What's Your Job IRL?

Maybe getting into Hubert Selby territory. Either way, anyone with a Bukowski gif should join @YMO's zoom parties.

 

The days of dérive are behind me now. My vessel is cracked and gasping west on the wisps of lethargic lust. I was once amused by Ignatius Reilly but I am sure to become him. And what exactly is a joke?

 

Is your username also POS... Like I saw one smart screen on a big chain store when it glitched out and saw logging screen. Nah, everything is running well, I guess people are working hard on these things to work.

 

We are moving to Kronos on Sunday. It was thrown on me yesterday with no introduction and I had to learn it on the fly. This particular front end is advanced in terms of the role assignment, there is a lot going on and scheduling it properly is difficult, complicated by a staff that is unreliable and a turnover that would rival the worst of them. I am not having a great week but I am continually comforted by the experience that things could be a lot worse. Fortuna be kind.

 

There he is...

 

Retail Management..I've been there. If I was more ambitious I could write an amusing book.

 

Hmm... Should maybe consider a thread, “Aphorisms from Retail Hell” with short antidotes describing the frothy beasts upset that cucumbers can’t be found under the letter “Q” at self-checkout.

 

Ahhhh, nothing beats the parent coming in with the bruised (abused) child and claiming the kid had just fallen in seasonal aisle.

 

To the "Retail Hell" thread, we add a sub-category for store clerks assaulted or murdered by customers irate over the "wear a mask or leave the store" policy.

i tried to use "self-checkout" once, but failed. I was feeling depersonalized and apparently had insufficient self to work the machine.

 

Never mind, I do not posses the strength necessary to swim against the soul sucking density of darkness that would amass a thread like that. I am still functioning under the illusion of an exit.

 

Pal, you're starting to make True Detective look like Benny Hill.

 

There ain't nothing like a friend who can tell you you're just pissing in the wind.

 

Yeah, a lot of people are taking it on the chin right now.

 

not just the chin...

 

It was a phrase my Dad used a lot. He had a friend, Noel the Pessimist. He used to say, "You gotta pay the price, baby, you gotta pay the price."

 

For a few months now, I've been working on a top secret incubation project at Blizzard. I had a fun 7.5+ years working on WoW, but I'd done just about everything I could and there are a lot of other solid designers on the team, so it was time to move toward exciting times again.

It's been pretty strange starting on a different team while completely working from home, but the main person on the project is someone I've worked closely with before for a few years, and my level design partner is someone I've worked closely with since the days of Kingdoms of Amalur circa 2006 (and we were both at Sony Online Entertainment prior to that, just on different projects).

Pretty cool experience being part of something that almost feels like a startup within the context of larger organization.

 

Excellent saying. Was Noel self-professed pessimist--or acclaimed as such by others?

I would refer to the wisdom of George Clinton, creator of Parliament/Funkadelic:

"You got to get under it before you get over it."​

 

That was our name for him. Noel was a dishonorably discharged paratrooper. I remember him stroking his beard as shook his head, repeating that phrase.

Great quote from the only Clinton one can truly trust.

 

This thread makes certain things clear:

• Some of us love our work--we become our work, live for our work
• Others stand far apart from any joy or psychic benefit of work

We tend to associate feelings of despair, hopelessness, and alienation with failed love affairs, bereavement, betrayals, other dire personal matters. I've had those feelings more often in the workplace (or absence of one) than anywhere else in life...interspersed with the occasional success and peak of creativity/focus (work is a real mixed bag).

"When you work, you gotta pay the price, baby."