Who's got teh worst job/who hates thier job most?!

juno75 · 20-08-2003 01:51PM #1

Ive done worse jobs than Im doing now (abbitors,gutting fish,e
tc) and I though I'd be a smart boy and learn bout these computer thingys and get me an office job.
1st year wa sh!te, but in tech support ya gotta expect it to get the exp.

Then I get a 2nd level job doing support for a big phone co. thats not called O2.

Grand , nice environ, treated wid respect, learning stuff.
New boss now.

Every minuite of my day is analysed and measured my ignorant
statistic obsessed gits that seem to have forgotten we are human as opposed to Stat generating commodities.

I have to ask and explain evey time i need a p!ss ffs, god forbid you need to go to jacks for longer than 5 mins, litreally threatend with sack.

nothing ya do is good enuff for these no life morons, our group is performing better than ever and no thanks, just more and more petty sh!te to deal with every day and more and more anal about ' you were away from your desk for 32 seconds yesterday, please explain'

I like I.T., but me looks to Febuary and all of a sudden it looks a long way away(when my contract ends)
I can picture me going marxsist gurilla in front of the whole office any moment and fekking blowning the CV telling these crettins what I feel !!!!!!!!

me grinds teeth typeing this. work is one thing but putting up with this petty stazi stat whores on top may break this donkeys back.

and the money sux:(

SO come on, how bad is your boss /job??

are they all arse munching gits cause I cant remember anything else at this stage.

krakatoa is simmering

:mad:

Tyrrial · 20-08-2003 01:58PM

Sorry can't help you, i think my job is great! i almost like going into work in the morning.

juno75 · 20-08-2003 02:16PM

Sorry can't help you, i think my job is great! i almost like going into work in the morning.

god, thats a fantasy for me.

wollowing in self pity:mad:

Saruman · 20-08-2003 02:22PM

My job is so mind numbingly boring... I do nothing all day and get paid for it... heaven it might seem but i cant even play games any more as its all so boring. Im about to watch a movie, maybe that will help.

ToxicPaddy · 20-08-2003 02:34PM

Originally posted by Tyrrial
Sorry can't help you, i think my job is great! i almost like going into work in the morning.

My feelings towards my job are pretty much the same, love my job and the work is interesting, learning lots and the guys I work with are sound and good craic.. couldnt ask for much more..

Well maybe somewhere other than dublin... :rolleyes:

juno75 · 20-08-2003 03:02PM

Im about to watch a movie, maybe that will help.

gawd, that sound's like hardship

well your all succeding in makeing me more depressive-
should have posted: who got the cushiest job in the world,ever.

BTW, any jobs going lads?:p

Trojan · 20-08-2003 03:06PM

Originally posted by Saruman
My job is so mind numbingly boring... I do nothing all day and get paid for it... heaven it might seem but i cant even play games any more as its all so boring. Im about to watch a movie, maybe that will help.

juno, this might sound good, but in reality boring jobs are much worse than busy jobs - your motivation goes through the floor and extreme apathy is the order of the day. Not good at all!

Mr E · 20-08-2003 03:09PM

I love my job too.... I enjoy coming in each morning. (Sorry!)

I always thought the most boring job in the world would be to work in a Meteor store.

- Dave.

The Preacher · 20-08-2003 03:13PM

So all you lucky people who are in great jobs that yiz can't wait to get into in the morning.......what do yiz do ? And how do we join you ?

Panda · 20-08-2003 03:22PM

f u c k i n g dunnes,
ridiculous hours, eg working today from 4:30 to 8:30.
stacking shelves and what not, the boredom levels are high and the job satisfaction is low.

but they do pay pretty well, €7.42 start off and time and a half for sundays.

and it does motivate you to work harder in college.

juno75 · 20-08-2003 03:22PM

I always thought the most boring job in the world would be to work in a Meteor store

that does sound a bit of a drag, i work for ,ya know,the other one,not in a store either.
Must not say lest the ISOPS team start poking round my 'puter.

My job its self is grand, its just these little Hitlers making life unbearable.sniff.

WhiteWashMan · 20-08-2003 05:28PM

Originally posted by juno75
Ive done worse jobs than Im doing now (abbitors,gutting fish,e
tc) and I though I'd be a smart boy and learn bout these computer thingys and get me an office job.
1st year wa sh!te, but in tech support ya gotta expect it to get the exp.

Then I get a 2nd level job doing support for a big phone co. thats not called O2.

Grand , nice environ, treated wid respect, learning stuff.
New boss now.

Every minuite of my day is analysed and measured my ignorant
statistic obsessed gits that seem to have forgotten we are human as opposed to Stat generating commodities.

