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General => Everything Else => Topic started by: GreenMonsta on November 06, 2008, 03:08:42 AM
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So I am aware of a few of the posters on this forums profession but I figured it would be nice to have one thread where people can post what it is we do for a living and then why we dislike it. Now I know not everyone dislikes what they do but we all have things about work that we cant stand. Even the person who loves their job finds something to hate about it. So why not tell us all about it and we can all feel better about our jobs when we read about eachothers.
For instance I actually have three jobs.
A - I'm a full time security supervisor at a major sports apparel's corporate headquarters
B - Part time auto mechanic
C - Mechanic with the Army National Guard
Let me whine about A and maybe another time I will get into the other two. Being involved in any kind of corporate security is probably one of the most boring things a person can do. I mean I honestly get paid to sit in a room and watch 72 different cameras around this property and monitor employees and visitors. Now don't get me wrong every now and then a fire alarm goes off or someone falls down and I have something "real" to do for all of five minuets but other than that I really just want to learn how to tie a noose most of the time. The worst is how some of the people treat you. I mean I'm almost positive that I'm a person. I mean I think I am but sometimes I don't really know. I mean when someone comes in and treats you like your some tool at their disposal its kinda degrading. Ok well I have lots more on this subject but I will leave it up to anyone else who wants to spew.
Even you students have things to throw in here so don't be shy.
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I love being a stay-at-home mom! I don't know what you're talking about hating job stuff.... pfft.
Of course, I can hate the vomit and the poo, but the perks are awesome.
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Ok but tell me that there are time that something to do with your job doesnt infuriate you. I know the perks are worth everything you do but those things do exist. I wish I could be a stay at home dad and be with my daughter all day but its just not in the cards for me. And im sure the pee and poo would be one of my things I hate.
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I am also a stay-at-home mom. Whenever my husband comes home ranting about his job I offer to trade and he cheers right up. Changing a diaper as he is leaving is usually a pretty-good way to make him feel better about his work. No matter how obnoxious the people at work are, they never throw up on him.
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Mom's definitely get a great advantage with being home consistently. Are there during the wonderful awe-inspiring moments. I grew up having a single mom so I had to take on a share of the help. I would be upset at childhood lost, but my sisters and I definitely are closer than I think most siblings get to after a lifetime. The first indication of this was when the youngest of my sisters said her first word. It was my own name. I honestly didn't know what to do. One of the few I think I have ever been truly speechless.
My Jobs:
A) Location Manager at a major rental car company in Sedona, AZ.
B) Aspiring Grad Student.
Anyone who has ever worked in a customer service oriented position can understand where most of my grief comes from. The major difference with rental cars though, is that people expect nothing ever to happen to one. Normally most people don't really head or worry greatly what happens to their own vehicles, but with a rental every little piece is a sign the whole car could explode.
The common joke is how badly people treat rental vehicles. Somehow they still expect them to be impervious to every known malady. For instance; when someone runs over a nail, it means that we gave them a car with faulty tires. It is our company and not the nail that caused the problem. I, on a daily basis, am told that I am personally ruining someones vacation.
I am not sure what other job exists where it would seem reasonable for a customer to demand someone stay 3 or 4 hours after the location closes to help assist them. At the end of one of my shift I was told it was unreasonable to close in an hour since the customer had just sat down to dinner.
Every so often I dream of being back doing tech support. At least all my stories of frustration during those days ended with everyone laughing =).
Currently, I am trying to figure how I want to continue my education. Computational Linguistics sounds rather interesting to me at this point in time. I get to go back to working with nothing but geeks again. The only catch is I need to re-learn programming and study for the GRE. All very boring and mundane stuff that I am having a hard time gaining motivation for. The fact that my current job is short staffed and the salaried person is the one needs to pick up the slack isn't helping.
