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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:13:11 AM EDT
[#1]
I guess the best thing about my job is that is extremely easy and the pay is decent. Most of the time Im sitting in a clean room doing work on a computer or playing on the net. Its also compressed shift (12hr days-Thur, Fri, Sat and every other Wed) so I have half of the week off which gives me a lot of play time.
The thing I hate about it most is the monotony of the work. Its the same easy stuff over and over again and it will never end. That and having to put on a suit to go in the clean room and changing shoes constantly, Ive got three pairs of shoes while Im at work. Other than that its pretty cushy. Michael |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:14:04 AM EDT
[#2]
Fav...$ Worst...paranoid corporate culture, really saps your energies. I think "postal" originated there!
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:14:56 AM EDT
[#3]
Favorite Thing?
2300 every night, Sunday-Thursday. Least Favorite Thing. Sexual Harrassment Awareness Training,[pissed] Racial Sensitivity Training,[:(!] Gender Sensitivity Training,[>:/] My 11 supervisors... |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:15:59 AM EDT
[#4]
pay is decent. i like the travel and working with customers. Worst thing. Corporate Managers that have no clue what my job is. Also my manager is a spineless weasel.
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:23:17 AM EDT
[#5]
Favorite thing about my job is I work for myself
What I don't like is winter puts a halt on business and that affects the yearly total. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:31:11 AM EDT
[#6]
Good part with my job is 3 day weekends for 5 months during the summer. Bad thing is overtime to no end during the snow season.
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:31:45 AM EDT
[#7]
The notoriety of wearing a top hat, beautiful views from the top of chimneys, meeting and talking to the people, plenty of free time in the summer and spring are all good things about the work I do.
Being asked if I'm a magijician beacuase I wear a top hat, close calls from falling off the top of chimneys, customers who think they know more about chimneys than I do, and no free time in the fall and winter are all the bad things about my work. [img]http://www.ncsg.org/topohat-small.jpg[/img] ...[:)] |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 12:34:38 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted: Favorite Thing? 2300 every night, Sunday-Thursday. Least Favorite Thing. Sexual Harrassment Awareness Training,[pissed] Racial Sensitivity Training,[:(!] Gender Sensitivity Training,[>:/] My 11 supervisors... If you don't mind my asking, what type of work do you do? Are you a bouncer or something? |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 12:37:15 PM EDT
[#9]
Favorite: I can wake up whenever I want to.
Worst: I don't have a job. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 12:39:57 PM EDT
[#10]
Owning the companies!
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Posted: 7/8/2001 12:52:42 PM EDT
[#11]
Upside: Great co-workers (for the most part), good pay, challenging enough intellectually at times to keep it from getting stale.
Downside: Belligerent customers and uncooperative employees in other departments. I actually had one customer ask to speak to "the person in charge of me" because the resolution to their trouble was not what he wanted to hear. I told my supervisor that and she laughed, saying, "I don't think that person exists!!" [:D] |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 12:58:06 PM EDT
[#12]
The worse is the stress of my job.
But the best part is reaching production goals and getting things shipped out early. Oh, after the the stress, the pay is awful, 60% of others in my field. MM, that was too funny what your supervisor said. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 1:00:07 PM EDT
[#13]
favorite, pay is good and hours are flexable,
worst, hotter n, hell im summer, boring, just enuf thought required to keep from "spacingout" but still unstimulating, the WORST is ALWAYS being timed, they have a genus system, your preformance is tracked on computers and everytihn you do , the computer finds out EVERYTHING. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 1:06:02 PM EDT
[#14]
The worst thing about my job right now would have to be having to wear a second chance vest. It gets incredibly hot walking around in those things, but it could very well save my ass one of these days.[:d]
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Posted: 7/8/2001 1:10:55 PM EDT
[#15]
I work for the guvment, I don't know zactly whut I do, but Iz gets a check every week.[@:d]
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Posted: 7/8/2001 1:12:06 PM EDT
[#16]
My favorite thing is I have all kinds of cool toys to play with.
The worst thing is that I have no friends to help me play with them. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 1:18:10 PM EDT
[#17]
Originally Posted By Miss Magnum: I actually had one customer ask to speak to "the person in charge of me"[:D] Now THAT would be a trick! In charge of YOU.[:D] |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 6:17:22 PM EDT
[#18]
Bad things:
A female technician who has lousy attendance and is on the verge of being terminated comes into my office crying while telling me her boyfriend kicked her out of the house and physically abuses her. I advise her, "don't end up like O.J.'s ex-old lady. One of my best operators and a relief supervisor is terminated because a random drug screen reveals pot in his system. During the termination meeting the guy starts crying. A woman in my department doing clerical work is found to be keeping a "diary" on company time documenting the activities of her co-workers. Most of the entries are negative, e.g. "Mary caught smoking in testing room." She isn't too discreet about where she keeps the diary and it falls into the hands of the people she wrote about. When I give the clerk a disciplinary layoff (second offense) she starts crying. I've never cried during any discussions with my bosses. Why can't everyone else be like me when it comes to controlling the waterworks??? |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 7:29:04 PM EDT
[#19]
Favorite: Seven weeks paid vacation
Hate: About everything else. Lazy staff, dealing with parents, admin, all the damn paperwork, and wiping diarhea out of kids butts. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 7:48:18 PM EDT
[#20]
Best Afloat: Full-auto .50 BMG machine guns, "monitoring" telephone calls, watching flight ops, CIWS shoots, foreign ports.
