Random Fail: First World Problems

**Fievel** · 2013-10-23 12:54

Originally Posted by Byrthnoth

Sneak into their places of work before they arrive and poop on their keyboards. Nothing sends a message like a log on a keyboard.

...Or break the printers

Myrrh did you break Mina's printers?

**Salodin** · 2013-10-23 15:14

Originally Posted by NynJa

Im pretty sure i just got declined on two job interviews because i didnt dickride the job enough. Because i didnt say that "this is my dream job and this is all i want to do". 18$/hr job is really my life goal!!

The only fail here is not white lying your way into a (assumably) better paying job.

**NynJa** · 2013-10-23 15:20

I'm sorry, but what kind of fucking moron believes anyone's dream job and lifelong ambition is customer service for 18 bucks an hour?

What happened to "I want to make money, I can do everything you're expecting from me and then some and I'm going to make sure you keep wanting to pay me to do this job you want me to do"? Why does everything now have to be "Do you really really really want it? Are you going to jump through this burning hoop and land in a vat of acid to prove that you REALLY want it?!?"

**Ksandra** · 2013-10-23 15:23

Originally Posted by NynJa

I'm sorry, but what kind of fucking moron believes anyone's dream job and lifelong ambition is customer service for 18 bucks an hour?

Since when has job interviews ever been about being honest 100% of it? You puff yourself up, you puff the job up. That's reality. I don't think they believe it, so much as knowing who actually is willing to do what it takes to get the job more.

**bluefan** · 2013-10-23 15:33

Someone has a $1million job in Winnipeg? What does your mom do Myrrh, run Liquor and Lotteries lol?

**Myrrh_Quetz** · 2013-10-23 15:37

Freight broker.

**bluefan** · 2013-10-23 15:49

And that's her salary? Damn, I'm in the wrong line of work haha.

**Myrrh_Quetz** · 2013-10-23 15:51

She's climbed to the top of it. She's been at it for like 20 years.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-10-23 16:27

Originally Posted by NynJa

I'm sorry, but what kind of fucking moron believes anyone's dream job and lifelong ambition is customer service for 18 bucks an hour?

Customer service is all about bullshitting, being fake, and putting up with stupid questions. The job interview is for demonstrating the skills that actually matter. C'mon.

**Anoat** · 2013-10-23 17:00

If you can find a customer service job that pays $18 per hour you better stick with that shit. Around here you would be lucky to get $10 doing that, though most places are gonna be like $8.25

**Mina** · 2013-10-23 17:06

Sorry about that shit Myrrh. That bites.

Originally Posted by Fievel

...Or break the printers

Myrrh did you break Mina's printers?

Originally I was going to post it here but the chat veto'd and said it was worthy enough for a separate thread.

**Aragon of Odin** · 2013-10-23 17:14

Originally Posted by Anoat

If you can find a customer service job that pays $18 per hour you better stick with that shit. Around here you would be lucky to get $10 doing that, though most places are gonna be like $8.25

Along with every other job, it's all about where you live, cost of living etc....

**Mina** · 2013-10-23 17:16

Yeah customer service around where I live is roughly 16$/hr minimum. Um, at least in the field I'm in that I know of.

**wipers** · 2013-10-23 17:19

Originally Posted by Kerberoz

Customer service is all about bullshitting, being fake, and putting up with stupid questions. The job interview is for demonstrating the skills that actually matter. C'mon.

Sounds like talking to friends on facebook.

**Mojo** · 2013-10-23 17:40

Originally Posted by NynJa

I'm sorry, but what kind of fucking moron believes anyone's dream job and lifelong ambition is customer service for 18 bucks an hour?

What happened to "I want to make money, I can do everything you're expecting from me and then some and I'm going to make sure you keep wanting to pay me to do this job you want me to do"? Why does everything now have to be "Do you really really really want it? Are you going to jump through this burning hoop and land in a vat of acid to prove that you REALLY want it?!?"

There's a few reasons why I feel like this happens. Sometimes it's stupidity on the part of the interviewer (as you pointed out, that's a pretty meager life long goal), although more often it's an inflated sense of value. I've noticed that many low end managers (restaurants, grocery stores, CSR managers, etc.) have ego problems. They feel like what they do needs to be more important than it is and they hold the little power they've earned through attrition and/or dick sucking over the heads of others nearly every chance they get. In some sense, you're being insubordinate. You're not telling them the things they want to hear.

**Jefe** · 2013-10-23 18:26

I just had a terrible on line SF session and had a bunch of laggyass matches. My throat is sore from all the raging and screaming at the damn tv.

**Fievel** · 2013-10-23 18:31

Originally Posted by Mina

Sorry about that shit Myrrh. That bites.

Originally I was going to post it here but the chat veto'd and said it was worthy enough for a separate thread.

oh it was lol

**Anoat** · 2013-10-24 18:44

Last night out at a bar, bartender says they have a special on Sam Adams Utopia, asks if me and friends want to try it. We all said yes figuring it must be the cheap beer on special. Boy were we wrong. $23 for a 3oz shot of beer that is 10 year aged and 27% ABV. Yeah, it was really, really good, but fuck me if I ever agree to a drink again without knowing what it is first.

**Dotsudoku** · 2013-10-24 20:32

Were you at a high-end place? At a couple of the nicer restaurants I've worked at, it's just assumed that the customer knows/doesn't care how much something "special" is. It's just a given. My last employer didn't even have specific/consistent prices for quite a bit. It basically just costed whatever the head chef decided it was worth that night.

But if you were at any old dumpy bar, that's pretty fucked up.

**Manako** · 2013-10-25 10:42

That sucks, growing up I was conditioned not to get specials because they never told you the price, and I guess my folks had it in my head that it was always more expensive. I think more restaurants realize this and are quicker to state prices.

Having read enough about Utopia I would know that its a very expensive "beer" and would have made a decision based on that. It seems like you didn't know what you were getting into

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