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Office Space Quotes

I was sitting in my cubical today, and I realized ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day you see me, that's the worst day of my life.
What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Yeah.
Wow. That's messed up.

I don't like my job and I don't think I'm going to go anymore.
You're just not going to go?
Yeah.
Won't you get fired?
I don't know. But I really don't like it and I'm not going to go.
So you're going to quit?
Nuh-uh. Not really. I'm just going to stop going.
When did you decide all that?
About an hour ago.
So you're going to get another job?
I don't think I'll like another job.
Well what are you going to do about money? Bills?
You know I never really liked paying bills, I don't think I'm going to do that either.

Jobs

My boss talked me into applying for a promotion today. Well, it's not much of a promotion. I guess I'll break down and drop off a resume at HR tomorrow.

I also got a call today from TD Canada Trust about giving me a phone interview for a job there, but I didn't get the message until late, so I'll have to call them back tomorrow as well.

The Shit is about to hit the fan...

I work for Convergys in a call center that does outsourced inbound customer care for AT&T Wireless.

As of today AT&T Wireless is now Cingular. Nobody really knows what will happen, but it will be a big change. There have been rumors that the entire call center could be shut down at any time, so I guess it's time to dust off my resume! Even if the center stays open, there will be major chaos for a while. At least I already have logins for the new Cingular systems we'll being trained on. It took a year to get all my AT&T Wireless logins and passwords!

Scientology in the Park

I just found out, unfortunately after the fact, that the Church of Scientology had a tent set up in Beaver Hills Park earlier this week, a few blocks from where I live. They were calling this the Volunteer Minister Global Cavalcade. The Volunteer Ministers are the Scientology group that among other things turns up at disaster sites to try and recruit people into Scientology. I believe that most of the Volunteer Ministers have good intentions and really believe they are helping people. However in the end it's all about public relations and recruiting people into Scientology.

When 9/11 happened they were at Ground Zero. Here's a quote from an email that was sent out to Scientologists at the time:

"[W]e are trying to move in and knock the psychs [Psychiatrists] out of counseling to the grieving families and that could take another 100 plus people right now. Due to some brilliant maneuvering by some simply genius Sea Org Members we tied up the majority of the psychs who were attempting to get to families yesterday in Q&A, bullbait and wrangling. They have a hard time completing cycles of action and are pretty easy to disperse."