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Posted by: i love porsche Apr 14 2005, 04:23 PM
so, im in class today, in a review session for my physics test tomorrow, and i look at my watch and it says 5:30, and i have work at 6, so i run out of class and start driving home, and it takes me 25 minutes to get home. (mind you all i had to eat today was breakfast at 7 am, because i have all my classes in a row) so i go straight to the gas station where i work the night shift, and i walk in to pick up my bank for the night, and they tell me that it isnt going to work out because i cant work on every holiday, and on wednesdays during the day, because im at school.......and thats it!
they got some imported person to slave for them, its so retarted, they could at least have been courteous and gave me a week, no, they tell me after i rush home and skipped half of class and am exhausted.....
this sucks, now i have to borrow money from my parents to get the 914 in the body shop, and i JUST finished paying off my dad from a winter class....so i wont have a job for another 3 weeks, so the semester can end...
so yeah...thats my rant
Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 14 2005, 04:31 PM
aww dude. that sucks.
from one Aaron to another Aaron...i feel your grief 
Posted by: morphenspectra Apr 14 2005, 04:33 PM
Sorry to hear about that.
Posted by: rick 918-S Apr 14 2005, 04:40 PM
"F" em! 
shake it off! 
they don't deserve a guy like you! 
Posted by: scruz914 Apr 14 2005, 04:59 PM
| QUOTE (rick 918-S @ Apr 14 2005, 02:40 PM) |
| "F" em! :finger2: shake it off! <_< they don't deserve a guy like you! |
Sounds like an example of what type of business you don't want to work for.
Can you find a job that values going to school and is willing to work around it? What is your major? Are there any college level jobs available that are related to it? Whatever you do don't give up school.
Good luck!
Posted by: Elliot Cannon Apr 14 2005, 05:05 PM
Bummer! So go to the nearest UPS Sort Center and fill out an app. They gots lots of part time work and love college sudents. Give it a shot. Good luck.
Cheers, Elliot
Posted by: i love porsche Apr 14 2005, 05:08 PM
thanks guys, im gonna start looking for another job tomorrow, ups is a mabye, and also my mom was telling me how she works with kids who get 17 an hour cleaning the planes at newark airport, so im gonna apply for that too, i am a mechanical engineering major, so its lots of work, but i always put school first. i appreciate your support, this really is a great board!
now i need a job so i can drive the teener!!! 
Posted by: bd1308 Apr 14 2005, 05:09 PM
i know one kid that works at UPS and they pay some/most of his tuition.........pretty cool stuff....
Posted by: SpecialK Apr 14 2005, 05:18 PM
Yep, check with UPS. They were always setting up hiring booths at the school I attended looking for students. Good benefits too!
Posted by: Elliot Cannon Apr 14 2005, 05:42 PM
You should change your major to Civil Engineering like Aaron Cox. I here it's really really easy and nobody knows what a Civil Engineer does anyway.
Cheers, Elliot
Posted by: vsg914 Apr 14 2005, 05:48 PM
Civil engineers design streets, sewers, and storm drains (among other things). When the addition floods, they have already been paid and are working for another firm. 
Kinda like being a T.V. weather man. 
Posted by: i love porsche Apr 14 2005, 06:00 PM
....the word on the street is....civil engineers are mechanical engineers who cant stick it 
but thats just what i heard through the grapevine
Posted by: bd1308 Apr 14 2005, 06:02 PM
LOL!!! my gf's father is a civil engineer....
Posted by: ArtechnikA Apr 14 2005, 06:04 PM
| QUOTE (i love porsche @ Apr 14 2005, 07:00 PM) |
| ....the word on the street is....civil engineers are mechanical engineers who cant stick it |
ME's build weapons; CE's build targets ...
Posted by: Lyressa Roberts Apr 14 2005, 06:10 PM
| QUOTE (scruz914 @ Apr 14 2005, 02:59 PM) | ||
Sounds like an example of what type of business you don't want to work for. Can you find a job that values going to school and is willing to work around it? What is your major? Are there any college level jobs available that are related to it? Whatever you do don't give up school. Good luck! |
I'll get behind that comment 100%!!! DO NOT drop school. That is a very important thing right now and I'm sure your parents would agree.
I also agree that if the company would just drop you like that, then they are definitely not worth it...F#$% em!!!
Posted by: nebreitling Apr 14 2005, 06:16 PM
that sucks, but it might be a blessing in disguise, in so far as other places are likely to be more flexible.
sounds like you've got your head screwed on straight with school and all. remember, the better you do in school and the sooner you're done; the more money you'll make, sooner.
(take it from a dude who's been in school 7 years straight... shitt....... at least 2 more to go....)
