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Offline PyroMenace

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I don't like these work hours anymore
« on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 01:48:29 AM »
For the passed couple months I've been working 3:30pm to midnight which was cool. I got back to my apartment in time to chat with some of you before you all went to bed. But now I'm back to 6pm to 2:30am, which is right when everyone falls asleep when I get off. I now have worked 3rd shift long enough to realize it really does suck. I used to be at a point when I worked where I would get up a few hours before I had to go in. Now Im always staying up to a point to when I go to bed, I have to set my alarm to go to work right when I get up. I could honestly work first shift now since I used to hate it for having to wake up early in the morning, but it doesnt make a difference anymore since Im kinda doing that anyway, just not in the morning. I would consider working first shift again if the supervisor wasnt an uptight anal bitch, plus the director is there during those hours, first shift just sucks cause everyone is so damn high strung.

So yea, thats my chief worry in my life at the moment. Living in my own place is still ridiculously awesome, and more affordable since I stopped spending all my money on booze. Oh yea, and I think im going to start running before I go to sleep, since it wont be in the heat of day.

Hmmm... what else... this place is getting slow. My friend Xero used to post here but I think him and everyone he lives with hates me now ever since the explosion of drama that took place last time I went to visit. I'm kinda trying to mend that situation.

Oh yea! Almost forgot, at the end of this month, I'm going to be driving to California with a friend and my gf, hopefully we wont kill each other. But I enjoy road trips, and the last time we did this it was awesome. So I'll be hanging around Ques place during that last week of July going into August. Fun times.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 02:12:58 AM »
Damnit I posted this in the wrong board...

EPIC FAIL.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 04:42:00 AM »
*sigh*

I accidently took the work pager back with me, oh well, theres like 20 extra pagers to use. But just now I got a voicemail on my phone, its the cunt of a superviser on 1st shift, she wants the pager back now. 

What a bitch.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 06:35:34 AM »
You are driving to California from Tennessee?  Holy shit dude have fun with that.

Anyway, I know what you mean about hating hours.  Since I'm still (!) a college student, I had the benefit of being able to work like 8:00am - 4:30pm on days I had school, since I'm a night student.  I would routinely edit the HTML of my schedule page and print out a nice custom schedule showing I was going to school Mon. - Thurs. instead of just two or three days a week.  Well, it's the summer now and they said "Since you aren't in school and there are people with seniority over you that want your shift, you're going to have to start working later."  They said this last year too, but the schedule never changed so that was nice.  Well, now the earliest I work is 10:00am, which sucks because I don't get off until 6:30pm.  Even worse, today I work 11:30am - 8:00pm.  It's like the whole fucking day is shot.

Then on top of that, I have Jennie and her whole family giving me shit about the job and not being home for my family.  Uh hello!  The economy blows, it's ridiculously hard to find an IT job right now without tons of experience in various things.  It's not as simple as "getting another job" because there aren't any.

But besides her family it does suck bad.  Even though I'm in later, by 5:00pm I feel like I should have left already and I still have hours left.  And I'm just completely burned out as well.  The point-of-sale I support is under active development and they keep adding new features.  Trouble is, there are a million bugs and they never bother fixing any of them, and we just converted over 2000 new stores to this point-of-sale.  So where we were supporting 1000 stores on this piece of shit, now we have 3000 and it's even worse because those 2000 people don't know how to do anything and call about stupid crap that isn't even really a tech support issue (like "how do I do a void?").  It used to be real laid back and was a lot of fun, but since call volume and length of call has increased like 10 fold over the past year and we tripled our team size but are still getting killed they really cracked down on the laid back aspect of things in an effort to reduce hold times and whatnot.  I mean I understand why they do it, but it makes everyone miserable and pretty much every single person there hates it now.

Oh and it gets worse.  There are like 40 people on our team, but if 2 people ask off on a given day, they say the day is closed for off requests and any subsequent request is denied.  Almost every single day through October is blocked off.  That combined with the fact that we're open 7 days a week, it's impossible to plan anything because you have no idea what days you'll be getting off because you don't know your schedule for a week until the Wednesday prior to that week.  It's ridiculous.

