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working in an office

crazygeryy

What's it like? I've never worked in one. I've always worked outdoors.
Is it fun ,boring ,awful?
Are days long ,short.
Just curious.

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eviltimeban

If you ignore all the birthdays and collections you can have a happy office life.

Or signing birthday cards. A boss I used to have would always write "ignore them all" on someone's birthday card (responding perhaps to the usual "now you're old ha ha ha" comments that people would write). One card went around so I wrote "ignore them all" on it before the boss could. I don't know what his reaction was.

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Just on the point of working out in the sticks. I commute outside of Dublin each day, about a half hour drive, now its against the rush hour traffic as you are heading out of town so only takes about half an hour, which is at least half the time I would be sitting on a manky sweaty bus stuck in traffic with all the other drones if I was heading into town. I blare the tunes in my warm car going in and out of work, having a great old time. Park right outside the offfice so never have to worry about weather. So in that respect its far better than town.

I agree options for lunch are very limited, but you can look on this as a money saver. To be honest I don’t mind that much, just make my own lunch and read a book or something. Flying through loads of books I have always wanted to read right now, whereas when in town I used to just waste entire lunch breaks in shops etc. I did used to work in town up until recently and the option to get stuff done as you are close to everything is what I miss the most. Other than that to me it’s all pretty much the same.

The social life actually is another now I think of it, but I am at the stage now in my life where that would have been on the backburner anyway having become a father recently.

Jawgap

kfallon wrote: »

Don't forget people bringing in their newborn babies too.....like I give a fúck :rolleyes:

A former colleague - and still good friend of mine - used to refuse to put in to the collections that went around when someone had a kid.......

......her logic was that it was just congratulating them for having sex!

WesternZulu

I like working in an office but I have slowly realised that everyone and anyone annoys me when I am trying to get work done or hold concentration.

I dream of the day where I have an office of my own.

kfallon

mariaalice wrote: »

Sound very like secondary school!

Without the wedgies :pac:

KungPao

kfallon wrote: »

Don't forget people bringing in their newborn babies too.....like I give a fúck :rolleyes:

You mostly end up working with twats and geebags, the kind of people you'd have nothing to do with in the 'real' world. However, if you worked in an office of 200 people you will invariably find 4 or 5 'gems' of people that you will remain friends with for a long, long time. For that, it's worth the facade of having to put up with the cúnts who do your head in!

Or the oddball jobsworth who comes into the office on his ****ing time off to have a chat! **** off! Is this place your entire life?

Magico Gonzalez

kfallon wrote: »

Try to 'introduce' a finger in their hole while you are at it, they won't ask you to do the whole 'kiss cheek' thing again!

Then again you'll prob get the sack too....but worth the risk!

I've absented myself from the whole tradition by refusing at the first fence on day one. First person leant in for a nosh of my cheek and i ducked them like Muhammed Ali.

I'm the weird foreigner in the office, stared at and ignored mostly !

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kfallon wrote: »

Don't forget people bringing in their newborn babies too.....like I give a fúck :rolleyes:

You mostly end up working with twats and geebags, the kind of people you'd have nothing to do with in the 'real' world. However, if you worked in an office of 200 people you will invariably find 4 or 5 'gems' of people that you will remain friends with for a long, long time. For that, it's worth the facade of having to put up with the cúnts who do your head in!

Sound very like secondary school!

kfallon

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Where I am at the minute (obviously not Ireland) there can be HR issues if you don't formally greet people in the morning with the customary kiss/air peck on the cheek. I've seen it happen.

I play the Jonny Foreigner card and ignore them.

Try to 'introduce' a finger in their hole while you are at it, they won't ask you to do the whole 'kiss cheek' thing again!

Then again you'll prob get the sack too....but worth the risk!

Magico Gonzalez

KungPao wrote: »

However, all the collections and silly celebrations and forced fun is tedious. As is the obliged 'good morning' or 'hi' every time you pass someone.
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Where I am at the minute (obviously not Ireland) there can be HR issues if you don't formally greet people in the morning with the customary kiss/air peck on the cheek. I've seen it happen.

I play the Jonny Foreigner card and ignore them.

kfallon

KungPao wrote: »

It's nice in the winter, all warm and supping a nice cup of tea while the cold rain lashes off the window.

However, all the collections and silly celebrations and forced fun is tedious. As is the obliged 'good morning' or 'hi' every time you pass someone.

The worst is when you are having a smoke or preparing your tea/coffee, and somebody starts chatting to you about dull work stuff.

Don't forget people bringing in their newborn babies too.....like I give a fúck :rolleyes:

You mostly end up working with twats and geebags, the kind of people you'd have nothing to do with in the 'real' world. However, if you worked in an office of 200 people you will invariably find 4 or 5 'gems' of people that you will remain friends with for a long, long time. For that, it's worth the facade of having to put up with the cúnts who do your head in!

