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

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Jobless here too. Well, sort of. I've been doing PAT testing on and off for a while now, but don't tell the job centre people that!

The most boring aspect of the job is... well to be honest, it's all pretty boring. The job involves waiting for people to finish what they're doing on their computers so they can shut them down and get the fuck out of my way, unplugging all their shit (which generally involves wading through a sea of dust and random shit on the floor trying to figure out which of the 3 million cables goes to their computer), then plugging those cables and their computers, monitors, printers and other assorted shit into a testing machine, giving them a serial number, then running any number of automated tests to make sure the shit is safe to continue using, and putting a sticker on it to say its passed, then plugging all their shit back in for them.

Then I get to move on and do it all over again!

On the plus side, aside from having to work around people who don't want me there stopping them from working for 5 minutes because they're soo into whatever mundane shit they do for a living, I pretty much have no boss or anyone else looking over my shoulder watching me, so I can go as fast or as slowly as I want, take breaks when I want, start and finish when I want, and if nobody's around, can stick my iPod on and listen to some tunes as I work, if I want.

[Melfice]

I'm a mail-man.
Despite porn telling us otherwise, mail-men don't have sex every time they deliver mail.

Oh, wait. That's sorta interesting, I guess?

Uh... I walk for several hours, putting mail in mailboxes?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I used to be a mail sorter. We play horse with peoples packages and speed around on mail carts and redirect letters to politicians we don't like to far flung places. That was kind of interesting so really all I did all day was put letters in slots.

[Geminex]

That bit about the politicians is silly. Mostly they're gonna be complaints, so make sure they arrive! And add a few of your own.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Anybody with a real complaint would be writing it on the politician's windows in dogshit.

[Amake]

I'm not sure dogshit deserves such treatment. I mean, dogs are nice. The proper way to register a complaint to a politician is clearly with the shit of malaria parasites.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I copy shit, file shit, fax shit, take shit, enter the shit into my computer to file it again. Then I file some more shit. Then my boss comes with a "difficult" shit-task which is finished in ten minutes with Excel. Every evening when I come home I'm so full of shit. Then I log on to NPF.

Every time no one looks I dream of a life with a job I can enjoy. A life full of nice things. World peace and love for everyone. A life where my dreams come true. Then I notice I'm dreaming and nothing of it is true. I'm really looking forward to being unemployed in two month's. It'll be a blast. I can quietly do my mandatory civil service in some asylum and pretend I don't mind and all this doesn't matter, it's just a bad dream that will never come true. Until I wake up.

Anyway, to end on a high note. Since this also belongs to my job (training). Today my grades magically improved via the trusted ????-pattern* (usually applied to economics. In that case it would be like this: expansion -> boom -> recession -> depression -> expansion -> boom -> recession -> depression -> ???? -> Profit). Seriously, this is too good. My mean is now 1.5 or 1.3 (1 being the best), depending on whether the ???? strikes again. This may help me to find a decent job afterwards.

[batgirl]

If there aren't people dying, I have to sit. In my ambulance. And do nothing.

Unless I bring a book or my DS, but to be honest that gets old fast.

Something else that's boring: I have to take people to the doctor on my stretcher and wait with them during the appointment. Despite these people being on a stretcher, I frequently have to sit in the waiting room for hours with nothing but parenting magazines to read and the news on tv. Not even fucking Price is Right. The I get to go into the office and hear about the patient's corns/skin ulcers/poop problems and watch the doctor do nothing. I wait hours for a 5 min appointment. This happens at least twice a week.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Kerensky287

Your response makes you feel good about yourself for a moment, but then you are hit by a bus in an unrelated incident. Should've chosen a different route, I guess!

THE END

Holy lol

Man, Edward Packard was an asshole.

[krogothwolf]

If it's a really slow day in IT land here I can play video games, it's great!