congrats on your new job, carrie! but I bet you will miss those sweet, sweet target discounts!

Imago said:

It probably wasn't your intention but hearing that is really reassuring for guys like me who are in creative jobs they love but without the money. I'm constantly freaked out by everyone around me who's in banking, law etc and who have a certain amount of stability.
Every two months or so I start getting paranoid that I should have a grown up job by now...

brownsugar said:

WHO?!

yeh my school KINDA is like that, but they're more into being better than the next student...very competitive and not so laid back
my thursday night drawing classes however...

Imago said:

you mean like this?

[Edited 5/4/06 13:13pm]

People are down to earth for the most part. I have a small group that Im cool with. Everyone else gets ignored.

I'm in retail, and I feel like the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence..sometimes I dream about having an office with a secretary...a desk to put my feet up on..
dealing with the public is no picnic. Sometimes there are rewards like when people write notes to thank you for some service you did for them, but for the most part, peoples can be assholes. I think being in an office away from the public would be a good change..

PurpleRein said:

its a very nice change
i've been working retail since i was legally able to work...
and this new job i got is a telesales job..and i love it!
it's a great change...and you're right, retail is teh shitteh

Natsume said:

Thanks!! And I'm still at Target. Just Target Technology Services.

Anx said:

I forgot about that! I need to re-watch the last season.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

wow. that sounds crunchy. but nice

my workplace is VERY informal and crazy. For those who don't know, I work at the MN AIDS Project. Our agency does the whole range of HIV services from prevention and testing to case management and financial assistance. We have no dress code. The outreach staff area is filled with porn and dildos. We have vagina models and penis dummies. Condoms and lube. You know, the standards.

I LOVE IT.

Of course, we are a building full of passionate-political-social servicey- nutjobs so, sometimes things get VERY intense. But it's all good.

where i used to work would make for a good sitcom or something. It was an animal hospital in manhattan

every man was gay except for one and he was trying HARD to sleep with me.

the office manager was a drama queen who chased off one of the vets one saturday and tried to chase me off on another saturday (i showed his ass...)
he would also talk shit about employees behind their back to other employees. yeah, he was real professional

there was one female doctor who had the rage in her. she was pretty fun to be around at times. she eventually moved and i'm hoping she's happier.

there were lots of out of work actors waltzing in and out and doing stints as receptionists. In fact the office manager and the head receptionist were both in the biz but gave it a rest after a while.

the head vet had a very old dog who used to bark at everyone who walked through the door. that dog was freakin' awesome.

the house cat had a tilted head and used to drag towels up into the reception area and perform..ahem..an erotic showcase with them.

some of the clients were freakin' insane.



i'm glad to be in school now.

The last place I worked at was a flowershop with a bunch of middle aged ladies who watched too much Desperate Housewives. Cattyness was the order of the day, although it was always kept to a whisper. I didn't care about any of the drama and they accepted that.

Overall it wasn't a bad place to work. I dealt with some of the worst customers I could ever have hoped for (I didn't figure I'd encounter many assholes working at a flowershop, but good lord was I wrong) and sometimes the schedule was bastardly, but there was no uniform and and they let me listen to David Bowie. On top of that they didn't ask me to wash my hair or stop smelling like pee.
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endorphin74 said:

Now, see, that's where I really wanna work.

I may still try to work for Lifelong in some capacity someday. . .

I use to work at a police department. The culture sucked on many levels for many reasons.

I left there because I'd been there for over 3 years and the awkwardness never wore off. I was never accepted by the crew, which wasn't a big deal until they started messing with my evaluations.

So at the first opportunity I moved on. Went back to school and now I'm about to start my new career. I went to the police dept today to get a reference from the one person that was decent to me. Two people were nice to me. The rest of them were their normal shitty selves.


I'M SO GLAD I MOVED ON!!!!

Its the best thing about my job to be honest. We are all around the same age and everyone I live with I work with! There isnt a dress code and its a relaxed atmosphere.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

You hussy!

REDBABY said:

Oh yeah, it's an orgy everynight round our gaff.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

any vacancies???? You my snoring! lol

REDBABY said:

Oh indeed. There's always a spot for you! Your snoring is indeed superb. I think you need a record deal.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Well indeed MrJD!

Thing is to get you sOOOOO drunk that you pass out and my snoring is like a beautiful hum.. like a butterflies wings afluttering..

REDBABY said:

That is usually the case. As long as I can be fed strawberry sorbe again or whatever it was that time, then cool!

JDINTERACTIVE said:

THAT wasnt me!!!!!

REDBABY said:

It was but I dont think you remember. It was a VERY drunken weekend!

JDINTERACTIVE said:

In Manc???? hell it prolly wasnt strawberry sorbet.. but Polish Vodka..

I never buy strawberry things!!!!

Anx said:

Oh man, I would looooove to work for myself and not have a boss to answer to. I hate relying for someone else for my livelihood, and I'm not too crazy about corporate America (it bites). Does anyone feel this way, or is it just me? I find myself daydreaming of winning the lottery (even though I never play it ) and going into my job and quitting right there on the spot. That would feel soo damn good to say, "I'm outta here, take this job and SHOVE IT!".

i work in an office of three. the other two are nice, they really are but they are so str8 laced it's unbelievable. they geek out all the time. actually, one of them i can is dying to break out of the str8 laced sometimes but she's so tied down. makes me laff.

there's no risk taking in what we do. unfortunately i am the 'junior' member of the team.