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I've never had an office job and I've always wondered what it is a typical cubicle worker actually does in their day-to-day. When your boss assigns you a "project", what kind of stuff might it entail? Is it usually putting together some kind of report or presentation? I hear it's a lot of responding to emails and attending meetings, but emails and meetings about what, finances?

I know it'll probably be largely dependent on what department you work in and that there are specific office jobs like data-entry where you're inputting information into a computer system all day long, HR handles internal affairs, and managers are supposed to delegate tasks and ensure they're being completed on time. But if your job is basically what we see in Office Space, what does that actually look like hour-by-hour?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What field?? Like what are you supposed to be doing instead of watching videos for 7 hours. It's crazy to me that so much time can be wasted without a manager realising or caring...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh it’s insane. I work for a nonprofit, doing basic database management. My manager is… interesting. It’s a small team. Two of my coworkers are good, they do about as much as I do. Two coworkers do nothing at all.

Like legit, we can quantify the work we do. I’ll do 30-50 work per day, staying in bed for seven hours. The two bad coworkers will, even working in the office, do 8-12 work per day.

Our manager has started to cover doing work for those two. Our manager does 20-30 work per day.

It’s a fucking bonkers job. But on the weeks I’m at comes it’s AWESOME. Being in the office is shit, and the two bad coworkers make it worse. I have a group chat with the people who do good work and we lament about the bad workers. It’s kinda toxic, I guess. But at least I get to chill a lot and the pay isn’t bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You better hope the Bobs don’t come through your place of work looking to make changes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh it’s insane. They spent like 10-20k USD to have us audited and they were like “you need better or more people” and NOTHING CHANGED

I HAD SO MUCH HOPE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You must be living in the Twilight Zone at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You could not be more correct.