Exactly how bored are you with your job?

[K'Ehleyr]

So what did you do today at work?

I sliced spring onions and put them into soda water to make them curl and look pretty.
I made roses out of tomato skins.
I cut carrots into the shape of wine bottles.
I was a total renegade and put sherry into the tomato and basil soup.

I'm so bored with my job I should have drunk the whole bottle of sherry and run naked over the golf course ~ but it was raining.

So do you like your job?

 

[TheBrew]

Super bored. I got moved to the walk-in center and I've done maybe 30 minutes of work today. Nobody is coming in. I did get a nice new desk though.

 

[auntiehill]

Depends on the day, really. Some days, I find it interesting, some days, it's boring as all HELL, and some days, it's unbelievably frustrating because of the dumb-asses on the other end of the phone.

It is very repetitive, though and I can find it mind-numbingly dull when things are slow or the topics are ridiculously simple. However, they've cut so many hours, and the work is already very seasonal, so I have a lot of free time that makes me appreciate it--and the paycheck--all the more.

 

[Holdfast]

So what did you do today at work?

I decided to have a late start after a busy on-call evening yesterday and instead went to have a fry-up to start things off,. Then headed into the office, and gossiped a bit with everyone coming in and out, and played receptionist while doing so. Checked email and phone messages, had to make a few phone calls to chase things up and liaise about some stuff I had to deal with on-call last night, and then saw an urgent case I had to book in over lunch. Pretty sad situation, needing some extra input from other teams, so more phone calls and referrals. Couple of other clients cancelled/rescheduled though so it balanced out. I'm glad really, because it was looking like it was going to a nastily busy clinic otherwise, and coming on the heels of a busy day yesterday, I needed a break.

New regular assessment case in the afternoon which was straightforward and also had a bit of time to catch up with the week's events with my boss. Then dictated a handful of letters and other stuff, did some more random admin work and managed to finish everything a bit quicker than I expected so got out a few minutes early.

Today was an OK day. Some days are more busy, some are more boring and some are just frustrating. Today was fine though, so I'm not in a complaining mood tonight.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

...Then dictated a handful of letters and other stuff...

Only you Holdy

 

[Holdfast]

...Then dictated a handful of letters and other stuff...

Only you Holdy

I know I'm just naturally funny(!), but what exactly did I say this time? I didn't even manage to sneak any weird latin phrases into any of the letters this time (that's one of the ways I sometimes keep myself interested when doing them...).

 

[John Clark]

Today was a typically average day. Had a meeting, got prepared for month end and made sure everything was tucked away where it should be. In other words, a little boring. The only difficult bit was not saying what I was thinking when I saw one of my colleagues today

 

[Spot's Meow]

I have two jobs. One of them I love, it's never boring and I look forward to going in each day.

The other one, I don't hate it (I've certainly had worse jobs) but it's not interesting to me at all. It is very boring and most of the time I have very little to do so I end up just doing some homework. Today I did a large copy job and filled in some templates and printed some labels. I also don't have anyone to really talk to since I am so much younger than my co-workers. I have very little in common with them because of that and for other reasons.

I am hoping that someday soon I will be able to focus full time on the type of thing I do in the first job.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Super bored. I got moved to the walk-in center and I've done maybe 30 minutes of work today. Nobody is coming in. I did get a nice new desk though.

You have unlocked the front door yes?
A new desk is good ~ I got a new hand-held blender this week

Depends on the day, really. Some days, I find it interesting, some days, it's boring as all HELL, and some days, it's unbelievably frustrating because of the dumb-asses on the other end of the phone.

It is very repetitive, though and I can find it mind-numbingly dull when things are slow or the topics are ridiculously simple. However, they've cut so many hours, and the work is already very seasonal, so I have a lot of free time that makes me appreciate it--and the paycheck--all the more.

I would say that sums up most jobs. You need a carrot and a sharp knife to make things more exciting

...Then dictated a handful of letters and other stuff...

Only you Holdy

I know I'm just naturally funny(!), but what exactly did I say this time? I didn't even manage to sneak any weird latin phrases into any of the letters this time (that's one of the ways I sometimes keep myself interested when doing them...).

It's the 'dictating letters' bit ~ do people still do that?
I have a vision of you with brogues up on your desk, leaning forward and pressing your comm button saying 'Miss Brown, will you bring your notebook in'...

Do you not just email or ~ God forbid ~ type yourself? We know you can do it!

Absit invidia.

Today was a typically average day. Had a meeting, got prepared for month end and made sure everything was tucked away where it should be. In other words, a little boring. The only difficult bit was not saying what I was thinking when I saw one of my colleagues today

Ok ~ now we are intrigued...

 

[John Clark]

Today was a typically average day. Had a meeting, got prepared for month end and made sure everything was tucked away where it should be. In other words, a little boring. The only difficult bit was not saying what I was thinking when I saw one of my colleagues today

Ok ~ now we are intrigued...

Well, she's always cute, but tends to hide it. Today, more the opposite and when we having our usual mid morning brew/chat, I'm just glad I don't blush that easily. Don't think she's ever been quite that flirty before.

 

[Holdfast]

I know I'm just naturally funny(!), but what exactly did I say this time? I didn't even manage to sneak any weird latin phrases into any of the letters this time (that's one of the ways I sometimes keep myself interested when doing them...).

