What is the thing you hate most about your job? [Archive]

Flasch186

05-02-2006, 08:34 PM

I was thinking about that and came to the conclusion that I hate the fact that when the shit hits the fan it is usually the day of closing and sometimes a person cannot move into their home that they thought they were going to. I hate that they call me and ask me what they should do and I dont know what to tell them. That I think is the worst part, that its supposed to be the best day for them and sometimes, rarely I should say, they lose out entirely.

What is yours?

Joe

05-02-2006, 08:37 PM

FOFC being blocked at work

path12

05-02-2006, 08:40 PM

Tedium. I'm an analyst, so I spend most of my week updating forecasts on the same 20-25 spreadsheets with intermittent projects. Pays pretty well though. And four weeks vacation is nice.

Buccaneer

05-02-2006, 08:41 PM

Stress.

RPI-Fan

05-02-2006, 08:50 PM

Dealing with others' sloppy, thoughtless drafting.

Ksyrup

05-02-2006, 08:50 PM

An 11-hour commute. One way.

Bearcat729

05-02-2006, 08:58 PM

The customers.

Pumpy Tudors

05-02-2006, 08:59 PM

Getting the taste out of my mouth

JonInMiddleGA

05-02-2006, 09:03 PM

The sleazy "I'm gonna try to get one over on you" nature of 3/4ths of the people in my industry.

Mustang

05-02-2006, 09:11 PM

Being in a management position but, not having a management title or powers.

sterlingice

05-02-2006, 09:26 PM

Customers who think they know how to do your job better than you do when they don't (heck, if they do, I'll gladly take advice- it's the ones who think they know stuff when they don't that are the problem).

SI

Greyroofoo

05-02-2006, 09:31 PM

no hot chicks

Drake

05-02-2006, 09:35 PM

Debugging.

Flame Eater

05-02-2006, 09:35 PM

1. I don't like the water.
2. I don't like boats.
3. I'm not very good working with my hands.
4. I hate broken things.

Soooo.....

I own a marina, and work, basically, as a boat mechanic.

BRILLIANT!!!

Drake

05-02-2006, 09:36 PM

no hot chicks

dola...

And hot chicks who sleep with everyone but me.

Deattribution

05-02-2006, 09:37 PM

This thread should be titled 'help me get fired' :)

jamesUMD

05-02-2006, 10:08 PM

Too many hot chicks, being married (with said hot chicks), and the sub-standard pay (that they say is along industry standards for my job).

amdaily

05-02-2006, 10:10 PM

Working with my ex girlfriend.

MikeVick7

05-02-2006, 10:13 PM

The union. End of story.

Oh, and my manager who is just riding out the last couple years of his 30-year career.

Buccaneer

05-02-2006, 10:16 PM

Debugging.

See: Stress.

The worse part is when you get an error and you have absolutely no idea what it mean, what it relates to and where to start looking for solutions. It's not so much that I don't know what it means but that it would take me too much time in solving it. I almost had one of those today when I got an ORA-09048 error on a failed trigger in the table. Luckily I work with the schema dba and found it had a typo in the trigger function.

duckman

05-02-2006, 10:36 PM

Dealing with people everyday who claim that they want a job, but in reality all they want is a handout.

Poli

05-02-2006, 10:38 PM

What is yours?Going to Africa.

Arctus

05-02-2006, 11:27 PM

Inept clients that do the opposite of my recommendation and then point the finger at me when things get ugly.

Raven Hawk

05-02-2006, 11:47 PM

Not getting paid enough.

hukarez

05-03-2006, 12:16 AM

Micro-management.

Rizon

05-03-2006, 12:25 AM

The idiots:

My idiotic co-workers who do nothing but play on the internet and fuck things up all day long then ask for help on how to fix it, then get praise from everyone else for "working so hard" when all they're doing is working in circles. If I don't help them the problem just festers until I'm made to fix it, which takes 10 times longer than just fixing it right away. And the ones who can't tell a computer mouse from an indoor fern ... ugh.

My idiotic boss who can do no wrong, yet constantly fucks up and talks his way out of jams, and somehow has managed to portray himself as the second coming of Jesus to his bosses. Despite letting huge problems slip through the ... gaping holes he's created ... his bosses are convinced he is perfect, and are more than happy to provide him with all the tools he needs to keep diging himself in deeper.

