Works got me like....

lovemesomemonster · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one in meetings thinking "why am I here?". I work for a tech company as a business process analyst. I used to do customer sales operations then after 4 months of international travel to help the global teams they created this job to keep the collaboration going between all of our sites. At the moment pulling my hair out sounds nice, they dumped one of my old accounts on me on top of projects to update all of the training, create a newsletter to be sent monthly, and rebuild all of our websites under sales operations because we are upgrading the system. I shouldn't complain, I work from home, have FANTASTIC vacation time, and great benefits.. but I'm just really not into technology.
Can I have your job? My benefits are awful. To have a kid, after insurance, costs +8k a child. And I get 6 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I get 1 full day of PTO every month. Help.

Ha, it's not all rainbows and butterflies but yes, I admit that I am lucky. The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for it.. we are actually hiring for my old job, if you were in the area I'd say go ahead and apply! To be honest, when days SUCK (had a 6am meeting today and have one at 6pm so I will be online a while) I just think about giving up my 6+weeks of vacation a year for the normal 2-3 and it helps me power through!

NowIamMrsKlein · March 2015

Works got me all:

I'm front desk at a survey company. I do office payroll and invoicing as well as all the menial tasks that need to be done around the office. We're so slow right now most of my day is on TK and browsing random sites while pretending to look busy and trying to stay awake

hellosweetie1015 · March 2015

Related to work, not related to my work: Bossman told me yesterday that the job FI applied for and interviewed for last week or so, was machined entirely for a city councilman's buddy. The whole hiring process is a huge ugly sham to bolster the city's "decision" that Mr. Connected is actually, legitimately the best person for the job.

I'm hopeful that the $$$ will play a part - Mr. Connected is probably going to get close to the max salary for the position, where FI asked for the min.

Through this, I discovered that my dad actually DOES like FI! He offered to "sabotage" Mr. Connected since he knows the councilmen.

ETA: I shouldn't be hopeful at all. Mr. Connected is getting the job. BUT I'm gonna be hopeful anyway.

AprilH81 · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:
I'm also a corporate meeting planner but right now my job consists of setting up group air. I set up the booking sites so the attendees book their airfare to the right location and arrive on time and don't leave the meeting early. Then I set up another site so the travel agents booking the flights can make sure the flights are compliant with the meeting times.

And emails. I answer a bunch of client emails about who has or has not booked their flights to meetings and how much it cost and other similar questions.

And reports. Lots and lots of reports about flight arrivals, departures and costs.
Is this a common issue?

You would be surprised. When there are large meetings everyone thinks they are special snowflakes and the rules don't apply to them.

For example, if there is a meeting in Orlando and the meeting starts at noon and they have to arrive (wheels down) by 10:00 am then we will have a lot of people who will book flights to land after 10:00 not realizing that the hotel is an hour away from the airport or thinking it isn't a big deal to be late.

Same thing for people leaving early. If the meeting ends at 1:00 people will book flights for 1:00 which isn't enough time to leave the meeting, check in, go through security and get to the gate without leaving the meeting before it is over.

The way we set the booking site up it will flag the rule breakers and then I assign it to a travel agent to review and work with the passenger to get them onto a compliant flight OR to get special permission from the client to arrive/depart outside of the rules.

MadHops21 · March 2015

lovemesomemonster said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one in meetings thinking "why am I here?". I work for a tech company as a business process analyst. I used to do customer sales operations then after 4 months of international travel to help the global teams they created this job to keep the collaboration going between all of our sites. At the moment pulling my hair out sounds nice, they dumped one of my old accounts on me on top of projects to update all of the training, create a newsletter to be sent monthly, and rebuild all of our websites under sales operations because we are upgrading the system. I shouldn't complain, I work from home, have FANTASTIC vacation time, and great benefits.. but I'm just really not into technology.
Can I have your job? My benefits are awful. To have a kid, after insurance, costs +8k a child. And I get 6 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I get 1 full day of PTO every month. Help.
Ha, it's not all rainbows and butterflies but yes, I admit that I am lucky. The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for it.. we are actually hiring for my old job, if you were in the area I'd say go ahead and apply! To be honest, when days SUCK (had a 6am meeting today and have one at 6pm so I will be online a while) I just think about giving up my 6+weeks of vacation a year for the normal 2-3 and it helps me power through!

