Do you hate having to go to work?

[FelixDeCat]

Heck yeah, 5 day work weeks are for suckers!

I work 3 or 4 12.5 hour shifts... 3 on, 3 off, 4 on, 4 off. I hope I never have to work a "regular" schedule ever again.

I'm a sucker, I work 5 days a week. :'(

I think its funny when people bitch about going to work. Everyone has certain aspects of their jobs they don't care for. I f'ing HATE doing expense reports.

Im sure I'd love doing expense reports ... if I had the opportunity. I dont have reimbursable expenses. :\

 

[Engineer]

I'm a sucker, I work 5 days a week. :'(

Wouldn't be so bad if the 5 days were all 8 hours, but it's when you get 10-12 hours per day on those 5's and then they start taking the weekends too (3 of my next 6 weekends are already worked planned).

I love what I'm doing...the job...not so much. Being a salary position with a boss that takes it FAR too one sided is probably what's sucking the life out of the joy of what I'm doing. I'm come to the conclusion that every other place is just as bad when it comes to this method of doing things (work salary into the ground if possible and NEVER give back).

Yes, I know it's my fault for letting it happen.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Oh, I finally did something and quit. Gave two weeks notice. I'm going into teaching now. Job market sucks, but hey, it's what I genuinely want to do, I was a great student from k-12 to grad school, so I may as well give it a shot. Worst case, I do a PhD and get "forced" to teach freshman.

I'm glad you decided to do something about it. Good luck to you! ()

 

[FelixDeCat]

Wouldn't be so bad if the 5 days were all 8 hours, but it's when you get 10-12 hours per day on those 5's and then they start taking the weekends too (3 of my next 6 weekends are already worked planned).

I love what I'm doing...the job...not so much. Being a salary position with a boss that takes it FAR too one sided is probably what's sucking the life out of the joy of what I'm doing. I'm come to the conclusion that every other place is just as bad when it comes to this method of doing things (work salary into the ground if possible and NEVER give back).

Yes, I know it's my fault for letting it happen.

Yeah, thats a tad on the crazy side. I've never been on salary, and thats probably why.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Same here.
For the past year or so the Engineering department would be more accurately called the "Help Desk Department." We have to redirect IT-related questions to IT. We get them because some people know that engineering's better at figuring that stuff out, oddly enough, and because our office is physically closer than IT's.
Sales team questions, customer support questions, inventory management, purchasing coordination, questions from the Shop floor, meetings with vendors, questions from outside contract manufacturers.....
Then for maybe 0-60 minutes a day, the engineering department can do engineering work. Things don't always come off of our project list because they're done. They come off because management has decided that we can live without them.

But hey, at least they're saving boatloads of money on payroll. :\




Bleh.
I used to like being at work - interesting projects, and I could focus on something for more than 5-10 minutes without interruption (not an exaggeration), and projects were ended because they were finished.


Allegedly it'll improve over the next year due to some recent personnel adjustments.
It's tough to just up and leave though:
- I like the other person in the department, and we work together quite well.
- Department manager is reasonable to work with.
- I got to spec out my own PC and I'm an admin-level user on it, meaning I can use the damn thing without constantly smacking into the walls of user-level security. A PC with user-level permissions is like chopping off one of a surgeon's hands and gluing a mitten over the other one, and then replacing the available tools with a Fisher Price Medical Kit. Using a crippled computer gets me a little bit crazy.

- The try-before-you-buy method of shopping around for jobs isn't terribly easy.

The problem with my team is that rather than a 'flat to down' projection for the upcoming year, we're looking at a 9-10% reduction in cost. Typically we'd back fill team members moving on, but their spots are now remaining vacant. This is putting a TON of stress on all parties involved.

 

[rh71]

I like my work and I like that I get to sit at home in my PJs while doing it. I get paid shit by comparison to others doing the same thing at an office for another company though.

 

[pcgeek11]

With your kind of attitude, you're never going to get out of your situation. Start a business that can become profitable fast, that's how you move out of poverty (a job).

I have a great attitude, I don't have a situation and I'm not in poverty.

I think you are in for many disappointments in life. That is unless you win your lottery.

 

[Sword-of-Kings]

I don't have a job.