OT: Things you love/hate most about your job or where you work.
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Love:
Don't Love:
- Close to home
- good boss and coworkers
- solving technology problems that I know are hard and that actually make a difference (server virtualization, network planning)
- getting to work with new technology
- getting to learn something new that's beneficial
Don't Love:
- Office Politics
- bad vendors that know we are stuck with them
- solving piddly technology problems that sap my time and energy ("I can't PRINT!", "Why are my icons so small?")
- having to politely explain why I don't want to come to your house and work 4 hours on your 800 year old computer this weekend for $10
Love - closer to home; coworkers and manager; first of its kind technology
Hate - "loud guy" (yes vh I have one now, and he has no cooth); country roads for commute; unknown unknown; environmentalists;
Hate - "loud guy" (yes vh I have one now, and he has no cooth); country roads for commute; unknown unknown; environmentalists;
Love: Accomplishing goals and helping others figure out what we need them to do.
Hate: Too many rules to follow, superiors who take all the credit and have no realistic concept of time.
Hate: Too many rules to follow, superiors who take all the credit and have no realistic concept of time.
Love: dealing with the outdoors
Hate: everything else about it, especially travel. having to go to Fenton, MO next month for four weeks so I'm currently looking for other employment.
Hate: everything else about it, especially travel. having to go to Fenton, MO next month for four weeks so I'm currently looking for other employment.
Love: The accomplishment of knowing I'm helping feed the world. The time off I get during the winter to travel, hunt, and spend time with the family. Working with my dad and uncles. The guys that work for us are great too. We have a good time. Lots of jokes and pranks.
Hate: sometimes the long hours get to me, especially when I leave my kids are still asleep and when I get home and they are already in bed. They never see me for several days sometimes.
Hate: sometimes the long hours get to me, especially when I leave my kids are still asleep and when I get home and they are already in bed. They never see me for several days sometimes.
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Love-
-People I work with in my office.
-I could succeed at this for the rest of my working life...without really trying.
Hate-
-My customers that are total morons and make me and them do more work than should be necessary.
-My immediate manager who doesnt give a **** about helping anyone on the team because he is too busy handling an account instead of doing what he should- lead.
-My 7am start time which means I see my kids for all of 2.5 hours each day during the week.
-The total lack of positive impact I make on others. I need to get out of this and actually challenge myself while doing something of significance for others.
-People I work with in my office.
-I could succeed at this for the rest of my working life...without really trying.
Hate-
-My customers that are total morons and make me and them do more work than should be necessary.
-My immediate manager who doesnt give a **** about helping anyone on the team because he is too busy handling an account instead of doing what he should- lead.
-My 7am start time which means I see my kids for all of 2.5 hours each day during the week.
-The total lack of positive impact I make on others. I need to get out of this and actually challenge myself while doing something of significance for others.
love and hate
love: the travel, experiencing all the places, sales success, money from that success, the challenges of closing big ones
hate: corporate politics, my managers lack of mgt skills/direction, golden parachutes
love: the travel, experiencing all the places, sales success, money from that success, the challenges of closing big ones
hate: corporate politics, my managers lack of mgt skills/direction, golden parachutes
I hate the douchebag in charge of our IT department. Makes me want to kill myself...
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Love:
Flex schedule
Hate:
Lengthy commute. Spend about 1 hour 15 minutes in the car round trip.
Bureaucracy
Incompetent coworkers
Work is neither challenging nor rewarding
No guidance, leadership, or development from management.
Below-average pay
No upward advancement
Love- I get to work on interesting and complicated urban projects in West Tennessee downtowns, along with other projects that are transformative and highly visible in their communities. I also love my daily routine, but it pretty much ends there.
Hate- I work for a micro-manager who does not know how to delegate nor how to teach the workings of project and office management (or just refuses to do so out of competition fears). He often cannot see the forest for the trees and he'll sit and talk for an hour about sidewalk joints, but then will send me into a client and project meeting unprepared and without the bigger picture which frustrates the hell out of me. After over 6 years here, and over 10 years of experience total, I am still considered the kid of the office. The other sucky thing is since I work for a tightwad, we have little administrative support, so when I'm not pumping CAD, I'm the one everyone stares at to answer the phone, answer the door, and make deliveries (this all gets really frustrating when I'm up against deadlines). For the hours I work and the crap I put up with I am underpaid, but pretty much any landscape architect will say that since we are a misunderstood and underappreciated profession. We work as much and as hard as architects and engineers and get paid less, and we get less of a cut of the project budget, and are often the first on the chopping block in budget cuts.
I've often thought hard about a career change, because I've often thought I majored in the wrong field. The bigger issue is I think I took it way too seriously in college and even wasted more time and money going to graduate school in it as well. I think I should have done less schooling and had more fun, because I would be paid about the same right now either way. The only benefit is I can apply for academic jobs now if I can get past the Ph.Ds who also apply, and the affirmative action police.
