Is working in an office like jail time for money?

[MVP]

I've recently started working at an office, and reading some of the threads here, I think there are a lot of people who share my thoughts.

1) You are locked up for 8 hours a day (not including the traffic jams).

2) You have to wake up really early everyday. Chances are, your schedule is not very flexible and you are there when your employer wants.

3) Unless you're the employer, you're constantly getting bossed around to do this or do that. And learn this and learn that.

4) You're not allowed to do things like go on webpages you want or whatever. It's like you have to be soldier following procedures.

5) *THERE ARE NO HOT BABES. Ofcourse there are exceptions, but the general rule of thumb is that most woman who work there are for some reason over 30, heavy, and not attractive.

6) It's tiring. You get physically and emotionally drained.

7) You might have to deal with people you don't really like talking to. You might have to talk to them and chit chat.

8) If you have extra-ciricular activities you have to do like night classes or whatever activities, then basically your entire day is gone.

9) You don't really get that much more money. There are other people who I bet do much less than you in easier jobs who are making around the same pay as you. You work and work and work, and it doesn't even make you super rich.

10) Nobody really likes the work. It's not like something fun that you are passionate about. I've never met anyone who is actually enthusiastic about sitting in a chair all day long looking at numbers, punching things into a computer system, finding documents in a file cabinet, making phone calls to people and I.T., sitting in meetings etc.


Well, now that I've described such a positive experience for you, how do others here like working in an office?

 

[reyalp]

working in an office is like 40hrs of high school drama with paychecks at the end of the week.

 

[PRMoon]

You can find a bearable office job, but it helps if you sort of like the work you're doing. I'm looking for a corporate position in the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Florida. It's an office job but what and office!

 

[Dimebag_Darrell]

and thats exactly why I'm happy

 

[Vincent]

You got to find a job you like doing man.

I'm becoming an engineer because it's what I love, sure if I became an accountant I'd hate my job, but that's not my choice.

Over the summer I worked a terrible job where I did nothing all day and felt trapped, this summer I'm actually getting a job that will be more towards my career goal and should be more interesting.

Don't be so down on the corporate world. It's americas dream of Rags to Riches and everyone in the corporate world believes it

 

[Xericx]

Originally posted by MVP
I've recently started working at an office, and reading some of the threads here, I think there are a lot of people who share my thoughts.

1) You are locked up for 8 hours a day (not including the traffic jams).

2) You have to wake up really early everyday. Chances are, your schedule is not very flexible and you are there when your employer wants.

3) Unless you're the employer, you're constantly getting bossed around to do this or do that. And learn this and learn that.

4) You're not allowed to do things like go on webpages you want or whatever. It's like you have to be soldier following procedures.

5) *THERE ARE NO HOT BABES. Ofcourse there are exceptions, but the general rule of thumb is that most woman who work there are for some reason over 30, heavy, and not attractive.

6) It's tiring. You get physically and emotionally drained.

7) You might have to deal with people you don't really like talking to. You might have to talk to them and chit chat.

8) If you have extra-ciricular activities you have to do like night classes or whatever activities, then basically your entire day is gone.

9) You don't really get that much more money. There are other people who I bet do much less than you in easier jobs who are making around the same pay as you. You work and work and work, and it doesn't even make you super rich.

10) Nobody really likes the work. It's not like something fun that you are passionate about. I've never met anyone who is actually enthusiastic about sitting in a chair all day long looking at numbers, punching things into a computer system, finding documents in a file cabinet, making phone calls to people and I.T., sitting in meetings etc.


Well, now that I've described such a positive experience for you, how do others here like working in an office?

Haha...sucks for you.

I work in LA, right by the beach...not a corporate. A small corportation.

I have my own office. I have a door I can close.

I spend most of my day surfing the web. Look at porn or whatever...browse the net....email people, etc.

Beautiful women come into my office all day.

I wake up at 8:30am. I'm usually 15-20 minutes late...boss doesn't notice.

Get paid decently.

But yeah, even I get bored of that still...just not fulfilling.....

 

[MVP]

Re: Re: Is working in an office like jail time for money?

Originally posted by Xericx
Beautiful women come into my office all day.

But yeah, even I get bored of that still...just not fulfilling.....

Why would "beautiful women" be coming into your office all day?

Well, I'm just glad I'm not working permanently, it's just a temporary thing.

 

[ethnomethodologist]

Dude, this thread is stickied.

Two questions, two extremes.

Do you want to know how to make your job ENJOYABLE?

or

Do you want to know what is ENJOYABLE outside of your job?

reyalp is the only person who is dot on on the subject. I work in a small business, imagine what highschool would be like if there were only 8 people there? Drama would get pretty boring after a while, that's why I go to work early, sit down have my coffee get my daily chores done before any business starts buzzing. Make sure I am set for anything that comes at me during the day...

all that jazz...

Dudes how do you work smart, and play (smart)?

 

[racerX]

Working in a cubicle all day sux! I hate the crappy raises, azzhole bosses, office politics, boring people, ugly chicks. On top of that all i get is a lousy 1 week of vacation a year. Working is really depressing. I feel like the dude of Ofice Space. I wish i could invest in real estate or met a rich chick & quit this stupid crap.. Is this all there is to life? Getting up early, fighting traffic & sitting & looking at a stupid computer all day?

 

[Xericx]

Re: Re: Re: Is working in an office like jail time for money?

Originally posted by MVP
Why would "beautiful women" be coming into your office all day?

Well, I'm just glad I'm not working permanently, it's just a temporary thing.

Don't worry about it.