Your 6+ week vacation made me salivate. My meager 20 days off a year isn't enough for me. We don't get 39 days off until our 20th year with the company. I'm not using any of my benefits at my work, they're horrible.

MadHops21 · March 2015

AprilH81 said:

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:
I'm also a corporate meeting planner but right now my job consists of setting up group air. I set up the booking sites so the attendees book their airfare to the right location and arrive on time and don't leave the meeting early. Then I set up another site so the travel agents booking the flights can make sure the flights are compliant with the meeting times.

And emails. I answer a bunch of client emails about who has or has not booked their flights to meetings and how much it cost and other similar questions.

And reports. Lots and lots of reports about flight arrivals, departures and costs.
Is this a common issue?
You would be surprised. When there are large meetings everyone thinks they are special snowflakes and the rules don't apply to them.

For example, if there is a meeting in Orlando and the meeting starts at noon and they have to arrive (wheels down) by 10:00 am then we will have a lot of people who will book flights to land after 10:00 not realizing that the hotel is an hour away from the airport or thinking it isn't a big deal to be late.

Same thing for people leaving early. If the meeting ends at 1:00 people will book flights for 1:00 which isn't enough time to leave the meeting, check in, go through security and get to the gate without leaving the meeting before it is over.

The way we set the booking site up it will flag the rule breakers and then I assign it to a travel agent to review and work with the passenger to get them onto a compliant flight OR to get special permission from the client to arrive/depart outside of the rules.

Ahah, wow, special businessmen. My dad had to take a flight to Japan from Chicago and it took well over 12+ hours of traveling and flights to get there for a 2 hour meeting, then come back home right after. No hotel stays. Someone did horrible planning on that.

Cookie Pusher · March 2015

I'm basically an office manager for the publishing arm of a business association. I handle all administrative duties, in-house financials, equipment management, manage all of our social media, and I cover whenever anyone from sales or editorial is out of the office. I overall love my office. We're small and are definitely more of a family than just a bunch of people trapped in an office together. The main office doesn't really operate that way, and we often find ourselves wondering why different departments antagonize each other so much. Or why they insist on having so many meetings (sometimes meetings ABOUT meetings).

In general, though, it's hard to complain when we have amazing benefits and a great work/life balance. Plus, we have fun at my office. Hell, most of them came to my wedding (a few even came on the bar crawl) and had a blast!

amelisha · March 2015

Guys, Lync is THE WORST. We have it and it so buggy and annoying. And only the IT guys ever really use it so I forget I have it and then I see that someone IMed me like half an hour ago and I never noticed and I look like a total snob.

But I don't chat with my coworkers because they always try to pry info out of me because of who I report to, so it's kind of lost on me, I guess. I'm at a very funny position in my office because I'm super junior but assist the CEO directly so I always know way more than I'm supposed to about privileged stuff, so it's hard for me sometimes to chat with people about work because I'm not always sure how much I'm supposed to say about stuff.

Also, most of my coworkers are middle-aged ladies, so since I've gotten engaged they only want to talk about my wedding and I don't want to. I didn't even tell anyone at the office until someone noticed my ring and asked. Last week I had someone ask me if I had gotten engaged and it was kinda awkward because I was like "yeah...in August..." and then she looked at me like I have three heads.

MadHops21 · March 2015

Cookie Pusher said:
I'm basically an office manager for the publishing arm of a business association. I handle all administrative duties, in-house financials, equipment management, manage all of our social media, and I cover whenever anyone from sales or editorial is out of the office. I overall love my office. We're small and are definitely more of a family than just a bunch of people trapped in an office together. The main office doesn't really operate that way, and we often find ourselves wondering why different departments antagonize each other so much. Or why they insist on having so many meetings (sometimes meetings ABOUT meetings).

In general, though, it's hard to complain when we have amazing benefits and a great work/life balance. Plus, we have fun at my office. Hell, most of them came to my wedding (a few even came on the bar crawl) and had a blast!

I don't know where you even work, but I love your job already.

