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Ironman92 Administrator

56,729 posts 168 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 12:12 PM

What things at your job are unneccary or a pain in the ass for no reason?

For me as a teacher/coach the coaching requirements are mostly a waste of time. Completing the Lindsay’s Law stuff on the Ohio Dept of Ed website via Safe account is maybe the most user unfriendly thing I’ve ever dealt with. Complete pain in the ass.

Meetings often accomplish nothing...then a month later you do it again....repeat.

How about your jobs?

justincredible Honorable Admin

37,969 posts 250 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 12:49 PM

Mostly just unnecessary meetings that could be avoided with a 5 minute conversation at someone's desk.

Heretic Son of the Sun

20,517 posts 204 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 12:50 PM

Right now, very little other than one annoying coworker who feels the need to fill the office with mindless chatter constantly, because we all apparently need to hear about her drama and every fucking headline she sees on whatever news site she goes to.

But a couple years ago, we had a meeting/connecting-loving supervisor. The sort of no-life dweeb who babbles constantly (horrible at organizing his thoughts to be remotely concise, so he just droned on and on and on), needs to keep in touch regularly and was far better at wasting peoples' time than they were. I'm used to just doing my job and not talking with managerial types unless either they or I had something important or new to discuss, so that was annoying as hell to deal with him. Especially since, on top of that, he was a corporate suck-up, so if you did have an important concern, you knew you'd just get a "Well, we all have to deal with it, so just keep doing it and it'll blow over soon." response where you knew he'd babble at you about team stuff daily, but if you needed him, he'd be too spineless to actually stand up for you.

Automatik Senior Member

15,737 posts 98 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 12:58 PM

I've recently been tasked with handling nutritional/ingredient label compliance for HUGE customers, ie Trader Joes, Walmart, etc.

I have zero experience with this and my previous company had an entire team (5 people) that handled these responsibilties. Instead of hiring someone who's actually qualified, my superiors have the "just get it done!" attitude. So that's what I'm doing. Literally googling what the fuck I have to do and learning on the fly. It's absurd.

Ironman92 Administrator

56,729 posts 168 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 2:01 PM

posted by Heretic
Right now, very little other than one annoying coworker who feels the need to fill the office with mindless chatter constantly, because we all apparently need to hear about her drama and every fucking headline she sees on whatever news site she goes to.

But a couple years ago, we had a meeting/connecting-loving supervisor. The sort of no-life dweeb who babbles constantly (horrible at organizing his thoughts to be remotely concise, so he just droned on and on and on), needs to keep in touch regularly and was far better at wasting peoples' time than they were. I'm used to just doing my job and not talking with managerial types unless either they or I had something important or new to discuss, so that was annoying as hell to deal with him. Especially since, on top of that, he was a corporate suck-up, so if you did have an important concern, you knew you'd just get a "Well, we all have to deal with it, so just keep doing it and it'll blow over soon." response where you knew he'd babble at you about team stuff daily, but if you needed him, he'd be too spineless to actually stand up for you.

That’s our Special Ed administrator

Ironman92 Administrator

56,729 posts 168 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 2:01 PM

posted by Automatik
I've recently been tasked with handling nutritional/ingredient label compliance for HUGE customers, ie Trader Joes, Walmart, etc.

I have zero experience with this and my previous company had an entire team (5 people) that handled these responsibilties. Instead of hiring someone who's actually qualified, my superiors have the "just get it done!" attitude. So that's what I'm doing. Literally googling what the fuck I have to do and learning on the fly. It's absurd.

Geesh

Zunardo Senior Member

815 posts 15 reps Joined Nov 2010

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 5:33 PM

Before I retired:

Bi-weekly staff meetings held by the top district guy. It used to be just for his direct reports. Then the direct reports thought "why should we be the only ones to suffer?", and they started making THEIR direct reports (including me) attend. Two hours of my life I'll never get back, every two weeks.
Mandated training on stuff just because someone said so. OSHA made us give 30-minute service talks quarterly on electrical safety awareness requirements to ALL employees, even though it only applied to maintenance employees. Quarterly, mind you. It's bad enough to have to go thru training that doesn't apply to you, but to have to endure it over and over is the height of absurdity

Ironman92 Administrator

56,729 posts 168 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 5:44 PM

posted by Zunardo
Before I retired:

Bi-weekly staff meetings held by the top district guy. It used to be just for his direct reports. Then the direct reports thought "why should we be the only ones to suffer?", and they started making THEIR direct reports (including me) attend. Two hours of my life I'll never get back, every two weeks.

Mandated training on stuff just because someone said so. OSHA made us give 30-minute service talks quarterly on electrical safety awareness requirements to ALL employees, even though it only applied to maintenance employees. Quarterly, mind you. It's bad enough to have to go thru training that doesn't apply to you, but to have to endure it over and over is the height of absurdity

Yes, we have those public works videos 4x a year on about 15 different topics. My favorite is ladder safety...I mean we are on fucking ladders virtually every gym class

ernest_t_bass 12th Son of the Lama

26,698 posts 204 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 9:12 PM

posted by Ironman92
What things at your job are unneccary or a pain in the ass for no reason?

For me as a teacher/coach the coaching requirements are mostly a waste of time. Completing the Lindsay’s Law stuff on the Ohio Dept of Ed website via Safe account is maybe the most user unfriendly thing I’ve ever dealt with. Complete pain in the ass.

Meetings often accomplish nothing...then a month later you do it again....repeat.

How about your jobs?

Meetings often accomplish nothing...then a month later you do it again....repeat.

GOONx19 An exceptional poster.

7,413 posts 94 reps Joined Nov 2009

Tue, Aug 7, 2018 9:23 PM

I've somehow become the go-to informatics pharmacist within our pediatrics group despite zero training in that area. I've wasted a ton of time trying to solve IS problems that other people are paid to be solving.

Verbal Kint Senior Member

1,062 posts 16 reps Joined Jul 2017

Wed, Aug 8, 2018 12:18 AM

posted by ernest_t_bass

For me as a teacher/coach the coaching requirements are mostly a waste of time. Completing the Lindsay’s Law stuff on the Ohio Dept of Ed website via Safe account is maybe the most user unfriendly thing I’ve ever dealt with. Complete pain in the ass.

Meetings often accomplish nothing...then a month later you do it again....repeat.

For me as a parent of an athlete, watching the Lindsay’s Law video from the Ohio Dept of Ed is maybe the most boring thing I've ever dealt with.

like_that 1st Team All-PWN

29,228 posts 321 reps Joined Apr 2010

Wed, Aug 8, 2018 8:10 AM

Whenever I have to go thru legal for anything. I honestly feel like they should be debarred and just hand it over to me at times.

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