I , for one, certainly don't like my job. Sure, I'm getting paid to surf the web, but the management is the worse I have ever met. They don't listen to the employees. They always pulling my string when it comes to suggestions and always breaks their promises. They're unorganized and the thing to top it off, my supervisor listens to the laziest, brown-nosing bitch (please excuse the expletive) in the whole department! Even listening to her voice pisses me off. I've had it up to my eyebrows with her! Sorry to rant, but I needed someplace to vent! :headbash:

brown nosing...

is there a class for that? i **** at it, but apparently it's the best way to move up in the food chain.... :headbash:

seriously..... i walk around in a daze at my job. not only does the company stink, but so does y actual job. it's b-o-r-i-n-g. but i get my work done every day and i get it done very well. and i get paid to post this. :blah: so i cant complain too much! ;)

i love an dhate my job. right now the managment is good, but i am in a temporary status. when i get to my ship, it will change. most aspects of my job that relate directly to me are great. most aspects of my job that dont relate to me but have influence on me ****.

i love my job, though there are days i would gladly trade it to go work the drive-thru at burger king.

love and hate my job too.....

always wanted to do the weather, but doing the weather on the ship really ****s!!! :smilemad:

brown nosing...

is there a class for that? i **** at it, but apparently it's the best way to move up in the food chain.... :headbash:

seriously..... i walk around in a daze at my job. not only does the company stink, but so does y actual job. it's b-o-r-i-n-g. but i get my work done every day and i get it done very well. and i get paid to post this. :blah: so i cant complain too much! ;)


I'm getting paid to post this, too! :naughty:

I feel a lot better since I posted this morning. At least the brown-nosing &^$* leaves 2 hours before I do so it's not so painful in the afternoons! I mean seriously! I think she has her head stuck up my group leader's a$$ the whole time she's here trying to get some kind of promotion! You wouldn't believe some of the things she says or does to try to put other down! :furious:

If there ever was a course in brown-nosing I'd fail it for every time I take it! :D

Well, lets' see.....I'm a professional shopper. (retired)

I got to get paid to do my shopping at various stores. Role play at each one. A little paper work. Only had to go do it 3 days per week, of my choosing. Could go in my slippers if I wanted to. Could take kids or not if I wanted to. Got a tax break for traveling. Got all expenses reimbursed. Almost never had to deal with management.

Ummm, yep, I loved it. :)

I decided I didn't need it anymore & cleared the spot for someone who did.


Now my prince would answer differently.....

He'd fire at least one of his managers. Nearly all the dispatchers. About half of the techs. AND get a better retirement plan!!! :D

I really love my job!! #1 NO Employees!!! # 2 NO Boss/Mgr..... I cover both aspects myself... :thmsup:

Drive around and look/take pictures of cars all day(1/2 day some days)..;)

I1 :)

Leaving 10 years of seniority at a research & development firm for a startup company was the best decision of my life. Six years later, life is good and getting better every day. This may sound funny, but I really like being me. :)

with time comes knowlege
with age comes wisdom
with these comes better choices
better choices bring happiness
and remember, "security comes not from what you have, but from knowing what you can live without."

Since I'm posting from work, I picked "I love it."

Well, today seems to be better so far. Another person from my department couldn't take the management any more and she left Friday. I guess she said a whole bunch of damaging things about or management during her exit interview... you know? Such as things everyone wanted to say in the first place, but didn't for fear of losing their jobs! :thmsup:

Hopefully the current trend continues to go up.

The bad news about my coworker leaving is, there are no plans to replace her. I started working in the department a year and a half ago and since that time, we went from an all-time high of 22 people in this department to the current all-time low of 7 people. OT is given left and right, just to get things done, but there are no plans to hire more people so we don't have to work 50-60 hour weeks just to get things done on time. :dunno:

but management always knws best when it comes ot staffing... :rolleyes: sense the sarcasm.......

