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zxqv8 posted:Just walk in and ask for a job. They'll appreciate your forthright attitude and give you a good position. Also, refuse to leave until they give you a job!
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"yeah if you want that assistanceship its yours, email my old war buddy jim, he goes to brunch every sunday with the department head and his friend frank is senior chair of their grad admissions and he has a grant that will pay your way"
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i guess my point is that if you dont openly hate boomers so much they can do crazy poo poo for you like you can still dislike that their generation ran our great nation into the ground in less than half a century and you can dislike them for being backwards about technology and refusing to learn new ways or step down from position of power despite growing senility and lack of capability in the workforce, but you should at least pretend to like them cuz goddamn that poo poo works e: ask them about wars/growing up/the price of something years ago and then say "oh! hrmmm... wow, ive never experienced that! i cant even imagine. oh, really?! whoa! thats unbelievable? you had to eat what?!" Cursed Lumberjack fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Feb 22, 2015 09:57
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Not_Rainbow_Horse posted:i literally cannot stop jerking off same
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Feb 22, 2015 10:01
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Drug testing? Don't do illegal drugs. the drugs they had back in the day were all good and plenty legal
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:i guess my point is that if you dont openly hate boomers so much they can do crazy poo poo for you When I meet one with connections more useful than 'knows a guy from church who works for whatever company' I might try this Until then, gently caress boomers
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Feb 22, 2015 10:43
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came here for "pounding the pavement" left satisfied
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text editor posted:When I meet one with connections more useful than 'knows a guy from church who works for whatever company' I might try this if you're young get a reception/desk job at a country club my friend started with that and then began helping out with tennis lessons and stringing rackets and not only does he make a shitload stringing for school teams he also meets the rich motherfuckers who run the town and makes them feel good about how bad they are at tennis, and then he occasionally gets hooked up with practice matches against pros who are in town, he gets all kinds of crazy poo poo from the old dudes who love him and a sweet loving deal you dont even need to be rich to get these connections just attack them where they are weakest and charm them until they spill their creamy privilege all over you. country club is the pro spot because they wont treat servicepeople/staff like they would at a hotel or restaurant because they'll be coming back repeatedly and see that person every time
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Feb 22, 2015 10:52
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Literally all the baby boomers I know are either addicted to opiates or "recovering" from opiates via vast amounts of alcohol. So: "Uh, well, you should get your wisdom teeth drilled, they, uh, give you waaaay more pills than, uh, you need." (My dad actually said that.)
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fearlessflyingfish posted:Literally all the baby boomers I know are either addicted to opiates or "recovering" from opiates via vast amounts of alcohol. sounds like you know a lot of poor baby boomers id recommend meeting the rich ones they will hook u up so if that was employment advice for you, you are just basically saying you aim to go into dealing drugs? good plan imo
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:sounds like you know a lot of poor baby boomers id recommend meeting the rich ones they will hook u up Sorry, yeah, that was him talking about getting a new job, in that I should get the one with the best insurance so I can get my wisdom teeth out so he can steal the pills. Which is weird, because I don't need a new job, or my wisdom teeth out. Straight talk though, baby boomers are crazy stealth junkies. So many soccer mom meth heads.
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fearlessflyingfish posted:Sorry, yeah, that was him talking about getting a new job, in that I should get the one with the best insurance so I can get my wisdom teeth out so he can steal the pills. actually in the past few years ive started to suspect that my mom has taken up smoking a shitload of weed now that us kids are out of the house because the signs are all there, she keeps eyedrops and that super strong oder-killer spray in her car at all times and there are times when i call her up and say "hey im coming over to say hi" and she says "NO! not...uhhhh. not right now. we arent....home? yeah we arent home right now, we're doing....errands. bye" one time i was nearby and i needed to grab stuff from the garage so i just dropped by anyway and she comes running from downstairs with a shitload of perfume on and is like "OH WE JUST GOT HOME THIS VERY SECOND, HOW WEIRD. DONT GO INSIDE ITS A MESS" lol maybe you're on to something here Cursed Lumberjack fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Feb 22, 2015 11:01
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sounds as thopugh you're mum has become addicted to rubbing her clam.
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opus111 posted:sounds as thopugh you're mum has become addicted to rubbing her clam. it could be both that and smoking weed
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:actually in the past few years ive started to suspect that my mom has taken up smoking a shitload of weed now that us kids are out of the house because the signs are all there, she keeps eyedrops and that super strong oder-killer spray in her car at all times and there are times when i call her up and say "hey im coming over to say hi" and she says "NO! not...uhhhh. not right now. we arent....home? yeah we arent home right now, we're doing....errands. bye" have you thought about how your mom is maybe selling weed because she wants to keep her mind active with a steady job in her old age? like crosswords but with drugs
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NOBODY gonna get a job around here until you kill all the giant ants infesting the generator room so we can reset the main breaker 
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super macho dude posted:NOBODY gonna get a job around here until you kill all the giant ants infesting the generator room so we can reset the main breaker I was in the middle of writing a post about Loyal, dammit.
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:actually in the past few years ive started to suspect that my mom has taken up smoking a shitload of weed now that us kids are out of the house because the signs are all there, she keeps eyedrops and that super strong oder-killer spray in her car at all times and there are times when i call her up and say "hey im coming over to say hi" and she says "NO! not...uhhhh. not right now. we arent....home? yeah we arent home right now, we're doing....errands. bye" You should steal her diary and if she complains tell her that you just wanted to check to see if she was on drugs because you love her. Soon we'll have to have curfews and everything for those pesky baby boomers!
