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Most Boring Part of your job

I have 2 from my old job:

1. Staff Meetings: there is one woman on our team, that saw work as her social outlet, she went on and on every chance she got to speak. She laughed loudly at work related stuf: "we are behind schedule, Oh that's [name of subcontractor] for you" followed by 10 seconds of uncontroled laughter. She tripled the time of our meetings and put me in a bad mood everyday. Although her personality clashed with the rest of the team, she was very good at her job and worked her butt off so there was nothing I could do.

2. When I was told, by my bosses to read through a couple of hundred page documents before a meeting, just in case something came up related to them. It is so hard to read a document when you know their will be a 95% chance it will be for nothing. Usually I just skimmed it and then if something did come up, I would not know enough about it to speak about it.
 
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1) The FAS133 review, which I was responsible for at my job. Consisted of reading the entire 200 page Pronouncement from from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (those people don't actually write exciting stuff). Then reviewing 45 different Purchase Agreements/Contracts, looking for Embedded Derivatives. Followed by a 5 hour meeting, discussing those contracts and whether or not certain aspects of them were considered derivatives...

2) Sarbanes fucking Oxley- All the documentation of controls, discussion of controls, meetings about controls, discussions of whether to have a meeting to discuss documenting certain controls, etc. Life in Corporate Finance/Acctg was much less painful and boring prior to the Enron debacle...
 
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2) Sarbanes fucking Oxley- All the documentation of controls, discussion of controls, meetings about controls, discussions of whether to have a meeting to discuss documenting certain controls, etc. Life in Corporate Finance/Acctg was much less painful and boring prior to the Enron debacle...
Amen, my brother! Our corp. internal Sarbanes Oxley auditors and their increased level of stupid paperwork/documentation can kiss my ass.

We actually have to answer this question on a monthly basis- "I see that your sales for the month were up by 5% over last month, can you explain why?" :bonk:
 
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every single damn day i start off by counting every single damn box of every type of plastic scrap we got and then checking all our silo and tank levels. not only is it boring as all hell, it is depressing to see all the varieties of scrap we generate and then try to think of ways we can reuse this cornucopia of crap without causing me headaches galore.

just one day i want to go into work and see pussy galore instead of headaches galore.

throw in the fact that while i am trying to do this tedious nonsense i got jackasses interupting me during the count and bringing me trivial problems and pleasantries and it is amazing that i haven't smacked anyone upside the head.

close second, mapics.
 
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