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Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Tue February 25, 2025 11:50 pm
by tree_
BurtReynolds wrote:3 weeks. 3 fucking weeks.

then it's the summer of Burt.
What substances will be involved?

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Tue February 25, 2025 11:51 pm
by BurtReynolds
water

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 12:00 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Are you going to work for DOGE?

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 12:02 am
by BurtReynolds
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Are you going to work for DOGE?
My intention is to avoid working for the rest of my life.

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 12:07 am
by tree_
Sounds like a dream. Please don't kill yourself.

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 12:12 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tree, if you were Mr. manager at your facility would you hire Burt?

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 12:17 am
by tree_
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tree, if you were Mr. manager at your facility would you hire Burt?
No because he wouldn't want to work there

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 1:57 am
by wease
tree_ wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tree, if you were Mr. manager at your facility would you hire Burt?
No because he wouldn't want to work there
That wasn’t the question

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 1:58 am
by tree_
wease wrote:
tree_ wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tree, if you were Mr. manager at your facility would you hire Burt?
No because he wouldn't want to work there
That wasn’t the question
I would hire him if he demonstrated he wanted to be there

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 1:59 am
by wease
tree_ wrote:
wease wrote:
tree_ wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tree, if you were Mr. manager at your facility would you hire Burt?
No because he wouldn't want to work there
That wasn’t the question
I would hire him if he demonstrated he wanted to be there
There you go

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 2:11 am
by BurtReynolds
I just want to drive an Amazon truck.

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 2:24 am
by doug rr
the parking sucks

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 3:12 am
by wease
BurtReynolds wrote:I just want to drive an Amazon truck.
You should apply. tree_ will definitely hire you.

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 3:22 am
by Higgs
A client just sent me an e-mail asking when I can get to their tax work and literally called me "Champ".

"Don't leave me hanging on the tax return here champ..."

I'm a bit fucking stunned tbh. Now I feel like I may have to go and physically fuck this guy up so that I don't lose my cred.


Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 3:34 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
BurtReynolds wrote:I just want to drive an Amazon truck.
Oh god

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 12:51 pm
by wease
Higgs wrote:A client just sent me an e-mail asking when I can get to their tax work and literally called me "Champ".

"Don't leave me hanging on the tax return here champ..."

I'm a bit fucking stunned tbh. Now I feel like I may have to go and physically fuck this guy up so that I don't lose my cred.

You should definitely do that, champ!

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Wed February 26, 2025 4:20 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 1:45 pm
by BurtReynolds
Putting in my 2 (actually 3) weeks notice this week to avoid doing "goals".

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 2:31 pm
by wease
You can’t claim unemployment if you quit

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

Posted: Mon March 03, 2025 2:46 pm
by BurtReynolds
wease wrote:You can’t claim unemployment if you quit
Yeah. But they won't fire me no matter how terrible I am at my job.