It's the 'dictating letters' bit ~ do people still do that?
I have a vision of you with brogues up on your desk, leaning forward and pressing your comm button saying 'Miss Brown, will you bring your notebook in'...

Do you not just email or ~ God forbid ~ type yourself? We know you can do it!

God forbid, indeed!

I don't dictate in person (though have done it on quite rare occasions, if it's a really brief note and I realise I need to write it while I happen to be in my secretary's office). But yes, I do dictate letters regularly (daily, really) using a dictaphone and then give the tape to her to type up. If it's a busy day, I'll even do them in the car, while driving from one workplace to another - that saves me time doing them at the end of the day or leaving them for the next day.

It's SO much faster to dictate than type them myself. I can touch-type, but still, it would take some time to do a letter that's about a side and a half of A4 or so, and then I'd still need to email it to her to prettify the letter by formatting it, putting all the headers, filing it in the right bit of the electronic filing system, etc, etc. Whereas dictating such a letter into a tape takes just a few minutes or so.

Plus, it means I don't need to remember details like who/where exactly I'm sending the letter to, since she can look up the exact name, etc, etc and I can then quickly check that - and everything else - is all correct when she leaves them for me to sign before she sends them out. Much more efficient. She's good enough that I almost never need to correct anything anyway.

Absit invidia.

De minimis...

 

[Canadave]

I know I'm just naturally funny(!), but what exactly did I say this time? I didn't even manage to sneak any weird latin phrases into any of the letters this time (that's one of the ways I sometimes keep myself interested when doing them...).

It's the 'dictating letters' bit ~ do people still do that?
I have a vision of you with brogues up on your desk, leaning forward and pressing your comm button saying 'Miss Brown, will you bring your notebook in'...

Do you not just email or ~ God forbid ~ type yourself? We know you can do it!

God forbid, indeed!

I don't dictate in person (though have done it on quite rare occasions, if it's a really brief note and I realise I need to write it while I happen to be in my secretary's office). But yes, I do dictate letters regularly (daily, really) using a dictaphone and then give the tape to her to type up. If it's a busy day, I'll even do them in the car, while driving from one workplace to another - that saves me time doing them at the end of the day or leaving them for the next day.

FYI, I can't help but think of anything but this throughout this entire exchange:

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't work. I am on a disability pension.

 

[Holdfast]

It's the 'dictating letters' bit ~ do people still do that?
I have a vision of you with brogues up on your desk, leaning forward and pressing your comm button saying 'Miss Brown, will you bring your notebook in'...

Do you not just email or ~ God forbid ~ type yourself? We know you can do it!

God forbid, indeed!

I don't dictate in person (though have done it on quite rare occasions, if it's a really brief note and I realise I need to write it while I happen to be in my secretary's office). But yes, I do dictate letters regularly (daily, really) using a dictaphone and then give the tape to her to type up. If it's a busy day, I'll even do them in the car, while driving from one workplace to another - that saves me time doing them at the end of the day or leaving them for the next day.

FYI, I can't help but think of anything but this throughout this entire exchange:

OK, now things are getting really weird. I can't see anything after the colon. Is this some sort of post-post-modern statement on the vacuity of the exchange?

 

[Emher]

I fucking shoveled snow all day long. And that's what I've been doing since Sunday. Every day. All day long. So yeah, first option since the main job has similar super exciting tasks. Seriously, I think I may be getting dumber. I fear that at some point I will not be able to get a job, not because there's a lack of jobs, but because I'll be too stupid to get the jobs I want to now.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I picked "makes me want to cry" but really it's more stress than boredom.

I've grown very nostalgic for the job I had three years ago recently. It was perfect because there were only about 26 people working there and I knew them all by name. Where I'm working now though (same company, but we're bigger now) I work with 200+ people and it's impossible to keep track of them all. This is a big deal to me because I'm socially anxious. I also don't get along as well with my new boss as I did my old boss. In fact just about every relationship I had in the old office was good and every relationship I have here kind of sucks.

WTB new job, eventually.

 

[Mallory]

When I can work I love my job. I'm a software engineer involved in development. Building new releases is generally fun stuff.

 

[SeerSGB]

I work from home doing the freelance web-design for local businesses and print-design for fliers and catalogs, with a little newspaper thrown on the side...and I am frakking bored out of my effing skull.

I'm ready (and trying) to go back to school and get a degree in something else. Something that I can do day in and out till my writing career (fiction-writing) kicks off (if, IF IF it does). Plus something that'll stimulate me intellectually and give me a chance to challenge my ideals or even get some back and forth. Wife aid "teacher", but given my opinion of the public school system I don't know if I could that.

 

[Mistral]

I make calls to people trying to convince them to :

Come to an event,
let me conference with them so we can talk about the idea of sitting through a product demo,
show a product demo,
watch as my boss takes the viable leads and runs with them(usually away, far away and sometimes right off a cliff due to his ignorance)

Bored? Why should I be bored? When the day is over I have no feeling of accomplishing anything real and worthwhile whatsoever.

 

[thestrangequark]

My job can be exhausting, daunting, and draining but it's never boring. If there is anything that keeps one on her toes it's a kindergarten class.