Posted by: grantsfo Apr 14 2005, 06:17 PM
| QUOTE (Elliot Cannon @ Apr 14 2005, 03:05 PM) |
| Bummer! So go to the nearest UPS Sort Center and fill out an app. They gots lots of part time work and love college sudents. Give it a shot. Good luck. Cheers, Elliot |
I agree UPS was my first job out of HS. Its tough work, but motivated people can do very well in the first part of their career with UPS. They put me through college and paid for most of my graduate school work too. I worked there until I was vested in the retirement plan at age 28 and left for better opportunities.
But make sure you get out after a while they have a pretty rigid culture that gets old very quickly.
Posted by: drew365 Apr 14 2005, 06:27 PM
I know it's hard to see now, but these are the good old days in the making. Anyone with as much discipline as you will always come out on top.
Posted by: jonwatts Apr 14 2005, 06:29 PM
And never ever buy gas there again. That'll teach 'em 
Posted by: SpecialK Apr 14 2005, 07:12 PM
| QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ Apr 14 2005, 04:04 PM) | ||
ME's build weapons; CE's build targets ... |
Well put!
Posted by: type11969 Apr 14 2005, 08:03 PM
Aaron, does your school have a work study program? At Lehigh I knew some people that were part of the work study program, they worked at the gym or something like that as a receptionist, got paid (not a whole hell of a lot, but still got paid), and, since the job was usually pretty slow, they could get a lot of work done at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone, more time to work on the 914!
Just an idea.
Also, I've found that places like Barnes and Noble usually allow you to set up a flexible schedule around school.
Posted by: bd1308 Apr 14 2005, 08:09 PM
yeah man....i work doing networking stuff for the dorms....it's freaking cool and i get to work around classes and such! check it out. do your FAFSA though.
Posted by: riverman Apr 14 2005, 08:42 PM
| QUOTE (i love porsche @ Apr 14 2005, 05:23 PM) |
| they tell me that it isnt going to work out because i cant work on every holiday, and on wednesdays during the day, because im at school.......and thats it! they got some imported person to slave for them, its so retarted, they could at least have been courteous and gave me a week, no, they tell me after i rush home and skipped half of class and am exhausted..... |
Good life lesson. It just goes to show why you should stay in school and get a degree. That way you don't have to work for such narrow-minded, cheap-ass companies like that for the rest of your life.
Who knows, one day you could end up being your ex-boss' boss and exact some revenge of your own.
Don't worry. These things have a way of working out for the best.
Posted by: vsg914 Apr 14 2005, 08:47 PM
It was a dead end job anyway. Your better off out of there. I have never left one job and moved down to the next. It's always a move up. 
Posted by: Toast Apr 14 2005, 08:54 PM
| QUOTE (i love porsche @ Apr 14 2005, 04:08 PM) |
| thanks guys, im gonna start looking for another job tomorrow, ups is a mabye, |
UPS would be great for you. They work around your schooling, and they pay for some schooling too!! Plus they pay well, And you can get benifits after just 6 months! Check out their website.
Sorry about your job loss. Gas stations are for those........nevermind.
Good luck on your search!
Put a sign on your 914........."Will Drive for Food"
Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 14 2005, 09:32 PM
| QUOTE (i love porsche @ Apr 14 2005, 05:00 PM) |
| ....the word on the street is....civil engineers are mechanical engineers who cant stick it but thats just what i heard through the grapevine |
blow me pal......
civil engineers are Mechanical engineers on a larger scale....
Posted by: Qarl Apr 14 2005, 09:35 PM
When I was at Georgia Tech, some of the departments had T-shirts made...
GT Dept of Aerospace Engineering
"Well... actually I AM a rocket scientist"
GT Dept of Civil Engineering
"Civil Engineers... Erection Guaranteed!"
Posted by: ! Apr 14 2005, 09:35 PM
Too bad the gas station wasn't in CA or in MY area....I would stop by and say...."Hi, I;m from the gubmint.....i be hear to help......here hold my beer whilst I write sum stuff"
Getting laid off sucks....been 28 years since it happened to me....I still have dreams about it....
Posted by: MattR Apr 14 2005, 09:35 PM
At our school (a good one) civil engineers take: statics and materials for 4 years. Granted, they are better at statics, 2d cad and materials, but mechanical have to take statics, materials, dynamics, vibrations, circuits, differential calculus, 3d cad, and such.
Now with that said, both a civil and mechanical engineer get a degree. I dont have one, yet, so I'll shut up now.
Posted by: Aaron Cox Apr 14 2005, 09:38 PM
here...
we take statics, dynamics, all sorts of vector related shit...
timber strength, concrete strength, metals.... blah.. all classes about materials....
