Your workplace grinds?

[Casanova]

Chatting on facebook to a good friend and she's a flagship manager for a property company.
She's detailing all the crap she dislikes about her job.

What's your pet hates?


Mine's:

- The way we're told to be 'pro-active' with our business... we are sales not voodoo. I can't force someone in?
- tidying up. i'm not a cleaner, I'd get paid a better basic if I was.
- having to start fifteen minutes early.


list your pet hates about your work :]

[brightdove]

- I work with a lot of other women.. and they are extreamly ******!
- The majourity of people that i work with are idoits when it comes to computers. (One seems to think that if the computer goes to standby.. its broken.
- My managers say really stupid things... "how many left...?... o well make sure you sell them then".... "is the engineer here?... make sure he doesn't leave until he fixes it"
- One of my managers.. .enough said.

[Recursion]

- People not checking the power switches before complaining something doesn't work
- People putting "sites blocked, please unblock" on the help desk, I end up ignoring them because I have better things to do than sift through web access logs
- Teachers ripping out Ethernet ports from wall mounts
- Teachers taking home laptop chargers and complaining we haven't got enough in school

[Casanova]

- People not checking the power switches before complaining something doesn't work
- People putting "sites blocked, please unblock" on the help desk, I end up ignoring them because I have better things to do than sift through web access logs
- Teachers ripping out Ethernet ports from wall mounts
- Teachers taking home laptop chargers and complaining we haven't got enough in school

administrator in a school?
No offence, I had you down for a student? that's a good job you have there! i assume .

A few more of mines is...
- customers assuming what they know. yes, I work roughly 50 hours a week doing this and YOU know better
- my colleagues not having good enough knowledge or actively trying to improve. instead of pushing issues to me to deal with
- the lack of breaks. i had a customer complain i went on lunch because "I left her standing there for five minutes" I'm a sales consultant, I'm not a dog. I need to eat like she does!?
- people asking the same questions...

[Shoe]

Lol i love this thread I have been moaning to zak all day about people annoying me at work
Im a lifeguard!

- Other lifeguards not rotating on time.
- You get half hour dinner NOT an hour :/
- Certain people doing anything they can to get off pool and sit in the staff room.
- Others not cleaning.
- VENDING MACHINE PROBLEMS!!!!!
- Costumers asking for something then not saying thank you.
- Costumers moaning because the group changing aren't open, i get the key and just get shouted at :/
- My drains blocking and me getting shouted at when i only work two days a week and don't have time to clean them.
- Parents saying their kids can swim, yet the end up drowning!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats just a few, the list usually gets a little longer after each shift!

[brightdove]

Oh... i don't get ANY breaks. Apparently its because we have enough time without customers throughout the day in order to take a sufficant break... if i smoked though - i'd get 15 mins.

Also... i finish work at 11pm and start again at 7am at least once a week.

[beth]

this is my hates from working at mcdonalds (hahahaha).

- managers who stand around front counter not actually doing anything because they're 'managers' and they're their to 'supervise' even when we're really struggling.
- members of the big boss' family getting away with murder, just because they're related to the store manager.
- people who don't put the diet button down on diet drinks (LOL)
- people who stand infront of the fries having a chat when i'm trying to get my ******* food.

hahahhaha love mcdonalds.

[Smits]

- People expecting me to do their work as well as my own.
- Extremely long, boring periods where i do naff all (shouldn't complain as i'm still paid, but 3 hours is boring)
- People not stacking up the plates and things in a sensible order, instead just dumping them anywhere and expecting me to sort it.

[Recursion]

administrator in a school?
No offence, I had you down for a student? that's a good job you have there! i assume .

A few more of mines is...
- customers assuming what they know. yes, I work roughly 50 hours a week doing this and YOU know better
- my colleagues not having good enough knowledge or actively trying to improve. instead of pushing issues to me to deal with
- the lack of breaks. i had a customer complain i went on lunch because "I left her standing there for five minutes" I'm a sales consultant, I'm not a dog. I need to eat like she does!?
- people asking the same questions...

Both, I did IT work as well as going to Sixth Form, will be dropping it down to holiday work when I go to Uni though.

[FlyingJesus]

- Not having a job