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Post by Dominator / Mortimer on Mar 20, 2018 11:59:41 GMT -5
Figured I'd put something like this up. If anyone wants to share anything about their day, whether it's something that's made you feel good that you want to share, or just want to vent about something that may have sucked, this is the thread to do it.
So I've just started this new job working on Systems. Turns out that although the money is great, I really can't get my head around it and I feel like I'm giving up right before I start. So I did a little looking online for Creative Writing jobs...
...and seen that WhatCulture.com and Defiant Wrestling are looking for Writers for content to their YouTube channels and also their own wrestling brand; Defiant Wrestling!
Needless to say, I've submitted my CV! If I even get a call back, I will scream like a little girl! LOL
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Post by Kyle Shane on Mar 20, 2018 22:16:25 GMT -5
My first thought when reading this was aw isn't that nice someone took the time for asking, I'm having a day...
But man, that would be amazing. Transition from e-fedding to writing for a real place, that would be epic. Good luck with that, man.
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Post by Kyle Shane on Mar 20, 2018 22:22:19 GMT -5
As for me, work has been a constant exercise in restraint from putting my fist through the screen.
As I've posted here and there, I work at a private non-emergency ambulance company doing dispatch. Well, the computer program we run all of our calls on has been changed to a completely new thing. We signed on with a company for their product for three years and dumped the company that we ran our calls on (We sorta had to, because that company is going bankrupt...)
Except the higher ups really rushed it out in the new dispatch software going online because none of what that company promised us is online yet. It's a bit like if you buy a video game and it's missing some vital components that will only be available after a patch or a DLC. What we have is pretty much worthless, it erases time stamps and eats calls so you have to put it in all over again, it has not been fun since it went live yesterday...
Also, we have, like... three dispatchers so I'm always friggin here. I'll be here 8 pm to 8 am tomorrow. Wooooo. I need coffee...
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Post by Gerard Angelo on Mar 21, 2018 0:22:07 GMT -5
How does a private ambulance work?
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Post by Kyle Shane on Mar 21, 2018 0:42:36 GMT -5
Well, we mostly just service nursing homes, a couple prisons around here, and occasionally people at home, we don't really respond to much traumatic 911 emergency stuff, and we bill Medicare/Medicaid or whatever insurance provider the patient has.
Mostly alls I do at night is wait for the phone to ring.
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Post by Gerard Angelo on Mar 21, 2018 1:28:08 GMT -5
Well, we mostly just service nursing homes, a couple prisons around here, and occasionally people at home, we don't really respond to much traumatic 911 emergency stuff, and we bill Medicare/Medicaid or whatever insurance provider the patient has. Mostly alls I do at night is wait for the phone to ring. Ah okay makes much more sense now. I was imagining old rich people calling you for oxygen and Metamucil.
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Post by Kyle Shane on Mar 21, 2018 2:35:45 GMT -5
Baha. Nah it's a lot of falls, shortness of breath, heart problems and stuff. In the morning they have regular patients we take to dialysis.
I'm reading course work for becoming an EMT when I can, if only to get a job at like a better company doing dispatch... it's just most of the big guys tend to want EMTs doing that job and I pretty much lucked into where I am.
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Post by Gerard Angelo on Mar 21, 2018 2:42:22 GMT -5
Sounds super interesting aside from the computer program being trash. I'm just a humble waiter.
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Post by Kyle Shane on Mar 21, 2018 3:03:11 GMT -5
Ah man, I can respect that. Customer service can be a nightmare. Waiters have to do so much shit.
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Post by Gerard Angelo on Mar 21, 2018 3:06:10 GMT -5
True but it's not so bad. Easiest job I've ever had (aside from people ridiculously angry about food).
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Post by Dominator / Mortimer on Mar 21, 2018 3:59:21 GMT -5
I hear you on the customer service stuff. I work behind a bar as a second job in my local Sports & Social Club. It's mainly driven by locals, members and darts teams.
But yeah, there are a lot of different personalities in there that clash with mine. I've a very low tolerance for idiocy (making me the least suitable candidate for ANY job. LOL) and it's even worse when they're tanked up with booze.
That's why I just really want to find a job that I know I can enjoy.
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Post by Grimm on Apr 16, 2018 7:26:29 GMT -5
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Post by Dominator / Mortimer on Apr 16, 2018 9:12:25 GMT -5
That's pretty neat actually. The only thing that I am a little dubious of when it comes to articles like these are their authenticity, but they do make a lot of sense scientifically. I found the article on viruses very interesting. I just goes to show how the smallest little detail has affected our existence. Good find, Grimm.
