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ihackas Bedtime Stories
By: ihacka Date: June 27, 2019, 11:11 pm
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Didn't want to lie and we're getting more forum traffic...
We all know I'm an asshole and bad at typing and don't really
want to write a story...so - only time I've ever been fired
(more stories from this job, too...):
I used to work at a restaurant with many managers who shouldn't
have been in their positions (poor foresight, poor oversight,
poor emotional management...literally couldn't
[I]manage[/I]...). I'd hurt a couple people's feelings during a
management meeting (I'm the sous chef; IDGAF about what color
the frilly shit on the table is...) when, after roughly 40
minutes of conversation, I said: "Is there literally anything
relevant to my position that requires me here? I don't care
about fucking flowers." I got up and left because we had
continuous service and it was a VERY high volume "fine" dining
restaurant.
Couple weeks later, my Chef had given his notice and offered me
another sous chef job; I had a conversation with the owner and
told him I'd be giving my notice. Couple days later, a retarded
amount of events had been scheduled for a Sunday (my Chef
refused to work Sunday, as did most of the cooks [some had
second jobs but I know what they were really doing]). I showed
up to open for brunch, push that out (always a struggle with one
cook) and am informed the PM dishwasher has called in. I have
literally zero say about how events are sold, scheduled,
organized, accounted for...anything. I'd also made up my mind
to leave at this point, so I basically told the cook: "IDGAF,
not [I]my[/I] problem..." They scheduled three events at the
same time with no prior notice and no one scheduled to work (I
did the schedule and was clutching at straws trying to get
people to work).
Show up to work the next day, and here's the convo between him,
my Chef, and myself:
Owner: I got an e-mail that you were mean to [redacted] and
[redacted]
Me: Its not my responsibility to schedule for unplanned events
or compensate for them if they overextend themselves.
Owner: I know you're giving me your notice but I'd prefer if you
leave now.
Me: OK
Owner leaves office.
Chef: Do you have any questions?
Me: Do I leave now or do I have to finish my shift?
Chef: I don't know...I've never been fired before...I think you
leave now...
Me:OK...well...cool...I guess I'm off for that Black Flag show,
now...you still going?
Chef: Fuck yeah...I'll send you a text.
Not my best story but I thought it'd be easy to type...it
wasn't...
Also, don't judge me.
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Re: ihackas Bedtime Stories
By: tell Date: June 28, 2019, 8:06 am
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Oooo cool. I'm old and have years of stories.
NASA story
I was contract network admin for a NASA project. The GOV type in
charge of me was the pointy hair boss in Dilbert cartoon(read as
clueless jerk). We(me) had to propose puter things for each
year's budget. Under his plan, we changed from a 2 week turn
around, from request, to paperwork out to procurement, to 257
days for a trackball one of the engineers wanted. So, planning
for budget input, I started a wish list. Knowing this dimwit
would lop off various items, I padded the list with cool
goodies. One was a video capture video card.($1700) knowing he
would make us throw out some items, to make himself look tough.
This was a long time ago.
He was out of office for several days, and his tasks were
covered by another Gov type. Who hated him. He came to me and
asked if we needed anything. I said we had a wish list we were
just throwing goodies into. He "understood", and asked for the
whole unedited list. Guess who got a vid card that we had no
use for? It went into a drawer for months. Until there was a
rocket launch failure. Several recordings of the flight were
available from ground and chase plane cameras. But it was going
to take days for their professional analysis. This drove our
engineers nuts. What happened? Speculate Speculate.
I got the recordings and loaded the vid card. Using free image
enhancing software I got from the NIH, I made a slide show of
the break up of the rocket. Clearly showing two distinct exhaust
plumes, not the one plume the engineers expected. Passed it on
in a colorful slideshow. Engineers were delighted. So much
so, that they praised my contract bosses. Who praised me with a
$1,000 bonus and award.
Karma isn't always bad. B-)
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Re: ihackas Bedtime Stories
By: ihacka Date: June 28, 2019, 2:26 pm
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Did you take the graphics card back out and take it home? $1k
bonus sounds light for rocket surgery (or is it rocketopsy?).
Reminds me of working in a hotel and having a budget for small
wares...only place I ever worked in where we didn't run out of
pans, cambers, or lexans...
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Re: ihackas Bedtime Stories
By: tell Date: June 28, 2019, 3:19 pm
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I took the bonus and was happy. Card went back in the drawer
for another year or more.
B-)
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