Equipment. Something breaks down every day. Every day. And I have to fix it.

Franklinnoble

05-03-2006, 01:17 AM

Getting the taste out of my mouth

Winner.

AENeuman

05-03-2006, 02:10 AM

I got an ORA-09048 error on a failed trigger in the table. Luckily I work with the schema dba and found it had a typo in the trigger function.

Nerd ;)

Marc Vaughan

05-03-2006, 02:44 AM

Not meaning to be cocky - but there isn't really anything I 'hate' about my job - there are parts which I'd prefer not to happen (mainly longer hours around releases, but this is something we've been improving upon year in year out and hopefully it won't be for more than a few days this year) but by and by I love my job ...

mckerney

05-03-2006, 02:50 AM

Sundays

kingnebwsu

05-03-2006, 03:12 AM

Shoplifters

Icy

05-03-2006, 03:17 AM

That every time that a server fails putting all my websites offline is at night when i'm sleeping or just when i'm away on holidays without internet access. It has made me really paranoid, the first thing i do when i wake up, even before dressing or cleaning my face is to check the servers while my wife waits impatiently with the breakfast getting cold over the table.

I hate also the time differences as i work mainly with USA guys and they are sleeping when i wake up and they love to talk business when it's my time to go to to bed, forcing me to go to bed really late. That is probably what my wife hates the most about my job too.

Marc Vaughan

05-03-2006, 04:47 AM

That every time that a server fails putting all my websites offline is at night when i'm sleeping or just when i'm away on holidays without internet access. It has made me really paranoid, the first thing i do when i wake up, even before dressing or cleaning my face is to check the servers while my wife waits impatiently with the breakfast getting cold over the table.
I've noticed this is amazingly common with practically every area of IT - we've an IT chap at SI who looks after our internal infrastructure, its always 100% smooth with no problems at all until he takes a day off when it always seems that all heck breaks loose ...

Raiders Army

05-03-2006, 05:19 AM

working.

MacroGuru

05-03-2006, 05:39 AM

For me, it's just the travel.......

jeff061

05-03-2006, 06:11 AM

People around me trying to make every issue a IT vrs Developer, who's fault is it. Rather than just helping out and getting the problem fixed.

Course this is just currently what I hate most. I'm going to wring some necks today.

GrantDawg

05-03-2006, 06:28 AM

The hours. I leave the house at 7:30AM and get home about Midnight every day. Eventually it is supposed to cut back to 12-13 hour days, but I have yet to see any evidence of that. At least I get weekends (except this one).

GoldenEagle

05-03-2006, 06:42 AM

The swings.

Draft Dodger

05-03-2006, 07:02 AM

no raises.

judicial clerk

05-03-2006, 07:19 AM

the paperwork

timmae

05-03-2006, 08:13 AM

Dealing with others' sloppy, thoughtless drafting.

what he said... think a little about those lines on that screen!

JeeberD

05-03-2006, 08:41 AM

Cheap motherfuckers

Buccaneer

05-03-2006, 08:45 AM

Nerd ;)

If I truly was, bro, I would've known what the problem was. I still just like making maps but it's a lot more complicated these days.

Zippo

05-03-2006, 08:57 AM

the commute.

Radii

05-03-2006, 09:36 AM

working.

yup.

heybrad

05-03-2006, 09:57 AM

Too many salesman, not enough people to implement.

Every sales guy thinking every piddly customer he brings in is the most important customer of all time and requires everyones undivided attention at all times.

flere-imsaho

05-03-2006, 10:52 AM

People failing to use basic common sense.

duckman

05-03-2006, 10:55 AM

People failing to use basic common sense.

If it was common, everyone would have it! :D

KevinNU7

05-03-2006, 11:05 AM

Commuting 30 miles each way but having it take over an hour to two hours each way lately.

Yellow5

05-03-2006, 11:14 AM

Being primary on-call 24/7 for a week. This happens once a month and usually means zero sleep during that time.

