MelonWheels posted:

I think this sums it up for me, on corporate culture at least: I wish I could get a job where they just pay me money, and not have to look at it like it's my exciting career. Making people believe work is fun has got to be the most absurd irony of human history.

ericdrawback posted:

A small part of me dies every time I have to end an email with "Please advise"

blugu64 posted:

Office work sucks, at least the instant coffee is free.

Risky posted:

So loving glad I went into nursing. The respect, perks and pay that come from nursing far outweigh the thought of having to go to some cubicle prison 5 days out of the week and sit at a computer. It's enough to blow my brains out.

qa6 posted:

It's just a polite way of acknowledging someone when you pass them. Getting worked up because it's not an honest, deep and meaningful exchange is pretty silly.

the posted:

And how many were there?

Weiner Hog posted:

But it does serve a purpose. I suppose you've never done it, eh?

the posted:

I'm happy to say that I only have 4 months left at my soulless corporate call center job. I'm heading back to college in August to pursue a PhD in Astrophysics.

Wagoneer posted:

What the gently caress is up with people talking to me in the goddamn bathrooms? It only happens here.

the posted:

"Yeah and I told her about that last ni-HRRRGGGGGFF*" *plop* "last night. Yeah, hold on." *wipes rear end* *flushes*

saints gambit posted:

pelswick posted:

did they have to yell? just yelling back and forth casually like two guys in a loud bar

Roosevelt posted:

Last Christmas they decided not to take us out for dinner in a restaurant or give us money. Instead we had a company "open house", where everyone was asked to bring something.

The one before that we had a white elephant gift exchange! Aaaand it was a disaster. One manager opened his present, and it was a really thoughtful handmade knit hat (made by a rank-and-file employee). The rear end in a top hat just tossed it on the ground next to his chair with evident disdain and sat there with his arms crossed the rest of the time. He was complaining about it loudly to one of his buddies later.

At the same event, one of my friends took it really seriously and spent some money. She went out and bought a pretty nice bottle of vodka. And what did she get in return? The VP of Sales had someone make a joke calendar of the Marketing Director's face photoshopped onto pictures of bodybuilders. She was in tears afterward.

bleedbackwards posted:

My dad worked dangerous oilfield jobs his whole life and died young so that I could get an education and I wouldn't have to do the same poo poo. I just find it annoying that suburban kids think it's some kind of glorious sacrifice to trade air-conditioned offices for jobs where you're treated as an automaton that gets spit out after your health is failing and you've provided all that you're worth. It belittles the sacrifices of the people who work these jobs because they grew up in poverty, didn't get a chance for an education, and don't have many other options because they have families to feed.

Indolent Bastard posted:

You have been in an office too long, you don't swing a jackhammer, sorry.

DorianGravy posted:

I do have a question, though: how'd you all end up in office work? Is this something you wanted to do in college and really thought that you'd enjoy, or just something that ended up happening? I've never worked in corporate, just retail (and you can recall from our retail thread how full of poo poo those places are).

Wagoneer posted:

Just curious to see how many bosses everyone has.

I have 5.

sanchez posted:

Isn't that a great way to set someone up for unemployment and debt?

I think study is a means to an end, people need to figure out what they want in a career, what kind of lifestyle/income they'd like and study accordingly.

Turnquiet posted:

I got my tuition paid on a graduate degree in business management while I was here, though most of what I learned was BS. But we all knew that anyway.