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Maintaining the data on approximately 40,000 items in our company database. Adding new ones, correcting discrepancies, altering properties, running reports. The bad part is I'm literally the only one doing it. People hand me info, and I give them info back, but the actual maintenance is all me.
Now, that actually isn't terrible, usually, but our department fired someone in a different position that my stuff is closely tied with (who also was the only person doing their job) without having a replacement handy. So for the past 3 months I've been helping cover their position too because it's taken them that long to hire a new person and get them trained to a point that they could take over duties. Means I've been working 45-50 hour weeks for 3 months just so that I can keep things from going to hell, and I do not make enough to have that overtime be worth it (because I'm just the data guy, how much do I deserve, really? Thanks, upper management...).
However, they've finally gotten the person to the point of being able to take over the duties, so now things are a bit calmer and my overtime is related to needing to catch up on stuff I had to let slide for the past 3 months. I'll miss out on my bonus because I haven't had time to work on any of the side projects I'd need to complete to earn it, but at least I'll not have a burning desire to punch people.
I probably shouldn't call it soul-crushing, though. I worked call centers for a few years, THAT was soul-crushing. This is just very frustrating and draining from a mental and emotional standpoint.
/rant
Last edited at 15/11/22(Sun)07:23:37
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