Originally posted by rach_the_tall:
I'm fairly happy with my job. I get to tell people what to put in their houses and then take thousands of their dollars. (I work in a tile shop)

Rach I'm building a house at the moment (well the builders are) and they've put the wrong colour tiles in my bathroom, around the shower and above he sink....

Can I blame you....? 

Intel Ireland is huge, and I had a bloody tour of it today, I saw the cleanroom and was dissapointed by the lack of dancing guys in bunny suits.
I'm finished my initial initiation training but have a long way to go, and these 10 hour days are killing me.

Everyone I've met is nice, but I can feel the corporate Life Force around me, it's a very unnerving feeling of being an ant working for a Balrog. 

Oh, and these are my opinions, not that of the Intel Corporation. 

As I've mentioned before, I work freelance as a technician, so "hours" don't really apply.

That said, I'm off to London next wednesday for a job interview for a months tech work at the Edinburgh Fringe...

 

Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Intel Ireland is huge, and I had a bloody tour of it today, I saw the cleanroom and was dissapointed by the lack of dancing guys in bunny suits.

If only my Intel Swindon tour was as good ("Intel Swindon" - almost as worse as "Intel Slough". I always get reminded of the Harry Enfield FAM FM Swindon gag...).
But then again, it is the European operations base, and not a fab plant, so it's only got a small clean room / lab for testing.

Working from home would be awesome if I wasn't too lazy to ever get anything done.  I worked like 40 minutes yesterday.  And now I'm seriously contemplating watching cartoons instead of working.

so the new job i had with the school is over and already two coffee houses are calling me up ofr work assuming i dont want any downtime. thing is if i refuse then i'll wind up with too much downtime.

I'm not happy with my job, although they've now layed me off, as all tempory staff got layed off as well.

And I got a raise on the same day as well!

 

Originally posted by ZombieJesus:
 You'll have to explain that one to me.   

On the day I got a letter in the morning saying that, now that I'd turned 17, I was being given a raise from £3.88 to £4.37 an hour.

When I got this job I knew it did say that it was tempory work until the end of June, and then they'd review my contract. They realised that they had to go back to under 130 staff, and to do this all the tempory staff would have to be layed off.

Oooh, I get to put up the people who are on-call for a week!! 

It was great sitting there saying:
"Haha, you might have to get up a 3am to fix some crappy computer thing, and I'll never have to do it! So I'll just stick you in this week!" 

Right now I'm working as a programmer for my brothers company which is pretty cool because I get to work at home but it does get pretty boring.

i love animals and im a vet nurse but if i have to pick up one more pile of shit in the waiting room because people haven't bother to house break their animals im going to hit someone with it.

Solution: Back yard, tree, rope.

No wait!! I'm not talking about hanging the kid!
Just tie him up like a dog!

Good save by Faze! 

MrMAstofarm, that sounds like a tough job. I couldn't do it. I suppose you know everything there is to know about autists?

A doggie chewy toy?

Aw, they vary. Some are worse then others. Some behave like normal kids for most of the time, but'll have little things that set them off. Some bite people. It's basically like being in a pre-school full of very under-devlopped children, 'cept some of these children are quite large...


For the interview... try to present yourself as patient as possible, and not prone to violent shows of emotion. You can't afford to get in over your head with these kids, as you'll often find that parents make very annoying enemies...

er, just keep your head, you'll do fine.

P.S. Er, my Dad's principal of a special school, so I half know what I'm talking about...

Today was an exceptional day at work.

I wasn't on Channel 1, so my day started off well.  By the end of the night, though, I almost wish I had been.  Aside from dealing with four complaints from the same person about a party he could somehow hear from a half mile away, Fire was pretty busy for most of the night.

For starters, we had a commercial fire alarm tripped at one of the Jewish retirement homes.  Commercial alarms are two station responses but the apartments are so big that a fire would require three, and with that many geezers, evacuations become a real hassle.  Luckily it was just some old fogies burning their prunes again and I was able to turn the second station around soon after they were underway.  "Crisis averted," as I always say.

Next came a medical run from which I could barely extract the gender of the patient.  Seriously, the first person who called hung up on us before we could give CPR instructions, and the second person we talked to when we called back told us the patient was awake.  To make a long story short(er), the responding squad requested their engine be sent out to assist because...lo, and behold...there was CPR in progress.  For those of you who don't know, cardiopulmonary resuscitation is only used when the patient is in cardiac arrest, that is "no pulse, no breathing, and certainly not awake."  Whether the old man died or was stabilized is yet to be seen.  I'm guessing the former since the FD called for a police unit to make the scene (standard procedure when someone dies) and since they didn't seem to rush him off to the hospital immediately upon arrival.

