Ask Lemmy

•When you have your way that works for you to accomplish something that somebody else does differently, and they insist on you doing things their way even though the end result would be the same regardless of which way you did it.

There are definitely times when there is a legit right way to do something vs a wrong way, but there are also definitely times when people insist on just adding unnecessary time and work to what you're already doing for absolutely no reason.

Like, if you're doing something kind of hectic, and you have tools or equipment you temporarily placed a certain way for a good reason, but it bothers somebody else to see them placed that way, and they insist on you adding additional steps to your own task instead of just leaving shit alone and letting you finish what you're already doing. If it's related to a safety or contamination issue, I get it, but if not, it seems pretty unnecessary. This is especially infuriating when the situation is reversed and the same people break their own unnecessary rules (like it's somehow different because it's them having to deal with something stressful and hectic?).

•When people act petty for absolutely no reason. Sometimes I intentionally set stuff out so I can have it all ready to use the next day. I try to avoid doing this if there is a good chance somebody else might actually need it, but, it saves me time and trips back and forth between PPE and non PPE areas when I can just grab everything and don't have to go back and grab something I forgot. There have been a few times where I'll have everything laid out and ready to use (on my own work area), and I'll come in ready to just grab what I need and get started, only to find every item I had ready to go has been moved. What are the chances I neatly laid multiple items out on my own desk or work space before leaving, simply because I just forgot them or wasn't bothering to clean up after myself?

•Having to sit in one uncomfortable spot, surrounded by other people and distractions to work on something that can 100% done on a laptop at home (or anywhere else).

It would be easier to list what I like about it: nothing.

People who have neither worked direct patient care in over two decades nor ever worked in my specialty—trying to tell me what's best for my patients. I work night shift so that my interactions with such people are minimal, but they do still happen occasionally.

Companies that tell you to treat the building as your "second home", but then frown when you want to bring your laundry to work, do yoga or workouts at your desk, or bring your kids or Grandma into the office so you can keep a eye on them.

1. the dreadful commute
2. the corporate policies that are profoundly arbitrary
3. the business processes that add needless amounts of overhead, all to justify people's jobs
4. the needless meetings and back and forth for things that should be solvable in five minutes
5. spineless leadership
6. entitled clients

5/6 go hand in hand. For my current project, because we have leadership unwilling to push back on the client, the client feels entitled to demand things above the contract terms. This of course trickles down to everyone else to accommodate.

Overall my work is fine but these things stick out. I am incredibly indifferent to the success of any given project. My investment beyond my daily contributions is low to nonexistent. At the end of the day, if they're going to pay me to be inefficient what do I really care.

I hate playing the diplomacy game. I'm an engineer. I should be able to present the data and have it speak for itself. Sure there's some skill in data presentation, but I shouldn't have to kiss up to get my project approved.

Our Thanksgiving prime rib was over-done. We've been a bit slow lately, and so I've had to take more vacation time. Or, sit at my desk and do nothing. We don't get as much free company apparel as my last job. There, we got Carhartts, Nike quarter zips, Weatherproof jackets, coolers.. that was pretty nice.

Oh, and the main thing is the customers. I wish the program managers could do all the interacting with them so I would never have to talk to them.

I've had countless shitty jobs and shitty bosses. Now I'm in charge of a team and, as a product of who I am and my own lived experiences, I treat them fairly and with a degree of kindness and sympathy that I've never really had from my former bosses.

I overlook a lot of the petty paperwork and have various on-going deals with staff whereby I'm extremely flexible and they reciprocate by often going the extra mile for me. Our team mostly runs well and my own manager is pleased.

However, I occasionally feel unappreciated by 1 or 2 staff who have been there so long that they've forgotten how things could be if I was inflexible, stuck strictly to the rules and came down on them a lot harder - which an other boss could easily do.

I suspect that some mistake my kindness for weakness, even though I've always spoken with authority and plainly, albeit in private to those that have needed it.

Truth is we're local gov, the perks are good, as is the job security, but there's an element of complacency and an awareness that you have to do a lot wrong to get fired - and it's a long process.

So yeah, I mostly don't mind my job, but I resent staff who haven't had it as bad as I have in the past and don't seem to understand that their decent conditions are because of who I am, and are not really the norm in other departments.

I am very commute sensitive, won't take a job too far away.

Other than that, I hate, hate, hate the unequal compensation the most. Too much money to the people at the top, and raises by % just make it worse.

At my main job: politics. performative bullshit. Doing things because the big boss says so even if they have negative effects on productivity as well as the final product.

At my own company (farm): farm stuff be expensive. Working in 35+ degrees at 80%+ humidity in the summer sucks.

I don't hate the hours, but I hate the constant process of it all. That we are expected to be at the computer about 8 hours every day, even if it's clear that our efficiency has dwindled.

And I'm in a lucky enough situation, that I wouldn't even really have to do this. I could easily take a few days off sometimes, but I just ... won't until it's actual vacation time. So after the vacation ends, I end up working efficiently for a month, so-and-so for 3 months, then absolutely shitty for a month and then it's vacation again. Because I choose to.

Employer.

I enjoy my job and would do it even if I didn’t financially need to.

Work is just nothing more than being a meaningless cog in a machine designed for mediocrity. The system wants you mediocre so you can be controlled, through religion, economics, or politics.

My producer and I have been doing what we were meant to do for a few years, and it doesn't require even leaving our homes at all.