AprilH81 · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:
I'm also a corporate meeting planner but right now my job consists of setting up group air. I set up the booking sites so the attendees book their airfare to the right location and arrive on time and don't leave the meeting early. Then I set up another site so the travel agents booking the flights can make sure the flights are compliant with the meeting times.

And emails. I answer a bunch of client emails about who has or has not booked their flights to meetings and how much it cost and other similar questions.

And reports. Lots and lots of reports about flight arrivals, departures and costs.
Is this a common issue?
You would be surprised. When there are large meetings everyone thinks they are special snowflakes and the rules don't apply to them.

For example, if there is a meeting in Orlando and the meeting starts at noon and they have to arrive (wheels down) by 10:00 am then we will have a lot of people who will book flights to land after 10:00 not realizing that the hotel is an hour away from the airport or thinking it isn't a big deal to be late.

Same thing for people leaving early. If the meeting ends at 1:00 people will book flights for 1:00 which isn't enough time to leave the meeting, check in, go through security and get to the gate without leaving the meeting before it is over.

The way we set the booking site up it will flag the rule breakers and then I assign it to a travel agent to review and work with the passenger to get them onto a compliant flight OR to get special permission from the client to arrive/depart outside of the rules.
Ahah, wow, special businessmen. My dad had to take a flight to Japan from Chicago and it took well over 12+ hours of traveling and flights to get there for a 2 hour meeting, then come back home right after. No hotel stays. Someone did horrible planning on that.

That is a waste of time and money right there. A video conference would have been fine if they needed face-to-face.

You should hear all of the special snowflakes the agents have to deal with. I sit next to them and the stories they get about are pretty funny. It is amazing the amount of business travelers that think they deserve special treatment because they are traveling for business instead of leisure.

With all the bad weather this winter everyone is calling in expecting special treatment because "I have to get to Florida for a meeting, I need a seat on the next flight out" when all the flights are cancelled due to snow.

Cookie Pusher · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

Cookie Pusher said:
I'm basically an office manager for the publishing arm of a business association. I handle all administrative duties, in-house financials, equipment management, manage all of our social media, and I cover whenever anyone from sales or editorial is out of the office. I overall love my office. We're small and are definitely more of a family than just a bunch of people trapped in an office together. The main office doesn't really operate that way, and we often find ourselves wondering why different departments antagonize each other so much. Or why they insist on having so many meetings (sometimes meetings ABOUT meetings).

In general, though, it's hard to complain when we have amazing benefits and a great work/life balance. Plus, we have fun at my office. Hell, most of them came to my wedding (a few even came on the bar crawl) and had a blast!
I don't know where you even work, but I love your job already.

Yea, my job is pretty sweet. I'm over-qualified but I'm happy enough to make less than my full earning potential to be stress-free 99% of the workday. Like, seriously, I enjoy what I do and who I work with so much that I came into the job for way less than I was paid at my previous (much more stressful) job. I think our laidback-but-let's-get-our-shit-done-so-we-can-leave-before-5-and-actually-live-our-lives work environment is why we have a lot of employees that have been with us for 25+ years.

MadHops21 · March 2015

AprilH81 said:

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:
I'm also a corporate meeting planner but right now my job consists of setting up group air. I set up the booking sites so the attendees book their airfare to the right location and arrive on time and don't leave the meeting early. Then I set up another site so the travel agents booking the flights can make sure the flights are compliant with the meeting times.

And emails. I answer a bunch of client emails about who has or has not booked their flights to meetings and how much it cost and other similar questions.

And reports. Lots and lots of reports about flight arrivals, departures and costs.
Is this a common issue?
You would be surprised. When there are large meetings everyone thinks they are special snowflakes and the rules don't apply to them.

For example, if there is a meeting in Orlando and the meeting starts at noon and they have to arrive (wheels down) by 10:00 am then we will have a lot of people who will book flights to land after 10:00 not realizing that the hotel is an hour away from the airport or thinking it isn't a big deal to be late.

Same thing for people leaving early. If the meeting ends at 1:00 people will book flights for 1:00 which isn't enough time to leave the meeting, check in, go through security and get to the gate without leaving the meeting before it is over.

