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Diane Kennedy

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I loved MJ's post on dead-end jobs, but the jobs that were dead-end in my life are the ones I remember most fondly! The jobs that really sucked for me were all in the cubicles.. Anyone else relate to this?

- My final year at UNR, I worked for the local public utility. For a lot of reasons, they were really hated in Reno. In fact, there were death threats, bomb threats, etc.. all the time. So, they put the interns in the cubes that were right next to the windows. We had fantastic views of the Sierra Nevada and were the targets in case anyone decided to start shooting. The higher up you were in the organization, the closer you were to the inside, until you reached the very top...and were locked away in a middle space with no windows.

- After graduation I went to work at a large CPA firm. At the time you needed to intern 2 years at a public accounting company in order to get your CPA certificate. Boy, did they know it! You were the lowest paid employee at the company and worked 80+ hours mandatory per week...with no overtime. There were probably 40 of us in the cubes in the area where I was. When the afternoon doldrums came, we played Final Jeopardy! Someone would come up with an obscure trivia question, a couple (or more) people would compete and then everyone would hum the Final Jeopardy theme song loudly. If we had a winner, we'd all throw the little dots you get from 2 hole punches at them! (Thereby creating a dead-end sh** job for someone else...in retrospect)

Anyone else have a story from the cubes?
 
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