What pisses you off at your job.

[phonemonkey]

I think about everything pisses me off at my job.

Let's see, there's the bitter old women that we have doing tech support (that understand very little about computers but get promoted by kissing up to management all the time) that like to sit around and complain to each other about how busy they are when there's 10 people waiting in the queue for 15 minutes (and I'm stuck taking the calls). We've gone to a new level of micromanagement. The bitter old women now get to play supervisors without actually being supervisors (yes, management approved this).

Then there's our obsession with old technology. We just upgraded to Netscape 4.7. My desktop still runs NT4, though I've got a Win2k/XP Pro key on it (yes, we paid for it and threw away the media!). God help us with our server OS at the stores - they run OS/2. We'll probably get XP in about, oh, 6 years - of we're lucky.

Oh yes. Our stores. Gotta love that bunch. Every day I work my opinion of the general public drops even lower. I've had to explain what a time zone is (our servers are in Utah, and the store was in Texas). Then there's the lady who didn't know where she was in the store (I'd have thought that the gas pumps right out the window would have been a giveaway).

 

[BurnItDwn]

my current job, so far nothing has pissed me off, Its awesome.

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: lotust
hehe im so glad im out of tech support. Though I did go from tech support to the county sewers

so you deal with a different kind of SH!T every day!!

 

[Dman877]

Lazy co-workers who earn more then me for doing less work.

 

[sixone]

People who think it's too much trouble to answer ALL the questions on the form. So I have to send them a letter requesting a new form, and then they call me and ask if they REALLY need to do this? I am dying to say, "YES, and you've wasted more time calling me with this stupid question than it would have taken you to do it right in the first place (or the second, third, etc.)!" But I like my job, mostly, so I say that after we hang up, very loudly, and no one cares. (Sigh)

 

[sabatcj]

Co workers with this mentality(sp?)...."Horray for me and f*ck everbody else"

 

[BatmanNate]

The warehouse.

 

[cerebusPu]

alot of my problems went away when i got my own room. Im the only junior staff member with my own room. Granted it has no windows and no one ever walks by it.

but dealing with annoying coworkers only when you need to is better than dealing with them all day.

 

[T2T III]

What used to bother me when I was a part of corporate america up until a few years ago?

* Office politics
* Career forms (e.g. - where do you want to be in 5 years?, etc.)
* Useless work with little or no value at all ... other than it being a "pet" project for the manager to look good in the eyes of his/her superior.
* Did I mention office politics yet?

With that being said, I've sworn myself to only work as a contractor/consultant in any future positions. Pay me hourly to do my work so I know what I am worth to the company and I'll like a mother f* to be productive hundreds of times above my rate of pay.

 

[geckojohn]

I can't stand when my co-workers always go outside for smoke breaks every hour... or meet at the coffee area and just chat. It's like they have nothing better to do then talk amongst themselves. I mean, social skills are good... but it's like they have nothing else to do.

 

[suklee]

The old man that sits near me with major BO bothers me. Doesn't piss me off, but really bothers me.

 

[MikePanic]

i actually have a really cool job... the only thing that really pisses me off is when people come in who don't speak english and only speak spanish... and when you tell them you don't speak spanish they ask, "why not"

 

[nageov3t]

bleh. another story from the front lines

when I came in tonight, there were 3 things that had to get done ASAP: a new server setup needed to be racked, we had to swap IPs (which involved having to run 75' of ethernet cables on the floor until my boss can order real cables to be run under the floor in the morning), we had to ghost a RAID onto a larger RAID.

I don't expect the 5 pm - 1 am guys to stick around or anything, but it would have been nice if they could've stopped surfing the net for awhile to set things up for us (ie: setting up rails, making the cables, or testing the drives that we needed for the ghosting).

Sometimes the graveyard shift is dead, which is why I guess they don't think to make things easier for us, but on occasion (like tonight), things explode, and when there's only 2 of us in the data center (unlike the 6-7 people working during the afternoons), having the little things already taken care of makes life a lot easier.

