My boss want's me to get my college transcripts to make me more formidable for a Government contract.

Bitch, I'm me, I'm world renowned for what I do.

Also that's like 25-30 years ago lol.

he once worked 1000 hours in a single week with the wrong boots on, what more do you want gvmnt...

He can drink 3 gallons of Gatorade and not piss. What more do you want govrnnt

Here we go.

I built a huge lattice out of angle iron today
that tomorrow will be craned onto the shop roof
where I will use it to provide structure
for a billboard tarp that will get put on it
to cover a giant hole in my shop roof.

Thank YOU.

I missed the Sanka stories

can’t u just forge a fixed roof?

i was applying for a job at a Univerisity I attended. and they asked for my transcripts.
I said wasn't doing it. and later they said, Ok, we already had them.

I know. If I sent them to you, I would have to get them from you....

We're getting new carpet at work. It's only about halfway done, and there are already huge coffee stains on it.

i work in a satellite office for the state, dept of labor.
We see about 20 people a week most weeks. We actually have time to help those folks because we are not seeing 50 - 100 a week like the bigger city offices. They are floatig the idea of closing our office. Our county is very very rural, these people need us to be here. I go out into the community and meet people during the week too. Please do not close our office until I am of retirement age kgr8thnx

I'm sleep deprived and somehow tricked myself into thinking this was my last day for the rest of the year because I have tomorrow off.

I actually have 24-26th left still next week
and then 1-3rd the week after that...
then I'm off for the rest of the year

6 days over a period of 2 weeks to go

Got an emergency job call today. I absolutely HAVE to scan the Goodyear Blimp next week.

So in the next year or so if you want to fly the Goodyear Blimp in Microsoft Flight Simulator, that's my work lol.

I've got a blimp. Can you fly me?

scan my blump

I want to ride in the blimp!

So im thinking about selling the haunted house
the issue is being in Maine getting people to pick it up is hard. So what do I do?
I can include shipping as an option, easily 5k in shipping costs
I can donate it to charity and take the 20k tax write off IF they will take it
I can do it another year
I can offer to sell it to the team I have for a greatly reduced price and still play

Every year some actor or crew person hugs me and says we saved their lives because they were so alone and depressed and finally feel worthy and cared about.

Taxes are killing me, cost is killing me, and this year sucked attendance wise because everyone is broke. Haunted Houses are begining to see backlash from the far right xtians, and then the physical aspect, Im not a spring chicken and this year my body let me know that by screaming at me.

I dont know. This is year 4.

I can offer to sell it to the team I have for a greatly reduced price and still play

This would appear to be the best option, no? It'll be hard to give up control over it but still gives you the opportunity to continue participating in something you love without all the headaches.

I think i would need to take the first year out completely. I dont know if I CAN give up control.

On a MUCH MUCH smaller scale, that's exactly why I moved to an every-other-year arrangement for our home haunt.
It's just me since our son moved out on his own, and it's just too much every year.
I really enjoy creating and designing effects, scenes, and props. Organizing it all and doing all the grunt work, not so much.
It's helps me to re-energize every other year by taking time to enjoy that time of year as a participant rather than a host.

Yeah, I just want to go to Salem, and see other haunts, and dress up and give out candy. Maybe do a cemetery in the yard.

I'm in invoice hell, paying hundreds of individual invoices to a contractor, and if my work was as slow and sloppy as theirs, I'd have been fired years ago.
I did fire this contractor, but I still have to pay them for the shitty work they did.

leave little notes on each check like "glad ur fired :)" or "have fun being shitty!"

haha, man that is tempting

I generally travel as light as possible. But this week I have to be outside all day for a couple days. Cold as shit. Freezing my ass off on the roof of some building.

So I had to pack my size 14 big steel toe winter boots, that's half a suitcase already. Then hard hat, gloves, fall harness and finally Fire Resistant clothing.

Like, yeah, I get it. I don't want to die or whatever. But if I didn't have to do this sort of thing again, with 19 safety precautions, I wouldn't cry about it.

Holiday embargoes appear to be underway
Which means I finally have some breathing room I was lacking
I have 2 weeks to catch up on some stuff before work starts to pile in January

My work is calling around about a big job on the horizon. Literally everyone we have scanning all day for a week in an Amazon warehouse in Shitsplat Mississippi, ending on the 23rd.

I told them no. The very first time we scanned parts of an Amazon warehouse I told everyone that if they ever want us to scan the whole thing, we say no. It's literally a dozen people for a week. And I'll have to wrangle that data.

I can imagine them being shitty about paying too

sanka vs amazon

who wins? u decide

hey bezos

You can just say no.

I did.

I bet my boss probably says yes thoug. And then I can have a couple drinks and fucking yell at that guy. If he accepts this job he knows it's coming. Fucking 80 weeks fall on me.

Sorry, 80 hour weeks.

The last time this happened I got a bonus. A $100 gift card to the honey ham company. Fuck you very much
.

extend the time it will take. if they want it badly enough at least get a few extra weeks out of it

Is it no thinking day?

Fat chance of that for me

I machined a brass shelving system
for someone's fancy kitchen.

No thinking day? Interesting concept. Are you are the 20 people in front of me at kids dropoff at school every morning?

You fuckin sit there for 20 minutes and it never occurred to you to be ready at the time the doors open?

Very nice CH

Are all workplaces dysfunctional?
I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that wasn't dysfunctional.
Maybe my expectations are too high.

... maybe ur the dysfunction
what are ur feelings about cake

good for farting on and that's about it tbh

I think all workplaces are at least slightly dysfunctional

I applied for an internal job.
Really I'm using the opportunity to get the resume and interviewing freshened up. I really don't know if this will be lucrative opportunity. It has to be good to uproot my professional life.

HR wants to be flagged that I gave my manager a heads up. I'll tell him when he's reporting the bonus and salary raise to me this week. Ugh.

I just scheduled my interview timeslot. Thankfully for next year. This is next year's problem.

One nice thing about so many people working from home is that there are lots of empty offices to fart in.

cmtz said:

Are all workplaces dysfunctional?
I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that wasn't dysfunctional.
Maybe my expectations are too high.

yes

not me i am a rock

i am an island

I've been at my work for 17 years now.
It's been pretty tight. Honestly I have no complaints. They treat us right and the people are great. Nobody screws with anyone, nobody really has the power to dick anyone over. We don't do layoffs, I've never heard of anyone getting fired, but I'm sure maybe it's happened for like gross negligence or misconduct but if it has it must be super rare.
I can really only speak for my division, but it's quite large like 500ish people of the 7000 or whatever and I've got friends scattered all across the teams here and everyone gets very regular updates on the ongoings, long term plans, and financials within our division.

nice! i just crossed the 17 year mark as well!

this place was great for a long time, but it has been a rollercoaster. the lows are awful and every time we start to go back up i think this is the time it will level out and then WEEEeeee down we go again

i do think this place has taken a chunk of my health in the form of stress. i cant say i would have stayed this long if i had to do it over again, but at this point it feels too late to leave