Name One Thing About Your Job That You Really, Really Hate

In My Humble Opinion
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I like my job. I really do.

However, there is one thing about it that just gets my blood boiling every time I think about it.

I work in a doctor’s office, and there are three departments- the front office, which includes the telephone operators and the people that work at the front desk; the billing department; and the department that I work in, the back office. The back office includes the medical assistants (including me), the aestheticians, and our direct supervisor, otherwise known as The Crazy One. All departments except mine are directly supervised by the Office Manager, who prefers to be referred to as The Administrator.

The Crazy One manages the medical assistants and controls their schedules. You’re never, for some reason, allowed to know how much Paid Time Off you have. Why this is, I don’t know. You do know how much you get per pay period, so it’s not that hard to keep track of, though.

What really, really pisses me off is that we (the MAs) are the only people in the office that are not allowed to take vacations. Huh? No vacations?? What The Crazy One does is- she keeps track of how much PTO you have, and when you’ve accumulated three or more days worth, she makes you take time off and use it. Then, no one ever has more than two days of it accumulated. Ever.

I believe that she does this because she’s a control freak, and for someone to come up to her and let her know that they will be taking more than a couple of days off, would bring her tightly controlled little world come crashing down. SHE will tell you when you’ll be off, dammit!

As much as I genuinely like my job and am happy there, I can see this becoming an issue for me. And she does not back down easily. And neither do I. I strongly believe anybody should be allowed to plan for and take a vacation. Just once a year, like anybody else in the world. The fact that we can not truly pisses me off.
So… what one thing pisses you off?

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Vampire bats. I hate them suckers.

3

My bosses are pigs?

4

Is “it doesn’t pay me enough” too cliche? If so, I’ll add that I hate where we work and that working for weekly papers is really aggravating: I can’t stand the fact that if I cover an event on given day, the public may not see it for more than a week.

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The hay. I hate the hay. It gives me a rash. BTW, I work with horses. Once a week I do evening feed. I hate the hay.

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My boss. The only time he doesn’t come off as a big phony is when he’s yelling or being dismissive. Plus, he’s horribly corrupt, and has been a big problem (long story), and unfortunately the company in its infinite wisdom will not fire the man. He hates all of us for informing on him but can’t do anything about it, so it’s just either subtly hostile or overtly hostile, all the time. Oh, and he’s harshly critical of everything we do, but never will actually help on the positive end.

Sadly, I am too a leader, and I like both my co-workers and the people who report to me. I like the job in general. I just hate my boss, so I’ll probably leave. (The fact that I get paid embarassingly below industry standard is part of it, too - but I’d stay if I was happy.)

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Secretaries that throw their weight around, using their boss’s weight.
You can’t talk their boss about it without seeming petty.

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It’s not year round. Because it is rare to get a year round full time job in my field I have two jobs, one in Alberta from September to May and one in Ontario from May till September. I hate being away from my boyfriend for the summer.

Next year I might not do the Ontario job. It pays better than the Calgary one, but the Calgary one wants me to work until mid June and start again in mid August. So in that case I will just be unemployed for two months. Now I just need to make enough that I can just take the two months off and life will be great.

Ludy who is on her second day in her Ontario job and already missing her boyfriend in Calgary :frowning:

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I like my job. It’s one of the best I’ve ever had. I hate the fact that our company was acquired by a bigger competitor and they’re closing our corporate office and I’m getting terminated along with 100 other people at the end of this month*.

*I do, however, have an interview with the new company next week that nets me a free trip to San Francisco for a couple of days.

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I hate the red tape. I work for a Fortune 50 company and it offers great benefits. I certainly can’t complain about my pay or flexible working schedule.

However. We have to deal with all the bureaucratic bullshit that comes with working for a huge company.

For instance, if we want to get a picture hung, via company rules we are not allowed to hang it by ourselves. They are deathly afraid of soiling our impeccable safety record. So in order to get this simple task done, we have to go to our internal website, locate the form (which is no small feat in and of itself) and fill in your name, company i.d., site, office, phone number, manager’s name, billing code, bra size, name of your first dog, etc. And then we have to wait for the stars to align just right.

5 days later, when the subcontractor moseys by the office to do the work, you’d better hope you are there. Because if you’re not, he will not take the initiatve and hang the picture on his own. Oh no! Even if you put a stickey on the wall saying “PUT PICTURE HERE!” you’ll get nothing more than a slip of paper indicating that you were not there and please visit the website to get back into queue.

One day, after having waited weeks to get a picture hung (despite my comment on the form that “I ONLY WORK MORNINGS!!!” they kept showing up in the afternoon), I took matters into my own hands. I brought a hammer and a penny nail from home and with two swipes, my long journey to get my picture hung was complete.