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I may not be a employed in rental cars but as you said, anyone who works in customer service knows some of your pain. Trust me some of my worst work memories are from customers either at my current job or past positions I have held. The general public can be awful to eachother and expect excellence in return. Some time I wonder what the people who cause the problems would do if the roles were reversed. Ah well I guess its part of the job.
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I am a maintenance person at the apt complex I live in.
Hate: Being on call,
Fixing toilets,
and, going into a filthy, nasty apt; when children live there. >:(
(If your an adult, and choose to live this way, fine. But your children shouldn't be subjected to it as well.)
And many other things that are just too numerous to count.
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I train dogs.
I love dogs, and it's very rewarding when I've been working really hard to get someone's crazy dog to be calmer, obey commands, and stop tearing up the house and they say "OMG, is that even my dog??!!" when they pick it up.
On the other hand, I HATE it when someone asks for my help, either to come to their home and give them instructions, or to keep their dog in my home, and they don't bother to maintain the dog's training! It's not a tennis racket, people. You can't just put it in a closet and take it out when you want to play. It takes work to keep your dog behaving well. You can take a highly-trained police dog, seeing-eye dog, drug/bomb sniffing dog and neglect their training and stop laying down rules and discipline and it will turn into a very ill-behaved canine. I hate it when people waste my time, and I really don't like letting them waste their money.
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I work as a software engineer, and while I love programming in general, but have come to find i HATE office jobs.
Why, you ask?
1) I have to get up early everyday at the same time (6 AM; Waking earlier than 10 is a big no-no to me.)
2) Offices = BORING
3) I work at a small company. As such, we dont have any customer service, so customers call us directly with problems. I hate customers.
4) Rush hour. I hate taking an hour to get somewhere it takes me 20 minutes or so at others times on the way in AND back.
But other than that, i love developing, tweaking, upgrading, and even bug hunting software.
So in short, if work was across the street from my house, needed me in at 10, didn't have customers calling me, and allowed me to watch TV while I work, i would be the proverbial fat and happy.
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I am Cartographer. I make maps. Coropleth maps, point distribution maps, maps of stuff, etc. I also do a LOT of statistics.
What do I hate about it?
I'm an intern Cartographer in a staff that has no full time Cartographer.
So I do all the work and have all the responsibilities of a 'real person' (as my boss likes to refer to them) with none of the benefits :D Sure I get paid, but way lower than my skill level/experience.
I also hate scanning documents :D
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I do business intelligence. I realize that it sounds like an oxymoron. :) Basically, my team gathers data from all over the company and from third parties, brings into one central location, cleans it up, and provides reports and analysis from the data.
It is an enjoyable and challenging job, but there are things that I can't stand about it:
1) The CEO treating the whole thing like his school science project.
2) Groups that provide no clear specifications for what they want to look at.
3) The expectation that we can wave a magic wand and provide whatever data is needed at the drop of a hat.
4) Suspect quality of third party data.
5) Providing exactly the requested data, and then being told it's not what they wanted.
6) People requesting data and expecting me to drop everything I am working on to provide their feed. People, a lack of planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.
Other than that, things are good. I feel better now, having griped for a bit.
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Im glad you feel better, that kind of the point to this thread. Get out all those little annoying parts of your work day, share them with others and then read theirs. Its seems therapeutic if you ask me.
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Indeed it is therapeutic! It helps me to realize that I would not want to change jobs with some people.
And as long as I'm here, I forgot one item:
7) Crashing database servers. We had some go down yesterday. This is the third time in the last two months. When it rains, it pours!
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I work at BRG Research Servies. Basically we do phone survays. It's nice because I'm not stressing about not selling enough to keep my job. However, the things I hate are:
1: I have a crush on one of my supervisors. (Mind, I'm 21 so my mind goes "you're too old for this type of high school behavor! Get a grip girl!") However, as of this point I've been able to keep a tight enough reign on my emotions so that no one (hopefully) knows.
