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I Hate My Job, I Hate My Job, I Hate My Job

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday April 17 2014, @01:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the Tell-us-how-you-really-feel dept.

gewg_ writes:

from AlterNet

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a wage slave typing: "I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job," on a keyboard, for ever. That's what a Manhattan court typist is accused of doing, having been fired from his post two years ago, after jeopardizing upwards of 30 trials, according to the New York Post. Many of the court transcripts were "complete gibberish" as the stenographer was allegedly suffering the effects of alcohol abuse, but the one that has caught public attention contains the phrase "I hate my job" over and over again.

We've collectively been around the professional block many times. What's the most spectacular flameout you've seen?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday April 17 2014, @03:35PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday April 17 2014, @03:35PM (#32708)

    I've had similar improvements after going from for-profit businesses to an academic institution. There's some incompetent coworkers, of course, there's stupid budgeting procedures, but none of the craziness (involving switchblades and significant quantities of alcohol) that existed at some of the businesses I've worked for.

    It also helps that I'm paid hourly though - that means they're highly reluctant to have me put in overtime and weird night hours without a very good reason.

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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Friday April 18 2014, @08:20AM

    by evilviper (1760) on Friday April 18 2014, @08:20AM (#33003) Homepage Journal

    I've had similar improvements after going from for-profit businesses to an academic institution.

    I've had the opposite experience. At an institution, EVERY DECISION gets wrapped-up in heavy, strangling bureaucracy. Budgets get approved for all the wrong reasons, only if you're going to do the popular thing, and may suddenly disappear at any moment after approval. It's sort-of a lightweight version of government work, where the incompetent stay forever, nobody has real power to do anything, etc., etc.

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