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[quote=Anonymous]I was a GS-14 in the OGC of a large agency and it was actually really stressful and the worst job I’ve ever had. Examples:

-I had no flexibility or independence. Everything had to go through my supervisor, and he was really not competent as an attorney or a manager or a human being. You can’t leave for lunch, unless you can somehow make it 30 min. You can’t leave work 30-60 min early on a Friday after a long busy week.
-we had to document our days, accounting for 8 hours of case time per day, and weren’t allowed to ever have less than that (unless on scheduled leave), and there was no option for admin time. The process of portraying my day took several hours per day. We also had to log every email we sent or received in multiple different places. Half my job was data entry because of this
-zero admin support whatsoever. Scheduling a trip and getting the reimbursement done took me approx 40 hours of work each time. It was so painful I basically stopped traveling, even to fun conferences I may have otherwise attended. The admins are incredibly incompetent and hostile, and they don’t do any work. I had to make my own shipping labels and requests for UPS.
-the workloads were massive. Absolutely massive. I would get 150 emails per day and had to acknowledge and log them all. It was so mind numbing. I would listen to podcasts all day long to help because the work was so mindless
-prepping your annual review takes a week. A freaking WEEK. Mine was always a report of 8-10 pages, single spaced, describing everything I did over the year. I had to include exhibits and case numbers.
-I could go on. It was a nightmare [/quote]

This is one of the most depressing posts I've ever read, describing a soul-sucking job like moving one pile of dirt to another location.  It is the kind of job where you wake up in  the morning and say, "You know, I think I'd rather be dead than go to this job."

And I thought my 30-minute prep for annual review and documenting my "horn tooting" triumphs was a tedious drain.  When I do my annual review accomplishments this year, I will remember this post and take heart that I have it pretty good compared to others.  I'm not a lawyer by the way but have to do this burocratic stuff as well.

Now I understand when I read, "And Bob, fed up with the grind, took a job as a park ranger thus  giving the corporate world a big middle finger."

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