OT: Bad Attitudes in the Work Place

[Susan]

I've come to realize that work is nothing more than replaying grade school all over...except you dress nicer.  I even get graded by auditors...how do you like that?

[Eirik]

"That is a rough decision Eirik. But what's this guys deal? Does he have a family or anyone else to support?"

The guy does not have a family or anyone to support, but frankly that wouldn't enter into my calculations if he did since lives can be at stake when people in my line do their work poorly.  He needs to go find something else to do for a living.

[jmc]

>I've come to realize that work is nothing more than replaying grade school all >over...except you dress nicer.

Hell, at my job we don't even do that...in fact, the managers are often the sloppiest dressers in the entire store!  The head honcho dresses business casual but all the other supervisory types wear jeans/t-shirt just about every day...sometimes they even wear sweats.

[ulthar]

maria paula wrote:

> since im a resident doctor....

Didn't know you were a doc.  My wife is a pediatric resident.  

Sometimes she thinks the other docs would question our taste in movies.  I myself have brought up "Sorority Babes in the Slime Ball Bowl a Rama" at a doctor party...that was fun, and the looks I got....priceless.

:)

[maria paula]

then im sure she knows what im talking about .................................... anyway.
i havent heard about this movie, it sounds pretty weird, im doing researching so its better not to tell to my other co-workers  that one of my fav fims is "reanimator"

[mr. henry]

i suggest you send them the eric bana flick CHOPPER and act like it's the greatest flick in the world.

that'd keep me away, or at least motivate me to stay on your good side.




for real: i worked for a german engineering company that was OFFICE SPACE to the Nth degree. i just up and left after five years of ladder climbing and have had several jobs since, just trying different things. i am now in a position to help as a producer on indy films...gotta start somewhere

[Chopper]

LoL. yeah either that or a Mario Van Peebles film festival, i'm sure both would be sufficient torture. well that's awesome that you're getting to work on indie films, i wish you well in your career. that's the inspiration i hold onto to get through my job, everyday i tell myself: "one day, i'll be doing something better than this!"

[mr. henry]

a good way to get involved is find work at a film festival, they usually need volunteers. they are also well attended by independent directors. often the festivals are organized by directors. for a small indy dvd of 70 min. or so, the amount needed to be a producer, and i use that term a little loosely because you'll probably wind up doing a lot of miscellaneous tasks, isn't really that pricey. small films often have well over ten associate producers.

take care.



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[Chopper]

awesome. thanks for the info mr. henry. i've heard that producing is probably one of the best ways to break into the film industry. but one day when i'm out of the service i also want to go to film school and quite possibly go into cinematography. poor indie filmmakers always need a great DP, but being a producer sounds nice also, you still get to help a lot of people get their projects off the ground.

[The Shadow]

I had to leave my last job because the managers I worked for thought 'organization' was an online version of the game "Operation".

Now, I am no saint - I have plenty of organizational problems and I can admit that. But when I was struggling to keep myself motivated, and my supervisors would NEVER call back customers with issues and I was the only person they remember speaking to, it got very tiresome. My supervisors were not computer savvy, and the program we inherited to "streamline" the office screwed up about 800 accounts that I had to fix. By hand. One night I stayed there until midnight to try and catch up. 10 months of that crap was all I could stand.

Funny thing, once I quit, the branch manager got fired a month later!

[Kory]

I work in a PD and, for awhile, things were getting better.  The old, lazy guys were retiring and, in the process, weeding out the really irritating ones.  Then we hired a new dispatcher and a few things changed:

1- We are, apparantly, back in high school.  We are hearing high schooll prases being used about high school problems.  Mind you, she's only 3 months younger than me, but apparantly grasping tightly to her glory years.

2- Because she was the princess growing up, she must now be the princess here.  All must love her, adore her, and cater to her every need.  She must be coddled and is NEVER to be disciplined.

3- Life is HER show.  Her life is a Drama.  Therefore, my day at work is now a Drama.


There is enough to deal with in this place without her crap.  She's giving me nightmares.

[Chopper]

I feel your pain Kory. I'm currently in a situation where a couple of geeks I thought were my friends have ditched me for a girl they haven't even known for 1 month. Oh and she's engaged to a man back home (she's only here temporarily). There's a lot of other dramatic facts that are going on here, and I'm sorry to bore everyone with such remedial issues, but like the subjects we have all been talking about: it saddens and amazes me how people in the real world still behave like they are in high school.



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