Maybe it’s because the kid doesn’t actually want to go, although for most students who do the Junior year abroad it’s one of the most exciting phases of the college experience.
Not that that doesn’t raise its own bag of issues.
I work with a bunch of hick perverts.
And guess what I’m the only girl in the plant.
Usually it doesn’t bother me. But somtimes :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
I really really hate that my job makes it SO close to impossible to call in sick. First, you only get ONE sick day a year. No personal days. Just one sick day. Then…then…you can NOT just call in sick. No, you have to call around and find someone to take your shift yourself, since management is too busy to do that. Yes, they said that. So if you can’t find someone, you have to come in. =_=
The commute. I ride light-rail, and it’s usually pretty full during commute hours, so I’m lucky if I get a seat - and I have had a few injuries in my lifetime that put me in almost unbearable pain if I stand still for more than about 5 minutes (I’ve not been helped much by doctors or chiropractic). The commute is at least 35 minutes (not counting get to and from the stations, waiting for trains, etc.), and sometimes puts me uncomfortably close to strangers (I have a “thing” about my personal space being invaded, and especially about being touched by strangers), some of whom need remedial training in personal hygeine and/or basic manners. Sometimes the train (or one in front of it) breaks down and we get stuck for a while (once it was inside a tunnel, and we had to walk in the near-darkness to the nearest egress), or someone has a medical emergency and we have to wait for the EMT’s, or some such.
But at least I’m not the one paying for it. And it saves me from having to buy gas or sit in standstill traffic.
The Department of Homeland Security, particularly most of the idiots at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. I rest my case.
(Or rather, I would have rested my case today, if I hadn’t spent a total of about 3 hours on hold, having 5 people, including 2 different supervisors, give me different information on the status of a case that would have taken 5 minutes to approve, if only anyone would look at the goddamn thing.)
HIPAA. That and the fact that my private duty client is a perv, a know-it-all, and a snob.
I hate the fact that some people seem to think that just because they are sick or in pain, they are entitiled to treat everyone else like crap. I work ER. I’m never going to see a patient on the best day of their life. I understand that feeling badly sometimes causes people to act in ways they normally wouldn’t. I can make allowances for that. But. . . sheesh! Some people think that being sick means it’s okay to act like an idiot, to yell, scream, and swear at the people who are trying to help you, or to turn into a complete slug and not do ANYTHING to help themselves. Also t o make utterly unreasonable demands and then have a fit when they don’t get what they want.
Thankfully, people like this are relativley rare, but it only takes one to ruin your day.
I think it’s really interesting to read these rants, especially from those of you in the service or medical industries. And the research ones too! All very amusing 
My biggest complaint is being in business for myself means paying myself. People tell me “oh it must be so nice to work at home and make your own hours blah blah blah” which IS true, but…
We have 3 full-time employees, including me. The other two are my brother and our Mutual Friend. When I first met Mutual Friend 5 years ago, it was because my brother was renting a house with him and Brother hadn’t paid rent in 6 months, and MF hadn’t asked for rent from him, and MF needed to catch up on rent and needed me to convince my dad to loan my Brother money to pay the rent.
Therefore, I am in charge of ALL the money around here.
I am very good with money. Some would say “stingy” I would say “careful.” Sometimes (most of the time) we have no money. We have no rent and no loans other than credit cards, so we’re ok on that front. Bills get paid, taxes get paid. Payroll gets paid…
Except when payroll can’t get paid, I do not get paid. The other two do (generally) get paid. It’s a waste of time and energy to explain why things work out this way, but that’s how they work.
So when people croon about how WONDERFUL it must be to be my own boss, I try to correct them and say that it’s “wonderful, but…” When you know where every penny is coming from and where it’s going, who is paying and who isn’t, when your financial situation depends on your partners’ decisions in business and life…it’s madness.
Respect the fact that when you work for Big Company, there are Big Dollars. They have to pay you. You are one in many. When money is mis-managed, it’s not necessarily going to trickle down to you. If your fellow employee gets paid, so do you.
But otherwise, working from 10-5 in my pajamas is pretty sweet 
I’m a software engineer. Our group has coding standards. But they’re not really enforced, and one engineer in particular insists on following a VERY different style. Bugs the crap out of whenever I have to look at his code. Bugs the crap out of me that he doesn’t realize that coding standards are not for you, they’re for your co-workers; you should follow the coding standards because it’s considerate to your co-workers. Not following them because you don’t like them is just selfish. Bugs the crap out of me.
Every single door is securitised, even the ones to the bathroom. If I forget my passkey I’m left to scratching at the windows like a kitten and throwing myself on the mercies of my colleagues to let me in to the john to take a leak.
The one thing today? Probably this undergrad lamer who decided it was OK to slip his shoes and socks off and put his bare feet on the table. I asked him nicely to take his feet off the table and put his shoes back on, 'cuz that was the rules, and he gave me shit about how people were wearing sandles and sandles weren’t real shoes, so the regulation was bullshit. I just gave him my polite patent-pending “I-Think-I’ve-Tried-To-Identify-With-Your-Youthful-Angst-Just-About-As-Much-As-I’m-Going-To-Today” smile and asked him again . . . in a slightly different voice. He grumbled and put his shoes back on.
Honestly, why did I even have to tell him the first time? This isn’t the Coyote Ugly. It’s an academic library, and we’re not in Arkansas. :wally
You would think it would be the fetal demises with grief and shock and crushed hopes and that is bad but what I hate most are the CPS holds. It takes a lot at our hospital for a mom to go home without her baby. Not only does she have to be positive for meth/cocaine/etc, but baby has to be positive, too. Mom also needs to have a CPS history. Mom has to have an open CPS case, another child taken from her custody and placed in foster care currently. These parents know what’s coming and stall and deny and blame-shift and lie and scream and threaten and cry and curse. You never saw or heard such carryings-on. It is never my choice, I have no control over the criteria for decision on a hold, but the blame and abuse and volume of noise meks it hard to be at work that day.
Cyn, a slight hijack if I may, I’ve wondered about this: If a woman has a baby, and has had children removed from the home permanently or temporarily in the past, but the action is not current, is she and/or the new baby automatically tested? Or is everyone tested regardless of their history? Or only women and their babies if there is a current involvement with CPS?
Oh, Cyn, how awful. Can’t you keep that precious fresh baby face in the forefront of your mind, and remember that you’re rescuing it?
We don’t have room to run your commercials.
But they have to run.
The client has requested a 30:00 separation. They cannot run in X show or Y show due to exclusivities. We have this client’s competitors also on our air, which means we cannot double them up in breaks. I cannot run all of them.
But they have to run.
I cannot run them all. It is not physically possible.
But they have to run.
I finally had someone in sales go over our logs and help me figure out where to run the spots. It took her FIVE HOURS, but at least I had backup when the sales planner whined again but they have to run.