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[ginny_t]

I shouldn't complain. I know I have no real cause for complaint. My life is pretty good right now. Sure, I have things I'd like to fix, but I've no one but myself to blame for the fact that I haven't yet fixed them.

The biggest source of irritation for me is my job. It's soul-destroying corporate hell, but it pays pretty well. So I shouldn't complain.

But... come on, you knew it was coming...

What irks me most about my job is the fact that I'm expected to be always thinking, but I have to deal with people who either don't grant me credit for always thinking, or who are just not thinking themselves. Any time we send a request to the developers, their first response is the most obvious and basic. We're the main support people for an office of over 50 users. We know the obvious and basic ways to use the software. If we're stumped, it's probably a deeper problem, or something we don't have the authority/rights to fix. Sigh.

Comments

[colonsay.livejournal.com]

But are you the only people sending requests to the developers? If you're only sending requests for the tough problems, but other people are asking why their CDs won't play after they used the tray as a drinkholder...

I know this is frustrating (I go through the same thing myself sometime) but the fact is that developers always try to find the easiest solution to a problem. It's in their nature. And all hell breaks loose is they actually *try* to make things complicated...

[andora.livejournal.com]

Honey, first of all, it's your journal. You damn well have a responsibility to rant here!

But if your job sucks, you never have to qualify your rants. Just hearing what you do, I know it's not good for your soul. But you started putting a plan into motion to move on and up, and maybe something fantastic will happen before then! I'll keep my hopes up. You deserve better!

[seangaffney.livejournal.com]

I have similar problems at my job, if different actual circumstances. I've always had problems dealing with stress. I've just barely begun to not stress out when something happens that's beyond my control, and I still do *majorly* stress out when an issue I know I should have dealt with but didn't for various reasons comes back to bite me in the ass (like, say, this morning). It's a constant battle.

Some jobs suck more than others, but keep in mind that *any* white-collar job will have, by its very nature, some of the problems you're currently facing. Everyone always looks to other people for solutions. It's part of being corporate. That might not go away if you find another job that's not retail/shoving stuff around (those have their own problems).