I know I’m not the only Doper currently trapped in a sucky job by the economy, and thought maybe there’d be some interest in emulating the job hunters by starting a mutual support group. Things we might do here:
Share tips and suggestions
Provide amusing comparisons between your job, Dilbert, The Office, or Office Space
Bitch
Ask ourselves where our careers went so horribly wrong
(Not necessarily in order of importance.)
To expand a bit on the above:
I know that we should be happy just to have a job in this economy. But that only encourages us to work just hard enough to not get fired. Maybe your company has been going through rounds of layoffs and you sit in an empty office waiting for your turn. Maybe your pipeline of projects and clients have dried up and you have nothing to do all day but surf Straightdope, Facebook, YouTube, CNN, Hulu, and the back to SDMB, etc. Maybe you are stuck with an abusive boss or idiot coworkers. Or maybe you were just forced to take your current job out of desperation because that’s all you can find.
This is not to diminish the plight of people who don’t have jobs and are desperately looking for work. But sometimes anticipation is as bad or worse than the actual event. This is for people who are stuck at their offices waiting for the other shoe to drop (while the first shoe is shoved repeatedly in their ass).
Today’s projects:
Roll into the office about 9:45 through the side door
Space out for an hour (it looks like I’m doing work but I’m not really)
“Checkpoint” with my team where we will BS about what it is we actually do here.
…?
Profit
Go to a career networking happyhour and hope there are people there working for companies that are actually hiring for real jobs