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So yeah can I have a moan about my life please?
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Unimaginative Guy
Dutch Squad
#41 - 2011-10-20 01:20:53 UTC
Jada Maroo wrote:
I see a lot of "it could be worse" nonsense in this thread. I honestly can't imagine a worse existence than having to talk to geezers on the phone all day about their problems.

Well except for maybe doing tech support for geezers over the phone. Have you ever had to talk your parents through computer problems over the phone? It's the second definition of HELL in the dictionary.

"I'm trying to check my email but forgot how!"

"Okay click on the start menu."

"I don't see a start menu."

"It's the green button we talked about last time."

"I don't see it. It's not there."

"Buttom left hand side of the screen."

"It's not there!"

"IT IS!"

"NO IT'S NOT! STOP YELLING AT ME!"

"IT ******* IS! IT ALWAYS IS! READ THE SCREEN!"

"Is it green?"

"I SAID IT WAS GREEN!"

"Is it in the corner?"

"BOTTOM. LEFT. CORNER. GREEN. LOOK. WITH YOUR EYES. THE SCREEN IS ONLY 17 INCHES!!!"

"Does it say Start?"

"YES! CLICK IT! CLICK IT NOW GOD DAMMIT!"

"My email didn't come up."

"Click on Windows Mail."

"I don't see it...."


You have it easy...
Barakkus
#42 - 2011-10-20 16:17:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Barakkus
Astenion wrote:

As an aforementioned Yank, I live in Europe, however. I can tell you the European thought process of driving distance is laughable at best and simple sniveling at worst. I know people back home who DRIVE an hour and a half one way to their job in traffic, work 12 hours a day, then drive another hour and a half to make it home. They're so tired they only have enough time to wolf down leftovers, take a shower, possibly watch an hour of television/internet/video games and then go to bed, rinse, repeat. Oh, and did I mention that they work between 6-7 days a week sometimes? Sure, they make tons of money doing it but they have to take a vacation to spend it, IF they can get a vacation. If they're lucky enough to have a job that gives vacations, the maximum they can look forward to is two weeks PER YEAR.

Meanwhile, you don't have to support yourself because you were living with your parents so all that money I can assume went to hobbies and weed. The job you have is eye-stabbingly boring, yes, but would I be correct in thinking you get government benefits, which includes at least 30 days a year paid vacation, state benefits including retirement, and a 40-hour workweek (at most) with weekends off? Are you complaining that it doesn't come with backrubs and blow jobs or something?

In a time where former CEOs are delivering pizza to make ends meet, stop being a whiner and suck it up. Apologize to your parents, stop smoking weed, take your meds, and kwitcherbitchin'.


Pretty much. My commute was 1.5 hours on public transportation, 45 minutes if I drive. Can't drive anymore, costs too much. I have to work 10 hour days, that's just the number of hours my employer requires, plus I'm always getting bothered on the weekends and when I try to take a vacation. I'm salary with no overtime compensation, no paid sick days, they all come straight out of my personal vacation days. I've had to actually work through my vacations a lot over the years. I get home, have about 2 hours before I really need to go to bed so I can get up at 5 am and do it all over again. I'm making about $10-15k less than an entry level position for what I do right now and I have over 10 years experience (and have been employed with this company almost 11 years). I had to take a 10% pay cut in February which is pushing me to the verge of bankruptcy right now. My debt has doubled in the last year because I can't pay my bills and living expenses anymore from the pay cut I took. I can't find any other full time work, because programming seems to be all contract work now a days, I'm still looking though. I have to deal with pompous, self-centered employees with the same maturity level of kids in high school all day long who are incapable of rational and cognitive reasoning. They can't be bothered to tell you what is wrong, just something is "broken" and if you try to get more information out of them they just tell you they can't be bothered with it. Everyone at work will stab you in the back in a heart beat and are completely incompetent.

I actually stood in my boss' office last week screaming obscenities at him about some of the fuckhead executives in the office loud enough to be heard across the office. I got fed up with being treated like **** by one of them then got told by my boss later I should appologize to the said executive for telling her and proving to her she did something she vehemently denied doing, and tried blaming on poor coding, which she wasn't even using the software correctly or bothering to read what was on the screen or pay attention to what she was doing.

I got informed last night around 9pm that an old pentium 3 computer sitting at my desk was no longer on the network. There is nothing important running on it and no reason for anyone to really be accessing it. It has PostgreSQL installed on it and doesn't do anything but hold some components for our development environment that are also stored elsewhere. I basically just blew it off, said the power supply probably burned out and I'd deal with it tomorrow. The machine has been running for 8 or 9 years straight, I entirely expected the power supply to die fairly soon. Seriously? A pentium 3 that NO ONE uses for anything important and you have to bother me at 9pm for that, when no one is even in the office anymore?

http://youtu.be/yytbDZrw1jc
Tallianna Avenkarde
Pyre of Gods
#43 - 2011-10-20 16:57:49 UTC
Headerman wrote:
It could be way better too.

To the OP, having lived int he UKs south for 20 months i certainly know what ur going through. I worked at the Dorset County Council for 6 months as well as spending 5 weeks at the Poole council... man that was ****. crappy money, ridiculous PC, stupid co-workers and way too many employees to take work away from you.

I moved out of there and back to Australia in September 2008 to work in Sydney for a semi decent wage, but got sick of that about 12 months ago. After changing jobs to something better with a small company (as opposed to a huge one), it is nicer here.

I just applied for and got a job with BHP Billiton though, up in Queensland. my wage is gonna be quadrupled, will be working harder though. My missus is English, she is still living in the UK but will be here early next year so we both may work in the mines and make a fortune.

There is a cost though, 12 hour days, the mine being about 2 hours from the nearest city (there is an on-site village to stay at though), and pretty desolate conditions.

I don't think anyone should be happy when they have only enough to just get by... but that's just me.



Cannington?

The company sucks bollocks, the politics and paperwork is unbelievable, but the co-workers can be a laugh.

Ex- BHP worker ;)

And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell. Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell.
Tallianna Avenkarde
Pyre of Gods
#44 - 2011-10-20 17:03:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Tallianna Avenkarde
Astenion wrote:
Headerman wrote:
It could be way better too.

To the OP, having lived int he UKs south for 20 months i certainly know what ur going through. I worked at the Dorset County Council for 6 months as well as spending 5 weeks at the Poole council... man that was ****. crappy money, ridiculous PC, stupid co-workers and way too many employees to take work away from you.

I moved out of there and back to Australia in September 2008 to work in Sydney for a semi decent wage, but got sick of that about 12 months ago. After changing jobs to something better with a small company (as opposed to a huge one), it is nicer here.

I just applied for and got a job with BHP Billiton though, up in Queensland. my wage is gonna be quadrupled, will be working harder though. My missus is English, she is still living in the UK but will be here early next year so we both may work in the mines and make a fortune.

There is a cost though, 12 hour days, the mine being about 2 hours from the nearest city (there is an on-site village to stay at though), and pretty desolate conditions.

I don't think anyone should be happy when they have only enough to just get by... but that's just me.


You're from Australia. Your opinion doesn't count because you live in one of the best places on earth. Lol A bad day for Australians is something like catching all the red lights on your way to work.

You have excellent benefits, excellent pay, one of the highest quality of life on earth, great education, great medical facilities, and your government actually works for its citizens. Whatever you complain about is not worth even bringing up anywhere else in the world, and when you say, "I know what you're going through", well, that doesn't carry much water. It's similar to two banking presidents being forced into retirement with a $5,000,000 golden parachute, and one pats the other on the back and says, "I know what you're going through."

If you're from Australia and you're younger than 60, you've never suffered. Sorry, but it's the truth. "Oh noes, people aren't politically correct where I work! Oh noes, I can't have an hour and a half lunch break! Oh noes, I have to actually work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week! Oh noes, I don't like my co-workers! Oh noes, I don't make a 6-figure salary on an entry-level position!"

