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offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-27 17:34 [#00327129]
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All I can think about is my job, it has ruined my formerly
(somewhat) enjoyable life. I know this has been done
countless times... but there's new people, and maybe some
others are doing new things. Where do you work? What do you
do? What are your hours? Pay? What do you do for lunch? You
like your coworkers?

I work at EHS, Emergency Health Services. Surely, that must
make you feel safe, knowing that Ophecks is going through
the drugs and medical supplies on the trucks and the kits
and making sure it's all there and all the drugs are not
expired, and present and accounted for.

I also wash the ambulances. I hate that shit. I also help
the mechanic guy sometimes. He's a bit of a dick, I think.
Dunno yet. Also have to change tires and stuff, rip the rims
out. I actually don't mind that, that's my favorite part of
the job. They're fun to throw around and rip apart and
stuff. Also have to clean the place up.

The problem is, we're not that busy, and I always find
myself with nothing to do but pace around. I hope it gets
busier, the day goes faster if I have something to do. And
there's a computer, but I can't go on it and do fun stuff on
the net, it's all business! I just find myself sllooooooowly
checking the ambulances and thinking about stuff. The day is
so slow. How does everyone keep sane on their jobs?

Paid 7.50 an hour I think. Come in at 8:45, leave for lunch
around 12:15, which I go home for, it's not far. Go back at
1, stay till 5.

Listening to IDM during the walks back and forth is good.

I mainly work with another guy my age doing the same thing,
this mechanic dude who's a dick but kind of cool, like I
said, I haven't figured him out, and the boss, who's a nice
guy. Of course there's the obligatory hot secretary.

Paramedics are lazy bastards, and being anti-social, I wish
they wouldn't talk to me, but they do. Fuck, go work, isn't
there a heart attack victim to go look after? Geez.

Anyway, I want all the grimy details of your job. I just
want to know that I'm no


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2002-07-27 17:40 [#00327134]
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I work on a Cable Modem technical support line for ntl. I
work 9hrs and 52mins a day, 4 days a week split shifts.

I earn £14,000 a year (will be going up to £15,000 in a
few weeks) wich I spend V quickly on shit

I have 3 10min breaks and 30mins luch wich just are NOT long
enough

Work totaly sux and all the people I speak to are thick as
shit or they think they know it all

I can't wait to win the lotto



 

offline issation civil from Vienna (Austria) on 2002-07-27 17:42 [#00327136]
Points: 195 Status: Regular



normaly i am student in vienna
now we have vacancy and i sell sausages in a supermarket!
how exciting!


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-27 17:44 [#00327137]
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''Anyway, I want all the grimy details of your job. I just
want to know that I'm not''

(continued) alone in being mad and miserable and hating
life. I want to hear from people with worse jobs than me so
I can feel better about my existence. :-D

Damn that long-post cut-off thing.



 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2002-07-27 17:47 [#00327140]
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man..... my job would be great if it wasen't for the
customers

I had a guy before trying to plug his modem into his printer
cause he "..Wanted to send one of those fax/e-mail thingys"

honest !! All thos old wives tales you hear about people
using the cd rom drive to hold coffee cups are true !!


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-27 17:51 [#00327146]
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I'm so anti-social. Talking to people on the phone (that's
what you do, right?) constantly would be so annoying. I'd be
mumbling and probably act like a dickhead if they got on my
nerves. I'd stick a knife in the reciever and hope it goes
through the phone line and into their ears.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2002-07-27 17:54 [#00327150]
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lol

I'm good on the phone (i.e good at hiding anger)

You have to be all "Yes sir, no sir" We can turn our mic's
off and swear at them though


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-07-27 17:56 [#00327155]
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only fools and horses


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2002-07-27 18:18 [#00327176]
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I think we may be the only ones who work =oz

figures

heh


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-28 23:10 [#00328375]
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What the fuck? That's IT? Come on... I want to hear about
your miserable existence so I can feel better about MINE.
Hop to it, chop chop, VITE, VITE, ASAP, come on, up and at
'em, rise and shine!


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-28 23:26 [#00328378]
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i work at Pizza Hut. everyone pisses and moans about how
shit THEIR day is going and how their going to leave any day
now.
they never do....once you work for pizza hut, they DONT LET
YOU GO!!!
but hey, i was listening to "squished out at the bank" on
the radio today so who cares?


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-28 23:30 [#00328379]
Points: 7669 Status: Regular



I am at work now!!!