Ashore: a "company" cell phone and laptop, private office. Worst Afloat: 6 month long deployments to the Persian Gulf, four and five section duty. Ashore: Being on call 7/24. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 7:57:43 PM EDT
[#21]
My job is all UP! I'm a lab rat for testing Viagra.
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Posted: 7/8/2001 7:58:01 PM EDT
[#22]
Worst: being locked "inside" 8 hours a day for a 7 day stretch.
Best:.........I'll get back to you. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:04:24 PM EDT
[#23]
I am an armourer. I love my job. Been at for 25 yrs! Like tinkering and test firing new and unique weapons. The latest the Accuracy Int'l AWF 'SR-98' in 7.62mm NATO. Did some barrel changes last week.
What I hate about my job (besides not being able to take my work home) is the assholes and F**kwhits who dictate the politics of the place. These guys can spoil a day in the blink of a bandicoots eye. Call 'em pencil necked safety geeks if you wish! |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:04:25 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted: Favorite thing about my job is I work for myself What I don't like is winter puts a halt on business and that affects the yearly total. Same thing here! we're in the same boat i guess -bricklayer |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 8:22:06 PM EDT
[#25]
The pay is not bad, but the down side is the schedule that I work. 12 hour shift work, weekends and holidays.
GIB |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 9:27:49 PM EDT
[#26]
Worst part:
Heavy lifting (construction) Waking up early Best Part: Done at 3:15pm Keeps me in shape ( I can eat/drink anything and I won't gain a pound). Good pay/benefits. moving around from job to job. (If you happen to work with a bunch of A-holes, it usually doesn't last too long). |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 10:00:05 PM EDT
[#27]
Best thing about my job?
I'm a [b]FC[/b]. I get paid to blow shit up, and skate the rest of the time. 76mm shoots SM-1 missile shoots CIWS pacfires (nothing like being a safety observer of CIWS and 76mm gun.)[whacko] M-14 shoots 50cal shoots 9mm shoots and skating...... What I don't like, the list is too long.. so far I have about 1,789 reasons why I shouldn't re-enlist. |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 10:32:03 PM EDT
[#28]
Best things: Carry a gun, Drive Fast...Eat free and get paid good.
Worst things: Rape reports, child abuse reports, and 10 car pile ups on the Parkway. [heavy] |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 10:55:40 PM EDT
[#29]
best- i get paid well for what i do.
mostly, i'm my own boss. lots of time at work for other activities. i like the responsibility. worst- i am only a brief stop for the money.[:(] dealing with the public (most folks seem not only to be ignorant, but proud if their misinformed state.- jeesh!). when business is slooow (no sales=no $- the bill collectors still take theirs!) |
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Posted: 7/8/2001 11:10:00 PM EDT
[#30]
Like-Best Paying job for a college student within 75 miles.
Hate-Almost everything else. Being tracked by computers every second I am at work, talking to some of the dumbest people in America that get furious with me because their phone got shut off cuz they dont pay their bills, and like Miss Magnum, every 15th person wants to talk to my supervisor because they don't like what I tell them. Oh, I could go on and on but in two more years I will be doing something I will LOVE. That makes it somewhat worth it. |
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Posted: 7/9/2001 1:06:47 AM EDT
[#31]
As a railroader, I like pretty much everything about my job. I especially like the wide variety of people, geography and climate I have been exposed to. From the shores of Puget Sound to the snowcapped Cascades, the frozen windswept plains of the Dakotas in the winter to the blistering heat and humidity of a Texas summer. I like fooling around with thousands of horsepower and thousands of tons of train. Thundering down the main line is an experience most people do not soon forget, if ever. I love the roar of turbocharged diesels and the smell of diesel exhaust. I like not being closely supervised, if at all. I love being outdoors even if it means in the rain, snow, or whatever else Mother Nature throws my way. It beats being a cubicle monkey every time. I like having a job that is little exclusive and not many other people can handle. It's also kind of fun to see railfans show up and take such a passionate interest in what you are doing.
If there is a downside to all of this, it would be the schedule. I can adjust to work any shift on a regular basis, but working an extra board where you are on call 24 hours a day and subject to working at any given time can run you a little ragged. Fatigue is a big issue in this industry. This is why I generally work as a switchman. I have to settle for earning only about 50K per year, but the schedule is quite a bit more predictable and I usually wind up working a mere 30-35 hours per week. |
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Posted: 7/9/2001 7:20:39 AM EDT
[#32]
Fav - I work at home/telecommute. No commuting or putting up with annoying people at an office.
Worst - I work at home/telecommute. Don't get to see anyone else but my wife and my dog during the day. Don't get to hang out with the fun people in an office (and there were several at my last office job). |
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Posted: 7/9/2001 7:40:53 AM EDT
[#33]
Fav- Good employees, easy schedule, not much travel, pay is decent and able to surf the net.
Worst- Bad employees (specially during review time), too much travel (that was 3 years ago), Network down, server crashed and impatient customer. |
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