What's the worst part of your job?

threesixten

I work at a male sex toy company. I am not a male. 'Nuff said.

_AllieCat_

Sitting on my behind all day in front of a computer. Doesn't help in the fitness department.

SilverLotusGirl

I'm a nurse tech so a lot of it is less than ideal but in general it doesn't suck and I like helping people and like to think that I have some part in them getting better. Sometimes 12 hour shifts drag but mostly I hate patients who act like I'm their maid or like they're the only person I have to look after. I also hate when management staff acts like at 3am when everyone is asleep that I'm doing something wrong by looking at a magazine or reading when all my work is done and I don't have a scheduled task for another 90 mins.

teshiburu

Incessantly stupid tickets "my printer has run out of ink", "my screen isnt plugged in"

things that people are just too lazy to do

heymirth

I work at a male sex toy company. I am not a male. 'Nuff said.

Fleshlight discount??

threesixten

Haha. How'd you know...

BamBam125

I sit too much. I have major envy for those standing/treadmill desks I see on the internet.

MartinaNYC

Nothing. I love my job and I feel so blessed to have one

Mikkimeow

Working alongside people who have absolutely no common sense or self respect. One of my coworkers will sit on her phone all day while our boss is out and talk to her husband. Then when she doesn't finish her job, she asks me to do it EVERY SINGLE DAY because she can't be late to pick up her daughter. Hey, if you did your motherfu%#*Ing job instead of sitting on your phone all day, I wouldn't have to do your job and mine.

Oh, and my boss. She thinks that it is my responsibility to pick up her slack also. She recently asked me out to lunch to discuss a promotion. When I got there, she told me she was getting rid of me because I was pregnant and was a liability, and then asked me to pay for her lunch. I am not joking. I quit.

MystikPixie

Not having one.

emrogers

having to stay on top of other people. I work with every dept in my line of work and sometimes its hard to wait to complete my job. Frustrating. Its teaching me patience, though.

MartinaNYC

Oh, and my boss. She thinks that it is my responsibility to pick up her slack also. She recently asked me out to lunch to discuss a promotion. When I got there, she told me she was getting rid of me because I was pregnant and was a liability, and then asked me to pay for her lunch. I am not joking. I quit.

Isn't that kind of illegal- firing you because you're pregnant?

PearonaPair

I manage a gym...so watching everyone workout when I have a hard time finding the time

Pixi_Rex

All of it?

I am a QA Administor - my job is to tell people they made a mistake, and then to explain to the customer why we made that mistake and how we are going to fix it. However; we are known for making the same mistake over and over and over again because people do not tend to take me seriously unless I walk out directly and talk to them and that is 'forbidden' as per my job discription.

Not getting all the information required for jobs - or given the information and having sales change their mind but not let me know so I can adjust what we are doing, and we end up with more parts than required.

Having a boss that is never here and having to run the department myself - without being paid for it.

having to deal with people who do not understand english well - we have many different languages in the shop primarily Russian and Ukrainian - but we have a satellite office in India and that is fun... they just don't like a woman telling them that they made a mistake.

I could go on and on and on.

HealthWoke0ish

Oh, and my boss. She thinks that it is my responsibility to pick up her slack also. She recently asked me out to lunch to discuss a promotion. When I got there, she told me she was getting rid of me because I was pregnant and was a liability, and then asked me to pay for her lunch. I am not joking. I quit.

Isn't that kind of illegal- firing you because you're pregnant?

I just got a 120k settlement for a client who was fired, in part, because she was pregnant. Get an attorney. Do you have anything in writing?

hph442

Reading really graphic chat logs

KristysLosing

Sitting on my butt at a desk all day...

KristysLosing

Oh, and my boss. She thinks that it is my responsibility to pick up her slack also. She recently asked me out to lunch to discuss a promotion. When I got there, she told me she was getting rid of me because I was pregnant and was a liability, and then asked me to pay for her lunch. I am not joking. I quit.

Isn't that kind of illegal- firing you because you're pregnant?

I just got a 120k settlement for a client who was fired, in part, because she was pregnant. Get an attorney. Do you have anything in writing?

Wow...she would have been better off not admitting that.

akaMrsmojo

The pay.

jillybeanpuff

cleaning up after grown *kitten* people! I am an office manager and apparently its an unspoken part of my job description to put everyone else's dishes in the DISHWASHER. Also, sitting for 8 hours a day. Its so frustrating because I have the most energy between 10 and 3 and thats when I want to work out and be productive but I'm stuck at work. Also, dealing with stupid people on the phone. But other than that I really really love my job

If I were you, I would be fuming daily!!! I think it is totally unacceptable for adults to use dishes or cups at work and not wash them..... Like why would someone else wash your dishes at work, who the hell do these people think they are?? And who do they think you are the maid!!! I believe people should treat the kitchen at work like their kitchen at home and clean up after themselves!!!

Edited for spelling

In Germany a note would appear above the dishwasher reminding people to put their stuff in it, "like you would do at home".

