Random School/Work-Venting Post

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Gah, I want to leave work, because I'm done for this week and only need to wrap up - but on that aforementioned feeble crap-top I now parse 13.500 XML files, while copying them to two other locations - and it .... is .... slow! Let me go home already, goddamit, darned piece-o-carp!

*@ۤ%&?*# GET FINISHED ALREADY ... OR ELSE!

 

Applying for a construction job so I can make a lot more money before I get going to school again. Not sure I want it as I really enjoy my food service job and I'll have plenty to get by with that and the coaching. We'll see though.

Just wish I had more hours as life is really boring right now.

 

Nothing more exciting than editing your documentary at 9am when you're sick.

We've only gotten through act 1 and a bit of act 2, and we need to whole thing (beginning, middle, end; doesn't need to be fully edited and beautiful, just the stuff we are going to use for each), and the thing is due tonight...

 

No coaching job.

I'm pretty pissed, the head coach had me convinced that it was a lock up, but he can't actually make that decision... and yeah. Bummer.

 

Don't you feel so much better about having applied for the construction job now?

 

I think he's pissed because he was looking forward to seeing a many girls bouncing up and down a lot....

 

That team has some pretty weak racks, so no

The construction job is apparently incredibly boring, but hey... never mind, I don't have a way to make me feel better about it.

 

Trying to write a paper... but having major problems because I ingested a kilogram's worth of sugar in the last 2 hours... freakin' out man.


The shnozberries taste like shnozberries...

 

Ok, you need to lie down in a tub full of cold water! STAT! Oh no, wait, that's for heroin... I get my addictions all mixed up...

 

Saber: Try salt. Usually works for my sugar overloads. (on a completely irrational basis). Sour food might work too. Any taste engaging enough to kill off the sugar.

I might have scheduled too many activities for myself for the following, oh... 10 months. Hopefully the Sloth will stick to his area of expertise and let the Lady dish out damage.

 

Go for a run, Saber. Physical activity will help get it out of your system. And as a side effect, will oxygenate your brain more, helping you think clearer

 

Too late for the advice men! The Paper is in, hopefully it passes for more-than-a-piece-of-sugar-induced-****.

Thanks for the advice though, next time (read: tomorrow) I have too much sugar, salt, baths, and exercise it is!

 

S***, damn, and crap!!! My work found a few more ways to screw me over!

They reinstated tuition reimbursement for employees who want in, and they "updated" the rules. For programs costing over $50,000 (that's me), we have to stay with the company for 2 additional years after we graduate. It used to only be 1 year. Also, if you leave the company before your 2 years is up, you have to pay 100% back to the company...and it's due on your last day of employment! That rule used to be that you only had to pay them back for that last year you went to school.

 

What the ****? Dude, that blows... can you not get 'grandfathered' into the old program? Or does that apply to everyone?

 

Damnit! I was about to go out on break and right as I reach the end of my bay, one of my machines went "boom" and now I have to stay and fix it before I can go to break.

I'm currently waiting for it to purge all the acids so I can open it up, which takes 15 minutes...all the while I'm starving and I'm doing the "Pee Pee Dance"...so yeah. Halloween isn't off to a great start for me.

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The new rule applies to everyone in the tuition assistance program...

The program is not required as part of our jobs and I entered the tuition assistance program on my own free will, so they can screw with that program all they want.
It was supposed to be a "perk" of working here but now it's a trap!

 

Yes, like Han in Empire strikes back... Don't despair, Luke will be there to rescue you in the next installment...

 

There are sixteen people roughly in a class - for this group project we are in groups of four and I have found the WORST GROUP POSSIBLE that I was put into.

Two people in the group don't know what we're doing despite it being the fourth week. One won't even talk to me, the other doesn't see why he should attend classes (wat?) the fourth person nobody has ever seen. The third? Well, he's done all the work and refuses to share it. Seriously.

He thinks he is going to get all the marks for the project because he did all the work - despite the fact we are marked on how we work as a group and how we divide work. The whole module is about learning to work with other people and keeping in contact as it was one of the main things companies said was underfocused in university computing degrees.

He is seriously refusing to send me the work and I just don't understand it. He's now just gone to simply ignoring me and everything that's written on the bloody MyCourse site which has information on each week as well as the unit handbook that EVERYONE is given in the first week anyway.

Looks like I'm going to fail from sheer idiocy once again at this rate! I failed this unit last year because people didn't credit me properly for work when I was off ill or told me to do the wrong things. I'm getting seriously sick of it.

 

Stupid people reserving the lab I need to finish my project in. Instead of having 6 hours to work, now I have to do it all in the 2 hours I have free right before class...