Things you dislike about your job

[RichUK]

I dislike many things, but accept them as part and parcel with the job I do.

A few things I dislike:

• Taking minutes for the meetings I chair
• The strict reporting deadlines set out by IT Governance/PMO
• Long hours
• Politics and the lack of commitment/attitude of some of my peers
• Other basic admin that I can't delegate to others in my team

You?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Your face.

 

[RichUK]

Your face.

D:

 

[BeauJangles]

Dealing with clients who feel they know better than I do or constantly complain about the service being offered to them. Far and away this is the worst thing I deal with on a daily basis.

 

[jhu]

All the dead people everywhere

 

[zCypher]

People who assign a trouble ticket without reading its contents.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

No sick days; some benefits could be better.
Not always challenging enough.

Really though, I like a lot of things about my job, and my boss is awesome to work for.

 

[shortylickens]

The great big boss penis up my ass all day.

 

[Daishiki]

The people who burn popcorn in the microwave and set off the fire alarm.

Popping popcorn was banned last month. The vending machine still sells bags though.

 

[DangerAardvark]

The great big boss penis up my ass all day.

Isn't that the American dream? You graduate college, then you take the first hard dick you see, balls deep. Then for the next 15-20 years you take an unmerciful ass-pounding from your work, the government and your wife until your anus is gaping, sloppy mess... all in the hopes that one day, just maybe, it will be your turgid phallus firmly planted in the rectum of a fresh-faced college kid.

Or maybe I just wanted to use anal sex metaphors.

 

[TXHokie]

Having to go to work to get paid...what's up with that?

 

[lxskllr]

Atm, that I don't have one. Previously, too much responsibility, and not enough pay.

 

[nerp]

Nights with meetings that keep my away from my family.

 

[rudeguy]

I am in sales and deal with the general public every day. I could complain about idiotic customers, corporate bean counters that are never happy, coworkers not doing their share...

but the truth is that all jobs suck in some way. I'm just happy to have a job in this shitty Michigan economy.

 

[Rubycon]

Guests that have bad attitudes.

 

[venkman]

Isn't that the American dream? You graduate college, then you take the first hard dick you see, balls deep. Then for the next 15-20 years you take an unmerciful ass-pounding from your work, the government and your wife until your anus is gaping, sloppy mess... all in the hopes that one day, just maybe, it will be your turgid phallus firmly planted in the rectum of a fresh-faced college kid.

Or maybe I just wanted to use anal sex metaphors.

thats hot

 

[Jeff7]

- Work starts at 8am. I'm not a fan of mornings.
- They're closed on weekends, and I don't have a key to get in.
- Not a lot of money is available to buy fun toys, both in terms of manufacturing equipment and software. (The company's not very old.)

 

[SunSamurai]

Its cool to have threads like this when alot of people REALLY need work.

 

[child of wonder]

Being a VMware Certified Professional who supports bank apps while new people get to play with VDI and vSphere.

 

[cardiac]

Patients with HIV/AIDS/Hep C that don't tell you about it....

Arsonists who set traps for us when we make entry into a building to extinguish the fire they started....

The Mayor and Councilmen who know my job better than me (After 28 years of doing it)......

Bob

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm a server tech, the things I hate are:

- Politics and crap - I just want to do the work, and not be involved in any politics
- our crazy IT manager
- Very baby users - I swear, I've never seen such a bunch of babies in any corporation, we have to spoon feed everybody
- very messy environment - the original people who took care of it did a lousy job. Nothing is documented, there's no processes or anything. We discover new messes almost on a daily bassis
- very strict "anti linux" and "anti coding" policies. I believe in using whatever tools are available, and sometimes it's easier to use Linux for something, or to code something from scratch

 

[Farang]

Work schedules are changed often, and shifts can be anywhere from 4am(starting)-8pm(ending) seven days per week. That is, you might be put on a 4am-2pm shift or a 10am-8pm shift or something in between. While the employees have generally remained the same 13-15 people, the schedule is always shifting. This means there is no work life balance because employees cannot make any sort of long term time commitments outside of work. When employees have been shifted to a schedule they cannot take due to other commitments, after many months of working the same schedule, the boss has been uncompromising and those people have been more or less forced out.

For example right now I have Mon-Wed off and it is a perfect schedule to go back to school, but I can't actually sign up for classes because its about 50/50 that I'll get moved to something else halfway through the quarter. Almost guaranteed at least one day I'd have to skip class because the boss was in a bind and had no one else to fill a certain shift.

Also can't make any plans for friends to come into town from out of state because what if they buy their tickets and whatnot and I'm scheduled to work? Shit out of luck.

Doesn't make any sense to me since the work atmosphere is great and the boss in all other respects in a great guy. But if you have the same group of people working and the same workload for months on end, it should not be hard to make a consistent schedule.

 

[bctbct]

The fact that everytime I interact with someone its because there is a problem they want me to find a solution for.

 

[Colt45]

The list of things I like is a lot shorter.

 

[shortylickens]

Isn't that the American dream? You graduate college, then you take the first hard dick you see, balls deep. Then for the next 15-20 years you take an unmerciful ass-pounding from your work, the government and your wife until your anus is gaping, sloppy mess... all in the hopes that one day, just maybe, it will be your turgid phallus firmly planted in the rectum of a fresh-faced college kid.

Or maybe I just wanted to use anal sex metaphors.

It might be the American Dream, but its not my dream. I wanted badly to NOT be one of those poor bastards who slaves away all week and is miserable. Growing up I knew way too many unhappy dads who felt trapped and useless. I did not want to be like them.
Arrogant, yes, but I was very set on the concept of not being an angry wage slave.
So far I havent gone too deep into it. No wife or kids. Dont drink. Dont smoke.
But I need to find a way out of the rat race, even if I am relatively poor I couldnt still find a way to be happy.