I hear lots of stories about bad work environments. I also spent the summer working in an office that was just awful.
So I was wondering who here likes there job? Who doesn’t?
I like my job. I don’t much care for my employer, but I like my job.
Used to love my job, now I have a hard time getting up in the morning. I am currently actively looking for something else. Really a shame, because my first couple of years here were great.
I like mine - it’s a matter of solving puzzles, and I enjoy it, even though it does make my brain hurt sometimes. There’s corporado bullshit to deal with, but that’s just part of life.
Yes. I like my job. Even more especailly after hearing about all the layoffs and cutbacks. Ugh.
Mine isn’t so bad. There are a LOT worse things I could be doing and the stuff I do does challenge me on occasion.
I love my job.
No. It’s boring as hell. I have done absolutely nothing for the last three weeks but post on the SDMB. It’s like a combination of study hall and solitary confinement eight hours a day. But it pays well. And I’m glad I’m not out of work.
It’s important to do something fulfilling. I recently applied for a job that pays somewhat less, but has duties more suited to my personality. But I think I’m overqualified for it. So this job will have to do for now, until I come closer to figuring out what it is I really want. Then I’ll move where it’s warm all the time and do a job I like.
I love my job, but have no respect my employer. As long as they stay out of my hair, I will happily keep working here.
It is a love-hate relationship. A sort of bittersweet duologue.
I like that it keeps me moving, gives me exercise, but also hate it because it effects my muscular growth in it’s full potential. It allows me to think while I work because it is a thoughtless “warm-body” job, but hate it because it provides no intellectual stimulation.
The people are ok, if a bit simple for my tastes. Conversations are either simple chattering and exchanges of sports scores and light history of what team beat what team on such and such year and it bodes ill for them this year, or what I hesitate to call deeper subjects. More like bitching about how all you need is money to get off of crime. How the common man is downtrodden and they should make as much as CEO’s, and things like Cars being overpriced for how much it takes to make em.
Nice, funny, great people, but at the same time, hateful, bigoted, and narrowminded. Full of ignorance and naivity (is that a word?), yet sometimes saying things that really surprise me.
Do I want to work here the rest of my life? No way! Do I hate going in every day, not really. I would have to say that I like it AND hate it, for everything that it is.
I love my job.
I hated it for a long time but didn’t dare quit and lose my health insurance.
In june this year the boss was fired by her bosses and now I look forward to going to work.
Thank God I’m not the only one!
This is my first ‘real’ job, and I’ve been wondering if I’m just going crazy. There is nothing to do around here after the elections (political operations) and my boss has been out for maybe 4 weeks out of the past three months.
I’ve spent most of my time here ::giggle:: I know I really shouldn’t, but I just can’t help myself!
I love the paycheck and benefits. But nothing about the subject matter or tasks.
How’s this for rewarding? One of my current assignments concerns recovering less than $1,000 we advanced to an employee. For very technical reasons, we advanced them $3,000, and tho they incurred $4,000 in expenses, it was later calculated that we could only cover $2,000.
So far I have spent approximately 20 hours on this, but of course as a salaried employee my time is not worth anything. I’ll probably have to spend at least 20 more hours preparing for scheduled arbitration. I will get to fly to Minnesota in January, along with a technical advisor, stay at least overnight, and pay minimum of 1/2 the costs of arbitration, to hopefully recover $1,000.
Moreover, this is an extremely unusual situation, so I will have no foreseeable opportunity to use the info I’m gaining again, and any outcome will be of little precedential value. And there are clear provisions allowing the employer to waive recovery of the overpayment. But, I will have the satisfaction of accommodating my employer’s wishes, while dicking over a long-time employee - a single parent with 2 kids in college, who did nothing wrong in causing this overpayment.
Suffice it to say, I’m not thrilled with this particular assignment. Can anyone beat THAT for pointless work?
Like I say, I really like the paycheck. No heavy lifting either.
I love my job, my employer, my boss, and my hours. My commute sucks, but otherwise I’m happier then a pig in shit with my employment situtation 
I like my new (less than a month here) job, but right now I’m half cleaning up the mess of the previous worker who was here - who slacked off for a few months then left abruptly - and trying to learn both of the projects that I’m working on. So I’m vaguely confused and trying to muddle through, and hoping I’m not dropping the ball on anything.
I think a couple months down the road I’ll feel a lot more comfortable, but right now I’m feeling confused. I like it a heck of a lot more than my last job, though, and I’m very glad to not be unemployed any longer.
I’m with cuauhtemoc and Jetgirl, I sit in a cubicle with nothing to do all day. Right now I’m getting paid to study for my finals and maybe run an errand once every two hours for my boss.
I love the job I do now, which is testing printers. My boss is great, my co-workers are great. The work itself is pretty easy, although repetitious. The stress level is low. The pay provides me a comfortable living, I can dress casually for work, I have regular daytime hours with weekends off, and I can peruse the SDMB during long tests 
This is a stark contrast from my first job which was in fast food, including 2 years as a manager. I couldn’t have made any of the above statements about that job, except perhaps for having some decent co-workers.
It’s okay, but since I’m never in the same place more than two days in a row (at most) it’s a bit disconcerting. I think it’ll get better when I move up the ladder and have some actual authori-tah plus a more dependable work environment, but that won’t happen for a while.
I work because I have to work. I think I have a good trade-off in my goals (maximize salary / minimize responsibility), but given a choice, I’d rather not be here. SpazCat, you can have my authority as long as I don’t give up any cash/benefits.
I love my job, my colleagues, my office, my boss, and even my commute. I have to keep reminding myself that I get paid to do this.