Super Fun Job Discussing Thread of Corporate Excitement - General

Do you have a job? Neat. Do you hate it? Love it? Wanna eat teeth instead of doing it? Need a place to vent about your hell cubicle and fucking Candice in Accounting? Welp, you can bitch here if you want. Or don't. I'm not your boss.

i work on cool shit and get paid for it, my job owns

I deal with mentally challenged customers every day, and my co workers and management frustrate me to all hell. Retail is hell

hardware store retail. the positive side is most of my customers are professionals in the construction business. the negative is most of my customers are professionals in the construction business.

I work at a snack-cake factory. We produce various snack cakes. I work 12 hours a day, usually 4-6 days a week. I am tired. I have good benefits, but terrible time off. Excluding my vacation, I can get a total of 13 days off a year before I get "suspended," but only if (ONLY IF) I use four of those days within the first 4 months of the year. Otherwise, I can reasonably get 9 days off a year. (I can explain this more if someone wants). I am also not entitled to my 2 week vacation this year, even though this was the beginning of my first full year working here. I have to wait an entire 6 months after my first year before I can get my 2nd week of vacation time. I love the people I work with, but I hate the shit we put up with. All of our machines are nearly twice as old as I am. We were supposed to get new machines this year, but the owners of the place decided to spend their money on other equipment. Except no one knows what or where this equipment is. Our machines constantly break, causing our operators to start up a new machine, only to have that one break. Then it becomes a game of which machine they can keep up the longest before at least one engineer comes over to "fix" it. SO MANY PROBLEMS OKAY IM DONE RANTING

I work at a casino, I fucking hate it. I used to not hate it, but I hate it now because I got romantically involved with a co-worker, we ended up breaking up badly, and part of my team who is closer to her ended up taking her side. Which means I don't talk to half of my team. Also management doesn't seem to be even remotely concerned about how absolutely broken up the team dynamic is because of this.

I make 3D illustrations in picture and video format for an educational app that prepares you to take the drivers license. Biggest in Norway, so if you have used Teoritentamen in the past 3-4 years, you have seen my illustrations.

I work at a brewery and relate to this on an emotional level.

Got a job offer yesterday, start work for them in two weeks time. First actual job I've ever had, and I have to move up to Nottingham and find a place to live within the next month. Absolutely bloody terrifying tbh. Hopefully it'll be fun though.

I'd take any job over more fucking studying at this point. Except for maybe ball pain test subject.

if any of y'all ever dive in a deep ocean and see pipelines at the bottom, there's a chance I've touched them with my tiny bean hands. working at a double joint welding facility, part of a larger line of offshore pipe manufacturing. I'm just a generic hand here, so i get all the tasks not involving welding pipes together. mainly i work at pre-heating and inspection, fit with a burner and mag coil. i work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, with every third week off. i get paid handsomely in overtime, but it's a very exhausting environment. my co-workers are nice though. but it's cool i suppose. beats not having a job, and i get the opportunity to save up for a Japan trip, the big dream. and that's what i do. lately, there's been a lot more idle time between tasks as each pipe joint is taking longer to weeks due to the material inside this pipe set. so it's a good thing i have my phone to fuck about with, otherwise I'd go insane from all the noises and hardbass the Scottish welders are playing.

I work fast food and I'm trying to get out as quickly as possible. I dropped out of college to support myself because I managed to find "an in" and got a job without having needed experience in that job, and now pizza based jobs are all I can get because everything else requires "a year of experience" in the field, even if it's something simple that anybody with a decent level of competency could do. I'm actually decent at some things that could make me a lot of money, like photography, but nobody has money for that kind of stuff where I live. So even popular and successful bands would be throwing away their gig money from a show to hire me and photos aren't worth not making money. I think if I had the time to blast out advertisements and stuff I'd do alright but I'd need a day or two off from work to do that, and money I don't have. I'm sure I'll end up doing a write-up about all the awful things about working at my job later when I'm heated about it, but for the time this is my biggest complaint. It feels like I'm trapped in a bad RPG where the quest system is fucked up and I can't level up because there aren't any quests for my level that pay enough XP to move up. And then people will say things like, "You have roommates? Aw man you gotta try living alone sometime" as if I'm poor because I just don't know that being poor is shitty.

Good luck! Jobs aren't always fun, but they can be. A big part of it is your attitude about the whole thing.

