I hate my job. How 'bout you?

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue May 29, 2007 12:34 pm

Dude...

It's very complicated, but I think that my co-workers are more retarded than the kids in the special ed program.

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:36 pm

I just finished at mine, telefundraising for a major charity.

Let me tell you, my faith in the human race went through the floor after hearing how pretentious, arrogant, self-righteous, deceitful and generally obnoxious 90% of the public are just because they had to answer their own phone and decline to help a charity with a few raffle tickets.

Hope things pick up for you chief!

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:56 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:I just finished at mine, telefundraising for a major charity.

Let me tell you, my faith in the human race went through the floor after hearing how pretentious, arrogant, self-righteous, deceitful and generally obnoxious 90% of the public are just because they had to answer their own phone and decline to help a charity with a few raffle tickets.

Hope things pick up for you chief!

I'm not sure if it's an attitude specific to Americans, but as a culture we hate being nagged via telephone for anything; even be it the most righteous of charities. Just a pita that I/we don't like dealing with, especially given the general frequency of the calls and poor timing [generally dinner].

Oh, one of my jobs sucks, the other job is phenom.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Tue May 29, 2007 10:44 pm

Oh yeah, I HATE my job. But today I got to fill in the annual staff survey, which was fun. And I REALLY went to town!

I'm expecting an email from HR any day now!

What I really hate about my job is that you have to suck the corporate bull***t to get anywhere, and it has no relation to ability! I'm seeing people I trained go on to be team leaders and business planners, and I wouldn't employ a single one of them myself.

And the worst part...having held my team together and for another year, hitting all targets, as more people depart for promotion without being replaced....I get a 'C' in my performance rating. Corporate bulls**t Team Leader tell me that means I'm "good vlaue". Reality tells me I only get an inflation pay increase. Bastards.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue May 29, 2007 11:32 pm

Scraplet wrote: What I really hate about my job is that you have to suck the corporate bull***t to get anywhere, and it has no relation to ability! I'm seeing people I trained go on to be team leaders and business planners, and I wouldn't employ a single one of them myself.

And the worst part...having held my team together and for another year, hitting all targets, as more people depart for promotion without being replaced....I get a 'C' in my performance rating. Corporate bulls**t Team Leader tell me that means I'm "good vlaue". Reality tells me I only get an inflation pay increase. Bastards.

Oh hell yes.

It's funny; you wouldn't think there was as much office politics/suckup bull**** in a high school. There is so much.

The thing is, I'm not even hired through the district... I was brought in from an outside agency because one kid had so many problems. Yet now the teacher (who has been attacked by this kid over power struggle issues) thinks she knows better than I. Why am I there, then?

Probably the scariest thing was that today, when I was taking some stuff to the dumpster with my assigned kid, I started sweating and my heart pounding when I smelled the dumpster. I was attacked several times right outside the dumpster by one autistic boy last year. It took three or four hours for me to calm down. Anyone got some Valium?

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue May 29, 2007 11:49 pm

Nope. My job's great. Kids are well behaved. Other teachers are polite and well-mannered. I wish I were a bit busier, but that's about it.

angloconvoy · Post by **angloconvoy** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:46 am

Professor Smooth wrote: I wish I were a bit busier, but that's about it.

High school then? I'm always bloody busy, and the business aspects of my "teaching" job can be a right pain, but I do like the teaching part.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:35 am

angloconvoy wrote:
Professor Smooth wrote: I wish I were a bit busier, but that's about it.
High school then? I'm always bloody busy, and the business aspects of my "teaching" job can be a right pain, but I do like the teaching part.

Junior High. The teaching part is great. The sitting on my ass in the office for days at a time thing...honestly, could be worse.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:58 am

I do like working with the disabled kids. They are usually sweethearts, also hilarious.

Some good quotes:

"Say GEORGE BUSH!" (from an autistic boy who was REALLY pissed off)

"Spencer, what do you think about the notion of a venomous rooster-chicken and the kind of damage that could do to large groups of people? Maybe we should like, get a farm outside of town and put the venomous rooster-chicken in there with a Tom Turkey and see like, what kind of damage that thing could do with its spurs."

