Post your Best/Latest Accomplishment - In RL

[TheGrandMom]

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Good job Feebs! Seriously awesome job in fact!

/em is sitting here reading the forums while stuffing her face with a huge bowl of Froot Loops....I am teh looz!

[Aksannyi]

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Psh, you're doing better than me, I had a Bud Light for supper, and I'm about to crack open another.

[Elwynn]

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Been finally starting to get the leaves raked up from the front yard. Now that daylight savings time is here (and of course no FFXI), there's more time after I get home from work. I've been aiming for 8 recycling bins worth of leaves per day raked up and dumped on the pile in the back yard.

It's sort of like quest grinding, so it feels strangely natural after nearly 3 years of FFXI.

[NightShayde]

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Been finally starting to get the leaves raked up from the front yard. Now that daylight savings time is here (and of course no FFXI), there's more time after I get home from work. I've been aiming for 8 recycling bins worth of leaves per day raked up and dumped on the pile in the back yard.

It's sort of like quest grinding, so it feels strangely natural after nearly 3 years of FFXI.

Are you at least getting raking skillups?

[Aksannyi]

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He was GMed by someone who was also trying to rake leaves. Because he was so efficient at it, he must have been a goldfarmer. Now he's in GM jail trying to explain that he's legit.

[Neverslip]

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Had a couple pretty good Improv shows. Did some games I'd never done before during performances. Having good audiences always helps too.

My cat, Wolf, has had a few set-backs on his road to using the toilet. Think he's well on his way now. I ended up buying a kit called the Litter Kwitter and he's on stage 2. So, he's doing his business over a hole now. Learned earlier not to move to the next step too quickly so I'll give him a few more weeks of this, then next step.

Donated to Red Cross to support the Tsunami relief effort.

Took some small steps to finding a new job.

[Elwynn]

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Are you at least getting raking skillups?

Too bad it's not a main job skill for me.

At least the new rake I got a couple of weeks ago works better than my old one (which was starting to fall apart even after being repaired a few times). Nothing like a gear upgrade every now and then.

[Aksannyi]

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Nothing like a gear upgrade every now and then.

[KingOfZeal]

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As a pleasant alternative to all the people in the other RL thread complaining that jobs are only found online these days, some interesting developments for me have occurred recently.

First, a mock interview I went to a couple weeks ago with Acuity, a fairly large national insurance company. This is the company that wins awards every year for their financial statements -- this year, they did it like a giant pop-up book, with every page a different fairy tale; in previous years they have had the entire board dress up as member of KISS, put the financial reports on a record cover and a silver record inside. This is the insurance company with a torture chamber that leads to a gift shop, and has been ranked as one of the best companies to work for in the entire US. In any case, had a wonderful interview, and the guy who did the interview was equally impressed with me. It was mock interview, but still.

Second, one of my teachers is going to work for Orion Energy -- if anyone remembers Obama visiting Wisconsin back in January, that's what he was here for, to visit them. He (my teacher) brought up the other day that he could have a job for me given my decent knowledge of computer languages and background in finance. Though, the job seems to be an IT job and I (will) have a degree in Accounting it's still quite possible; I need to chat a bit more with him before the end of the semester, but it could pan out into something real. Odd if I do get it, since I specifically went to school for Accounting over an IT major because I wanted to keep it a hobby and therefore not get tired of it.

Interesting stuff, and still goes to prove that it's not what you know, it's who you know, yeah?

[Murphie]

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Indeed it does. Which is why I suspect my thing with UPS will still pan out once the contact I have there can access my information in their system.

[KingOfZeal]

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I just wanted to post this:

I mentioned that the first company makes odd but awesome financial reports. Those include This years' pop-up book and Last years' pizza menu. Sadly they don't have ones from even earlier. Be sure to look closely at the very last page of the pizza menu though, it's a nice touch, especially having worked in that [pizza] industry for a long time.

[TheGrandMom]

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Be sure to look closely at the very last page of the pizza menu though, it's a nice touch, especially having worked in that [pizza] industry for a long time.

Ewww...that dead fly is a nice touch??

[KingOfZeal]

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You obviously haven't had to deal with some of the people who frequently order pizza. Otherwise you'd agree.

[TheGrandMom]

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Sorry guess this one is over my head. lol

[KingOfZeal]

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I'll see if I can't explain it a little bit:

From my own experience, flies are VERY common around pizza stores, especially during the summer months. It's not from lack of sanitation or anything like that, but more from the fact that people keep coming in and going out very frequently or even holding the door open for a period of time. You obviously don't want them landing in the food, so people develop little tricks to get rid of them -- personally, I used my hat (hold by the bill, and flick it toward them when they're on a hard surface, put it back on your head all in less than a second). So, as much as you might not want to hear it, it wouldn't be TERRIBLY uncommon to have [dead] flies end up in the product or even on a pizza (food would obviously be thrown out if a fly ended up in it).

Which brings me to some customers. Let me put it this way: people who work for food companies, in particular delivery drivers (and managers and inside workers to an extent) have a VERY good memory, especially when it comes to people who don't tip (for delivery drivers) or are complete assholes (for managers). If you're one of those people reading this, I recommend NEVER to order from the place you had the problem from for at least 2 years to allow for adequate time for everyone to either forget you or leave that company outright. Those who DO still order often have surprises in their food; I've seen Visine put into pizzas, I've seen... oddly shaped... black olives on others, I've seen it dropped (inside the box, which basically makes it look horrible), and I've heard stories of even worse things occurring that would make you not want to eat out ever again.


So a fly on the bottom of the pizza is just a nice subtle touch, as someone who has worked in that industry.