Where I work, no one can hear you scream. Seriously. (764 hits)
Category: HumorRating: 1.3 on 12 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by DJResonance <dreamkrafter.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2003-10-08 13:08:12 EDT
I had spent many a day begging the powers that be for a job that I don't hate outright. I know, I know...not very many people have jobs that they like. I can deal with that, too. I just wanted one in which I could vent my frustration about co-workers, bosses, etc. and not get fired. And an increase in pay. And a hot receptionist.
Well, I got the first two. Unfortunately, I was hired to be the third one.
Very first day, I show up after a successful ping-pong of emails from the job. I walk in, and everything seems nice. Its mostly clean, with up to date electronics (except for some old panasonic printer which would soon become my only non-human nemesis) and people laughing in the back room. Sounds great!
I pull up a chair, and start filling out my application with a smile, knowing that I was just about to start a semi-decent job! As my non-erasable pen was jaunting down my references, I hear something like a wail come from one of the office, which made me jump and made my jet black non-erasable permanent pen jolt allllll the way across the application. I would later explain that this was caused by an insect bite, not a fight-or-flight response as it really was.
I immediately learned that I was working at a mostly-deaf manufacturing plant for TDD's (Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf). As I have lived a good portion of my life short-sighted and shelters, this made me nervous.
I also realized very quickly that my boss, like many, is a complete ass. A penny pinching ass, at that. After getting yelled at for about the third time for no reason at all, I also realized something that, to this day, brings glee to my otherwise mundane day; I can curse at him endlessly, and not get in trouble. So long as he is not looking at me, and I can say exactly what is on my mind, chocked full of explitives and pure opinion, and all of it as loud as I want.
I still, however, yearn for a hot receptionist.
User Reviews
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2003-11-10 19:28:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
pleasant to read, and plus 2 for the mind boggling and bizarre concept of being able to shout out one's feelings in the office.
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2003-10-17 17:41:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Absolutely wonderful. I want a job like that...
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2003-10-08 17:25:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Dude, fix your profile. (My Account)
Otherwise, people are not going to be able to connect DJResonance with Apathesia.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-10-08 15:43:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Apathesia (user info) at 2003-10-08 15:34:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Im male, and I would have preferred to look at a hot receptionist. But I was hired to BE the receptionist. As it goes, I am not hot. Only downside here: no eye candy what-so-ever.
Submitted by marc01 (user info) at 2003-10-08 15:18:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
i to was entertained yet confused. i want to know if your male or female.
if your female +2 for wanting a hot receptionist and stooping to the level of debauchery that we men live and practice on a daily basis.
if your male well join the club bro and just a +1 because you should be wanting a hot swedish receptionist in a french maid outfit trained in the orient on the proper ways of service.
Submitted by DrunkMonk (user info) at 2003-10-08 14:56:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
For some reason, I finsihed reading this feeling confused but entertained.
Don't know why, but that will get you a 1 from me.
Submitted by Apathesia (user info) at 2003-10-08 14:50:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for my first post. And I bitch every day, and loudly, and stress goes WAY down. Weird how it works that way.
Submitted by sam_el (user info) at 2003-10-08 13:28:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Bitch away, my friend. Bitch away.
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2003-10-08 13:22:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Wait, so your a hot chick? Im so confused.
Submitted by Hadooken (user info) at 2003-10-08 13:12:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
congratulations
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2003-10-08 13:12:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
you are DJResonance, and nobody can hear you.
this is like Bacon being Jewish, only different.