Haha! I like it best when they leave me and my work alone and just let me plow through what I need to do in the day. :yes: When they start having meaningless meeting about nothing and then try to get everyone to do things exactly one way, that's when I start getting annoyed. For example, every month I get a 30 minute long meeting where my team leader, assistant team leader and team brown-noser just chats on and on about something that we should be doing because it's supposed to be the best way to do things. What they don't understand is, what's best for them isn't necessarily the best for everyone else. I've been trying to hammer that into my team leader's head for the past 6 months without any success. :dunno: Oh wells. What can you do about it? I could always quit in the next 2 weeks and make an impact so big that it will change the way things are done around here... ... :naughty:

Did I tell you guys that I'm especially happy today at work? :D This morning, the brown-noser tried to tell me to do some special client reports, when my team leader espressly said that they should be assigned to two specific people in our team. Well, I shot her an email (which included my team leader) about this, but she still insisted that I do those reports. My team leader just replied to that email and thanked me for pointing that out to her! I accomplished two things with that email. I pinpointed how stupid the brown-nose can be and I got my point through my team leader's thick skull! :yes: :thmsup:

sometimes it takes alot to get thru, especially the lower you are on that darn totem pole and the less willing you are to brownnose!!! i know from experience! i might be the most knowledgable person about x, y, and z, but odds are my opinon is invalid as far as they are concerned. or worse yet, i won't evevn be asked about it in the first place!

oh well! theirloss right? sometimes i have valid points and idea that could reduce errors and such and if they don't want to hear them, oh well!!!! :lmao: my job is so "office space" most of the time!! :nuts:

Hehe.. my job is a mix between Office Space, Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle, and the job search website commercial (I forgot which one) about working with a bunch of monkeys! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:

Hehe.. my job is a mix between Office Space, Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle, and the job search website commercial (I forgot which one) about working with a bunch of monkeys! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :nuts: :nuts: :nuts:


i seriously think a monkey COULD do my job! :blah: :nuts:

I am retired since last December. I LOVE IT. I used to love my job for the first 20 yrs. The last 12 yrs weren't so hot as I moved up the command chain. I was a real estate appraiser for San Diego County and I got to travel all over the county. I appraised everything from little houses to General Dynamic. It was a very interesting job. I was out on my own and would only come into the office once or twice a week. After moving up and having a crew to supervise the job went down hill. The problems weren't the workers it was those above us first line supervisors. Now I don't have anyone to supervise except myself. And I get paid for doing nothing.

mike

My current job is a temp 3 month contract which I have been told that I have the option to become permanent (they LOVE me). I'm a unix administrator.

The only problems are:

1. I have to finish school

2. The job is 35 miles away in New Jersey

3. I'm bored being a unix admin. The money is great (who am I kidding? The money is FANTASTIC) but my dream is to become an EE. I've loved electronics since I was like 4. This ties in to #1.

So it's not that I hate it, I like the job but I don't want to be stuck there if ya know what I mean.

My previous job was hell. I was night shift unix support at Pfizer in Morris Plains, NJ. They literally made me the whipping boy for everything, and management just kept pounding us with nonsense. The worst of it was a monitoring system that scanned the log files and generated tickets based on keywords in the logfiles. The result was that when the mirrors on the SAN were broken at 2AM on Sunday, we would get 200 trouble tickets PER MINUTE and spend 5 days cleaning up. The money was lousy too, a measly $30 per hour for a 36/48 hour alternating week, with the extra 12 hours being time and a half.

The job before that was great. I stayed there three years as an information security consultant before my classes got in the way and my manager basically went back on his word and didn't give me time to go to class, so basically I was let go.

Before that I was a unix engineer at fujitsu servicing mainly government clients. I loved that job and that's when I had the JDM civic. I left because I moved to the US.

Before that I was an informix dba who transitioned to a unix admin at an insurance company. I liked the job but hated the BS politics.

So there's my love hate relationship with work.

