Rental property management would be fun except for the tenants.
Amex? BCD? Carlson? Navigant?
That’s my job, only it’s corporate, so exchanges are pretty much every other call. So with all that practice I don’t hate them anymore, I don’t even notice them.
Because of our position within the company, if someone screws up, we have to fix it.
It’s not a refusal to take responsibility, it’s the nature of the business. I make sure my displeasure is heard, and hopefully next time, someone will think twice before making the same mistake again that directly affects my department.
I’m a preschool teaching assistant. Believe it or not, the part of my job that I dislike the most is not “changing diapers”. It’s cleaning up after meals and snack time. Straightening out things that become disorderly in the course of normal preschool activities isn’t too bad, but sometimes I know one or more of the kids has deliberately messed stuff up just to be a pain in the arse, and that bothers me, too.
There are also some personell/office politics issues that get to me, but those aren’t really part of my job, they’re incidental to my job. I need to remind myself of this from time to time to keep my sanity.
I really hate having to tell people their loved one is dead.
I’m also not a big fan of being punched, kicked, or spit on.
I like the testing I do, but the things I have to do before I can actually START the testing can be really freaking tedious. I have to run this thing that checks the collection date of specimens against the date we received the specimen, and if it’s over 5 days difference, I have to investigate. “Investigate” meaning tramping up two flights of stairs to data entry to pull the actual forms from the file cabinet and make copies, then going back downstairs to stare at them and figure out who fucked up and how and then fix it or deem the specimen(s) unsatisfactory for testing.
This could all be made so much easier by simply scanning the forms into the computer, but oh no, that would be too expensive. So the stairs it is.
I’m sick to death of the endless rounds of layoffs! Every 3 months or so, we shake like a dog and off come the next round of fleas. I’m sick of the feeling in the pit of my stomach as I wonder if THIS time, my name will be on the list and I’ll have to go out all over again. And watching good friends pack their stuff, after having given the company the last 20+ years of their lives, sucks!
I Despise the fact that this will be the way of things for the rest of my life, unless something changes (unlikely!). I Shiver at the thought that I could end up looking for new work every 2 years or so for the next 30+ years of my working career through no fault of my own.
My problem with my job at the moment is quite specific.
I hate trying to get programmers and system technicians at partner companies to get systems that are based outside our direct control but used by our customers to work.
I hate when nothing’s happening and you have to find work for the sake of work.
I hate dealing with people who are beyond help and error prone, but who’s minimal skills we need.
I hate that the board of directors are hell-bent on getting the most out of us while paying us the least.
Dealing with (willfully) stupid people. You know who you are.
That’s a good one.
Willfully ignorant people too. (there’s a difference)
Yep, I agree.
Just got a new boss. She has been on the job a month and hasn’t bothered to either ask me about my background or tell me about hers.
She just tells me when I’m expected to meet with others. One sentence phone calls.
That stinks.
I’ve ranted about SAP before, but I’m always glad to hear that I am not the only person whose life is made a misery by this stupid Stone Age software.
They are slowly transitioning to the exciting new world of Java, about 15 years after everybody else, but there are still idiots making ridiculously good money writing what are little more than scripts, in ABAP, SAP’s proprietary COBOL-like “Advanced Business Appilcation Programming” language.
Reference questions. Actually, two very specific kinds of reference questions.
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I need a BOOK (oh, it must be a book) on a very specific topic. What’s a specific topic you ask? Well it can be anything. How about the life of Chris Farley. Ooh, or something on the Phoenician alphabet. Or a diary of a slave who was born in Africa and then was freed after the Civil War. And I need a book detailing the Poltergeist curse. And on and on and on…
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Of course, the opposite is just as bad. People who need something on a very broad topic. I need something about Brazil. I’m looking for books on skateboarding. What do you have about business.
Oh, and all of these books are in their own sections. Whole wings of the library have been quartered off for information about Jazz in the 40s or Korean cooking or mysteries where the butler did it.
I take flight reservations over the phone and hate it when people get mad when you ask them simple questions. My favorite is when they tell me they want to fly to say… San Diego, and get all pissy when I have to ask a couple times where they want to fly from. They act like I am an f-ing retard to not be able to read their minds.
Hijack-- dwc1970, who do you work for? Is it in Boise? I noticed your location and am just curious because I work for a certain airline and my call center is right across from two call centers for travel companies that were mentioned above.
I manage a couple of paediatric mental health areas.
I hate having to sit on committees or otherwise professionally interact with people who have bizarre notions of authoritative behaviour, usually inversely related to the number of actual people who report to them – stuff like dragging an admin support staff along to every meeting and insisting that she take all notes, hold all documents, etc. Barf.
I hate having to give explicit direction to people about things that should be a part of basic mature workplace behaviour, such as not wearing revealing clothing to work with male adolescents, not coming in for (voluntarily booked) orientation sick and then excusing yourself from all actual orientation activities because you aren’t feeling well, the need to speak to (all) of your peers directly with respect and consideration while eschewing gossip and sniping… that kind of stuff. I don’t hate the actual direction-giving activity as much as I do the disappointment in the people involved.
I hate having a problem almost resolved or well on its way to resolution and being stonewalled by someone who is almost certainly proceeding based on ego rather than data but cannot be ignored. And how such people remain absolutely unrepentant even when clearly and thoroughly proven wrong – in which case they will merely turn sullen and truculent rather than irate and hysterical.
Aaah, that was very therapeutic, thank you. 
The only thing I really hate about my job is hiring and firing. I’m constantly looking for a way to permanently shift that responsibility elsewhere.