I have a few other friends in IT, but their companies are either:  a longer commute than I have currently (1 hr), in other cities, or not hiring.  It's horrible, I feel like I'm losing my sanity.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 05:30:48 PM »
Man, I just found my home thread.  This is exactly what I'm going through right now.

My job just moved so I'm commuting twice as long, and by car instead of the subway.  That may change, but I think the extra time it's going to take doing that won't be worth the relatively small amount of money it saves (I'll be paying about $170 a month in subway fares, and probably another $40 or $50 for using the car).  With the car my commute is only about 45 minutes right now, though that'll extend some after this week (carryover from the holiday) and when kids start going back to school en masse, but the subway is going to be an hour plus time waiting for transfers and time on the shuttle to get to my building.  Add in a 20-minute walk to the subway itself, and that's like double what it takes to get there by car.  It used to be that I'd get a 20-minute walk in the morning, a 20-minute subway ride, and the subway stop was 2 blocks from my building... now I don't get to walk at all (bye-bye exercise) unless I want a ridiculously long commute.  I hate it.

And I hate my new building.  It's in a business park, which might initially seem a lot better than downtown Oakland... but while I admit that it's nice not to step over piss and shit every day, this new place is in Pleasanton.  Now, I fucking hate suburbs.  I don't know why, I just do.  I'm a city boy, so this just isn't my scene.  But beyond that, Pleasanton is out in the middle of nowhere and it gets really, really hot.  I've worked at this new building for 3 days, and every day it's been over 100.  I believe today the high was 110° F, and that wasn't even as hot as it was yesterday from what I could tell.  Heat warning is in effect until Friday.  If you know me at all, you know that I hate heat like I hate nothing else, and while my building is air conditioned, it means I basically can't leave the premises to go anywhere.  I walked like 3 or 4 block-equivalents to a liquor store on Tuesday and it nearly killed me.  By the time I got back I could hardly breathe the air was so thick.  Because it wasn't just streets, it was walking across huge parking lots and endless blacktop.  We're in a giant sterile, corporate business park where there's nothing but concrete and death.  It was awful.  And it's like this all the time in summer there.  I have family around and I hate visiting them unless it's at one of the nicer houses with good AC.  This is made all the more aggravating because I only have a half hour lunch now, and there isn't really anywhere to walk even if you want to brave the heat.  All the places are blocks away on busy streets in crappy plazas, and that leaves you virtually no time to eat when you account for lunch rush.  Go in, get food, go back, then eat at your desk while you work and hope one of your anal bosses doesn't yell at you.  Fun.

Also, my direct boss got a new boss, and this new chick is a micromanagement psycho apparently.  She seems nice, but I'm hearing stories, and already this soulless fucking pit is taking hold of its employees in other ways.  It took them a whopping 2 days to mandate that no decorations can be placed on the outside of any cubicles, and you can't have any decoration inside which can be seen from another cubicle.  That's fine for the fucking people with huge cubes, but ours are going to be ridiculously tiny, the smallest anyone has in the building, with walls that afford a pittance of privacy.  And what sucks worse is right now we're in HUGE cubicles that are ridiculously nice compared to our usual, but that's only because we're part of the first phase of the move, so we're temporarily in the half of the building that's finished, where there are only nice cubicles to sit in.  So we get 3 weeks to get used to having a really nice work environment, then we get relegated back to fucksville where we're *right* by the fucking lunchroom so we get the most noise of anyone in the building, but we're also in the most out of the way corner so it'll take forever to get anywhere.  On top of this, we're only doing temporary duties right now, all of which are better than what we're going to end up doing.  I'm probably going to be stuck on phones calling employers to verify health insurance all day.  I hate working phones.

