Johny Cee
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The salary is two packs of Magic: The Gathering boosters per day. Your pick of either New Innistrad or the 2012 Core Set.
That salary is horrendous. You have to offer Schild foils.... precious, precious foils. |
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Cyrrex
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Another thing you could do is just pretend it's time for another server donation drive. Seriously, some of us are not sharp and wouldn't even notice. Instant cash!
Hope you land on your feet.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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schild
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Donations between now and the server drive or whenever I get a job (whichever happens first) will go towards keeping me sane.
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Sand
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Sorry to hear about the job. Not sure what your computer or IT background is or what sort of work you do, but I know there are still lots of programming and IT jobs to be found outside of the game industry.
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Every morning at my office we have a meeting at 8:15 to discuss what is going to happen during the day. The meeting lasts for 15 minutes and we see our first patient at 8:30. We put up a huge sign (it's even bright red) at the front desk explaining this, yet it never fails that there are patients milling around the front desk looking irritated because there's no one there. People never cease to amaze me.
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Ironwood
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Some kind of receptionist is in order.  I wouldn't make it a young one with big tits though. She might get pregnant. |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Some kind of receptionist is in order. I wouldn't make it a young one with big tits though. She might get pregnant. My buddy has a front desk person that is quite hot. It's a bit of a distraction. As for the receptionist, we have one. She's at the meeting too. |
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Ironwood
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 "Here's what's going to happen during the day : You answer phones and say hi to people. Now Fuck Off out our meeting." Problem solved.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Paelos
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Ironwood. HR Executive!
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Ironwood
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Yeah, except I still have a soul. |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Paelos
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Yeah, except I still have a soul. I'm scared to think what would happen if you went soulless. |
CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Ironwood
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Me too. That's why I resigned. |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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ghost
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Yeah, except I still have a soul. You're hired. I'm sending a plane ticket and $15000 for the boob job tomorrow. Start growing your hair out. |
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Ironwood
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You don't need an HR person.
Now, Sand; He needs an HR person.
Except, you know, without boobs...
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Minvaren
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With so many people here not having jobs, feels odd complaining about the one I have...  |
"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ironwood
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Don't be daft.
It's like complaining about blistered feet in a cripple ward. Sure, you're in a better position, but at the end of the day your feet still hurt.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Engels
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You don't need an HR person.
Wait, Ironwood works in HR? That sounds like a really awesome episode of The Office. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Ironwood
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Engels
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shhh, I'm trying to start a rumor.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Paelos
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I always thought Ironwood worked in Waste Management.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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ghost
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I always thought Ironwood worked in Waste Management.
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Bunk
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Well shit Schild.
Guess this would be the wrong time to mention that next week is my 10 year anniversary with my current company. Yay four weeks vacation!
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL
"I have retard strength." - Schild
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Yegolev
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I don't have any specific job advice. There do seem to be lots of contract openings for people who grossly exaggerate their IT skills, though. I probably should get onto that bandwagon, but I've somehow come to an understanding with my job and am generally happy now.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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ghost
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It seems as if it's a rough time to be in the video game market. Would this be a good time to go back to school, i.e. get an advanced degree of some sort? MBA or some such might not be a bad gig.
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Engels
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Just watched this clip and now I sorta want pernonin' to be a new word. Perhaps it means to perma-own. Like, when you repeatedly get killed by the same dude in CoD, you're pernowned. Sorta like renowned, but the reverse. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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IainC
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It seems as if it's a rough time to be in the video game market. Would this be a good time to go back to school, i.e. get an advanced degree of some sort? MBA or some such might not be a bad gig.
It's always a rough time to be in the video game market. If you aren't employable right now, fresh from your redundancy then you probably aren't going to be any more employable two to three years from now after removing yourself from the jobs market to chase an advanced degree. If you have the funds to put yourself through that without working then you probably don't need that degree to get a new job anyway. |
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ghost
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It seems as if it's a rough time to be in the video game market. Would this be a good time to go back to school, i.e. get an advanced degree of some sort? MBA or some such might not be a bad gig.
It's always a rough time to be in the video game market. If you aren't employable right now, fresh from your redundancy then you probably aren't going to be any more employable two to three years from now after removing yourself from the jobs market to chase an advanced degree. If you have the funds to put yourself through that without working then you probably don't need that degree to get a new job anyway. I meant as a way to get out of the video game market, i.e. get a degree to make yourself attractive to some other field of work. |
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Evildrider
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One of you guys needs to pitch a show to Discovery Channel about trying to find work and shit in the gaming industry. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Which would also involve digging for the glory hole.
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Paelos
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It seems as if it's a rough time to be in the video game market. Would this be a good time to go back to school, i.e. get an advanced degree of some sort? MBA or some such might not be a bad gig.
It's always a rough time to be in the video game market. If you aren't employable right now, fresh from your redundancy then you probably aren't going to be any more employable two to three years from now after removing yourself from the jobs market to chase an advanced degree. If you have the funds to put yourself through that without working then you probably don't need that degree to get a new job anyway. Why do you people work in this again? |
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Sand
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Which would also involve digging for the glory hole.
Next on Discovery Channel! Dumb rednecks risk it all to make custom guns, while bidding on storage lockers of people who panned for gold, while hunting over populated wild boars in Alaska's gold country as they brave the high seas in search of sword fish and the elusive king crab! |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Rednecks hone their pistols, while looking to stick some pigs in the glory hole and catch crabs. YEP!
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Sand
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I'll admit it. Im completely addicted to Storage Wars. I love that damn show.
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RhyssaFireheart
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So after posting in the Christmas Greed thread, I figured I'd comment here to about the "family drama" part.
So after the letter the MiL sent to us in early October, the husband hasn't called his parents on Sunday morning like he has been for the past 4-5 years. I think part of it slipped through because of my surgery, and he did reply to an email his mom sent (How's RF? Fine, gets out of hospital on F) and kept it short and sweet. But they've made no attempt to contact him to catch up either, which really makes me understand a comment the BiL said to his parents when they were visiting at the end of September. Apparently MiL said something like "why can't you call more often like your brother does?" and BiL responded "the phone works both ways."
So yeah, the whole bit about cutting off contact with family members? I think they have to notice they've been cut off for it to be effective, and I'm not sure the in-laws really have.
ETA - Sorry to hear about the job, Schild. I had a bad feeling when you posted asking for legal employment advice a few weeks ago. :(
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So yeah, the whole bit about cutting off contact with family members? I think they have to notice they've been cut off for it to be effective, and I'm not sure the in-laws really have.
Well, the point of "cutting them off" should be to not have to deal with them. If it's a cry for help, it probably won't work. |
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