Who has the MOST mundane white collar job here?

pvt. joker

Explain what makes it so boring you could shoot yourself on a daily basis.

Here's mine:

I'm a data analyst for a company that takes 3rd party auto part data and transforms it into a universal format that is then distributed to retailers.

What i really do: find and replaces in ms access all day long.

PeakOutput

i troll threw about 200 customers emails a day and answer their queries with premade responces. i probably reply with 5-7 different answers every day.

they are the right answers but still it is mind numbing

joe_chicken

[OfficeSpace]I fix bugs for the Y2K, making sure to fill out those damned TPS reports.

I'm gonna go ahead and get my coat[/OfficeSpace]

Kintarō Hattori

Heh Heh, I thought my job was bad. I update the companies website with the latest products and take down the old. I also do most of the purchasing of the computer stuff for the shops to sell.

Duggy747

Some here are pretty bad, here's my dreadful 180° turn on my job.

Job: IT Tech student on work experience whose part of a 3-man team to cover all the offices & buildings related to the County Council. Shít like Desktop support, network enginneering, server maintainance, server installation, PC and Laptop hardware & software troubleshooting, pulling printers apart and fixing them, installing all sorts of wacky software, etc.

What I'm really doing: Scanning A0 maps one at a time in a banjaxed scanner for the Planning Department. The pile I have to go through is goliath! I'm looking at about roughly 200 - 300 maps and I've already scanned in a pile up to the roof since I started this job.

Funny thing is there's only me and 1 other Tech engineer for the next month yet I'm still being shoved with truck-loads of shít to scan!! I don't even remember when was the last time I done something that was relevant to my college course and I've been here 4 months!

Beat that!!

EDIT: Now ye all know that I do actually have a job and why I'm on Boards all day long!

Crumble Froo

fortunately, ive since changed jobs, but i do remember working in reception in a civil service building, basically, people had filled out licences, and id to put them up on the computer. thousands of names, addresses, license types and places purchased, for the whole eastern regional area! best money ive ever made, but fúcking hell, i wouldnt go back.

Pat the Baker

pvt. joker wrote:

Explain what makes it so boring you could shoot yourself on a daily basis.

Here's mine:

I'm a data analyst for a company that takes 3rd party auto part data and transforms it into a universal format that is then distributed to retailers.

What i really do: find and replaces in ms access all day long.

Very similiar but for a software company, its 5hit

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I remember doing work placement for college. I was 4 years into my ( 5 year ) degree and I started working with this factory.
They made me stand for 12 hours a day visually inspecting the product they manufacture.
Thats all... Just look at it...


I win.

AlmightyCushion

I go on Boards all day. It's not my job but it may as well be. It's gets pretty damn boring and mundane whenever boards is down though.

AlmightyCushion

Balls I think I broke it.

Duggy747

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Balls I think I broke it.

Good going, asswipe! You not so Almighty now, are you? Now I gotta look at what looks like a badly designed HTML-coded site.

AlmightyCushion

Duggy747 wrote:

Good going, asswipe! You not so Almighty now, are you? Now I gotta look at what looks like a badly designed HTML-coded site.

Ah it's more retro this way.

pvt. joker

Pat the Baker wrote:

Very similiar but for a software company, its 5hit

we actually have an Ireland division somewhere around Dublin. I think it's down to 3 employees now though

BlitzKrieg

I come to work and I have to work with high end video camcorders, travel around dublin setting up the lighting, or operating the camera, or recording the audio for television shoots, when I am not out shooting I'm back in my own office working with a top of the range mac editing the work my team has done to be put on television each and every month.

Sometimes when I am done with all the above I have to go over to the local radio station and work in the overheated radio booth recording radio drama plays and editing them to be put on the air and my day finally ends after 12 hours of this work...

watna

I spend all day sending meeting requests through outlook and chasing people to go to said meetings. I also send about 50 million emails, all saying the same thing. I've been here 7 months and only now is it starting to get a bit boring. I think boards has contributed to me staying sane so long!

PeakOutput

BlitzKrieg wrote:

I come to work and I have to work with high end video camcorders, travel around dublin setting up the lighting, or operating the camera, or recording the audio for television shoots, when I am not out shooting I'm back in my own office working with a top of the range mac editing the work my team has done to be put on television each and every month.

Sometimes when I am done with all the above I have to go over to the local radio station and work in the overheated radio booth recording radio drama plays and editing them to be put on the air and my day finally ends after 12 hours of this work...

ill swap ya

Hail 2 Da Chimp

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Ah it's more retro this way.

