The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

just so long as coitus was not interrupted...

[Did I just say that outloud? Did I actually post that?]

Yes, yes you did...and you should be ashamed...hang your head in shame and go stand in the corner

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I am abashed! I shall remain silent for a few moments...oh wait...

 

[Wirey]

We had a safety incident here that I'm not sure I believe. Apparently someone, while using the washroom, scratched their behind, and a jagged nail cut them badly enough to require stitches. Three, to be precise. How hard do you have to scratch your butt to require a seamstress to put it back together?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

In looking back into moving away from here, I read of these things called "job recruiters." As in, someone who works to get you placed into employment, into your field. No doubt they cost, but it makes me wonder what other mysterious and magical creatures exist in the big city? (I also wonder if they are even actually worth it or just money draining "Wizard of Oz" gimmick.)

 

[Revoltingest]

In looking back into moving away from here, I read of these things called "job recruiters." As in, someone who works to get you placed into employment, into your field. No doubt they cost, but it makes me wonder what other mysterious and magical creatures exist in the big city? (I also wonder if they are even actually worth it or just money draining "Wizard of Oz" gimmick.)

Recruiters typically charge the employer.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It also looks like one of my biggest issues here is going to be a major issue pretty much just about anywhere I go, and that is I lack a professional network.
But, then again, in other places I can use 4-5 syllables words without hearing shrieks of agony. (I'm still pretty pissed at this entire state over yesterday)

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Recruiters typically charge the employer.

Wwwhhhaaaaa?
But, now I ask, with something that seems that "too good to be true," what kind of sting and/or bite do they come with?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

LOL! I started to look more into these job recruiters on Google, and wondered what the hell Google was on when said there are job recruiters around here. Then I noticed these "job recruiters" are the military recruitment places.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Now I discover these "job recruiters" are called "temp agencies" in these parts. My experience with them left a bad taste in my mouth, but it could be a small enough annoyance to just be a nasty tasting dose of medicine that lasts for a moment and then gets you better if they can be used as my needed leverage to get moved from here. And considering there should be more clerical work (if they use the same terms) in bigger cities, it might just work. I'm already to the point of being willing to put my master's degree on hold, and even forfeit being of the first psych Masters to graduate from IUK, so a relatively minor trade off isn't too bad.
But that really seems just too easy to be an actual solution that will work. I'll still look into it, though, because if it can get me working at something I can do while I look for something in my field I'm going to take it, but I'm just so very highly skeptical that plan could ever actually work.

 

[Revoltingest]

Wwwhhhaaaaa?
But, now I ask, with something that seems that "too good to be true," what kind of sting and/or bite do they come with?

No downside I know of.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Well, it looks like I may have found a part of the way to me getting out of here. Maybe. With the issue of employment looking solvable, the next issue is getting an address/roof over my head. I can leave my non-essentials with my parents, and get them later, so I can keep the "physically getting there" costs down, but I still need that chunk for deposits, first months rent, etc., which is my other problem to solve.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

No downside I know of.

Here, as "temp agencies," they get a chunk of your paycheck and you are eligible for no company benefits, not even holiday bonus pay. (sucks when you're supervisor goes around asking everyone around you if they want a day off or extra pay, but then to you sorry you get nothing)
It never really even occurred to me to consider them in getting me moved because they suck so bad around here, and pretty much send everyone to the same few places.

 

[Wu Wei]

We had a safety incident here that I'm not sure I believe. Apparently someone, while using the washroom, scratched their behind, and a jagged nail cut them badly enough to require stitches. Three, to be precise. How hard do you have to scratch your butt to require a seamstress to put it back together?

did they have fingernails like these

 

[Revoltingest]

Here, as "temp agencies," they get a chunk of your paycheck and you are eligible for no company benefits, not even holiday bonus pay.

Doesn't work that way here.
You live in the wrong place, eh.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Doesn't work that way here.
You live in the wrong place, eh.

Apparently. Damn we get ripped off so bad here.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I should be able to secure the money to get moved, and if one of these "job recruiters" can pull me through, I would hope it shouldn't be too hard to find a place to live.
And now I find myself making excuses on when to go, that I should probably wait until after this time or that, and other crap. Truthfully, I won't leave my family just before the holidays, and it's not like I could just pack up and leave tomorrow anyways. But, probably around the end of the year/beginning of next I'll start looking to secure the money to go, start communicating with job recruiters, get a job, and move away.
I'd say I'd probably stop stop at the Indiana/Illinois border to looker back on Indiana and **** on it, but the last time I hated something this much, the last fast food job I had, once I was away from it the anger vanished and I lost all motivation to make my former boss cry.
Now I just need to plan out how to explain my dismal work history, credit score, and all the things I've been doing with my life (or lack thereof, as my paper trail would suggest).

 

[sun rise]

...
Now I just need to plan out how to explain my dismal work history, credit score, and all the things I've been doing with my life (or lack thereof, as my paper trail would suggest).

For a couple of times in my life, I was a "hiring manager". I might be atypical but I looked for people who were honest and did not try to BS me. Because if they're honest in a job interview they'll typically be honest after that and I really appreciated honesty when the crap hit the fan.

Of course, getting to the job interview can be tricky. The typical way to do it is to take a **** job but do it well and have people willing to vouch for you. Then you have a story of someone who was getting her **** together to tell people.

 

[sun rise]

Today my 'crowning' achievement was in the dentist chair being poked, prodded and drilled with the smell of burning tooth in the air.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Of course, getting to the job interview can be tricky. The typical way to do it is to take a **** job but do it well and have people willing to vouch for you. Then you have a story of someone who was getting her **** together to tell people.

Yeah, 'bout that. My most recent effort, about a month ago, delivering pizzas, made it apparent if I'm going to be on my feet for any more that an hour or two I have to be moving around (I ended up quiting because my knee just take the pain of having to stand still and not move around much - it's pretty much the same for sitting for more than an hour or two). I already planned on just being honest in that I was just born with a bum knee and live in a factory town where desk jobs are rare and difficult to come by. I had a good work record, but that was two knee surgeries ago, back before I even considered disabilities/ssi as an option. Which also gets into why my credit score used to be good, but then declined, first over a layoff, to recover a bit and then dwindle due to difficulties with employment.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Today my 'crowning' achievement was in the dentist chair being poked, prodded and drilled with the smell of burning tooth in the air.

I hope I never have another lapse in dental coverage. I went years without going to the dentist, and when I finally got to, I felt like my mouth was the center of an excavation site as I sat on the chair for over two hours as they chiseled and hammered away at the years of built up junk (I was impressed that I had only four cavities).