I am the Che Guevara of the Dilbert world.

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The main thing I don’t like about my job is that a lot of it consists of sending emails, making phone calls, or filling out online forms to get other people to do things, and I’m not even a manager.

On the other hand, though it is a big company, I’ve never had the problems described by PunditLisa in getting the physical things in my office taken care of. Speaking of which, I love having my nicely framed M.C. Escher print (“Reptiles”, if you must know), hung on my wall.

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My supervisor has a family that could suck the life out of a zombie vampire bat. Her sister is especially obxious–a grown up person who will not take care of herself and expects the whole world to take care of her. One day my supervisor came back to the office to pick up a file after having dental surgery, and her sister was there demanding to be taken to the bank because she had to get some money!

When the sister comes in, I cringe.

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The main thing I am mildly annoyed by is people think I’m responsible for stuff I’m not responsible for. I work at a college mental health center as the office manager. An academic administrator who knows me well and has worked here for maybe 30 years just called and asked if I coordinate rides to medical appointments such as physical therapy. No, no I don’t. If someone is in a mental health crisis I might give them a cab voucher to the ER, but health services is the one to call for issues surrounding physical well-being , duh. And, btw, there is a medical shuttle that we share with the ivy league university up the street. I see it weaving in and out of the streets downtown everyday, same as you. What are you bothering me for?

Someone also asked me if they could reserve a classroom for a Sunday in October this morning. Apparently they’re new so I was nice and helpful, otherwise I might have “made the reservation for them” and then, come October, caused negative things to happen.

But it’s really a nice job in the most interesting setting I could ever have hoped for in my life.

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The fact that between the phone and the constant foot traffic by my cube, I can’t get 60 uninterrupted seconds.

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You mean there’s only one?

Sorry, can’t answer due to too many things.
:slight_smile:

If I had to choose one–it is the insanity that I am expected to embrace. Like transferring a pt to a lower acuity floor, so that we can admit a pt of the same lower acuity. Why not just send that pt to that lower acuity bed in the first place?

:rolleyes:

Another possible candidate would be the odd thing that happens to nurses who become supervisors or managers. I am sure this is not unique to nursing, but there is some type of time loss that occurs. What I mean is that these people forget how long it can take to do something–anything. They act like you only task is to move pt X to room Y when you have 3 other pts who all have needs and docs and meds and phone calls etc. I am no slouch, but it will take me an hour to move a pt–to call report, finish charting, complete the med pass, sign off orders etc. It all takes time–and I am constantly interrupted by my other pts, staff, and the supervisor–asking if I have moved that pt yet! Argh.

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Dear Management: Don’t tell us what the rules are. Don’t set any guidelines. Don’t even tell us how much leeway we have within a set of parameters. Just wait for us to fuck something up, that we didn’t know about, so you can bitch about it in a company-wide e-mail. Way to inspire loyalty.

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I hate the fact that there is a guy who loves boring office work the way I’d love to have a job building custom cars and racing vintage Ferraris, with a side gig as the PR director for the NFL.

Nothing excites this guy more than a new, overcomplicated spreadsheet --Nothing.

I swear he masurbates over charts. He works 12-16 hours per day, and Saturday and Sunday.

He has no freinds, wife, girl/boy friend, intersts, hobbies, stories, jokes, pictures, style, charisma, personality, interests, passion, viewpoints, need to eat, talk, live, etc…NOTHING.

Makes 150k a year, drives a old dull gray Maxima with 150,00 miles on it, wears tan pants and a blue shirt EVERY DAY.

Dorko. I hate Dorko.

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The constant, unmitigated boredom due to the fact that my position it not really even needed. Not that I don’t do anything, just that what I do could be incorporated with someone else’s job. Basically, I’m the manager’s assistant. He has two sales teams and I take care of him and one of the teams, and I have a counterpart that takes care of the other team. I could easily do my and her job, so I guess it’s really her position that is unnecessary. There have been days, especially lately, that I have literally spent my whole day on these boards.

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I hate being overlooked by the software developers and release engineers. I’m not a developer or a tester, I’m just the technical writer, and sometimes they “forget” to tell me about beta releases, feature drops, schedule changes, etc. This a pretty common complaint, shared by tech writers all over the world, but it’s really the worst part of my job. And it’s happened twice within the past week (most recently this morning). :mad:

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Really? Why? Are they that big of a pest? I could see leeches ( I loathe leeches ) doing field work. But from where I sit vampire bats seem ( theoretically ) sorta…neat ;).

Me I hate the polymer we use to coagulate solids in our water process. Horrid, sticky, gloppy, incredibly tenacious stuff that expands on contact with any water into a horrid, sticky, snot-like mass and is damn near impossible to get off skin or clothes ( or anything else ).

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