ever hate your job?
today i come in and our old web server is on the fritz. it's been going bad for a while now, but we were hoping it could last another month or so until next semester, so the changeover could occur between classes. instead today it got pissy again, and i decided i was tired of keeping this POS on life support.
so instead i decide it's time to switch servers. should be easy, transparent etc. lo and behold there are problems. not a single course page works, although the department page is fine. so now i'm working like a dog trying to get everything running on the new crap. today is going to suck ass. (i'm transferring huge amounts of files now, so i have a breather)
edit: turns out through the use of very creative aliasing our web site was located in over 30 different users folders. this is a nightmare.
when and how does your job suck?
[ 11-05-2002: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
so instead i decide it's time to switch servers. should be easy, transparent etc. lo and behold there are problems. not a single course page works, although the department page is fine. so now i'm working like a dog trying to get everything running on the new crap. today is going to suck ass. (i'm transferring huge amounts of files now, so i have a breather)
edit: turns out through the use of very creative aliasing our web site was located in over 30 different users folders. this is a nightmare.
when and how does your job suck?
[ 11-05-2002: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
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I was supposed to thaw cells last Thursday, but my boss didn't tell the person with the cells that I was supposed to get them, and she didn't believe me, so we had to postpone that experiment until Friday.
My boss scheduled me to inoculate two 2L Bioreactors on Friday, but there isn't enough equipment for me, not to mention that I am inoculating a 50L Bioreactor the same day.
FRIDAY I AM SCHEDULED FOR A DAY OFF!!!!!!!!!! She didn't realize it, and just left me with this ridiculous schedule where I'm supposed to do about two days worth of work ON MY DAY OFF.
My job is great. MY BOSS SUCKS.
<strong>Although the db is and exact copy, the copy occured 6 months ago...needless to say we had to restore (ahem I had to) from hot backup (64 gigs of live patient data)
Do you have dead patients as well?
That truly would suck.
a customer came in with a performa 630 that crashed on him.
as i found out he bought the mac in the release-year and worked with it 'till now...
he never did anything then work on it...
i meen he didn't touch the system...
it just worked all thouse years!!!
it sucks because my company should have sold him at least 4 mac's in that time.
but it fills me with joy when i think about it.
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Do you have dead patients as well?
That truly would suck.
hehe..no
We call our production system "live data" and our mock system "test"
We have goofy names in mock like Micky Mouse and Donald Duck.
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Do you have dead patients as well?
That truly would suck.
A hand full of times I've gone looking for a patient's chart only to find out that they've died.
<strong>I'm embarrassed to say it, but I love my job. <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
I love mine too. Just some of the people <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> rude and unprofessional. I'm also waiting for one of the admins to stab me in the back. I was told it's coming.
<strong>I love mine too. Just some of the people <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> rude and unprofessional. I'm also waiting for one of the admins to stab me in the back. I was told it's coming.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think I'm lucky in two respects: One, I don't have to deal with "the public" and two, I'm the boss (Well, within my department.) I don't have to take any ****.
Though admins, as everyone knows, are the product of Satan. I answer to nobody within my department, and those above leave me to my own devices, but there's always admins questioning overheads, and overtime, and expenses, and asking where those forms are that were supposed to be completed by Friday (Even though it's still Wednesday.) <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
2 years ago we opened the deli, and I work increasingly more in there and I HATE it! Some of the same people I got along with great become soooo annoying when they get around prepared foods!
Our main hot food is fried chicken (some deli, I know) and I hate trying to figure out how much to have ready, too much and it's wasted, too little and I run out...
Many other things I hate, I could go on and on...
Jeff
[ 11-05-2002: Message edited by: jeffyboy ]</p>
Today, my boss got laid off.
Senior management in my company keeps telling us that our jobs are secure, and that we are the core group that the future of the company will be based around.
They said the same thing to the west coast division, and to my boss, months earlier.
<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
[ 11-05-2002: Message edited by: jesperas ]</p>
How about "ever had a single DAY in ANY job that you DIDN'T HATE?"
NO NO NO.
I've never wanted or liked to go to any f'in job in my life.
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A hand full of times I've gone looking for a patient's chart only to find out that they've died.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You work for a hospital? What do you do?
(tig)
hopefully i'll find a huge sack of cash one day, so i can open up my own company. that, or i'll eat a bullet before i'm forty. i think drugs can hold me over till then.
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Though admins, as everyone knows, are the product of Satan. I answer to nobody within my department, and those above leave me to my own devices, but there's always admins questioning overheads, and overtime, and expenses, and asking where those forms are that were supposed to be completed by Friday (Even though it's still Wednesday.) <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
now i understand your signature
Personaly i don't deal with admins (even if our beloved governement dream to put some on our back ...) but with public.
But what made me mad is the perpetual threat to be sued. That's the only thing that can make me hate my job.
It was approximately 50% less than what we were supposed to receive.
Tomorrow we will see the other half.
Even though the work can be very unappealing (and downright hazardous to my health) and the hourly rate is not fantastic, I still like the sizeable bonuses they give out up to 4 times a year.
If we meet certain conditions at the end of the quarter, they calculate 20% of our total pay for that quarter, and tack that on to the next paycheck.
Though, I am still looking to find another job early in 2003. I want to find something I truly enjoy and doesn't find me walking through the office, being pulled aside by various people (managers) who tell me I am totally over-qualified for my job and I should seriously get a major promotion. (which won't happen because there are NO openings in my region right now.)
[ 11-07-2002: Message edited by: DoctorGonzo ]</p>
Ah, the joys of being a student...
[ 11-07-2002: Message edited by: chych ]</p>
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But what made me mad is the perpetual threat to be sued. That's the only thing that can make me hate my job.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You get that in France huh? I guess I had only read of that as a real problem in British Common Law coutries like US, UK, Down Under ect. I didn't think people in France tossed that around like they do here?