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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
I told a friend that I think that all jobs are sucky in some way or
another and that I do what I can to make my life at work more entertaining. I people watch, work on come backs, think how I'd do something differently than the teacher, and doodle strange pictures (I can't draw) that I'll have to throw away anyway. On road trips or other commutes, we play license plat phrases. For instance, WVH could translate into "Wild Vixens Here." So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Pam S. who also imagines what it would be like to have one of the cats teaching the class |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
"tanadashoes" wrote in message ... I told a friend that I think that all jobs are sucky in some way or another and that I do what I can to make my life at work more entertaining. I people watch, work on come backs, think how I'd do something differently than the teacher, and doodle strange pictures (I can't draw) that I'll have to throw away anyway. On road trips or other commutes, we play license plat phrases. For instance, WVH could translate into "Wild Vixens Here." So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Pam S. who also imagines what it would be like to have one of the cats teaching the class Back in the day when you had to physically redial the phone when you got a busy signal, I had to call the IRS quite often. Spent a great deal of that time playing video games and daydreaming. Jo |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
tanadashoes wrote:
So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Happily, my job is not sucky. However, it certainly includes some boring tasks, so not every day is filled with excitement and challenge. One of the things I do to make the boring jobs bearable is to listen to streaming audio on the web. My favorite is www.pandora.com. Joyce |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
"tanadashoes" wrote in message ... I told a friend that I think that all jobs are sucky in some way or another and that I do what I can to make my life at work more entertaining. I people watch, work on come backs, think how I'd do something differently than the teacher, and doodle strange pictures (I can't draw) that I'll have to throw away anyway. On road trips or other commutes, we play license plat phrases. For instance, WVH could translate into "Wild Vixens Here." So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Pam S. who also imagines what it would be like to have one of the cats teaching the class Fortunately, and THANK BAST I don't have a sucky job at the moment, but I don't cope well with them. When I have a sucky job it seriously depresses and sucks the life out of me, so I can't enjoy my non-working life either. The decisive factor is the people. I do much better with sucky duties when there are good people around me. |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
On Nov 29, 11:18 am, tanadashoes wrote:
So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? When I had a boring jobs, I used to: a. be glad I wasn't in an iron lung or something similar. b. tell myself it still beat the unemployment line c. hung a sign over my desk which read "Just shaddap and do it" rather than complain. d. realized that by the time I retired, I'd be pretty old and to just enjoy my younger years while I had 'em.. e. tip: save all you can WHILE you are still working. Retirement sneaks up on you fast. |
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Loooong Story ( Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope)
tanadashoes wrote:
I told a friend that I think that all jobs are sucky in some way or another and that I do what I can to make my life at work more entertaining. So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Pam S. who also imagines what it would be like to have one of the cats teaching the class I've only ever had one truly sucky job (this was back in 1992). I was the Route Accounting Supervisor for a (now defunct, thank Bast!) vending machine company. I was also responsible for maintaining the computer systems (heh, such as they were) in the place. As Theresa said, it sucked the life out of me and made me very depressed. The duties were okay, but *boring*. That's okay, every job has a bit of tedium. But... My boss was the comptroller of the company and a former Army DS. (That's Drill Sargeant for those who don't know.) He acted like he was still in the Army. He thought *nothing* of screaming at employees (including me) in front of everyone and his brother for transgressions, real or imagined. Highly unprofessional. And I was on my lunch break one day so I made a personal phone call from my desk. He knew I was on my lunch break because we had a scheduled lunch break. Anyway, I'm on the phone taking care of some personal business when he walked up to my desk and disconnected the call. How very rude! What he had to say to me could have waited 15 minutes. The other (long-term) employees were all gossips. This place was a regular Peyton Place - he did/she did, he said/she said. Rumours flew all over the place about who was sleeping with whom. I cannot stand this sort of behaviour, especially since these same people would be all friendly to the one(s) they were gossiping about. Sexual harrassment apparently was a foreign concept. One of the (very married) route supervisors passed me a note that said, "When can I get in your pants?" EXCUSE ME?! Of course he grabbed it and practically swallowed it when I started to put it in my pocket. *I* certainly understood sexual harrassment but apparently he thought I was just another dumb blonde who would be flattered by his attentions. Now, no offense to anyone (every time I say that someone gets offended, sorry!) but my boss started hiring my staff of from a church organization that sponsored recent immigrants from countries like Poland and various countries from the former Soviet block. He did this because due to some obscure law concerning providing jobs and on the job training for (legal) immigrants they didn't have to pay them minimum wage. These poor women could barely speak English, let alone understand the company's *very* outdated computer system. A brief description of the system would be, remember back around 1980 when you inserted a floppy disk containing the program in Slot A and a blank floppy in Slot B on which to write your saved data? It was like that, except the floppy disks were on a screen rather than physical disks. And you had to switch between one and the other. It was running on an equally antiquated version of Unix. So I'm trying to train these poor people who have been in the U.S. for 6 months, who barely spoke English. And we were running the company's accounting system for vending machine sales! Does this make any sense?? Just so he can save a dollar an hour in wages. Long story short, there really *was* no way to cope. I was angry, I was depressed. I became physically ill and I chalk it up to this place. But I'd gotten the job through a "headhunter" and the agreement was the company would pay the recruiting agency's fee ($1300, IIRC) as long as I worked there for 1 year, otherwise I had to pay it. I couldn't afford to just quit so yes, I worked there for a year. Little did my charming (heh) boss know I was actively looking for another job during the last 3 months of that year. And I landed a position! So when that 1 year mark arrived I happily told him to shove it up his arse. Jill |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