I do software development. My job is good most of the time but has been stressful with deadlines recently - so that is no fun. It is a pretty small shop and I'm kinda torn up seeing some of my coworkers I spent years with going to bigger places for the bigger paycheck potential. This is mostly because you can't really move up in a tiny company, so I cannot really blame them. But still, I like my coworkers a lot and it makes me sad. Management can make some really dumb decisions and I have no idea how they think certain things are good ideas.

I quit almost 5 years of bartending a couple of months ago to go travel and see people i've been meaning to see for 10+ years and now thats over I realize i'm not very good at anything else so it looks like im going back into that line of work at the very least, it's a step above retail

Ugh man I feel you there. Marketing sometimes makes some questionable decisions and they can sometimes clash with production's idea of "good", not to say that they don't do a good job, but sometimes they hand us projects that are out of the scope of our ability to produce in an efficient enough manner. (See: packing six packs into boxes, while they look great, the machine doesn't perform well at all while running them, etc, and we have the snap-in 6 pack holders that would do the job just fine. It just seems like it makes a lot of waste....

Don't be too loyal to your employer. Try the scary thing and find another place were you do have the chance to climb up. Might be an idea to approach your former colleagues and see if they can help you get a job at their workplace.

I currently am the Lead Front Desk Assistant at my college dorm (glorified receptionist), and I also work at the KommandoStore What I really need is a mechanical engineering internship for the summer however

I work for a nonprofit called conservation corps new mexico, which is associated with the national service organization americorps. Usually i lead trail construction and maintenance crews, or invasive species removal crews, but for a month im working long term disaster relief for hurricane florence, mostly logistical office work for the crews that are cleaning flood damaged homes. The hardest part is not being out in the field anymore, i wish i could have a tool in my hands and not a spreadsheet

I actually have cushy government job. Benefits are great, workload is unsurprisingly low and opportunities are near endless.

Does paid internship count? If it does then I am currently doing said paid internship at the regional IT support branch of the police. Our branch gets to basically prepare, fix or replace all work-smartphones, computers and being a second-line service desk. It's a laid back enviroment and pretty diverse in terms of tasks daily.

I work as a nurse helper (I really can't find a better translation) on the side. Not the most exciting job out there, but I decide how much and when I wanna work (you just sign up for a shift when you need it), and the pay is good verging on great. Basically you have two types of shifts: One where you take care of a single patient for 8 hours (almost invariably boring as shit in my opinion, but usually pretty chill), or run around helping different patients and nurses out (a lot more fun, sometimes pretty hard). Nice way to see how a hospital works, but the job requires few qualifications, and I'm looking forward to doing something more challenging to be honest. I can't really complain, though, for a student job it's pretty amazing.

i'm an electrical engineer at a consultancy. it's alright. is this the same store that made the tech inspired garment dyed parka? might have had reflective bits on it? the name rings a bell. how big is that company out of curiosity?

I'm a mailman. I actually kinda like it. Time flies pretty quickly, I get paid well and I get plenty of exercise. Sometimes you encounter surprising things when walking along the street, like a bear or a guy with his pants down trying to hand you an earring. I usually work 8.5 hours a day, six days a week. (Working Sundays because Amazon.) It ain't too bad. The only disadvantage is Christmas. Thanks to you fuckers ordering Christmas presents online, starting on Black Friday I'm gonna work 14 hour days and won't expect more than one day off until after Christmas.

Finished my compsci degree realising I didn't want a career in programming (that and every single position available in software dev requires 3+ years or knowledge of 50 programming languages), and on a whim went for an interview for a local cybersecurity company. Absolutely loving it so far, pretty much everyone in the company is chill and friendly, ceo takes us to the pub now and again and it's 15 mins away from where I live. The actual work's been really interesting too.

i'm a senior graphic designer / art director / social media dude for a craft brewery run a small clothing label on the side, along with some paid freelance design / photo stuff don't ever work for your family they'll shit on your labor value

Yeah that would be them, if you are referring to versengtarn There are about ~12 employees including the two co-owners, but the warehouse usually only has 2-5 people in it regularly

i work for amazon at one of there warehouses work a 4 3 schedule meaning i work 4 days week after that i work 3 days. I like it but i get sore. It's fun when you have 3-4 energy drinks and your perception turns into a black hole singularity.

Used to work with animals. But my dream is to make documentaries about nature.

I weld. and catch fire sometimes.