Hate- I work for a micro-manager who does not know how to delegate nor how to teach the workings of project and office management (or just refuses to do so out of competition fears). He often cannot see the forest for the trees and he'll sit and talk for an hour about sidewalk joints, but then will send me into a client and project meeting unprepared and without the bigger picture which frustrates the hell out of me. After over 6 years here, and over 10 years of experience total, I am still considered the kid of the office. The other sucky thing is since I work for a tightwad, we have little administrative support, so when I'm not pumping CAD, I'm the one everyone stares at to answer the phone, answer the door, and make deliveries (this all gets really frustrating when I'm up against deadlines). For the hours I work and the crap I put up with I am underpaid, but pretty much any landscape architect will say that since we are a misunderstood and underappreciated profession. We work as much and as hard as architects and engineers and get paid less, and we get less of a cut of the project budget, and are often the first on the chopping block in budget cuts.
I've often thought hard about a career change, because I've often thought I majored in the wrong field. The bigger issue is I think I took it way too seriously in college and even wasted more time and money going to graduate school in it as well. I think I should have done less schooling and had more fun, because I would be paid about the same right now either way. The only benefit is I can apply for academic jobs now if I can get past the Ph.Ds who also apply, and the affirmative action police.
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Love: working on challenging/interesting problems; working with smart people who get things done
Hate: too many bosses; too many control freaks; cost of living sucks (DC)
Hate: too many bosses; too many control freaks; cost of living sucks (DC)
Ha, guessing I know where you work. Heard a lot of complaints about your new WB overlords.
Love: interesting projects with great job stability. My federal program is popular across party lines, which is good for future work load. Transfer opportunities exist if I ever so choose.
Perfect weather, no AC required. Short commute w no freeways.
Hate: CA housing. SoCal is in midst of 2nd bubble, investor mania driven this time. 20% year over year increase in 2013, 40% of sales are all cash offers. Prices are again way out of line compared to still stagnant incomes. Unless a bust comes within next couple years, may transfer.
Perfect weather, no AC required. Short commute w no freeways.
Hate: CA housing. SoCal is in midst of 2nd bubble, investor mania driven this time. 20% year over year increase in 2013, 40% of sales are all cash offers. Prices are again way out of line compared to still stagnant incomes. Unless a bust comes within next couple years, may transfer.
Love: working in oxford, small office setting of 12, Christmas bonus rivals my annual salary, boss is big on family time, no micro management, good clientele, chicks walking and jogging by my office all day, the ability to leave work at work
Hate: lazy workers who sit and collect a check, boss has no idea actually how much money I make him, my head is touching the ceiling and no room for growth, working with a group of back stabbing selfish older females
Hate: lazy workers who sit and collect a check, boss has no idea actually how much money I make him, my head is touching the ceiling and no room for growth, working with a group of back stabbing selfish older females
Love: coworkers, very interesting projects come through, good benefits
Meh: immediate supervisors, lulls between projects are boring, politics between different divisions of the company
Meh: immediate supervisors, lulls between projects are boring, politics between different divisions of the company
It is difficult to overstate the awesomeness of certain perks like this .......................................................
I used to work in a major university town in my younger days. After lunch in the early fall and spring, we'd drive through campus and enjoy the incredible scenery in motion everywhere. Jail bait galore.
I used to work in a major university town in my younger days. After lunch in the early fall and spring, we'd drive through campus and enjoy the incredible scenery in motion everywhere. Jail bait galore.
Likes- laid back, flexible, small business environment, great superiors and coworkers, excellent benefits including company hunting camp, new truck every few years
Dislikes- sitting behind a desk for long hours when we get swamped (nature of the job but I couldn't really think of a negative)
Dislikes- sitting behind a desk for long hours when we get swamped (nature of the job but I couldn't really think of a negative)
I hate to make it a soapbox but I work for a Credit Union, and have worked for two, the first I left reluctantly because I moved. I have also worked for four banks so here we go:
I love my company, when you see the inside workings of both operations, you realize the CU's care about their employees and members. Their well being is tantamount to the success of the company. Banks care about bottom lines, as it should be because they have investors to answer to. I love the ability to help out people that run into trouble by finding ways in the grey area to help them out of a jam.
What I hate: Policies that are conservative that allow us to be very strong financially, but upset people because of all of the dotting i's and crossing t's. Silly Regulations that seem redundant and completely inefficient. While I agree with some Dodd-Frank regulations some seem like they burden the consumer more and let the exchange companies i.e. Visa MC, keep their archaic fee structures in place.
I love my company, when you see the inside workings of both operations, you realize the CU's care about their employees and members. Their well being is tantamount to the success of the company. Banks care about bottom lines, as it should be because they have investors to answer to. I love the ability to help out people that run into trouble by finding ways in the grey area to help them out of a jam.
What I hate: Policies that are conservative that allow us to be very strong financially, but upset people because of all of the dotting i's and crossing t's. Silly Regulations that seem redundant and completely inefficient. While I agree with some Dodd-Frank regulations some seem like they burden the consumer more and let the exchange companies i.e. Visa MC, keep their archaic fee structures in place.