On Nov 29, 10:18 am, tanadashoes wrote:
I told a friend that I think that all jobs are sucky in some way or another and that I do what I can to make my life at work more entertaining. I people watch, work on come backs, think how I'd do something differently than the teacher, and doodle strange pictures (I can't draw) that I'll have to throw away anyway. On road trips or other commutes, we play license plat phrases. For instance, WVH could translate into "Wild Vixens Here." So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Pam S. who also imagines what it would be like to have one of the cats teaching the class I never had a sucky job. I did, however, have jobs where I had to work with sucky people. This was back in the days of the Walkman. I used to put those headphones on sometimes when I didn't even have the music on. I found that people wouldn't talk to me that way. The most irritating thing were people who hung over my cubicle and yakked. Sherry |
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Headphone protection (was: Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope)
Sherry wrote:
I never had a sucky job. I did, however, have jobs where I had to work with sucky people. This was back in the days of the Walkman. I used to put those headphones on sometimes when I didn't even have the music on. I found that people wouldn't talk to me that way. The most irritating thing were people who hung over my cubicle and yakked. LOL - this is so far off-topic from the original question that I'm starting a new thread. I once had a roommate (back in college - when we shared a single room) who never, ever shut up. In her, this was actually pathological - she was completely unable to relate to people normally. For one thing, she was obsessed with stuff that nobody else cared about, such as the plots of romance novels and soap operas. Most of the other lucky people could just walk away when she started nattering at them about that stuff. But being her roommate, I was stuck hearing every last detail! This was the first semester of my freshman year, my first time living away from home. She was two years older and totally took advantage of my inexperience and lack of confidence/assertiveness. After a month of having to endure her endless chatter, I happened to go home for a visit - and that's when I nabbed a set of stereo headphones. After I got back to school, the first time she started the long, highly detailed description of the romance novel she was reading, I quickly grabbed the headphones and turned on my stereo. HEAVEN!! However, after several minutes, I happened to glance toward her, and to my horror, I saw that she was *still talking*! And gesticulating! Just as though I could hear her. Actually, I don't think she really cared, or maybe she was just too clueless to notice that I was blatantly not listening. Before the end of that semester, I begged Those Who Were In Charge Of Such Things to *please, please* change my room assignment, which they did. Second semester, I discovered that I had a whole room to myself. This was one of those sought-after accidents that most people didn't get in this dorm, where every room was designed for two people. However, I chanced to meet the new person who had been assigned to my old room and roommate. She was an unsuspecting transfer student, and I immediately took pity on her. When I and several other dorm residents told her about how awful my former roommate was to be stuck with, she looked very alarmed. So I offered her the extra space in my room, which she took. Very altruistic of me, I have to say - not so sure I'd do that now! She turned out to be not overly pleasant, either, but mostly tolerable. Certainly not the horror the first roommate was. (I didn't even go into the huge mess roommate #1 kept all over the floor - including dirty dishes with caked, rotting food, for weeks!) Joyce - glad I can afford to live with nobody but the furballs! |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:18:04 -0800 (PST),Pam S. wrote:
So is your job sucky and what do you do to work around it? Having held several sucky jobs I can honestly say my best coping method is to remind myself that a large portion of people in my area can't find any job at all so I better count my lucky stars so long as I have a job. It sucks to have a crummy job, but it sucks even more to have no heat and no food in the house. BTW It's called work for a reason. If it were fun it would be called a game. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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Poll OT Sucky Jobs and how you cope
Debra wrote:
BTW It's called work for a reason. If it were fun it would be called a game. LOL. Well, there are certainly jobs that need to get done, that nobody wants to do, like climbing into sewers, collecting the garbage, and so on. That certainly fits your definition. In order to make sure people actually complete their responsibilities, you have to pay them. Otherwise, even if they love it, they're probably going to do it according to their own schedule. And maybe they won't get all the boring parts done. Every job has boring parts, and if you didn't get paid, why would you do those parts? Maybe you would, if it was necessary in order to keep the fun part going. But you'd probably procrastinate, and do as minimal a job of it as possible. When someone's paying you, they get to tell you exactly what's expected and when you have to have it done. I know some people who are paid to do what they love, and they feel very lucky. I have a slightly different take on this, though. To me, being paid to do something, no matter how much I love it, would take a lot of the joy out of it. I like to do things my own way and in my own time. I enjoy my hobbies and avocations, at least partly because nobody's telling me what to do or how/when to do it. If I started doing any of those things for pay, it would become a chore, I think. So I don't necessarily envy people who get paid to do what they love. I prefer to do the things I love just for me, not to fulfill an obligation. Joyce |
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