Like all good things in life, my vacation has ended and tomorrow I will shuffle back to work to sit on my extremely uncomfortable chair and be glued to my monitor all day then take in wafts of second-hand smoke after 3 PM and consequently get a splitting headache and rush out of the door at 4:30 like my life depends on it.
Worst of all is what usually happens when I am away from the office: people take my stuff! I once went to work to find that someone stole my mouse and plugged in a dead one, and another time I found that someone took my chair and gave me an even crappier one, then there’s always the fight over the limited electric slots, which normally means that I go to the office after being away and find that my computer is completely unplugged and that there is not a single free electric slot to plug it back in.
Well. Whatever. It’s all time I am paid for, no? That notwithstanding, I’d like it if people respected my office space, but honestly I am not even half bothered to make an issue out of it. I’m so blah about it. The perks in the office where I work are as follows: the occasional verbal cat fight, the very kind receptionist, and the fact that there are some vague office politics going on which I still to this day do not understand and do not want to make an effort to explore. I have this massive lack of interest in what’s going on as long as my work gets done. I’m not anti-people per se though, only anti the people who don’t interest me, you see.
I need to look for a new job. Anyone hiring?
You are the second person to state that woking for this organization consists of sitting all day on the chair and monitoring something on the screen.What kind of blip are you monitoring? The only job I know of where people have to sit all the time and monitor a screen is Air Traffic Controllers. I’m almost sure that is not what you do,so what is it! I’m curious. I know it isn’t any of my business, I’m more or less talking to my self and not necessarily expecting a reply to my query.
Hi Hatem,
The “being glued to the monitor” bit is an exaggeration for dramatic effect. It’s just that I work online and my work demands that I use computers and the internet extensively. It’s not like I’m a radar operator who has to watch a screen for blips all day :)
What’s your job?
I do online development. Previously I did online editing and translation, among other things :)
hmm..we don’t have online development in our company! Sorry!
If you studied IT or Business IT or something related, send me your CV!
I had to bring my own power bar to work so that I’d have enough slots. I also added a 1GB RAM to my work PC (to make 2GB) which was sitting in my closet collecting dust.
on the bright side, they give us lockers with keys at work, so unless someone isn’t going to go as far as burglarizing the locker (hasn’t happened so far), all is well.