[mo money mo problems] Tell me something UNinteresting about your job

[Fifthfiend]

So basically everyone who has a job has something they totally can't stand and/or love about their job that they can't tell anybody because it would be physically impossible for anyone who isn't them to give a shit.

This is a thread for that! Tell me all about the boring-ass minutae of your humdrum existence. I really, sincerely, honestly want to know!!

EDIT I guess if you're a student that's okay too?

EDIT It had better be really, super mundane though!

[wx4caster]

something interesting is that i cant tell you anything other than i forecast the weather for the military,

how cool is that?

[POS Industries]

So, like, fucking bitches and getting money all day is pretty great. But sometimes you just need to take a break because you get all drained and things start to chafe. So, you know, all the downtime you occasionally have can be kind of a drag, since those are times when you not fucking bitches and getting money.

[Eltargrim]

Been accused of being a creeper/pervert/paedophile because I "stared too much."

That's the entire point of my job, people! How would you like it if I started reading a book and then your kid drowned?

Idiots. Happens about once a week.

[TDK]

if a child drowns once a week then I don't think you're a very good lifeguard

[Wigmund]

Originally Posted by TDK

if a child drowns once a week then I don't think you're a very good lifeguard

The Pool Gods must have their sacrifices otherwise there will be dire consequences.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by TDK

if a child drowns once a week then I don't think you're a very good lifeguard

I think this is the best post TDK has ever made on any of his various accounts.

Around the end of October, we turn the heaters on at my theater. This makes the air dry and causes high-static conditions. Because of this, all the tiny, stepped-in popcorn particulate that accrues in the lobby and hallway during the course of a show becomes super static-charged. When I try to sweep anything less than a whole kernel off the carpet, the popcorn crumbs fly anywhere but where I'm sweeping them, forcing me to make tiny, slow sweeps, alternating the orientation of the broom every few sweeps so it doesn't get a charge. Even then, the dust tends to fly out of the dustpan whenever it feels like it, forcing me to sweep it up again. It's very frustrating and I'm glad that we're on the tail-end of Spring and I don't have to deal with it for another few months.

[bluestarultor]

I spend a lot of time hating on my English teacher. This is, unfortunately, the second time I've had her for English 102 due to her inability to teach a class. She's not a bad person, but she's incredibly disorganized and has a bad habit of whipping changes out at the last minute, making you scramble, insisting on stupidly narrow topics, and not rewarding you for the right things. I wrote a 5-page paper, essentially a perfect first draft, and made all the changes suggested during peer reviews and her private suggestions, and was excited to get it back. When I did, not only was there no grade for my efforts, but she wrote all sorts of notes about "problems" where they didn't exist just so she could make me revise the damn thing again for the final bit of the course, along with the one I'm doing now. My grade so far has taken three hits because the only points I've gotten for the past two units have been from marking up other people's papers for peer review and I was too busy trying to do my own under the deluded assumption it would matter.

I swear to God if I fail this class again, she's getting the worst review in the history of the school for her retarded grading policies and lack of leadership skills. As it stands, it's still not looking good.

[Eltargrim]

But they don't drown, because I watch them! I usually prevent about one drowning a month or so, and that only counts people who started drowning. I'm big on prevention, which means I watch patrons! Gragh!

[Eltargrim]

I sacrifice the people who shit in the pool. That's just not cool.