My job announces promotions by giving you ten books to read and 2 months to read them. Mulit choice test, top guy gets promoted. no guarantee you'll get the promotion
I talk to people on the phone that are experiencing financial hardship.
This can range from people going through a divorce, unemployment, terminal illness, permanent disability, gambling addiction, mental illness, lengthy legal battle, substance abuse problem, being effected by a natural disasters and plenty of other cheery scenarios.
Some days it's incredibly rewarding, but other days it's a complete emotional drainer.
Being a soldier in a top-heavy, underfunded military means that getting promoted at the bottom essentially leads to two things:
You have more bosses directly telling you what to do
You have fewer resources with which to accomplish said tasks
So the tendency is to rise quickly to the single worst level of leadership available, where you're driven into the ground until you either quit or just don't care about anything anymore. It's at this latter, critical point that you're either promoted for getting this far or demoted for not working hard enough. Either way some other sorry soul gets the job and the cycle of disposable NCOs continues
This sucks but there's a hump in every job, civil or otherwise, I suppose
Having to be in charge of the grocery phone. It can be annoying when your trying to focus on your task, but get sidetracked when that phone rings. On top of that you never know what to expect from the calls. Sometimes it can be a prank call that makes your day more annoying, you might get asked questions that you don't know the answer too, hell you might end up running around the store back and forth.
There's alot of things at my job that I think ''sucks'', but that phone can really make my day much worse. I also hate when I get stopped by customers while on the phone. I hate when people ask me about prices, or when is the next shipment for an item suppose to be in. Most of the time I got no fucking idea.
About 8 hours every week of downloading data and copy-pasting it into spreadsheets.It's alright if you can break it down and do it over a couple of days, but sometimes the amount of other stuff going on means I have to do it all in one day and it just gets really difficult to keep my eyes open.
@Giantstalker I am sure being shot at does not help either!
I managed to replace my own job in the last office I worked in. When I started about 90% of my job was to basically copy and paste numbers from one spreadsheet to another and do calculations. I got bored of this after a week so I wrote some excel macros at home and ended up automating the entire process. I was still on my probationary period so they ditched me but kept the new system.
The only thing worse than getting replaced by a robot is building the robot yourself.
@Giantstalker I am sure being shot at does not help either!
I managed to replace my own job in the last office I worked in. When I started about 90% of my job was to basically copy and paste numbers from one spreadsheet to another and do calculations. I got bored of this after a week so I wrote some excel macros at home and ended up automating the entire process. I was still on my probationary period so they ditched me but kept the new system.
The only thing worse than getting replaced by a robot is building the robot yourself.
haha. I'm in a slightly similar situation actually. Fortunately I'm working for a small company so I can make sure that I'm the only person who knows how to work the spreadsheets without them breaking...
Unpaid overtime. Couple of weeks ago I worked 19 straight hours and got paid for 8 of them.
Everybody here better go and watch Exodus, that's all I'm saying...
Pretty sure Office Space is the definitive cinematic work covering all forms of suck of any job. I highly recommend watching it before quitting any job, as it certainly made me feel better.
Working overnights. It's both a blessing and a curse since while I don't have to deal with customers, and can wear whatever I feel like, I also have to sleep during the day when everyone else is out doing stuff. I can't count the number of family functions and friends parties I had to miss because of work.
Working for a Canadian company that is wholly owned by a Russian company, and currently having to worry about possible sanctions on top of zero in the way of job security!
Throw in workplace morale is terrible and full of people just looking for something better...
A multichoice test? You could probably get away with reading an indepth summary of every book and fill in the context yourself. I doubt the questions would be impossible to guess. Also what the fuck is your job?
My job announces promotions by giving you ten books to read and 2 months to read them. Mulit choice test, top guy gets promoted. no guarantee you'll get the promotion
Well, that certainly will promote the person with reading comprehension skills and good test taking skills.
My library job's suck is...me.
I'm a procrastinator (perfectionist), so I put things off than then do things more rushed. I'm really good at producing very good work under pressure, because I dig down hard on the work. On the bad side, when I'm in work mode I'm a little cold and abrupt to my staff. When I'm in works mode I don't like to be interrupted; moreover, I want straight simple answers to straight simple questions which is hard to give when I'm glaring at you. I make my own job tougher than it needs to be and I make some days tougher than they need to be on my staff.