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-07-28 23:31 [#00328381]
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i read something interesting today
people nowadays feel the need to work to stop themselves
from thinknig about their pointless lives
i never really thought about it that way before - work as
escapism. i can think of better ways, listening to music for
example


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-07-28 23:34 [#00328383]
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I have a totaly escapist job....


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-28 23:36 [#00328385]
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I SERIOUSLY want a job where I can spend all day on a
computer and just surf the net when nobody is looking...
that would complete me.

Anybody here do that? What kind of job would I need in order
to that...


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-28 23:36 [#00328386]
Points: 10836 Status: Lurker



Ophecks, you've been working for a week!!!

I've been in my place of work for seven years... it's
depressing, but I can listen to music, so boo ya!


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-28 23:50 [#00328391]
Points: 16280 Status: Lurker



Ophecks, never fear... here I am to make you feel good about
your job...

I work at McDonalds!!! Now, this is the lowest of the low!!
You make 7.50 an hour? Heh, I make 5.75 babee!!! My job
sucks, but hey, life sucks overall really... :)


 

offline Darth manchu from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-28 23:56 [#00328395]
Points: 1897 Status: Regular



I've got a sort of "if theres work to do" sort of job. I go
in occasionally. Mostly im testing big electronic boxes and
stuff. Last time i was buzzing out a casis that goes into a
nuclear sub (no lie!).


 

offline Smyrma from Beloit, WI (United States) on 2002-07-29 00:03 [#00328404]
Points: 2478 Status: Lurker



I work as a research assistant at a university near my
house. I make 7.25 per hour but it's part time, only 15
hours per week. My job consists of updating a database of
social work related articles and book chapters and stuff as
well as doing web edits and copying shit. My bosses usually
leave at about 5 and I stay until 6 so unless I have
something pressing to do I usually just go online. Plus it
is a college so there are loads of attractive girls
everywhere, so that's another plus.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-29 00:29 [#00328428]
Points: 3787 Status: Regular



I work as a mailman (when you control mail, you control...
INFORMATION! muhahaha! - newman). I work 4 days a week when
i have to be in at 7:15, so i get up at 6:15 in the
morning.

Then from 7:15 to 9:30 i need to organize my mail... meaning
all the letters for my "route" need to be put in the right
order in neat little packages. This is the worst part...
because i work right in the same room with all the other
mailmen, who talk about their exciting weekends, make jokes,
have fun etc... and i just try to keep quiet and not be
noticed too much. I've been working here since october last
year, and now i'm slowly getting to know 1 or 2 people.

However after all the mail is organised i get to go out on
the street to deliver it! That part of my job is really
great i think... i'm all by myself, nobody watching me...
just walking and driving my bicycle around a bit, delivering
mail...mmm... it always makes me happy. + i actually like
rain! All the other postmen are always bitching about it,
but i find it to be soothing to drive for hours thru the
pouring rain... really, it's very nice :-)



 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-29 00:30 [#00328429]
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(of course some people will always complain... "sir? my mail

is wet!"... wel duh :-p Look outside, it IS raining. (of
course i don't say that, i say "i'm terribly sorry sir" as
polite as possible).

When i get back in around 12:00, i do the same thing all
over again to deliver more mail in the afternoon. It's a
nice job i think (i make about 8 euros an hour i think... a

euro is worth almost as much as a dollar these days). Not
something i aspire to do for the rest of my life, but it
does provide something of a steady income whilst i try to
get some actual assignments as an illustrator (hopefully for

children's books, i'd really love to do that). Once i am
rich and famous i will quit my job at the postal services
;-)


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-29 00:30 [#00328431]
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I work at AMC movie theatres, mainly as an Usher.

It sounds like it would be cool to be able to throw rowdy
punks out of the theatres, but thats actually something I
hate doing (I guess I'm just a nice guy! =p)

I make 6.00 an hour (crap!) and do get free movies, tho I'd
rather just get paid more. Some of the managers there are
dicks, others are pretty cool. The co-workers are mainly
people my age and I know many of them from school, so thats
kinda cool.