The way we set the booking site up it will flag the rule breakers and then I assign it to a travel agent to review and work with the passenger to get them onto a compliant flight OR to get special permission from the client to arrive/depart outside of the rules.
Ahah, wow, special businessmen. My dad had to take a flight to Japan from Chicago and it took well over 12+ hours of traveling and flights to get there for a 2 hour meeting, then come back home right after. No hotel stays. Someone did horrible planning on that.
That is a waste of time and money right there. A video conference would have been fine if they needed face-to-face.

You should hear all of the special snowflakes the agents have to deal with. I sit next to them and the stories they get about are pretty funny. It is amazing the amount of business travelers that think they deserve special treatment because they are traveling for business instead of leisure.

With all the bad weather this winter everyone is calling in expecting special treatment because "I have to get to Florida for a meeting, I need a seat on the next flight out" when all the flights are cancelled due to snow.

Do they at least get to keep miles? My dad's company pays for his tickets and hotel stays, but he gets to keep the miles from it all. He travels all over Asia and some of Europe for work, and he leaves every other month or so for weeks. It's pretty nice because we get to go on vacations and use the miles for tickets.

AprilH81 · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:

MadHops21 said:

AprilH81 said:
I'm also a corporate meeting planner but right now my job consists of setting up group air. I set up the booking sites so the attendees book their airfare to the right location and arrive on time and don't leave the meeting early. Then I set up another site so the travel agents booking the flights can make sure the flights are compliant with the meeting times.

And emails. I answer a bunch of client emails about who has or has not booked their flights to meetings and how much it cost and other similar questions.

And reports. Lots and lots of reports about flight arrivals, departures and costs.
Is this a common issue?
You would be surprised. When there are large meetings everyone thinks they are special snowflakes and the rules don't apply to them.

For example, if there is a meeting in Orlando and the meeting starts at noon and they have to arrive (wheels down) by 10:00 am then we will have a lot of people who will book flights to land after 10:00 not realizing that the hotel is an hour away from the airport or thinking it isn't a big deal to be late.

Same thing for people leaving early. If the meeting ends at 1:00 people will book flights for 1:00 which isn't enough time to leave the meeting, check in, go through security and get to the gate without leaving the meeting before it is over.

The way we set the booking site up it will flag the rule breakers and then I assign it to a travel agent to review and work with the passenger to get them onto a compliant flight OR to get special permission from the client to arrive/depart outside of the rules.
Ahah, wow, special businessmen. My dad had to take a flight to Japan from Chicago and it took well over 12+ hours of traveling and flights to get there for a 2 hour meeting, then come back home right after. No hotel stays. Someone did horrible planning on that.
That is a waste of time and money right there. A video conference would have been fine if they needed face-to-face.

You should hear all of the special snowflakes the agents have to deal with. I sit next to them and the stories they get about are pretty funny. It is amazing the amount of business travelers that think they deserve special treatment because they are traveling for business instead of leisure.

With all the bad weather this winter everyone is calling in expecting special treatment because "I have to get to Florida for a meeting, I need a seat on the next flight out" when all the flights are cancelled due to snow.
Do they at least get to keep miles? My dad's company pays for his tickets and hotel stays, but he gets to keep the miles from it all. He travels all over Asia and some of Europe for work, and he leaves every other month or so for weeks. It's pretty nice because we get to go on vacations and use the miles for tickets.

It depends on the client and how they have things set up, but most of the time yes, the traveler "owns" the miles/hotel points.

julieanne912 · March 2015

amelisha said:
Guys, Lync is THE WORST. We have it and it so buggy and annoying. And only the IT guys ever really use it so I forget I have it and then I see that someone IMed me like half an hour ago and I never noticed and I look like a total snob.

OMG I cannot get rid of Lync on my personal laptop. 2 years ago our team leader thought we should all get it so we wouldn't just yell across the cubicles to communicate (it didn't work, by the way). Now I can't uninstall the damn thing and it pops up every time I start up the computer.

lovemesomemonster · March 2015

julieanne912 said:

amelisha said:
Guys, Lync is THE WORST. We have it and it so buggy and annoying. And only the IT guys ever really use it so I forget I have it and then I see that someone IMed me like half an hour ago and I never noticed and I look like a total snob.

OMG I cannot get rid of Lync on my personal laptop. 2 years ago our team leader thought we should all get it so we wouldn't just yell across the cubicles to communicate (it didn't work, by the way). Now I can't uninstall the damn thing and it pops up every time I start up the computer.

When we switched over to Lync I had a customer IM me! I was like "WHAT!? No.. no no.. you have email and phone, I don't need you on IM too!"

KatWAG · March 2015

I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.

Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.

MadHops21 · March 2015

KatWAG said:
I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.
Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.

I didn't know such a position existed. People think banks are bad, so they need a lobbyist? It's that bad?

porkchops926 · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one in meetings thinking "why am I here?". I work for a tech company as a business process analyst. I used to do customer sales operations then after 4 months of international travel to help the global teams they created this job to keep the collaboration going between all of our sites. At the moment pulling my hair out sounds nice, they dumped one of my old accounts on me on top of projects to update all of the training, create a newsletter to be sent monthly, and rebuild all of our websites under sales operations because we are upgrading the system. I shouldn't complain, I work from home, have FANTASTIC vacation time, and great benefits.. but I'm just really not into technology.
Can I have your job? My benefits are awful. To have a kid, after insurance, costs +8k a child. And I get 6 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I get 1 full day of PTO every month. Help.
Ha, it's not all rainbows and butterflies but yes, I admit that I am lucky. The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for it.. we are actually hiring for my old job, if you were in the area I'd say go ahead and apply! To be honest, when days SUCK (had a 6am meeting today and have one at 6pm so I will be online a while) I just think about giving up my 6+weeks of vacation a year for the normal 2-3 and it helps me power through!
Your 6+ week vacation made me salivate. My meager 20 days off a year isn't enough for me. We don't get 39 days off until our 20th year with the company. I'm not using any of my benefits at my work, they're horrible.

MadHops21 said:
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MadHops21 said:
20 days off a year makes ME salivate. I get 10. That's it, 10 days, and that includes sick and personal time. Then again, I work for a small local company that's owned by a really greedy rich guy so them's the ropes. I do miss the benefits from my previous corporate job, but that got bought out so I had no choice but to leave.

KatWAG · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

KatWAG said:
I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.
Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.
I didn't know such a position existed. People think banks are bad, so they need a lobbyist? It's that bad?

I should have explained better. Basically every industry has lobbyists. And a ton of larger/ medium sized companies have their own internal lobbyists. I happened to only deal with banking.

I don't do public relations. I am a legislative lobbyist. So if Congress introduces a bill that is bad of my company or the banking industry as a whole, I will go to DC and try to convince Legislators not to sign the bill.

Lots of people not like banks because of the mortgage/ foreclosure crisis that happened in 2009. And because of that there has been a flurry of legislation. Some makes total sense, some is just silly.

I raise money for our PAC so that our corporation can donate money to campaigns, fundraisers and other political outings.

PamBeesly524 · March 2015

I work for a beer company, so no big complaints here... But unfortunately we do have our fair share of AWs and pointless meetings. I actually have a weekly recurring meeting that thankfully gets cancelled almost every week due to lack of discussion topics. Why it remains weekly on everyone's calendars, we will never know.

MadHops21 · March 2015

porkchops926 said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one in meetings thinking "why am I here?". I work for a tech company as a business process analyst. I used to do customer sales operations then after 4 months of international travel to help the global teams they created this job to keep the collaboration going between all of our sites. At the moment pulling my hair out sounds nice, they dumped one of my old accounts on me on top of projects to update all of the training, create a newsletter to be sent monthly, and rebuild all of our websites under sales operations because we are upgrading the system. I shouldn't complain, I work from home, have FANTASTIC vacation time, and great benefits.. but I'm just really not into technology.
Can I have your job? My benefits are awful. To have a kid, after insurance, costs +8k a child. And I get 6 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I get 1 full day of PTO every month. Help.
Ha, it's not all rainbows and butterflies but yes, I admit that I am lucky. The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for it.. we are actually hiring for my old job, if you were in the area I'd say go ahead and apply! To be honest, when days SUCK (had a 6am meeting today and have one at 6pm so I will be online a while) I just think about giving up my 6+weeks of vacation a year for the normal 2-3 and it helps me power through!
Your 6+ week vacation made me salivate. My meager 20 days off a year isn't enough for me. We don't get 39 days off until our 20th year with the company. I'm not using any of my benefits at my work, they're horrible.

