Are you in a cubicle too?
I spend 9 hours every monday through friday at a cubicle.
So, who else is dodging their work responsibilities?
Oh you poor thing, you have to work...
I'm not complaining about working. I'm actually complaining about the lack of work there is to be done. I have to be here whether we are busy or not.
Unless you work on commission then there's no real reason to complain.
Fucking snarky folks about. The man just made a thread about his job. Jesus.
I work in a cubical at the moment, and after two months of unemployment I'm loving every minute of it. Also helps that this gig is with a publisher, so I get to be surrounded by books all day.
What do you do?
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
I need a job.
I don't know if they have an office in your town Pepper, but I signed up with this temp agency called OfficeTeam and was working the next day.
It's not fantastic money or anything, but it beats the hell out of no money.
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
I work on commission.
I sell communications products and services; internet service, phone service, television, etc.
I have kind of an elaborate history of jobs, but I actually like this one, and love the hours...I just get bored.
LOL I know. And it comes from the kid who used to whine all the time about having to do super hard things in grocery like answer shopper's questions and point to aisle x.
Hey I did other things!
Like...
Um...
Let me get back to you, I'll think of something...
I work in a basement where I listen to pandora radio and do the signatures for the head of the admissions office's "personal" letters and talk in spanish to the cleaning lady, Oriela.
so it's office work, but it's not really a cubicle. also I only work like 15 hours a week because it's work/study.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Congrats, on both the job and finding something you enjoy.
so it's office work, but it's not really a cubicle. also I only work like 15 hours a week because it's work/study.
That sounds like the plot to an episode of The Office.
And I mean that in the most awesome way possible.
All I said was No I don't work in a cubicle.
so it's office work, but it's not really a cubicle. also I only work like 15 hours a week because it's work/study.
That sounds like the plot to an episode of The Office.
And I mean that in the most awesome way possible.
One day after signing like 1000 letters of hers, I went to dinner with a friend and signed the goddamn receipt as "Suzanne McCray".
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“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
I do not have a job.
In the old Cult days, I was at a law firm.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I work in a printing factory, but I start just as all the bosses go home, this is actually the reason I started reading alot and found this site. there is alot of downtime while working so Being paid to read is definately a big bonus of this job.
After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun too ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as i listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, i thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.
I share a cubicle at the insurance company I work for. The thing is that it's a double decker cubicle. I'm on the top part but share a desk with the guy on the bottom level. I sit in a harness and dangle above my part of the desk. Last year for our office Halloween party, I dressed up like a pinata. I don't know who found the bat, but the two months in the hospital was a nice break from work.
I am in my cube right now, But I have a window, we have about 20 minutes between calls. So I am not complained one bit, sure there is limited internet access but thang god for Netflix and my stack of books.
I love getting paid to read, draw and just generally dick around.
oh and I also sell, TV, Internet and Phone.
"Thank you for calling ******* My name is Noah, can i get your name please?"
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
I think ******* is a silly name for a company.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
I love getting paid to read, draw and just generally dick around.
oh and I also sell, TV, Internet and Phone.
"Thank you for calling ******* My name is Noah, can i get your name please?"
Had pretty much the same job from 2003 to 2005. Calls basically stopped coming in around 9 at night but shift went until midnight. Those last three hours always came in handy to get some reading/writing done.
Then the company went bankrupt...kinda sucked.
I will be happy when my situation upgrades to a cubicle. Until then, I sit at a data entry desk. It shouldn't be more than a couple of weeks now.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
I like Frank's post.
Thank you for the recognition.
I used to work in a cubicle but it ended just recently.
Too bad, it was great pay and I only worked 7 hours a day of which about 4 hours were actual work (programming, support). But I worked as an consultant and it was a temporary gig so I knew it would end but I managed to drag it out so it lasted about a year at least.
Now I'm studying (distance course = my hours awake are getting weird) and trying to get work together.. I kinda hate programming but that's all I know.
And I'm trying to get a co-writing gig happening but my discipline is lousy at the moment.
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You can't spell manslaughter without laughter.
I don't work in a cubicle, but I do work out of my house, so while my office is primarily in my..uh..office, sometimes I work from the kitchen (like today), or the living room, and occasionally the back deck. I've worked for the same company for going on twelve years, nine of which were in an actual office building, but I didn't have a cubicle back then, just an office without a window. When they closed it down, I had the option of relocating to Hailey, Idaho or to my house. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting burned out, but then I remind myself how good this set up is for my family, and how I can afford everything we need and most of the things we want and even the travel is not so bad (so long as I don't have to go to Boston IN THE WINTER).
So no, I'm not in a cubicle, but sometimes I really miss being around people in the office. You can only do so much with IM and conferencing.
Also, I lol'd at Frank's post.
Unfortunately my office is very modern and open plan. I wish I had somewhere to hide..
MEGA DESK
Yea, I sit at a desk all day behind a computer...
In a library. 
. I love my job.
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
I share a long counter with another dude names Stephen and we have a few supplies here and boxes of samples. The only thing that sucks is that it's at the end of this hallway kind of so i get stared at a lot by people walking down the hallway. Or people walking by. It's really annoying. I like my area though.
MEGA DESK
I love this show! Hahahahahaha!
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
I work in a different place every couple of weeks. I'm up moving around and moving things all day.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Good morning slackers and cubicle comrades.
I wish I could work from home like Alecia.
what do you do?
Estate sales.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Not really, because this is what happens to you:
I had a friend make me some proxies so that helps, but lucky they have not taken this mess away from me yet.
So for today I will be slacking off at my desk, drawing what nots, and maybe making zombie fruit. Pretty sure if I worked from home I would never really work.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
So for today I will be slacking off at my desk, drawing what nots, and maybe making zombie fruit. Pretty sure if I worked from home I would never really work.
Sounds a lot like my day... Lol.
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
Ya but i would strangle a man to work at a library.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
And you get paid to do... or not do... that?
I hate you.
Yea, That's pretty much how I got the job....
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
Wish I'd seen this thread a lot earlier.
I too, work in a cubicle -I'm sitting in it right now. I sell medical dispensers to old folks. from 1230pm to 830pm every night. It's great for transferring longhand from the night before to word docs during my downtime between calls, but really, it's the most miserable job I've ever had. I'm extremely unhappy where I work which is too damn bad because I've been with this company for 10 years now, and I had some other cool positions before this one.
But once 830pm rolls around, I get the fuck out of here, go home, hang with the wife for a few, and then when she goes to bed around 11 because she works normal fucking hours, I go into the "writing room," where I get down to business from like, 12 to 4am. Every night. So it's like I have two jobs. But one of them I absolutely love. The one I don't get paid for. (Well... I do mentally and emotionally).
The most interesting one I saw above was Estate Sales -what exactly does that entail? Or do I not want to know?
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It entails going into a house and going through everything and organizing it and pricing it and selling it. Thats the most basic way to put it, but of course there is a lot more to it than that.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Is it anything like in the movie "American beauty"?
Or is that just a movie-version far from reality?
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You can't spell manslaughter without laughter.
Right. That's what I'm asking. Does it suck, or do you enjoy it okay?
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I don't remember an estate sale in that movie... Parts of it suck, but I love my job.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Good to hear -That's always a great thing.
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