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"Is that economically feasible for you?"

I'm good for a few months without tapping into savings. If anyone else in academia, they'll know we make diddly squat.

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11/17/2014 3:37:11 PM

Would you want to go into a different field?

From the sounds of your last two jobs...you've either had bad luck with your superiors/job situation...or maybe you don't really like what you do?

11/17/2014 3:52:38 PM

6am (8am est) calls. Grrrr I hate waking up early.

11/18/2014 8:11:12 AM

^^ I'd like to stay in science. I don't know anything else, really. My skills are specific and I can't transition outside of science that easily. I can do sales rep, but I don't want to. Best I can do in my next search is to find a position that would make me attractive to industry or hospital. A little bit higher pay and stable, and I don't have to depend on grant funds.

My last position( before I was fired recently) was fine. I was there for 7 years until my boss decided to take a job at Baylor. I could have moved to Houston but it would have been a lateral move.

Considered going back to school for PA, but I don't think my heart is in it.

On the flip side, I've always wanted to open up a small ethnic restaurant, but my family isn't supportive of that at all. And I need them, financially. So it's just a fantasy right now.

11/18/2014 11:13:33 AM

Since you're already being paid like shit, why don't you try getting a job on a restaurant line somewhere (preferably an ethnic place)? Might as well get some restaurant experience if you ever actually follow your dream one day.

11/18/2014 11:36:53 AM

^If I didn't have to pay my student loans myself I would totally work in a shitty restaurant.

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11/18/2014 11:54:36 AM

^^that's actually really good advice. A small (but successful) place would be the perfect opportunity to learn the business inside and out, working all the positions you'd someday have to manage (and probably work yourself).

11/18/2014 12:59:13 PM

And your family might be more willing to finance your restaurant if you show them some experience in the industry.

Even if I were filthy rich, I wouldn't lend money to a close relative to open a business in an industry they have never worked in (and I'm assuming you don't have any restaurant experience because you've never mentioned it). I'd give money to an accountant to open up a restaurant before I'd give it to a really good home cook.

11/18/2014 1:12:55 PM

There are 100-count Scantron sheets, and there are 200-count Scantron sheets. With a cursory glance at side one, you might think that they are identical. They aren't and the grader won't recognize them as such; it will throw a "Answer Sheet Does Not Match Test Key" error if it encounters the other. Still, a few times a year, I grab the number of answer sheets I need and learn in the middle of my test that I have two different answer sheets passed out. I swear it's like teachers grab the ones they need and shuffle the rest together. Because reasons.

11/19/2014 1:07:10 PM

that format of testing is garbage anyways.

11/19/2014 1:09:03 PM

It has its uses. Better question construction, question typing, and varied forms assessment seem to mitigate its drawbacks. For example, I use it for a small portion of my tests and for test that focus more on recall. The rest of the test is open-ended questioning, and each unit has an accompanying project that requires collaboration, performance, or multimedia.

11/19/2014 1:17:55 PM

well, gg on that front.

most of my teachers used it as their only means of testing. it was pretty worthless.

11/19/2014 1:18:41 PM

Ya, I want to say that it's better than when we were in school, but I know that some of those teachers haven't retired yet.

11/19/2014 1:27:14 PM

Our CPA firm merged with another local firm in the past year. They brought 5-6 employees and they all moved into our office. It's an old building with old windows and a terrible heating and air system so we've learned to keep curtains closed, don't go extreme with thermostat settings, and just deal with it.

First day the new people were here, one of them turned the air down to 62 (we keep it around 72-73). So of course I turned it up and within 15 minutes, it was back down to the low 60s. Not only do they constantly put the air on that low but they all open their windows and put screens in at the same time. So it's freezing AND it smells like outside in here.

Basically, my workplace annoyance is people that think the workplace temperature should only be at their comfort level without giving a shit about pissing anybody off, even if they're brand new employees in a brand new work environment.

11/19/2014 2:24:42 PM

73 is hot as balls, i'd open a window too

11/19/2014 2:34:26 PM

^

If I was in charge, I think I'd do 68 year round.

[Edited on November 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2014 2:44:17 PM

72 is comfortable for sitting around typing. 62 is way too cold.

11/19/2014 2:47:59 PM

Right. If they had gone high 60s, I probably would have just dealt with it. 72 may be warm to some people but like I said, it's worked for the six years I've been here with no problems. 62 is just stupid. I especially think it's stupid when you're brand new to a job.

11/19/2014 2:53:14 PM

so next time instead of bumping it to 73 (which is extreme), bump it back to 68 or 69

11/19/2014 3:02:09 PM

The leasing office turns the heat off for the last hour and a half of my shift every day. Fucking awesome. I usually just end up leaving the second I'm not doing something and just answering emails from elsewhere

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11/19/2014 3:25:14 PM

^^

72-73 is nowhere close to extreme. Based on a quick google of the topic, it seems like that's a fairly standard temperature. OSHA's "Recommendations for the Employer" says "Temperature control in the range of 68-76 F"

https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_iii/otm_iii_2.html#5

11/19/2014 3:43:10 PM

Last year they decided to try and squeeze some pennies out of us by changing the building temp from 68 to 66. Which would be almost tolerable except the HVAC design sucks and there is typically 58-62 degree air blowing out on me all winter.

11/19/2014 3:50:37 PM

in a hot climate in summer 72 or 73 might feel fine

but when its cold outside in an old building, that's high as shit

11/19/2014 3:50:55 PM

Trying to prevent the inevitable. It's getting annoying. We are working with an active construction site. Things change. Daily. It is impossible to not have updates/corrections coming from the field that need to be reflected in the design drawings. We can't keep changing these drawings and expect to submit the bid set in the allotted time. Just call it pens down and submit it. Updates can be handled in an addendum. I know, I know, you don't like to have addenda... but you will regardless.

11/21/2014 10:45:11 AM

buy a nest and lock out who can change the thermostat or buy one of those plastic covers

11/21/2014 10:47:49 AM

I don't think I've ever worked in an office that had any control over the temperature, or one with opening windows, so the whole thing is kind of odd to me. If we have complaints about the temperature (happens occasionally, it'll get too hot in summer or winter) we have to call facilities as it's centrally managed from one of the mechanical rooms.

Current annoyance: our awesome cleaning lady left to take a higher-paid job elsewhere. The lady that has been filling in for her sucks...the paper towels both bathrooms out for multiple days, empties the trash cans at odd times or not at all, doesn't put on the coffee in the morning, doesn't seem to "clean" much of anything...hopefully whoever gets permanently assigned will be better.

11/22/2014 1:29:33 PM

The cleaning lady is supposed to make your coffee?

11/22/2014 1:49:12 PM

first world problem

11/22/2014 1:54:59 PM

If you have a nickname that you prefer (...prefer enough to correct people on it), then change your name on your email address to that or put it in your signature. I can't remember everyone's nickname that I have emailed ever lol.

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11/24/2014 10:51:45 AM

When something breaks and everyone is like "thats impossible to happen".

So far I have 2 of these today.

11/24/2014 3:43:04 PM

TAKE YOUR K-CUP OUT THE FUCKING KEURIG AND THROW THAT SHIT AWAY WHEN YOU'RE DONE MAKING YOUR CUP OF COFFEE.


FUCK!

11/24/2014 3:44:18 PM

What's the difference between you throwing theirs away and leaving yours in there versus you throwing yours away?

11/24/2014 3:46:20 PM

It's not identical, but it's similar to people who don't flush the fucking toilet when they're done. What the fuck is wrong with those people?

11/24/2014 3:58:38 PM

No one ever takes the k cups out and throws them away after use.
I prefer it that way since sometimes they are hot/leaking right after the coffee is made.

11/24/2014 4:06:28 PM

Yeah...you have to wait a little while, or else the K-cup can leak everywhere.

And how fucking hard it is to throw away a K-cup? Is the trash can 2 floors away or something??

11/24/2014 4:11:46 PM

y'all are assholes

that is all

11/24/2014 4:11:48 PM

I like to go up to the coffee machine and fill up my nalgene with all the water from it. That way I don't have to waste water from the sink

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11/24/2014 4:14:14 PM

The ones we use dispose of the cup for you.

11/24/2014 4:28:06 PM

Yeah, the flavia machine in the IBM office did that for us but it charged $.50 for a tiny cup of coffee

11/24/2014 4:31:25 PM

cheaper than starbucks.

11/24/2014 9:06:17 PM

We have the Flavia machines, but they are free

Coffee still sucks, but at least it's free

11/24/2014 10:13:46 PM

I'm still hung up on someone complaining about the "lady" who doesn't start up the coffee.

Are you personally paying her? That is a maid's job, not a custodian's. Your previous "cleaning lady" went above and beyond.

11/24/2014 10:16:55 PM

You get used to nice things like that. And it's not like she put a new pot on every time it went empty, just one of the things she normally did on her two floors was to start a pot of coffee around 7 AM. I don't get in until 8:30 so the first pot was generally long gone and well into the second, but it was convenient.

It's an annoyance to go from someone who is very good at their job and goes above and beyond just because, to a selection of rotating temporary people who all kind of suck. Absolutely a FWP but if this thread isn't a place to bitch about silly things, then I've been using it wrong.

11/25/2014 12:53:33 AM

When Chit Chat turns into the Soap Box

11/25/2014 1:10:24 PM

^this is why we cant have nice things.

11/25/2014 4:23:29 PM

I listen in on a Department of Homeland Security call every month and there is a guy on there that talks like Ned Flanders

He is way too happy sounding to be discussing Cyber Security attacks

Hey-Diddly-Ho Neighborino, we just got hacked by China

[Edited on December 2, 2014 at 3:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2014 3:17:35 PM

NERC is a workplace annoyance for me

12/2/2014 9:02:54 PM

Vacation = giant piles of shit upon return
meetings = waste of time catching up with giant piles of shit

12/2/2014 9:14:39 PM

^yes

12/2/2014 9:17:27 PM

I have a lead on a job. But when asked if I have been terminated, I don't want to lie, I know HR can look that stuff up. To anyone who has been in my position before ( and this is the first time for me), how can I put this in a nice package?

12/2/2014 9:32:21 PM