What do you do in a workday?

[Fraggable]

1) Create a shared calendar in Exchange 2003 upon request from admin. assistant
2) Re-image a PC infected with spyware
3) Change backup drive on server
4) Upgrade a Win 98 system to Win XP SP2
5) Collaborate with supervisor on tomorrow's schedule
6) Clear MS Access database tables in preparation for next school year's lunch system
7) Show new staff how to log in/check email/etc
8) Check on status of quote for new PCs to replace old equipment
9) Call BCS to ask why their technicians haven't arrived on time for the 3rd time this week
10) Locate a company more capable than BCS to handle future communication hardware changes.

My position: Assistant Network Admin.

 

[Pepsi90919]

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Lifer

 

[KK]

1. eat my fastfood, mcdonalds or wendys
2. take a dump
3. browse the web
4. play some sudoku
5. make sure nothing broke
6. pop some popcorn
7. take a plss
8. take a short nap
9 wake up before the boss comes in.
10 change the channel once gunsmoke goes off, and head home.

Work in a NOC on mids.

 

[lozina]

1-9. write code
10. test code

 

[Fraggable]

KK, you forget position title.

 

[EngenZerO]

1-10) pimp hoes

pimp

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

1. estimate materials
2. price materials
3. call subs
4. write contracts
5. inspect completed work
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7. read specifications
8. coordinate meetings
9. eat lunch
10. approve submittals

Project Manager/Estimator

 

[dawnbug]

1. Use a backpack blower or Billygoat to make paths look pretty
2. Pick up garbage from the ground
3. Change full garbage cans
4. Collect garbage from buildings
5. Cut grass using a hand mower
6. Cut grass using a riding mower
7. Wheed whack
8. Ride in a big truck to help deliver animal food to buildings
9. Help operate the vac-all, sucking up animal poop from pits in the ground
10. Give directions


There are a lot of random jobs I do, too. These are just the most common ones.

"Zoo worker IV" - Grounds Department, Milwaukee County Zoo

 

[nakedfrog]

Nef
See if I have any real work to do
Nef
Do some work
Nef
Lunch
Finish work
Browse job listings
Play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Nef

Web Developer at a company that's closing as of 10/31

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
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Lifer

Are you sure there isn't another 3 letter word in there that starts with an f and ends with a p?

 

[Kyanzes]

1. arrive to workplace
2. park the car
3. cross the road to the building
4. open the door with my keys because I know the reception girl hates to open it herself
5. I take the stairs to the second floor
6. say hi to my colleagues who tend to arrive early (while I mostly leave later in the evening)
7. shake their hands (I hate this but at this company it's customary)
8. I sit down to my desk and check on my mails
9. I start to solve colleagues' problems.
10. I go home

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
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Lifer

Are you sure there isn't another 3 letter word in there that starts with an f and ends with a p?

You must work for a very lax company if they let you do that at work...

 

[VTHodge]

Not all on the same day but . . .

1) Run a steam sterilizer cycle with subminimum temperature and exposure time with biological indicators in place.
2) Calculate a lethality summary from the above, based on temperature data.
3) Examine an Air Handler installation and make notes on the engineering drawings.
4) Test the wiring of control devices by having an electrician generate a signal while I observe at the operator work station.
5) Tie thermocouples to glass bottles and send them through a dry-heat depyrogenation tunnel.
6) Simulate alarm conditions to verify proper equipment set up.
7) Write Exception Reports to explain problems in all the above testing.
8) Explain to quality assurance why Exception Reports are OK.
9) Write a summary report of all of the above.
10) Hop on a plane and fly home.

Pharmaceutical Validation Engineer

/Hope more people post real stuff.

 

[SpanishFry]

1. Provide server/blade quotes to customers
2. Apply for/Justify special pricing
3-8. Put out fires/Solve problems
9. Advise customers on server/blade configs
10. Qualify for sales incentives, rewards, rebates

Inside Sales Rep for IBM partner

 

[xSauronx]

drycleaner

start boiler/air compressor
sort/clean drycleaning
sort/clean laundry
open up
have breakfast (im up at 5, breakfast then doesnt suit me)
work on specialty items (rugs, hats, bags, shoes, etc)
remove spots from clothing
more drycleaning
more spots

go home.