(Pointing to my wife's uterus) "The baby? It's in there? It's in the garage?"

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:03 am

I've actually gotten me first paid job, EVER, recently. And I dunno',

it aint' so bad. Working at an industrial steel plant. All of the lads at work be fun and go easy manly mens-men, but I suppose the actual work-invorenment is kind of.... bad.

Good pay tho.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:24 am

sprunkner wrote:Dude...

It's very complicated, but I think that my co-workers are more retarded than the kids in the special ed program.

Mm. I recently got a fairly slow guy put onto my team, (replacing a nice lassie the boss wanted on his team because he likes her breasts*) and it's been something of a shock. It's been so long since I've worked with someone who - not to mince words - is pretty bloody stupid that it takes a little adjusting to.
At least I am finding different ways to explain the same thing four times in a row. If I had to just keep repeating myself I think I can might go nuts.

My job is actually easy as mince, it's just completely dull now that all the cool people I used to work with have left, and all the dregs (of which I am one) are left over. It's got so bad that I am now actually the coolest person in the building. Like, the other staff all think I'm wicked awesome daring and badass; clearly I'm not, the only reason they think that is of course because they are all Pod People.

I need a new job, before my brain turns to sludge.

Oh, and I hear you about the training thing. Everyone that's joined my team in the last two years got given to me to train. Including my now-boss. Oh dear.

*I wish I was kidding

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:24 am

Well, after all of my bitchin', they've gone and promoted me! Which I thought was a momentous enough situation for me to revive this dead thread!

As of October 1st I'm off the regional HQ to take a lead on internal Environmental Management.

So, I might hang around for a little while longer! I get to leave the masses in the open-plan office, accend to the mothership, and occupy an office where I can close the door and ignore people!!! Yay!

And get the experience I need to **** off somewhere decent in about 12 months!!!

Post by **Best First** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:09 am

I think the main problem is that work is crap.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:59 pm

Y'know, you might be onto something there......

Kup_1 · Post by **Kup_1** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:41 am

I love mine!!

Where else can you work with robots...run your own line...and walk down the hall with a tote containing about $350,000 of powdered cocaine??

*works for a pharmaceutical company*

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:22 am

Kup_1 wrote:I love mine!!

Where else can you work with robots...run your own line...and walk down the hall with a tote containing about $350,000 of powdered cocaine??

Omni Consumer Products?

rusty_herring · Post by **rusty_herring** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:31 am

Hey, congrats Scrap
Hope things pick up for ya!

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:37 am

I think the main problem is work is necessary crap.

F'reggsample, my work gave me NO hours last week. None. Zilch. Nothing. I had a fabulous week. Wrote a lot and spent time with my kid, packed and worked on my other job. But now I am broke broke broke.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:04 am

yeah, i am currently between projects, which means i am basically doing rod, its great... but if it lasts too long it will potentially damage my career.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:24 pm

You should come visit the Northwest. It's gray and rainy and a dark solid green with reticent types abounding.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:48 pm

KingMob wrote:
Kup_1 wrote:I love mine!!

Where else can you work with robots...run your own line...and walk down the hall with a tote containing about $350,000 of powdered cocaine??
Omni Consumer Products?

"...for a brighter, whiter future!"

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:20 am

I can only offer my recent experiences as a guide to how I would handle this, but it's easy for me because I have no ties or commitments. Please take from it what you will.

I quit my job because I was bored of it.

I went to a number of festivals (and I paid an extended visit to the fair city of Amsterdam) and I thought long and hard about what I want to do.

I networked. Hard. Mostly through facebook, but real life works just as well. Real life combined with facebook makes for a formidable combination.

Long story short, I'm now working as webmaster for one of my heroes, who has offered to pay me with money, and also women. He's also far more sweary than I imagined him to be, from reading his column every Saturday in a national newspaper.

I also had an email this week from a media company asking if I could drop by their Soho offices to see if I wanted to work for them - on a temporary, permanent or contract basis, whichever suits me.

