What do you do?
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Cad
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Mist
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I had a pretty demanding IT job for 6 years before going back to school. Demanding physically and mentally. But I liked going to work every day.
This is just fucking monotony. It's staring at an alarm screen in 10-12 hour shifts, doing literally nothing, in a windowless cubicle farm after hours with no one around. It's not engaging in any way. Everyone else who works in that room looks like they're going to kill themselves. And we get treated like non-persons by everyone else in the building, we weren't even allowed to eat outside with the rest of the staff at our own company BBQ, even though our dress code is stricter than theirs.
I don't even know why the job exists. If I knew a little more about these systems I could easily cover or automate all the work on the entire shift.
Nester
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If no one is around, cant you do what you want in-between glances at the monitors? (read, mobile game, study for a better job, fiddle the bean)
iannis
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She may have enough of a work ethic to feel guilty about it. If so, that's the sort of time that you can use to pursue vaguely job-related skills.
So that way if your supervisor ever even bothers to notice you can be all like, "This job is bullshit and we both know it. But look, I've been doing -this- instead, which is something that we can actually use."
So that way if your supervisor ever even bothers to notice you can be all like, "This job is bullshit and we both know it. But look, I've been doing -this- instead, which is something that we can actually use."
Mist
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Yeah, you can study for some useless ITIL certs off their LMS. That's what I've been doing. I have no real interest in staying in IT though, I'll have a masters in educational psych in 3 months and I plan on getting a job at an Ed-tech company doing something other than IT. Maybe they have MS cert stuff somewhere on their intranet.
I'd play games on my phone but uh, yeah, my phone is something I bought for 15 dollars in 2007.
Noodleface
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There are worse things in life than doing nothing for $20 an hour. What's your potential degree in?
Cad
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Mist when I was a young developer I got stuck on a weekend call rotation for three months because we were short of people and I drew the short stick. Literally nothing to do on the weekends except occasionally clients would call in with some trivial problem I could fix in 10 minutes. So I brought my home computer in to the office (mid-90's, mind you, and my shift started at 6pm Friday) and played Grand Prix Legends and Quake all weekend on the company internet. I had 12 hour shifts with 12 hours off 3 days in a row, and then the whole week off, and I played video games the entire time.
Really wasn't too bad...
Cad
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If you can't figure out how to get around heavily filtered internet, you're not worth the $20/hr they're paying you.
Mist
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Of course I can. The entire job is watching alarms, then opening SSH tunnels into corporate networks so we can get access our servers and clear the alarms.
I also know I would get fired for doing it. The supervisors are fucking dickholes. Some guy checked his fantasy football team out for 2 minutes and got yelled at. When I was on a day shift, we got yelled at for being outside for 5 minutes, getting food at the company's own BBQ, on our scheduled lunch break, to bring back to eat at our desks. I don't even think that's legal.
I also know I would get fired for doing it. The supervisors are fucking dickholes. Some guy checked his fantasy football team out for 2 minutes and got yelled at. When I was on a day shift, we got yelled at for being outside for 5 minutes, getting food at the company's own BBQ, on our scheduled lunch break, to bring back to eat at our desks. I don't even think that's legal.
You should still be able to get 4G. Download some shit on your phone to dick around while doing nothing. Or bring in a DS.
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NM sounds like a shit place to work. But work is work. You get paid for not having the time of your life.
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NM sounds like a shit place to work. But work is work. You get paid for not having the time of your life.
Cad
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How would they even know, unless they can see your screen and actually stand behind you?