MadHops21 said:
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MadHops21 said:
20 days off a year makes ME salivate. I get 10. That's it, 10 days, and that includes sick and personal time. Then again, I work for a small local company that's owned by a really greedy rich guy so them's the ropes. I do miss the benefits from my previous corporate job, but that got bought out so I had no choice but to leave.

lovemesomemonster's job.

FI works at Costco and has amazing benefits. He gets sick time separate from vacation, now has over 180 hours of vacation he needs to use or else he loses some of it, so he's forced to use days off to get the money or he loses ~$1200. I'm so tempted to leave my job and work there.

MadHops21 · March 2015

KatWAG said:

MadHops21 said:

KatWAG said:
I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.
Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.
I didn't know such a position existed. People think banks are bad, so they need a lobbyist? It's that bad?

I should have explained better. Basically every industry has lobbyists. And a ton of larger/ medium sized companies have their own internal lobbyists. I happened to only deal with banking.
I don't do public relations. I am a legislative lobbyist. So if Congress introduces a bill that is bad of my company or the banking industry as a whole, I will go to DC and try to convince Legislators not to sign the bill.
Lots of people not like banks because of the mortgage/ foreclosure crisis that happened in 2009. And because of that there has been a flurry of legislation. Some makes total sense, some is just silly.
I raise money for our PAC so that our corporation can donate money to campaigns, fundraisers and other political outings.

This makes so much more sense. I imagined you running around Chicago, handing flyers to people walking on the streets, promoting banks. Sorry I wasn't familiar with the term, I don't know much of anything like that.

KatWAG · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

KatWAG said:

MadHops21 said:

KatWAG said:
I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.
Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.
I didn't know such a position existed. People think banks are bad, so they need a lobbyist? It's that bad?

I should have explained better. Basically every industry has lobbyists. And a ton of larger/ medium sized companies have their own internal lobbyists. I happened to only deal with banking.
I don't do public relations. I am a legislative lobbyist. So if Congress introduces a bill that is bad of my company or the banking industry as a whole, I will go to DC and try to convince Legislators not to sign the bill.
Lots of people not like banks because of the mortgage/ foreclosure crisis that happened in 2009. And because of that there has been a flurry of legislation. Some makes total sense, some is just silly.
I raise money for our PAC so that our corporation can donate money to campaigns, fundraisers and other political outings.
This makes so much more sense. I imagined you running around Chicago, handing flyers to people walking on the streets, promoting banks. Sorry I wasn't familiar with the term, I don't know much of anything like that.

I do run around Chicago! But its more running around City Hall trying to figure what crazy ordinances they are trying to pass. And figuring which alderman is least corrupt so I can give them PAC money! Politics actually can be really fun

Cookie Pusher · March 2015

KatWAG said:
I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.
Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.

@KatWag My company does lobbying at the state level, for all industries. I have a hard time not falling asleep when the lobbyists give us rundowns of what they've done all day! haha

lovemesomemonster · March 2015

MadHops21 said:

porkchops926 said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:

MadHops21 said:

lovemesomemonster said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one in meetings thinking "why am I here?". I work for a tech company as a business process analyst. I used to do customer sales operations then after 4 months of international travel to help the global teams they created this job to keep the collaboration going between all of our sites. At the moment pulling my hair out sounds nice, they dumped one of my old accounts on me on top of projects to update all of the training, create a newsletter to be sent monthly, and rebuild all of our websites under sales operations because we are upgrading the system. I shouldn't complain, I work from home, have FANTASTIC vacation time, and great benefits.. but I'm just really not into technology.
Can I have your job? My benefits are awful. To have a kid, after insurance, costs +8k a child. And I get 6 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I get 1 full day of PTO every month. Help.
Ha, it's not all rainbows and butterflies but yes, I admit that I am lucky. The pay isn't great but the benefits make up for it.. we are actually hiring for my old job, if you were in the area I'd say go ahead and apply! To be honest, when days SUCK (had a 6am meeting today and have one at 6pm so I will be online a while) I just think about giving up my 6+weeks of vacation a year for the normal 2-3 and it helps me power through!
Your 6+ week vacation made me salivate. My meager 20 days off a year isn't enough for me. We don't get 39 days off until our 20th year with the company. I'm not using any of my benefits at my work, they're horrible.