My job gets me my paycheck and thats about it. :deal: Maybe if management was a bit better (quit trying to pass the buck off on everyone else) and hired enough people to handle to workload they keep making worse things would be different. EOM has been taking two full weeks and then some. Yuck. Between the 10-12 hr days and school, I get little time for my car :bawl:

Still the benefits and pay are much better than my last two jobs. I'll be honestly surprised if my last one doesn't get audited by the irs or completely consolidated by it's parent corporation in the near future. The other on had a bunch of sexist pigs at the top :censored: Either way, one more year for school and the cps exam and I'll have more choices and doors opened, and a boatload of school loans under my belt :paranoid: And to think I thought that my undergrad loans were outrageous :lmao:

for the 18 people who actually love their jobs, what do you do and how did you find something you love to do? :dunno:

i'm stuck with one boring job. :lmao: short of going back to school (which i can't afford to do right now) and getting another degree, i have no idea how to get into doing something i love! :dunno:

for the 18 people who actually love their jobs, what do you do and how did you find something you love to do? :dunno:

i'm stuck with one boring job. :lmao: short of going back to school (which i can't afford to do right now) and getting another degree, i have no idea how to get into doing something i love! :dunno:
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you.. I'm working towards some certifications and then I'm outta here! I'm treated like an ignorant kid here (so is everyone else), so I act like one. Simple as that. Can you believe we have to report in every morning so she would know if we're late, have set lunches and is required to put up with the stupidest team leader that knows little about how we're supposed to work?! This job was so much better a year ago when there was no restrictions. Now it's just dragging... :headbash:

I'm with ya too. Hopefully one more year of school, the cpa exam and I'm outta there. It was somewhat tolerable until they yanked our internet over the weekend. I guess of all the things this company worries about it's employees who may want to listen to music online or check personal e-mail. :screwy: They even blocked google! :mad: BUT they did nothing about the geniuses who opened those german e-mails today after we were advised to delete them. ARGH. The day goes by soo much slower without any music OR internet. :bawling: :bawl:

get an iPod!!! :yes:

You know your job really ****s when you have been out really sick for 5 days, your boss sends and e-mail to the entire building telling everyone what you have (even departments/people you don't deal with), a zone manager goes to the director of finance and tells him that you messed up parts of his P&L's when your controller already told him "it is what it is" and the director of finance expects you to research more of this (which is basically boiling down to the manager not looking at his own invoices, and old company templates that are out of date and still used- per mgmt) and to fax all the info to CANADA from home and call to discuss. What part of "I am out of the office sick and will investigate more throughly upon my return" is so difficult to understand. ARGH. If I go back tommorrow, it's going to be a wonderful joy-filled day. :rant: :smilemad: :headbash: :rant: :mad:

for the 18 people who actually love their jobs, what do you do and how did you find something you love to do? :dunno:

i'm stuck with one boring job. :lmao: short of going back to school (which i can't afford to do right now) and getting another degree, i have no idea how to get into doing something i love! :dunno:

It took me a while, but - I definitely love my job. I do Technical Support for a server software product. It's a freakin blast and sometimes I can't beleive that I get paid for it. I get to play with technology and computers all day long and - before I get told I'm a geek with no life - not true, ok? :) I have a life I mean ;)

Managers are just that - managers.. they can be better or worse... My philosophy is that when I am someplace I really dig, I make myself so valuable that the company would be crazy to mess with me. Good or bad managers then just stay away, hands off, as I make them look good without them having to do anything. And that's fine with me, just stay outa my way - if I need something, I go and find them. It's about broadening your sphere of influence by doing great work (I don't think I ever had to **** up for anything) - once you do that, you are taken care of.

But of course - the trick is to find something in an area that you like, yes. For me, it meant totally changing my field - my schools had close to nothing to do with what I do now. I decided a while ago that I'll do what I like and I went that route even though there was plenty of discouraging from around me. Good thing I did. And I did not have to go back to school, I am a "street smart" in my current field, not a "book smart" but it makes absolutely no difference in real life.

