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nwa-non

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What did you hate doing today?
« on: May 01, 2019, 05:54:25 PM »
Inspired by a thread started yesterday named "what did you enjoy doing today?" I'm starting this thread to document what we hated doing today.

Here's what I hated today: Work. It's not that the work is bad per se, it's the dealing with people, the sudden and irrational change of a parameter in a deliverable that made everyone go into crisis mode, the manager who wouldn't listen to reason, or the client who thinks they know it all.

I sit in an AC office in a comfy chair but just dealing with shit is getting old.

I'm counting down the days towards FIRE.

I have a gnawing suspicion that my subsequent posts on this thread will have a theme.
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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2019, 09:07:24 PM »
living

I hope you’re just joking.  Life is awesome.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2019, 07:05:09 AM »
Small children...stop being so happy and innocent and learn to hate your life like an adult. /S
On a more serious note I don't hate any part of my life but I don't really enjoy wasting my time at work either.  If anything truly makes you miserable then try to remedy issues asap.  (If humanly possible)

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2019, 07:06:51 AM »
Waking up at 6 am. It's better than having to commute through the worst of rush hour each way, but I'm deeply missing working from home full time these days.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2019, 07:31:15 AM »
Waking up to an alarm.

Commuting to work.

Working.

Sitting in traffic to get home from work.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2019, 08:23:03 AM »
Broken concentration at work. I'm trying to learn a new piece of equipment and the interruptions are not helping my naturally short attention span... ;)

I don't want to work a Saturday or Sunday just to have access to the equipment and silence at the same time but I might need to. Its an option. I have keys to the place.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2019, 03:21:25 PM »
Broken concentration at work. I'm trying to learn a new piece of equipment and the interruptions are not helping my naturally short attention span... ;)

I don't want to work a Saturday or Sunday just to have access to the equipment and silence at the same time but I might need to. Its an option. I have keys to the place.


Work interruptions are a tough part of my day as well. I can't remember any particularly annoying ones today, but I get a lot of updates from co-workers about things that are unrelated to work or what I am working on. When they are interesting or important, I still would prefer to get them in email form, so they come at a natural break in my work. I've resorted to working on the weekends (unpaid) in the past to finish tasks that require me to get in the groove.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2019, 03:45:20 PM »
6 hours of meetings in a row today constantly switching context.

Ate lunch 2 hours late at my desk on the last meeting.

Not sure what to do now... so here I am :)




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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2019, 03:48:20 PM »
Re-bandaging a gaping open (post-procedural) wound. One should not be able to stare into a bloody cavitation. HATE IT!

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2019, 09:37:24 PM »
Spending countless minutes on the phone answering redundant questions for incompetent/disorganized insurance companies seeking prior authorization and peer-to-peer authorizations.  . Why does each rep I’m transferred to (x2-5) need my name, phone number, fax number, address, NPI, TIN, member’s name, address, member’s ID,DOB....AND MOAR!! 

Maddening. Head-exploding maddening.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2019, 02:53:30 PM »
Explaining to an Inmate why I am not going to give him a new tray just because one of his chicken nuggets was too small...

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2019, 05:36:31 PM »
Passed a motorcycle accident on my way home tonight in a remote rural area. 3 squad cars with lights blinking and one fire truck on the way with lights blinking. No sirens and no urgency by the first responders, which is never a good sign. All I could think of was some family will get the worst news of their lives tonight and there is absolutely nothing I can do to help.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2019, 09:19:26 AM »
Still Work.

I have been consciously trying to think if I actually hate anything else in life, and besides being stuck in humongous traffic while being the driver (which rarely happens anymore), there's nothing really that I hate. I think "hate" is still a strong word. A deep dislike with what goes along with Work is more like it.

Can't wait to get this done with. At the very least I'm looking at 121 more days; at most 240. "Just keep plowing through" is what I keep telling myself.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2019, 11:01:13 AM »
Reading an email at work.  Wherein a director told the big boss that "oh, I didn't realize that I had to do this task, I will get started". 
Followed by big boss "oh, really?  We've had these discussions, but okay, just work on it"
Followed by director "well, I know there are many meetings where people discuss my project, but I'm not necessarily in there.  So, I'm pretty sure that I memory isn't THAT bad."

As the program manager, thank you for throwing me under the bus "Oh, I didn't realize I had that task."

When, a week and a half ago, I reminded him of the task, via email.  The response "I'm not going to do that until I have a request to do so and a due date.  Nobody has asked for that."
My response: "I am, in fact, asking for this based on a request from the big boss.  Would you like me to give you a due date?"  (Like, it's LITERALLY MY JOB to make sure that people hit their milestones and don't forget things.)

Director: "No, it's just I don't want to end up having to do it twice."


Rather than throw HIM under the bus by forwarding his email response to my boss (which was snarky), I did tell the boss that I had reminded the director about the deliverable, but perhaps he forgot in the midst of all the other things going on.

I'm seriously not a psychiatrist or therapist.  I feel like it's almost required in this position.

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Re: What did you hate doing today?
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2019, 10:44:58 PM »
Several people were fired today at my workplace.  I manage systems administrators and one of my minions was asked to find logs of web activities of those several people earlier this week, and it looked like HR were scrambling to find a cause for termination.  Some of those activities included watching movies online while being on the clock, which is a sufficient cause.

I hated reading the email about a very difficult and emotionally wrenching decision to lay off a few people in one department because I knew some of those people certainly did not get a severance pay not and whoever wrote that email was not stating the truth.  The minion who felt like shit after parsing the web access logs seem to have inflicted his pain on every other team member.  Our office was a pretty bleak place today and I couldn't lift the mood as any attempt at humor would be inappropriate.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!