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Lozza
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7/10 8:38pm
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Heh, know exactly how you feel. I came to the decision yesterday that I refused to sign a document which consisted of the last 3 months of work because someone insisted on something being included that I did not agree with, and might not even be right. I refuse to be held accountable for someone else's stupid statements. Even if it means handing over 3 months worth of work to some numbskull who had next to nothing to do with it.
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morgan-aleghieri
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And how. Ah well, I was able to escape the horror story of filing for a bit by attending a seminar on how to file properly, and sat giggling in the back rows with a work collegue. Apparently Pirates are a sensible aside everywhere.
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HappyBob
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While I've finished all the advertising (i.e. degree-relevant) subjects of my master's, I have one final semester of electives ahead. While I'm as keen to delay the real world as the next perpetual student, I was never hugely enthusiastic about this last stretch. It felt anticlimactic. This has been the most interesting and rewarding period of my life to date, and it never felt right ot have it fizzle out like that. This changed today when I spotted some newly available electives and switched all my subjects at the last minute.
I am now, for all intents and purposes, studying sound design and music recording. Audio editing has become one of my biggest hobbies over the last year, so the chance to learn the tools of the trade is a really exciting prospect. I think I'm really going to enjoy this.
It's a welcome breath of fresh meat. I can't think of a better way to end my six year run as a student.
(Except "not at all". But that's the instinctive fear of change talking.)
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morgan-aleghieri
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Sounds like a change for the better HB - enjoy the last of your studies 
I've constructed a small fortification around my desk with packing boxes. I should be able to repel the enemies until the packing guys remove my walls... 
At this stage of the office move I've decided that I've no hope for completing my goal of getting all my filing done, so I've switched to boxing stuff - a much more satisfying task with easier to achieve and more obvious results.
Also, whilst cleaning out my own desk I came across a few items which I had thought lost to time:
-- a pair of black gloves I've been looing for for the last two winters;
-- the art book I did all my Companion outfit designs in. YAY! 
I also have some fairly delicious cupcakes on hand that we whipped up on the weekend... Real strawberries for flavouring. Really nice.
Back to packing up things then. 
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morgan-aleghieri
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Day 2 of the move to the new office now, and so far it's not all bad. My desk is naturally a shambles, but I have a window and a lockable cabinet, so that's a start. I've figured out where the mail points and times are, also good.
After almost two years of being up on the in/out board, Batman - and his away status of "fighting crime" - has been removed. I was sad. 
Most of my stuff is unpacked, though I'm not looking forward to unpacking all of the filing folders and putting them into the Compactus thingy again... Really quite dreading it, actually.
Anywhom, I ought to get back to work.
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Kahlan72
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My workplace is a place of scum and villainy right now. It's like I only just realised I work in the public service. Boss left a month or so ago, and took away the supervisor position I was doing for a bit before he left. Others had been doing it since I opted out for my lovely 5 hour days.
Anyway, apparently it was never funded correctly so "didn't exist". So the bunch of newbies working around me, about 5 out of 10 who've been there around 12 months or less, have no direct supervisor, no-one managing them really, no-one checking processes and fixing, no-one doing the complicated stuff, no-one taking responsibility, no-one mkaing sure things are being done right..and they really aren't..but not their fault.
Also all the really complicated stuff we used to do has been passed back to them on top of their normal work load and a couple just can't do it and many are talking of quitting.
I was asked last week to go help by my temporary supervisor, with no knowledge of what we do or how its done. "go, be a team leader, pass on your knowledge"..for no extra moey mind you. Now I was the supervisor a while, and am really good friends with the supervisor who's been completely politically stabbed.
So I was at a crossraods last week. Say no, and watch it all fall apart and prove the stupidity of the people above and those that left, or help, ease the workload of colleagues, possibly hurt my friend, and let the bastards win.
I picked somewhere in the middle, but it's all such a mess.
Going to work each day has become a complete drag for most of us. Bad management, reactive management, lack of caring about training, customer service coming last...ahh fun world.
It's also against policy for me to whinge about work on an online formum. So there!!
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Lozza
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Hate to say it, but that's the public service for you :S
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morgan-aleghieri
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And I'd sadly have to agree - although it's no less demoralising for it. Sounds like the day I realised I lived and worked in a Dilbert comic - hope it turns out alright K.
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Lolly_Tolly
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I have a substitute teacher! Yay! for subs! Especially since we're supposed to be doing a mid term exam. Japanese can be awesome!
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Kit'
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Been watching Thank you for Smoking because I want to show my students a bit when we learn about fallacies of reasoning. However, watching it I've decided that I'm probably in the wrong industry. Not that I want to become an advocate for cigarettes (hate the damn things) but that I actually find myself nodding my head as the marketers talk and thinking "I could so make that idea better"....
That and I can talk under six foot of wet cement 
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Lolly_Tolly
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Where do you work? If you don't mind me asking.
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Kit'
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At a highschool in Brisbane
Where do you go to school?
Kithera
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Lolly_Tolly
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At a high school in Brisbane, on the North Side. And I know you can't be one of my teachers 'cause none of my teachers are called Rachael.
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Kit'
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Eh. I work on the Southside!
It's like most of the places that people work. I don't mind people knowing I'm a teacher, but I'd rather keep where I work to myself
Kithera
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Lolly_Tolly
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Uh. Yeah. Sorry. I meant highschool, uni, tafe etc. I realised afterwards and couldn't be bothered to change it. Sorry if I seemed prying or anything.
Anyways, back to the topic.
Today, my principal got up all the year tens and elevens. There were people who came from QUT and TAFE to give us information. 20-30 got detentions because they weren't paying attention. Considering there are a grand total of 500 in those two year levels at our school, it was really dumb to pull all of us out of another lesson just to yell at us.
I'm still shocked that my friend and I didn't get detentions. We were hitting each other.
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