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Post by Dominator / Mortimer on May 29, 2018 3:07:06 GMT -5
Quick life update from me for those who care I've finally quit my second job working behind the bar of my local sports and social club. There have been a number of things that have affected my decision to go and it is such a weight off my mind now. I used to have to take time out to get rid of the empty glass bottles at the recycling center, which I loathed doing, especially when stale beer started to spill into my new car. I had to open up and lock up for other people as I was a keyholder to the club. I'd get home from my main job and have to go straight to the club to work, and some inconsiderate assholes would complain if the place wasn't open bang on time. A lot of the people that go to the club are ignorant as fuck anyway. The staff would complain if didn't restock the fridges even if it was just ONE bottle missing. Ugh... I could go on for DAYS about the things I hated about that place. But at least this now frees up at least 8-16 hours of my week, although with more gigs with my band coming up as well as spending more time with my girlfriend, it's not going to feel like I've actually gained that much time back. Still, it's at least a step in the right direction!
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Post by Cory Steel on May 29, 2018 8:52:36 GMT -5
I woke up today. So that's good.
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Post by Kyle Shane on May 30, 2018 3:50:01 GMT -5
My day's been frustrating and I'm contemplating why I still live in this shitty little town.
I'm midway through an overnight shift and a girl I know from high school Facebook messengers me and, after two sentences exchanged about how our life is going, immediately segues into why she's not doing good because she's out of pain medication and doesn't have money for it. I get this sort of thing all the time. And I can see there's a connection to how I post on social media about helping with the homeless, because we have a lot of them in this town, and people conflate that with handing out to the lazy or the burn outs.
Also contemplating finding a better job since cut hours and micromanagement are more of a thing. Just stuck on where that would be a lateral move. If I have to go back to working at a grocery store I'd kill myself.
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Post by Dominator / Mortimer on May 30, 2018 5:26:51 GMT -5
My day's been frustrating and I'm contemplating why I still live in this shitty little town. I'm midway through an overnight shift and a girl I know from high school Facebook messengers me and, after two sentences exchanged about how our life is going, immediately segues into why she's not doing good because she's out of pain medication and doesn't have money for it. I get this sort of thing all the time. And I can see there's a connection to how I post on social media about helping with the homeless, because we have a lot of them in this town, and people conflate that with handing out to the lazy or the burn outs. Also contemplating finding a better job since cut hours and micromanagement are more of a thing. Just stuck on where that would be a lateral move. If I have to go back to working at a grocery store I'd kill myself. Honestly, I don't have the social skills to interact with people in a Retail profession. The only way I managed to get by doing the bar was the fact that I literally took the piss out of everyone who walked through the door just to keep myself from going insane. Even here in my main job, there is this one woman who literally injects herself into any conversation that she isn't involved in. My patience is already very short and I often find myself having to go and make myself a coffee or have a smoke or vape outside just so I don't have to listen to her. She goes on and on and on in a way that makes me think "Fuck, there are only so many hours in a day." The main reason I took this job is because it pays well and I know the system I'm using. The downside is the near 100 mile round trip I have to make each day just to listen to this daft cow's nonsense every day... It's like I always say and maintain; people are fucking idiots. You guys are the exception to that rule, even Saniti (*peers round the corner to see if he's listening*)
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Post by Alexa Black on May 30, 2018 6:07:26 GMT -5
Don't ask
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Post by Grimm on May 30, 2018 8:43:00 GMT -5
I understand this is nothing compared to the actual difficulties some of you are facing in the real world, but this needing to work all these figments and notions into two separate, coherent RPs is a little more work than I prefer my efeds to require.
The stakes behind these two RPs doesn’t help.
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Post by Dominator / Mortimer on May 30, 2018 10:44:37 GMT -5
I understand this is nothing compared to the actual difficulties some of you are facing in the real world, but this needing to work all these figments and notions into two separate, coherent RPs is a little more work than I prefer my efeds to require. The stakes behind these two RPs doesn’t help. I'm venting frustration more so than experiencing difficulties. Most of my "problems" just come from my attitudes and tolerances (or lack thereof) towards certain things going on around me. Most of it is out of my control, so there isn't really too much point me going on about it. Like I say, I just like to vent. In terms of the RPs, I can't wait to see what you come up with. Between the four of us, it's so tough to pick any one of us out as an odds-on favourite. I think that's what I like so much about these matches...
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