I have to ask and explain evey time i need a p!ss ffs, god forbid you need to go to jacks for longer than 5 mins, litreally threatend with sack.

nothing ya do is good enuff for these no life morons, our group is performing better than ever and no thanks, just more and more petty sh!te to deal with every day and more and more anal about ' you were away from your desk for 32 seconds yesterday, please explain'

I like I.T., but me looks to Febuary and all of a sudden it looks a long way away(when my contract ends)
I can picture me going marxsist gurilla in front of the whole office any moment and fekking blowning the CV telling these crettins what I feel !!!!!!!!

me grinds teeth typeing this. work is one thing but putting up with this petty stazi stat whores on top may break this donkeys back.

and the money sux:(

SO come on, how bad is your boss /job??

are they all arse munching gits cause I cant remember anything else at this stage.

krakatoa is simmering

:mad:

from your post, you dont deserve the respect that you are looking for.
there is nothing positive in it. all i see is some whining, attitude totting illiterate who likes to blame their own short comings on others.

and if you dont like it, then why are you there?
and if you give the petty excuse that there is nothing else, then look at yourself and ask why isnt there anything else you can do, and if thats the case, then why arent you making more of an effort in the one area you currently have a job.
instad of moaning.

Jim · 20-08-2003 05:40PM

i work in a post room in a solicitors office. i hate it. boards is my life.

DaithiSurfer · 20-08-2003 05:45PM

I'm sick of getting out of bed in the mornings.
I'm going to take 6 months off to lie in bed til 2pm every day.
ahhhhhh the thoughts.
Whitewashman, you're not one of yer mans little hitlers following him into cyberpace by any chance are you

WhiteWashMan · 20-08-2003 05:57PM

Originally posted by DaithiSurfer

Whitewashman, you're not one of yer mans little hitlers following him into cyberpace by any chance are you

no. i just dont like people who moan about their job, but arent willing to make any changes.

in fact, move this to the work forum and we can turn it into a thread about 'who is laziest bástard aruond here who wont do anything except moan'

AL][EN · 20-08-2003 06:04PM

My last job in IT sounded just like the one your describing to me now. i worked for an IT company that treated all its slaves.....(cough) sorry employees like dirt. your a number to them a number on a paycheck nothing more,

Im guessing you just need to vent as the ammount of 5H*t that you have to put up with in work is melting your head at the minute, the same thing happened to me and the last job i had i hated every second being there but it payed the bills and allowed me to have a pint ot three at the weekend so what more can i say, thankfully i got sense and quit my job that i hated and now the job im in i love if you have the experience then you should think about moving on,

you say your on contract which is probally a good thing if you dont like your job there then there isnt much point in staying there the IT indusry has taken a nose dive in the last two years
so there arent alot of it jobs going,

stay or go either way is up to you course you could probably take an AK to the whole place just as you leave if it makes you feel any better!!

G'luck mate hope it works out for you

conZ · 20-08-2003 10:58PM

Working in Dunnes for about 6 months now. God. Time flies when yer enjoying yourself.

Finishing up there in about a month. During which i'm taking my holidays. Staying for about two week's after that to gather a bit of money.

Drapery Stockroom,.. handiest job in the place, €7.42 per hour (best pay in town for coming on Leaving Cert.)

Working 5 day week's (~4 - 8 hour days) for the last three weeks. Before that, it was pushing on one or two days a week. The week they gave me no hours at all, I had a chat with the manager. Since then, ~30 hour weeks. It's a bitch trying to get used to no time on your hands.

Work there is'int that bad. Start no earlier than 12 noon, finish no later than 10pm. Manager's are practically all dead on. Work is'int the hardest. Cant complain.

Only time I have now is at like 10pm onwards when I'm working.

sunburned · 21-08-2003 12:23AM

I've never had a job till this week(its only for a week but its muladh in me pockeT!).
Working in a Yacht Club in the Kitchen.Everyone is really nice and we get free food.Worse thing is washing about 400 forks and knives.I shall have to get a job when I go to college,my dad told me his protecting me from myself by not giving me a a big allowance.I think he thinks Im an alcohlic....
Anyway........when I "grow up" I'd love to just run a little cafe out by the beach.Dont want no office job or manager or stress,or responsibility...Ekkk im a bit of a bum:p

weemcd · 21-08-2003 12:44AM

6 ur name isnt killian is it???
its a long shot

stormin · 21-08-2003 04:54AM

There are worse things........

Remote Server Admin, 12 hour nightshifts with no break cover, bad pay, no pension, no benefits, deteriorating eyesight, stats driven management and all with severe sla's to meet!

PH01 · 21-08-2003 09:11AM

Work in IT myself and I have to say that sometimes I just hate it. I step out of the car in the company car park and immediately I'm on a downer for the rest of the day until 5.

But, sometimes I really do like work and the company I work for. They're not all that bad - free access to the web, lots of opportunities to learn new stuff, good salary and benefits, and they have helped to provided me with a life I could only dream about while on a dole queue all those years ago.

