I couldn't help but wonder what trickykid's job was after he pro claimed it to be so boring that he had the time to lurk on the message board.
I'd like to know who thinks they have the most boring mind numbing computer job here.

I'l start cause I can't stand this job..
I work on an internet helpdesk which deals with the worst windows users the world has to offer, the type that find the right mouse button a challenge..The type that plug phone cables into the network card...they never understand that they can't use there modem and talk on the same line no matter how many ways I try to say it..and its always busy..
The closest thing I can think of is sitting in a room that echos saying the same few paragraphs over and over and trying to get snails to fix engines without looking under the bonnet..over and over..
20 minutes to type an email address?????

Who can beat or comes close to this?

Well since sept 11th, my job has been real boring, 7:30-4:30 checking email, and browsing the web trying to keep up-to-date on the happenings in the world of computers. I am a Instructor at a military school. I'm suppossed to be teaching Solaris, Cisco routers, and other deployable computer and communications equipment related material, but since sept 11th all my would-be students are away to parts unknown, and theres no time frame on when my next class will be. The system that I teach on is probably going away withen a year, and a new one will be comming online. They havnt given me any new hardware to play with to try and develop new courseware, or lesson plans, so I've been really bored for the last few months. They wont let me go TDY anywhere because I'm not on mobility status anymore.

well, yeah my previous job was boring, supporting Raytheon employee's who are about as bad as they get. they can build bombs, but can't remember their passwords, or know how to use Word and everything else.

then I was unemployed for the past 5 months.. now that gets boring, so be happy you have a job as I finally have one now.. pretty cool, keep while in school. Work for roadrunner.. working with their network and stuff..

-trickykid

I write computer games for a living. . . is gloating a sin?

I have a job where my computer skills and ability to solve problems is constantly overlooked and I am treated as though I know nothing.

To make matters worse, my company distrusts its employees so much and gives so few computer rights to people that we cant even pull up our calender on NT.

And our system admin is SO stupid... he has a college degree and is MCSE certified, yet I have to walk him through step-by-step when I want something on my PC because he does not know how to do most things, like give me permissions and install drivers. i have to do my OWN diagnostics all the time!

OK, maybe its not a boring job per say, but it is definately thankless. The jerks.

yes.

I once had to create (and complete!) a database during a summer job....man that WAS boring. I hate DB's. I think I totaled around 10,000 entries. To make matters worse, I was using M$ access.Whilst all my mates were out in the British sun (which you may know is as rare as a decent OS appearing from M$) I was inside a stuffy government building. I must have done something very wrong in my previous life...

i answer phones and pretend to be nice and smile to people.

anyone worse than that?

*shudders*

I really feel sorry for people that have to act nice and understanding with people flipping out because there bills date means it took more than 2 days to get from the company to the customer..and thats just far tooo logn..

Isajera wrote:
I did that for a while, also.

I finally got fired from that job after telling a customer what he go do with himself when he started cursing at me.

I'm just an unemployed bum strugglin towards my b.s. degree although I did just land a spot playing guitar with a local band. Computer jobs are few and far between in this neck of the woods, so I'm still at the stage of wishing I had a boring computer job I could bitch about here!!!!

who knows maybe i could get rich programming my guitar to play for me...

i guess this job is not all that boring but while we are talking about users that truly know zippo, how about a sales manager that calls you up to her desk just to tell you that her new mouse does not work. she explains the problem by pointing the wireless mouse at the screen and pushing buttons. true story no joke. thanks for the fun gone for now!

Let's see... I've nearly been canned for: PuTTY, Opera, CuteFTP, changing the defaults for Excel and Word and going through what was deemed an exorbitant number of 3.5's in a month. That's the wimp way of claiming that I was stealing. Civil servants can get a little silly.

I also have three bosses right now.

Yeah Bob

i use the ISP tricky kid works for but at their Waco Texas branch. One thing that's made me mad is them blocking port 80.

My jobs not really boring because it changes all the time. Computers one day, four wheeling down the beach the next.

The last few days though I have been working on a personnel tracking system with visual basic in excel that I made on the boats, and now they want to use it on land.

Ever notice how if you stare at the word loop long enough it starts to look funny?


Had a guy yesterday at work plugging a phone line into his ethernet port.
and was wondering why he could not get his mail in Lotus Notes.

if you can call what i do a job, then it's definitely a pretty poor one.
i'm doing a chemistry phd which sounds impressive, but in reality means i work 10-12 hours a day for about 1/2 of the minimum wage, perched on an uncomfortable little plastic stool at a dirty bench in a stinking lab where i spend all day getting a splitting headache from all the solvent fumes.
what's more, the chemicals i'm working with just now smell so incredibly bad that if you get a whiff of them you vomit uncontrollably.
still, i'm advancing the sum of human knowledge and it's rewarding or something