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[ringstrue]

**I work in a higer-ed library**

Every damn year I gotta fork over at least $15 for "student assistant appreciation" events and gifts. The committee this year blew up in a big fight because one person want to give each graduating senior a $45+ gift bag full of bookstore memorabilia. That would raise my contribution at least $10 more. Thank god the other two didn't go for it.

The only other reason its not more than $15 is because I refuse to pay more for my potluck item. We do a big party every year and they somewhat insist the food we bring is homemade (since you know, students are suffering from lack of homemade food at this point in the year : but I buy a $5 pie at the grocery store and call it a day. No way am I cooking and paying $10+ for a dish that only partially gets eaten. And don't tell me that making $3 brownies from Betty Crocker are any better.

THEN, we have leftovers for the better part of the rest of the week since there is already way too much food, BUT if you take your dish home "early" (read: after the party) people hem and haw about it. So basically I'm made to feed my coworkers.

Finally, the two worst gossipers who regularly rip on others have been sitting in a cube together all morning gossiping in whispers. I'm so over it.

I can haz a new job now!?!??!?!?!

[y4m]

Sales is doing everything they can to lose one of my best clients by not admitting to a mistake they made.

Apparently last week they thought promising the client that I'd work nights and weekends to deliver some extra value would solve the issue, except they seem to have forgotten they'd already committed my next two weeks of nights and weekends to another client.

I need out of this place. Damn working at home sucks me back in though.

[whitewolf]

People think I am a servant who does a shitty job and should be paid with joy and honor instead of money. Do I win?

[bqbride]

I love my job, except when clients refuse to listen to me. One guy in particular is hounding me to take him on as a client. I have refused, because he wants to rent his house out for $2700/month, since that is how much the mortgage is. Even a cursory glance at the local rental market shows that his house is simply not a $2700/month house. I don't get paid until the property is rented, so I am unwilling to take him on as a client, knowing that I cannot rent his house for anywhere close to what he wants for it. I have told him this repeatedly, but he insists that he can rent it out for that much. Then do it, but stop calling me!

The fact that you bought your home at the top of the market and have a large mortgage payment has fuck-all to do with its current rental value!

[secretlyevil]

I am literally mentally-crippled by how overwhelmed I feel.

[Deleted]

I'm not working much right now with teh baby, thank goodness. But actually, I'd love to be working because this SAHM thing is exhausting. EXHAUSTING.

If I was working I'd be bitching about a client thinking their house is worth more $ than it really is.

[eliseb0323]

I have told a particular person 4 times that I am NOT writing a speech for him. My boss and my boss' boss have told him the same. He just emailed me asking where his speech is.

[Deleted]

Do you really want to get me started?

• I don't get paid on time.
  
• I was reprimanded for complaining that I don't get paid on time.
  
• Upon complaining for not getting paid on time, I was suddenly told that they have "serious concerns" about my work product.
  
• The office manager is fucking the boss, and I think she feels threatened by female employees.
  
• I've asked for business cards twice but have yet to be provided with them. But I'm expected to get clients.
  
• IMO, the clients they want me to get would present a serious conflict of interest.
  
• I have to bill a minimum of 40 hours per week, regardless of work flow.
  
• If I were to actually get the types of clients they want me to get, that work would not count toward my weekly minimum.
  
• The firm won't pay for me to be in any local professional organizations because my boss doesn't think they're effective ways to get clients even though my experience has been that referrals from other lawyers is a great way to get clients.
  
• I've watched my boss yell at and fire someone right in front of me.
  
• My boss lies to my face - i.e., they've never had a client complain about a bill before.
  
• I don't have a 401(k).
  
• When I asked for more money in lieu of health insurance, my boss actually thought if he didn't agree to it that I would still forgo the health insurance.
  
• We don't have coffee.
  
• When Boss A has a problem with something I've done, he tells Boss B, who tells me that I need to talk to Boss A.
  
• The environment is so toxic that I have two anti-anxiety prescriptions and am now on probiotics for IBS.
  

ETA: And I was given a research assignment at 4:45 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 30, to do "over the weekend." This was something that easily could have been assigned days before.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

I have a student from hell who happens to be studying abroad right now. I just found out she was injured and was admitted to the hospital in her host country. I cannot wait for the bitching that ensues when she returns. She has terrorized every administrative office at our school, threatening legal action for things like not being able to register for a course. Entitlement like I've never seen. I've been expecting a call from her mother, but I'm beginning to wonder if she terrorizes her mom just as much.