But I hear what you're saying Juno. There are fu####s at everybody's job who are just ball breakers, whip swingers, and downright ßastards. And the important thing to remember is not to let these morons grind you down. And sooner or later these fools are found out and they'll be out of your hair

So don't despair. This recession/economic won't last for long and soon there will be plenty of firms out there ready and more than willing hire new people.
So, just put your current situation down to experience and don't do anything stupid. And finally, don't panic.

omahaid · 21-08-2003 10:19PM

Well like a lot of people I too hate my job (spite, bitter, twisted, all good...). My job treats all its workers like dirt, again like a lot of 19th century mills, I mean workplaces, in Ireland. But for the five years I have been there I knew I'd get out, my fiancee and I were taking turns going through college (we have a child, not much more than children ourselves when we had her) and finally, I'm six weeks away from starting comp sci in UCC, something I've wanted since I was 12. But after reading all the previous posts regarding working it the IT biz I have to wonder.... I always thought that you would be at least given a bit of respect for being educated. Or am I picking all of you up wrong?

juno75 · 22-08-2003 08:32AM

ahhh, thanks people for your thoughts, at least I know i aint
mental!!!

I just feel like I work a lot harder now for a lot less.

Thanks to all exept whitewashman, you aint my supervisior are ya, you sound like her:p

from your post, you dont deserve the respect that you are looking for.

Please elaborate, why dont I deserve the respect?
I am qualified, experianced, very punctual and never sick. On those grounds I feel that it is not unreasonable to expect a small amount of decency from my employer instead of being seen as a commodity.
This view of staff is driven by the current and ongoing craze on IT (and elsewhere?) of outsourceing support contracts from inhouse to other companys (IBM/HP etc) who provide thier own force of non unionised workers who are not allowed to have a voice and are dropped like hot rocks when the economic climate changes.

there is nothing positive in it.

duh,see above, thats why its called a rant.

all i see is some whining, attitude totting illiterate who likes to blame their own short comings on others.

Whineing? voiceing my frustrations, there is a difference you see.
I would comment on 'totting illiterate' but as it make's no sense I will have to refrain.

My own short comings, I will be the very first to admit that I have many shortcomings, some private and some very public. Is not that the way of the human animal? I am in the early stages of my career and I have to go through the lower ranks and this is all part and parcell of it. I like my actuall job it's the recent change of managerment culture from basically a Clinton style to a Bush style.

Who exactly am I blameing BTW man?

and if you dont like it, then why are you there?

So I can build up a solid base on my CV so I dont have to do this sh!t agian.
The first 6 months here were cool, I have 6 more months to go on my contract. I want a good refrence and a good chunk to put on said CV.
If I leave now I will blow it. Its called a rock and a hard place, not that a little rich boy like you would know.

and if you give the petty excuse that there is nothing else

You obviously dont work in the same area I do. There is a shed load of work if you have a second language but apart from that you are talking about a 3-4 month search going on my past experiance.
There is work if you have 5+ years exp (I have 2) and are specialised. I am studying as well as working (as you say, I am dealing with my 'short comings') I hope to attain my MCSA by Feb.
This will give me the leverage neccassary to move to a smaller
environment where the chances of being treated like a human being are slighty higher.
Agian this is why I am in current sh!tty job, experiance.
Employers dont like 3 months here and 6 months there etc.

, then look at yourself and ask why isnt there anything else you can do,

Like I said originally, Ive had about every job you could name -in about as many countries.

I dont have to ask my self anything cause I already been there and done it job wise. This is what I want to do bar none.
Its the current managerial enviornment that is makeing me feel like this , if you read the post properly you would see this.

I have the skills, I like the work, I hate the management cause it feels like they hate us.

from your retort it sounds like you have minimal exp of this kind of thing in the outside world.

then why arent you making more of an effort in the one area you currently have a job.

How do you make out from my post that I am not putting affort in?
You could not be more wrong, my stats are perfect and I know my job inside out. My work is always done to the highest standard, this is told to me in my monthly reviews, they have no problem with my work, they think I m great (the management I see once a month) while the trolls I work with on the front lines think nothing is good enough.

That leads to a slight cause of demoralised confusion.

instad of moaning.

See above.

Whitewash man, you are very brave with your childish seven and a half line retorts.
Please refrain from replying to my post with more of this juvinile common denominator paff.

Peace

sReq | uTeK · 22-08-2003 10:07AM

Um work in Tesco Have to admit its ****ign great crack their.Only thing that is annoying is the work can become quite monotonous sitting on a checkout or else stacking.But the money is excelent and will get me through college with loads to spare.As it is im a student who just spent over 2000 euro on a comp and also 109 per month on broadband

Have to say the managers are ****ing sound there all relativly young and we all go on the piss up most of the staff that is including the managers.we dont get annoyed if were back late from brakes give or take 5 mins.toilet brakes are given when you want them as long as you dont abuse them.

