The Hatin Thread

[ChinPieceDave667]

Originally Posted by MONSTAFACE

do you work for the government dave? i think my homie worked there for a sec but im not sure. he is still on the career intern program so he is on a rotation. i remember he was telling me about that though. i think he was telling me they get all their whole budget off of approving patents. and if that is a government job of course its boring at times. it doent get busy until you have a project or until you been there for like 10 years and have a bunch of work, but by then you can use so much leave it doesnt really matter cause you never really work a full week

Yeah I work for the Patent Office as a Patent Examiner. We don't really have projects, only the Supervisors get projects. We just review patent applications and argue with lawyers about whether or not their client gets a patent. It's fun sometime, actually the best part is telling a lawyer that he is an idiot and to go back to engineering school, well in nicer words.

[MONSTAFACE]

hahahahaha. im pretty sure someone at some point in time said closer to the way you said it

[hrdgain81]

Dave, thanks for the offer man, but relocating out of NY isnt really an option. The only other place I would make as much as I do here, would be LA, and I'm not going out there ... Yet hahaha.

Monsta, I used to work for the gov't, but I left in search of better pay. I found it, but I got a lot more stress with it, thus is the nature of things.

So they officially gave the apartment to the other applicants, so now I have to take the night off from the gym to go look at another 15 places and try to get a lease signed by thursday so we can move in by friday. I love this shit ... I'm starting to get fired up by all this bullshit, I was down yesterday, now I'm motivated.

[IronKitten]

Are the fucktards even gonna give you your deposit back?

[ChinPieceDave667]

Originally Posted by hrdgain81

Dave, thanks for the offer man, but relocating out of NY isnt really an option. The only other place I would make as much as I do here, would be LA, and I'm not going out there ... Yet hahaha.

No prob. just looking out for ya. If you ever change you mind let me know. They are projected to hire over 1000 people by the end of the year.

[MONSTAFACE]

yeah you always find more stress in the private sector. and when you were in the gov were you on the 7-9-11 scale. 60 grand at the 11 isnt bad in my opinion, but you deal with computers so you probably make more than that.

and they are hiring that many people down there dave. i think everywhere in general is hiring more and more people. they went for a span of about 10 years where they virtually hired nobody where i worked. then they hired over 100 people in a matter of weeks

[hrdgain81]

IK, I am going through the same reality place to find a new spot, so it will just transfer to whatever place we decide we want. I'm going to make this work to my advantage though, since they dicked us on the last place, they will drop the price per month on the new place we find.

Dave, Monsta, I was on the GS scale and I left as a 12, but with the type of work I do even that is far below average in the private sector, especially if your in NYC or LA. But my biggest problem with that gov't job was that I was in such a small office we didnt have the funding for a lot of technology that we needed. I had to come up with all kinds of rigged bullshit to get the job done, and it always ended up making my job 100 times harder then it needed to be.

[ChinPieceDave667]

Monsta, yeah the only reason they are hiring so many is because there is almost a 4 year back-log, now that is what I'm talking about for job security. Since the PTO is the biggest money maker for the gov. we get paid a lot more. That and since the turn over rate is high in this office they offer a lot of different perks, work from home, part time, work from home everyday (it's called "Hotelling", so if I wanted to I could live almost any where and telework every day and only come in the office 1 hour a week, and that is negotiable too).

Hrdgain, with the PTO, it's more like research without the development. I sit in my office and read patent applications and patents and try to reverse engineer everything to see how it works then write a report to the lawyers and tell them, "Sorry but you're not getting a patent." We do have interviews with them in person and on the phone, I have one in 15 minutes, to discuss what they are trying to do and what their application really says. But the job can be very boring at times.

[MONSTAFACE]

man i would love to be at a 12 right now. i would be living like kanye west if i had a 12 lol jk. bu yeah with computers i would imagine you are able to make more than that and getting funding in the gov is always hard because they give it all to my end. i work the DOD side so when you are building 75 million dollar airplanes on a regular i guess you dont have that much to go around. my buddy who is on a rotation right now went from PTO to some other branch that is so out of date with everything. he cant stand it. he says they have no funding for anything. its to a point to where he said that if they place him there at the end of his roation he will just up and quit.

[IronKitten]

I hate writing letters to family I haven't seen in eons, updating them on my life. They could care less about my competitions. They wonder why I want to look manly (they're in their 80's and 90's). The rest of my life is boring. I have nothing to talk about in a stupid letter to them.

But they send me money occasionally so I have to do it.

Fuck.