View Full Version : Anyone working a job that has them bored to tears?
Uberjager
05-28-2011, 20:30
I am, and I loathe every single second of it. My job is so brain dead, I would be bored with it after a lobotomy. And before you ask, I have a miserable job in retail, that I could write a thousand volume text about my misery and woe. I mean seriously, I'm pretty good at mental math and memorization so I can "ring" customers up in my mind. Like let's say a customer brings up a few items, which I know the prices of, I'll be like, "Alright that comes to $37.98", and then scan the items and have them come up exactly at that price. Anyone else working a sub-retard level job?
Byte Stryke
05-28-2011, 21:43
I am a DOD Systems/Network/Firewall Administrator.
I install desktop computers.
I mean I plug in a monitor and 2-4 USB devices and I Boot it up, run a script and move on.
I am a DOD Systems/Network/Firewall Administrator.
I install desktop computers.
I mean I plug in a monitor and 2-4 USB devices and I Boot it up, run a script and move on.
You might be able to make it more interesting Byte...
partition the hard drives. install puppy linux and claim half of all the computers as your own.
Or you could net send all the computers that you install random messages like there is a moth on the motherboard please blow into the fan vent to remove.
Byte Stryke
05-28-2011, 22:13
You might be able to make it more interesting Byte...
partition the hard drives. install puppy linux and claim half of all the computers as your own.
Or you could net send all the computers that you install random messages like there is a moth on the motherboard please blow into the fan vent to remove.
Banking Industry...
Not a fucking chance unless I like surprise butseks in a federal prison.
Banking Industry...
Not a fucking chance unless I like surprise butseks in a federal prison.
Ahh probably not a great idea
2ndChildhood
05-28-2011, 22:27
It could be worse...
You could have a boss/coworkers whose hobby is making your life hell.
Been there done that. They ruined an otherwise interesting and decent paying job.
Now I have a great boss and the job is a mix of interesting and routine.
Considering the alternatives I'm a happy camper.
I am, and I loathe every single second of it. My job is so brain dead, I would be bored with it after a lobotomy. And before you ask, I have a miserable job in retail, that I could write a thousand volume text about my misery and woe. I mean seriously, I'm pretty good at mental math and memorization so I can "ring" customers up in my mind. Like let's say a customer brings up a few items, which I know the prices of, I'll be like, "Alright that comes to $37.98", and then scan the items and have them come up exactly at that price. Anyone else working a sub-retard level job?
sorry, i love my job. i sit on my ass until someone decides to get loud and dissruptive. Then its go time, they have 2 choices 1. leave on there own or 2. hit every wall, door, chair on the way out lol
Big Wall
05-29-2011, 00:10
I've been driving a truck since my wife and I closed our business. There is nothing more mind numbing than that!
Uberjager
05-29-2011, 00:29
I've been driving a truck since my wife and I closed our business. There is nothing more mind numbing than that!
Is it just within the Denver Metro-Area?
sorry, i love my job. i sit on my ass until someone decides to get loud and dissruptive. Then its go time, they have 2 choices 1. leave on there own or 2. hit every wall, door, chair on the way out lol
Security guard at a Bingo hall?
I'm really, really tired of being under employed and not being able to find a job that suits me better. At my current job, I just read between calls and have already read like 10-12 books this year. Helps keep my mind off how I'm making the same amount of money as I did when I was 16.
Security guard at a Bingo hall?
I'll tell you what, seniors can get fiesty when someone yells a false bingo.
[Stick]
I like mine great bennifits. But when you get paid on commission it sucks when its slow. At least I got an hourly. But sometime I wanna let loose on some people who always feel the need to complain about everything.
Pancho Villa
05-29-2011, 07:58
I'm a used furniture dealer.
I'll go to moving sales and the like, make a low-ball offer, get blown off and drop off my card. Sunday afternoon I get a phone call because everyone always seems to think their (very nice, very well taken care of) furniture will sell for a few hundred dollars.
I have a storage space and a truck, so I deliver free of charge to my customers. I get a lot of lower-income folks who don't have a truck and can't afford to go to the big chain stores, but also need new furniture.
Its actually a pretty interesting job. I'm in the middle of writing the 'employee manual' right now, ideally by next year I'd like to be hiring some people to do this here so I can do the same job elsewhere (Co Springs or, if that place is too small to expand to, Dallas.) Rinse and repeat until there's enough cashflow to do what I want (I'd really like to start a cattle ranch some day, but I have a ton of research to do so to say that its on the backburning would be the king of understatement.)
Sometimes it can be boring, but I have plenty of music, podcasts and radio shows to listen to on the longer drives.
Best deal so far: $15 fridge I sold for $200 two days later.