I would LOVE to be able to put up a note. Also, people apparently don't know how to flush a toilet either, because almost every time I go in the bathroom I have to do that too. I mostly work with attorneys so I think maybe they just think they are better than I am?

LuckyMiss3

I once had a patient who removed his denture which had some sort of foodstuff stuck to it, he promptly then licked said foodstuff off said denture and handed it to me.
Times like these are the low points.

Legs_McGee

I love my job. I've been at my law firm for 12 years. My co-workers are some of my best friends, and no one cares if I take a 90 minute lunch a few days a week to go for long runs. One of the attorneys I work for is a contract prosecutor, and the worst part of my job is having to talk to the stupid defendants that call in and try to lie to me. I had a girl tell me she couldn't make it to her arraignment because she has agoraphobia and can't leave the house. I asked her how she got a "driving with license suspended" - was she driving in her living room? She called me a ***** and hung up. But other than that - I plan on staying here until I retire.

polarsjewel

I am lucky that I love my job. There are ups and downs, like the people who suck on their hearing aids and then complain that it doesn't work, but it has never been exposed to any moisture at all. :noway: The people who show up randomly for scheduled appointments and then complain because they can't be seen. People who don't show up for their scheduled appointment then complain because we can't see them when they do show up.

And what is it with people not saying "thank you" or "good-bye" at the end of a phone call.

musycnlyrics

Having to see people hurting and indigent. I work in banking so I am face to face with people's financial issues. I have had people cry on my shoulder, beg me for answers that I simply don't have. It hurts to see it. I have seen elderly people's life savings wiped out by family members in mere days, with no remorse.
I also happen to work with certified idiots. They make my blood pressure go sky high every single day. And it doesn't seem to bother anyone else but me. But I have a leadership position, so that may be part of it.

Kearstin0730

Full time college student.....so the homework obviously!

musycnlyrics

I am a bookkeeper, at a desk all day. Not burning many calories durning the day :-/

I have the opportunity to sit most of the day at my job; I dont. I stand while I finish paperwork and in between tasks, I do push ups from my desk. I stand about 4 feet away from the desk and place my arms on the edge and do a few push ups. I also fidget my legs and do kicks under the table. Im a weirdo tho!

musycnlyrics

Dealing with the hateful public who blame ME for taking their money...SMH!:noway: :mad:

You must work where I work! :explode:

A hard thing for me is having to explain to people who have no sense of money management that they have spent all of their money and that we are going to bounce their rent check. They have absolutely no understanding why the bank will not cover their 1000.00 rent check when they only have 15.00 in their account. And sometimes, the situation is different when I have to explain to an adult that their elderly mother donated her entire account to a charity and now has nothing to pay her bills with.
There are a lot of tears shed where I work. But I have the opportunity to help people everyday and that keeps me going.

oh, and another pet peeve:
I was in a supervisory position and I demoted myself because the money wasn't worth them running me like a Hebrew slave and 2 months later, they want me to continue to supervise but are paying me for the leader position . I have told them on many occasions "No, you pay someone else for that, I'm not doing it" and then I watch the projects go up in flames. The customers end up getting the short end of the stick because they won't hire competent people or train the incompetent ones they have!
(vent over)

stratmantl69

I work in IT as a senior desktop tech. The level of stupidity from some people (most notably executive management) is mind-numbing. Spending hours on a sales person's laptop scrubbing a nasty virus out of the operating system; then see them infect it all over again inside of two weeks. I've gotten to the point where I'm very good at flipping it on and off on command as far as faking my attitude on service calls............ :explode:

However, I still love the actual work and the team working under me is probably the best one I've had in a long time. That goes quite a ways to keeping you sane............... :drinker:

Mikkimeow

Oh, and my boss. She thinks that it is my responsibility to pick up her slack also. She recently asked me out to lunch to discuss a promotion. When I got there, she told me she was getting rid of me because I was pregnant and was a liability, and then asked me to pay for her lunch. I am not joking. I quit.

Isn't that kind of illegal- firing you because you're pregnant?

I just got a 120k settlement for a client who was fired, in part, because she was pregnant. Get an attorney. Do you have anything in writing?

Wow...she would have been better off not admitting that.

I brought it up with the HR department, and because it was a physically demanding job (working with dying animals, picking up heavy things such as pit bulls or shepherds, cleaning kennels with heavy chemicals) apparently it was okay for her to "suggest" that I find another place of employment, but since there was no proof of her saying that, I could not dispute it. It was a long, ugly issue, and I just quit because it made me realize I didn't want her sh#t job anyway.

And in the work force, whether they legally are not allowed to discriminate based on my pregnancy or not, it happened in every job interview. I was already showing by time I quit my current job and tried to find another one, and I swear, the most frequently asked questions in any interview were "How far along are you? Do you expect to take time off afterwards? We can't give you vacation time after that." Obviously, I was never hired. So, I am becoming a stay at home mom, another demanding job in itself.

JennetteMac

Having ofsted inspectiion teams turn up and make you believe that you are rubbish at your job, even though you've been dioing it and loving it for nearly 30 years. No complaints from students or parents,just inspectors who are probably failed teachers anyway.