Work about 30-40 hours a week all depends.Just asked for this weekend off and they gave it to me with only 3 days notice so you can imagine it aint all that bad.well just another 3 years of tesco and I will have my masters

then im gone

juno75 · 22-08-2003 10:34AM

Jeebus sReq | uTeK, I gonna apply right now!! lol

I have not even had a beer with anyone I work with in 6 months now.
No comradeship and the like here.no fun:(

xx · 22-08-2003 01:19PM

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
from your post, you dont deserve the respect that you are looking for.
there is nothing positive in it. all i see is some whining, attitude totting illiterate who likes to blame their own short comings on others.

and if you dont like it, then why are you there?
and if you give the petty excuse that there is nothing else, then look at yourself and ask why isnt there anything else you can do, and if thats the case, then why arent you making more of an effort in the one area you currently have a job.
instad of moaning.

Dunno if I'd go that harsh on the poor chappie WWM. If he works in a callcentre, then I deffo know what he means. I worked in a callcentre for 4 years (left to go back to Uni) and I have to say that most of what he's saying is pretty spot on. Where I used to work, the managers and team leaders only gave a $hit about stats - PERIOD. They failed to see the people generating them. And if anything went wrong, we were blamed, not them.
And don't get me started on the whole clique thing that goes on in these callcentres too!!! Only getting a job cuz you're friends with the manager etc. Load of bollix IMO.
Thankfully I'm out of all that now, but I sincerely have pity for anyone working in a callcentre these days. They are the epitome of a living hell.
As for all of ye who say that you enjoy your jobs - fair fecks to ya, long may it continue.

DaithiSurfer · 22-08-2003 01:48PM

Don't worry about whitewashman. He does that sometimes (a lot actually).
He's one guy on these boards who wants to tell everyone how fantastic he is compared to you at every oppertunity. Only he does it in sneaky ways to.
Puts others down so he can feel like the man.
People like that feel are so great telling people how well they have done because they have some get up and go and all that bollox.
Newsflash whitewash:
People, depending on social standing, education, experience etc work at different levels of the work and management ladder.
Most of my friends are directors of companies by now, but they go out away from there jobs, (some even post here) and none will ever mention how *ucking fantastic they are.
They understand that you get a job, you work your way up if your lucky you dont get *ucked on the way or made redundant.
They realise everyone is at ther own stage on this ladder and has the potential to reach the top.
So don't take you're i'm so mighty atitude and flaunt it to others.
You just might be polishing their shoes some day.
Juno75's story is typical of many here no matter what they are doing now.
I have a brother that was washing dishes 4 years ago. He now owns a chain of Sports centers in Ireland and has a few million in the bank.
If you met him you wouldn't know whether he still washed dishes or not. And he wouldn't let you know.
Thats a succesful person not someone who talks about it non-stop.
Juno75 has a typical and sensible attitude to his current situation and will most likely do really well when given the chance.

juno75 · 22-08-2003 02:29PM

Thanks XX/DaithiSurfer for the wise/kind words.

to quote Nietzsche - '

'If it does not kill you it will make you stronger'

Man U babe · 22-08-2003 03:22PM

At the moment im working in game, tis €8.29/hr, i do about 30 hours a week, hopefully cutting down to bout 15 when i go back to college. Tis not too bad, although one of my managers is an absolute asshole. oh and the 30% discount on games kicks ass. i can imagine how it must feel to be stuck in a hellhole of a job though *hugs to anyone who has to put up with that *****

eth0_ · 22-08-2003 03:43PM

Originally posted by juno75

I have to ask and explain evey time i need a p!ss ffs, god forbid you need to go to jacks for longer than 5 mins, litreally threatend with sack.

A team leader I had when I worked in <snip> was such a prick he timed people who he saw going to the toilet. He threatened me with disciplinary action because I was in the toilet for 'almost four minutes'. <snip> is his name, if anyone knows him, give him a kick in the balls, lord knows he deserves it.

monument · 22-08-2003 04:39PM

Originally posted by Man U babe
At the moment im working in game, tis €8.29/hr, i do about 30 hours a week, hopefully cutting down to bout 15 when i go back to college. Tis not too bad, although one of my managers is an absolute asshole. oh and the 30% discount on games kicks ass. i can imagine how it must feel to be stuck in a hellhole of a job though *hugs to anyone who has to put up with that *****

I think my ethics would stop me from working in Game or any other games shop (unless they only stocked good games). I’d be like “Who are you buying that for? Listen, I don’t care, just put it back”.

BTW I have the worst job!!!
I’m not going into it, but any one who really knows me will know that I do.

Who's got teh worst job/who hates thier job most?!

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