[catsarecute]

My boss is a passive-aggressive control freak who has no faith in her employees who have been doing their jobs well for 6+ years. She treats a co-worker who has been here for 13 years like dirt, talking down to her as if she is a 5 year old. She micro-manages every aspect of our job duties. I provide direct services to teenagers and she is so completely out of touch with how teenagers are these days that it is laughable. I get anxiety knowing that I have to meet with her once a week to discuss things that don't need discussing just so she can feel like she has a hand in our work.

[iammalcolmx]

Commute is long as hell even though we have an office much closer to my house. I can only work there like once a week.
Lazy folks complain about parts of the jobs they don’t like so they give that crap to “good sports” like me.
I was recently completely undermined when planning an event, another person who hardly did Anything was given all the damn credit
Executive went behind my part and stole the event planning points, didn’t have the balls to tell me.
I have come to realize this place is very poorly run based on all the confidential crap I hear
When we cut costs only the little people have to do so, execs still their their big fat perks.
I fucking hate this place. It takes everything in my to come here everyday even though financially this job is necessary( Thank god)

[iammalcolmx]

TTT- Don't forget the Christmas Party where the raffle winners got a case of water from Costco

[MrsAxilla]

I'm working this contract assignment on collective bargaining. I'm technically an admin, but everyone knows I'm a lawyer and treats me like a real employee. Except for one dude, who seems to think I'm his personal admin. He keeps dropping his damn filing on my desk. Dude, the filing cabinet is right there! One day he handed me a candy wrapper (just handed it to me like it was something else) and I almost lost it. Douche.

[y4m]

May 22, 2012 9:20:57 GMT -5 ttt said:

I'm sorry - some of you all have really shitty jobs

I quit my job a month ago - some of you have heard the whole story. Part of the long story short is that before I worked there, I designed and produced their whole website, and they never paid me for it (it was $3500, so not an insignificant sum). I pushed the issue for a few months, got blown off repeatedly, but let it go when I was hired on as a regular employee. After I quit, I got a certified letter saying I owe them money for my 27 hours of negative vacation balance.

Then, yesterday, I get emails from not one but two people there saying "Could you come in and help us make some updates to the website?"

My answer:

I am so smug on your behalf. Good luck with the website, old job!

[Melissa W.]

My boss gave me crap about my hours even though the crap he gave me was false. I did my homework and checked. I've met the weekly requirement and gotten my work done.

I am tired of being told that our department is held to a higher standard when it comes to raises and that I "should know better than anyone else" the climate we are working in regards to the budgets. I told him flat out that I do know better than anyone else and that I am frustrated to continually hear that line because other departments are adding to head count and giving raises. I said that while I like my job and our department, I work to live not the other way around.

I am pissed that I was compared to a guy straight out of college in this conversation. I have about 15 years of work experience behind me that this guys didn't. Boss did not have to teach me Excel.

I am mad that I haven't seen a 401K contribution since.... 2008??? Hourly got their back but salary didn't.

I don't take the health benefits either.

[Deleted]

I would, but I see pro Boards has a character limit for posts.

So let's just say that I'm getting my money's worth from my therapist and call it a day

[meshaliuknits]

When I took this job my boss indicated that my role in the group would be more project-based, less administrative (computer based). At our last team meeting he indicated that when we role onto the next version of the database we support, that he wants to centralize the data entry. All of it. With us. A) I think it's stupid that they don't/won't/can't trust their trainers to do something so minor. B) I didn't take this job to do data processing. It's boring and frankly it's a waste of everyone's skills to have the three of us doing nothing but that.

Andplusalso, my boss makes me crazy. He has this annoying ass thing where he has an idea of what he wants to do and then asks your opinion. If your opinion doesn't match his grand plan, which mine usually don't b/c he over complicates things, he starts asking leading questions to try to guide me to the conclusion he wants me to arrive at. I can see him start to get frustrated when I still don't end up where he wants me to. Dude, if you want me to do something JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT DONE. I'll tell you if I think it's stupid and if you still want it done, I'll do it. Oh! And he has me revising a document. I sent it out for feedback & he responded with "don't take offense" in the email. Dude, I do not like you enough to take offense at anything you say.

Thank FSM the two women I work with are awesome.

[meshaliuknits]

One more thing:

I started answering the help line on Friday. I've had two calls from people asking me what they had due. It took everything I had to not yell OPEN THE FUCKING PROGRAM AND LOOK!!! It took you longer to call me to look for you then it would have for you to look your goddamned self.

