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291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
i have been sat at my desk all day answering the phone to morons and am beginning to sound like a parrot!!
why cant we go back to trading cows and sheep rather than working for a crappy wage?
sorry about the rant but im bored and fed up and need someone to make me smile before i go completely insane!!!
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
ghet a ghrip
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
veteran
1,508 posts
Location: Out, United Kingdom
Ive been at my desk since 3 messing about on HOP! I have to stay here til 10 tho
I hate my job, it really sucks, it consists of answering phones, filing and cleaning.
Im only here to fund the rest of my GAP year and get some £s for uni.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!! 
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
wow, you have to stay till 10, that sucks!!! luckily i finish before then, but i have been here since 08.30. Shame we just cant perform our way thro life.....if only it was that easy.
what you going to study at uni?
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
veteran
1,508 posts
Location: Out, United Kingdom
actually 3-10 isnt all bad cos it means I can sleep in late
but I do have to work 830-430 on saturday and sunday - which is brilliant!!! [insert sarcastis gremlin]im studying architecture, all 7 years of it!
What are you studying?
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
I envy our secretaries, they get to go home at 5 each day. I work 9 till sometime around 6.30 (sometimes 5.30, sometimes 8) each day. Can't wait to get to go home each day when it's still light
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
Written by: Flame Boy
im studying architecture, all 7 years of it!
What are you studying?
ive just spent 2 years studying photography and will be going back to study in september on day a week. i cant wait i hate workin 9-5.
wow, seven years is a long time, you must be pretty dedicated....
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
veteran
1,508 posts
Location: Out, United Kingdom
Ah, light, I can remember that [FB fondly reminises of light]
I get to bike 6 miles back home every night at 10 - thats always fun.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
Written by: flid
I envy our secretaries, they get to go home at 5 each day. I work 9 till sometime around 6.30 (sometimes 5.30, sometimes 8) each day. Can't wait to get to go home each day when it's still light
i agree on that on, its nicer to poi in the sunshine.
oh well only 15 minutes to home time and a smoke....and counting the seconds ....
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
private messages are great.
spacey and flamer boy should try them out!
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
your a braver person than me....6 miles i couldn't cycles 6 yards!
!!!! "I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
spacey, you think your job sux? try calling people and remiding them they owe a bill.........i get called ever name in the book at least 50 times a day...........its a real ego booster.....then theres the added presure of having a budget to hit, and managers breathing down the back of your neck if you're not at that num
so why do work crappy jobs? to buy [censored] we dont need
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
addict
475 posts
Location: Van Diemans Land, Australia
I am 19 years old and am the manager of a media training company.
Our office is in the most stylish and upmarket part of town (also 30 seconds walk from where our city's spinners go)
i work from 8:30AM to 4:30PM with my boss (we are a company of two people) who is exactly like me in every way except 25 years older so we get along great.
every now and again my friends will come along half an hour before i am supposed to quit work for the day and craig (my boss) just tells me to go early.
The pay is good and i have 200GB of music (legal) in a hard drive connected to my PC to listen to while i work the hours away.
Everyday at work is fun and filled with laughter and smilings.
sometimes during....... Oh wait... this is the " I hate my job" thread...
Oops, Sorry
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
16 posts
Trading cows and sheep????
It's great fun, most of the time. Of course you get all mucky and stuff, but the people who put food on your table (the farmers, like) are actually doing that.
Wanna come visit and help with the feeding?
paranoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA
I get dressed in a medieval costume everyday I work and all I'm allowed to do is clean, help the few customers, and stand there all day, just standing, there has to be something better! But ah I get through it and life is still good!
have a great day everyone!~Christina
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Cool, a medieval costume! what do you do?
Happy Birthday to Spacey!
247 posts
Location: Cork, Ireland at present
I do a 12midnight to 10am shift in a net cafe... sometimes I'm on my own for a few hours... sometimes I get drunk people talking to me, sometimes they just pass out in a chair... but I manage to fill my time - it's cushty!!!!
I hope never to do a 9-5 office job again.
I used to be indecisive, but I'm not so sure now.....
paranoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA
Written by: Adya_Miriyana
Cool, a medieval costume! what do you do?
I work at medieval times, it's a dinner theatre type thing. All I do is work in the gift shop though so it's not really that fun, I don't even work when there are shows usually cuz I work during the day and the costumes not that great it's not really accurate at all! haha but yeah it's a job!~
Christina
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
I love my job.
I teach High School.
It's tiring as hell and sometimes annoying but most of the time it's pretty cool. And it's never ever boring.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
veteran
1,508 posts
Location: Out, United Kingdom
once ive finished uni I plan never to have a job. I havent fully planned this all the way thru yet, but it should work
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
veteran
1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England
I travel 2 ½ hours to work every day and 2 ½ hours back if I'm working the early shift I get up at 4am and am home by 6pm. And if I'm working the late I set of at 11.30am and an home by 12am.
The killer is working late then early I only get bout 3 hours sleep
.And the long days are a nightmare 4am till 12am
. I haven’t attempted 2 long days ion a row yet have that one to look forward to yet. But I like the work so hay I'm happy
before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
paranoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA
Why do you travel so far Mint Sauce? What do you do?
veteran
1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England
Im working in the High Dependency Unit at the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a nursing asistant.
before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
thanx for the birthday wishes adya
back in my crappy job today, but hey at least its friday and i can go and party the weekend away!!!!
Mint sauce: enough respect for you and your job
i know i wouldn't be able to cope with a job like...our nurses are definately undervalued
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
No probs. well, I hope the job's looking up
seeing as I'm just a poor uni student
, my job's at subway. Its okay most of the time, other than the bitchy qualities of a certain supervisor. but, it tastes good! and everyone loves Subway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Written by:
but, it tastes good!
You're one of the few people I've ever seen who both work in fast food and are willing to eat the products they've witnessed being prepared......
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I work to make sick children better.
My job rules.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
veteran
1,453 posts
Location: Lancs England
Thank you spacey
iv just agreed to work all week end as well so bu the end of this week i will have done 19 days on god im so so tired before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
*slou?
6,555 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Written by: flid
You're one of the few people I've ever seen who both work in fast food and are willing to eat the products they've witnessed being prepared......
Yes, I was surprised by that myself at first. It is good food, and I know what goes on behind the scenes - which makes it better because there is no "oh god I do not want to know what standards of hygiene there are back there".. fairly reasonable prices too, considering the food quality..
anyway, happy eating/working, etc
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