 

[Azraele]

What pisses you off at your job.

EVERYTHING!!!!:|

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
i work with morons! all the way up to CEO...complete momos

Ain't that the truth

 

[tw1164]

I hate when your manager calls you and asks "do you have a minute" meaning come to my office, and he asks you a dumbass question that could have been asked over the phone.

I hate when you ask for a manual(and or training) for the software you use 99% of the day, but there is any money in the budget for it. Then the next day you walk in and your manager shows you the new popcorn poper they bought for the office. UGH

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: saxophonoia
The one thing I hate is when I'm in someone's office fixing their pc when someone else walks by and says......"Whoa <insert name here>, you've changed a lot"........god I can't stand that. If I hear that anymore I swear I will walk in here with a sword and stab them all.

Rofl! Everyone does that.

 

[bozack]

Seeing a new guy with no experience whatsoever in the environment and no idea of how the site works get promoted to a more managerial/project coordination role because he complained to a higher up boss that he wasn't doing anything and was bored and because he is over 10 years my senior with no management experience. Sucks because I actually don't mind this company but now I am forced to look elsewhere as they are going to keep me in a tech role for at least another year plus because they have no one else to do the work. Also seeing a good friend of mine here be shuffled out onto another contract because they cannot come up with the funding to make him full time.

 

[monk3y]

Not really too much, but I guess I don't like performing water quality tests on 52 tanks... but that only comes along once every 2 weeks.

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
What pisses you off at your job?

... that they want me to work EVERY day ? LOL

 

[CChaos]

I'm underutilized here and I loathe documentation. Don't get me wrong, I know I have to document changes, but they've gone a bit overboard with the standards we need to follow and it's getting a ridiculous. Also, I don't have a formal programming education, so I really wish I was doing more coding because I'm still learning everyday.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: SampSon
I hate dealing with jackass homeowners who think their house is worth way more than it is.
Then when I explain that 3 houses on their street sold for 25K less than they think it's worth they tell me; "well the furnace, the kitchen cabinets and bathtub is new".
Gee, I didn't know that required maintenece increased value. :roll:

My grandmother was trying to sell her house, and had that EXACT attitude. She felt like her house is worth 230k since that's what insurance appraised it at... she didn't/doesn't understand that 230k is the cost of REPLACEMENT, not value of current house.

She's had a few offers of 180-190k and imo she should have taken it. The kitchen and all three bathrooms needs MAJOR remodeling (20-30 year old house,) and half the carpet needs replaced.. needs painted, etc. etc.



anywho, I have a coworker who thinks he's the boss. That's annoying but I deal.

 

[NuclearNed]

About a year ago my boss decided she wanted me to order some cd storage cases because she thought that I had a great need for them. I procrastinated on this one because I knew that I would rarely need them. So for several months all I heard was "when are you going to order those cases?", "we sure need those cases.", "why haven't you ordered those cases yet?" and so on. It got really tiresome. My boss was apparently convinced that the future well-being of my company depended on me having a ready supply of cd cases. So I finally ordered them. Now, months later, my company, including myself and my boss, have used a grand total of one (1) case.

Hey, at least they are in rainbow colors and look pretty on my shelf.

 

[mattlear]

My biggest pet peeve is the lack of accountability. People constantly screw things up, don't get things done on time... and they somehow manage to keep their job or even get promoted!

I'm a pretty responsible person. If there's a deadline to meet, I stay at work late to finish it. Other folks just blow it off... and then when asked where their work is, they give some lame-o excuse like they misunderstood what was asked of them, or so-and-so didn't give them the information to finish the job, etc.

It REALLY grates on me that people can continually f*ck things up and keep their jobs. That, to me, is the most morale draining kick in the @ss. You bust your butt to give results with quality, and some jagoff just coasts by screwing up any and everything they touch... and it creates MORE work for you because you are the one responsible enough to fix the screw up!

-Matt

 

[xSauronx]

customers who think they know more than me or my boss