I've learned to look at life in a whole new way recently. It might have been at Glade when I smashed my PB for narcotics intake, but the world is totally opening up for me right now. I have two DJ slots booked, one this month and one next month. I'm going to work as a guard for the organiser of a comics convention, because he wants his own personal stormtrooper. I work the odd nights at the pub when no-one else wants to do it.

Basically, the lesson I've learned is this: you have to play the game. If the game doesn't suit you, then there are a million other games out there for you to choose from, and there's bound to be one that you're good at, but if you get stuck playing the same game for too long then you forget about all the others. I'm playing the games I choose now, and I've found there are plenty of ladders out there. There are snakes too, but that's how it goes.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:04 pm

Brilliant, Rob. Congrats.

Mirrormere · Post by **Mirrormere** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:47 am

Congrats Scrap!

That reminds me of the time I was out for six weeks for major surgery. I came back and my boss gave me a raise. Two days later she gave me another RAISE! I thought to myself, I should take six weeks off more often!

I have two jobs myself. One I like the work but the office politics suck. I really hate when people pick on my employees. Opens the whole can of whup a$$. The other job I could do in my sleep. The perks are good and it keeps me in the 1700 sq ft, 50 year old palace I live in.

When you think your job is harsh, try being a military contractor. Not for the faint of heart.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:43 am

Wow Emvee, you're one can-do type of guy! Well done. I admire your determination and self-belief.

You've just made me feel like the lazy, moaning bastard that I probably am!

Post by **Best First** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:53 am

word.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:45 pm

Emvee rocks. Always. Great post.

I noticed my whinge up above - things are a lot better now. Took a gamble by switching teams, which surprised my boss as I went from being her senior guy to down the bottom of the heap, but it's paid off as I've ended up being noticed and nabbed by a big boss to work directly for them in a different department. It's not amazing or anything, but it's a lot more enjoyable, pleasant and good for the future etc.

And if anyone remembers me talking about a real arsehole that was on my team who tried to do the rest of us for discrimination, he eventually got the heave-ho for breaching contract and got booted with loss of pay.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:34 pm

I am in a really strange position at my place.

I originally joined as a general minion, the intention being the need to get office experience and move out of retail. It went a bit too well and I was mad e team manager 18 months later.

I did management for about another year, with lots of success but I can't say I ever really felt like I enjoyed it massively.

I am currently seconded onto a project to replace all of our IT systems and amalgamate them into 1 brand new system. The project has been running about 2 years and has another year to go. Throughout I have had many pats on the back, and things have gone really well. I act in a business analyst type role, essentially working with the IT developers to build something that the business needs for current and future work.

I am quite concious that the project will end and I will be required to returning to my previous management job. I just dont know what I want to do next and it really unsettles me.

Mirrormere · Post by **Mirrormere** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:34 am

I noticed my whinge up above - things are a lot better now. Took a gamble by switching teams, which surprised my boss as I went from being her senior guy to down the bottom of the heap,

Sometimes change is good. I have been trying to get OFF the team for years but every job offer fizzles. At first I thought

check's armpits for odor

but found that it wasn't me but the fact that they can find no one else to do the work I do.

And if anyone remembers me talking about a real arsehole that was on my team who tried to do the rest of us for discrimination, he eventually got the heave-ho for breaching contract and got booted with loss of pay.

Just give 'em enough rope...

I am quite concious that the project will end and I will be required to returning to my previous management job. I just dont know what I want to do next and it really unsettles me.

Y'know Hound, if you don't mind a word from someone who has been in the IT business for a while, start networking now. Start gathering references and get your resume together. As you are building your resume, you will often find interests that you had not thought about, especially if you use a template at first. Online resumes (provided they are legitimate!) are a big help because they often do things by category. There are lots of people out there who would love to have someone who has a completed project under their belts, especially in a team environment. You can also map your interests and the steps to get there in a spreadsheet and... Okay, so I am anal...shaddap.

Mirrormere · Post by **Mirrormere** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:37 am

...oh, and while I'm at it, I thought you all should know that since there is a contract change soon, I have to go Thursday and interview FOR MY OWN JOB!

Like I said, not for the faint of heart.

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