I now know why I don't like my job.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve been working at AT&T for over a year and a half now. I just discovered tonight what the problem in with this job and why I don’t like it.

It’s not the pay. Despite my bitchings about not having enough nomey, I’m actually getting paid rather well. Especially when you consider I spend most of my work hours cruising the internet to play fantasy baseball, post here, and generally entertain myself.

Since I moved off day shift to swing shift, I don’t have to put up with Ervin anymore or my boss, Barry, who couldn’t properly supervise nap time at a narcoleptic convention.

It’s not the commute, which is nearly non-existant, as I chose an apartment only 5 minutes away if I take the highway, and 15 minutes away if I take the back roads.

The problem, as I see, is that I keep showing up. If I didn’t come here, it wouldn’t be such a bad job at all. Then I could sit at home and play Triple Play on the PS2 all day and watch porn videos. I realize of course, that I may have to take a pay cut since I would be as valuable to the company in that position as I am now, but I’ll be ok even if they do cut my salary back as much as 50 cents a hour.

I’ll pitch this idea out to Barry tomorrow and see what he has to say about it, I’ll even toss out the idea for the $20 a week pay cut to show him I’ve thought this all the way through. Barry’s dim enough to accept it. As I’m talking to him, I’ll just hold out a shiny object to distract his attention and use my Jedi skills to persuade him to agree with me.

Me - “You do not need me at the office.”
Barry - “I do not need you at the office.”
Me - “You’ll pay me to stay at home.”
Barry - “We’ll pay you to stay at home.”
Me - “I may go about my business.”
Barry - “You may go about your business.”

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That’s the kind of reasoning we need more of. Can I strap some game cartridges on my head and be Princess Leia to your Luke Skywalker?

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Pardon me – are you one of the droids we’re looking for?

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I am nothing, if not a maaster of logical reasoning and deduction.

Snooooopy - These are not the droids you’re looking for.

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Crunchy Frog, who the hell cares about your damned job? :wink:

The more important question (second only to “are you getting laid often enough?”) is “how’s your fantasy baseball team doing?” :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously, if you’re going to practice these Jedi skills, then try:

“You are going to trade me J.D. Drew and Matt Morris”

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[hijack]What is a fantasy baseball team?[/hijack]

Ginger

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I recently started a job in February.
Basically, I sit around all day waiting on med requests. I usually get between 10 and 15 a week.

It takes all of 5 minutes apiece to fill these requests.

The rest of the time I am supposed to be making capsules for drug studies. It takes about an hour to make 100 capsules. I rarely have to make them, because most of the studies we are doing now are already pre-packaged. Besides, the guy whose place I took made an assload of everything before he left.

So, here I sit, hanging out on the SDMB, drinking coffee, sending IM’s, taking tests on The Spark, and basically getting paid to piss around all day.

Tuesday, I took a two hour lunch break, and no one noticed.

I know this sounds fabulous, ya know, not having to really do anything, but I’m bored as hell. I can’t find cool things to do on the computer, because I have the world’s oldest (and most obsolete) Mac, that crashes if I have more than one window open at a time. I have taken to reading the newspaper and doing the crossword puzzle.

I have read 13 Stephen King books since I’ve been here. (And it’s only been 3 months.)

Ok. Going to go find something relatively constructive to do. Maybe I’ll rearrange my office… again.
Skerri

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth *
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You pick real major league players, from all over the league and make a fantasy team out of them with yourself as the manager. As the players play, stats are kept about what they did in each game, compiled, and then credited to your team.

So, if JD Drew is on my team (which he is, BTW :D) and he hit a homerun yesterday (which he did, BTW) my team would get credited for having hit that homerun. Make sense?

And DRY - I have two fantasy teams.
On one team I have:
Jason Kendall catching, Rafael Palmiero at first, Roberto Alomar at 2nd, Phil Nevin at 3rd, Jose Valentin at shortstop, JD Drew, Jim Edmonds, and Juan Gonzalez in the outfield. My starting pitchers are Darryl Kile, Matt Morris, and Pedro Martinez.

