P$, I'm happy you landed upright. There's nothing wrong with spinning at titty bars. I'd be hard pressed to spin at at a bar.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Dec 29, 2012 7:58:37 GMT -6
Nothing so sweet as the sound of those who have wronged you falling flat on their asses.
Okay, so I am going to turn this into the "weird career/job crap" thread. Work has started to slow down a bit for the holidays, but is expected to pick right back up on January 2nd.
Now, with the majority of management on vacation for the holidays, I ended up in charge of the team - four of us that are either contract or new hires that had not received their vacation days. The guys working on contract were great; despite the fact they were working from home and one guy's folks were visiting from up north, they worked their butts off this week.
The guy that was hired just before I was... he's a real piece of work. His customer service skills are so bad that we had to move him into a non-contact position: his job is simply to track the computers that are shipped in, back up data from the incoming systems, install a new OS image and reinstall software. He doesn't keep track of what systems are in for service, so I have people screaming at me looking for their computers. He is incapable of installing certain programs, so those software installs fall to me. Fine, I can do my job and his, no problem.
The icing on the cake: he told me I will have to do his work AND mine next week, since he's addicted to Percoset and he can't get his prescription refilled until the 9th of January and will be suffering withdrawal so bad he will be incapable of coming in to work. This scenario is complicated by the fact that our manager will be in from California on January 6th for a week and has asked me to handle arranging a "post office hours, off site team building exercise" and the shlub is already in deep shit because he's a sexist pig and every female project manager in our group has complained about the fact he belittles and argues with them on open phone calls with the client (which is why he was moved into the non-contact job).
So, during the numerous conversations I expect to be having with the manager next week, do I mention this guy's failures and his excuse?
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Post by pmoneyallstar on Dec 29, 2012 13:14:30 GMT -6
RE: Perry the Percoset Pill popper So, during the numerous conversations I expect to be having with the manager next week, do I mention this guy's failures and his excuse? thats a tough one. one one hand, you're the new guy. on the other, you've stepped it up in the office and proved you can do his job..and yours. If you're up to the challenge of more responsibility, maybe let the bossman know that you can handle it. I don't work with you, so i don't know the temperment of the office or the managerial staff. I couldn't go to ANYONE where I worked because the manager and her husband who is only a doorman, act like they own the place. the new owner never comes to the club and has no real involvement other than counting the money. there's NO oversight. no one "minding the store" as it were. from what i hear, they fleeced the last strip club they "managed". anyhoo... GO GET EM Auntie CHEESUS! |
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Post by pmoneyallstar on Dec 29, 2012 13:17:32 GMT -6
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Dec 29, 2012 15:14:24 GMT -6
pmoneyallstar:thats a tough one.
one one hand, you're the new guy.
on the other, you've stepped it up in the office and proved you can do his job..and yours.
If you're up to the challenge of more responsibility, maybe let the bossman know that you can handle it.
I don't work with you, so i don't know the temperment of the office or the managerial staff.
I couldn't go to ANYONE where I worked because the manager and her husband who is only a doorman, act like they own the place.
the new owner never comes to the club and has no real involvement other than counting the money.
there's NO oversight. no one "minding the store" as it were.
from what i hear, they fleeced the last strip club they "managed".
anyhoo...
GO GET EM Auntie CHEESUS!This is the thing - the manager, located on the left coast, realizes that this job tends to involve an assload of long hours and stress in dealing with the bane of IT departments - end users. We're the level III desktop support, so that means we're dealing with people who are pissed off because they have been in limbo for hours or days with system issues that has stumped two prior levels of support. In short, we're expected to be able to relate to people, keep a cool head when the person on the other end of the line is screaming, be able to fix any issue or know the name and contact info of those who can. My major failing in this job has been a complete lack of patience with field techs that do not have a damn clue about how to do simple things like get an IP address on a computer - a failing that got me made the desktop lead on many migrations and was a pain in the ass when I came down with bronchitis right after Thanksgiving and completely lost my voice for 5 days. What we really can't afford is a team member that throws out basic record keeping, loses track of which machine that has been shipped in needs to be returned where, can't keep up with the work and disappears like a fart in a tornado. On the other hand, we have a contractor that willingly puts in 50+ hour weeks, is able to take on anything we throw at him, gets along with everyone and is a veteran of 5 tours of Afghanistan with the US Navy. The only reason he wasn't hired on was because Percocet Percy landed the only other open position, because he'd worked for about four years at one of the client's sites in this area and it was assumed he'd be able to handle the work on the account. My boss is well and truly going to curse on Wednesday.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Dec 29, 2012 15:42:37 GMT -6
pmoneyallstar: My new Boss was also on the colbert report a month ago.
Check it out!
www.colbertnation.com/the-co lbert....tephen-dick-jr- I remember that segment! I sincerely believe he deserves the arts exemption because his operation provides a semi-interactive nightly music and dance exhibition. He just needs to separate the door fee from the bar charges and pay the tax on the liquor sales.
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Post by hobblekitty on Dec 31, 2012 13:31:32 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: pmoneyallstar : My new Boss was also on the colbert report a month ago.
Check it out!
www.colbertnation.com/the-co lbert....tephen-dick-jr-
I remember that segment! I sincerely believe he deserves the arts exemption because his operation provides a semi-interactive nightly music and dance exhibition. He just needs to separate the door fee from the bar charges and pay the tax on the liquor sales. Actually there are no liquor sales at Nite Moves they are fully nude so its a juice bar only. How can someone with the job description of "field tech" not know how to get an IP address. Even I can do that. That is a high level of incompetence right there. Sorry you have to deal with that Auntie.
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Post by grandmoffjoseph on Jan 7, 2013 12:58:06 GMT -6
How's the new gig working out, Auntie?
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jan 12, 2013 11:57:50 GMT -6
grandmoffjoseph: How's the new gig working out, Auntie? I'm glad you asked, Mr. Moff - the off-site "team building" worked out terrifically; the team got an evening to relax, the pain in the ass decided to no show and the boss is convinced she and I were separated at birth. Percocet Percy is on his way out the door, our Navy vet will be taking the open permanent position and the boss says I will likely end up with what we jokingly call the "DED Zone" - Depot, Escalations and Dispatch, effectively making me the lead for a team of 4 people. That decision was based on the fact that I came into the group factory certified in hardware repairs and replacement, in addition to several team leads we work with asking her "Why don't we have Cheesus in charge of the repair depot?", "Cheesus does a great job with addressing and closing escalations" and "Are you aware that the help desk boss in Costa Rica is scared witless of Cheesus? That's a bonus for us, because she can frighten him into doing pulling his head out of his hindquarters". The only thing the boss is upset with me about? I beat her to the check at the happy hour team building.
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