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Why? I don't see anything at all wrong with that type of a job. After all, it's just a job. It's just a way to earn a living. Once your workday ends, do whatever makes you happy. A person's job does not have to be exciting, stimulating or involve coming up with creative solutions to things.
My thoughts exactly. Whatever job I have, its purpose is the same - to get me paid. My job provides my family with income. Your job is as you make it. If you're a boob who sits around playing on the internet and doesn't stick his/her neck out to do more engaging things when the need arises, then yeah...it'd suck for you. However, if you're someone who grabs at challenge when it comes along and shows people that you're more than a stiff collecting a paycheck, then you'd find that the job...at least most jobs...can be not so terribly unpleasant.
Everyone has their mundane and repetitive tasks, that's just a fact of life. No need to poop on those who perform jobs that you feel are beneath you. They're earning a paycheck and being productive citizens.
As for the fake smile thing, well that's called being a professional. It goes with the territory. It's illusory, but the office environment is supposed to at least give the appearance of being harmonious.
I did it for 10 years, working out of a cube for a big computer company, being laid off in 1989.
Whew! Just in time! Before then, you could still smoke at your cubicle, and that all changed shortly after I left, keeping in contact with co-workers! And they even stretched it out that you couldn't smoke on the premises of the company's headquarters!
If I had stayed at that job, I would have ended up weighing 400 pounds, substituting cigarettes for candy!
Can't imagine it today, working in one of these places!
Your Admin Asst, Data Entry etc. I worked in one for over a year. Friendly co-workers and boss but......
-The repetitiveness from day to day felt soul crushing. Stuck in a small stuffy office....watching the clock... praying for 5 o'clock. How people do this crap for years amazes me.
-The over-the-top fake-nice displayed towards clients and at meetings etc. Co-workers tone in voice became "softer" when speaking to the boss. I hear this is a trend for office jobs... the fakeness... it's just ridiculous.
This job was a better set-up then most office jobs, I'm sure. Yet, it still felt like a pathetic and sad way to spend so many hours of my life. Yet, right this moment, this is the kind of job a large chunk of the American workforce is doing. It makes me sad just thinking about it... sad what people have to do to make a living. Sad that we, as a country, have to give up so much time in our lives to work jobs like this. Never again for me.
What type of business were you in? What did they do/create/provide? It can be helpful if you are working for a company that does something big that you can feel you are a part of and maybe more soul-crushing if you are doing something that does little for the world except make some big bucks for a chosen few.
It was a small tax office. I did nothing that felt fulfilling and there was limited interaction with clients . I did behind the scenes busy work.
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I usually get out around 5:30 and I think it's great. You have pretty much a whole day to do stuff still. A lot of my friends work until 7 or 8. I personally think I work great hours. Usually 8:30 - 5:30. I take 45 minutes for lunch. I work a pretty boring job, but it doesn't really bother me because the hours aren't long. I'm just glad I have a job in an office rather than working retail, which I find VERY boring.
That's true. I felt lazy and unmotivated during this time... when working a boring job should have done the opposite-motivated me to enjoy my free time that much more.
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Why? I don't see anything at all wrong with that type of a job. After all, it's just a job. It's just a way to earn a living. Once your workday ends, do whatever makes you happy. A person's job does not have to be exciting, stimulating or involve coming up with creative solutions to things.
That's a healthy way to look at it.
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Simple answer...because they get a paycheck.
The powers that be have us exactly where they want us and there's nothing we can do about it. We won't work for free, but we will work for very little, and they know it.
Watch in utter amazement over the coming years as everybody is reduced to minimum wage and nobody raises a peep. You see, as long as they get the paycheck they can afford some simple foodstuffs and pay whatever minimum for rent, electricity, and TV or internet to keep their minds entertained by the latest nonsense from hollywood.
And those without work will get just enough to pay for the above and not a penny more.
It's all calculated down to the cent. If you ever do complain, they will bring in your replacement from Mexico, India, or China, from the billions who are picking vegetables from the ground and yearn for an office job. And if they can't bring in a replacement they'll outsource the job.
It's called the American Dream. Because you have to be asleep to believe it.
I think you're on to something here.
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It beats doing fast food, retail, and labor
Fast food and labor, yes. But I see some advantages of retail depending on the environment. You get a lot more social interaction in a nice retail workplace. Making chit chat with customers etc. When I worked at this tax office, I felt that was missing a bit and *may* have made the mundane job more enjoyable and fulfilling.
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Better than standing up for 8 hours straight I guess.
A combination of both is best imo. Sitting all day is not healthy.
I've done it too, and it was horrible. I think that not all office jobs are like that, but many are. People who worked there for years, in my opinion, either became a kind of work zombie or became those nasty, petty, mean, catty, crazy coworkers that we so often complain about here.
I've done it too, and it was horrible. I think that not all office jobs are like that, but many are. People who worked there for years, in my opinion, either became a kind of work zombie or became those nasty, petty, mean, catty, crazy coworkers that we so often complain about here.
I agree. I was slowly becoming a detached work zombie. It felt like life was passing me bye but there weren't better alternatives.
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Before then, you could still smoke at your cubicle, and that all changed shortly after I left, keeping in contact with co-workers! And they even stretched it out that you couldn't smoke on the premises of the company's headquarters!
