What It Is: It's putting little red marks on papers, and apparently the more you can do in a minute, the cooler you are. Just imagine if your job involved endlessly repeating mindless tasks until you got fast enough to go on TV and show everyone what your life had become.
How Bad Is It? Like mom always says, it can always be worse. Now shut up and put some more red ink on those papers, wage slave. Faster!
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1. You think those jobs are rough? Try driving a tractor trailer over the road. Millions do it and we are constantly under pressure from all aspects. Whether it be the DOT (thats department of transportation) for stringent laws to the general publics rude behavior. Consider this. I am gone for 12 days at a time and my company tells me you are allowed a 48 hour time period off (not a normal weekend like most of you 9-5er's. My truck is governed at 67 MPH, which in essence means that is all the faster my vehicle is going to go. Now with that in mind, I have to deal with passing a vehicle and the constant harassment from the person who needs to be first (You know who you people are, the ones who peek around thinking I can instantly speed up and go faster). Then you pass me and give me the finger. Consider that the next timeyou do that to someone, a pressured individual might throw some BB's at you (hard to trace) while you are harassing them. You keep your gestures to yourself, and they will keep to themselves. Now some people might do that, but I never would, because I am a decent gentleman of course. Anyhow, we have to keep tedious schedules, log our days, show up at customers promptly without being late, all with starting the morning off with someone or something always against us. Now here is something to consider. If you make me late, I might be hauling the item or package you want delivered tomorrow. YOU might be the delay on that. I might have your new TV, I might be carrying your mail (this would include paychecks, government checks)I might be carrying the special item you just had to have, I may be carrying your spouses or family members present, etc. (I think you get the general idea). So if you inconvenience me, you might just be inconveniencing yourself. Now it might be easy to monday morning quarterback and say "why don't you seek out another occupation". Well thats easier said than done when you have a mortgage and living expenses that can't be adjusted to by simply quitting one job and finding one that pays well enough (Sorry, but I had to explain that to the ones who just don't get reality). Anyhow, next time you think your job simply sucks (when you are driving down the road in the morning) look up to your left or right and understand what we go through on a daily basis. To my friends on the road, I salute you as I am taking a break on the road here and typing this out in the cab of my truck on my laptop. :)
Posted at 2:42PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Geoff
2. Try filing literally 7 hours a day, punching holes in papers and putting in alphabetical order just so somebody else can mess up what you've done for a year and a half - ending up in the emergency room with a hernia and really not being appreciated for what you do.
Posted at 2:59PM on Mar 6th 2008 by ethel holzberg
3. This article is incomplete. Everyone knows the WORST job EVER is Assistant Crackwhore.
Posted at 4:26PM on Mar 6th 2008 by ROFLMAO
4. Ha!!! You think that's bad... try serving 5 or 6 tables at one time... 4 in your section and 1 or 2 out of your section... and on top of that you're getting payed $2.13 an hour and also getting $1 or $2 tips all because you're busy and they think your service was "crappy", and you also have people Complaining because they think that you're lazy but in reality they weren't paying any attention to you the whole time and you were busting your ass getting drinks, running food, Taking food to the back to have it remade, and getting what people demand right then and there(some things one at a time so you're running back and fourth)... Now that's stressful!!! But the way I am, You treat me good I'll treat you even better... I'll hook you up!
But the truck driver that posted a comment before me... I do feel bad for!!! the stuff that he said isn't even the half of it! But I go through almost the same harrassment at my job just about everyday and yes it does suck! Well, keep this in mind some of your servers that you treat like crap... He/She might put visine in your next drink refill... I've heard of some doing it... And it's not pretty!
Posted at 4:26PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Jenni
5. The truck driver story raises a good point as well as the servers. I have worked in both vaocations in some degree in my life and have learned that even assistant crackwhores can be eligible for job placement benifits.
Posted at 4:42PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Pedro
6. THE JOB YOU HAVE - IS THE JOB YOU CAME IN THE DOOR TO GET - AND YOU GOT IT,, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM,, SO GO IN ANOTHER DOOR AND GET YOUR SELF ANOTHER JOB!! "NOW" BEFORE SOME OF YOU OUT THERE LOSE IT,, A JOB YOU DO NOT LIKE DOING - IS NOT THE PLACE TO BE IN LIFE,, THIS WILL ONLY MAKE YOU INTO A MEAN PRESON, AND VERY UNHAPPY!!! YES IT MAY TAKE TWO JOBS TO MAKE THE SAME MONEY,, BUT AT LEAST YOU WILL LIKE WHAT YOUR DOING IN LIFE???? BE HAPPY, FIND SOMETHING NEW OUT THEIR,, AND IT IS OUT THERE,,
Posted at 5:06PM on Mar 6th 2008 by TERRY GARNER
7. try being an ironworker and working in all the harsh conditions in upstate new york shut up ya bunch of pussies
Posted at 6:20PM on Mar 6th 2008 by billybob
8. would the truck driver that did all the crying like some cheese with that wine . get another job if you can't handel it i did it for over 30 years!! boo hoo !
Posted at 6:49PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Robert Hines
9. Wow... I don't even no wht 2 say... Sort of funny n a way tho its sort of not. I'm wierd but so is this! My god!!! But whutevr I guess...
Posted at 7:16PM on Mar 6th 2008 by katie
10. You guys can't be serious about trucking and wait staff as being the most difficult or mind numbing jobs. Between the 2 i'd say serving is harder, because you really have to deal with nutty folks, but still. You aren't crawling in a crap filled sewer or have a job where you are constantly being bitten by animals, jammed into a tank covered in noxious and potentially deadly chemicals that you have to clean out... etc. Just watch that Dirty Jobs show and see what kinda f'ed up jobs people have. Your jobs are normal.
Posted at 7:27PM on Mar 6th 2008 by pez head
11. I have a comment.To the one who said go find another job.Do you know where to find one?Jobs are few and far between these days.Which is why I am still working for the most idiotic employers I have ever worked for.And,it's simply because there are no other jobs out there.Believe me,I just keep on looking,but have yet to find one.I wish I could find a job I didn't dread to the point I'm putting tums out of business.But that's just the way it is.Unless you have a silver spoon in your mouth,working is something you have to do.Like it or not.And you cannot always choose your job.Just your desire to survive.
Posted at 7:53PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Katherine
12. this skanky beotch is a worthless human being and needs to strapped to the back of a harley and abused by about a hundred bikers. and I truly feel sorry for the bikers that have to have contact with her.
Posted at 7:58PM on Mar 6th 2008 by bob kparks
13. For the record, that red stamp has more authority in Japan than your signature.
Posted at 8:10PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Lisa
14. UGH I hate Girs like that. GET A JOB BLONDIE. AT LEAST SOME OF US GIRLS HAVE THE BRAINS. DEFFENTLY NOT YOU. GET A REALITY CHECK.
Posted at 6:43PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Mia
15. I agree with the server, You dont know stress until you are waiting on 4 tables of 4 each and 2 more tables of 4 or more in another station on the other side of the resturant and everyone wants a different something or the other.you are trying to return 2 of the tables orders because their food is not hot or the steak is well done and they wanted it medium well. You run across the room to one of the other tables and they one just a teaspoon of coffee. and hows your week?
Posted at 8:17PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Karen walker