An Usher has many job duties. We clean up all the food crap
that people are too careless and inconsiderate to pick up
and throw away. We have to go around flushing the toilets
(they have automatic toilets but dont work if u arent
sitting down). We walk around sweeping up popcorn spills,
and sometimes we have to do ticket drop, which is ther
person who tears everyone's ticket and directs them to the
theatre, which is quite possibly the most boring thing in
the WORLD, because all u do is stand there saying "theater
14 to the right. theater 8 to the left." and on and on. We
have to seat theaters sometimes when they are full, to get
people to move over and make room for everyone (that blows
too because many people are dicks about using the minimal
energy required to stand up, and move down 1 seat.)

all in all, I like my job, as gay as it may seem, because
the time goes fast and im with friends. ;)


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-07-29 00:34 [#00328437]
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oh i watch you alright, i watch you every day, every single
step, every move you make, every breath you take, i'll be
watchin you


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2002-07-29 00:35 [#00328438]
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I am a pimp, and spend my days pimping. It is a hard job
with long hours and very little reward. Sure, you might all
think pimping is glamorous and stuff, but I can assure you
it is just a job and if I could think of something else to
do then I would.


 

offline MachineofGod from the land of halo's (United States) on 2002-07-29 00:39 [#00328442]
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"George(seinfeld) has no job, he lives with us(parents) hes
a bum." Thats pretty much me right now. I just do some
work around the house. i made $30 today moving stuff out of
the basment and it was hot as hell all day.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-29 00:59 [#00328474]
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Surrounded, that's my kind of job, actually... I'd want to
be alone and away from people... delivering mail would be
nice. Just take my discman and I bet the time would FLY! I'd
enjoy it. But I don't think I can listen to music at my
work. I'm thinking tomorrow I'll bring it and listen to it
while I'm doing shit, and see if the bosses are opposed to
it. :-) Hopefully not, that would make the boringass day go
by quicker.



 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-29 01:00 [#00328476]
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but i work for Kruger Industrial Smoothing? ;-)

Anyway I forgot: the best thing about being a postman is
that there is ALWAYS a feeling of competition between all
the postmen as to who can be the fastest! Which means the
hours litteraly fly by ;-) I often feel like the time even
goes too fast :-p


 

offline Laqeuro from New York City (United States) on 2002-07-29 01:04 [#00328485]
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i work for myself and my job is to sit at a computer and rot
my poor brain.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-29 01:05 [#00328488]
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yeah ophecks, i have taken my walkman on occasions... then
the job is even better :-) Judging from your first post in
this thread i'd bet you'd fit right in with us postmen.

In holland we have a saying that goes: "you've already got a
No, but you might get a Yes"... so i say just bring your
discman tomorrow, if you're lucky your boss won't mind at
all. Good luck!


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-07-29 01:06 [#00328490]
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What kinds of hours do you work at a fast food place? How
long are your breaks, shifts, lunch, whatever... when do you
get in there, when do you get out... I'm curious, like a
cat.


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-29 01:08 [#00328494]
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yes! carpe diem!


 

offline Clic on 2002-07-29 01:37 [#00328528]
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I used to work at a nursing home. It was pretty intense at
times.

I worked in the kitchen, listening to r&b all day on the
radio, because that's all the girls would play.

I was one of three guys that worked back there and I never
worked with any of them. I always worked around these girls.
A couple of them were pretty nice to me, but the others were
just anti-social most of the time, unless their 'boo' came
back to see while they were working.

They all had cell phones and they would constantly be
ringing, which just reinforced my seething hatred for
cellular phones. Their stupid little 'catchy' ringtone.
Goddammit.

I had to pass out tea to the residents, which was okay
because I could get away from the fucking Ja Rule party
going on in the kitchen.

Some of them (residents) were nice, others were just old.
You know, grumpy. I just let it roll off my back though,
because they don't mean to be like that really. Would you
want to have to live in a place like?

There were two seperate dining halls; A/B & C/D. A/B dining
hall was for the regular old folks. C/D on the other hand,
was for the mentally ill residents. That's where the fun
was.

I have an MD player/recorder, so how could I not go into the
C/D hall and sample some woman screaming about how she
didn't get any cake and how she thought my arms looked
funny? It had to be done. So I sampled loads of shit like
that.

Heard lots of weird stories, too many to list here, but I
will share one with you all...


 

offline Clic on 2002-07-29 01:40 [#00328529]
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I was talking to one of the nurses and she had told me about
this lady, a Ms. Isabelle Harrison, who I've sampled quite a
bit of because she is crazy.

She said that her and another nurse heard noises from her
room, so they went to go check it out.

When they walked in, they found Isabelle, covered in her own
shit (hair and all) and she had painted the walls with it as
well.

Who wants pudding?


 


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