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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Troubled Waters on July 16, 2009, 11:15:27 am
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Rant alert...For those of us who have to work; boo hiss >:(
So...'they' are moving to office round at the mo. The Chairman (who inherited the post and doesn't care about the company) wants to rent the little office downstairs out so everyone in that has to cram in upstairs; hence the shuffling. I have lost 50% of my desk space and my view out the windows over the river and water meadows but don't really care, I'm tucked in a corner looking over the office and by the fire door so we can have that open for fresh air.
The woman that was sat here always slammed the door because of the 'gale', she reckons she now has it from all sides from the door and the windows. I was having none of it when she wanted to close it today. Wear a scarf and cardi like I do! Don't make the rest of us suffer the stuffiness and air con! Grrrr.
She had already moaned to the over worked IT guy that she had lost her personal printed and had to use the one two paces behind her!
My boss doesn't do anything and everyone moans at him and i am caught inthe middle. It's all politics and back biting. I either have nothing to do for 9 hours a day or am so so busy. Now I like to be busy but I have never worked anywhere so unorganised.
So I know all these things are so petty and utterly meaningless and far worse things happen in life and usually they wash over me and I get on with it. After all I am only temp cover for maternity leave but you some days it all just gets up your nose? Well today...I could just hit someone with a wet kipper (wrapped round a brick)!!!
Anyway, I would rather be at home in the garden with my veggie and dogs.
Anyone else have a rant they wish to share???
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I am my boss, we have our own business, but I hate going to work in an ofiice with no windows doing boring paperwork! and agreed would much rather be at home playing with pigs and sheep! :pig: :sheep: :dog: :chook: :&>
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I absolutely love my job!
I am self employed and as it is a hotel we run, I work from home. I work 7 days a week and take 3 weeks off in January but do not complain. We are now half way through the year so we are at the stage we are totally knackered but that's our life. If I didn't have this lifestyle I couldn't have all my animals and that's what makes this special. We have a beautiful setting and life is normally quite good so no real complaints.
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I have to say that I love my Job!. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
I am my own boss, I work 15 hours a day (Minimum) 7 days a week.
Get covered in S**t most days, But get to work with my Pigs, Hens, Goats and sheep amongst others all day except when I have to go to market but even then I get to meet a lot of interesting people who enjoy Better Quality Food.
I am not saying it is not Hard work but when you enjoy it is it Really Hard!.
Kindest regards
Joe :)
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I see a pattern emerging...Own boss=love my job!
Reading back my post it seems like such a whinge :-[, I promise I don't whinge all the time.
I can't wait till the time we can leave work and be beholden to no one! I know when we are doing OUR thing we will be working so so so hard and we will LOVE it!!! I also know that if you always wait for the right time you will never do it but we are not quite there just yet.
I think part of my disatisfaction comes from temping for 2.5years and not finding a 'proper job' (whatever one of them is) so I can make it my own.
Anyhow, you guys that are doing your thing, living your dream are such an inspiration!!! ;D
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I am so jealous of you both. I work 8 to 5 in an office for Americans who want everything yesterday and expect you to work 7 to 7, 7 days a week in two areas Dublin and Waterford - stay in a hotel once a week, which may sound great, but after a while I wish i didn't have to! If you annoy them they sack you - why do I do it? because they pay extremely well and I am saving to get set up for a different life - end of story.
I keep them happy so they don't interfer with me and my staff. I have to say, them being American and having bags of money they provide the latest most up to date technology in health, which can only be good for the patients.
No I don't like my job, but hey, in this ressession I suppose I'm lucky to have one.
PS I spend so much time reading this site instead of sort 'finance' etc I may get the sack anyway ??? ???
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This is the reason we moved up here so I could enjoy life, I am now my own boss and love it, for example done bu***r all this a.m. except talk to a guest and have a long coffe break!!! (don't let OH know) Oh and feed the animals, then off to do the rooms which have been left very clean by the wounderful guests we have at the moment. My Jobs have mostly been good, I have met some great people but still had to deal with office politics and I have been envolved it the office shuffle where someone gets the cr** desk, usualy me!!!!! I have had to grin and bear it a lot but also had loads of fun at work....I still do a bit and love the change of environment but running this B&B is fun, not too hard either, only down side is it's hard to go places when you want to!!!!!!
