What's a weird thing you like about your job?

[Cookies Galore]

Me? I just said to my boss "I can't escape this penis!," and she laughed and said she knows what I mean.

So I like that I can say penis and vagina and no one reports me to HR.

We see a lot of nasty pictures in our work.

[swamp]

As a criminal defense atty, I can also talk about penises and vaginas and oral sex and anal sex and forcible touching, and I'm supposed to.

I've spent time up at the DA's office looking at porn.   It wasn't very exciting. 

[NancysSummerSip]

"I can't escape this penis!,"

Sounds like something people would say after seeing a horror-porn flick.

For me, I can curse like a sailor at work, and I doubt my boss would even notice.

[Deleted]

I got one! Coding for removal of penile condylomas on an old HS crush. I am glad to know I dodged THAT bullet...and I have something to make me feel superior at the reunions! 
Since I code for a bunch of different things I see surgeries/doctor visits for a LOT of people that I know. 

[wvugurl26]

Jul 12, 2013 13:18:55 GMT -5 @beerwench said:

I got one! Coding for removal of penile condylomas on an old HS crush. I am glad to know I dodged THAT bullet...and I have something to make me feel superior at the reunions! 
Since I code for a bunch of different things I see surgeries/doctor visits for a LOT of people that I know. 

I thought I had looked up some icky J codes but damn you have me beat!

[Deleted]

The ICD 9 book is not for the queasy! 

[wvugurl26]

Jul 12, 2013 13:25:18 GMT -5 @beerwench said:

The ICD 9 book is not for the queasy! 

No, it isn't! At least I usually don't know the people I look up codes on.

[movingforward]

I can dance around my office signing Blurred Lines and can say out loud that I don't care if the Jason Stackhouse character on True Blood is dumb as a box of rocks, I would f**k him anyway (actually just said that yesterday). 

[Deleted]

Back when I was working the main weird thing that I like about my job was simple. It was just getting through the day without something major stress happening. If I only worked about 20 minutes later than the time I should have been able to leave, well that was the cherry on top.

[constanz22]

Jul 12, 2013 13:08:44 GMT -5 swamp said:

As a criminal defense atty, I can also talk about penises and vaginas and oral sex and anal sex and forcible touching, and I'm supposed to.

I've spent time up at the DA's office looking at porn.   It wasn't very exciting. 

Same in social work. I think the average Joe would go running from our staff meeting after about 15 minutes and would be traumatized for life

Pretty much everything I see and do on a daily basis most people would consider weird . We have a very twisted sense of humor in our office. It is a requirement of the job, I think

[shanendoah]

I've only been at my current job for 2 weeks now, so I still don't know what weird things I might like about it.

However, at my last job, I worked with a couple of former ER nurses. ER nurses have the same sense of humor as 10 year old boys- so it didn't take much to get them into gross out story competitions surrounding bodily functions.

[Sam_2.0]

I love catching people in lies. Usually on Facebook. Come on, if you are going to tell us you have no idea who that person is, at least make your profile private so I can't see that you two are engaged.

Also makes me feel kind of important when they call to talk to the president & get transferred to me instead. Hahaha.

[Nazgul Girl]

    I like being able to "run" certain little oddball things at work ( also coding ), such as the podiatry edits and a couple of oddball dialysis clinics.   I used to love, love, love coding the infectious disease consults, but they have us all doing that, and I rarely get to code many anymore.  There were some truly gross/interesting things going on with those patients.  

[KaraBoo]

18 years in the same building, I love the fact that the department I'm currently in (a little over a year and a half now) has it's own bathroom and copy machine!  

Seriously - the other departments I was in would have given away their lunch breaks for these features!

[Deleted]

It's probably not weird, but I love people who are required to laugh at my jokes.  I am only sort of funny, but you couldn't tell it by the enthusiasm my students have when I get off topic.

In fact, that is my major deterrent when students are failing.  I take them aside and say, "You know how boring my stories are now?  Wait until you have to laugh at them a second time!"

