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anthonyvthc · May 1, 2004, 04:34 PM

OK, I'm sitting here at work bored outta my mind and I just noticed two things that are completely lame (things I've never noticed before):
1. All of our desks have stickers on them that say "The answer is YES!" (we are in cust. service)

2. The person across from me has one of those posters with a cute cat and an inspiring quote from the Bible. (To prevent an argument, I'm not knocking the Bible, I just think those posters are lame and cliche).

So what do you guys find lame about your job?

misc · May 1, 2004, 04:48 PM

Covering people's asses.. again and again...

voodoo · May 1, 2004, 04:50 PM

Serving drugs to addicts.

vexborg · May 1, 2004, 05:22 PM

Getting up in the morning - I wish that I worked 12 - 21

Logic · May 1, 2004, 05:25 PM

That there are only 24 hours per day.

phoenixboy · May 1, 2004, 05:27 PM

right now it's bureaucracy, and paperwork. it's very aggravating when you fill about 15 forms, send them in, have to wait 4-6 weeks to get a response, only to receive another 7 forms to explain your responses in the first 15 you filled out.

anthonyvthc · May 1, 2004, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by phoenixboy:
right now it's bureaucracy, and paperwork. it's very aggravating when you fill about 15 forms, send them in, have to wait 4-6 weeks to get a response, only to receive another 7 forms to explain your responses in the first 15 you filled out.

Just make sure you use the new cover sheet for the TPS reports.

cszar2001 · May 1, 2004, 05:34 PM

Clients who call and beg/threaten us to get an appointment as soon as possible and fail to show up when the time comes. Somehow their excrutiating pain just seems to vanish when they win a car for example.

dampeoples · May 1, 2004, 05:38 PM

Well, unemployed now, but previously it was doing strip searches at the prison I worked at.

benign · May 1, 2004, 05:47 PM

Keeping the plane steady.

I like to loop the loop every 100 miles or so.

voyageur · May 1, 2004, 05:52 PM

Originally posted by voodoo:
Serving drugs to addicts.

Do you work at a clinic?

Baninated · May 1, 2004, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by voyageur:
Do you work at a clinic?

Nope. He works in the alley behind the clinic. After Hours, of course...

MaxPower2k3 · May 1, 2004, 06:16 PM

lamest part of my job?

1) SHELVING BOOKS

2) little kids.

3) See #1.

Yeah, i work at a library. damn teenage jobs

dlefebvre · May 1, 2004, 06:56 PM

Lamest part of my job?

Having to be there 40 hours to get a paycheck.

agentz · May 1, 2004, 06:58 PM

The lamest part of my job us having to share an office with three complete ****ing numbskulls, all of whom are considerably older than I, get paid considerably more than I, and yet, are far less technically, professionally and socially competent than I.

Kilbey · May 1, 2004, 07:06 PM

Meetings.

I work in a factory with about 70% of the work force being unskilled. These meetings are a waste of payroll.

Oh, and QS 9000 and ISO 14000 crap. Audits, compliance checks, and meetings about audits and compliance checks.

itai195 · May 1, 2004, 07:12 PM

Working in a building with crappy air conditioning. It's hotter inside than outside, and I'm not looking forward to summer....

sixz · May 1, 2004, 07:40 PM

Checking the punters for the evil eye...

DeathToWindows · May 1, 2004, 08:59 PM

no real issues here

Intern at MIT Media Lab

splatq · May 1, 2004, 09:06 PM

Heheh, you all are going to kill me here...

I work civil service, and the lamest part of my job is the slow nights where I don't have any work to do and no one has brought in a DVD to watchon our TV... I get bored with Freecell and my SNES emulator only has one game loaded up on my work PC.

Life is tough...

quesera · May 1, 2004, 09:12 PM

I teach 4th grade, inner city, bilingual. People always tell me they don't know how I can put up with the kids. My honest reply is always, "It's not the kids, it's the adults." The amount of BS from our district and state level, which is of course a direct result of politics and people who know little about education, has been staggering and surreal this year. Still, the kids are alright.

Kilbey · May 1, 2004, 09:18 PM

Originally posted by quesera:
I teach 4th grade, inner city, bilingual. People always tell me they don't know how I can put up with the kids. My honest reply is always, "It's not the kids, it's the adults." The amount of BS from our district and state level, which is of course a direct result of politics and people who know little about education, has been staggering and surreal this year. Still, the kids are alright.

My wife is a kindergarten teacher and she says almost the same thing. It's not the kids that make her job difficult, it's their parents.

MacGorilla · May 1, 2004, 09:32 PM

I work in a lab and the lamest part has to be, every hour (no kidding) during my shift I have to make sure the render cluster is still working.

spiky_dog · May 1, 2004, 10:06 PM

Originally posted by DeathToWindows:
no real issues here

Intern at MIT Media Lab

awesome! one of my friends might be headed to the grad programs there, she was accepted but is still undecided

lamest part about my job: i'm salaried, i work overtime and weekends on occasion, yet when there's a light week (next week) i'm asked to take unpaid time off.

shunt · May 1, 2004, 10:51 PM

Originally posted by misc:
Covering people's asses.. again and again...

Ditto...

Krusty · May 1, 2004, 10:59 PM

Hmmm ...where do I begin

Seriously, my job right now is pretty fun and in a beautiful place ... but doesn't pay nearly as much as I used to make. Also, I kept the part-time job I had before finding this one so I have been:
Working 7 days a week for nearly 4 months now. No "half-days" or anything like that -- 8.5 hrs as a bare minimum up to 11 hours + 1.5 hour commute. Strangely ... its been really good for me ... energy level it way up and I've become far more efficient and getting things done NOW in my personal life because I have so much less time to procrastinate or screw around. I'll be quitting the PT job in the middle of May ... I don't know if I'll know what to do with all the free time

mitchell_pgh · May 1, 2004, 11:18 PM

This one goes out to all the designers in the house.

Designing something VERY WELL, only to have someone make changes (at the last minute), you change it, and they have more FUNDAMENTAL changes, you change it, they they do it again, and again, and again.

4 color process, 1 color, 2 color, uncoated, coated, bla bla bla...

In the end, the design is starting to suck, the files are a mess and they are bitching about how long it took you and why you didn't meet the deadline!!!!

Timo · May 2, 2004, 01:05 AM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
Meetings.

Kilbey's right -- meetings suck (cue "Grosse Point Blank"). But billing isn't far behind.