Of course, reality sets in - you got bills to pay etc... but there are always some resources you can devote to building a better future for yourself, IMHO!

i work for the dumbest, most iritatting boss ever! :headbash: the only thing that keeps me here is the fact that i dont have to do much and still get paid (unless we are having one of our 'busy spurts').

for the 18 people who actually love their jobs, what do you do and how did you find something you love to do? :dunno:

i'm stuck with one boring job. :lmao: short of going back to school (which i can't afford to do right now) and getting another degree, i have no idea how to get into doing something i love! :dunno:

There is a saying...

"Do what you love and the money will follow." Pick something that you would do even if you did not get paid to do it; and then get real good at it.

There is aways someone willing to pay for the best. If you are not good at promoting what you do, than try to team up with a good promoter.

There is a saying...

"Do what you love and the money will follow." Pick something that you would do even if you did not get paid to do it; and then get real good at it.

There is aways someone willing to pay for the best. If you are not good at promoting what you do, than try to team up with a good promoter.

but what happens if you do what you love, then 8 years later you no longer love it, but get paid well to do it???????

You know your job really ****s when you have been out really sick for 5 days, your boss sends and e-mail to the entire building telling everyone what you have (even departments/people you don't deal with), a zone manager goes to the director of finance and tells him that you messed up parts of his P&L's when your controller already told him "it is what it is" and the director of finance expects you to research more of this (which is basically boiling down to the manager not looking at his own invoices, and old company templates that are out of date and still used- per mgmt) and to fax all the info to CANADA from home and call to discuss. What part of "I am out of the office sick and will investigate more throughly upon my return" is so difficult to understand. ARGH. If I go back tommorrow, it's going to be a wonderful joy-filled day. :rant: :smilemad: :headbash: :rant: :mad:

I know what u mean. there's no such things as "vacation" or "sick days" at work. sure you get paid for not being in the office for that time but the catch up work and the B.S. u have to endure when u return isn't worth it.

my job really blows.

i've been at home toally barfking my guts out and have gotten calls from work asking me if i was sure i couldn't come in. i won't tell u about the report i finished while sitting on the crapper one day after a nasty bought with indian food. uuuggghhh oops - guess i just did. :lmao:

i work for the dumbest, most iritatting boss ever! :headbash: the only thing that keeps me here is the fact that i dont have to do much and still get paid (unless we are having one of our 'busy spurts').


sounds like my reasoning...... :lmao:

never loved my job. never loved what i majored in. always hated it all!

:lmao:

but i get a paycheck. and most days i can check up on da multiple times without harm. ;)

but what happens if you do what you love, then 8 years later you no longer love it, but get paid well to do it???????

Changing what you like to do is normal and is just part of growing older. I have changed interests many times, but each time I strive to be the best at it.

Changing what you like to do is normal and is just part of growing older. I have changed interests many times, but each time I strive to be the best at it.

totally understood. my only question is how to make a change when the change will only pay 50% of current job?????

Wow! Can't believe I made this poll for almost two months and I'm still working at this job! My feeling for this job still hasn't changed and today, my team leader is just pissing me off more! My job's backbone is based on the quality of the reports and we get feedback on our work. On one of the feedbacks, the report was unsatisfactory because it didn't include a useless citation. I tried to explain it to my team leader why it doesn't have to be on the report but she wouldn't listen to me. All my peers don't think it should be on the report, all the QA people think it can go either way, but the team leader (who doesn't know how to do these reports, by the way) thinks it's needed on there! :headbash: :headbash: :headbash: :headbash: :censored: :censored: :censored:

Anyone want to hire a PC tech? I'm very good with troubleshooting PCs (and anything else electronic/ mechanical for that matter)! :yes: I don't think I can stand another year at this place. :wave:

The funniest thing just happened.. After many emails between my team leader and I, she finally decided to change it to a satisfactory report. Even her boss looked at it and didn't think that citation needs to be on the report! :D I feel all mighty and powerful now! :yes: NOW I can have a good 4th of July weekend! :biggrin:

:thmsup:

:cool:

Ok Josh, why does "weather" **** on a ship? I'm just curoius as I would think an operational billet would be more fun?


Yes, I know this is an OLD thread...but it was a good one. :yes: