Sheer insignifance of your role at work...does it ever hit you?

i understand

Only when I let it. I am currently attempting to pull off a work free day. 2.5 hours to go...

haha me too!

I've had this before, for sure. That whole "this kind of job only exists to feed the other jobs here which are all holding each other up wtf am I doing argh" thing.

Right now, I provision ADSL for a living - I like to think thats *somewhat* useful, ppl seem to think their interwebs are important to them.

my job is pretty critical to the company, yet i get paid crap and get no recognition at all - mainly because what i do is boring and nobody really understands it.

are you a proofreader?

1:55 left...shhhhh......

At times I wish my job was of less consequence. I'm no bigshot or anything, but I do feel a great deal of responsibility. It weighs on me, and part of me longs for days past when my workday was sort of a waste of time.

not a proofreader. i help plan and oversee development and manufacturing schedules, act as a liaison, and all kinds of other random stuff. i am surrounded by loud people who have "fun" jobs.

1:14 min...shhhhh......

I think the slightly fake (everything is backed up all the time & shit) feelins of powah and responsibilitah are great! To know that pushing this button would disconnect thousands of developers in india, typing this command would mess up something on a multi-Tb database server, doing something to one of the mainframes would mean that 25,000+ people across Europe wouldn't get paid on time or be able to do their jobs, awesome! (But underpaid of course)

58 min............shhhh................

i work at a company of 14,000

but i work on the front page of our site, one of the highest viewed web pages in the world

NYT?

IRS?

Any company that relies on any one employee is fucked.

A friend of mine in college's dad was a VP at a large automobile brake company, and he and the president of the company were never supposed to fly in the same plane together.

I could care less whether my job is significant or not. Working the graveyard shift every other day I mostly I just miss the sun. And people. hisssss, precious, precious.

xpost that's weird. My grandma was briefly a VP of a major tax company, I should ask her about that.

I thought it was bizarre and pretty irrational.

Some kind of personal dispute, maybe?

I have come to terms with the sheer insignificance of my life. So I'm cool with my job.

The official explanation was that if the plane were to crash, the company would be fucked.

xpost

i basically help people plan their weekends

If I didn't go in to work tomorrow, businesses would have to wait another day or two to get their sign permits.

Although my job is lowly paid, it at least has the advantage that I know what I do matters to a fairly large number of people. Screwing up can have real consequences.

I am surprised at just how many hours I am able to fritter away at my job looking at bullshit on the internet or chatting or whatever. Yes I have work to do sometimes but man, I get away with murder there. And yes, ultimately I feel my work is insignificant. It never really feels like there's anyone who would flip out a great deal if I screwed up.

i catalog shit so even worse shit can be unleashed into the world.

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it's very significant, in terms of that it pays my food, housing, education, motor and entertainment bills.

other than that, i'd rather have this job and get away with a more 'relaxed' attitude than take my last job back and have a nervous breakdown within a fortnight.

i'm only needed 1% of the time but when i am it's Relatively significant

I'm providing technical support for an ISP, so to the people who ring in and I help get back on line, I'm important.

In terms of my standing here in the workplace, it's minimal. If I didn't come in I doubt anyone would really notice - except I'd get an AWOL on my work record - and if I left for somewhere else there'd be many more waiting to come in through the door.

Sheer insignifance of your role at work...does it ever hit you?

it doesn't hit me because i'm totally submerged in it. so there is now never any impact.

My role seems pretty insignificant at the moment, in terms of the fact that I spend a lot of time on my own doing things no one else cares about or understands. Occasionally big things can't happen without my help, which is always nice to know, but generally... meh.