Downsides of Your Job.

The chairs. I'm being serious, I do not think there is one chair in that place that actually works. There's even a corner which has been dubbed the 'chair graveyard', where we put all of the chairs that fall to pieces when someone sits on them.

Working every single Saturday, all day long.

I work at a college bookstore, and 90% of the time it's great. However during textbook reservation, where we prepare about 6000 orders in a month, is just madness. It's so stressful. It's over Christmas/Summer break, I work about 11 hours a day, I'm the student manager, which means I just have a ton of responsibilities. It's very awkward too, because I'm only a manager during Text Res, so basically for a month I have to tell people what to do/act like a boss when I normally don't, and people think I'm being bitchy. No, sorry, I'm just getting things done.

I get to work every Saturday for the rest of my life.

garry way.:

I work at my station McDonald's. It's awesome, I get to see, and meet new people, from all around Sydney. I work to 10pm for some of my rostered shifts. -is casual-

:shifty

Anyway, the downfall to my work, is doing Close aka closing the shop up, and trying to get out by 10pm. It's hard, disgusting, oily, slippery, wet, and crazy. You have to do certain chores in like 5 minutes.

But above that, I quite enjoy it.

I may have been to your work...

The downside of my job is that I'm important enough to have my writing deadlines stricty enforced, but not important enough to get any help, or external editing. Still beats rude customers and gross workplaces from having worked in fast food, though.

I get to spend my summer on a farm, waking up at 5 or 6 in the morning depending on what's going on that day, picking blueberries for a $1 per pound, and getting paid $5 an hour while doing everything else. While the pay is not the best, taxes aren't taken out. I would love to have a "real" job, but this economy is terrible, and I'm only home during the summer. It is such a hassle looking for a job in Boone while attending ASU.

@ spacejunkie
Well I dont work there any more. but I do hang around the local shopping centre in Blacktown. :)

They refuse to turn the air conditioning on before we open, so it's hot for the people who get there early and it takes forever to "cool" down. That's in quotation marks because the corporate offices also refuse to set the air conditioning to a decent temperature.

I work at a restaurant, and the only downside is that I used to cut my hair really short, like, I'd shave my head pretty close, and my boss is very worried about her employee's appearances. She told me that I needed to grow out my hair. Now I can't have it as short as I'd like to, but it's a decent pay so I'm not going to complain much.

Cleaning out drains that are full of old food (tomatoes, pickles, cheese, mysterious substances, etc.) It's disgusting and I honestly have to have someone else do it.

I'm on my feet for 8 hours, and then 6 hours the next day in steel-toe caps. It's agony.

The weather. The only time they cancel football practice is when there is lightning within a mile radius. Doesn't matter if it's a downpour, crazy humid, blazing hot, or freezing cold in the winter, practice will go on.

How much time my job consumes, especially right now with summer camp, because I feel like I'm having to plan my entire life around football. Compared to my classes, it really isn't my first priority, but they expect football to be the center of your life. To me, it's just a job.

Oh yeah, plus the fact that this is my very last year working for college football, and of course, this year, they decide to dock our hourly wage by two bucks

I work in a restaraunt type place. However, it's in a college and, well, most college students hate being told off by a sixteen year old, so tons of shit gets started. I've had to deal with the rudest customers, and there are some people that purposly try to start shit by saying I didn't give them the right order, and things like that. A couple days ago, I was tripped by this one young man and spilled the food everywhere. I didn't know what to do, my face was all red and everything.
Another downside is how freaking hot it is in the area where people cook (which is where I spend a lot of my time).

I work in a dog kennel. Sooo, one day I will get bitten. I want to work with animals as a career - so it's inevitable. xD We have cage aggressive dogs and thought one was going to attack us just the other day. And to prove that I'm a good employee I had to get over it and get the job done. :)

I work with children as a playworker in a stay and play setting or after school club, whatever you prefer to call it

The downside is my manager/boss is the most disorganised person you could ever met and she does not only my head in, but everyone else's! She is in charge of all of the admin - she doesn't share the load what so ever -.- and where we work, we have other children from other local schools come in to stay and play, and require to be picked up by our transport system. Thing is, my manager will book people in throughout the day, but fails to tell me or the member of staff so it causes all sorts of problems. She gets stressed out over the littlest of things an then takes her anger and frustration out on me, other member's of staff and even the kids :-/

The woman infuriates me, and trying to find another job, isn't the most easiest thing to do right now

Being really under appreciated by your manager despite how hard you work.

There are tons of downsides.

1. I work with Ph.D. and Master's students that behave like little high schoolers. They can't fill in any form by themselves; they need guidance step by step on everything; they forget deadlines; they don't turn in the materials requested weeks beforehand by emails (not just one, sometimes even 3-5); they are condescending thinking that you know nothing because you are getting a Master's in another area; most of them are men from foreign countries and they tend to be very dismissive of any woman that works in the office, to the point of not even greeting a "good morning, afternoon, thank you".

2. The faculty I work with thinks I do nothing aside form reading emails, so they are very condescending and take no consideration of our own personal time (such is the case with one of my bosses). In fact, I work extra hours and finish my job in time, thank you very fucking much.

3. One of my coworkers ALWAYS arrives late, which leaves me having to answer for her when they come and ask about accounts, which I do not manage whatsoever.

4. Students, in general, think they can resolve anything but taking it to our bosses, but they don't. The bosses always back us up and tell them to follow the usual process. But then the student starts getting snarky on us and I can't say a fucking thing I'd murder them if I could

-In the winter we die down so I'm lucky if I'm pulling 40 hours a week which makes for low paychecks.
-When we're super busy through the summer we will work until what we need to get done is done, even if means working from 8:30 am (our start time) until 1 am the next morning and even weekends. On a super busy week, we can pull 80+ hours. It's exhausting until you see the paycheck.
-Our warehouse isn't air conditioned, so in the summer when we do work those long days...it blows. And then unloading trucks which are like 130 degrees inside, lifting, flipping, physical labor, you dehydrate quickly.

Well, the fact I have to wake up at 5 am. The fact that I'm doing something I am very bad at (I'm a secretary in the army, I was aiming for combat and this is what I got). Also my new coworker that represents 90% of the things I loathe and I ended up fighting with her and basically telling her to go to hell.

Life's good.

Whether something is my fault, or not, it's my fault and I have to fix it. Normally this is a negligible part of my job (general manager) because it usually kicks ass, but today there were three separate instances where I was reminded of this.

1. My boss (the franchise owner) called me today - twice- to yell at me because some of his friends came into the shop and the employees working did a couple things they were not supposed to. The girl working offered to split our small (two scoops) up between two adults. She was well intentioned and did it to make the customer happy, but we lose money so we don't do that. A simple coaching, and she won't do it again. Problem solved, no fucking need to yell at me for it- twice. I shit you not, called me, yelled, hung up. Called me again 10 minutes later. Ugggh.

2. We had a catering event today, delivering 200 prescooped cups. I got a call from the very angry client saying she only got 100. I told her that was impossible, and she needed to promptly search around for the missing cooler because we gave it to her, and the ice cream would melt if she left it out. She kept arguing with me, hung up... about 10 minutes later another person called me back and told me they found the cooler, left it in someone's office by mistake. No apology for screaming at me, of course.

3. We're hosting a benefit night for a cancer charity. It was supposed to me tomorrow, based on all information I had from the charity contact... I get a call and the lady is like "So do we need to bring anything for the benefit tonight?" Uuuumm, what? Not my fault, but suddenly I have to convince my staff to come in a night early for a benefit night we didnt' even screw up.

Man, I need a drink.