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« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2007, 12:59:14 AM »

Every few week I'll write myself up and give myself a day off with pay to reflect, and decide if I really want to keep my job. After a little employer to employee counseling I'll decide to give myself another chance. Sadly I didn't really learn anything and then I'll have to fire myself, but then I'm faced with finding someone to take my job and since no one wants and only I applied for it, I'll have to hire myself back ... the paper work is a nightmare.
Ha!  That's awesome.  What do you do for a living?

I am what many deem to be Satan, I'm a contractor.

And there are days when I hate my job. It's odd how someone who has never as so much as held a hammer all the sudden become a master carpenter soon as they hire you to build something. You have to be nice (difficult for me) and humor them while wanting to tell them to shut the %#&@ up and get off the build site.
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« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2007, 10:45:57 AM »

i'd totally PAY a dollar to dress down. I have no option, i can't wear jeans.

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« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2007, 10:30:50 AM »

My job started out bad, but got a whole lot better. When I started here i was on the assy. line and my boss was a total a-hole. Just as I was about to be booted out the door (for being 1 min. late I believe) my current boss came along and and demanded to have me in tech support. So now my job is fantastic. I wear whatever I feel like, breaks are whenever I get up and take em and my boss is pretty laid back. The only down sides to my job are:

a. I get made fun of by Americans for either my accent (cuz us Cannuks are hard to understand) or just the fact that I am in Canada eg. "Wow! You're in Canada? Why are you guys up there? My stuff is made THERE?!? I didn't think there was much up there!"

b. Occasionally getting sent out to some of the most annoying places on earth. I recently got sent so far north, thet I had to get there by plane, and seal meat was a major food group.
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« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2007, 11:34:45 PM »

I hated my old job and most of the people I worked with, a big chunk of it was me (personal BS I've mentioned before), but the job sucked also and I had burned out years ago. I have a different job in the same department since the middle of this year, more responsiblity, better hours, get to interact with people I like more (mostly), more leeway on my hours, etc. I have bad days but they aren't earth shattering, just dealing with others' poor planning, mistakes or indifference to what effect they have on others.

OTOH: I have a uniform shirt I have to wear that I hate (I get to wear jeans, I'd actually like a job where I have to spruce up a bit more). I have to play more office politics and I'm low man on the totem pole so very little real say in things. I'm more efficient than my predecessor so I get impatient waiting on others to get things back to me. My desk is in the open so people don't treat it the same way they would if I had a real office or cubicle. The mornings are usually slow lately, then all the deliveries start right at lunch. I hate to take lunch early, since if I take it later it makes the latter part of the day seem to go faster, plus I feel like I've earned lunch then.

People in other departments think I'm this other guy's assistant (we will help each other out but that's informal and he's a good guy), I am his backup on some things when he's not there, but as he points out to them it's not my job to the things they ask me to do when they can't find him. His predecessor got many of them spoiled by doing things for them they should do themselves. And quite frankly the money could be better.

I'm in the middle of the dreaded busy season, and I'm bored by it. Not at all how I thought it would be. So I don't hate my current job, but I want more and am finally in a place to do something about it. I took this job as a step, so I don't plan to stay in it long enough to been to hate it.
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« Reply #19 on: December 18, 2007, 07:06:14 AM »

I hear you Ash...though to a slightly smaller degree.

I started where I am working back in July of '98 and it was a fun place to work. Through the years, I moved up and was able to work my way to a machine operator and then off the floor into the spot as the CNC programmer...it was a great job and a great place to work. The money was good though raises didn't happen unless you were able to move up. Well...4 years later, I'm still a "programmer" but the job has changed....so have the owners. Well, they're still the same 3 people but they have changed. They have become so concerned with a dollar that they have lost what they once were.

They used to be decent guys but now they just do whatever they can to remove any fun or any reason to work at the place. It's a shame they can't see that bringing people down doesn't help the business at all as an unhappy employee is an unproductive one. The people in the shop keep getting kicked when they're down and the president of the company has an attitude that anyone can be replaced and he will do it with people from a temp agency. How is that supposed to make someone that's been there for a long time feel? That they can be replaced by someone who can't even read a tape measure?

