Random Fail: First World Problems

[Buffy]

So busy at work that I couldn't take my lunch break so I end up working the full 8.5 hours straight. Get admonished informally about not taking my lunch. No write up though.

Depending on state, that's actually a really big deal legally if you are an hourly employee.

[synistar]

If that were the case, I would have had a book filled with not taking my lunch in the first 6 hours since I don't leave work incomplete. Joy for California. I hear from my friend the restaurant industry covers it up like no other.

[zoobernut]

You uncooked rice?

Well yes you do cook the rice....

Thanks for pointing out a big hole in my joke. Jerk...

Oh well I guess it is appropriate that my fail of a joke is in the fail thread.

[Anoat]

Depending on state, that's actually a really big deal legally if you are an hourly employee.

In my experience, if you are an hourly employee that punches an electronic time clock for in/out and lunch, yeah, it can be a big deal. However if you are an hourly employee that fills out a paper time sheet by hand and turn it in every two weeks, either nobody cares or they fudge it somehow. Again, just my personal experience.

[BaneTheBrawler]

i wore myself out pooping

[Sepukku]

As previously mentioned in other General Discussion thread, I have been considering and beginning to look elsewhere at my work and some people in leadership know. Yesterday an internal posting for a shift supervisor (assistant manager, essentially based on job description) opens up and my direct reporting boss FWDs it out to me and my two colleagues. We hire and move people around within all the time but them specifically making sure people know about its availability is rare and the only time I've personally gotten an email sent to me before regarding an internal opening, I got the job when I applied with basically 0 competition to my knowledge.

It could be meant for one of my two colleagues but I got the impression neither had any interest and its very coincidental in regards to timing of my looking elsewhere. My place of employment has gone through some very cyclical staffing cycles being a real estate services company for banks (appraisals, title policy, etc) and the nature of that industry still following 2008 and everything thats come since then. Throughout all of this, I've survived every staff cut and they've done a lot I feel to intentionally keep me on board cause of what I bring to the table. I feel like this position has my name on it and it would address a problem in my mid-20's guy resume in that I still don't have any official management/leadership experience. This gives me 10-15 employees to manage, coach, re-staff if needed, etc and management experience on my resume. It would also mean I'd assume at least see a small bit of a bump in pay but still def not breaking the bank.

I still would have to go to my work though which, awesome teammates and friendly & supportive atmosphere aside, sucks. Tremendous multi year construction project doubles my already long commute, the office park building we rent is bare bones and constantly in disrepair, and working as third party vendor for loaded Too Big to Fail bankers can be exactly what you would think it would be like. Lastly, the head manager of the team I'd be supervisor on is a huge bitch and has very few friends there and has butted heads with me repeatedly in the past. When I asked my manager her thoughts on me applying for the position, she was very encouraging and said don't worry about your past squabbles, everyone has them. I wasn't particularly concerned that a squabble was indicative of a skeleton in the closet the new manager would bring up down the road - more concerned its an indication of her character.

So basically, first world fail:
Have an office job with cool peeps who I send random ridiculous photos to all day long, enjoy it but don't want it.
Get offered a better position, more pay/responsibility. Only sorta want it.
Looking elsewhere for a new job is a pain in the ass and there's always the fear of the unknown with making that leap once you do find something.

FML

Edit:

i wore myself out pooping

And I thought I had problems! Damn

[Melena]

Last night at Disney world. I don't want to go back to work.

[jmc]

"I Don't want to adult anymore"

[Aksannyi]

"I Don't want to adult ever"

Fixed that for you.

[Spicyryan]

Sitting here in the lobby of this Radisson waiting on a this Uber Driver and his "Ford Fiesta" having a conversation about revolving doors after watching someone just get stuck in one a few times..

Edit: Uber driver smelled like ass and so did his Ford Fiesta.

[Demenic]

House I'm closing on next Wednesday was registered with the timed Google Fiber signups in the area. We even stated in our contract that the house must remain signed up for Fiber. I just got off the phone with Google to ask about how to get the registration in my name rather than the seller's once I close on the house. Instead Google proceeds to tell me that the seller has cancelled his/her account which cancelled signup for fiber on the house and there's no way to get back on the signup list as registration has closed.

I don't think I've ever facepalmed so hard before in my life. Obviously having my agent confirm this with the seller's agent and have them try to fix it on their own, but Google told me it's of no use when I had them on the phone. If it did happen, I'll have to wait on a 2nd wave of signups for my area. Not a big enough thing for us to completely cancel our purchase, but I'm extremely unhappy.

[Zetanio]

I'd fucking lose it.

[Pringles]

They're serving wings as the meal of the day at work cafeteria and they ran out of both Ranch and Bleu Cheese.

[BaneTheBrawler]

House I'm closing on next Wednesday was registered with the timed Google Fiber signups in the area. We even stated in our contract that the house must remain signed up for Fiber. I just got off the phone with Google to ask about how to get the registration in my name rather than the seller's once I close on the house. Instead Google proceeds to tell me that the seller has cancelled his/her account which cancelled signup for fiber on the house and there's no way to get back on the signup list as registration has closed.

I don't think I've ever facepalmed so hard before in my life. Obviously having my agent confirm this with the seller's agent and have them try to fix it on their own, but Google told me it's of no use when I had them on the phone. If it did happen, I'll have to wait on a 2nd wave of signups for my area. Not a big enough thing for us to completely cancel our purchase, but I'm extremely unhappy.

breach of contract. take em to task, get some money.

[Salodin]

House I'm closing on next Wednesday was registered with the timed Google Fiber signups in the area. We even stated in our contract that the house must remain signed up for Fiber. I just got off the phone with Google to ask about how to get the registration in my name rather than the seller's once I close on the house. Instead Google proceeds to tell me that the seller has cancelled his/her account which cancelled signup for fiber on the house and there's no way to get back on the signup list as registration has closed.

I don't think I've ever facepalmed so hard before in my life. Obviously having my agent confirm this with the seller's agent and have them try to fix it on their own, but Google told me it's of no use when I had them on the phone. If it did happen, I'll have to wait on a 2nd wave of signups for my area. Not a big enough thing for us to completely cancel our purchase, but I'm extremely unhappy.

I would take a few Gs off for that fuck up.

[Demenic]

Oh I certainly plan on it. We've already had to push the closing date back twice for them. This was the thing that finally got me fired up. Got ahold of my agent and told her that we're planning on demanding something else in turn for this. I re-confirmed with google live chat (the first convo was on the phone) and had the transcript of the convo sent to my agent.

This weekend I might actually walk into the google shop around the area and see if they can do anything. Doubtful, but I'm going to exhaust all resources available to try and get back on that list.

Edit: Ugh, the more I think about this, the more pissed off I get about it.

[Salodin]

I'm mad for you =\ I mean, I'd lower my offer by THOUSANDS, all because they fucked with my internet. THOUSANDS.

[Blubbartron]

Google fiber is easily worth 15k on a house, especially if you're planning to live there for the foreseeable future.

[bluefan]

Wanted to test ride a cruiser style motorcycle I'm interested in. The only Kawasaki dealership in/near my city won't have a test model in until the end of the month. I'm not in a rush for it, but it would've been nice to have it by the 30th for my yearly charity ride if I really liked it.

Spoiler: show

[Zeb]

Preface: Wal-Mart Automotive center. 80s gent with a young teenager went in to get battery work on a car. This was in the driver footwell.
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