ChopShop

MadsL wrote: »

The days pass in a blur of boards, facebook, reddit and staring out the window.

You'll love it.

You have a view?

All there is out my window is a sea of breezeblock and pebbledash .

KungPao

It's nice in the winter, all warm and supping a nice cup of tea while the cold rain lashes off the window.

However, all the collections and silly celebrations and forced fun is tedious. As is the obliged 'good morning' or 'hi' every time you pass someone.

The worst is when you are having a smoke or preparing your tea/coffee, and somebody starts chatting to you about dull work stuff.

Magico Gonzalez

Working in an office when you are busy enough to fill the hours in your day with a task that isn't too repetitive is OK.

If you haven't enough to do the internet starts to suck the life out of you and you end up spending your days online arguing with strangers and dreaming about impractical path to poverty entrepreneurial schemes.

Green Mile

I have the option to work from home or the office. I have only worked from home once when I was as sick as a plane to Lourdes. I don’t think I’d like to work from home, I like routine and I think if I worked from home, my right biceps would be larger than they are now and tissue expenses would skyrocket.

cml387

There are only offices in Dublin, apparently.

I don't know what us in the shticks work in.

Egginacup

eviltimeban wrote: »

This is exactly it. There's various levels of "office" that you have to take into consideration:

1. The out-of-town business park
So we're talking Citywest, Parkwest, anything with "west" in the name basically. This is a souless existence. While you might work in a modern office with a nice desk and computer, you are stuck with the same food choices every day and virtually nothing to do on your lunch break. You have to drive to work so you start stressing about the evening commute about an hour before you leave. You see one part of the world and that's it. A barren landscape surrounds you, with empty office buildings a reminder that nothing is permanent.

2. The D4 / D2 old townhouse
This is slightly better; there's a lot of these around Rathmines, Leeson Street, and around the Baggot Street area where the Georgian houses are all offices. This is slightly better than option 1, but depends on how close to town you are. The disadvantage is that the office will be old, damp, creaky, windy, and probably has one toilet for 30 people.

I worked in Parkwest for 1.5 years and you are spot on. Most people drove to work but I luckily lived in the City Centre and took the shuttle bus. It was still crap out there though. Imagine being on first name terms with the entire staff of a Spar! Fridays were depressing as hell. I would see one or two mothers wheeling their buggies/prams around the empty office buildings. They and their partners had obviously bought an apt. there during the boom and are now effectively stuck in a half-empty block where there are no facilities and no hope of selling. I couldn't wait to get into town to get sloshed.

Also worked in the monument building...in the basement. IT was a private bank and I was a IT guy. Job was dull as hell and the office was cold. Work colleagues were bores too. Location was fab though and the pay was great.

jimgoose

K4t wrote: »

That's not patronising at all..

No, it isn't. Believe you me, I know Americans and they're big boys'n'gals. On those occasions where I actually patronise one of them they fcuk me off quare lively.

K4t

jimgoose wrote: »

Not all American outfits are like that. To be honest I think all that carry-on is mostly a function of the crappy industry/work they're involved in, and not necessarily because they're Yanks.

That's not patronising at all..

OneArt

I would actually strangle a newborn child for an office job.

I do one day a week at an Internet company in Cologne (not at all bad pay for eight hours a week either). They're a small but growing company and I will be switching to a full-time contract shortly, but in the meantime I have to subsidize it with another crappy job.

Give me five days in an office with a salary that doesn't change because there aren't enough hours.

jimgoose

Aglomerado wrote: »

Those American companies with their faux-jolly working environments make me cringe...

Not all American outfits are like that. To be honest I think all that carry-on is mostly a function of the crappy industry/work they're involved in, and not necessarily because they're Yanks.

Aglomerado

Those American companies with their faux-jolly working environments make me cringe.
I have some friends who worked for a call-centre using this business model, and they had a team of people working in there dreaming up stupid things like dressing up as the Easter Bunny and walking around dropping Easter eggs on people's desks.

But the work was shít and the targets were unattainable (commission-based), and the "team leaders" were mini-Hitlers. They also had wanky "clean desk policies".

As much as I complain about my job, it's heaven compared with that nonsense.

Jawgap

I do miss the social aspect of working in an office.

Working from home, has it's advantages - 30 second commute, you save a fortune on lunches but waste it on heat - but it lacks the personal contact.