68Charger
05-29-2011, 09:02
I'm a used furniture dealer.
That was Al Capone's business that he had on "the books"
my wife's family has done that kind of thing, but as an auction house.
The actual work I get paid to do is good, it's all the bureaucracy and paperwork that is a sleep aid.
BlasterBob
05-29-2011, 09:17
My job is to sit under a shade tree, have a few beers and watch the wildlife.
It's a damn tough job but the beer prevents it from being really boring [Coffee]
Yeah, I've been retired for just about 20 years. Youse guys play your cards right and you too will enjoy the retired life one of these days. Start saving NOW!!
BPTactical
05-29-2011, 09:58
Total, absolute mind numbing drain bamage, brain dead lobotomy inducing job here.
After spending 18 years in the field doing anything from patching potholes, repairing fence and guardrail, repairing sprinklers, plowing snow, supervising crews, answering emergency issues with a near intensity of a firefight and basically anything else you can imagine that may be incurred in the job title of "Highway Maintenance".
I slipped on some tree limbs we had trimmed and landed flat on my keester and could hardly walk-collapsed 3 discs in my lower back. 6 months of PT and I end up with a permanent weight restriction, enough where I was unable to meet the physical requirements to go back to the field.
My reward? Being stuck behind a desk now, entering data from worksheets for the guys that maintain the traffic signals. Same data everyday, same PITA software system (SAP).[Bang]
Lost just shy of 1K per month in salary.
But it could be much worse-at least I have a job. 2 years left and I can retire.
Big Wall
05-29-2011, 10:47
Is it just within the Denver Metro-Area?
Basically yes. We go out to Ft. Morgan, up to Cheyenne and down to Pueblo some.
Big Wall
05-29-2011, 10:49
I'm really, really tired of being under employed and not being able to find a job that suits me better. At my current job, I just read between calls and have already read like 10-12 books this year. Helps keep my mind off how I'm making the same amount of money as I did when I was 16.
Unfortunately I know exactly what you mean.
I work in telecom, basically a fiber optic tech. I don't do splicing and cables, my world starts where the fiber cable is terminated into the splicing panels. I'm on call 24/7/365, and my territory runs approx. 300 miles east, west and south of Denver.
There's the fiber cables in the ground running all over the world, and then there's the electronic equipment that's connected to those fibers, that's MY world. I maintain that equipment at 15 remote sites from Grand Junction to Norton, KS, and down to Raton, NM. Plus all the fiber optic circuits at our main switch site in Denver, which is a huge job in itself.
Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment, I just replace components and install/disconnect circuits. Basically, I'm a pothole filler on the Information Superhighway. Worst part is a large amount of my work has to be done after midnight, regardless of where I have to go. So I get to drive in lots of nighttime snowstorms. Yay.
trlcavscout
05-29-2011, 13:58
I'll tell you what, seniors can get fiesty when someone yells a false bingo.
[Stick]
I am gonna laugh when some old "epic beard man" puts a beaten on your ass [ROFL1]
My work just plain sucks. Some of the time it is so boreing that you wanna hang your self just to see what its like then the rest of your time you are so busy you cant get everything done. Everything from climbing poles to setting up firewalls and phone systems in business's. Worst part of the whole job is the corporate BS and the dumb ass's I work for.
SideShow Bob
05-29-2011, 14:25
My reward? Being stuck behind a desk now, entering data from worksheets for the guys that maintain the traffic signals. Same data everyday, same PITA software system (SAP).[Bang]
Lost just shy of 1K per month in salary.
But it could be much worse-at least I have a job. 2 years left and I can retire.
You should feel privilaged, you get to converse with such wonderful people such as myself. [LOL]
BPTactical
05-29-2011, 14:46
You should feel privilaged, you get to converse with such wonderful people such as myself. [LOL]
[Gas1][Slap]
[Help]
trout_champ
05-29-2011, 16:21
My current job assignment is stupidly boring too. I currently ride around on a golf course at night to make sure no one vandalizes it. Hopefully after the summer I can go back to my regular position. Or find a better job in the mean time...
Randy
BPTactical
05-29-2011, 16:38
My current job assignment is stupidly boring too. I currently ride around on a golf course at night to make sure no one vandalizes it. Hopefully after the summer I can go back to my regular position. Or find a better job in the mean time...
Randy
Bill Murray in "Caddyshack" comes to mind............................
Hello Mr Gopher[ROFL3]
SideShow Bob
05-29-2011, 16:57
[Gas1][Slap]
[Help]
Yep,
That is one of the worst things, Walking into the office after a hard day's work and you have been letting loose with those "OLD MAN" farts all day! [Score]
lead_magnet
05-29-2011, 17:49
I finally just changed shifts so my boring job is finally over. I was in charge of watching people sleep, and rummaging though trash.
blackford76
05-29-2011, 18:17
I am gonna laugh when some old "epic beard man" puts a beaten on your ass.
