This is how women work. Sure, this is just one case, but in my experience women rarely do anything. I've seen old ladies work, but women under 40 don't do shit.
Meanwhile men have to pick up the slack and work their asses of.
I’m a “support engineer” for a well-known web giant you definitely heard of. Been here for 4.5 months, during which I did the following:
I have no right to complain: I get paid a lot to do this. We get 3 meals a day and a good private health care, dental included. But I’m so bored. I’m going insane, climbing up the walls. I really hope this would change sometime soon. One thing I noticed is that they started making up bullshit tasks for me, that have even less benefit than the above.
I saved up enough money to take a year off and study something else. But no courage to walk away. It’s the highest salary I’ve ever earned, for the least amount of meaningful work I’ve ever done.
- Rejected support tickets from our call centre. The customer’s issue is almost never our software, it’s usually their bad internet or slow computer or something. Not much I can do to help.
- Copied some trouble tickets from one ticket in system to another (in corporate speak, we call it “escalated”. But it’s a copy-paste duty), if they were genuine and needed a programmer to investigate. The programmers don’t seem to help either - they sit on the ticket for 30 days without responding l, till logs rotate and we can’t even see what went wrong, then reject the ticket like I did on section 1 above. In any case, I can’t solve any problems myself. I don’t have the knowledge or training on the product to do anything useful in most cases, and there’s nobody in my specific office who does.
- Participated in dozens of team meetings. None of my teammates support the same product as me, my counterparts (real teammates) are all overseas and I can’t communicate with them effectively due to time zone differences. So I just sit through those irrelevant meetings and space out.
I have no right to complain: I get paid a lot to do this. We get 3 meals a day and a good private health care, dental included. But I’m so bored. I’m going insane, climbing up the walls. I really hope this would change sometime soon. One thing I noticed is that they started making up bullshit tasks for me, that have even less benefit than the above.
I saved up enough money to take a year off and study something else. But no courage to walk away. It’s the highest salary I’ve ever earned, for the least amount of meaningful work I’ve ever done.
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Something that puts fear in the normslimes is Flies.