On the other team, I have:
Jorge Posada catching, Mike Sweeney at first, Julio Lugo at second, Jeff Conine at third (I forget who I originally had at 3rd, but he’s injured and had to be replaced - only 2 spots available on the disabled list, and they’re taken), Jose Hernandez at shortstop, and an outfield of JD Drew (again), Richard Hidalgo, and Luis Gonzalez. Travis Lee is my DH. The bench has Chuck Knoblauch on it and I’ve got Mark McGwire and Nomar Garciaparra waiting on the DL. The pitching staff isn’t as good as Kile, Morris, and Martinez, but they don’t suck either. I’ve got Bartolo Colon, Dave Burba, David Wells, Scott Elarton, and Freddy Garcia.

This is how I spend my day at work. Obsessing over baseball stats and planning different players I can create for the Triple Play Baseball game on the PS2.

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I, on the other hand, love my job. I get to ride garbage trucks, and lay concrete and gravel (base) and cut down limbs and break glass and all sorts of fun stuff.

When I ride the garbage truck, I get to be off for the rest of the day, but I get paid for all 8 hours. Which makes sense to me, because when I don’t ride the garbage truck I maybe do 2/3 as much work as when I do.

My baseball teams:

C Wooten, Shawn (C-Ana)
1B Konerko, Paul (1B-CWS)
2B Young, Eric (2B-ChC)
3B Koskie, Corey (3B-Min)
SS Furcal, Rafael (SS, 2B-Atl)
OF Cordova, Marty (LF, RF, DH-Cle)
OF Drew, J.D. (RF, CF, LF-StL)
OF Lankford, Ray (LF-StL)
Util Young, Dmitri (LF, 1B-Cin)

Bench Greer, Rusty (LF-Tex)
Lopez, Javy (C-Atl)
Guerrero, Vladimir (RF-Mon)
Velarde, Randy (2B-Tex)

That’s Yahoo!. Espn is:

C Ben Davis, SD
1B Carlos Delgado, Tor
2B Luis Castillo, Fla
3B Adrian Beltre, LA
SS Rafael Furcal , Atl
LF Gary Sheffield, LA
CF Andruw Jones, Atl
RF Vladimir Guerrero, Mon
DH Brad Fullmer, Tor
PS Braves

Locked at 49.2. Worth 54.2. Braves’ pitching staff is 7.5, locked at 5.6.

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Um… testosterone overload… Female Canadian brain doesn’t compute the love of baseball…

Ginger

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On one temporary assignment last year, I had absolutely nothing to do until an order came in - of which there were maybe five in three months! So I just got to goof off on the Internet all day.

(Of course, I can do that now too, but only because I haven’t had any assignments in three months. :slight_smile: )

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My first thought while reading this thread was why in the world do you stay? My second thought was that I hope that I don’t purchase services from the company that you work for.
Sorry, what a waste of money. Just goes to show that capitalism or the American way of doing business is not as effective or efficient as we would like to think.

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The pay to work ratio is amazingly in my favor.
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Not when something goes wrong. 80% of the time, there’s not much to do. There’s work to be done everyday, but not that much that requires my undivided attention. However, when something does go wrong (which could happen at any time) someone has to be here to fix things so customers can still use there phones for long distance calls. And when something does go wrong, I earn my pay. The 80% of the time that’s spent in tedium is balanced by the 20% of the time when something goes wrong that’s spent making conference calls, getting people on site to fix problems, notifying local companies that there is a problem, directing the people what to do where to get the problem fixed, and notifying the higher ups – usually all done simultaneously. If no one was here to watch the network and something went wrong, how would anyone know?

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Ha Ha! Lab work! (for a production plant)

Normal, scheduled work:

get samples (20 mins)
test samples (30 mins)
report results (10 min)
sharpen pencils, put away pens, count toes…

And for this we had two lab techs.

But when something in the plant broke (chemically more than mechanically) We had to be ON. At 2200 parts an hour, finding that a process had been going wrong for an unknown period of time is a nightmare. And you have to fix it now, before any more parts are made.

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Ok, that makes sense, Crunchy frog and Medea’s Child. Just speaking from experience, I can’t stand not being busy at work. So I’ll start a project that is somehow related to what I do or would like to see happen. Or I will research a new area/issue that is looming on the horizon. Or I’ll go after an issue that I can’t just let ride. I guess it’s just about my obsession to check things off my list of things to do.