My job has changed as I have said....I used to be able to do the creative end of programming and things would remain interesting....now...for the last year...basically, all I do is take electronic templates, clean them up, and tool them to be cut. These are for commercial and residential countertops...imagine the monotony...take one electronic rectangle drawing, place it on another rectangle drawing, turn it around, use another program to put tools on it...rinse, repeat...As if that's not bad enough, the owners also do things to cause it to be as bad as possible in such an environment.
It used to be no problem if I was on the internet on and off throughout the day as long as I got my work done...now...for the past year...I've been playing a game of cat and mouse with them where I will find a keylogger installed on my system and security settings changed...Sure...I could play by the new rules but it disgusts me and I won't just because, you know? I need something to break up my day or I will go insane. I also believe that they should come to me and tell me no internet rather than spy on me and act like nothing is going on.

A few other highlights of what's happened here in the past year...they decided to start listening to the shop snitch who once admitted to me that "he would do anything or step on anyone to get a seat in the front office"...this meant that they were making their shop business decisions based on what this kid was telling them in weekly meetings...all the while the kid was the biggest f**k up here. He would rob them blind, lie to them, and point out others faults and failures so he looked good. They wound up putting him and his friend in charge of the shop...that lasted 6 months until they ran it almost into the ground and we have been trying to recover from this.

While those 2 were in charge...they hired 2 of their friends. One was a stoner (which I have no problem with as long as you know when it's ok to do it) and the other was a psycho. He wound up breaking a window, wrecking the snack machine twice, and threatening 4 different people with bodily harm. The worst part about these 2 losers is that they were hired last December ('06) and in March they decided that they wanted more money (which we supposedly had none of)....they went to the owners and told them that they were going to quit unless they got more money. Rather than letting them go, they were given a raise...The raise that they got put them way above most people that had been here for years....and just a dollar less an hour than I am making after 10 years....you should have seen the turmoil this created. To say we have no money to give out but then give these worthless guys all kinds of money...we all started wondering what was going on. At any rate, they are gone now as one quit and the psycho finally got fired after they had enough of him.

Anyway...that is all just the minor things and it would take way too long to go into complete detail...and I've already spent more time than I thought I would when I decided to write a sentence or 2 to say I know what you're going through.
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« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2007, 04:10:16 PM »

It's good to hear from you again, Odinn.   =)
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« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2007, 04:48:19 PM »

Thanks Zap!
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« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2007, 10:16:41 PM »

To be honest, I really don't have that many qualms about the job that I've been working at now for about 7 1/2 years.

I'm a data processor for a major insurance company and I don't have to deal with the public at all, I get to listen to CD's all night while I work, I have weekends off, the pay is great especially considering I don't have a college degree.

Yeah, there's stupid stuff that goes on here but since I'm listening to CD's all night and don't really talk to many people it just goes right past me without bothering me or getting me involved.

the only downside is that I work 2nd shift hours (3:30 to midnight Mon-Fri) which cuts down on having a normal social life pretty much but as I've gotten older I've been getting more easily annoyed by people so the lack of a normal social life isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I get to hang out with my true friends on the weekends anyway, usually on Saturday.

I don't have any plans on going anywhere as this is a good job and I'm due for another great raise at the moment in March.
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« Reply #23 on: December 19, 2007, 11:00:36 PM »

... but as I've gotten older I've been getting more easily annoyed by people so the lack of a normal social life isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Ah, you are beginning to see how us 40+ feel.
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« Reply #24 on: December 19, 2007, 11:04:08 PM »

... but as I've gotten older I've been getting more easily annoyed by people so the lack of a normal social life isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Ah, you are beginning to see how us 40+ feel.

Yeah, I'm turning 33 this March so I can only imagine how I'll be by the time I'm 40.   BounceGiggle
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« Reply #25 on: December 20, 2007, 03:04:48 PM »

... but as I've gotten older I've been getting more easily annoyed by people so the lack of a normal social life isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Ah, you are beginning to see how us 40+ feel.

Yeah, I'm turning 33 this March so I can only imagine how I'll be by the time I'm 40.   BounceGiggle

People annoy me already and I'm only 22.  I can't imagine how I will end up hating people when I turn 40.
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« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2007, 09:10:09 PM »

About 3 years ago I had a great job.  It was with an American based company here in Australia.  When I joined these guys, it was great.  They did the outsourcing work for a major bank's credit card services.  I got into that side of the banking business and I loved it.

I moved from job to job within the department learning everything and it was awesome.  My team leader was the best woman.  We were all friends and we socialised together after work at the pub and supported each other all the time.  Whatever Deb, the Team Leader wanted, she got and in spades.  There wasn't anything we wouldn't do for her.

