Well, today was dead as a doornail. Not sure why. I’m supposed to do four hours of mandatory overtime this week, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do. My boss suggested I come in early (when there’s work) so that I can sit around doing nothing for the last hour of the day. Ummm, hello? Just call off the damn OT so I can have a life! What a freaking waste. I suggest this gently, and she flies off the handle at me, telling me that it’s not up to her.
Oh, and no internet of any sort. Think I’ll walk around the department with a Swiffer tomorrow afternoon.
Shamozzle, I once had a job where our schedules were so screwy that we would sometimes work 10 days in a row. I could not stand it. After day 7, things started getting bad, and my family would start to avoid me. Sure, you’d usually get a three-day weekend (on the weekend!) after that, but it hardly seemed worth it.
I don’t have anywhere near enough work, and nobody gives me anything these days except the shit jobs they don’t want to do. I’m bored, unchallenged, and looking for something that will keep me busy. There are not words in the English language to express my hatred for this job and the lunatics I have to put up with on a daily basis.
We went through a series of layoffs when business slowed down. Business has picked up since then, but my company is hesitant to hire new full-time employees, because it’s expensive to have them hanging around if business slows down. So the rest of us have taken on higher workloads. I guess it’s been about 13 years now.
Every week, I have to explain why I have good reasons for not working on the weekend. It’s not a requirement, it’s just everyone in the room looking at me as if I’m an irresponsible prick if I want two days off. About half the time, I fold and agree to work Saturdays, but I almost always take a principled stand against starting at 6:00 AM. That way I maintain my self-respect. :dubious:
I have a large backlog of projects, so I’m fairly steady. I get to set my own pace unless I run across the random project with a ‘drop-dead’ date. So I’m busy but not aggravatingly so. I work from home half days and in another office half days.
Ha. I started my job as a file clerk about a year ago, but I kept grabbing additional responsibilities any time I saw an opportunity. Now I have a “document department” to look after, with a bunch of administrative duties, and I wear the network admin and IT support hats.
They asked me to provide a job description outlining my duties, because nobody was officially keeping track of whatever the hell they were. When my assistant received her employment contract, it included a job description that was my job description, minus the IT stuff. She cried. I explained this was a mistake and gave HR an edited job description for her that was just the stuff I was actually asking her to do, which made it all better. (I’m not a cruel man.)
I work 50+ hours a week, and there’s still lots to do.
On the plus side, I got the single best raise of my life this year. (20%. Woot!)
I am a PT college English professor, teaching two classes. I am pretty busy in the classroom but not so much outside of it unless I really need to get things graded quickly. I also have some administrative b.s. to take care of at times.
If I am subbing for another prof, the week seems to get busier but I don’t have to grade their stuff.
I have been scoring placement test essays nearly every week, sometimes twice a week, for the past few months, and it will heat up even more in the summer due to all the graduating h.s. students.
I work for bankruptcy attorneys. I don’t put in overtime (attorneys don’t like their employees to do that), but I am busy every single second I am here. We could easily use another half-timer, but I’ve only been here a couple of months and don’t want to be suggesting that at this stage of the game.
I’m a software engineer. My work life is ruled by deadlines, which tend to come about once every two months. Most days I’m moderately busy, but when the deadlines are looming I have to put in a lot of overtime. I’m on salary, so overtime is not paid.
I hear ya. As mentioned upthread, I work for bankruptcy attorneys. There was an article in the (Wisconsin) State Journal last week about bankruptcies in the state. Apparently filings are up some 20% over last year. I foresee job security. It’s nuts.
I am a Paramedic for a private ambulance company in the DC area. I work 3 days on 1 day off 3 days on 7 days off. For the 6 days I work, I am trapped in an ambulance that may travel over 400 miles in one day. So while my call volume may be small, 4 or 5 calls in those 13 hours of scheduled work, I may be overwhelmingly busy caring for a patient for a tremendous period of time. Either way, I live for my week off!