 

[TraumaRN]

1. Take vital signs and intake/output
2. Draw blood
3. Start, remove and assess IVs
4. Place foley or straight catheter
5. Place Nasogastric tubes
6. Perform nursing assessments and type out plans of care for the day
7. Perform 5, 12, 15 lead EKGs
8. Perform wound care, as in changing dressings, wound packing and irrigation, simple debridement and measuring output from any tubes, drains etc.
9. Standby, first or second assist with sterile and aseptic procedures with doctors including but not limited to lumbar punctures, central line placement..
10. Standby and full assist in Code Blue. Such as passing meds from crash cart to doctor, bagging a patient with O2 before/after ET tube placement, CPR chest compressions, arterial blood gas drawing, performing emergent EKGs, and/or as a runner of supplies from the clean supply room(IV fluids, tube sets, chest tube sets etc.

Student Nurse at major trauma hospital :thumbsup:

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Student Nurse at major trauma hospital :thumbsup:

So it's not just a clever avatar!

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Student Nurse at major trauma hospital :thumbsup:

So it's not just a clever avatar!

Definitely not and it'll get better when I transfer down to the ER in May 07 when I graduate.

 

[MixMasterTang]

1) Come in late
2) Talk to people by the coffee maker
3) Wander Around aimlessly for about an hour
4) Check AToT for any amusing threads
5) Take a two hour lunch
6) Spend about a half an hour in "the office" aka the mens room
7) Check my email for the first time
8) Try and organise a few people to have some beers after work
9) Do a little bit of work
10) Take off early

Name and title are not disclosed!

 

[Nerva]

1. read wsj
2. read dealbook
3-6. a lot of research
7. run comps
8. run transaction comps
9. run lbo
10. dcf

 

[Gooberlx2]

1-3 are daily, the others are dependant on other factors.

1) scoop animal poop
2) feed dangerous animals
3) clean/maintain exhibits and quarantine tanks
4) perform necropsies
5) perform medical treatments
6) be underwater for 1.5+ hours
7) handle cancer causing or otherwise dangerous checmicals like praziquantel or acid (in large quantities)
8) manually convert 40,000 gallon batches of freshwater into saltwater with pallets of NaCL, MaCL, CaCL, Na Bicarb, MaSO4, and other trace chemicals
9) maintain population censuses
10) not be so motivated on a particular day and take long lunches and slack a bit.

Aquarium Animal Husbandry
Biologist II

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: LadyBuggy
1. Use a backpack blower or Billygoat to make paths look pretty
2. Pick up garbage from the ground
3. Change full garbage cans
4. Collect garbage from buildings
5. Cut grass using a hand mower
6. Cut grass using a riding mower
7. Wheed whack
8. Ride in a big truck to help deliver animal food to buildings
9. Help operate the vac-all, sucking up animal poop from pits in the ground
10. Give directions


There are a lot of random jobs I do, too. These are just the most common ones.

"Zoo worker IV" - Grounds Department, Milwaukee County Zoo

Do you know YoyohowsdaJello?

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: lozina
1-9. write code
10. test code

1. write code
2-10. test code


Damn, I need to get better at coding.

 

[Alienwho]

1. Play ping pong
2. Shoot some hoops
3. Check my email
4. Take a walk around the office
5. Chit chat with some co workers
6. Nef on ATOT
7. Steal a bagel from the break room
8. Watch a movie off the intarweb
9. Listen to music
10. Do some graphic work

Web Developer

 

[Alienwho]

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
1) Come in late
2) Talk to people by the coffee maker
3) Wander Around aimlessly for about an hour
4) Check AToT for any amusing threads
5) Take a two hour lunch
6) Spend about a half an hour in "the office" aka the mens room
7) Check my email for the first time
8) Try and organise a few people to have some beers after work
9) Do a little bit of work
10) Take off early

Name and title are not disclosed!

I'm pretty sure we have the same job.