Worst Duty at Work... - Page 2

460cixy · 18-05-2005, 07:29 PM

running cables inside ppls walls in there posh houses and walking on 60 year old terracotter tile roofs.

Leah · 18-05-2005, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by bindi

I thought all offices were smoke-free???

And tell her if she doesn't like her roast to bend over... you can show her a nice place to put it I'm sure!

hehehe... No one else smokes in their offices, but she thinks that spraying some air freshner outside her door and around her desk every now and then will make it all ok. Im not to sure on the actual ruling, but meh... She's the boss i guess.

Casper · 18-05-2005, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Leah

hehehe... No one else smokes in their offices, but she thinks that spraying some air freshner outside her door and around her desk every now and then will make it all ok. Im not to sure on the actual ruling, but meh... She's the boss i guess.

its 100% totally illegal.

Leah · 18-05-2005, 07:46 PM

are you sure? I brought it up with her a few months back. I had a major chest infection and she called me into work one day to help her with something, then proceeded to light a smoke and blow it in my face. nice huh. Anyways, when i returned to work 2 weeks later, i asked her to stop smoking, and i said, "I'm sure theres some rule about smoking in here".

She proceeded to tell me that because we work in a "club" that it is different to a normal office, and that smoking in pubs and clubs rules are different. But i think honestly its a battle im never going to win...

Casper · 18-05-2005, 07:47 PM

If your in the "back office" of a club or pub then she is talking shite. Its only in the public areas that have the smoking allowed rules..and not by staff.

Leah · 18-05-2005, 07:54 PM

hmmm... if thats the case, i might ring workcover anonamously (spelling?) heheh.

T_Terror · 18-05-2005, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by 460cixy

running cables inside ppls walls in there posh houses and walking on 60 year old terracotter tile roofs.

Same here.

Just fell through 4 of the ****ers yesterday and had to pay the customer 50bucks!

eb_5litre · 18-05-2005, 07:57 PM

I work with the disabled and have to clean up **** and other body fluids as well as wipe asses and clean shit up (literally) when they miss the toilet.

Olympus · 18-05-2005, 08:28 PM

I work at Mitsies and basically put up with a bunch of obnoxious dickheads everyday......but they're allright.

SWOOP · 18-05-2005, 08:49 PM

fixing #$%^ ups from brain dead colleagues on a daily basis ,the simple things just dont register to sum

Sylox · 18-05-2005, 08:56 PM

Wholesale/retail Detailer here
Cleaning the crap out of some of cars these discusting filthy people drive. It just never ceases to amaze and repluse me what we actually find.

Toenails/snoty tissues/underwear/vibrators that have been up god knows what/needles/spilt old milk oh the bloody list goes on and on.

Bloody animals i tell ya

**Captain Stubing** · 18-05-2005, 09:14 PM

If a person has died, and not been discovered, decomposition sets in. It's not pleasant to roll this person over, to make sure they've got no unexplained injuries on the other side. The movement always results in the expulsion of pungent gases, from all orifaces.

That is unpleasant to do, and endure!

I've also cracked terracotta roof tiles, too.

xr8 007 · 18-05-2005, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Feathers

There is no single worst part.
The starting at 6am everyday. The price changes I have to put up that then get changed back the next day. Especially if it's only a 1c change.
The reps that come in and expect me to drop what I'm doing to do something for them.
The other staff who expect the same. Replacing tickets that get taken/fall off, or putting tickets on displays/products that were built/cut in then abandoned, and left for me, especially when I'm not told about it, and expected to be a mind reader.
And also the repetitive nature of the job.
Just last week I sat down with the department manual and worked out that I need 84 hours a week to do the basic routine, as well as the few new jobs that have been given to me.
Then the boss cut the hours in my department to 47 a week. 38 of which are mine.
I haven't been on holidays in nearly 5 years now. There is no one trained to cover for me if I'm off sick. In fact they will call me at home and ask me to explain step by step how to do the most basic things.
Oh and then my boss went on holidays and made me do her job as well as my own for 3 weeks.

dude where do u work!!!repco,ahahahahah

Feathers · 18-05-2005, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by xr6007

dude where do u work!!!repco,ahahahahah

Woolworths

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Hawk · 18-05-2005, 10:07 PM

I'll state a couple of the jobs I hate:

- Filing.....pretty much my job description. Eek I hate it.
- Bins.....being the part-timer in the office, and the one who does the lightest work I get to do the bins....fun fun.
- Customer service.....generally not terrible, but when I am only in 2 days a week I generally don't know what has been going on. I also work in an industry where there are many foreign people, who I simply cannot understand!!!!!

montyv8 · 19-05-2005, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Olympus

I work at Mitsies and basically put up with a bunch of obnoxious dickheads everyday......but they're allright.

I work at Holdens, sorry, make that "GM Holden", and also put up with a bunch of obnoxious dickheads everyday...... but they're not allright...
they're all stupid ferals.

if it wasn't for the damn good pay I swear i would've gone postal with a pair of hammers by now......

when you are on light-duties (like i have been since last september) they find you all sorts of stupid f#cked up jobs to do, like wiping excess sealant of body joins.....

i need to win lotto.

LuvinmyEB · 19-05-2005, 03:09 AM

When I was working as a Registered nurse there were plenty of fun jobs to do.