I have amazing passing rates after giving that speech. 

[Deleted]

I loved Cheesecake Club when I was teaching... Every month one member would bring the homemade cheesecake... Yum. 

I also liked the laminator and binder machines ...

[Deleted]

I loved the travel to India that was a part of my last job.  I liked the people I worked with, I stayed in wonderful hotels, and I got to eat Indian food 3 times a day.  The FF miles from Business Class travel really added up and I have some really beautiful jewelry I bought on my trips.

Sadly, management decided that I'd taught the team there enough that they could support my unit's work and I should start looking at other opportunities within the company.  It's good to teach people what you know and I'm happy to pass on my knowledge to good people in any country- but they weren't really ready to support the unit and I've gotten confirmation of that since I left.  Anyway, no good opportunities internally so I changed employers.  It was fun while it lasted.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

I work with teenagers, so that's weird in and of itself. 
I like tht I really do see 350 different people every work day. 

[ZaireinHD]

working in a corporate office yes
98% men in my division
the closed door ...ummm...discussions I've heard techs say to the boss
fuck you to / that's the dumbest shit I've heard you say
but I would say for weird....we get raises regardless of work performance (well when available)

[ZaireinHD]

Jul 12, 2013 13:10:17 GMT -5 NancysSummerSip said:

Sounds like something people would say after seeing a horror-porn flick.

For me, I can curse like a sailor at work, and I doubt my boss would even notice.

yea - same here!
it's just nice and comfortable to do so - right?

[Deleted]

I like that I can wear jeans every day (if I want).  How much is that worth?

[midjd]

I can force people to answer questions under oath and to turn over all kinds of personal documents, so that's pretty fun.

[mmhmm]

I liked having three flights of stairs to climb multiple times a night.  Got my exercise that way.  I also loved having a job where there was never a day that was anything like any other day. Each shift had its unique pleasures and challenges.  It was also fun to be able to wear different hats on different nights and not to have the administrators around to muck up the works. 

[Phoenix84]

"Me? I just said to my boss "I can't escape this penis!,""

Ummmm, context?

[Cookies Galore]

Jul 14, 2013 2:52:23 GMT -5 Phoenix84 said:

"Me? I just said to my boss "I can't escape this penis!,""

Ummmm, context?

I'm a medical editor. We have a lot of "icky" images we use on examination questions.

[swamp]

Jul 13, 2013 22:40:07 GMT -5 midjd said:

I can force people to answer questions under oath and to turn over all kinds of personal documents, so that's pretty fun.

Yeah, when I was asst Da I used to be able to tell the cops what to do. That was pretty cool.

[Phoenix84]

When I step back and think about it, I have a lot of authority.  I am responsible for a single aspect of operation for an entire federal agency. 

[Tennesseer]

Jul 12, 2013 13:08:44 GMT -5 swamp said:

As a criminal defense atty, I can also talk about penises and vaginas and oral sex and anal sex and forcible touching, and I'm supposed to.

I've spent time up at the DA's office looking at porn.   It wasn't very exciting. 

One of my previous jobs with my former employer was investigating employee appeals to executive management.  The employer has a three-step appeal process for employees who believe they have been treated unfairly whether it was a termination, poor performance evaluation, misconduct, and many other reasons.  The employees have the opportunity to have their appeal considered at a local/district, regional and headquarters/executive management level. 

My job was to review the cases at the third and last step and prepare case summaries with supporting documentation for final review and decision by executive management.  Part of the written summary was what I thought should be the outcome of the case as I (and others who were in my department) had the HR background to determine what was the right decision according to company policy along with individual consideration.

On occasion, we had a termination due to an employee viewing porn on company computers.  The executives on the final review always wondered what these pictures looked like that got the employee terminated.  So I had a case that went to them for review that was about porn.  I sent up the pictures along with the written summary.  It was the first and last time they ever asked for pictures.