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• 08.08.08
  First week on the job   Rant!, Work (0)

  I started working my new job this week. I was happy when I put up my install tools a month ago, telling myself ‘man I’m so glad I’ll never have to use these again’. LOL, boy was I wrong.
  My previous contract spoiled me, hell everyone that worked there. I could do one bundle and walk [...]

• 04.06.08
  nothing new.. right? maybe…   Rant!, Work (0)

  well things are about the same.. however they didn’t quit shit the bucket like I had anticipated about a week ago. yah thats right, I’m still working. things have been a little better at work after a certain somebody higher up was told to hit the bricks. this guy was a useless piece of shit, [...]

• 03.04.08
  pretty steamed..   Rant!, Work (0)

  I recently applied at a local phone company- the same one I tried to get a job with a year ago but was a bit late. well, every few days I hope on their site and look at the careers section waiting for new positions to pop up. finally it happened and you know damn [...]

• 02.27.08
  watching a man fire himself, and I thought I had problems   Rant!, Work (0)

  a guy I work with has had a run of bad luck lately. two weeks ago a customer called in saying he scratched their antique tv stand. saying something like how it cost 5,000 bucks, blah blah blah. a week later I’m at a job with him and while he was climbing into the customers attic he breaks the shelf in their closet by steping on it. now in his defense it would have been very difficult to avoid [...]

• 01.14.08
  monday madness   Rant!, Work (1)

  HAH! it’s been a while since I’ve posted and that’s not because I havn’t had a lot going on. oh no sir, I could write a fucking novel.  I’ve save you most the details- or maybe they’ll come in a future episode.
  I just got home and am pissed at an idiot co-worker. I’m running trouble calls today. well mid day this guy calls me and says “I got a trouble for you” he gives [...]

• 12.03.07
  The last time we left our hero…   Rant!, Work (0)

  he was bragging about how much money he had made the previous day and how much more he was going to make the following day and even days to come. irony is not without sense of humor.
  after waiting two hours in the cold for his check he was told he’d have to turn in 100% of his equipment before receiving it, this put a real smile on his face because not only had he already woken [...]

• 12.01.07
  I have a feeling, today is gonna be different! *sing song*   Rant!, Work (0)

  so here I was around the same time yesterday ranting about not making any money.. I goto work with an attitude of man this sucks, I can’t wait to go home. when DUN DUN DUN something amazing happens! I’m got put on a pretty huge project.
  It was purely luck like a lot of things have been at [...]

• 11.30.07
  bad weeks   Rant!, Work (0)

  well the last couple weeks have been really slow at work. REALLY slow. most days I’ve been getting off work at around 10 or before 12… heh, I can’t complain about that- I enjoy having the rest of the day to get some things done but I’d rather be making money. hell one day I [...]

• 11.18.07
  it’s been a minute- so the blacks say   Gaming, Rant!, Work (0)

  haven’t been posting much, mostly because Ecto stoped working with this blog and I don’t like using a web interface. I’ll have to figure out what the deal is with that later…
  I suppose a lot has happened since my last post(s). I spent a good portion of my morning fucking around with Quicken. the more [...]

• 10.19.07
  being nice doesn’t pay the bills   Rant!, Work (0)

  hah, yah thats what I learned yesterday. things are slow at work, it happens everywhere- you can’t force people to want additional services… not only that but our work force is rather large so when we do get work its split up between a freakin army.
  well yesterday I did one fucking job that took me [...]

• 10.18.07
  bad luck week   Rant!, Work (0)

  well I don’t got much time so I have to keep this short…
  I’m finally working on my own, finally. my first day out I had one job that took ten minutes and was paid well for however that was the only job I did all day so that day sucked cock. the following day I [...]

• 10.13.07
  still no work   Rant!, Work (0)

  well I’m still out of work, I’m -almost- nervous. this job if anything was big gamble. I knew this before I got into it so I only have myself to blame, if I had a chance to go back and do it again though I think I might have just stayed where I was. I’d [...]

• 09.27.07
  almost lost a finger today   Rant!, Work (0)

  ok well I exaggerate. that might be the worst thing that could possibly happen to me after picking up Halo 3 yesterday. anyways I was in class this morning learning how to score/peal back cat5. I’ve cut cable for years so wasn’t really paying attention to what I was doing.
  Instead just watched what our instructor [...]

• 09.23.07
  first week work impression   Rant!, Work (0)

  well after one week I’ve have learnt a lot at the new job. I’m comfortable saying that they could let me out on my own and I’ve have no problems. will they do that? probably not. I suppose monday wouldn’t be the best time anyway since I’m still waiting on a few tools.
  the only tool [...]

• 09.20.07
  my first days of work   Rant!, Work (0)

  well, so far I’ve learned both nothing and a lot. see the company I contract for now does cable and telephone. I’ve done service work for years on cable lines so thats no thing to me. I’m trying to learn the phone side of it which everyone tells me is “really easy”. if you seen [...]

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