Well I feel compelled to have a huge whinge about work. You see I make hoses for a living, but dont ask me what is involved in making hoses as I cant be bothered explaining.

However, the reason I feel compelled to have a whinge is that normally I work the hours of 8am-4pm (Day Shift) and there is another guy that works Afternoon Shift (4pm-Midnight). Now for some reason unknown to me the guy on Afternoon Shift decided to take a holiday to Europe for like 2 months. This leaves me and another bloke who is normally on Day Shift to take turns on Afternoon Shift. Herein lies my problem - I dont actually work in an office as the title suggests - I work in a big shed and it gets really fucking cold. So by the midnight rolls around almost my entire body is aching from being cold. Then I get to go home, go to bed, sleep and get up in time to bum around on the net for an hour or two and then go to wo0rk again. In short GIVE ME BACK MY DAY SHIFT! :angry:

I work in an office. 8:30-5. I get up at 6:30, in the car by 7:30, at work by 8 where I drink coffee and surf the net for half an hour before I start work. Obviously I occasionally surf the net during the day. Then I'm back in the car sometime after 5, usually home around 5:45 where I watch tv, surf the net, eat tea and do nothing productive until I go to bed around 11.
Then repeat.


But we have a heater at work! :P

Well I have a heater but it is one very small heater and one big cold shed. To get any benefit you have to stand right in front of it, which is all good until the supervisor walks past and sees you standing infront of the heater doing nothing.

Wear more clothes?

Ahh office life. One day i'll be so sick of it, that i'll jump on a rickety raft and join greenpeace on some sort of venture, but for now, it's mildly interesting and pays the bills. It's usually a good laugh, depending on who you work with of course, it's comfortable, it's not physically demanding, but on the downside it can be boring, it can feel meaningless and it's not physically demanding.

My work is pretty boring, but I'm just doing it to earn some cash while I'm travelling. Funnily enough it's better than the work I did in Sydney!

I've just hired a hot chick temp (complete fluke, recruitment firm sent her), so that's good for this week.

Edit - also my boss reminds me of a politically correct David Brent. He's pretty cool.

My office is a cubicle that has free roaming access from behind me to allow annoying kids and parents with bad depth perception to hit me with trolleys (it's a supermarket in case you didn't pick it up). Anyway this store's like 40 years old and is in need of a renovation, desperately.

For example;

- it's still using the foot pedal powered conveyor belts
- cash clearances aren't done by vacuum chutes, instead you have to wait for someone that comes along with a small safeguard trolley once every 4 hours
- if you need a price check, you don't phone the service desk, you have to ring a bell and yell as loud as you can (the service desk are mostly deaf old people which doesn't help much). if you have a sore throat, then you're pretty much stuffed
- if you want to close your register, you have to jam a trolley in the way. there are no gates to use
- the checkout is only 3ft high and the bag racks can't be adjusted. screws your back up, especially if you're 6'2 like me. or the guy who works in the fresh produce department who's a clear 7'0 tall.
- dodgy 2 watt speakers over the P.A system means it's really hard to hear when someone uses it for an emergency. the person on the P.A. system could say there's a fire in the building and everyone would be casually doing what they were doing before.

I work mostly day shifts where it varies pretty much everyday. Like 12-6pm, 8am-5pm, 9.30am-6.30pm or 8am-1pm. Surely they could use a better schedule?

In the morning I get up an hour before I go to work (unless I start at midday). In 30minutes after only just waking up, I'd be on my bike going to work. Arrive roughly 15-20 minutes later with 10 minutes to spare so I can regain my energy. Then after work, it's another bike ride home. Be it sunny, rainy or snowy, you can bet I'll still be on my bike anyway.

Well last nite after having my whinge I realised there is a good side to being on afternoon shift. I dont have to work fridays - weeeeeeeeee! Its the weekend...

I work in a tannery and it blows.

I hate my job so bad! Today I was walking to work, late for something like the 33rd consecutive day, and I was hoping my boss would actually hit me for being late just because it would give me a good excuse to quit.

And the air pressure on the DAF was a little high, so I opened it all up to give it a clean and I dropped part of a valve in "the pit" which is about 1.5m deep and gets filled up with all the effluent that we produce. So I spend fifty minutes on my knees with my arms submerged up to the top of my biceps in an inch of water trying to fish it out with a rake and the temperature was like 5 degrees. I stood up and the water that had soaked my knees ran down into my boots. And that was just the morning. Fuck today sucked.

I work as a builder's labourer. Some of the work's ok, and I aint a pussy like auikds so I don't mind the cold, but because I am completely unskilled in the area of building I sometimes feel a bit useless. Apart from that, I don't mind it that much. Sweeping a house out for 6 hours is very relaxing and soothing after about the 100th time you've done it. Lifting plasterboard is fucking shit, though. My main problem is that the builders are so damn laid back, and this can get really annoying. This conversation I had with my supervisor yesterday, whilst we were carrying some fibre cement made by James Hardie, best illustrates this -

Supervisor - "That James Hardie is a fucking awesome company." (sarcasm)
Me - "Did you guys ever use asbestos?"
Supervisor - "What do you think this is?"
Me - "Fibre Cement."
Supervisor - "It is mostly the same sort of thing, just that it hasn't been proven to be harmful."
Me - "I probably shouldn't breath the dust in then, should I?"
Supervisor - "On the ball today, mate."

It would've been good if he had've told me that 6 fucking months ago, before I broke heaps of the shit up whilst I was filling a bin.

Haha, that's brilliant Hello. On the plus side a huge payday will be headed your way in a few years.

I'm a first year fitting and turning shitkicker. The pay me a lot better then then they have to but it is stil not much. I'm yet to do so much fitting or turning mostly I cut the teeth on sprockets and gears, it's not all bad when your setting up but sometimes I have to 200 to 250 loads on the one machine and it's just boring as hell. Ohh and the cutting lube smells and really gets into your clothes. And afternoon shift rules. FOUR DAY WEEKS.

hey, i dont mind the cold either- infact i would rather be cold than hot. but i do mind the ungodly cold that seems to appear in a cement and tin shed at about 2am in the mourning. that and im begining to think that the workshop is haunted - like you will be working along, making hoses, then you see somebody walk in out of the corner of your eye. so you turn around to see what they want and there is nobody there. then, the other day i was just cutting a piece of hose and someone tapped me on the shoulder - i was rather startled as i didnt hear anybody walk in - then i turn around and there isnt a person in the entire workshop...

really? i still have five day weeks its just the week starts on sunday and ends thursday.

Really, work four 10 hour days then that's it.

2pm to midnight yay. But there is no afternoon shift at the moment which really sucks. I had a whole shed to myself.

heh - being the only person in the workshop is the bit i hate the most. i mean armegeddon could happen and everybody die and i would be the last person to know about it.

I work in a bank. It's not bad job, give cash out, take it away.

I'm on a relief team which means I get a call every morning to tell me what branch to go to that day. Some branches are great, some suck. The customers are generally ok, but some are just wankers.

Hopefully soon I'll have a position where I sit in a room all day, counting money and listening to the music of my choice. Some would call it repetitive, but as long as i have my music!!!!