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Can I just point out how much I hate where I work?

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Sax

17:34 / 24.10.03

For one Godawful moment then fred I thought you were someone in my office.

pachinko droog

18:13 / 24.10.03

I used to work at a market research firm while I was in college. It involved calling people at home or work to do surveys on any number of topics, but it was probably the most boring job I've ever had. I realized then and there that office work just wasn't for me.

I burned out on it pretty fast due to the repetitiveness involved, as well as petty bs office politics. I just don't see how people can stay at jobs like that for years on end. The folks I met there who had been at this place for a while were literally the walking dead. So glad I found other things to do with my time.

I found I had a penchant for fixing things and now I'm happily self-employed as a handyman/Mr. Fix-It/jack-of-all-trades type of character about town. I make my own hours and its wonderful. No 9-5 office nonesense or retail hell for me, thank-you-very-much.

mondo a-go-go

18:35 / 24.10.03

"You used to sit in my old seat didn't you?"

Aye.

"Best seat in the house that one, nobody could see a damn thing that you were doing."

Well, it was even better before they took the partitions down. Almost like having my own office.

I had my own office once. Waited for it for about a year and a half, had it for a whole five days.

"Depending on what IT guy you're talking about, you occasionally see his dad naked on television - a fearsome spectacle."

OK, I am indeed afeared about which IT guy you're talking about. I know which one AdeL is talking about.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:31 / 25.10.03

I was so not gonna post to this thread, cos I quit like my job and workplace. Until last night, which was really, really shit, and I'm now dreading going back there in... ooh, about 13 hours or so.
The database crashed. I got given the wrong delivery instructions for quite an important new job and didn't find out about it until the cycle courier turned up at 6:30 and said "I need that job in the next fifteen minutes" and I looked at it and there were two bastarding hundred articles in it. Of course, being resourceful, I immediately threw most of them away and got one of my minions to take care of what was left.
And the office was cold. Apart from the bits where it was uncomfortably warm. And due to all the malarkey, I had no time to arse about online. Or even to actually enjoy reading the papers. And tonight the clocks go back, so I get a whole extra hour there. Whoop de fucking do.

invisible_al

10:01 / 25.10.03

Oh dear god do I know where you're comming from, I've worked in some pretty aweful offices in my time. And the answer of 'no I don't watch Coronation Street/East Enders etc etc' always used to place me in the 'to be watched carefully' bracket.
But it is possible to break out of there, job I'm in at the moment is light years away from your average office. Which is mostly due to my kick ass boss who is great. Only problem is I have to feign an interest in sport which can be hard at times, but my boss has the same problem which means he empathises

Our Lady of The Two Towers

12:33 / 25.10.03

Quantum BBC7? Fuck, how many BBCs are there now?

Its BBC Radio 7 and it's shit. Really. Mainly plays 'The Navy Lark' and BBCs schools programs, occasionally without warning it plays 'The Goon Show' too.

In libraries, generally you only get into hard-core office action when you go up into management, leaving the day-to-day of working in a library behind you so you start giving orders that are completely divorced from the reality of things. However, you can have the bitchiness that goes from seeing the same people day in day out, but in my experience bust ups are extremely rare, though when it did happen it ended up with the staff being put in seperate libraries.

Of course, most library staff are not ambitious young go getters like Anna and Anna...

gingerbop

15:02 / 25.10.03

At least in an office, you get to sit down.

gingerbop

15:02 / 25.10.03

At least in an office, you get to sit down.

Tryphena Absent

15:46 / 25.10.03

Believe me Ginger, sitting's not all it's cracked up to be.

Actually BBC7 plays radio plays, dramas, comedies and other shows from the archives. Yes it plays all of the Milligan/Galton/Simpson shows and all the old radio4 quizzes and quite a few dramatisations- Dance to the Music of Time for example. It's not quite as bad as Flowers thinks and I know that because I stare at its programme listing everyday. No one may judge it as harshly as me.

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