Checking for fecal occult blood, watching worms wriggle around in faeces was a great thing to see before lunch. Washing down dead bodies and preparing them for the morgue. Trying to get the smell of burnt flesh out of your nasal cavities and the back of your throat after assisting in surgery. Holding peoples heads together while their brains are coming out of their ears. Telling relatives that their loved ones had passed away.

Nursing babies that had been bashed or abused, nursing psych patients whose kids had been murdered, then having to sit and listen to the case histories of these people or others who had been abused all of their lives.

Trying to console parents whose babies had passed away just after they were born.

Having 7 high dependency patients to 1 nurse.

Meh that should do it for now.

montyv8 · 19-05-2005, 01:44 PM

sorry luvinmyeb, but bits of that was just a little bit too much info for me

bindi · 19-05-2005, 02:09 PM

God Nikki (Luvinmyeb), that's some serious stuff there. You win! What's the prize, AUII SE UTE???

Leah, yes I thought it was illegal to smoke in ANY office. Get her *** kicked, seriously...

CongoAU2 · 19-05-2005, 02:36 PM

having to fix up stupid Sub-contractors jobs is the worst. and they never get whinged at for their dodgy work!

TheSneakiness · 19-05-2005, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bindi

God Nikki (Luvinmyeb), that's some serious stuff there. You win! What's the prize, AUII SE UTE???

There were prizes involved? Umm, how about this?

Yeah, some of those things you said were ummm...

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deesun · 19-05-2005, 04:45 PM

Leah you have already broken the ice with her so its time to go outside either to Union or workcover no need to do it anonimously as she will guess anyway but be prepared if she gets shitty, and she will, make sure you write down dates and times she may say anything etc and her change in attitude towards your work.Firstly check the rules then ask around workmates and get support from them as well. Do it calmly and without agrivation explain clearly your concerns and be sure she knows you will take it further if you need to but try not to do it in a threatening manner. Good Luck. Its time.

Feathers, you need to take a holiday, Woolies as with Coles don't respect their workers be they casual or fultime.At Coles over the last 12 months or so there has been a concerted effort to reduce workers built up holidays no matter who or what their job is they don't respect you so why should you do anything for them any more.If you haven't been on holidays for that long its time for you too.

Feathers · 19-05-2005, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by deesun

Feathers, you need to take a holiday, Woolies as with Coles don't respect their workers be they casual or fultime.At Coles over the last 12 months or so there has been a concerted effort to reduce workers built up holidays no matter who or what their job is they don't respect you so why should you do anything for them any more.If you haven't been on holidays for that long its time for you too.

I know. And I will go on holidays as soon as they give me someone to train to do the work I do while I'm not there.

LuvinmyEB · 19-05-2005, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bindi

God Nikki (Luvinmyeb), that's some serious stuff there. You win! What's the prize, AUII SE UTE???

Leah, yes I thought it was illegal to smoke in ANY office. Get her *** kicked, seriously...

That's what nurses do, depending on where your working. I guess you can tell that I moved around a few areas, sorry if it was TMI for anyone but that is what we do and worse but I wont go there because not even I like thinking about it.

A first year nurse earns 27k a year and people wonder why nurses would rather work overseas or strike (I never did join the strikes). Had to have counselling once for an incident that happened in psych once though.

deesun · 19-05-2005, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Feathers

I know. And I will go on holidays as soon as they give me someone to train to do the work I do while I'm not there.

You can't keep asking you will have to force their hand. Get a leave form fill it out for two weeks holidays and for two weeks time' it's the only way. :jab:

trick_xd · 19-05-2005, 10:43 PM

I hate it when the boss is allways right even when he is wrong and then has a go at everyone else just to cover it up that he stuffed up

XR-ENVI · 19-05-2005, 10:58 PM

well i cant beat the nurses stories
but i work in childcare and well i dont think i need to detail all the yucky stuff that comes with my day
unfortunately like a nurse the pay doesnt suit the job. After 8 years working i get under 30k and thats as a fully qualified worker (2 years at uni), someone untrained gets alot less. its for the love i guess.

20-05-2005, 12:04 AM

Well I can't beat Nikki...but have been through some hell in welfare.

worst job I have to do now is clean the mens toilet block at a large coal mine. Shame 'some' men feel they don't need to flush the loo's, surprise...

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benXaGt · 20-05-2005, 12:19 AM

Alot of you have written cleaning toilets thats nothing compaired to what i do at work. I have to fix sewerage pumps and sumetimes i have to get in the pits and fix the pipework i also have to clean out all the cotton ear buds/tampons/condoms/jocks that get stuck in the impellers in the bottom of the pumps. Youd be suprised what youd find down there.

Recently at the retirement village at wannaroo we went out there as there was a fault in the system usually the old people with alzheimers who always flush there undies down the toilet. So we went out there and found a goanna sitting onto of one of the rising mains it was like animal rescue rspca and we saved him but the weird thing is there theres no way to get into this pit other than down a toilet, so some old person has flushed it down there.

bindi · 20-05-2005, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by 351xafairmont

So we went out there and found a goanna sitting onto of one of the rising mains it was like animal rescue rspca and we saved him but the weird thing is there theres no way to get into this pit other than down a toilet, so some old person has flushed it down there.

Oh man, that rocks! The thought of an old fogie with a goanna