Finding this forum has made me so happy to know that I am not the only one out there hating my job. Given with the economy the way it is I should be grateful for this stupid job... but I am not. Maybe I am selfish. I dunno, I just want to be happy with what I do. I figure I spend half of my life at work i should enjoy it. so I am going to vent about it...
I am getting my Degree in Computer Desktop Support and Networking. Experience is important for this kind of work, you need to know how to troubleshoot different varieties of situations. My boyfriend also does the same line of work only at a different agency, and much longer than i have. I heard about his job through my Internship advisor at college. I decided to apply because i would get credit for this job. It was a step down in pay from my previous job; but I wanted to get the experience. My first day of working there was a nightmare. This pudgy guy takes me to a cubicle sets me down and has me read pdf's on computer use and conduct for 8 hours. They didn't show me around, nobody talked to me, not even to ask my name or say hi... it was a horrible first impression. I told my boyfriend that night that I was thinking about quitting, but he said that it might get better as time goes on. So I stuck with it. Now 6 months later I am stuck at this crappy job. I like to call this place an incestuous work area. Everyone here is related to somebody and that’s how they got their job. My co-worker that got hired on the same time as me only got brought on because his mother-in-law is our boss. Another guy’s dad just got hired on to work on our Networking team. There is a mother and daughter, a dad and son, and a brother and sister all working together doing the same thing!!! It’s driving me nuts because they found a stupid loop hole in the system. Not only that but my manager doesn’t know what they hell she is doing. She never even went to school for computer work, she just fell into it… same with everyone else with the exception of a few individuals. The Desktop support team and the networking team’s managers don’t get along at all. It’s a power struggle between the two of them and then us interns or temps are caught in the middle. There is absolutely no communication.
I am helping do a Vista migration to +500 users within my state and they are working me 14 hour days. I can’t get overtime for it because the director doesn’t want to pay it, I can only take days off… which is fine for me I need the rest. I know the responsibilities that an intern has… but it has just turned in to a work horse temp position. They never reported my progress to my mentor and they just filled out the paper work saying that I am an exceptional worker so I would pass my class. I finally brought it to my advisor’s attention that they are just using us horribly and that I am not getting any experience or learning anything at all. All of the techs use us “temps” to do their jobs. It’s work over loud! Some day’s they will screw up the email system so that I get to take the helpdesk calls and hear everyone complain at me. I rather do that then have them tell me it to my face. They have created such a bad image in my agency that people will mock us in the hallways, or bad mouth us. Our customer service is horrible. I am just hoping that this job will end soon and that I will be able to find a better one! :)
Thanks for listening to me vent. It actually makes me feel a TON better! You guys hang in there, the best is yet to come!
Finding this forum has made me so happy to know that I am not the only one out there hating my job. Given with the economy the way it is I should be grateful for this stupid job... but I am not. Maybe I am selfish. I dunno, I just want to be happy with what I do. I figure I spend half of my life at work i should enjoy it. so I am going to vent about it...
I am getting my Degree in Computer Desktop Support and Networking. Experience is important for this kind of work, you need to know how to troubleshoot different varieties of situations. My boyfriend also does the same line of work only at a different agency, and much longer than i have. I heard about his job through my Internship advisor at college. I decided to apply because i would get credit for this job. It was a step down in pay from my previous job; but I wanted to get the experience. My first day of working there was a nightmare. This pudgy guy takes me to a cubicle sets me down and has me read pdf's on computer use and conduct for 8 hours. They didn't show me around, nobody talked to me, not even to ask my name or say hi... it was a horrible first impression. I told my boyfriend that night that I was thinking about quitting, but he said that it might get better as time goes on. So I stuck with it. Now 6 months later I am stuck at this crappy job. I like to call this place an incestuous work area. Everyone here is related to somebody and that’s how they got their job. My co-worker that got hired on the same time as me only got brought on because his mother-in-law is our boss. Another guy’s dad just got hired on to work on our Networking team. There is a mother and daughter, a dad and son, and a brother and sister all working together doing the same thing!!! It’s driving me nuts because they found a stupid loop hole in the system. Not only that but my manager doesn’t know what they hell she is doing. She never even went to school for computer work, she just fell into it… same with everyone else with the exception of a few individuals. The Desktop support team and the networking team’s managers don’t get along at all. It’s a power struggle between the two of them and then us interns or temps are caught in the middle. There is absolutely no communication.
I am helping do a Vista migration to +500 users within my state and they are working me 14 hour days. I can’t get overtime for it because the director doesn’t want to pay it, I can only take days off… which is fine for me I need the rest. I know the responsibilities that an intern has… but it has just turned in to a work horse temp position. They never reported my progress to my mentor and they just filled out the paper work saying that I am an exceptional worker so I would pass my class. I finally brought it to my advisor’s attention that they are just using us horribly and that I am not getting any experience or learning anything at all. All of the techs use us “temps” to do their jobs. It’s work over loud! Some day’s they will screw up the email system so that I get to take the helpdesk calls and hear everyone complain at me. I rather do that then have them tell me it to my face. They have created such a bad image in my agency that people will mock us in the hallways, or bad mouth us. Our customer service is horrible. I am just hoping that this job will end soon and that I will be able to find a better one! :)
Thanks for listening to me vent. It actually makes me feel a TON better! You guys hang in there, the best is yet to come!
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