Franklinnoble

05-03-2006, 11:22 AM

The cover sheet for my TPS reports.

mgadfly

05-03-2006, 11:43 AM

Tough call...

People who blame the Union for all the problems at their work place when they haven't attended a Union meeting in ten years (if you want something tell us, don't wait until you don't get it and then bitch about it).

People who don't pay Union Dues, but the moment they get fired or written up call me (the Union's attorney) rather than their Union Rep demanding I get their job back for them.

Company management, of a specific company that I won't name, that just gave their CEO a multi-million dollar pay raise in the middle of our negotiations for a new contract where they have been claiming they can't give raises to workers who haven't seen a raise in 5 years (and this is a very profitable company). It puts me in a tough spot trying to broker a deal between the membership (who believes they deserve a huge raise) and management (who refuse to give raises to anyone not in management).

Managers who fire sick people, just because they are sick.

Managers that sleep with their employees.

Managers (who are in our bargaining unit) that want me to get them their job back when they are fired for sleeping with their employees.

The things I enjoy about this job? The other 98% that I get to deal with on an everyday basis--including those labor relations people at some corporations who do the right thing even when it isn't the most profitable thing to do.

gkb

05-03-2006, 11:56 AM

I love my job, but I have to go with what someone said earlier. No hot chicks. I'm a software engineer and surrounded by men...good bunch of guys though.

Suburban Rhythm

05-03-2006, 12:44 PM

In a word, the people.

The people in management, who don't really deserve to be there, but have been around 15-20 years, so what the hell, we'll promote you.

The managers that don't really care, as long as they can look good to their superior, so on and so on.

The managers who might care, but are afraid of making waves with the managers mentioned above.

The co-workers who have 101 excuses for special attention, special needs, or special treatment.

The co-workers who can't think on their own, no matter how long they've been here.

The co-workers who are smarter, more talented, better qualified than the rest of us...yet can not ever produce anything valuable.

michael1123

05-03-2006, 02:00 PM

Losing money while on a downswing.

The stress when on said downswings.

Long flights, especially when travelling overseas, and being too cheap to buy first class tickets.

Aardvark

05-08-2006, 03:45 PM

Trips to Ft. Hood

finketr

05-09-2006, 11:53 AM

dumb ass colleagues who appear to not even try to resolve the problem before asking for help. :mad:

same colleagues who don't consult the others in their group/section before crossing the corridor to my desk to ask for help. :mad:

for myself, it's forgetting little things like autofiltering and conditional formatting in Excel. :cool: ping: frogman and terpkristin

panerd

05-09-2006, 12:54 PM

(Teaching) I really enjoy the 90% of my time which is spent interacting with middle school kids. I dread the 5% of my time spent dealing with parents and higher ups. I depise the 5% of my time spent with my peers. The phrase "Those who can't teach" pisses me off to no end, but also describes about 50-75% of my coworkers. (Including almost every one that I work with on a close basis.)

redfox000

05-09-2006, 01:58 PM

1. Politics at work.
2. The fact my opinion means nothing because there is someone more senior than me (and I have been here 11 years) that always disagrees with me.
3. I cannot find a job doing strictly programming in my area and my boss doesn't listen to me when I tell him that is what I want to do.

Toddzilla

05-09-2006, 02:42 PM

I'm doing this from work, so I really shouldn't complain much, but it would be nice if the job were a tad more challenging so I didn't need to rely on FOFC to keep me awake some days.

Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

05-09-2006, 02:43 PM

Spit up and poopie diapers.

jeff061

05-09-2006, 02:47 PM

I'm doing this from work, so I really shouldn't complain much, but it would be nice if the job were a tad more challenging so I didn't need to rely on FOFC to keep me awake some days.

Ditto that.

But I think I may be on the verge of scoring a nice job elsewhere. Fingers crossed.

Captain2711

05-09-2006, 03:09 PM

The hours. During the football season I work seven days a week from August til the end. (excluding bye weeks where I might get a day off) And if we make a bowl game we spend Christmas without our families.

redfox000

05-09-2006, 04:23 PM

I'm doing this from work, so I really shouldn't complain much, but it would be nice if the job were a tad more challenging so I didn't need to rely on FOFC to keep me awake some days.

