TBerk granted gainful employment

[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

Brendan you certainly know how to brighten my day.  :)  How so?  Next
Monday I start a 4 month contract as a tech temp.  Yay.  I'm sure I
won't be working with the assholes you seem to be surrounded by as
I'll be working for a non-profit that centers around women's health.
I just can't see assholishness there... they hired me, didn't they?
:D

Go home, have a beer, and work on the things you like.  Remember: you
only need to keep the day job till the night job pays.  ;)

On 6/26/07, Brendan Doyle <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ditto on that.  I've been under so much stress at work these past few weeks, that I'm about to walk out.  Right now.  Seriously.
>
> Basically it boils down to this- I work for a company that contracts out tech people to other companies- basically killing the full-time tech employee, which is what I set out to do from college.  Sort of killing my own career, but whatever.  So I was put on a 4 day a week contract at this place.  I've been here about 6 months now, everything seemed peachy.  Well, my boss gets a call from the superintendent here saying that I'm doing a terrible job, if I were his employee he would have fired me, all of this crap that I'm doing wrong, that I have no clue about.  So now I've got two weeks to kiss his ass and make sure he's happy or else we (the company I work for) looses the contract, which means I loose a job.  Wouldn't you think if the 'super had a problem with something I was doing, he would tell me about it?  I told my boss that I had no idea anything was wrong, that everyone else tells me how appreciative they are that I'm there- but all he told me was that the 'super is
>  not here to do my job and tell me what to do.  But if I'm inadvertently doing something wrong, how the FUCK am I supposed to fix it if you do not tell me??????  There was also some griping about laziness, lack of leadership and motivation issues.... blah blah blah.  Great, start attacking my character as well.  Sure, I have a motivation problem, it's called being underpaid (WAY underpaid) without benefits.
>
> I also work another job part-time in a bodyshop/custom paint/performance shop as well, and I'm basically doing that for free until we can get our name out.  Thankfully I may have another job prospect on the way so it's not all as bad as it seems, but man it's just not worth the hassle and b.s.
>
> Not to be a downer, but good luck with the new job!  Hopefully you won't have to put up with the kind of assholes that I work for!  :D
>
> Brendan
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark F. <mk1mark@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: John Lagnese <jlagnese@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:33:38 AM
> Subject: Re: TBerk granted gainful employment
>
> On 6/25/07, John Lagnese <jlagnese@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Congrats, jobs are good!
>
>
> Since when?  Most jobs fucking suck!  :)  Necessary evils in my book.
> Unless you're one of those lucky bastards who's hobby/passion becomes
> your career, trading your time for money is rarely the path to
> fulfillment...  And even then, 'da man' often has a nice way of
> wrecking that by turning it into a drag (btdt)...
>
> I've managed to avoid the 9-to-5 grind over the years for the most
> part, and have found doing my own thing, although not as secure/steady
> financially, keeps me sane.  Giving the best hours of your day to make
> someone else rich makes the baby jebus cry...  Easy for a guy with no
> kids/responsibilities to say though eh?  :)
>
> Later,
>
> Mark - anarchist wannabe since my refusal to eat spinach as a toddler...
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