The best and worst thing about your job?

[FJRider]

It was what I was wearing when I posted.

We'll give you credit for at least being dressed ...

[WALRUS]

What you need is a decent earthquake. There has been a massive change in "office culture" in this town since then. I rarely wear a suit these days, have worn a tie twice in the last four years (funerals both times) and if I ride the motorbike to work I wear jeans and boots. even way stuffier law firms than ours seem to go for suits or blazers/pants and shirt no tie now. Also a huge (entirely money driven) shift to open plan offices (which suckdiddlyuck). If you dont see customers/clients and spend your day in an office dealing with people on the other side of a computer screen there is no reason whatever you cant wear fishnets, a loincloth and a gold sequinned tanktop to work. All that other stuff is bullshit. Took a major natural disaster to show us that.

I'm slowly breaking them and so far I've ditched the tie and polished shoes but there's still a fair way to go.

I do have a one on one meeting with my CEO coming up.. I might have a chat about how little it matters whether or not my shirt has buttons or otherwise when I'm not front facing

[eldog]

Hot desking....

Been doing that for years

And a standup desk as well

[Voltaire]

Best thing is despite being in Auckland only a 15/20 minute drive to/from work and I can leave early to avoid traffic and work from home.

Not so good is the client is a large US tech firm going thru fiscally tight times.

I do have to wear a suit from time to time but have ditched the tie.

[neels]

Maintenance team leader

Best thing - Looking after the whole south island and deciding who goes where to do what, meaning me getting to travel to nice places with nice scenery for work if I feel like it.

Worst thing - Professional managers with no understanding of the industry taking over.......

[bluninja]

Ahhh. I sense you are talking about ISoft. I had the misfortune to deal with them as a vendor about 10 years ago. They were 20 years out of date then, and charged like a wounded bull...

They became CSC and now DXC. Yes they are one of them. We just installed their latest PAS....requires frames so only runs on IE!! However they are not the only ones...

[TheDemonLord]

requires frames so only runs on IE!!

I hate every word in that sentence.

I feel your pain, deeply, my sincerest condolences.

[husaberg]

Hot desking....

Been doing that for years

And a standup desk as well

Whats stand up desk,is that new corporate speak for working at the bar?

Worst thing - Professional managers with no understanding of the industry taking over.......

Same everywhere by the time you get them educated about all the things that don't know that they should have before they got the job and get them to a stage of usefulness they move to another job.
Then its rinse and repeat.

[eldog]

Whats stand up desk,is that new corporate speak for working at the bar?

Yes, free drinks supplied too

[Voltaire]

Maintenance team leader

Best thing - Looking after the whole south island and deciding who goes where to do what, meaning me getting to travel to nice places with nice scenery for work if I feel like it.

Worst thing - Professional managers with no understanding of the industry taking over.......

Thats happening in our AU office, the tradies are retiring or moving on, and being replaced by grad with elect/mech degree, with a shift to more

pointless meetings too.

[layton]

Thats happening in our AU office, the tradies are retiring or moving on, and being replaced by grad with elect/mech degree, with a shift to more

pointless meetings too.

i work for an Australian owned company, the health and safety rules are absurd. i manage a small crew of guys and feel like the meat in the sandwich some retard in an office deicedes "No more ladders" with no replacement.

but anyways i do enjoy the freedom my job gives me, and some of the people i meet.

[HEsch]

downside: Deadlines, long hours, can be fucking stressful, unrealistic client expectation, some people are dicks.

upside: (now) excellent colleagues and decent non-toxic work environment, decent money (though I never have any wtf?). some days its really interesting.

lawyer.

Didn't have to go far to find an accurate explanation of my job, which is Project Manager with an engineering company, working in Civil Infrastructure on (predominantly) roads, highways, bridges, with a few buildings here and there, and some other shit on occasion.

[Swoop]

Whats stand up desk,is that new corporate speak for working at the bar?

It's literally a desk that rises up so the person can stand, instead of sit, at it.

I've pondered it for years and can only deduce that its purpose is to get fat cunts a minuscule amount of exercise.


I had a good laugh with my doctor a little while ago. He said "the people who worry me are those who sit in their car going to work, then sit at their desk before sitting in their car to go home... where they sit in front of the TV / computer until bedtime.".
Heart attack city!

[F5 Dave]

Electronics. I'm proud of what I do. But I'm constantly amazed at a few of my coworkers .
I've always prided myself with working with people smarter than me but understanding how to get what I want from the team and others I need to interact.

It's the sociopaths that confound you.

[husaberg]

Electronics. I'm proud of what I do. But I'm constantly amazed at a few of my coworkers .
I've always prided myself with working with people smarter than me but understanding how to get what I want from the team and others I need to interact.

It's the sociopaths that confound you.

As you hsve learned Bosses tell people what to do leaders get the best out of people Dave.
Don't ever try to figure a sociopath out other than then have no conscience and no real feelings after than anger, if you have to interact say nothing personal as they will only feed of it.
Never let on that you suspect they are a sociopath. Or else you will become a target.
You can only sit back and watch as they manipulate people and situations as they are masters at gaining peoples trust and keeping people onside despite balently using them.
Never try and beat one,, They will win almost every time as they will do or say anything to win. They devote all attention to this as they are not bogged down by emotions empathy or thoughts for others
Any victories you have against them will be repayed against you 100 times.
They often rise to high levels as they have no morals.