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"I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot, he got on his bike and looked for work and kept looking until he'd found it." A bit old to be a boomer but this guy basically encapsulated that whole attitude, especially since he was the employment minister when he said that
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Feb 22, 2015 14:42
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I am several million old people that will not retire or die so that younger employees can move up and make more money. Also the whole "work harder" line.
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My uncle got super mad at me because when i finished school in 2008 (you know, the same yeah of the GFC) I couldn't find work. Now I have a good job in my chosen field and he collects unemployment benefits because his business went bankrupt and shockingly no one wants to hire a racist, chain smoking old fart. Hows that centerlink line going, Glen?
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Baby Boomer Teachers are the worst. They all walked into jobs when they were 22 and have had them ever since, they skew heavy towards high functioning alcoholism, and an unfortunate percentage view Substitutes as failures for not having jobs right away, even while retired teachers aren't having their jobs replaced. "Tough? I had it tough! *insert some story that doesn't sound all that bad* Also, why should I have to leave a detailed lesson plan? If the guy who comes in here doesn't know Calculus, that isn't my problem!" I'll be lucky if I have a permanent job by the time I'm 35. A guy I know just got his permanent position, he's 40 
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my first job was as a ticket taker in a movie theater in 1968 and I only made $95 a week! can you believe that? and your father got a job in a grocery store and only took home $120 a week, even though he had to stay well past 10 pm some nights. boy times were hard then
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Feb 22, 2015 15:59
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my grandpa said he literally went door to door until someone hired him, around 1960. he never finished school, but made a living for himself out of basically flipping houses before they called it that.
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My favorite Boomer Thing is that they did all the thing that young people have always done but lie about it to make themselves look better. Pretty sure, based on the dancing around my grandparents/ parents do while telling me stories, that my grandfather hosed around like crazy before hooking up with my grandmother and my parents and their friends were stoners in university.
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fearlessflyingfish posted:Literally all the baby boomers I know are either addicted to opiates or "recovering" from opiates via vast amounts of alcohol. gently caress dude, it's not just opiates and it's not just boomers. Most everyone I know has a standing Rx for SOMETHING. Benzos, norco, whatever. I'm surprised there aren't way more traffic accidents.
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My boomer parents are/were pretty sympathetic to the fact that jobs aren't permanent any more, pensions are gone, and social security is going bankrupt. <3
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Professor Shark posted:My favorite Boomer Thing is that they did all the thing that young people have always done but lie about it to make themselves look better. But but the weed that's around these days is 5 times stronger than the weed we had back in my day
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MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:
But these are actually legit good pieces of advice and in fact are related??
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"You better enjoy having that job until they get a goddamn robot in to replace you."
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my dad could walk down to the docks and get a day's worth of work just then and there loving weird
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Doctor J Off posted:But these are actually legit good pieces of advice and in fact are related?? They used to be but now they are not. You see, things are different nowadays. Also "union jobs are good" is not a true statement a startling amount of the time
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Feb 22, 2015 17:55
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hitting the pavement actually works if you're willing to take literally any job regardless of pay or quality
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hemophilia posted:hitting the pavement actually works if you're willing to take literally any job regardless of pay or quality hitting the pavement works really well if you lose your job and have no way to pay back your drug and gambling debts
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Feb 22, 2015 18:06
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Professor Shark posted:Baby Boomer Teachers are the worst. They all walked into jobs when they were 22 and have had them ever since, they skew heavy towards high functioning alcoholism, and an unfortunate percentage view Substitutes as failures for not having jobs right away, even while retired teachers aren't having their jobs replaced. In Ontario they've all retired and are drawing pensions, but are still members of the union so if they want to work as subs they get top of the list. Thus getting double pay. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-school-boards-squander-167-million-by-hanging-on-to-retirees/article4316317/ That's from a few years back but there's still a huge backlog of them. Between that and the number of kids who had no idea what to do and went to teacher's college, thus flooding the market with teachers, I've heard that the average person in teacher's college faces ridiculously long odds of landing a gig. I know of two people who went to teachers' college and never taught: one's a super at a construction site being run by his dad's company, the other writes HR policy.
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Skeleton Ape posted:They used to be but now they are not. You see, things are different nowadays. well in my experience those are absolutely true. but then i guess its like the acronym goes, YMMV
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hemophilia posted:hitting the pavement actually works if you're willing to take literally any job regardless of pay or quality or, indeed, give any job
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also, append the word "kiddo" to every piece of advice itt
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olylifter posted:In Ontario they've all retired and are drawing pensions, but are still members of the union so if they want to work as subs they get top of the list. Thus getting double pay. Yeah, retired teachers being able to sub (by which I mean babysit most of the time, as they don't have a lot of patience required in a good sub and either just get angry that methods they used as teachers aren't working on a 1 day basis or they just sit back and do nothing) seems to be turning somewhat as the public becomes more aware of it, but gently caress if retired and those close to retiring teachers aren't passionate about being able to be paid twice. I spoke to one guy who retired and was back to subbing a few months later. His reason: he and his wife just couldn't adjust to the change in income. gently caress you, Boomer, you had a well paying job your entire life and have a fantastic pension, stop taking money out the pockets of the young teachers.
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"I got a job in my field right out of college in the early 80s even with the recession, probably thanks to Saint Reagan being president instead of that uppity friend of the family! Maybe if your generation was less liberal you would get a job"
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