Are you only doing prepress at work? Or...?

[Possum]

Just be sure to save all the bitching for when you're at home. Never with co-workers even after work. You never know who might be a secret tattletale. It's a good rule at any job, but with gov't jobs, even more so.

[Farabomb]

Very good advice.

Working for family makes this... interesting.

[Possum]

Not a thing to talk about around the Thanksgiving table, then, huh?

[born2print]

   @ possum

[Slappy]

I just used all the shit I "technically" did to secure a State job... Looks like I'm going to get it too. Here's the really fucking sad part... I'll be auditing alcohol and drug clinics and making sure they spend money where they say they're spending money... and to start, I'll be making about $10k more a year.... and within a year's time I'll be making close to $22k more a year than I did in prepress... with full benefits (I've never had that before). Fucking A.

Kickass! Always good to see another one leave The Fold, and not on even a stretcher.

[Farabomb]

Not a thing to talk about around the Thanksgiving table, then, huh?

There is the advantage that his memory is so short that he forgets about work before he leaves the lot. I do bitch about him but he and I can really separate work and family. We've never had a work issue outside the shop. Any outside the shop issues are totally family related. Hell, I go on vacation at least 2x a year with him and his family. His wife and I just use the time to poke him with a stick.

[DigiCorn]

Good luck man. I hope it works out very well for you, you deserve it.

Also realize that state jobs aren't as rosy as they appear to be. There is a lot of bullshit politics so make sure you keep the right friends.

2nd interview is tomorrow. The guy that called me to set it up was a guy I played on the HS volleyball team with in 1988. I know it was being recorded/monitored so it was hard to not crack up on the phone while he was acting all professional. The team interviewing me also includes and second, different guy I went to high school with. The crazy thing is, high school was over 25 years ago for me, and over 160 miles away. Based on the info I was provided with as an insider, I have a 50% chance of securing the job so long as I don't fuck up the 2nd interview.

On the 1st, I was so nervous, I actually was stupid enough to arrive an hour early, and go to a nearby bar and have a few drinks before the interview (no joke). Luckily, I made it through.

[Ear]

You played volleyball in high school? :lipsrsealed:

[Farabomb]

Quiet, I did to. I was a band fag too.

[David]

I hung out under the stairwell smoking ciggys...

[Farabomb]

Well I was drum line so it wasn't tobacco.

[Ear]

I was drum line too. And Bass. But I drew the line at cheerleading and volleyball.

[Farabomb]

Yeah, you'd end up with VD on your hand if you were a cheerleader.

[Ear]

 

[Farabomb]

Or you'd get the job of collecting the class rings after they did the splits.