 

[backbreaker]

I don't ever see myself working in an office again in my life..

even when I had my own company and I had my own freakin office, i hated it.. i was hardly there, I would go to Barnes and Noble and take my laptop and work.. I don't like offices, I don't like office politics and I have a smart mouth and I'm not afaid to use it

I think in my entire time of haivng my own office, a little over 18 months, I might have worked a good month out of it.. when I was forced to work out of my office, I would go to the conference room.

I'm the type of guy that will go to a hotel room, and get the biggest hotel room they have, just so I can ahve the extra space, and when I get there, open up all the rooms.

My frist apartment was a 2 bed, 2 and a half bathroom.. and I was a batchlor

I have to have my space, and I don't like being told what to do, never have

 

[LowPlainsDrifter]

Feel confined?

Here are some ideas:

1. Visit other departments on foot - getting to know people in person makes them easier to deal with in the future, and helps build a "network" for future opportunities.

2. Find excuses for getting out of the office altogether - for example, if you're in purchasing and a vendor wants to take you out to lunch, go do it!

3. Become an "intrapreneur" - make a game of thinking of ways to do your job better. Get together with co-workers who do the same thing and see how the whole department can do more in less time. Try to figure out how your position in the company relates to increasing revenue or decreasing expenses, and put ideas into action.

4. Start a business of some sort on the side.

 

[diplomatic_lies]

The difference between office and jail is, in an office you get paid $80K a year, you don't get bashed up by guards/prisoners, and you can quit your job anytime.

Oh, and sexual harrassment suits prevent guys called Bubba touching you in erotic ways.

 

[Royal Elite]

Doing anything you dont wont to do 4 money is jail time. YOu need to find a career doing something that you would do for free. THis way it never seems like work and you are guranteed more sucess because your heart will be in it.

 

[legolas]

Screw "intrapreneurship" Entreprenuership is where it's at, but it's not for the weak at heart. I've been looking into making that transition for a while now. It's not an easy choice, and there's no security, but if you are creative and have balls, who wants security anyway? Security == Limited Options

 

[Page]

This reminds me of that Office Space movie....

 

[Dillinger]

I feel ya MVP I work in an office too. Since working their I’ve been moved almost every month to another department because I have been doing very well.

I use to be very social but worked turned into high school. So now i don't talk that much and i keep to myself.

Every dept i moved to, I've talked to the Department manger and build up relationships with them.

My manger is very flexible with my schedule because i am a student and they know about my other full time job. I get to use personal time whenever i chose to.

I came in making $11 now I’m up to $15 an hr. Because of school i only work 30hrs a week plus my other full time job. I get grants to go to school so i pay nothing out of pocket and my job has tuition reimbursement so i get a check for 1500 every six weeks. That’s incentive to keep me in school. Look into at your job to see if they have that.


1) You are locked up for 8 hours a day (not including the traffic jams).

Nothing you can do about that, once your in your career more than likely you’ll go through this for the rest of your working life.

6) It's tiring. You get physically and emotionally drained.
You’ll get used to it the longer you’re their.


7) You might have to deal with people you don't really like talking to. You might have to talk to them and chit chat.

That’s life

8) If you have extra-circular activities you have to do like night classes or whatever activities, then basically your entire day is gone.

Today i worked from 8-12 went home have to finish homework and then be at class from 430 until 10pm

9) You don't really get that much more money. There are other people who I bet do much less than you in easier jobs who are making around the same pay as you. You work and work and work, and it doesn't even make you super rich.

The people in my training class they still make 11 and hr, it’s all what you put into your work.


You just have to change you attitude about things and look at it has half full instead of have empty

 

[Yotsuya-san]

Originally posted by diplomatic_lies
The difference between office and jail is, in an office you get paid $80K a year, you don't get bashed up by guards/prisoners, and you can quit your job anytime.

Oh, and sexual harrassment suits prevent guys called Bubba touching you in erotic ways.

80K a year, working as an office drone? Not on this planet. I'm pretty sure that MVP had these types of jobs in mind when he said working in an office:
Phone service center
Telemarketing
Customer service/Sales Reps

1)With these jobs you just got a cubicle (which many of these places do not even allow you to personalize) or space right next to a million other people in the same big room.

2)Your time spent on the phone talking to customers is often logged and you can be penalized for idle time (those of you working in phone sevice centers will be familiar with this). You are expected to go from customer to customer to customer without any breaks.

3)You cannot just leave your cubicle to go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, snack or whatever. Some of these offices don't even allow you to eat or drink at your cubicles.

4)In those offices which deal mostly with inbound calls such as customer service, your break or lunch can be delayed if there are a lot of calls in the que, especially if the office is understaffed.

So these jobs are like prison with a paycheck.

Those other jobs where you have like your own PRIVATE office AND make about 80K a year AND aren't just taking calls from irate customers I don't think count.

 

[diplomatic_lies]

Originally posted by Yotsuya-san
80K a year, working as an office drone? Not on this planet. I'm pretty sure that MVP had these types of jobs in mind when he said working in an office:
Phone service center
Telemarketing
Customer service/Sales Reps

Oh, well I thought he was referring to an executive job for his career.

Still, these part-time jobs are really good for a college student. They pay $15-$20 an hour. Try doing something like waiting tables at a busy restaurant, where the pay is low and the conditions are crappy.

 

[MVP]

Actually it's not an executive job or a lowly part-time office job like phone service, i guess it's somewhere in between. I get paid under $20/hr. Looking back at some of those points and some of the comments here, I do see that I could deal with some of these things, and I don't get tired anymore. But ultimately I still find the job un-satisfying. It's like I ask myself "could I spend the rest of my life putting numbers into a computer screen and looking at financial statements?" I feel like I'm not leaving my mark.