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Excuse my language but you’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

Over the weekend I spoke with one of my previous coworkers from another job where I was expected to do way a lot more than what I was actually getting paid for.

Just to give you an idea of what I was doing everyday and NOT getting paid for check below:

1. Train new hires on a particular subject in which I was an expert (the classes were normally 30-40 people in size, last a few hours).
2. Part of a database management team that was responsible for purging & updating documents from the database that were no longer useful.
3. Beta test software.
4. Create tutorials for “issues” that people in the department could not grasp nor understand how to fix (eventually I created a series of videos so that people could see exactly what they needed to in order to become more efficient).
5. Create a flow chart for a new process that would be rolled out ENTERPRISE WIDE.  On this project we tested a tool that NO ONE besides the developers had played around with.  I was the first to not only understand their vision but implement the tool in day to day usage.  I explained the tool to the rest of the team (non developers) and how they needed to use it.

Those were five tasks that I knew that I had to deal with EVERYDAY and I didn’t even bring up the fact that I was harrassed everyday by coworkers.

Now that I look back on the amount of work I was doing I have to ask myself what was I thinking however at the time I needed those challenges in order to keep from being bored at work.

I should have been getting paid, especially considering the fact that others were getting additional bonuses for doing training sessions however I learned a lot because of the various differnet projects.

I was cool with that up until this past Saturday when I was told that the perception of me was that I DID NOT DO ENOUGH WORK.

I’m perfectly fine with someone ASSUMING that I didn’t do enough work for what I WAS GETTING PAID FOR but even that wasn’t the case because I still out performed my coworkers (check the stats, numbers don’t lie…taken from Asiaa of AsiaaK.com).

The only thing that this company could possibly say that I didn’t do enough of was during the time that I was in the adult baby sitting management training that I went through for a few months (which I hated every minute of).

While I was going through the motions of management training I was STILL EXPECTED to perform all five of those tasks (all of which I received high praises for from people OUTSIDE of my immediate organization), none of which I was getting paid for.

Maybe I should apologize for not doing enough work for a position that I was passed over for someone that FELL ASLEEP AT THEIR DESK and CAUGHT BY MANAGEMENT while working on a project.

Or maybe I should apologize for not doing enough work when I out performed EVERYBODY in my department and got shafted on my raise.

Or better yet how about I just say thank you.

Thank you for not appreciating me and using my talents.

You people are right, I didn’t do enough work, I should have been working hard for myself and telling yall to fuck off.

How is your organization doing now?

How many people did you have to try to find to replace me?

Funny how the tables have turned and you people are at the bottom of the totem pole within the organization.

Funny how the management has remained the same and the place has totally gone to hell, Great job, maybe you all are the ones not working hard enough.

P.S. Excuse my language and once again fuck you.

This guy right here felt like a lot of us felt after President Obama was elected to be the 44th president.

He just happened to be working and on live television.

The studio announcers didn’t know what to do, probably because the guy was hitting on women and having fun AFTER the first black president was elected.

I had to post this one because it is a classic.

lol @ “okay i gotta go do my thing. ill b right back. i gotta wrap this up.

ill c u in a lil bit”

This weekend I decided to replace the keyboard on my original Macbook (black) that had been slowly chipping away at the sides.
It has been awhile since I got the chance to be a nerd so I this weekend I decided to treat myself.

I had an issue with my first generation Macbook that Apple has verified is a KNOWN defect with this model.

I’m out of warrant so I didn’t expect for the machine to be replaced however I did expect to be at least given a quote on a service that they offer.

Not one but two stores gave me the run around about my questions.

I found the replacement for the part online a year ago by using iFixit.com which is a website dedicated to Apple computers.

All I needed to know from the Apple store was how much would it cost to replace my keyboard for my Macbook.

If they couldn’t tell me how much then do they have any companies that they could have recommend for repair.

I was told that I needed to make an appointment to even speak with a “genius” even though they were less then ten feet in front of me doing nothing.

In one of the stores I told the lady that I wasn’t going anywhere until a “genius” came to talk to me.

He ended up being no help at all and couldn’t even answer my BASIC QUESTIONS.

At this point I was pretty much fed up so I decided to do it on my own.

I recorded parts of the project and they’re below: