21 Things I Like and Don't Like About My Job

There are days when I truly love my job and then days where I just hate it. So I've decided to make a list of all the thing I like and don't like about it here. Maybe in the end I'll see if it's truly worth being here or not.

1. I love the apple trees right outside the windows. Especially right now in the spring with the pretty red and white flowers budding on them. We get little birds nests as well so I can just listen to the little twitter or them while I work.

2. I hate that my boss hums dumb little songs while he walks around the building.

3. I love shredding documents.

4. I love that I'm the only one who knows how to make the copy machine work. Everyone has to ask me to copy stuff for them because when they try, it doesn't work and they get angry because it is such a crappy old machine. I take a small, kind of pathetic pride in the fact that I alone seem to have mastered that copier.

5. I hate that I smell like iodine when I go home.

6. I hate people with accents that call in. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THEM!!!

7. I love telling people with accents to just e-mail someone or fax stuff in.

8. I love hanging up on sales people. I love even more when they call back and say "I think we were disconnected" and I get to hang up on them again.

9. I like my co-workers. I'm the only girl here so I just get to hang out and joke around with guys all day. They all have a dirty sense of humor, so I rarely have to worry about going over the line of appropriateness as they can take everything SO much further than I can and thus, I don't need to worry about embarrassing myself. Secondly with them, it is so much fun when 4 or 5 of us go out to lunch. We end up being gone for close to 2 hours on those occasions, and we just talk and laugh pretty much the ENTIRE time. I love those days.

10. I like that we can watch movies while we label or tighten bottles. It's relaxing and when the UPS or FedEx guys come by they think we've got a great job because we're all sitting around a conference table laughing.

11. I hate that we have to tighten bottles by hand. I've had horrible blisters from it as we've had to tighten 20,000 bottles per batch every few months.

12. I love that I can tell people that I work at a laboratory. They all think I'm some kind of scientist or chemist and that I'm really smart.

13. I hate telling people that I'm only the receptionist about 5 seconds after they think I'm really smart.

14. I hate that other people use my bathroom. Boys smell bad, thus the bathroom I use also smells bad.

15. I hate the color of the walls. Who thought seafoam green would be a good color for the tiles all over the building. Plus, we have dark green shower curtains in our windows. Very classy.

16. I love when someone who has never been in our building before comes in. We don't get many people coming in and out of our building that aren't delivery guys or FedEx reps. So it's just so funny to see the look on people's faces when they look around our building at our lovely seafoam green walls, green shower curtains, boxes of who knows what lying everywhere, and shelves of binders. Plus, we usually aren't very friendly for some reason as we never expect people here. I never greet these people. Just stare at them until they start talking to me. It's great.

17. I hate that the water in our faucets isn't drinkable. There's always little black floaties in it so I avoid it.

18. I love that my boss has Tums on hand. There's nothing worse than getting the rumblies in the tummy that can only mean one thing and guys use your bathroom. Talk about embarrassing. Those Tums have saved me more than once.

19. I hate how many paper cuts I get. I fold lots of invoices and past due statements so I tend to get a lot of paper cuts.

20. I hate my printer. With a passion. There's some gear inside of it that squeaks like crazy. I had to print of 60 catalogs not that long ago and we had to take the printer into a different room to print them off because we were all going nuts from the squeaking. When I leave here, I would love to take that printer with me and murder it.

21. And lastly I figured I should end this on a good note. One of my very favorite things about my job that I often get plenty of bubble wrap to pop. I do the receiving of all our incoming orders which includes unpacking them and putting them away. Sometimes things come wrapped in bubble wrap and I get to pop it all I want. Today, I even got in a package with the giant bubbles!

Looking back over my list I guess that all in all it's not too bad of a place to work in the end.