My job is just boring, unhelpful organization and clerical work for an overfunded, inefficient bureaucratic center that has no tangible results to show for the expenditures they incur. Only a few more months though!
I tend to actually like my job. I'm currently having to deal with the communication team responsible for dealing with the US Ebola patient in Dallas, which is kind of insane. So, that can "suck" at times. But after working 7 years at a terrible job after college, I finally got one that pays me really, really well and I enjoy.
I work with scammy companies to find ways to fleece people out of their hard earned dollars so they can buy a $600 binder of useless information.
I deal with large non-profits to figure out how to maximize their earning potential while keeping their expenses so high they don't have to deal with their charitable work. Included in this is making their public image look impeccable.
Finally, I have to deal with my seven bosses and coworkers. Bullying, hazing, and harassment is a daily occurrence to me. HR doesn't give a damn.
A lot of work for not a lot of recognition or appropriate pay. I work in state government, specifically the judicial system, so the benefits (health, dental, retirement) are pretty good, but the pay is below what I would be making in a similar situation out in the private sector. I do love what I do, though. It keeps me sane and there is barely ever a dull moment.
The worst moments, I would say, are that sometimes I have to read affidavits and issue warrants based on probable cause. Sometimes they're minor, like thefts or violating bail conditions, but sometimes they're obviously much more serious. These include child porn and child sexual abuse cases. Those, obviously, are horrible to read, but I just try to focus on the job and how I am trying to make the world a better place, not on the stuff I have no control over ie - sickos being sickos in the world.
I like what I do, I just dislike the people I work with. I enjoy making software but then I have to deal with people who are just fucking terrible at communicating and waste a lot of everyone's time because they suck at it. Currently in the process of looking for another job anyway.
Dealing with the every day public and their problems which they want me to solve, or help them when someone commits as crime against them. But when everything is fine, I'm the worst enemy.
Okay really working as of yet, as I've only taken a class and done clinicals and passed the state exam, so I'm waiting on a number of job apps. (Certified Nursing Assistant)
It's helping care for older people who have difficulties caring for themselves, but even in my 1 week of clinicals I saw a number of very disheartening things.
If you or your family are putting an elderly relative in a nursing center, do your fucking research.
Repetitive yet essential data entry stuff that, due to understaffing and some questionable decision-making means I could do 15 extra hours this week and the business wouldn't feel the difference. Also the fact that we were never qualified to take this contract on in the first place and the government is absolutely fine with it.
Occasionally someone rings my doorbell and I have to put on pants while madly dashing to the door. (I am self-employed, work at home.)
Seriously, though - I'd have to say my toughest challenge is usually managing my own time management when I am either procrastinating or working over a creative hurdle/slump and a large amount of work suddenly floods in from several clients. It can be hard to change gears or get motivated if one or two particular jobs are weighing on my mind.
Well it just happened these past days... when you get to use the machine that supposedly washes the shit and blood from eggs to only see that all of the eggs still come out with pieces of shit and traces of blood and having to in the end do it by hand .... sigh and the worst part is that we are talking about 10,000 plus eggs to clean. Also the 2 hour commute , being the one who does most of the chores outside the main work and having to deal with , well rather very uneducated/lazy coworkers etc. So yeah in 2 or 3 weeks Im done with this job , no dont worry my notice is in since a month ago , and well I actually skiped the promotion because in the end I know that I would have more responsibilities but more work to do because my coworkes wouldnt let me boss them around so I would still need to do most of it anyway , and have more hours to work ... so nope no more of that.
I'm currently unemployed, so the thing that sucks about my "job" is that doing nothing can get boring. Hell, once in a while I'll be wanking my job hard and realize I'm rather bored. The fucks up with that?
But when I was working at a topo map store in SoCal it was the Alphabetizing of thousands of maps, and the fact that almost no one ever came in tha sucks the most
Parking. I work at the largest employer I Virginia and parking is scarce. Start at 7am, to get a spot near my gate you have to be parked by 5am. If you don't mind a 30 minute walk it can be avoided though
IT Manager for a mid-size restaurant company on call 24/7 and required to work 65 hours a week, to have Servers lose there shit at you over not being able to ring in orders...
My job is a weekend call center gig which used to really get to me before I went back to school for Engineering and had to do it full time. Was so damn repetitive. Now the suck part is that it gets in the way of my studies, but I cannot afford to leave.
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