I don't want to meet the guy who could throw a beating on David.
trlcavscout
05-29-2011, 19:14
I don't want to meet the guy who could throw a beating on David.
He is getting kinda old and slow [Beer] I liked working with him though, good guy.
Pretty boring for now, but should pick up here in a couple of weeks.
My current job assignment is stupidly boring too. I currently ride around on a golf course at night to make sure no one vandalizes it. Hopefully after the summer I can go back to my regular position. Or find a better job in the mean time...
Randy
Jogging on golf courses is awesome. When I used to live next to one, I loved running on it. Or course I always had to wait until it was dark.
Seamonkey
05-30-2011, 09:00
Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment,
That's what I used to do and, if I can find a job, will probably be doing again. Nice and boring until something breaks then it's ... quite interesting!
Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment, I just replace components and install/disconnect circuits. Basically, I'm a pothole filler on the Information Superhighway. Worst part is a large amount of my work has to be done after midnight, regardless of where I have to go. So I get to drive in lots of nighttime snowstorms. Yay.
So someone who knows what I mean when I say DS3 or OC192
H.
Seamonkey
05-31-2011, 06:38
So someone who knows what I mean when I say DS3 or OC192
H.
As long as it's not an E1. Please don't bust out an FCC-100!
As long as it's not an E1. Please don't bust out an FCC-100!
Ah I'm glad all those days are done. I worked (as a programmer) in Datacenters from about 95 through 99. Now all that hardware is handled by other people, to me it's just bits in some mythical cloud somewhere. If a piece of hardware fails I just turn off that instance and launch a new one. New servers auto configure themselves on launch, do everything but put themselves into service.
H.
So someone who knows what I mean when I say DS3 or OC192
H.
Yessir! My world starts with DS3's, and runs up into DWDM transport. If it runs on coax or fiber for my co. in CO, it's mine. We're merging with Level 3, so God only knows what's going to happen now.
Lex_Luthor
05-31-2011, 13:37
I scan records and convert them to images to be filed in my company's database. I'm starting to take on a project manager - type role recently, and my boss is putting in for a raise for me! w00t!
ghettodub
05-31-2011, 13:40
^Graphic designer. I love my job, other than living in Colorado. Ready for a change after a lot of years here
Yessir! My world starts with DS3's, and runs up into DWDM transport. If it runs on coax or fiber for my co. in CO, it's mine. We're merging with Level 3, so God only knows what's going to happen now.
So would you know if there's any facilities near Pueblo that have lots of b/w to them? We're near North/South and East/West train tracks, between two Coal plants, and next to a reservoir / river for cooling, middle of the nation. I'm a bit surprised there aren't more datacenters out here.
H.
^Graphic designer. I love my job, other than living in Colorado. Ready for a change after a lot of years here
Another tech bubble brewing in the valley. The recruiters are getting desperate again, even picking up telecommuters. If you want to move to Calipornia, you can probably get a paid ticket out there.
H.
claimbuster
05-31-2011, 17:42
I'm a custodian in a circumcision clinic. The pay isn't that great but the tips are fantastic! [Flower]
I'm a custodian in a circumcision clinic. The pay isn't that great but the tips are fantastic! [Flower]
I was hungry... Well played.
I can not complain with my job right now we have 4 new systems all hitting the roads at the same time the growing pains are intense I never know what i will do from day to day could be simple mehcanical failures all the way to chasing a programming issue because to many self diagnosing devices are trying to talk on the J1939 protocal at the same time.
ghettodub
05-31-2011, 18:54
Another tech bubble brewing in the valley. The recruiters are getting desperate again, even picking up telecommuters. If you want to move to Calipornia, you can probably get a paid ticket out there.
H.
Bleh, California... I would love a telecommute job though...
Bleh, California... I would love a telecommute job though...
That's pretty much the way I feel. I t/c for a CA company. Weeee!
H.
So would you know if there's any facilities near Pueblo that have lots of b/w to them? We're near North/South and East/West train tracks, between two Coal plants, and next to a reservoir / river for cooling, middle of the nation. I'm a bit surprised there aren't more datacenters out here.
H.
Oh, I wouldn't know. My world is Sonet transport. The only place we have any circuits dropping is in Denver and a few in The Springs, most of our traffic just whizzes through CO. What you're looking for, you'd probably have to go to Qwest or Level 3, and it might even have to be backhauled from Pueblo to CLSP.
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