oh shit what i didn’t know you were pdx! or maybe i probably did and forgot. fuck yeah! commuting metro or tri-county fuckin’ ssssucks. congrats!
lemme know in a dm (or here!) what ya do, might have a call for ya in the future in Old Town
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right now i do whatever can be done with the equipment we have, mostly carpet cleaning and repairs, emergency water extraction, power washing, window cleaning, and demo. i’m going back to my old job as a school custodian.
you know what the biggest difference between a union job and a non-union job is, in my experience? non-union jobs have busted junk equipment kept limping along by any means available.
for instance: friday before last i ran a truck into the outside of a building while being inside that building. how? i engaged the parking brake but somehow left it in drive, started up the cleaning system (which is driven by the van’s engine) and pulled my hose out of the van into the building without realizing something was wrong, because the parking brake was set. to get the cleaning system running at full speed you block the end of the vacuum hose, which basically makes the cleaning system hold down the accelerator. since it was in drive it was able to overcome the parking break and gently (relatively speaking) roll into the building. good thing no one was walking in front of it when that happened. i would be so embarrassed to accidentally crush someone to death.
obviously i’m a dumbass for leaving it in drive, no idea how i spaced out so bad, but, given that everyone is a dumbass sometimes, you’d think there’d be some kind of safety to prevent running the cleaning system if the stupid van is in drive. in fact, there is such a safety-- it had been bipassed to keep the machine running, because the transmission is a little fucked up and sometimes thinks it’s not in park.
speaking of transmissions, about a month ago the transmission in my work van started fucking up on my way to my first job of the day. i completed it and let the office know it was running like shit. they sent me to another job in town because it was on the way to the shop. i manage to complete that one without trouble, but when i was leaving the building i found i had a cop parked right in front of me. normally i could back up and be on my way, but because of my transmission issues i had no reverse and had to sit around for 45 minutes until they were done with whatever they were doing before i could gently coax it back to the shop.
which reminds of the time my brakes failed completely at 60 mph.
which reminds me of another guy whose brakes caught fire going downhill.
or the time my side mirror flew off driving down the freeway, just flew off like it had been held in place by chewing gum. the only way to change lanes without a side mirror is gradually and with luck on your side.
i’ve only worked here a year.
i could go on and on, but i digress. i guess part of my brain’s looking for an excuse to bitch about my job. i suppose though that this is the thread for that.
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picks strategy, only talks to highfalutin business nerds about strategy games
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i’d pick Artificial Intelligence and only talk about the shitty squad AI in the first SOCOM
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I’d pick marketing & sales and only talk about that one Mario 64 got milk commercial from 1997
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i would pick sales & marketing but be slowly ostracized as my thoughts slipped into strategy and innovation 
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I’d pick innovation and talk about Ys’s combat innovated from the Bump system to the system of Ys: VI Ark of Napishtim, Origin, and Celceta Remake to the tag team party system of Ys 7/8/9/10 that we all know and love today.
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What’s purple? I want purple. Obviously.
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Yeah I’m dying to know what purple was.
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It’s Leadership!
Time to talk about choosing the right members for your JRPG party with that senior manager who always hires the most toxic person because they have some random certificate that the nice competent person who also applied didn’t have.
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Peak Performance for the minmaxers
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Empathy is the perfect dump stat bro
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Is there a cup that says Ridge Racer?
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Maybe this cup thing is good cause it helps you avoid peak performance people
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Starting from next week, workers here in Australia will have the legal right to refuse all out of hours work communications (as long as their business has at least 15 employees):
…and the same comes in to effect in a year’s time for businesses of any size.
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My company really wants to enroll me in a Teledoc health program, so much that they’re offering a $150 incentive. Which is a lot of money and almost a suspiciously high amount of money. It wouldn’t replace my actual health insurance, but I suspect it might be a scam or trial balloon for it somehow. They just require that I fill out information in the app in my first two weeks. I don’t think there’s any commitment to do anything after that (unless it comes up after I sign up).
Has anyone done one of these types of programs, and should I trust it?
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i’ve done telehealth for various minor reasons throughout the years. there’s no reason to not trust it, but i wouldn’t use it for anything more than asking for antibiotics or whatever.
as for me, i accepted an offer at a new company and put my two weeks in at my (soon to be) old one. wahoo!
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I’ve just made it through week four of being a high school English teacher. The stress is incredible, but the kids are wonderful and I’m managing to stay afloat. So far, though, it’s been all slog and no wage: it’s gonna be another 2 weeks before I finally get my first paycheck. My classroom is a patchwork of other teachers’ old furniture, clearance paperbacks from Half-Price Books, and some odds and ends I got my mom to buy for me (thanks mom). There’s no clock in my room. I’m anxious to get paid, for sure, but not super thrilled about having to spend a good chunk of that money on more work stuff.
A survey from earlier this year reported that Texas teachers pay the highest out-of-pocket cost for school supplies in the US, an average of about $1,396 a year. No coincidence here: our state government has been working pretty hard, and pretty effectively I’d say, to dismantle public schooling as an institution. Pretty much everyone who works in a school here understands the enforced underfunding and inadequacy of the whole system, and knows that student suffering (academic, emotional, physical) is the point. Public schools are supposed to break, basically, so that parents have no other choice but to send their kids to charters.
It’s worth showing up, most days, just to try to stand in the way of this decline, decay, whatever you wanna call it. You win what little victories you can and feel pretty good about being there for the kids. Many of them show up with nothing, and have next to nothing to go home to. The whole thing can collapse on our heads one day, and it sure feels like it will, but I can see myself sticking it out. At least until I can get them a clock.
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