What do you do for a living?

[Werewolf]

I work for a Architecture firm that specializes in restoration and rehabilitation of existing structures, we get to work on some very nice historical buildings. I have worked on various UCONN University buildings and even on the retoration of the US Capitol Dome in Washington DC

www.hoffmannarchitects.com

[bandit]

Originally posted by Prince Planet
I'm an attorney.

getting paid the big bucks. i got a situation i dont even know if its worth suing.

i got fired from EB for having a ebay account and selling games (my personal collection)..in other words conflict of interest

so i went to gamestop, filled out app, and got an interview. the District manager asked me why i got fired, i told him as well as the store manager. and they hired me. a month or two later, i get fired cuz of the same reason. but this time, they said i sold FFII on ebay. thing is, i sold that game 2 months before i started working for them and the copy i bought was complete.

think i got a case? if anyone knows a relative that is a lawyer..mind passing this down to them and giving me feedback?

[taloony]

Originally posted by BioMechanic
I work in the photography department of The Huntington, a world-renowned research institution.

I basically reproduce material in the collection for research purposes: rare books, manuscripts, and archival photographs and negatives. Every day I come across something mind-blowing; today it was a series of letters by William Tecumseh Sherman. The collection has everything from illuminated Chaucer manuscripts to original drawings by John James Audubon to engravings by William Blake. The pay isn't the greatest, but the experience is fantastic. It's almost like working in a museum. I tried to get a job here for four years, and it was worth the wait and perseverance.

This sounds so damned cool. Kudos to you man.

[Tracer]

I'm the network admin/op for Phonoscope, a large independant telco in Houston, TX.

[Punky Skunk]

Nothing.

I'm a "full-time" student (min. 12 credits, of lower level GER courses - it isn't much work) at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

[maruchan]

Cuurently i work at my universitys Library, where I'm also a senior, who is applying for graduate school..

[Spanky McGee]

OK, my turn. I go to school on and off. Im going back in the spring. Don't ask what for cause really, I don't know. Job-wise I have the most depressing job of all. I work for Gamestop. Yea, I have to deal with all those damn tools that come in there. I just want to smack each and every one of "TEH HARDCORE" that comes in there. God, why do I work there? The only good that comes out of there is the swag, and when I get people to buy SEGA and only to have them return it to say it sucked. Gives me pleasure that they have to take time out their day to return a fantastic game that they said sucks. Fuckers.

[Jeremy]

Nothing, until my vision stabalizes.

[Stone]

Originally posted by bandit
getting paid the big bucks. i got a situation i dont even know if its worth suing.

i got fired from EB for having a ebay account and selling games (my personal collection)..in other words conflict of interest

so i went to gamestop, filled out app, and got an interview. the District manager asked me why i got fired, i told him as well as the store manager. and they hired me. a month or two later, i get fired cuz of the same reason. but this time, they said i sold FFII on ebay. thing is, i sold that game 2 months before i started working for them and the copy i bought was complete.

think i got a case? if anyone knows a relative that is a lawyer..mind passing this down to them and giving me feedback?

I dunno, but to me this seems like a pretty basic application of a noncompete clause...I didn't know they put those in EB contracts, but, might as well, and it makes sense.

If you won a judgment against EB, at best you'd get back the lost wages that you would've earned (I think), which probably wouldn't be enough to justify doing anything.

Also, EB doesn't seem to have done anything wrong - think about it, you're competing with EB while being paid by them. You also could've been profiting from your employee discount or your contact with incoming EB used games.

[Tracer]

Yeah - Gamestop has the same policy. I don't know for sure if you can fight that. Whether or not you're buying the games from EB or Gamestop you're still comptetinhg with the employeer. It's much the same as buying items directly off a cutomer from your pocket -- EVEN IF THE STORE DOESN'T SELL THE BOUGHT ITEM -- I know this because I recived a stern warning about it from my DM (I bought a TG16 from a customer since Gamestop doesn't buy them). He told me I should get fired for it, but as it was, I was a fixture there and he had to know as well as anyone else that if I was fired that store would lose many customers as a result There were cheaper prices all around that store (11 diffrent locations to buy games within a 2 mile radius) and lots of cutsomers stayed at mine because I was a good guy so to speak.

But I digress... you likely won't be able to contest that - but I'm not a lawyer.

Originally posted by Wolffen
I.T. Director (who is also the Database Admin, Crystal Reports programmer, office app admin, Exchange Admin, NT Admin...well, you get the idea).

Soo.. you don't do anything except when Exchange gives you hell (it does doesn't it?). I do basically the same thing with some customer service thrown in there (I work late - I'm at work now - so I serve multiple purposes, well, all purposes. They have fewer people to pay that way I guess) The only thing I don't do is remote location data/video, IP Telephony and Sales (as well as the given Line Crew stuff).

www.phonoscope.com <--- now with flash.