You've got to be kidding me. You just don't realize how good you have it there. Please expand on "desolate conditions". When I hear "desolate conditions", I think tents and portable toilets and group showers where you have to turn off the water while you lather up so as to conserve it. 12 hour days is the norm at any high-paying position anywhere else.



HEY I could attempt to think up some rebuttal for this....


But I Can't.


Lol sucks to be you guys Lol

And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell. Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell.
Carcosa Hali
Perkone
Caldari State
#45 - 2011-10-20 18:52:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Carcosa Hali
Nathanial Victor wrote:


Withdrawal from crazy pills? Stop taking pills. Smoke weed erryday, maybe some brewskies at the pub to liven things up. Take up billiards. RElacks

All of you should get a terrible form of cancer. NO, I don't mean it like that, but trust me, you go through something like that and stare down death and suddenly you take life a lot less seriously and take less and less for granted.

Find the happy in your life and focus on it. You only get to do this once, you don't have to do it perfectly, just try to enjoy the ride. And always remember:
Somewhere, someone has it so much worse than you. Be grateful for whatever pittance the universe has handed you, because it's better than having never been given a life at all.



Clinical depression doesn't give a **** if you "find the happy in your life and focus on it", it will eat you alive all the same; probably while laughing uproariously about your pathetic attempts to alter body chemistry through happy thoughts. You might as well be trying to turn lead into gold with an Abba song.

That being said, weed (while lovely) seriously clashes with most forms of psycho-meds, and will render many ineffective. I hate to say it, but that guy needs to get off the weed... which in itself is pretty depressing. What?
Jno Aubrey
Galactic Patrol
#46 - 2011-10-21 01:51:59 UTC
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, replied:

"Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."


Also, get off the weed Big smile

Name a shrub after me.  Something prickly and hard to eradicate.
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#47 - 2011-10-22 05:57:29 UTC
TheSpamMan Doshu wrote:
as the title suggests, I want to have a little moan. I've been up since 6am GMT so excuse the grammar etc. Bullet point form. If you wish to add your own to the list please do.

-My Job, I ******* hate it. I work for local government in the UK. They call it a customer service centre, it's just a ******* call centre.
-The people I have to speak to, all old / unemployed people with nothing better to do than complain about streetlights, potholes and how sad their lives are.
-The senior managers, most likely the same for everyone.... ever get the feeling your being **** on at every turn.
-Being thrown out of my house because my girlfriend dropped weed in my bedroom.... yeah got alot of sex after that to make up for it.
-Clinical Depression, says it all to be honest ( am under treatment for this )
-Working in a environment that's so political...
-The drive from a small town in Oxfordshire to Oxford Monday - Friday....


Im sure I could go on for ever but over to you my lovely people!


Leave everything behind, mass up over 20k pounds in cash/assets and relocate to Panama , buy a cheap house in the interior of the country, get a retiree or investor visa, depending on your cash and live happily ever after in a country where no one will bother much.

OR

mass up some cash and come here on a holiday and explore central america, lots of britiish and us expats down here, they love it, its a simple country.

That was more or less what I did ... just tell me if you plan to do this and I will show you the ins and out of the country so you know what to expect down here, its Latinamerica after all, but country is abuzz as the free trade agreement between the US and Panama has be signed.

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
Obax Bannon
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#48 - 2011-10-24 12:28:11 UTC
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something to ponder... If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend an idealogical meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada. If you can read this article of perspective, you are more fortunate than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all. Of course, as I see the world today, perhaps that's not such a bad thing.

Hopefully you don't feel so hard done by now......if you do then get up off your @rse and do something about it tbh
Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2011-10-24 14:07:13 UTC
RubenX wrote:
It could be worst, lots worst. Hope it helps.


Why should that ever help? Sure, it could be worse, but so what? It could be better as well.

To OP: If you are so tired of your job, and see the world for the ****** place it is, why not work to change it?
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