Today, I got a job in my university library. My job title is technical services. My actual job is pulling off the book label for the scanner and putting a new one on. For six hours a day. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at my job as a librarian at an old library, I was shelving books. Things were great until one entire bookshelf fell over. The damage wasn't too bad. Then the rest fell down. FML
Today, I was given a new responsibility at the law firm where I work. I'm now in charge of punching holes in every single piece of paper to be found in the office, estimated to be in the hundred-thousands. The reason? I finish my daily clerical work too quickly. FML
Today, it was my first day working at a library. I expected it to be fun and peaceful, not to end up having to call the cops on a guy who started jerking off into a book. FML
Today, I tried to return a library book sneakily to avoid the overdue fine. I slid it on the counter but the scanner screamed, lights flashed, and the librarian announced my humiliatingly overdue name like a game show host. FML
Today, I was working at the library. Some punks thought it would be funny to shit in a book, close it and return it in the drop box. The fact that it was sitting outside in the ninety degree heat for a couple hours did not help the stench; it was everywhere and I had to clean the mess. FML
Today, I got hired and now I have to work. FML
Today, I happily went to an interview after job searching for months. I learned a large part of my job would be cleaning the toilets. Every. Single. Hour. I used to lecture at a university until budget cuts happened. FML
Today, I got a badly-needed job at a local discount store. After being hired, I found out I'm to help with the soon-to-begin store closing sale, and I'll be jobless again after 3 months. FML
Today, I'm a graduate but still an unpaid intern. My daily work is folding letters and putting them into envelopes. The sad thing is, I actually enjoy doing it. FML
Today, I was hired as a student assistant. I was excited, until I learned on my very first day that "Supporting the academic staff in their research" actually meant walking the professor's dog. FML
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1_goodreason 0
On the bright side... You have a job!
perdix 31
Suck it. You're in Texas, you should be grateful you have an indoor job. When I see those poor bastards working on the roads, or building houses or mowing lawns (and all of us know what the vast majority of them look like), I admire their willingness to work like that and am not all that concerned exactly how they got into this country. When I was in college, I had a job in the library drilling holes through several issues of magazines and journals and binding them together between pieces of cardboard. It would have totally sucked, except the university subscribed to a wide array of **** "for research purposes." jkjkjk!
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Zebidee 9
So? Someone has to do it. Do you think the labels will magically change themselves, or do you think it's beneath you? If you don't do it, who will? Someone had to put the original labels on, someone had to cover the books, someone had to put every book on the right shelf in the right order, then put them back in the right place after every time they're borrowed. These are the things that make a library work. Take pride in your job, and be the best at it that you can be. Imagine the personal shame you'd feel if you sucked at doing this simple task.
nontoxicpuppydog 5
QUIT YER BITCHIN! That sounds like the easiest job in the universe. you can probably listen to your ipod too while you do it. I'd like to see a whiny bitch like you last one day in the military. I do some of the most rediculious stuff you can imagine. Back-breaking shit. You can't even pull labels off of books?! Aww, you might get a blister on your fingers! Your life doesn't suck. You just suck at life. Bitch.
celticmarine2005 2
At least you have a damn job. I'll take that job in a heart beat.- better than not having anything since January
underpaid011 0
change your major! you found your life's calling!!
m32446 9
And every student in the process of getting a library degree would kill for even that job in a library. Do you realize how bad the library market is? And some moron who has no desire to work in a library gets a gig? What a load of shit.
Zebidee 9
I agree - at my university's library, I think even the most junior people have at least a Master's degree, and the people that work there stay for _years_. I imagine getting a job there would be not the easiest thing in the world.
laevatin 2
job is a job.... maybe McDonalds? At least u can eat there :)
skyeyez9 25
reminds me of the movie I saw callwd "Post Grad."
Norwegian_Wood 4
You have a job, so stop complaining. Like everyone else has said, plenty of people would love to have your job. Hell, you get two more hours in a day than I do. So shush. Yeah, I get that it sucks that it's so tedious, and I feel for you. I'd be so frustrated with a tedious job too. But think about the paycheck and shush.
iltby 3
So...why the hell did you take the job if the very first thing you're doing is complaining about it?
Cupcak3bby 0
Oh boo hoo you have a job. I'll gladly take it off your hands if you don't want the cash. But seriously, be thankful you have one. I've been searching for a job with no luck.
Syb3rStrife 2
Lucky. I'd love to have a simple job like that. :P Instead I have no job period.