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my job is dull but i'll not make the mistake of leaving it again - unless i have to!!
i get to work from home, my boss is in the US and my "customers" are all around europe - so i really just deal with folk by email/phone
this makes it easy to spend a day out in the garden when the weather permits (i have been building a deck this morning, but rain stopped play!)
i don't mind sitting with the laptop open at night when i'm watching telly as it means i can catch up with my paid employment
i worked here a few years ago and left because i was bored and started my own company up - i now realise that i didn't have to quit and i could ahve had my wage security and my freedom
i'm hopefully just about to start a new business and i won't be quitting this job until they tell me to change my ways.
the future mrs SB might be getting made redundant though, so i think i'll need to find something for her to do with her time!!
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That's the problem isn't it. I hate my job on so many levels and for so many reasons but it is income for the next three months and there is no guarantee I would get another as temping is so cut throat at the mo.
The company I was with last year made 25% of us redundant, I left on Christmas Eve. I was out of work for 2 months desperatly trying to get something. I am either over qualified or under experienced. Or i go for interviews and the company clam up and the postition is no longer required, if I even get that far. As it is where i am now has already made redundancies while I have been here and i think the only reason they didn't get rid of my position is they have to keep it open for the lady on maternity, who just happens to be the wife of the IT guy.
I really do know I mustn't moan when so many are losing theirs, but it is hard not to sometimes. ::)
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Ironicly, I get a lot of job offers, ALL very poor money for what you have to do and as I make more here most of the time I stay at home, sometimes wish I had a family member to help out sometimes!!!!! although my partner does help but has to work to pay our way, not even to buy luxuries, you never know, my wish may come true and I may get a member of my family up here!!!
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Ironicly, I get a lot of job offers, ALL very poor money for what you have to do
Wish I did! Could do with a wee supplement to my pension, but not B & B - thought about it but came to the conclusion I like my own home to myself. Love having visitors to stay though because they are friends.
So I guess you could say I love my job - retired!
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I've got a tea shirt that says on it " I'm retired. Having fun is my job" You just know it's American don't you?
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I WANT one!!! Where can I get it?
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I loved my job, went to work clean came home clean. I love my present job, start clean, get dirty stay dirty. Eg. went out to feed the pigs and Lily (the littlest) came and sat on my lap. Not a problem except that she had rolled in something not very nice, first.
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I really really dislike my job. I have to get up in the morning and walk round the feilds with my collie and scratch the sheeps backs, laugh at the ducks and chucks as they waddle out from their house, smile as the quails all come running to the front of the cage in anticipation of the weeds i had to pick as i walked through the strawberry patch. then carry the heavy basket load of eggs into the butlers pantry rady to go into the egg boxes.
sometimes i'll be done with the animal checking by 10 am coffee time, where I'll get my jobs for the day weeding, sheep work, forestry work tractor work or one of the million jobs that keep me from being bored tehn a quick walk in the sunshine to make sure everything is still ok before going home around 6pm
life is hard.... really hard.... ;D ;D ;D ;D
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hex thats naughty, lol
I don't have a Job but things are moving (and i don't mean the baby,lol)
All the Job i have i have really enjoyed then get total stail with them,
Which i included working in a supermarket, working in offices , Archiving files, working in a well known catalogue store and working as a temperay car park security , Oh and the most important job working with my parents company (thats the best job so far).
I perfer working outside but not in too cold a weather and also not for a boss (my parents weren't my boss' as i could tell them about something and they would listen)
Linz
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I Love My Job - but I HATE taking animals to the abattoir!!!
Farmer
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I only do what I really like, so a lot of the times we are poor, lol. I love working from home, but only on rainy days - only joking! The winter months I spend translating, so if anybody knows of a publisher on the lookout, let me know! German-English and English-German...:&>
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Hey I got so fed up reading all the comments I rang my boss in the States - something I rarely do - and told him I was taking the day off today. Cos he thought something had happened over here and was in panic mode, he just said 'yes of course'. So I'm off to a garden and farmers show - yes odd to be both together - you see farmers in muddy wellies smelling the roses and the 'posh' gardens people trying to avoid getting their shoes messed. Please let there be good weather today!!