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20 days off a year makes ME salivate. I get 10. That's it, 10 days, and that includes sick and personal time. Then again, I work for a small local company that's owned by a really greedy rich guy so them's the ropes. I do miss the benefits from my previous corporate job, but that got bought out so I had no choice but to leave.

lovemesomemonster's job.

FI works at Costco and has amazing benefits. He gets sick time separate from vacation, now has over 180 hours of vacation he needs to use or else he loses some of it, so he's forced to use days off to get the money or he loses ~$1200. I'm so tempted to leave my job and work there.

FI gets 10 days and that includes sick, personal, vacation.. I hear Costco is a great place to work, I know a couple of people that work there and love it! the only problem I have with getting so much vacation is that you can hardly touch it anyways, you take two days off and it takes a month to catch up! Ours all rolls over and you can bank up to 999hrs before you start losing it, I know plenty of people that are losing vacation time and topped out because they just can't get away. My supervisor once took every Friday off for an entire summer to spend with her kids just to get rid of vacation time and she still logged on to work every Friday!

buttercup1958 · March 2015

And it's snowing so my work and classes were cancelled. I have one class that I may still need to go too.

plainjane0415 · March 2015

I only get 10 days too total, for everything, sick, vacation, personal, whatever.... wah....

At my previous job, we got 12 days the first year, 21 days the 2nd year (plus any rollover of the ones we didn't use from the previous year) then 24 plus any rollover for years 3 and on.... I took a lot of vacations when I worked there...

MadHops21 · March 2015

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I am a lobbyist for a bank. I spend my days trying to convince people that banks aren't bad. And that employees should give money to our PAC.
Lots of meetings involving politics. I try really hard to either not yell or not fall asleep. There is rarely a middle ground.
I didn't know such a position existed. People think banks are bad, so they need a lobbyist? It's that bad?

I should have explained better. Basically every industry has lobbyists. And a ton of larger/ medium sized companies have their own internal lobbyists. I happened to only deal with banking.
I don't do public relations. I am a legislative lobbyist. So if Congress introduces a bill that is bad of my company or the banking industry as a whole, I will go to DC and try to convince Legislators not to sign the bill.
Lots of people not like banks because of the mortgage/ foreclosure crisis that happened in 2009. And because of that there has been a flurry of legislation. Some makes total sense, some is just silly.
I raise money for our PAC so that our corporation can donate money to campaigns, fundraisers and other political outings.
This makes so much more sense. I imagined you running around Chicago, handing flyers to people walking on the streets, promoting banks. Sorry I wasn't familiar with the term, I don't know much of anything like that.

I do run around Chicago! But its more running around City Hall trying to figure what crazy ordinances they are trying to pass. And figuring which alderman in least corrupt so I can give them PAC money! Politics actually can be really fun

Corrupt in Chicago...who would think?!

MadHops21 · March 2015

plainjane0415 said:
I only get 10 days too total, for everything, sick, vacation, personal, whatever.... wah....
At my previous job, we got 12 days the first year, 21 days the 2nd year (plus any rollover of the ones we didn't use from the previous year) then 24 plus any rollover for years 3 and on.... I took a lot of vacations when I worked there...

That previous job sounds amazing. There's a woman here who has worked over 35+ years and she's part time hours, but she gets full time benefits and PTO and everything. She goes to Florida is month and month long vacations in summer. I cannot be any more jealous of her benefits.

MadHops21 · March 2015

buttercup1958 said:
And it's snowing so my work and classes were cancelled. I have one class that I may still need to go too.

Is it an evening class? I just finished my bachelors degree last week, so I know the struggle of having classes cancelled during the day, but back to normal around 6, when my evening class was. Threw off my whole day.

Works got me like....

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