The money was crap, but you could live on it (barely), but that didn't matter.

We moved buildings so that the whole company could be all together and my friendship base expanded.

Then the bank we did outsourcing for decided  they weren't getting the service they expected (which was true due to internal politics) and they decided to go elsewhere.  So our company decided to pull out all the stops in the hopes of keeping the bank's business.  We got a new team leader, Brooke, who was a completely feral b***h.  She was grossly fat and wore clothes 2 sizes too small for her but seemed to think she was a glamour.  She also had Barbie-everything.  Note pads, pens, post it notes, coffee mug, in trays, mouse pad, the lot. And this from a woman in her 30s.  She also used to brag about how many houses she owned and if she favoured you with her smile and help, you were the Chosen One.  Our team leader Deb got shunted sideways into the Call Centre.  When she could suffer the indignity no longer, she left the company.

Under Brooke's Gestapo management style a lot of of the long time permanents left.  So the knowledge base went with them.  Brooke hired useless lumps who did no work and everyone else had to pick up behind them.  Including one memorable young guy who would stay out all night drinking and drag racing, then come in EVERY DAY in the SAME CLOTHES.  He did nothing, came in before lunch, left before 5, wandered around chatting, took 2 hour lunches sometimes and generally farked up everything put in front of him.  He was Brooke's Golden Boy.

She was told numerous times about this bad behaviour but did nothing.  It turned out he was the son of some board member.  He eventually left and hardly anyone showed up to his farewell.  I didn't contribute any money or sign his card.  And Brooke gave him a glowing speech that left most of us wondering if she even knew what he did in the department.

Brooke would hold team meetings going on and on about what she expected from us but gave us no resources and no support.  All this was designed to make her look good because she was gunning for the Division Head's job.

At the end of the meetings she would say, "you're all STARS!!!!!"  It was the fakest most bogus motivational catch phrase I'd ever heard.  We went from a strong cohesive team that would raise problems and solve them, to being sullen, depressed and anti-work where everyone would be too afraid to speak up.  Those who voiced their opinions would not have their contracts renewed, even though we needed those people.  I was one of them.

I would have a meeting with Tim, Brooke's sub team leader (her dogsbody) who was thicker than two planks and didn't have a clue what I was talking about when he asked me to explain my stats for the month.  He was such a robot, he dressed in the style of the Divisional Head to "fit in" and used to grease his hair into a spike down the middle of his head.  He looked like a stegasaurus.   BounceGiggle   And this guy was married.   Buggedout    To a human female   Buggedout

Apart from me not taking s**t and speaking up for myself, I'm sure Tim's inability to translate what I was saying about the stats led to my downfall.  My job entailed making sure the files that came to me had a maximum 32 day turnaround from start to finish (which I managed with ease).  The 32 days started from the day I received the files, not calendar days.  Tim didn't get that.  He was convinced I was shirking my reponsiblities because some months I would close more files than other months.  Also, by law we had to keep everything under the 32 day maximum otherwise the bank was slugged with huge fees.

After I was let go I had a succession of really good temp jobs which I still enjoy to this day.  Plus the money is heaps better.  Ya boo sucks to them!   TeddyR

I met an former work co worker for lunch about 6 months after I left.  He is the most brilliant IT person I ever met and the nicest guy who kept getting shafted by Brooke.  He finally ended up moving to the IT section of the company on heaps more pay and he didn't have to deal with Brooke any more.  When I met him for lunch, he told me that my old files were up to about 245 days turn around and there were in excess of 300 files outstanding.  NOBODY WAS DOING MY JOB!!!!    Buggedout


Hahahahahahahahahaha.  It's exactly what they deserve.  The bank ended up taking their credit card business elsewhere and moving the operations interstate.  And the Brooke and Tim Show?  As far as I know, she's still wearing tiny clothes, showing off her various fat rolls and b***hiness and climbing the corporate ladder. As for Tim, he's probably still following her around and pretending he knows what the hell is going on.

Man, I can't wait until she hit's that good old glass ceiling.    TeddyR  Why do I think this will happen?  Because all the higher ups are slim, well groomed, decent looking people.  They are educated and well spoken and very good people persons.  Brooke is loud and brash and brays when she laughs and is full of her own self importance. 

A guy I knew very well who was a higher up told me she has no chance because the business is all about image and her image doesn't fit in with what the company thinks of itself.  They can't openly discriminate against people like her, but the subtle discrimination is definitely there.

It's exactly what she deserves.
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