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I have to say I hate my office, freezing cold in winter and boiling hot in summer. It's a family business and and my male relatives/ colleagues delight in making bad smells in here and walking out. I have a lovely view of a factory roof. But I know it won't be forever( it just feeld like it) and before and after work I am out in the fresh air with great views, tending to my beasts and veggies. Work is a bit slack now, which allows me to come onto TAS and catch up with my moral support system. Some days I hate it at work, and it can be quite stressfull, but it is also quite interesting, keeps me occupied, and adds a little to the family finances. The smallholding is at a scale to keep me busy and give us fresh produce. It reassures me that if work dried up and i had to up the tempo a bit I could be almost self sufficient.
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Just keep telling yourself...its a means to an end...only a small part of the journey taking you where you want to be and like rainy days necessary for the garden to grow...keep the dream in mind and life will be all the sweeter for a little hardship on the way through!
Best of luck to all...and if life gets you down, come on here and have a moan...there's enough of us to support each other.
Farmer
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Hey farmer, that's lovely. Thank you! :)
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You're very welcome...a trouble shared is a trouble halved (I should change my handle to the cliche kid...but there's a lot of wisdom in many of the old sayings).
Have a great day!
farmer
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I had a love/hate relationship with my job. Being an actress seemed to me like the only thing I could do. I loved being in plays, creating characters, rehearsing but I hated almost everything else about the life. Living out of a suitcase mostly and touring a lot of the time, being away from any sort of outdoor life, having people judge you so often on how you look and not how you are. And being surrounded by a crushing amount of egoists. Now my job is nothing to do with the way I look, and everything to do with how I care for my animals. To be in the privilaged position of having a close relationship with my animals and being able to give them the best I can give beats being in a play hands down !! Plus, I feel much more in charge of my life and how I live it. Short bursts of doing a job as a means to an end are difficult but ultimately rewarding. We all have to have a moan sometimes - but I find it's a rare occasion now I'm doing what I truly want to do !
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I have loads of theatrical connections, strangly enough I used to teach Drama and a lot of the young people are doing very well, one of my colleges is on every TV show and is doing very well....Mark Warren...was on Grange Hill....Prime suspect..Casualty...The Bill, a thirty something.....Vice...Oliver (the Uncle)Hustle(Danny) and laods more I just cannot remember and another girl is on MTV and severla adverts so I know about acting....My daughter was a singer but not just now and my cousin is also a inger and in several musicals....look out for Sarah Pryde...
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Hi Sandy - yes , Mark Warren is getting quite famous isn't he. He was in a thing called Men Only which was written by a friend of mine ... it was a bit raunchy (!) and he was very good in it. Do you miss teaching ? Where did you teach? I went to Bristol Old Vic theatre school ... quite a long time ago now. I think acting is fab when you're young but now I'm in my mid forties it doesn't quite do it for me anymore! I had a lovely time though, worked at the NT, RSC etc etc, did lots of telly - just needed a much more stable life ( no pun intended there ! )
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I'm a youth worker and I just happened to work on Drama night with Mark Warren and Steve Wimpress (another actor) I carn't act but he was good to work with if not a little creepy at times as he changed into different charactors, that was back in Leicestershire, Mark came from Northampton. I also worked as a youth worker on a film project, the production team did "Cold Feet" it was not exciting at all, very long winded and I was there for continuity and to keep the YP in tow......I know what you mean about being judged, I hate all those photos of so called celebs looking rough, to me thats just normal, looking perfect is not, now I always look rough (and fat) ;)
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I always look rough and fat too Sandy. It comes with the job - enjoying tea breaks etc. whilst looking at this forum, and enjoying life - plus ginger nuts and digestives ;D
It is a much better life than when I was in my 20's and 30's, wearing my Austin Reed suits and having to be nice to those awful men in suits in big banks and corporate companies who would compare my products to others.
The Directors and Managers would often play silly power games in order for you to discount your product, if that did not work they would hint for you to take them out to lunch and listen to all their self importance and sexist comments - and, of course I was expected to be nice and smile in order to get them to sign the paperwork for loads of equipment. - Yuck!
I think we are cleaner - even when we are covered in sh1t!
My life is much better now - plus they helped me earn the money to be mortgage free too!
So sometimes it is worth listening to sh1t for a while - as long as you do not believe it ;D
Julie
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I have enjoyed most jobs I have had, just a blip now and again putting up with the odd arragant parent or office politics, I still do youth work and absolutly love that, not like work but a bit of fresh air and fun. I like the freedom I get workig from home, I sometimes get out of bed and go to work in my night clothes? Love long walks forraging with my dogs, love meetig different people and looking after them, listening to them and learning about thier lives. I also love stiing with my cuppa watching the CHickens and Ducks, my OH would like to be here too but the business and thie elderly large house doesn't generate enough income for 2, shame as we also get on so well and love each others company and so many jobs to do around here!!!