My EYES... It BURNESSSS!!!!

monkeyfudge

BlitzKrieg wrote:

I come to work and I have to work with high end video camcorders, travel around dublin setting up the lighting, or operating the camera, or recording the audio for television shoots, when I am not out shooting I'm back in my own office working with a top of the range mac editing the work my team has done to be put on television each and every month.

Sometimes when I am done with all the above I have to go over to the local radio station and work in the overheated radio booth recording radio drama plays and editing them to be put on the air and my day finally ends after 12 hours of this work...

Yeah... well I hope you remembered to feed the monkey in my office every day while I was away.

A friend of mine worked for a while in a video duplication centre. He had to watch the movie Baron Münchhausen over a 130 times to make sure it copied over correctly.

philstar

and you taught your job is bad...

check this out.....http://www.worst-jobs.com/

Extreme-LoopZ

let's all join a fight club.:p

fireblade1

i work in the bank
all i do, all day everyday is count other peoples money!
it sucks!

Alter-Ego

I'm a Blue collar slob. I drive a forklift. Its ok.

JohnCleary

Must get onto Mr. Padraig Harte about that you're not learning scanning

Duggy747 wrote:

Some here are pretty bad, here's my dreadful 180° turn on my job.

Job: IT Tech student on work experience whose part of a 3-man team to cover all the offices & buildings related to the County Council. Shít like Desktop support, network enginneering, server maintainance, server installation, PC and Laptop hardware & software troubleshooting, pulling printers apart and fixing them, installing all sorts of wacky software, etc.

What I'm really doing: Scanning A0 maps one at a time in a banjaxed scanner for the Planning Department. The pile I have to go through is goliath! I'm looking at about roughly 200 - 300 maps and I've already scanned in a pile up to the roof since I started this job.

Funny thing is there's only me and 1 other Tech engineer for the next month yet I'm still being shoved with truck-loads of shít to scan!! I don't even remember when was the last time I done something that was relevant to my college course and I've been here 4 months!

Beat that!!

EDIT: Now ye all know that I do actually have a job and why I'm on Boards all day long!

John Mason

i cant say what i done cos there might people here that i deal with and i could get in to trouble but it is so mind numbing boring but not as bad as a summer job i had in a factory where i had to put in the stupid leaflets that fall out of magazines, they have to go in a certain order and on a certain page and then someone checks them to make sure - it was horrible and you got paid on piece work

Fajitas!

For three months of the year:

Someone rings me, Asks for a timetable, I call out the times of the buses. Person goes on to tell me how bad my company is.
This x 300 times a day.

The rest of the year:

Scouting locations, finding models, new jobs & contacts. Turning up at location/studio, taking photographs, processing photographs, being a hell of a lot happier it's not the other three months of the year.

Pighead

irishbird wrote:

i cant say what i done cos there might people here that i deal with and i could get in to trouble but it is so mind numbing boring

Thats no way to speak about the oldest profession in the world. You're paid to enjoy yourself. If its boring then try doing something to liven it up a bit. Good girl.

CombatCow

I test games all day long....tiz a tough life indeed.

CC

The Sweeper

Worst job I ever had (not any more mind) was vegetable telesales. I worked in the north of England, phoning restaurants and school kitchens and pubs, selling pre-chopped and pre-peeled vegetables. Gah.

Though a friend of mine did a summer in Germany, hosing off autopsy tables in the morgue in the evenings.

DemocAnarchis

Spent a summer as a "machine operator". Basically, I got to load powedered plastic into the machines hopper, which it then compressed into hockey puck shaped disks. Then package the disks 5x10x15 in boxes, stack them, and repeat. Adding to the fun was the fact that the **** was bright pink and hazardous, meaning I had to wear a white suit and facemask indoors on a particularly sweltering summer. All for the princely sum of five pounds an hour. Ah, summer jobs :P

pvt. joker

Pighead wrote:

Thats no way to speak about the oldest profession in the world. You're paid to enjoy yourself. If its boring then try doing something to liven it up a bit. Good girl.

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dfx-

I get to wear a white coat and lab glasses and get to look clever/nerdy by working in a lab.

Thing is it's a pharma lab so there's a standard operating procedure for everything, so there's little independent thought allowed:D

Rowley Birkin QC

Duggy747 wrote:

What I'm really doing: Scanning A0 maps one at a time in a banjaxed scanner for the Planning Department.

Planning Dept. you say, I look forward to handing you another 2-300 maps to copy in a few years time....bitch

thefinalstage

Extreme-LoopZ wrote:

let's all join a fight club.:p

I'm in. I'll also be the leader and possibly the psychotic other half too!

