Vic Wasteland Thread - 15.0

[Leroy Peterson]

When I went to Japan I had to go into negatives, just feels like I should have some leave saved up since... I much prefer gradual, feels like I can save/accrue as opposed to get lump sum and whittle down with the occasional day off.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Office Christmas party today.... Gin distillery does breakfast, then a winery for lunch, then a brewery for dinner....

[emts]

sounds fun.

our Christmas party is sounding a bit fishy currently but that's ok as I normally skip it.

 

(it's at the aquarium)

[Leroy Peterson]

Work Christmas party? What's that?

 

My gym is having drinks in st Kilda. I guess that counts.

 

Would be nice to work over Christmas and bank some leave. My partner's family uninvited me to their Christmas lunch so I can then spend Christmas day on the pokies.

 

 

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

So, we started drinking at 9am... The bus driver let us take eskys on board... Distillery, winery, brewery... And I'm dusty as fk lol.

This shit is not cool when you have kids that wake you at 6am by jumping on your stomach

[UNR33L]

hows the hangover? 

started a new job at car dealership last Monday, as usual doing the rounds and getting introduced to staff, then I got introduced to Mark with the gold / bronze r33 on here, small world! 

Inb4 "IT jobs are revolving doors" 

 

Edited December 9, 2018 by UNR33L

[emts]

in b4 18 years now.....

 

Mark R who used to be cool and do deca's and now has a kid Mark?

[Birds]

On 12/8/2018 at 7:19 PM, joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo said:

So, we started drinking at 9am... The bus driver let us take eskys on board... Distillery, winery, brewery... And I'm dusty as fk lol.

This shit is not cool when you have kids that wake you at 6am by jumping on your stomach

You need to put them to sleep by jumping on theirs

 

 

 

 

 

Damn that's morbid

[Birds]

I'm pretty sure the expression "the grass is greener on the otherside" was coined for the IT industry

[Birds]

Also need to go back in time and smash into his desk the face of my careers counselor, who 15 years ago advised me not to enter the field of IT because it was a flooded job market

[Birds]

[Leroy Peterson]

He's not just a Chinese man, he's a Bentley-driving Chinese man.

They probably failed to mention the other guy drove a Mitsubishi Verada

[Birds]

Burgundy Camry gets my money

[emts]

18 hours ago, Birds said:

Also need to go back in time and smash into his desk the face of my careers counselor, who 15 years ago advised me not to enter the field of IT because it was a flooded job market

Can you smash my one as well whilst your at it.

Admittedly this was a bit further back but, I got the there is no money in computing your wasting your time, and off for a chem eng degree I went.

 

but looking back on it, why the hell did we take advice from a washed up teacher? 

[Kinkstaah]

I have never, ever, EVER heard of ANYONE

EVER

Leaving IT and regretting doing so.

Source: Been in IT since 2000, asking 100% of colleagues who have left IT.

[Leroy Peterson]

How the hell does one become a career counselor? Attempt to work in 50 different industries over their career?

[Leroy Peterson]

How the hell does one become a career counselor? Attempt to work in 50 different industries over their career?

[emts]

so no idea if it still the case, but in our school it was just one of the add on's a teach could do to earn some extra money, like home room teacher, maths advisor and such.

 

no real qualifications he just had a multi use office with a bunch of brochures on the walls

 

(oh and ours was also the Chemistry teacher....)

[Birds]

Ours were general student counselors who did careers counseling too...can only surmise being a private school the parents had high expectations about career fulfillment.

The second one we had was actually a good dude. He used to play CS so we invited 35 year old him around to our houses for LANs when we were about 16...which looking back on is crazy and there's no way anyone in their right mind would pull that shit now!

[emts]

Public country school, where they were more interested in getting you an apprenticeship than a Uni placement