2: The people who after I've said who I am and what company I'm calling for go "Who are you?" It's like "I JUST SAID THAT!!!" (I really want to yell this after like the third time from the same person. And sadly, that happens at least once a day. Usually with the 90-something ladies)
3: The fact that some of these survays take upwards of 30 and 40 minutes. Trying to convince these people into staying on the phone for that long is impossable!
4: The smart alicks who decided to sass they're way through the intro rather then just saying "I don't want to do it." Seriously, if you don't want to, just tell me.
*takes a deep breath* Wow, it does feel better to get that off my chest. Now it's time to go deal with said people.
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Rose, I feel your pain. I used to work for Communications Center Inc., or CCI, and that is what we did. Exclusively phone surveys. Nothing is worse than calling the poor state of California every single day for the two and a half years I worked there, except trying to keep people on the phone for a 45 minute, or longer, survey about camping. Well, and maybe the business to business ones, those could get long too. Try to get a CEO to talk to you at all, much less for 10-45 minutes. Ugh. Luckily, I got out of that line of work, but it was a learning experience, I'll tell you that much right now. Not that you don't know that. ;)
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I'm a tech at a Chevy dealer. I suppose I'm one of those rare people that really likes their job. i really couldn't imagine myself doing anything else. The thing i really hate the most though is people, I'm not a people person. I just feel like saying I don't want to talk to you ,I don't want to look at you, just get out of my area and let me work on your car. But of course i cant i just put on a smile and tell them ya its OK for you to be here watching me, why wouldn't it be?
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I really don't have any problems with my current job. I work security for a few different places, but one of them is an abandoned roofing manufacturing plant, so I don't have to deal with people, which I like.
I guess the worst thing about it is the boredom. :D
But if I can rant on my previous jobs....whoo boy.
First job I had was a customer service/order taker for Potpurri, Inc. It's company that had 6 different magazines (Potpurri and Expressions were random house items; Stitching and Counted-Cross Stitch, stitching obviously; In the Company of Dogs, dog stuff, ugh; and Back in the Saddle, horse stuff, double ugh).
My biggest hate was Back in the Saddle. For one, I hated taking orders from people on cell phones. One time I took an order from a 13 year old spoiled rich girl using her mommy's cell phone and credit card while her mom was driving through a tunnel. UGH!!!
Oh and some guy once threatened to blow up our warehouse because he thought the item he hadn't received came from there. It didn't, it came from some company in India and the worker's were on strike. I explained this to him many times, but he was too stubborn to listen. :D
I got called a Schlock once by some Yiddish guy. I thought it was funny until I found out the meaning. ;D
Oh, and don't even get me started on the Navy. >:(
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Come on cranberry. Security is horrible. What company do you work for? Is the office maybe out of westboro? I can baerly stand security sometimes, I love the national guard 10 times more than security.
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I'm a university student. It is quite amazing, really. The only complaint I have is: why do exams always seem to fall on the same day? I have both a Japanese and a Calculus 2 exam on Tuesday. There is no logical reason for this to be! They are completely different departments and subjects, and yet they show their ugly faces on the same day. Also, I have an essay due the day before.
This is the second time this string of coincidences has occurred.
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I'm a university student. It is quite amazing, really. The only complaint I have is: why do exams always seem to fall on the same day? I have both a Japanese and a Calculus 2 exam on Tuesday. There is no logical reason for this to be! They are completely different departments and subjects, and yet they show their ugly faces on the same day. Also, I have an essay due the day before.
This is the second time this string of coincidences has occurred.
I have a theory that professors collaborate to pile stress on the students. Then they make bets to see which student will crack first....I didn't do so hot last semester. Having three breakdowns (emotional, physical AND mental) all during finals week is NOT fun!
And that's what I hate about school....
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Actually, finals week is going to be relatively serene in comparison.