On the plus side I only need to put a shirt on when I'm teleconferencing and even then I can sit there in just my jocks and no one is any the wiser.

jimgoose

Pinch Flat wrote: »

...when I see someone my age (mid-40s) coming to work on an adult sized scooter, I'm happy I don't work there.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'd never get tired a' batin' 'em. :pac:

Pinch Flat

jimgoose wrote: »

Umm, our out-of-town business park is nicely located, with top-floor views of the surrounding countryside, is impeccably landscaped, nicely finished and generally quite pleasant. I go home for lunch every day - takes about twelve minutes each way - and I have zero traffic problems. It is quiet, comfortable and productive in an odd sort of way. We are Borg. :cool:

The idea of working in the very centre of Dublin, or in some crumbling old former house with no proper facilities and a weird smell, or being stuck with a bunch of wannabe Segway-riding Californian twits in some Googley place, gives me quite a migraine.

I've worked in a few offices - almost all of the above in some shape or form - and up to recently was in city west.absolutely hated it. Nothing to do. Everything became a chore - going to the bank, post office, buying gifts, new underpants etc.

The cycle there and back was the only thing I looked forward to. One of my colleagues had worked with the same company 20 years in the same place with the same ham and cheese roll and tomato soup for his lunch every day. That's going to send anyone dolally.

Now in town off merrion square in and old Georgian building - decent enough with good facilities and the boss is even thinking of putting in a shower - much better. Everything on my door step - shops, nice coffee and the city centre Grafton St / Stephens green area a 5 minute walk. Nice pubs nearby for a pint after work.

My job is as a project manager for a lot of different type of projects, including the fitout of offices - so we've done a lot of tech company fitouts. Some off the stuff you see is hilarious - when I see someone my age (mid-40s) coming to work on an adult sized scooter, I'm happy I don't work there.

jimgoose

slinky2000 wrote: »

I'm the opposite, I love working in town. Niec office here on the Quays, walking around town at lunch, going for a stroll around St Stephens Green or the docklands, doing some shopping, getting some bits, doing some post int he GPO, loads of lunch places and coffee shops and great for a pint on a Friday. The transport options are almost endless too. It's great for meeting people and friends too that are visiting Dublin, you're always close by!

I working out in somewhere like citywest sole destroying and not to mention the hours of commuting I would be doing on the m50. No thanks.

Shtop willoo, you have me breaking into song... "Grafton Street's a Wonderland, there's magic in the air..."

I agree that most of CityWest is like Mad Max with office workers instead of crazy bikers! :pac:

eviltimeban

jimgoose wrote: »

Umm, our out-of-town business park is nicely located, with top-floor views of the surrounding countryside, is impeccably landscaped, nicely finished and generally quite pleasant. I go home for lunch every day - takes about twelve minutes each way - and I have zero traffic problems. It is quiet, comfortable and productive in an odd sort of way. We are Borg. :cool:

The idea of working in the very centre of Dublin, or in some crumbling old former house with no proper facilities and a weird smell, or being stuck with a bunch of wannabe Segway-riding Californian twits in some Googley place, gives me quite a migraine.

You're lucky alright, and I agree with the second paragraph. I wasn't rating them in order of preference, just listing them.

The best in fairness, is probably the IFSC / Quays option.

Alf Veedersane

K4t wrote: »

It's a hell which you can leave at any time. But you never leave because you convince yourself the alternative is worse.

Wel-come to the Office California...

jimgoose

Aglomerado wrote: »

Business park here as well along with a large retail park. Before Christmas, the first half mile of the commute home takes about half an hour. No pubs nearby for a sneaky pint at lunchtime either - nearest one is 20 minutes' walk away and has piebalds outside.

Mmm. No retail Park-o-Rama Bonanzapalooza crap here, just an airport. Plenty nice pubs with decent carvery a ten- or fifteen-minute gallop away as well.

slinky2000

jimgoose wrote: »

Umm, our out-of-town business park is nicely located, with top-floor views of the surrounding countryside, is impeccably landscaped, nicely finished and generally quite pleasant. I go home for lunch every day - takes about twelve minutes each way - and I have zero traffic problems. It is quiet, comfortable and productive in an odd sort of way. We are Borg. :cool:

The idea of working in the very centre of Dublin, or in some crumbling old former house with no proper facilities and a weird smell, or being stuck with a bunch of wannabe Segway-riding Californian twits in some Googley place, gives me quite a migraine.

I'm the opposite, I love working in town. Nice office block here on the Quays, walking around town at lunch, going for a stroll around St Stephens Green or the docklands, doing some shopping, getting some bits, doing some post in the GPO, loads of lunch places and coffee shops and great for a pint on a Friday. The transport options are almost endless too. It's great for meeting people and friends too that are visiting Dublin, you're always close by!

for me working out in somewhere like citywest would be sole destroying and not to mention the hours of commuting I would be doing on the m50. No thanks.