I third that.

ice4277

05-09-2006, 08:12 PM

Ditto that.

But I think I may be on the verge of scoring a nice job elsewhere. Fingers crossed.

I ditto the ditto, and also ditto the possibility of landing a nice job elsewhere. I also hate how, starting next week, I will be working an annoying split shift, 6:30-10:30am, and 3:00-7:30pm.

BYU 14

05-10-2006, 12:54 AM

my leisurely 1 hour 30 commute........on the bright side there is a free full service Gym I use at Lunch, so it almost washes....

Franklinnoble

05-10-2006, 01:43 AM

Where do you live, and where do you work? When I lived in Phoenix, everything was about 30-45 minutes away...

Hurst2112

05-10-2006, 05:31 AM

What is the thing you hate most about your job?

Taking 5 hours to record 1 drum track.

BuffaloHuskey

05-10-2006, 02:37 PM

Just had my reviews today. So this is perfect timing. I was given great reviews by four people who I worked with. My work was great and got a long with everyone, yadda, yadda, yadda. But then they complained that my utilization was not high enough. Well that is not my fault, I always let the scheduler know when I am not working on a project, I seek out others who may have work for me. I can't do anything about not being assigned to a proejct or having slow moving project which impacts my utilization. Ugh!!!!!!!!

Karlifornia

05-10-2006, 02:41 PM

The parents of my coworkers that get all uppity and "press charges"

B & B

05-10-2006, 04:36 PM

1. High stress level

2. No benefits - none (health, dental, investment, pension etc)

3. Losing money at work / having to pay to work

ahbrady

05-10-2006, 05:16 PM

Clueless parents.

Crapshoot

05-10-2006, 05:18 PM

terpkristin

05-10-2006, 05:27 PM

I actually don't "hate" anything about my job. They seem to like me, and I keep asking them for more work to do, so they like that, too...

But, this happened today and is something that drives me bonkers when they ask, so I'll add it to the list.
For those who don't know, I'm the lead harness design engineer on 2 satellites that my company is making. I am also doing support to design efforts on 4 other satellites. A harness is the "guts" of the satellite...it's the wires that make the satellite work, all the interconnections between all the boxes, etc etc. A typical satellite has between 20k and 30k wires.

So, I was in the office of our finance person today. One of the people who works under the charge accounts I manage accidentally charged the wrong account. I have 12 accounts, he should have charged to account 5 but charged accidentally to account 6, and the electronic timesheet was already signed off by his supervisor, so he couldn't change it. So, I'm sitting there in the finance admin's office, trying to get all the paperwork in place to fix this problem and the chief engineer on the project comes in.

He sticks a document in my face and wants to know if a particular table showing 37 of the 20k connections in the design is correct. Right off the top of my head, I have no idea what the document is, what connector it's talking about, what BOX the connector is on...

Finally the chief engineer says, "Oh, this is such and such document, do you know if this is correct?" I admit, I'm good, but even I'm not good enough to know if a certain 0.185% of a harness is correct just by looking at it without my computer near me, ESPECIALLY while I'm a meeting with finance to get other things straightened out.

Talk about driving me more bonkers than usual!
/tk

BYU 14

05-10-2006, 08:38 PM

Where do you live, and where do you work? When I lived in Phoenix, everything was about 30-45 minutes away...

You lived here a while back eh ;)

I live in Surprise and Work just outside of Tempe now....it is only 38 Miles but Traffic can drag it out..............To tell you the truth if Gas wasn't so expensive it would be no big deal at all....I have Sirius Radio for entertainment, a Cell phone in case I get lonely and snacks in the Car so I don't starve before I get home......all my basic needs are met :)

Franklinnoble

05-10-2006, 08:56 PM

You lived here a while back eh ;)

I live in Surprise and Work just outside of Tempe now....it is only 38 Miles but Traffic can drag it out..............To tell you the truth if Gas wasn't so expensive it would be no big deal at all....I have Sirius Radio for entertainment, a Cell phone in case I get lonely and snacks in the Car so I don't starve before I get home......all my basic needs are met :)

No, Surprise is a long way from Tempe. I never really thought of it as a real suburb of Phoenix... so I get that.