i hate my job

[karitek]

ugh...can we say micromanagement to the point of soul-killing? shoot me now.

AACCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

(now that was so much better than my boss's "open forum" to discuss or job complaints)

Feel free to join in...

[Tec]

Holistic...?

what a load of bollocks..

[Patrick]

ugh...can we say micromanagement to the point of soul-killing? shoot me now.

AACCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

(now that was so much better than my boss's "open forum" to discuss or job complaints)

Feel free to join in...


Sounds exactly like our place.
What is it with all the micromanagement these days ?

[Szymek]

so i'm not the only one being separated from my soul @ work :(

[kams]

"James, can we sit down and discuss whether you should really be having sugar in you tea? HR feels it might be outside of your job description"

[grobelaar]

Here all our Producers user MS Project to build the schedule for a game - this then plugs into a PHP type web-based app - which then prompts us each day to fill in what we've worked on, on an hour-by-hour basis.

It sounds terrible, but I think it works quite well, especially my experience of working at other places - I think maybe with my job there's a tendency to let any task expand out to whenever.

But there's no personal micromanagement.

[wheezer]

I'd kill for a system like that grobs.

Anywho, in the course of working slightly more than 12 months in the same position I've outlived 5 superiors - I've spent more time on average explaining to my new boss what it is that I do than e.g. presenting a new budget

[JonnySpeed]

its all about organiic crackberry enabled wi-max multi-doing freerange flexispace these day, man. Get with the revolution. creativity can not be engendered with micromanagement idiologies, man.

[Lara]

My boss used to be an evil micromanager - I had to check every email I sent with her or my other boss.

One day she told me off for getting velcro with two sides. Made me want to kill myself. Then she accidentally projected ontot he wall an instant messaging chat conversation with her boyfriend about what a dick I was.... I just walked.

Now my job is cool. My boss buys cake for us from Borough Market, lol. More cake, less micromanagement...

[Spandex]

creativity can not be engendered with micromanagement idiologies, man.

ideologies

Now write it out 1,000 times.

[thepigjockey]

Click here (http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/generator.html)

[e_wann]

@spandex:don't be so harsch for that boy, he was only trying to help :(
@PG: looks like jonnySpeed is typing it :)

[Daddys Girl]

can't actually take phonecalls in the office from applicants without my boss listening in & correcting you every two sentences, which is fucking annoying to say the least - especially when she claims to be in the middle of something else. I was just advising a student about their UCAS form - had to put her on hold about 5 fucking times while my boss was like "hang on a minute Jules... etc..." and then at the end of it she was like "yeah, what you were saying was correct".

Why bother?!?!

[Yer_Maw]

well, what you find is that being a team leader in a call centre is only marginally more demanding than being a cctv camera. she is probably looking for a promotion by pointless meddling

[FiST]

yer_maw, have you got the 'pants-man' video off rossco yet?

[thepigjockey]

ideologies

Now write it out 1,000 times.

Maybe it's a hybrid of ideology and idiocy :!

[joe pinapples]

I'd forgotten about Pants-Man. The best way to leave a job ever thought of! Every job I've quit, I would be happier if I had done a Pants-Man on the last day. But then hind-sight is 20/20 innit.

[Daddys Girl]

well, what you find is that being a team leader in a call centre is only marginally more demanding than being a cctv camera. she is probably looking for a promotion by pointless meddling

She's the head of Admissions for the entire University (we only get a few phone queries in here), which is scary enough. If she became the boss of the CMIO (the department that my office comes under), I can't imagine it.

I think the problem comes from the room that we've moved to now, which means she in with all of us, instead of being tucked away in her own office. Dunno if it'll all change when we move campus. It's annoying that you get the job with the responsibility of an entire school's applications but it feels like it's not yours to look after when she meddles in.

Sorry, I'm ranting - I do like my job, but just get pissed by my boss sometimes :)

[Yer_Maw]

@fist

to be honest its not as funny as him telling the story.

[love_tempo]

I hated most jobs I had up until my current one. In my current job I just feel that I dislike the career (software development) more so than the job or my co-workers. I can't see how more than a small handful of people would actually enjoy writing software for a living, as opposed to a hobby.

The main thing that irritates me in the current job is actually really slack management, massive time/cost underestimates. It just results in everything being left until just before a major deadline. Then it's all untested and full of embarrasing bugs.

Also, there's one co-worker who isn't a software developer but has appointed herself our resident user interface expert because she might have read one or two standard textbooks. She could be helpful except that she only expresses her opinion after the design and implementation is already done. At that stage her input is more like whining rather than helpful suggestions.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

The main thing that irritates me in the current job is actually really slack management, massive time/cost underestimates. It just results in everything being left until just before a major deadline. Then it's all untested and full of embarrasing bugs.

Also, there's one co-worker who isn't a software developer but has appointed herself our resident user interface expert because she might have read one or two standard textbooks. She could be helpful except that she only expresses her opinion after the design and implementation is already done. At that stage her input is more like whining rather than helpful suggestions.


That's pretty much why I left software development... As a designer I was the person who would be saying things wouldn't work for 2 years.. and then when they finally finished the coders would go 'oh yeah.. you were right'.. and then spend 2 frantic weeks bodging in a half arsed fix.. and you end up with some half-dead one-lunged mutant of an app :)

[JE:5]

What the hell is a micromanager? and are we going to be seeing self replicating nanomanagers in the future?

[tania]

we all hate our jobs. that's why they give us money to do them.

[karitek]

i've had jobs that i liked. anyhow, decided that i was sick of being managed and am going to business school. not applied or anything, but feel like it's the best decision i've made in ages.

fuck this job.

[dom_90]

i walked out of my job on sunday. it was the best thing i've done since i started there. i worked for 5 hours of my shift and then told them i'd had enough.
i went straight to the pub and got drunk woooo

[Loz]

Overheard in our Personnel office today when I was doing some work there:

Personnel officer just got off the phone with an employee who was complaining about their boss being an unreasonable arsehole.

"I don't understand why people have to moan about their managers all the time. Why can't they all just fit in?"

[thepigjockey]

Overheard in our Personnel office today when I was doing some work there:

Personnel officer just got off the phone with an employee who was complaining about their boss being an unreasonable arsehole.

"I don't understand why people have to moan about their managers all the time. Why can't they all just fit in?"

Someone please remind me, what exactly is it that these human resources/personnel people are meant to do? Never quite figured that out.

[Spandex]

They know all about employment law and advise managers about how to screw people over without leaving yourself wide open to employment tribunals or legal action.

[thepigjockey]

Thanks.