That sounds exactly like the pizzaria I use to work for. We would make racial jokes on each other and what not and every Wednesday night would BE Samual Adams night cause the one boss would run the place by himself and just go in the back and drink with his cop friends. He would be so drunk that when it came time to make pizzas they wouldn't even be round. More like triangles and squares. The best pie he ever made thought was floor pie. Pretty self explanitory. The best parts where when he picked up the phone.
"Hello Elin's."
"HELLO ELIN"S!"
"Salads? No we don't make rabbit food."
"What? what the fuck do you think this is dominos?"
" OH yea? Well, COCK IN YOUR EYE!"
No, I am not exargerating. That was an exact phone call I recall.

Yeah but the situation really got to me, and after 3 years of the same things you get tired of it. I just recently quit the place like 5 weeks ago and now I'm unemployed for the first time since I was 14.
Although its relaxing to be able to do whatever I want, its still pretty annoying to not have my own money and just do nothing...


On the side note. Nyn, that sounds pretty fun and those websites look great. I must make a mental note to have you make a propaganda website for me, for when I run for president.

Whoo hoo! I'll start a new business... "Propaganda R Us". *grin*

It is fun - it sucks at times to do corporate websites, cause there's no creativity and you're bound by so much - but I do things on the side for fun too, and for some extra money, or bartering.

I get free karate photos for doing this one: http://www.kicksphotousa.com/
I get free riding lessons for doing this one: http://www.komeekafarm.com/

I can have fun with those. Between that stuff, and VoodooMoose, it keeps from being repetative and boring.

What a range of jobs we have here! Astrid, more power to you, I did "customer service" on the phone for 6 years as part of my meteorology job (we supported the client software/hardware on the systems they use to make those purdy graphics you see on TV that the weather folks stand in front of) - my GOD, I ran out of patience so quick, and for you to do that in a medical situation, where emotions can run high...you're an angel!

Dorian - my brother is parts manager for an Audi/Porsche place. His stories sound so much like yours...and he deals with alot of rich stuck up assholes, according to him, and they have to joke around to stay sane...it's the business, i guess! *grin*

Ham - the night shift! Urgh! I had to do that, except we'd switch around - 2 weeks of 8-4pm, then 2 weeks of 4-12pm, then 2 weeks of 12am - 8am. Your body never got used to it. The stress you must be under to work those hours for a week then readjust, and all the while dealing with possibly dangerous materials, when your immune system is already low thanks to the stupid hours? You guys amaze me! I'll stop whining about my job now, k thx bye.

Great... something else with which to look at friggin' hurricanes. Cool site though.

LOL! Read Dr. Dewpoint instead - I wrote a huge majority of those way back when, answering questions like why is the sky blue. GOD that feels like decades ago.

...

Wait. It almost was. *sigh*

Who said I ever readjust. After about 8 months of working graves every other week, and having nothing real to do prior to noon on my off weeks I've just become accustomed to being up all night. I don't deal well with daylight anymore.
I'd rather work nights than days anyway.
As far as the health issues...not an incredible amount, adjusting to night shift will take its toll on anyone, People get sick alot on my shift and it's not exposure related. The materials are seldom dangerous and we take the standard OSHA prescribed cautions to prevent anything from happening. Only health related exposures issues in my department are few cases of latent TB, a herpes case from a sample that exploded into someone's eye (this has happened a couple of times i hear) and a Hep B exposure because some idiot wasn't wearing gloves while splitting a sample (I don't know, I didn't work there at the time).
It's honestly a great job with unbeatable benefits, so despite the draining hours and stress it's well worth it.

-Ham

Those are really neat, Nyn. Is your son in any of those? I saw a little boy.

Meteorology sounds interesting. I was originally planning to major in physics and work with something revolving around waves, but I realized that it would take me at least six years to finish college, so I went with philosophy, instead. Can you tell me more about it?

No, I didn't use my kids photos on the karate site - I didn't have any when I started this, and we just haven't changed them. The other site is one of my best friends, who was my neighbor till she moved to this new farm the next town over. Those are her kids all over the site - that was fun to do, and see their reactions when we showed them.

Meteorology was and is fascinating - I wanted to be a meteorologist from the time I was in 6th grade. It was my focus all through high school, and I truly enjoyed learning about it in college. I got to do wonderful internships, living and working on top of Mt. Washington for a summer and a winter (the tallest point in New England, in the Northeast - 6,288 ft - home of the "World's Worst Weather") and I got to work at channel 4 WBZ here in Boston, behind the scenes.

That's where i learned I never want to be on tv. The hours, the politics, the stress, was just too much for the poor pay you earn until you get into the night newscast - which is usually years. I say usually because sometimes people luck out - I turned down a weekend tv job at a little local NH station (WMUR) and some new chick named Michelle Michaels took it instead. Next thing i knew, she was here in Boston, then she was on the Weather Channel, and now she's back here in Boston again. Believe me, I wonder if that could have been me at times...but I know her personally, and know the issues she's had to deal with - stalkers, producers who care more about her looks than her forecast, days without sleep or going home - it is just overwhelming.

INstead I took a job at a place where I learned how to run the satellite groundstation, and helped create satellite images that you see every day on the news. We were a giant warehouse of weather data that we would then stream out over satellite dishes to people who purchased our value added products. It was fascinating, but the hours I mentioned above did not work as I went through marriage, the death of my father, purchasing a house, having two kids...I could not function. In addition, I was one of the few females in an all male field - it's getting better, but it's still testosterone driven...I guess that's why I'm not a girlie girl - if you are, you get eaten alive in that field, and I never outgrew it. I'm more comfortable joking around with a bunch of guys than with women.

So eventually I had to get out of that department, and I, being a geek since I got my Atari 800 and programmed in DOS, was teaching myself HTML at the time - and my company was starting a *gasp* website - while the web was TEXT ONLY, I started helping to build INTELLICAST. And I loved web work, and it went from there.

The funny thing? I think I do more weather now than when I worked as a meteorologist. I have time to sit down and pour over the computer models and watch the images and study the patterns, whereas during work I had to focus on quality of data, not the CONTENT...and now I get to share it cause I go into the kids' classes every year and give a talk on weather. :D That's so much fun, so in a way, I still use my degree in a big way. AND I get to be online 8 hours a day and get paid for it. ;^>

... Oh my didn't mean to babble on so long.

I have to comment - physics to philosophy - that's an intriguing combination!! The two are such opposites, and yet not - it's like science and religion in a way, they compliment and yet oppose each other depending on how you look at it. Have you read "Angels and Demons"? I think you'd like the opposing viewpoints presented there! It takes one hell of an open mind to have passion for both!