Things that suck about your job.

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j_crazy's avatar
j_crazy
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Jan 11, 2010 6:25pm
List 'em.

I'll start with mine.

1. Schedule - Yesterday, I worked until straight through to 10:30 PM (I was on night tower on Saturday and the proverbial shit hit the fan), woke up this morning at 3:00 AM (4.5 hours sleep). Worked until 4:30 PM, I'm "off" now, but I'm still at work (picture to follow) and at 6:30 PM, I go back on until 4 AM tomorrow morning assuming no more problems arise. Now when I get off on Thursday, I'm off until 1/28, but I go on call 1/22.

2. Location - for 14 days, I work 12 hours, but I'm always at work because I work here (East Garden Bank)

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ZWICK 4 PREZ's avatar
ZWICK 4 PREZ
Posts: 7,733
Jan 11, 2010 6:26pm
Don't pay me enough.
That's it.
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gorocks99
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Jan 11, 2010 6:28pm
I work from 9am until at least 7pm M-F ... some days 8pm, some days 9pm, the worst days I'll be here until midnight or so. It's client-based, so I have to be ready to go with whatever they come up with, and ready to change at the last minute and put in the work needed to have it ready to go. That, and my bosses all leave at 6 or 7pm every day.
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coyotes22
Posts: 11,298
Jan 11, 2010 6:29pm
Im not the boss
GoChiefs's avatar
GoChiefs
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Jan 11, 2010 6:31pm
I can't think of anything I hate about my job.
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Tigerfan00
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Jan 11, 2010 6:31pm
I thought for sure Zwick would have said one of his female co-workers.
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coyotes22
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Jan 11, 2010 6:35pm
GoChiefs wrote: I can't think of anything I hate about my job.
Yea, how hard can it be to moderate a HS Forum?
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cologino
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Jan 11, 2010 6:40pm
no hot chics
Curly J's avatar
Curly J
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Jan 11, 2010 6:41pm
Smoetimes there aren't enough things to keep me busy.
j_crazy's avatar
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Jan 11, 2010 6:44pm
cologino wrote: no hot chics
there are 50 people on here right now. NO WOMEN. I'd take a 3 over a 3" wang.
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Benny The Jet
Posts: 2,987
Jan 11, 2010 6:46pm
Wish I had a job to complain about. If you're one complaining, consider yourself lucky, could be a lot worse. Waitin for May/June to roll around to start applying for more teaching jobs.
j_crazy's avatar
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Jan 11, 2010 6:49pm
yeah that sucks worse.

If not for the shitty pay and needing to get a masters, teaching is the career for me. I'd LOVE to teach math, I decided it 6 years too late though.
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Benny The Jet
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Jan 11, 2010 7:04pm
Not that I'm sayin people shouldn't/can't complain about their jobs...I definitely did when I had a full time job. Just that hindsight 20/20 thing.
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hasbeen
Posts: 6,504
Jan 11, 2010 7:09pm
I just have a job when I'm home and I make good enough money but:

1) I hate having to be clean shaven
2) I hate when I have to work with not my normal group because then everything is more rushed. They don't help as much.
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GoChiefs
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Jan 11, 2010 7:34pm
[quote='coyotes22' pid='147496' dateline='1263252906]
Yea, how hard can it be to moderate a HS Forum?
[/quote]

Pretty damn easy since the seasons over! :)
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GeneralsIcer89
Posts: 281
Jan 11, 2010 7:38pm
I get cussed out on the phone several times each day when the caller isn't even calling the right office. I have to work with a guy who smells like a walking toilet and *literally* drips grease (he leaves stains on the chairs), and despite complaints to the boss about health concerns, NOTHING. I have to work on some of the most disgusting computers in existence. I've refused work on the one where the owner had spilled pizza on it at some point (that wasn't his issue), and the sauce stain had grown some extensive extra lifeforms. I get students that come in for help and just cough in my face with no attempt to cover their mouths.
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iluvz
Posts: 262
Jan 11, 2010 7:51pm
In general, I LOVE my job. What I can't stand is unreliable/incompetent staff. And recently, a few of my staff have become very stalker-ish of my personal life. Apparently they really have nothing going on in their own life, as I don't find mine all that exciting.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Jan 11, 2010 8:06pm
It doesn't exist.

Unless you count school, in which case I hate driving to Youngstown.
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Fab1b
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Jan 11, 2010 8:11pm
i have it pretty good, I really cannot complain. If I had to say something that sucked it would be a few of my co-workers lazy asses!
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se-alum
Posts: 13,948
Jan 11, 2010 8:17pm
A dip in the company ink gone bad.
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rookie_j70
Posts: 677
Jan 11, 2010 9:26pm
stupid customers
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dancinbear
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Jan 11, 2010 9:45pm
I like my job. It's just irritating that some of the old timers around me seem to think that I do absolutely nothing throughout the day.
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fan_from_texas
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Jan 11, 2010 10:05pm
I hate the hours and the unpredictability. I can't ever schedule things in advance or commit to hanging out with people because I'm the low man on the totem pole and if crap comes up, it ends up on me. I took two vacation days last year--there's always pressure to be billing hours, and so I start to treat interactions with people as though they were 6 minute increments. That sucks.

It isn't that anything in particular has been brutal--the hours are long, but other people certainly work more. It's the constant unpredictability and stress that is always there in the background, sucking away my life. I get embarassed when I meet new people and they ask me what my hobbies are. Frankly, I work, and I dont' really do a whole lot else. It's a minute and almost imperceptible dehumanizing process. I hate to think what things will be like after a decade of this.
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tk421
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Jan 11, 2010 10:09pm
Not having one.
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Cat Food Flambe'
Posts: 1,230
Jan 11, 2010 10:20pm
I don't have any real complaints. As long as get I hings done, they pretty much leave me alone.

January to March sucks due to the workload (10-12 hour days), but I can break it up as I see fit during the day or week, or from the office or at home - and I can easily get by with six-hour days or four-day work weeks from mid-August to mid-October during the best weather of the year. I get to travel about one week a month to civilized parts of the country (Seattle/Portland, New England, NYC) - and take my wife with me on the company bill after I pay her airline tickets (at company rates!).

Of course - it took about 25 years to get to this point. :)