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PTotD: What don't you like about your job?

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Me: I don't like the way it purports to be meritocratic but lets office politics get in the way (in a way that's bad for me).

I'm getting tired of traveling every week. I don't like that for most people that kind of travel continues throughout their careers. I don't like that the subjects / industries I enjoy serving are not located anywhere near where I actually live.

I don't like the way the person in charge of my staffing on projects is supposed to balance my interest with that of the firm's but really doesn't care that much about my interests.

I'm a bit tired of being a bit at the whim of higher-ups who decide at the last minute the analysis is missing this or that and then leave us to work all night. I don't like that relative to other

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10 months, 2 weeks ago by devBear B.

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    Andrew B. replied Sep 10th
    You know, there's really not much I dislike about my job, or the people I work with. Been there a year now. Mostly great people on my team/in my immediate work sphere, mostly good management, mostly good company over all.

    Not particular to this job, but I don't enjoy having to go to the office, especially not when I have two or three other projects going on as well. I don't want to be a proj. or other mgr. at my job, I don't need to see too many people too often, just let me be the really good engineer that I am -- on a laptop, at home, so I can more conveniently work on multiple tasks at once. My mind wanders, it's better that I switch tasks, get the wandering worked out, then switch back to the original task, than try to labor through the original task when my mind is really on something else.
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    Howard O. replied Sep 10th
    Some of the people.
  • Andrew B. replied Sep 10th
    or was that pay ... too bad you can't edit, eh? :P
  • devBear B. replied Sep 10th
    I hate that you can't edit Pownce posts. Was going to add, "I don't like that even though our pay is comfortable, relative to other jobs in similar fields or with similar hours we don't get paid much. Especially when you look at the bonus checks"
  • Andrew B. replied Sep 10th
    awwww, that's not fair :(
  • devBear B. replied Sep 10th
    Hey, sorry about that! I "fixed" it before I saw your response.

    See how Pownce thinks my phantom reply is still there in the # of replies?
  • Andrew B. replied Sep 10th
    Yep ... Pownce still has some rough edges. Getting better. Slowly.
  • Geoff L. replied Sep 10th
    Only one place for me to bitch, that's the mirror. Sigh.
  • joe c. replied Sep 10th
    i've only been with my new company for a week, but based on what i've seen so far and heard from the other devs: our boss (the owner of the company) works 16 hours a day, and often seems to assume we're all going to do the same.
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    xen y. replied Sep 10th
    What I don't like about my job? Oh my. Well, here is my list:

    - They don't pay us enough, as it is far from equal to the amount of work we do and they demand of us.

    - You have to follow policies that not only make you seem like a jerk, but the company seems like it is run by bastards. Not all PR is good PR you know. I hear enough customers who say they are going to switch.

    - They don't let us use Firefox. Only Internet Explorer.

    - They just shrug if someone is leaving the company for obviously a better job.

    - They don't want to improve, only cut corners and earn more money in the short run, which always back fires in the long run.

    Think that is all. Actually, that is enough. You should like your job, not dislike it. Oh well, I hope I get the job I applied for. :D
  • Andrew B. replied Sep 10th
    @xen ix: where the heck do you work my friend? remind me to put it on my list of places not to interview at. they sound like they're not far from their death throes, I've seen it happen, time and again. If they don't care -- if no one cares -- about factors like people leaving, the enterprise is doomed. The rest of that stuff you mention just sounds like additional indication that it's a poorly-run company, doomed to failure ...
  • xen y. replied Sep 10th
    @Andrew: When I get a new job I will announce it like a warning to other people, so they know what they are going to.

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