Simple question. What is the most frustrating part of your job? I just gt done with my shift. Something towards the end frustrated me very badly. I realized that this is the worst part of my job. It's when people are needlessly assaulted. I dealt with 3 pretty gruesome (gruesome considering my town only has a population of about 30,000) assaults, one of which was on a 74 year-old man at 4 in the morning. This is by far the only thing that frustrates me about my job (especially when children and wives are involved).
Just like tonight, had a guy talk to me like chit. I am a very nice person. I am a well raised person who grew up with morals and was well behaved. Then I am thrown in to a world (as a police officer) where people don't like your mere presence. People don't care about your back ground, who you are, where you're from. They see the badge.
A) Management that make decisions without gathering facts first. B) Lawyers. C) Administrative support staff turf wars. They can't do more than one thing and each has been able to carve out a program that only they work on. Each processes letters differently. Days were much simpler when I had access to letterhead. D) The amount of controls to make sure I'm doing my job. I spend more time documenting what I'm doing than doing. Luckily for me that my boss trusts my work product so that I don't get in trouble when I get things done and feel out the documentation afterwards when time doesn't allow me to do every step in the SOP way. My boss isn't this way with everyone. E) Getting approved to using 400 dollars for travel. I can approve the use of 100,000 dollars in 15 minutes without oversight, but it takes me three weeks to get money approved for a trip to Corpus due to all the red tape. F) Hearing "we don't like to do that" from another department when there is a rule that says than can do that. I do a lot of things for them that I don't like...it is a job. The rules are there for a reason. I hate having to get my boss to get her boss to yell at their boss's boss till they do their job following protocol instead of creating extra steps to give them warm fuzzies. G) All of the Above
judges that don't follow the law or the rules of civil procedure. particularly ones who say, "the rules of civil procedure don't apply in my courtroom, counselor," in open court on the record. brilliant.
the number of abbreviations I see on paperwork on a daily basis. It's like I'm looking at captchas all day.
A, B, and D for me. A's become more a problem for me now. The dumb thing is when their decision doesnt work out as anticipiated, and they imply that I maybe should have "spoken up" when the chance was there... Even though they were 99.98% decisive from the onset what they were gonna do, as if anyone had a real voice in the first place. Managerial selective amnesia is tough to overcome when its days after the fact. I've whined many times to people around me about less rigid treatment women get in my particular workplace. Its like I should have known going in I'd have Tracy McGrady type expectations and them Malick Badiane type expectations, getting support from people for no particular reason. Nope, we're all Scolandry & Battier type role players hustling to make it work
The worst part: Being a lawyer to people I like. The best part: Being a lawyer to people I don't like.
My job is centered around writing code for intranet/internet applications following the software development lifecycle (the most boring thing known to man...lol). What's not to be frustrated about? Just kidding. Easy money, man. Surfguy I see bills of green...presidents too. I see them boom, for me and you. And I think to myself...what a wonderful world.
Dropping a 911 call right when I'm about to get off waiting for my relief who isn't there yet but should be. Boredom when there are no 911 calls.
November through April. And here's something for the cops... probably not quite suitable for work... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f9G8WPAMDbA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f9G8WPAMDbA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
