The "Hate my job" thread!

[pochercoaster]

I work in a coffee shop (it's not a major chain) that's very infested with cockroaches.

...Yeah. I keep pestering my boss to hire an exterminator but he has yet to do anything about it. I want to call the health inspector and leave an anonymous complaint but since the store would be shut down until the problem has been eradicated, what precious little business we have would be totally eliminated and I'd be looking for another full-time job, which is not all that easy right now for someone with no qualifications.

...So basically I'm waiting for a customer to complain until the health inspector comes on their own accord and fate closes our store. =D! If the store somehow isn't shut down by the time I quit (which should be in about a year when I move) I WILL leave a very detailed, anonymous complaint to the health department and pray that my boss learns a lesson about being too cheap to run a store that isn't a health hazard. I also hope karma doesn't punish me for smiling through my teeth for customers and extolling the benefits of our superior espresso and sandwiches when I secretly wish I could tell them that their daily order, which is often expensive, is a risk to their health and to never ever give their business to my boss again.

I think I have all you guys beat.

There are a couple benefits to my job, however- it's slow as hell, so I can sit on my ass a lot, and I have nearly total control over my schedule, so I can get enough hours every week to support myself and pay all my bills (something's that's increasingly rare in the minimum wage coffee-pushing world.)

Edit: Oh, and just how bad is the infestation? Well, when I arrive to work I immediately wrap my coat and backpack in a garbage bag and tie it VERY tightly because once I put on my coat and there was a huge cockroach crawling up the sleeve. And fuck I'm not gonna transfer the infestation to my OWN apartment.

Or the one time I saw a cockroach wriggling around in cream cheese. YUMMY. (I threw the cream cheese out, obviously.)

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I work at Subway.
It's okay, really varies a lot from day to day depending on the people that come in, part of it is the amount of people...and the really big thing, is how unfucking believably stupid and/or insane they are. Not to mention the rare example of a dangerous combination of insane, stupid and very angry.

Overall though it's a nice place to work, I like the regulars, at least one of the store owners, my fellow employees, although while I personally haven't had a problem with him yet, I've head stories about the man recently promoted to general manager that can only make me associate the words "Manipulative monster" with him.
Like, using the absence of a manager for maternity leave to fire so many of her employees that she's forced to come back into work far sooner than she should have.

[Eltargrim]

I start my new job in May. I'll be assisting in the preparation and analysis of beta-amyloid plaques in mice through FPA Raman spectroscopy, specifically using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, or SERS.

In short: I cut up sample; I set parameters; spectra are collected over the course of 10 hours; I analyze lots of samples.

In short: this will either be awesome or completely mind-numbing. Or both! Or, most likely, long periods of boredom interspersed with brief moments of totally awesome. But hey, money and science!

[phil_]

Originally Posted by grthwllms

I work at Subway.
It's okay, really varies a lot from day to day depending on the people that come in, part of it is the amount of people...and the really big thing, is how unfucking believably stupid and/or insane they are. Not to mention the rare example of a dangerous combination of insane, stupid and very angry.

Overall though it's a nice place to work, I like the regulars, at least one of the store owners, my fellow employees, although while I personally haven't had a problem with him yet, I've head stories about the man recently promoted to general manager that can only make me associate the words "Manipulative monster" with him.
Like, using the absence of a manager for maternity leave to fire so many of her employees that she's forced to come back into work far sooner than she should have.

"Oh, I don't have enough money; can I have my sandwich anyway?"

[McTahr]

Originally Posted by Eltargrim

completely mind-numbing.

This one. It sounds like my physics position, when I actually get to work it. 1. Prepare sample, 2. Test sample, 3. Read data, 4. Repeat ad nauseum.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Originally Posted by phil_

"Oh, I don't have enough money; can I have my sandwich anyway?"

No no no, my favorite was: "I don't want that sub anymore, it has mustard on it."

"Okay."
Wrap the sub up and put it on the counter behind me

"What are you going to do with that?"
"I'll see if someone else wants it."
"Can I have it?"
"Okay. That'll be $6.36."
"Why should I have to pay for it?!"

[Eltargrim]

Originally Posted by McTahr

This one. It sounds like my physics position, when I actually get to work it. 1. Prepare sample, 2. Test sample, 3. Read data, 4. Repeat ad nauseum.

Probably, except that we get a ridiculous number of spectra per sample. Our FPA has some ridiculous resolution; something like 64x64 0.5 um pixels. Looooooooots of spectra. Plus the possibility of visiting synchrotron sources!

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Synchrotrons are boringggggggggggg. You just push buttons, you don't get to tinker with anything.

And you have to like fill out all your experiments in advance- you can't throw things in just because, which is my typical experimenting procedure.
Synchroton owners are nazis!

[Amake]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I wonder how much you mine us for inspiration now. I think I'm scared.

People don't provide as much inspiration as you may think. At least it's not my style to copy people to make my characters. Or use real events as things that happen in my stories. I like to make up those things myself.

Actually what I collect from the real world is mostly my own reactions to things that happen. How I feel about, for example, scaring you just now is useful if I'm going to write about how that feels. (A little guilty, even though I doubt you were very serious. It's like short bursts of tiny artillery cannons from my heart, collapsing and lessening my chest and the back of my throat in minute flashes that pull at my face, making it hard to hold my head high. I have felt it many times before and much stronger, but never been able to sit down and analyze it like this.) That's the kind of stuff you can't make from nothing.

So, nothing to be scared of, right?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

People don't provide as much inspiration as you may think. At least it's not my style to copy people to make my characters. Or use real events as things that happen in my stories. I like to make up those things myself.

Actually what I collect from the real world is mostly my own reactions to things that happen. How I feel about, for example, scaring you just now is useful if I'm going to write about how that feels. (A little guilty, even though I doubt you were very serious. It's like short bursts of tiny artillery cannons from my heart, collapsing and lessening my chest and the back of my throat in minute flashes that pull at my face, making it hard to hold my head high. I have felt it many times before and much stronger, but never been able to sit down and analyze it like this.) That's the kind of stuff you can't make from nothing.

So, nothing to be scared of, right?

Wow. Nice! I can't say I'd describe guilt that way myself, but it's interesting to read, that's for sure. XD

And yeah, I was mostly joking. I just shuddered to think what kinds of casts you might have derived from NPF.