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Finals week always hold a sorrowful place in my life. My birthday is in the ides of May, so I always held a gamble as to what I was actually doing on the date itself. The year I turn 21, the most magical number for any college student, I was locked in the library studying like crazy. Two finals the day before, three the day of, and one the day after. I think that Universities just have a thing for Sadomasochism.
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Come on cranberry. Security is horrible. What company do you work for? Is the office maybe out of westboro? I can baerly stand security sometimes, I love the national guard 10 times more than security.
I work for a company called U.S. Security Associates. They are actually based out of Atlanta, but do security all around the country,
http://www.ussecurityassociates.com/about.htm
And honestly, I only work the weekends, so there is nobody to deal with. Zip. Nil. Nada. I'm by myself for 8 hours, which is beautiful to catch up on reading.
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I'm a university student. It is quite amazing, really. The only complaint I have is: why do exams always seem to fall on the same day? I have both a Japanese and a Calculus 2 exam on Tuesday. There is no logical reason for this to be! They are completely different departments and subjects, and yet they show their ugly faces on the same day. Also, I have an essay due the day before.
This is the second time this string of coincidences has occurred.
It's a timing issue: Midterms are generally all the same week; there are only so many places a test can hide in there.
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I'm a university student. It is quite amazing, really. The only complaint I have is: why do exams always seem to fall on the same day? I have both a Japanese and a Calculus 2 exam on Tuesday. There is no logical reason for this to be! They are completely different departments and subjects, and yet they show their ugly faces on the same day. Also, I have an essay due the day before.
This is the second time this string of coincidences has occurred.
It's a timing issue: Midterms are generally all the same week; there are only so many places a test can hide in there.
The thing is, it's not even midterms. We are weeks past midterms, and I didn't really have any midterm exams anyways.
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I've already taken a few exams. No biggie. I;ve never had a problem with tests, research papers, and the like. They all come easy to me.
The hardest thing about being a college student is surviving. I'm always hungry, always penniless, and always sleep deprived.
And i love it!
I'm not sure why, i just love being on the very edge of disaster. There is something about being on your own that makes me feel good at the end of the day. Despite everything.
Honestly, i'm having the greatest tough time of mylife.
Plus, the best thing about college is the variety. Not women, courses; Eastern theatre, medival studies, literary interpetation, anthropology, archealogy, chemistry...
Seriously, my brain has a sweetooth for learning and college is a candy shop.
Its awesome!
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If you're always hungry, that should be more incentive to, you know, eat your hat.
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Or some Ramen. I lived off of Ramen for a good two solid months once. Can't beat it.
Or as Mok suggested, the hat.
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I cannot stand Ramen. Abhor it. Grew up with real pasta and just cannot do it.
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I cannot stand Ramen. Abhor it. Grew up with real pasta and just cannot do it.
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I grew up with real pasta too, but I still love me my Ramen. Whether it be cup ramen or the packaged, it's all yummy and good to me. :)
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I cannot stand Ramen. Abhor it. Grew up with real pasta and just cannot do it.
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I grew up with real pasta too, but I still love me my Ramen. Whether it be cup ramen or the packaged, it's all yummy and good to me. :)
When you have family members who sometimes make their own noodles, pre-made Barilla and De Cecho is about as ramen as I can go.
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My dad and I made noodles from scratch once. Was a pretty messy, but otherwise fun experience. :D
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If you're always hungry, that should be more incentive to, you know, eat your hat.
Okay, okay, i get it.
I might go back home for thanksgiving, or i might work, but if i do go back home...
then you shall see something amazing, or disgusting. Or it could start off as amazing then turn out to be distugsting, or tragic. either way, you'll remember this thanksgiving.
i'm on it.
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Oh that is exciting news. I would love to see the feast of the hat. Also ramen is so great because of how quick it is and how many ways you can make it.
CranberryCthulhu I work for Securitas out of Quincy. I'm going to have to check your company out and see whats happening there.
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My dad and I made noodles from scratch once. Was a pretty messy, but otherwise fun experience. :D
That is great. I think everyone should have an experience like that at least once.