[pescalita]

We have no product, and I manage orders and inventory, so the topic of late has been what tropical island I'm traveling to for the month of July.

In actuality, running out of product means sales (retailers) and marketing (online sales) are in a fist fight, except that sales is run by a jackass and mktg is run by a doormat. The CFO is the only one who can put the hammer down, but he lost his spine while I was out on ML. And my new boss is great, but shes a) out of the country currently, and b) not worried about the problem at hand, but about covering my ass from sales jackass, which involves a lot of running to the CFO asking him to protect me.

I had no fewer than five emails in my inbox from sales jackass yesterday morning telling me what to do. I scared half my department blowing off steam by making fun of him.

[Deleted]

I could fill pages with work-related frustration, but my paranoia is stopping me.

I just want to whine that when I say it's been awful, it's been awful. I have literally cried in frustration every day (at home, after all the BS is done). I wake up and honestly dread turning on my computer/phone or going into the office. I have wonderful fantasies about how I'd quit if I had the opportunity.

I honestly have no idea what to do. There are a few perks I love--the ability to work from home, the fact I've been at my employer long enough to have 5 weeks of vacation time, etc--but I'm reaching the point where none of that is enough. I seriously think I'd be happier if my job were making lattes at Starbucks. Seriously, it's that bad. I keep hoping it will get better, but who knows?

[eclaires]

I want to hire all of you for my non-existent business.

I can't pay you, but I'll serve alcoholic beverages (and painkillers if you're really nice to me - I'll share!) and we can sit on my front porch and throw things at douchey neighbor kids. Woo hoo!

[eclaires]

Oh and my current job is to rest, take painkillers and make sure I'm recuperating.

This job is awesome. Being a SAHM is less awesome. Going back to being a SAHM next week is going to suck ballz.

[chichimi]

The bathroom is in the center of the offices and you can hear everything and there is no fan. Sometimes I plan where to go for lunch so I can poo in private.

[charminglife]

I have nothing to say after reading these posts. I'm sorry that some of you have jobs that are so frustrating!

[2curlydogs]

I am rolling out FIVE completely re-designed, re-developed, re-architected websites this fall. FIVE.

It's a massive, complex project that is dependent upon two other massive complex projects (a complete re-branding initiative - new logo, possibly new colors, etc. - AND "visioning and planning", which is basically coming up with a preferred future and strategic plan. so, you know, not insignificant). Those projects are slated to "wrap up" some time in June.

We're working with a 3rd party developer to come up with the design, so there is that. But the HTML and CSS are set to start being delivered in mid-July with the final ones coming in late August. The site needs to be launched by October 1st, giving me a month to take these templates and re-code them as .NET C# and integrate them with our CMS. Please note the singular - 'me'. As in, I am the only fucking developer on staff. And there is no chance of hiring another person - no money.

OH. And also please note: I also have to TRAIN all of the new content editors and approvers on the new CMS. So that they can create and load the content in the system. But we can't load the content in the CMS until the templates are integrated. AND I am still waiting on certain areas to get back to me with WHO is going to be responsible for their website content.

AND they keep coming up with fucking initiatives that throw massive wrenches in the project. Like the new discussion about having one, centralized master calendar. Lovely. But we don't know if it can even fucking work with our CMS because when they picked out the scheduling software a year or so ago that wasn't even a thought. Of course. But now they want it to.



Every time I think about it I start to hyperventilate and panic. I have no idea how I'm going to get thru it.

Oh. And on top of all of this I still have to do all my "Director level" crap (which is my actual job, but never mind that) - manage the new guy (who is awesome, btw. seriously. great hire. so there's that ray of sunshine), develop and manage my budget, come up strategic initiatives, coordination with other "web entities" at the university, serve on committees, etc. etc.

[wawa]

We recently hired somebody in mid-level management. He's not really above me, because we're in slightly different tracks within our department, but he's higher than me on the general hierarchy. Our boss asked him to help me out with something because he's light at the moment and i'm slammed - and he's the least helpful MFer ever. He has no idea how to use any computer program (including excel, word, etc), he can't use CADD, he can't make PDF's, and he keeps asking the same questions over and over anad over.

I'm really not sure what he actually DOES since he can't do any of this shit.

[mexicali]

My counterpart received a promotion and moved on. That was in March. They brought someone up to take my position and I decided to do his position. It's different and just something new to do, lateral move. I trained the new guy, old guy tried to train me and then the new guy had something else to do. I am now stuck doing both jobs. The new guy finally made the official move over here two weeks ago and tells me "I don't remember anything we trained on". That is just great.

