Thoughts about my job
I hate my job.
There, I said it. It's something I think I've been thinking for a few weeks now but it's like it hadn't quite sunk in. Imagine you have a game to play...a scavenger hunt! Now to help you on your scavenger hunt we'll give you some tools. One is a sending and receiving unit. There are numerous factors that can make this gear wildly inaccurate and most of these factors are things you won't be able to detect by observation. You'll also have a set of maps. These maps can be a) Hard to read, b) Out of date, c) Drawn in a misleading manner d) So poorly labelled you'll never find the area you're looking for or e) All of the above. There's also the very real possibility that the instructions for your scavenger hunt are completely wrong, and the area you think you're supposed to look in is actually completely different than the one you were supposed to be looking in.
Now remember, you've got a strict time limit for your hunt, even though you've been told a number of times that you don't. You should also expect to be lectured like a slow-witted child if the quality assurance guy has to come out and help you solve a problem.
What's worse is that there really isn't anybody I can talk to about it. Everyone in the weekly meeting seems to be either a workaholic (72 hour weeks? Really?) or such a depressed burn-out that I doubt they can even comprehend how miserable they are. I base this on the fact that from brief conversations I learned that one of my coworkers may in fact just be putting marks on the ground where he thinks there might be underground utilities (not caring one wit about accuracy), while another apparently considers sitting in his garage watching a 14" tv and smoking to be his hobby.
Good times.
There, I said it. It's something I think I've been thinking for a few weeks now but it's like it hadn't quite sunk in. Imagine you have a game to play...a scavenger hunt! Now to help you on your scavenger hunt we'll give you some tools. One is a sending and receiving unit. There are numerous factors that can make this gear wildly inaccurate and most of these factors are things you won't be able to detect by observation. You'll also have a set of maps. These maps can be a) Hard to read, b) Out of date, c) Drawn in a misleading manner d) So poorly labelled you'll never find the area you're looking for or e) All of the above. There's also the very real possibility that the instructions for your scavenger hunt are completely wrong, and the area you think you're supposed to look in is actually completely different than the one you were supposed to be looking in.
Now remember, you've got a strict time limit for your hunt, even though you've been told a number of times that you don't. You should also expect to be lectured like a slow-witted child if the quality assurance guy has to come out and help you solve a problem.
What's worse is that there really isn't anybody I can talk to about it. Everyone in the weekly meeting seems to be either a workaholic (72 hour weeks? Really?) or such a depressed burn-out that I doubt they can even comprehend how miserable they are. I base this on the fact that from brief conversations I learned that one of my coworkers may in fact just be putting marks on the ground where he thinks there might be underground utilities (not caring one wit about accuracy), while another apparently considers sitting in his garage watching a 14" tv and smoking to be his hobby.
Good times.