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So my work keeps putting forth these "initiatives." Their newest idea in how to make sure we aren't needlesly spending money makes me very unhappy. Let break down the list of how the thing came to me:
- To be full time, your employees must work 40 hours.
- We will no longer authorize overtime. Any unauthorized overtime will result in a write-up to the Manager.
- Mangers must have at least two employees under them to have that title.
(I only have one employee)
- Until further notice, we will not be authorizing any new hirings.
- All Managers must use all of their remaining Vacation Time
Somehow the math doesn't seem to work.
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It's called Corporate Math. It's how the executives maintain their promises to shareholders without having to decrease their own compensation packages.
And I completely understand why people here are likening Ramen to eating a hat. Anything edible that maintains the shape of the package it was in must be carefully regarded before consuming.
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Corned Beef Hash!!!! ooooohhhh. Now I want some >:(
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My children all love to eat ramen straight from the package. It not only grosses their mother out, but it leaves little shards of ramen all over the house.
And the thing I hate most about my job, Mom, is that I get no days off when I feel cruddy :P. I would very much like a couple of vacation days.
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Ah I knew you had a weakness. Im sure you deserve a couple of days off. Find a good friend or family member to pawn them off on and don't even go out just stay at home for a couple of days relaxing.
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For the record, Ramen is not pasta. It does not attempt to be pasta. It is not analogous to Pasta. It's not even Italian! Ramen is a Japanese quick-eat brand of "noodle soup", which is a very popular Asian quick meal (homemade or store bought). Speaking from experience, though, there are some flavors of Ramen which aren't much worse than homemade Chinese noodle soup… especially if you add your own veggies.
Therefore... don't compare Ramen to pasta.
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Uh, but if I stay at home to relax the dishes and the laundry and everything else stare at me and make me feel guilty. A true vacation would involve no urges to do housework, cook or any of that stuff. Though I guess everyone else would like that kind of vacation as well.
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Wow, amazing how quickly a conversation can devolve into a discussion of ramen. rofl. You people.
I'm a grad student, and right now the part that I hate about it is that everyone has pretty much cut me off. Department stopped paying my tuition, everyone acts like they want to be rid of me now, even my advisor has pretty much stuffed me into a corner and for all intents and purposes given up on me. It sucks. On top of that, my project involves programming, which can be really rewarding at times, just not those ones when I have to end up searching for two weeks to find that I've put a semi-colon in the wrong place. Wish I would have been able to learn a little more about programming before jumping into this mess.
I just need my writing career to take off. That'd sure make things easier.
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Seems like a trend in this forum to take a very complex discussion and filter it into something completely random and arbitrary. Of any larger current trends in this I will admit to being at fault for.
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You know it happens and most of us can be blamed for it from time to time. the idea is that once someone goes back to topic the thread can right itself. I plan on writing about why I hate some of my other jobs in the near future so others can enjoy their lives a little more.
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They are consolidating a lot of the back-office jobs on the corporate level. It does mean much less middle management to go through before things can be approved. It is sad to see people go away though. It is even worse for us as location managers to be stuck with all the paperwork on top of our other duties. Do they want us to put paperwork or customers first?
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Unfortunately, they want the "business" stuff put first, if they are anything like the place I worked for a couple of years ago. "Don't worry so much about the customers that are in the store, make sure you are making all of the phone calls to the ones that aren't coming in first." How is that supposed to make customer service better? It isn't, unfortunately, and since I put the customers in the store before, what I considered pointless daily harassing phone calls, (I mean every other day would work just as well, right?), I found myself out of a job. Luckily, it has been for the better. :)
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I found myself out of a job. Luckily, it has been for the better. :)
That sounds like a good end to a bad beginning.
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I'm a student and it's allot more easier than what you guys do!! I hate school because I'm not very responsible so I ALWAYS forget my homework, planner, lunch or something of importance.