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Sigh... I do like my job, but it has its boring bits. My least favourite part is checking the FastMonitoring plots. One is produced for each run, and a run last on average maybe 40 minutes. I only do the odd-numbered ones, so 18 a day... of 20 pages each. Now, it's not unimportant, because once in a while I really do catch a problem with a run. But even so, that's a lot of damn plots to look at, especially considering that many of them are quite old and kept around mainly by inertia. (The experiment has run for 7 years now... you can accumulate a lot of cruft in that time just because it's more effort to track it down in the (undocumented) code. Especially when the guy who would do the tracking down is not the guy who has to look at the plots... For some of them, the coder has left the experiment and we're not even quite sure what is being plotted, or why it is useful. (Please do not quote me on this ) Those ones we do tend to flick by quite quickly, but even so, it takes time.)
So, what necessary but boring bits do you do in your jobs? Misery loves company!
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Sanding. I was (up until yesterday) an assistant to a handyman and he would always have me sand walls, etc, before they were painted. It was a serious pain. But then, so was the rest of the job. So I quit. Posts: 2827 | Registered: Jul 2005
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I'm afraid I don't have any idea what you're talking about KoM, but I commiserate nonetheless. It doesn't sound entertaining.
I'm working as a writer/editor/general troublshooter on a couple of family history book projects w/ a genealogist friend of mine. And any aspect of dealing with the copious endnotes is the most awful part of those projects. *shudder*
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Manual offline requests. These involve searching through our offline physical storage to find the disk associated with the data requested, placing the disks in the drive and waiting 30 seconds apiece for them to initialize, recognize and then transfer the file to the online folders. I can get hundreds and on rarer days thousands of these reqests. A less common variety of offline request is even worse; it includes going into depths of our storage room and crawling through thousands of juker platters which are stacked in a way that can only be termed as roughly organised. When that elusive platter is finally drawn from its dusty resting place it can then be mounted into a juker and uploaded to the online folders.
But mostly my job is ideal, I look at monitoring software to insure the data flows and the databases stay running, and lurk Hatrack. Posts: 686 | Registered: Sep 2001
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I buy Beer, Wine and Liquor for the Southeastern region of a Fortune 500 company... The most boring part is the replenishment. And the program designed to make it easier is terrible so it's better do it manually. I enjoy looking for the trends in sales, but the actual ordering is repetitive and blah.
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Driving. Seems like all I do is spend my days in the car, driving to the grocery store, taking kids to gymnastics and dance, and soon driving myself back and forth to school.
One thing that isn't a job of mine, but something I'm just trying to do right now is redecorating the house - I love to paint but hate the prep work. Taping, priming, sanding, etc. When it comes to sewing (I'm making new curtains for three rooms) I don't mind sewing but hate cutting out patterns and fabric.
The end result is always worth it though.
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