Zillah

PeakOutput wrote:

i troll threw about 200 customers emails a day and answer their queries with premade responces. i probably reply with 5-7 different answers every day.

they are the right answers but still it is mind numbing

I hate you people! Its like you read the subject line and nothing more. Never have I ever found those standard responses useful. Ffs, just set up an FAQ and pay people to give actual responses to specific questions!

easyontheeye

worked in a fun park on a J1 in south carolina...i hate to guess peoples weight within 8 pounds! lets just say i nearly got battered! :eek:

trying to convert from stone to to pounds with big fat americans was very stressing!

i know that wasnt white collar but still i wore a white collared t-shirt!!

Mahatma coat

I manage what may quite possibly be the single largest collection of MongTards ever asembled by one Non Governmental Organisation, seriously their cumulative IQ's are still below zero,, most of them have chainsaws and a burning hatred for me.

WhiteWashMan

the people on the work forum would be better to answer your question

pow wow

Keying in the same type of form over and over again, whilst listening to the permanent staff moan 24/7 about how the job has screwed them over yada yada in between them going on their bazillionth PAID tea break.

Occasionally someone leaves some details off their form so I get to ring them. Exciting stuff eh.

fret_wimp

Duggy747 wrote:

Some here are pretty bad, here's my dreadful 180° turn on my job.

Job: IT Tech student on work experience whose part of a 3-man team to cover all the offices & buildings related to the County Council. Shít like Desktop support, network enginneering, server maintainance, server installation, PC and Laptop hardware & software troubleshooting, pulling printers apart and fixing them, installing all sorts of wacky software, etc.

What I'm really doing: Scanning A0 maps one at a time in a banjaxed scanner for the Planning Department. The pile I have to go through is goliath! I'm looking at about roughly 200 - 300 maps and I've already scanned in a pile up to the roof since I started this job.

Funny thing is there's only me and 1 other Tech engineer for the next month yet I'm still being shoved with truck-loads of shít to scan!! I don't even remember when was the last time I done something that was relevant to my college course and I've been here 4 months!

Beat that!!

EDIT: Now ye all know that I do actually have a job and why I'm on Boards all day long!

Can I ask what council you are working for? This job sounds unbelieveably familiar!

PeakOutput

Zillah wrote:

I hate you people! Its like you read the subject line and nothing more. Never have I ever found those standard responses useful. Ffs, just set up an FAQ and pay people to give actual responses to specific questions!

id normally agree with you, the problem is there is faq with the same answers i give them just with not as much detail i have a choice of maybe 1000 replies for every possible problem but inevitably its the same recurring problems that appear and my particular department can only deal with a very few problems they must go to the other departments for the rest so there is loads of sorry but please contact blah blah which is real inefficient but its only a summer job for me so i dont really care.

also the customers are legitimately STUPID and feel we owe them the world i have done one other customer service job in a call center and the customers were great actually intelligent human beings who understood i was helping them to the best of my ability but this companies customers..........****ing thick

whassupp2

Duggy747 wrote:

Some here are pretty bad, here's my dreadful 180° turn on my job.

Job: IT Tech student on work experience whose part of a 3-man team to cover all the offices & buildings related to the County Council. Shít like Desktop support, network enginneering, server maintainance, server installation, PC and Laptop hardware & software troubleshooting, pulling printers apart and fixing them, installing all sorts of wacky software, etc.

What I'm really doing: Scanning A0 maps one at a time in a banjaxed scanner for the Planning Department. The pile I have to go through is goliath! I'm looking at about roughly 200 - 300 maps and I've already scanned in a pile up to the roof since I started this job.

Funny thing is there's only me and 1 other Tech engineer for the next month yet I'm still being shoved with truck-loads of shít to scan!! I don't even remember when was the last time I done something that was relevant to my college course and I've been here 4 months!

Beat that!!

EDIT: Now ye all know that I do actually have a job and why I'm on Boards all day long!

very similar story here :rolleyes:

nesf

Worst Job:

Cleaning, repairing, installing and removing of sewage pumps from sewers.


Not exactly white collar though.

BossArky

On a J1 in New York back in the summer of 2001, I worked for a construction company.

One day I arrived in at 7am and was given a kango hammer and told to drill straight down through a solid concrete floor, through the underlying metal girders, then into more concrete from the ceiling below... eventually getting through to the room below.

This operation took from 7am until midnight. Possibly the worst day of the worst job I've had.

My accomplice on this day of misery was a 50+ year old builder (funnily enough named "Bob"). We alternated, one operating the kango hammer whilst the other threw splashes of water from a 2 litre bottle on the dust.

It dosen't seem to bad re reading it - but god I remember I was miserable in that job.