The piece de résistance of the night was a little accident right on one of our itty-bitty cities' border.  By "little" I of course mean "three-fatality."  According to one of my associates in the field, at least two were dead on the scene and a third was on the fast track across the Styx.  A single vehicle managed to eject all of its occupants thanks largely to reckless speed and a total lack of safety belts.  Some of the less-fortunate riders wound up with their heads split open and/or their limbs broken and bent at sickening angles.

The calls for it started coming in all at once and all from cellphones, which was one of the only reasons we heard about it (thanks to cellphone manufacturers for violating FCC 911 regs).  The normal process for dispatching is calltaking/CAD (computer aided dispatch) entry, dispatch, and post-dispatch instructions.  In this case, I think both my partner and myself completely skipped most of the CAD entry.  As soon as I heard that there were bodies on the pavement, I hit the tones (the audio signal that designates which station is to respond and wake the firefighters up) and sent two stations.  Injury accidents normally only require one station to respond, but since I knew there were multiple and severe injuries I sent the closest two stations, and even then a third station responded.

Turns out the accident didn't happen in any of our jurisdictions (the intersection in question is a three-way border), but since we had two officers within a mile and a half of the site and fire/rescue within two and a half, we were the first on scene.

The first officer out sounded like the newsreel reporter covering the Hindenburg explosion.  You know, the "Oh, the humanity!" guy.  When he first checked out at the scene he was frantically yelling about how there were "people all over the street" and "three, maybe four dead bodies" on the road surface.  Anyone who has been in urban/suburban police work for any period of time, even a relative neophyte like me, knows you do not say that you have "dead bodies" or any other well-recognized phrase on the air.  There are people out there who make a living listening to police scanners for tidbits of information they can sell as tips to news agencies.  We have a code for decedents (no, I'm not going to tell you what it is) and whether or not Sylvan Lake doesn't use those codes or the urgency of the situation overwhelmed the officer is unkown. 

When it was over, two were dead on the scene, another was hauled off to the nearest trauma center priority 1 (critical), another priority 2 (semi-critical).  That's my infrmation, anyway.  Most of our officers took traffic direction--or more appropriately "traffic blocking" positions at the scene.  I don't envy Bloomfield Township.  An injury-accident report is a bear to do, you can only imagine how compounded single- and then multi-fatality accidents are to write.

So wear your seatbelts, or don't come crying to me when your cranium is split like a pumpkin dropped onto a cement slab and your left hand is scratching your left elbow.

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I will be finshing my first year at uni in two days so /I guess I should get a job over the summer (I took a year out so i know how much full time jobs suck).

I also need enough money so I can study in Oz in my third year arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh

Is this better Archie?

Good luck mate. If she's the bitch you say she is, get other people to complain about her to your  (yours and hers) superiours as well.

So here I am, wearing an outfit almost as fancy as I wore to my own middle school graduation(I'm not wearing a suit jacket this time) about to go to work in less than an hour to be trained in something new, confused as hell the whole time, and with one of my friends working tonight who will constantly harass me.

Work's gonna suck today.

"Held" wouldn't be the word I'd use, it was the job I gots!
But apparently this new group was created by someone high up, and at least it sounds more interesting than what I'm doing now (almost nothing, I do most of my work before 11!)
In any case, it's definately not a mark against my productivity, they surely would have said something, some kind of warning.
My manager said it would involve (possibly even using!) tablets and PDA's and techie type stuff, but it could just as well be future tech planning on bits of paper with Intel brand crayons...

*BUMP*

Hello guys. I am at the moment looking for a job. I am looking for somewhere were I can do some office work and a bit of administration work. Last week I passed my PCA (Practical Competency Assessment), and I wrote out my CV. my tutor even wrote out about myself as a reference. I went to some of the agency and I showed them my CV. Unfortunately the people at the agency said to me that I wasn’t what they looking for because they needed somebody who have been doing administration and have a lot of experience for 2 or more years. I was very disappointed.

So I just am going to keep on looking until I can find something. I didn’t know that job searching would be so very hard. I was going to go to some agency and job centre but it was raining today. Also I been looking for some jobs over the internet and I can’t find anything.