Posted by: MattR Apr 14 2005, 09:40 PM
aaron, i wasnt trying to compare among different schools. Your degree will say one thing, mine will say another. Different fields. 
Posted by: Qarl Apr 14 2005, 09:49 PM
Your gas station days will be but a faded memory in the long run.
Like you said... school is important.
Glad to hear you're in engineering.
I remember engineering school. I have the piece of paper on the wall to prove it. Too bad I never used one bit of all the technical crap I learned.
I remember the days of....
Long nights in the computer lab. I think I took Pascal.
20 page solutions to math problems (and then you discover a mistake on page 1)
Running all over fucking campus because you've got one class here and the other 2 miles away!
I minored in materials engineering and took a bunch of finite element analysis classes. One of the neatest classes with the helicopter structures class. We had some engineers from the Army or Air Force come in and show us test crash footage of helicopters. Saw footage of what an apache helicopter blade can do to a pilot's skull when it fractures and penetrates the cockpit. Yummy! One guy puked in class.
I took I think 5 levels of calculus, partial differential equations, dif Eqs, statics, dynamics, materials, composite materials, fia, advanced fia, a whole bunch of fluid dynamics classes, propulsion, virbration and flutter, CAD classes... blah blah...
One of my projects is still online...
http://eml.ou.edu/FE/students/W93/Ellzey/Ellzey.htm I think this was done on a Mac II!!!!!!
I don't even remember half the shit I spent 5 years studying. I couldn't integrate an equation if my life depended on it. Finally threw away all my college textbooks and notes about 7 years ago.
I did save my Senior Project was a complete aircraft design of a joint strike fighter/trainer. I think it was 315 pages of engineering.
I'm sure it would have been different had I actually gone into engineering. Graduated wrong time, wrong degree.
I even did the co-op program with Pratt & Whitney in the West Palm Military and Space Systems Division. I worked on F-15/F-16 engines. SR71 engines before it got canned, Space Shuttle fuel pumps and one semester I worked on the F22 Raptor engines while it was all still secretive. Had a Secret government clearance...
Ahh the good ole days!
Posted by: ClayPerrine Apr 14 2005, 09:53 PM
Aaron... look at it this way....
When you graduate you can go to work building things..... and then people like Rusty of the PURPLE 914 blow them up.
Sorry to hear about the job, but it sounds like it sucked anyway. Find something that pays better. And after you graduate and have a very good paying job (designing targets), drive into that place, find the manager and tell him "I would buy my gas here, but you were a prick to me a few years back. Now I am working at a GOOD job, and you are still here peddling gas for the big 4.75 an hour." 
Success is the best revenge!!!
Posted by: MattR Apr 14 2005, 09:57 PM
Geesh, you make it sound not fun. I have 2 calc classes left (both differential equations), im in my last quarter of physics (electricity and magnitism), and then its all upper div from there. Im done with statics and dynamics and one level of materials. Cad is almost completed (design project will be some nifty 914 parts ). The material looks really interesting to me. I dont know how I'll apply it to my ultimate goal of being a race car engineer, but Im pretty sure starting up the FSAE program here at UCI will be a good start (i just got word today we have a meeting with the factulty tomorrow). I'll wait until Ive graduated to have a cynical analysis of the public education system. For now, I'll keep my head up and take in the crap they're trying to teach me as long as I get my degree and I have time to do FSAE and 914s.
Posted by: Qarl Apr 14 2005, 10:11 PM
No... I don't use my higher education engineering classes because I ended up in the medical services field.
If you become an engineer... it WILL come in handy.
Posted by: BMartin914 Apr 15 2005, 07:29 AM
In the it'll probably end up being for the best. I have dealt with convenience stores, their employees and the managers on a business level and they all seem like they are mad at the world cause they're stuck in such a shitty job. Seems like you've got a future ahead of you - you don't need those ungrateful people anyway.
UPS is good, if you've got the strength and stamina, it's definitely the place to be. I gave it a shot when I was in school, but it didn't work out. PT, full benefits, tuition reimbursement. Hard to beat. Try to get them to let you take the sorter test in the beginning. You get paid a little more and the work is a *bit* easier. Best of luck to you!
Posted by: i love porsche Apr 15 2005, 01:28 PM
| QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM) | ||
blow me pal...... civil engineers are Mechanical engineers on a larger scale.... |
hey now, dont shoot the messenger
i think im gonna go for the ups bit, ill find the closest place near me and apply next week, thanks so much for all your support and help guys its really awesome
as far as my engineering classes are, im finished with physics and chem this semester, (electricity and magnetism) and ill go into calc III and stat next semester, with my first two mechanics classes, finally
i just wanna make cool things
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