Crazy insane busy jobs:
Jobs that I have had that were eventful was being a on site PC/Mac tech (5 of us for over 700 people) trying to fix computers in a company where most of the people were clerks or administrative assistants who never wanted me or any tech to "touch" their computer, yet wanted their computer fixed ASAP. More politics than in D.C. We got paid very well and I think the people at their desks were pretty pissed off about their very low pay and took it out on us. The wide area network engineers got paid more but they hid in the back room and had a separate entrance in and out of the building and few knew who they were. The business was a phone ordering call center.
Another one is where I had to do what would normally take 8 hours but is crammed into 5 hours at most due to late workers from previous shift and early workers on next shift. Federal and state law had it that we had to sanitize a workplace with "hazardous" chemicals using pretty heavy duty equipment so we are pressed without even 2 minutes to take a break.
Boring jobs:
How about a civil servant job which requires you to do about 6 out of hours to get credit for 8 hours, but then due to allocations and budget, won't allow you to work more than 90 minutes per day. They come down hard to those who do more than an hour and a half, but they won't fire you, but you'll want to quit.
Night auditor job where you assist the night front desk person by doing the books for nearly 2 hours, but spend 6 hours of that shift walking around the motel/hotel many times to check out the place for passed out people, squatters, meth heads, broken beer bottles, more meth heads, fights but usually stand at the greeting table in freezing, wet weather really acting as more a bouncer and not a greeter since very few people check in after midnight.
Big money dollar donor phone hotline operator (for non-profit hospital) where on average, you have to man the phone to wait for what amounts to 0-2 calls a day of somebody wanting to donate more than $10,000 dollars to the hospital. You take down their info and pass it on through the ladder up to the boss who then brings it to the Board of Directors. Nobody who has ever worked that desk (and you get the whole freaking room) has ever received more than 2 calls in decades.
Los Padres National Forest fire watcher. You sit on a high tower and spend your 8 hour shift looking out for fires. Lunch break consists of what you can carry up the high ravine, and then tall ladder to fire lookout tower.
Share your stories of hectic jobs or extremely boring jobs
Jobs that I have had that were eventful was being a on site PC/Mac tech (5 of us for over 700 people) trying to fix computers in a company where most of the people were clerks or administrative assistants who never wanted me or any tech to "touch" their computer, yet wanted their computer fixed ASAP. More politics than in D.C. We got paid very well and I think the people at their desks were pretty pissed off about their very low pay and took it out on us. The wide area network engineers got paid more but they hid in the back room and had a separate entrance in and out of the building and few knew who they were. The business was a phone ordering call center.
Another one is where I had to do what would normally take 8 hours but is crammed into 5 hours at most due to late workers from previous shift and early workers on next shift. Federal and state law had it that we had to sanitize a workplace with "hazardous" chemicals using pretty heavy duty equipment so we are pressed without even 2 minutes to take a break.
Boring jobs:
How about a civil servant job which requires you to do about 6 out of hours to get credit for 8 hours, but then due to allocations and budget, won't allow you to work more than 90 minutes per day. They come down hard to those who do more than an hour and a half, but they won't fire you, but you'll want to quit.
Night auditor job where you assist the night front desk person by doing the books for nearly 2 hours, but spend 6 hours of that shift walking around the motel/hotel many times to check out the place for passed out people, squatters, meth heads, broken beer bottles, more meth heads, fights but usually stand at the greeting table in freezing, wet weather really acting as more a bouncer and not a greeter since very few people check in after midnight.
Big money dollar donor phone hotline operator (for non-profit hospital) where on average, you have to man the phone to wait for what amounts to 0-2 calls a day of somebody wanting to donate more than $10,000 dollars to the hospital. You take down their info and pass it on through the ladder up to the boss who then brings it to the Board of Directors. Nobody who has ever worked that desk (and you get the whole freaking room) has ever received more than 2 calls in decades.
Los Padres National Forest fire watcher. You sit on a high tower and spend your 8 hour shift looking out for fires. Lunch break consists of what you can carry up the high ravine, and then tall ladder to fire lookout tower.
Share your stories of hectic jobs or extremely boring jobs
