Jobs, we don't need no education... Options

[+Ed+]

Awright kids. Another thread about us.

Who is who?

Tell us about what you do for a living. I only know Nick is the PE teacher. I do not know about anyone else. Anyone willing to share?

I have loads of professions. For now I am a marketing director assistant for the local Cambridge ESOL office in my city.


What do you do?

[OutToDry]

I am the lizard king, I can do anything.

[Sonic Tonic]

I chase away birds at the airport.

[Pokey]

I chase away birds at the airport.

I am the birds at the airport, quit chasing me.

[Sonic Tonic]

I am the birds at the airport, quit chasing me.

Perhaps if you would tip better I'd stop.

[Pokey]

Perhaps if you would tip better I'd stop.

I'll tip all over your head and car windscreen.

[Sonic Tonic]

It's ok I drive an Echo.

[Merica]

I'm a tax dodging student of media production. Hello.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

I'm halfway employed doing something I hate, but I have a Master's degree in Religion and will do a PhD someday.

I also make a little money doing music, but I would make more if I sold coffee and pendants.

[Badman]

I'm an undergraduate anthropology major doing an ethnography on American Shoe Cobbler culture and getting paid just enough to scrape by without a job.

[Wambangalang]

I'm a borderline alcoholic film graduate who works in a supermarket.

Hey does a noose get tied around 3 times or 4?

This post has been edited by Wambangalang: Jun 15 2010, 5:03 am

[Pokey]

I'm a borderline alcoholic film graduate who works in a supermarket.

Hey does a noose get tied around 3 times or 4?

I work for a private health insurance company, I do a number of roles such as training new staff for the call center. Processing claims (which is probably the best part because I can sit and listen to my ipod and just zone out and do data entry basically). But the bulk of it is call center work, it's inbound. But having fucking morons ring up trying to scam something for nothing

"Hey look yeah i know I just took out insurance with you guys 3 days ago and haven't paid you a cent yet, but I really need a gastric banding operation because I'm really fucking fat, so are you guys going to cover me for it?"

"I'm sorry in the first 12 months of your cover the only way you can be covered is if doctors deem the reason for your admission to not be a pre existing ailment inside the first within the last 12 months"

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU FUCKING BASTARD THIS IS A MEDICAL CONDITION AND I COULD DIE BECAUSE OF THIS AND YOU ARE NOT ALLOWING ME TO GET THE HELP I NEED RAR RAR RAR WANK WANK WANK FUCK FUCK FUCK"

that's one common call .. the other type is when the customer is legit in trouble and has reason to be upset and has actually a really solid case for why they should be covered. I then have to argue with my bosses who just say "nah tell them they're not covered" ... to which I have to deliver the information to some poor bastard that the money he's been giving us for the past 20 years without ever having made a claim is no good because we won't cover him. This doesn't go down well, so I have to put up with the customer being a cunt, and the company being cunts on the other hand .. and it's always some smug little fuck in the company who denies the claim and thinks it's just as easy as going "sorry, we're not covering you" and the customer will say "That's no problems, just thought I'd ask anyways, sorry to trouble you!" ... you feel like passing the phone to the manager and say "if it's so easy to fucking deny the claim why don't you tell this guy who has cancer that he's paying for all his chemo treatment himself".


Wam, do you have a second noose I could borrow?

I have vowed this is the last job of this type I'll ever do .. I'm leaving the company when I go to America, then when i come back I'll work the rest of the year doing ... something, before going back to study. I feel incredibly under educated for the type of work I've done since leaving school.

Oh yeah and I'm also bitter because I've had the last week off as leave and I'm going back tomorrow, hence more ranting than usual. Fuck the world and everything in it.

[+Ed+]

Whoa, Pokes, I get those kind of calls every time, but considering the education for sure.

I must admit a couple of times I really did say FUCK OFF in reply.


I do not know why I am not affraid to lose my job. Maybe because it sucks...

[dangum]

I work for a private health insurance company

Care to mention which company? Just so I can avoid them.

I work for an IT company. My official role is a software developer, but I surf the internet all day.

[Sonic Tonic]

I'm a borderline alcoholic film graduate who works in a supermarket.

Hey does a noose get tied around 3 times or 4?

I'll join you on that line as long as you bring the wine.