Work is killing me is it killing you?
 

Friday no customers no management and where am I stuck HERE! there is a nice valley that I like to ride down and get in a goofy aero position like lance in a time trial and the bike tires are hummming and I am spinning in the largest gear with nothing to go faster and climb the other side like Marco Pantani. I am jonesing to get out and ride so BAD ( I told my girlfriend that cycling isn' an addiction it is a lifestyle!) any one have friday blues waiting to tackle that large hill or sprint like there is no tommorow?

NO but its killing our customers!....literally, the dead folks ARE my customers!!

(maybe I should mention I work in the county morgue?)....

at least your customers dont argue with you

and if they do talk back I bet you could give them a good slap would you per chance have a problem with zombies in your proffession ( not only am I bored I am a bored geek ) do you keep zombie killing kits with you in case of that problem were to occur?

I spent all day scrambling to finish a bunch of take offs on time, because the builder's blue print company screwed up the order, and we didn't get half the blue prints till 3 days late, and the builder wouldn't give us even a 1 day extention on the bid due date. :mad: JUST finished up.

That sucks, the most stress I get is a un-happy customer because there package didn't come on time but nothing to serious

or the other stress full thing is one of the salesman forgets what email is and needs help being reintredouced to Outlook not only am I a reciptionist I also fix the computers and order office supplies and sort the mail and vacuum but all of that takes hardly any time

Work sucks the bike out of me

/me stares at my bianchi sitting in the cubical next to me.

Yes my Bianchi forza is waiting for me I am going to definantly pump the wattage up tonight with all the energy I have in my legs I might just leave tread out of the building even though it is going to rain tonight I am going right through it nothing will hold me back

On Fridays I solve this by riding before work. Everything else is cake after that!

I commute to my jobs daily on my beloved steel SS built from an mtb frame I bought new when I was 13, my 1st "real" mtb so that helps. However I live in a college town and this is move-in/hell week. The roads haven't been crowded since May and I am not mentally prepared for my "summer" to end. I will also mention that I work in a grocery store FT during the day and wait tables at a campus restaurant by night PT. Both jobs have had a substancial increase in customers with everyone coming back to school, and I am losing my cool after only 5 days. Needless to say most of my free time is spent on a bike nowadays, eases the tension. However my roomate and a girl from our block were just another room discussing how they are spending most of the day on the local singletrack while I am contemplating my workday,6am-2pm followed by 5pm-close(roughly midnight). Ugh.......I am one of the few that hate wkends. I can't wait for winter break, only 15 weeks away. It will be cold but the town, and the trails:D will empty out for a brief but enjoyable time.

Craig

I rarely deal with clients anymore.
I took a position in our implementation department as an etl coder.
My coworkers and acct managers are my clients now.
Yet, I am second tier tech support. After helpdesk has issues it goes to our dept. Then engineering if we can not figure it out.

My work actually IS killing me.
Every day I am exposed to direct and scattered laser radiation, kirksite dust, foundry fumes, and carbon dioxide for a 13 hour onslaught.
But at least my kids don't have 11 toes so I'm safe for now.

Yes, jobs suck. Here is a good read for the workshy (or slacker wannabe): How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson.

I'm self employed. I work a halk day on Fridays, but I don't ride. I play golf in a Friday afternoon golf league. A couple of guys in my league also mountain bike, so we talk bikes when we play. I went riding with them last week... ofcourse all we talked then about was golf. I think it would be pretty cool to play golf, but instead of a riding cart, ride a mountain bike on the coures.

The only thing I don't like is when I change job sites (framing/trim work) and I have to throw my handtools in my bag with my workboots. I have a BIG chrome and it all barely fits and weighs 42 lbs. +15 miles home. then 15 miles at 5:30 am with it. -5. hah.

Thank God I'm retired

Yeah they are going to be releasing new product next year which is basically revision of an old product. :rolleyes: Higher management pushing some crap along, I'm having hard time giving a ****. Just do my projects according to a schedule, study for GREs and ride my bike. :D

Yeah, well... I tried that when I got out of High School, but just couldn't afford it. *sighs*

I'm 31 and don't work Mondays or Fridays. I absolutely love my job! Oh, and I'm my own boss too. Well, after my wife that is. :D

I'm on hour 15 of a 16 hour overnighter, and am hard pressed to remember the last time I have been so bored. I would love to get out for a ride right now, but the last time I rode after one of these shifts I had one of the worst rides of my life. Aver have one of those rides where you just want to go home and hide your bike somewhere so you don't even have to see it for a few days? I think I'll go home and sleep, but maybe I can talk my wife into an afternoon ride after that. The sad thing is I just came off of a three week beach vacation, and it still feels like I've been working for 9 months straight.

Work for yourself. If the boss sucks...

Life just works backwards. If I knew as a teenager what I now know, I'd have had a MUCH happier puberty. Also, if I'd had the free time I now have when I was younger, I could've had MUCH more time to do things I wanted while I was able to do them. The hardest thing about getting old is remembering when you were young.

I want to ride but I get home, tired, sweaty, hating airport retail....nasty combination if you are the one getting the stuff in the stores. Going to quit the job by 9/22. Tired of looking at my bikes parked all over the living room and no energy to do anything.

I get like that too. If it gets bad enough I could put on scuba gear and go for a swim in the 40,000 gallon wine tank on the west side of the property :beer: .