The one bright side is I got to switch my shift from 8:30 - 5 with an hour lunch to 8 - 4 with a half hour lunch.  It makes the morning a lot harder for some reason, but the rest of the day is better.  The lunch thing sucks if you want to go somewhere, but it's okay if you bring lunch.  The morning is a nightmare, but by the time I finally get out of my half-sleep funk I'm usually working hard enough to not notice that I'm working past what my usual lunch time used to be (I used to do 12 - 1, now I do 12:30 - 1), and then the end of the day comes an hour earlier than it used to.  It's really all that's keeping me going, plus the prospect of being able to see some of the very precious few people from the other building that I like (both our buildings are closing and combining into one).

So if it makes you feel any better, you guys aren't alone.  Misery loves company, right?

EDIT - That's the most incomprehensible post I've ever written.  Jeebus.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 06:39:57 PM »
After two years of leaving the evening/night shift I've just started to get my body used to a normal workday. I can't believe how long it took my body to get used to the idea that 10pm wasn't the time to just start waking up for fun. The thing about the night shift is that even though you should have the same number of hours outside of work as everyone else, it never quite works out that way. Like you said Pyro, you more or less get up right before work and since your "day" is in the middle of the night you end up doing less than the average person can.

I can't really complain about my current load right now though. It's not sad bad and I'm also getting a relative summer vacation.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 07:15:10 PM »
Hey don't even start about cube quality. Ours have two sides. They sort of zig-zag down the aisle and we sit sort of in the cone with the computer at the point.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 08:13:38 PM »
I would kill myself.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 09:10:43 PM »
Well, we get to have decorations.  I have tons of Bengals stuff.  I guess it could be worse.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 09:23:28 PM »
I dunno, I would hate working with a bunch of Bengals stuff around me. ;)

Deviating from the "I hate my job" theme a bit, I actually love my job right now. I'm working for the summer cutting meat & selling it, and I'm learning all sorts of stuff that is really useful and great to know. I guess I can't really compare it to most of you since I'm not really doing this as a career or anything, but I'm enjoying it and most of the people I work with are fun.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, July 09, 2008, 11:24:05 PM »
I like how this turned into a giant work bitching thread.  I'll get on that tomorrow because I'm way too tired and angry to do it right now without punching something...and it would probably end up being THIS GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING CAT

I JUST KICKED YOU OFF MY LAP WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU JUMP BACK ON IT?!

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #11 on: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 05:25:04 AM »
If a cat jumped on my lap I would probably throw it against a wall.  I hate rats.  I mean cats.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #12 on: Friday, July 11, 2008, 07:34:44 PM »
I'd bitch about the things at work that drive me nuts, but I don't even really have the energy.  I'm just happy to be working normal human hours again.  I worked 12:00am to 10:00 am for the last 4 months, and I don't think I had a decent 8 hours sleep the entire stretch.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #13 on: Friday, July 11, 2008, 07:44:26 PM »
Well, a friend got back to me w/ a possible job!  It would be 8-5 M-F.  A pay increase.  A bit of a lateral move, sorta, at least in terms of advancing an IT career.  Biggest drawback is that it involves local travel in my own vehicle, and paid time off is a question mark right now.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #14 on: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:25:52 PM »
Mileage is close to 50 cents/mile now.  They should pay that to you.  Otherwise, you can deduct it from your taxable income.  In any case, keep a record of it.

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Re: I don't like these work hours anymore
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 08:51:45 PM »
I *kind of hate my job* and sort of hate the people I work with.  It's strange because I have like 4 much better offers on the table in the same line of work, one kind of junior engineering offer that would be good for school that paid very well for part time, and a few decent offers in fields directly on my career path for a shitload more money. The thing is it's so much fucking fun to watch this place implode in on itself.  Everyone is so far in over their head on both the business side and on the actual ground level that it's like watching a television show. It'd be awesome if everyone else would just admit that it's a shit show and lighten up about it, but they're in delusional denial or they just have too much pride.

The other great part is my boss has been trying to give me a raise and a promotion for like 3 months, but I really don't want the promotion so I've just been avoiding him.  It wouldn't be a big deal, but he's brought this up multiple times in the past and obviously isn't taking 'no' for an answer because every time he has, I've turned it down and he's just given me the money and tried to pawn the extra responsibility on me anyways. I've shaken it off well all the other times, but this time it's kind of good because of all the confusion on his part it causes.