Barakkus
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Posted - 2011.10.20 16:17:00 -
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Astenion wrote:
As an aforementioned Yank, I live in Europe, however. I can tell you the European thought process of driving distance is laughable at best and simple sniveling at worst. I know people back home who DRIVE an hour and a half one way to their job in traffic, work 12 hours a day, then drive another hour and a half to make it home. They're so tired they only have enough time to wolf down leftovers, take a shower, possibly watch an hour of television/internet/video games and then go to bed, rinse, repeat. Oh, and did I mention that they work between 6-7 days a week sometimes? Sure, they make tons of money doing it but they have to take a vacation to spend it, IF they can get a vacation. If they're lucky enough to have a job that gives vacations, the maximum they can look forward to is two weeks PER YEAR.
Meanwhile, you don't have to support yourself because you were living with your parents so all that money I can assume went to hobbies and weed. The job you have is eye-stabbingly boring, yes, but would I be correct in thinking you get government benefits, which includes at least 30 days a year paid vacation, state benefits including retirement, and a 40-hour workweek (at most) with weekends off? Are you complaining that it doesn't come with backrubs and blow jobs or something?
In a time where former CEOs are delivering pizza to make ends meet, stop being a whiner and suck it up. Apologize to your parents, stop smoking weed, take your meds, and kwitcherbitchin'.
Pretty much. My commute was 1.5 hours on public transportation, 45 minutes if I drive. Can't drive anymore, costs too much. I have to work 10 hour days, that's just the number of hours my employer requires, plus I'm always getting bothered on the weekends and when I try to take a vacation. I'm salary with no overtime compensation, no paid sick days, they all come straight out of my personal vacation days. I've had to actually work through my vacations a lot over the years. I get home, have about 2 hours before I really need to go to bed so I can get up at 5 am and do it all over again. I'm making about $10-15k less than an entry level position for what I do right now and I have over 10 years experience (and have been employed with this company almost 11 years). I had to take a 10% pay cut in February which is pushing me to the verge of bankruptcy right now. My debt has doubled in the last year because I can't pay my bills and living expenses anymore from the pay cut I took. I can't find any other full time work, because programming seems to be all contract work now a days, I'm still looking though. I have to deal with pompous, self-centered employees with the same maturity level of kids in high school all day long who are incapable of rational and cognitive reasoning. They can't be bothered to tell you what is wrong, just something is "broken" and if you try to get more information out of them they just tell you they can't be bothered with it. Everyone at work will stab you in the back in a heart beat and are completely incompetent.
I actually stood in my boss' office last week screaming obscenities at him about some of the fuckhead executives in the office loud enough to be heard across the office. I got fed up with being treated like **** by one of them then got told by my boss later I should appologize to the said executive for telling her and proving to her she did something she vehemently denied doing, and tried blaming on poor coding, which she wasn't even using the software correctly or bothering to read what was on the screen or pay attention to what she was doing. |