But wait, it gets even better. They hire a girl to take the new guys position. They give new guy a project that is supposed to take a day out of the week and it takes him 3. When questioned about this he throws a giant man tantrum and complains. New girl comes in and finds out she has to have emergency service and is now gone. New guy now can't train and is overwhelmed. Finally they decide new guy is not going to cut it in our dept. They demote him back to his position and decided another girl is going to take it. Now we arestuck until the new girl comes back from her sugery and I am going on my 3rd month of doing both positions.

The kicker, I told them I can take on both positions with a higher pay and title. They told me that I couldn't possibly handle both. well I am and it is pissing me off that I am doing what they said I couldn't and wouldn't pay me for.

The end.

[escrow]

I am (obviously luckily) quite content with my job at the moment, so I will take the opportunity to bitch about my husband's current place of employment.

For starters, it is an hour away and in the opposite direction of anywhere we would consider moving to.

The company is part of a large corporation, and their employment policy is always temp-to-hire. So new hires are offered positions for a 90 day probationary period, they are told that if they are a good fit with the team and do a good job they will be hired on as a permanent employee. DH's team recently hired an electrical engineer, early 30s with a 6 month old baby (not that it really matters). This guy quit his job to take this temp-to-hire position, figuring he will do his best and have the full time job after 90 days. The team all thinks he is great and does good work. However DH heard through the grapevine that they are continuing to interview for this position behind this guy's back!! I get it, business is business, but that is shady shit and the fact that my DH directly reports to the guy who is doing this does not rub me the right way. At all.

Another lovely aspect: DH travels quite a bit and recently spent 3 weeks in Asia (China, Japan and India). Their seriously wacked out travel policy asks employees to book and pay for their own travel in advance, and fill out expense reports upon return. This is all fine and dandy for 3 day trips to California, but it is completely un-fucking-acceptable that my husband has been home for 3 weeks now and is STILL waiting on a $6000+ reimbursement check from those asswipes! They sent his first submission back telling him he needs to handwrite all USD amounts on each and every 2 dozen plus receipts, who cares that it is all on the spreadhsheet. Not that he has the 5 hours required to do all this bullshit and chase his asshole boss around for another damn signature. AND on top of this they are asking him to book a trip to Brazil next month. OVER IT!

[escrow]

May 22, 2012 10:56:29 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

I am rolling out FIVE completely re-designed, re-developed, re-architected websites this fall. FIVE.

It's a massive, complex project that is dependent upon two other massive complex projects (a complete re-branding initiative - new logo, possibly new colors, etc. - AND "visioning and planning", which is basically coming up with a preferred future and strategic plan. so, you know, not insignificant). Those projects are slated to "wrap up" some time in June.

We're working with a 3rd party developer to come up with the design, so there is that. But the HTML and CSS are set to start being delivered in mid-July with the final ones coming in late August. The site needs to be launched by October 1st, giving me a month to take these templates and re-code them as .NET C# and integrate them with our CMS. Please note the singular - 'me'. As in, I am the only fucking developer on staff. And there is no chance of hiring another person - no money.

OH. And also please note: I also have to TRAIN all of the new content editors and approvers on the new CMS. So that they can create and load the content in the system. But we can't load the content in the CMS until the templates are integrated. AND I am still waiting on certain areas to get back to me with WHO is going to be responsible for their website content.

AND they keep coming up with fucking initiatives that throw massive wrenches in the project. Like the new discussion about having one, centralized master calendar. Lovely. But we don't know if it can even fucking work with our CMS because when they picked out the scheduling software a year or so ago that wasn't even a thought. Of course. But now they want it to.



Every time I think about it I start to hyperventilate and panic. I have no idea how I'm going to get thru it.

Oh. And on top of all of this I still have to do all my "Director level" crap (which is my actual job, but never mind that) - manage the new guy (who is awesome, btw. seriously. great hire. so there's that ray of sunshine), develop and manage my budget, come up strategic initiatives, coordination with other "web entities" at the university, serve on committees, etc. etc.

Oh hi..another female C# developer. Thought I was the only one! heh

[josieposy]

My complaints aren't as bad as some of yours. My former employee is now my customer. Awesome. My company won't make me salaried simply because of how many employees I have under me, so I'm doing just as much as the salaried peeps, but making a lot less.

I've been trying to get a new job for almost a year and I'm sick of rejection.