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Hi Sandy,
It shows that you love your youth work - you must be special because it is very hard.
I worked as a IT Teacher in a Youthreach school here for a year or two.
The kids have been usually thrown out of ordinary school as they are difficult, or have underlying problems such as alcoholic parents that do not feed them, so they have to steal, are addicted to drugs, and or have lived rough on the streets, orphans or sometimes learning difficulties that cannot be diagnosed as an illness.
I found it really distressing, loved the teaching and spent a lot of time making lesson plans to get kids interested by focusing on their favourite football teams or other interests, but it was the neglect and abuse that they were or had been through, that really stopped me from sleeping at night, worrying about the poor loves.
One girl came in one day with a broken arm and very bruised all over her face, told me she fell down the steps.
After taking her into the staff room for coffee, she finally told me that her dad had come home drunk beat her mum up, so she went in to try and help her mum and he threw her out of the upstairs window. :o
I tried to get social services involved, asked mum to come in for a chat, as the girl was terrified that he would hurt her sister who was only 13, she was 15. I told the head of the school and asked him to talk to them on behalf of the school and tell her she could take a barring order out etc.
Mum was scared to death and would not do anything to help herself or her children, he was a long distance driver, and this behaviour happened when he came home and got drunk. :o :'(
There were several instances, some worse than others, that kept me awake at night, eventually Joe asked me to quit because Tara was only a baby and I was paying out most of my money on childminding, petrol and lunches, and not getting any sleep was making me ill.
The boys were unruly but football projects on the internet and writing about their favourite's on the word processor did finally get them through their exams, so that they had a chance to get a job, with improved english and computer skills etc. I enjoyed the job, lesson planning and teaching, it was the personal and emotional problems I just could not handle - not the right type - I just could not switch off when I walked out of the door like the other teachers could.
We never really dealt with arrogant parents, most of them were just glad the kids were with us and not them :'( :'(
I love working with kids now, at infants and juniors, it is great fun and very rewarding. In the future I would love to have more chance to work with kids - they are so funny, and watching them with the piglets, ducks and hens is just brilliant. ;D
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Isn't it sad that in this day and age this still goes on and scarier still why these women are so terrified they will not go and get help and protection? Many years ago a friend of a friend fostered a young lad from Glasgow. They took him to Edinburgh Zoo and he was so excited. When he saw the giraffes he screamed with excitement at the top of his voice "Anne, Jack come and see the elephants". He was 13 years old and didn't know what a giraffe was - how sad? Ask him how to "fiddle" the government on the other hand and he could have given you precise instructions.
Along these sort of lines, my youngest niece started rebelling when she was about 13 and at secondary school. She came from a very respectable family and her elder sister "sailed through " school and university being a model pupil. However, the youngest just did not want to go to school so did everything she could to get expelled. Sadly, as it was easier for the school when she was not there they kept expelling her which was stupid as this is the result she wanted. My sister fought and fought with the school to keep her there but they didn't help her and sadly the youngest virtually has no secondary education. Social Services were involved but again were a total waste of time my sister said. In this case the system definately failed.
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As people often open up to me I was often "used" by Social Workers to get added info from families and young people, several told me horrendous things but I always was able to sleep as I personally could do nothing, however I used to escort families while they were visitint their children and often were on tenderhooks in case they did something wrong or run off with their Child/children.As with Murphy's law, it could happen and it did but all ended OK. Some of the worse cases of abuse produced the most arrogant parents, I remember one man always complaining about the foster carer of his children, he complained about everything and would only let me collect his family from school!!!!! In the end I refused to work anymore with him as I changed his access from a nice family center to a secure meeting office with security guards and panic button as I felt he was far too risky and I was proved correct as not long ago he threatend a friend who took over the job I had!!!!!!!! and believe you me, he was threatening!!!!! Although I defiantly do not want to work in any more children's homes, I did have some wonderful times working in them, great fun, good memories and often touching experiences. I took 2 lads to the cinema once and I overnight bag was in the back (said this on here before I think)When I came to change in the morning, my pants were missing!!!!!!!But we had a really good night watching the film and they were the worse 2 behaved in the home but just like little boys to me