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

[Donomni]

Unemployed, but in the sense I don't work for a business.

I'm more or less my mom's secretary and on-and-off toddler distracter.

It is just as tedious and stressful as you would think, which is very(Seriously, divorces fucking SUCK).

[Tev]

My day consists of eight hours in which I answer the phone about fifty times and say “What is wrong? Which box? I sent it a signal. Did that work? No? Then swap it out.” When I am not doing that my attention is evening divided watching TV, reading things here, or poking around the rest of the internet. Sometimes I play Pokemon.

EDIT: Did I mention that I am a five time winner of a company-wide award that has only been around to hand out five times so far?

[synkr0nized]

I just sat here for an hour randomly clicking links on the Internet and refreshing my inbox in a meeting. Mmm. Delicious wastes of time.

[pochercoaster]

I have to clean dried urine off of the toilet in the men's washroom at my work.

Can someone tell me why it's so common for men to miss? Please? We don't even get a lot of kids (I work at a Starbucks-type establishment) but I suppose even after 35 years some men still haven't learned how to aim. Or maybe they're so hopped up from their large extra hot no foam skim vanilla latte half sweet with two extra shots that they can't concentrate on what they're doing. I dunno.

Also, truckers. Can't stand them. Even if they didn't drive very large and obvious trucks I can tell when one's coming because they are almost always short, beer-bellied, balding with white hair and they wear denim tuxedos with baseball caps. That, in itself, is okay, but it enhances the creepy factor when they come in and stare at the girls behind the counter. They also like to strike up conversations over nothing in particular and they're convinced that the years they've spent driving have imbued them with some sort of special wisdom that we should be oh so grateful to listen to. They're also part of a very small group of Ontarions that actually say "eh" on a regular basis, which annoys me for some reason.

That's not to say there AREN'T decent, polite, & non-creepy truckers out there. I've just yet to meet any. So, if you're a trucker and you fit the profile I just described, you can get the fuck out of my store and leave me & my co-workers alone.

[Amake]

Why do dudes stand and pee to begin with? It saves time and effort. Aiming carefully, likewise, takes brain-power that could be used to think about sex or something important like the optimal order of coffee. It's purely a matter of priorities.

Hey, at least it's sterile. Be glad almost no one tries to poop while standing.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Men can aim correctly AND think about sex at the same time without drifting into a some fetish or something.

It's possibly the only thing we they can multi task.

EDIT: On a whim I decided to change to girl bits again.
EDIT2: Because last time Meister hit on me and I kinda liked that.

[Doc ock rokc]

I work in a Restraunt-Movie theater Hybrid. Basically the waiter takes your order.
Me and My crew take to you your food and drinks, busts the Theaters, do all the Minor but major small stuff that isn't taking the order and giving the check.
then the Waiter comes in to pick up the check and then picks up his tip basically earned off of us.
but in turn we get payed more per hour ($5.50 vs $2.50) but they walk of with more tips (30 bucks a 18 hour weekend vs 80-120 bucks a 5 hour night) ok I giving bad numbers but basically it evens out to 10 bucks a hour for us and 10-15 bucks a hour for them. it kinda Pisses me off.
Also When I find that teen that keeps Flipping the Ranch cups over so that it HAS to spill all over the table when we pick it up Ill kill him.
also It sucks if you actually want to watch the movies your running. I thankfully have avoided Kickass enough not to ruin it. but Clash and How to Train Your Dragon was ruined for me.

[katiuska]

Originally Posted by pocheros

I have to clean dried urine off of the toilet in the men's washroom at my work.

Can someone tell me why it's so common for men to miss? Please? We don't even get a lot of kids (I work at a Starbucks-type establishment) but I suppose even after 35 years some men still haven't learned how to aim. Or maybe they're so hopped up from their large extra hot no foam skim vanilla latte half sweet with two extra shots that they can't concentrate on what they're doing. I dunno.

Also, truckers. Can't stand them. Even if they didn't drive very large and obvious trucks I can tell when one's coming because they are almost always short, beer-bellied, balding with white hair and they wear denim tuxedos with baseball caps. That, in itself, is okay, but it enhances the creepy factor when they come in and stare at the girls behind the counter. They also like to strike up conversations over nothing in particular and they're convinced that the years they've spent driving have imbued them with some sort of special wisdom that we should be oh so grateful to listen to. They're also part of a very small group of Ontarions that actually say "eh" on a regular basis, which annoys me for some reason.

That's not to say there AREN'T decent, polite, and & non-creepy truckers out there. I've just yet to meet any. So, if you're a trucker and you fit the profile I just described, you can get the fuck out of my store and leave me & my co-workers alone.

I'd regularly find the lobby bathroom in my old dorm trashed, and always in the most baffling ways. I have to assume the guilty parties were totally wasted at the time, because there's no other explanation for how substances would end up so far from where they're supposed to go.

This is apparently common in the City, but not something I'd seen anywhere else.

New York women are disgusting.

[Meister]

Originally Posted by Doc ock rokc

When I find that teen that keeps Flipping the Ranch cups over so that it HAS to spill all over the table when we pick it up

Until you find the fucker and get to chew him out, bring a flat smooth piece of plastic, maybe an old (invalid) credit card or blank key card or something, or get some cardboard laminated if it really happens a lot. Slide that under the flipped cup and flip it right back. Voila, minimized spillage.

[Wigmund]

What I hate is when the ungrateful fucks buying shit at movie theaters spend their time bitching to you about the prices at the concession stand. Do they think if I had any control over those damn prices that I would spend my time getting bitched at by fat fucks who want a jumbo tub of popcorn, a couple of hot dogs, some fried shit and a large Diet Coke?

Also, while running the door stands pulling tickets I'm amazed how many people will wander aimlessly around the theaters looking for the one they're supposed to be at. Or they get bitchy about waiting in line while the previous movies are letting out and the theater is being cleaned so they won't have to sit in the previous showing's left behind trash, I'd rather let them sit next to someone's used dip cup but the company doesn't like that idea.

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

Why do dudes stand and pee to begin with? It saves time and effort. Aiming carefully, likewise, takes brain-power that could be used to think about sex or something important like the optimal order of coffee. It's purely a matter of priorities.

Because taking a piss while standing shows our superiority over other creatures by allowing us to write in the snow. Other animals piss while they stand, but can they write notes that vary in length depending on how much one has had to drink?