What are you doing?

[R6Chick]

I manage the corporate pricing bids for a top 3 waste management company.

[Dave]

civvie world i drive around in a van and practice breaking into company cars, jump dead batterys, change tires, assess damage, and invent ways to keep people from stealing our equipment. I also serve in an ambassador role to our various vendors and potential new members around the city. Army world i teach people how to shoot and fight in small groups i also run ranges as one of the very few e5s with a range card

[Switch]

I just sit around and be awesome.

[OTB]

I try to teach emotionally disabled kids the culinary arts. I say try, because a good portion of my time is spent dealing with the ED part...ya know; restraining kids having meltdowns, dodging punches, getting treated for bites (twice), stabbings(once), headbuttings (not yet, but close), kids bringing weapons to school (twice), and all-around good fun. When we don't hove the kids, we're training for breaking up fights, throws and takedowns, single and team restraints, and when we're not doing that, we're doing paperwork to justify our actions in all of the above, and when we're not doing that, we're doing lesson plans, purchase orders, setting up next periods lessons, ect...

After my first job, I go to my wife's store, pick up paperwork and go to the warehouse, where I load furniture for that night's deliveries, pick up my helper, and deliver furniture till 8pm or so...

When I'm not doing those things, I'm either repairing furniture for our customers or other furniture stores, or picking up, delivering or working on bikes.......

Oh, and I also go to school two nights per week to keep my teaching credentials current.........

anyway, that's what I'm doing.................................

[Archren]

Originally Posted by derf

I usually start my day off by spending the first hour talking to the folks that work for me. Then I spend about 15 minutes walking to get some coffee and to the bathroom. Usually I'll stop at someones office to say hi for another 15 minutes. Then I spend 30 minutes or so flipping through proffessional publications that come every day. Then I log into my computer and look through a joint email account that I manage for 5 other people. I rarely ever answer anything only if the question is elevated to me, I just make sure that everyone else is doing their part. I do that and look at cnn.com, foxnews.com and io9.com until lunch. Then after Lunch I open my own email, and go through that, check my voicemails, return some phone calls, and do whatever work that needs to be done by me, and I'm usually out the door by 5.

Thats pretty much an average day

Typical AGR day.

[askmrjesus]

I train feral cats to skydive for the CIA, on anti-terrorist missions.

I'd tell you more, but Mr. Fluffy would have to kill you.

JC

[Sixxxxer]

I am sitting on my Ass right now because Work doesnt start till 2...But on an average day of work I usually Oversee the Deli in my Store make sure all the product is in code and at the proper tempterature, Make sure people have there cups of coffee and that they have the shit to make it (Creamer sugar etc etc)...Give cash loans to my Cashiers so they can ring up the customers and also make sure the gas guys outside are pumping everyones gas safely and properly...As well as dealing with Irate customers who decide they want to wake up that day pissed off at me for "doign my job wrong"

Gotta Hava Wawa!!

[anthonyk]

I manage outsourced customer support for the e-commerce part of the company I work for. Lately, that has mostly meant fighting with a company who feels persecuted by us and has a million reasons why poor performance isn't their fault. It also involves backpedaling on signed contracts when they come back and say "Oh, we didn't realize what that meant when we signed it," or, "We've been managing to our interpretation of the intent of the contract, not necessarily the letter of the contract."

On the positive side, I also get to go source new companies to do our business, which helps my mood when dealing with that first part.

[Papa_Complex]

I spend all day wandering around the campus telling people with 10+ IQ points and several doctorates more than me that their computers are dead, because they forgot to plug them in.

[HurricaneHeather]

Originally Posted by anthonyk

I manage outsourced customer support for the e-commerce part of the company I work for. Lately, that has mostly meant fighting with a company who feels persecuted by us and has a million reasons why poor performance isn't their fault. It also involves backpedaling on signed contracts when they come back and say "Oh, we didn't realize what that meant when we signed it," or, "We've been managing to our interpretation of the intent of the contract, not necessarily the letter of the contract."

On the positive side, I also get to go source new companies to do our business, which helps my mood when dealing with that first part.

Uh....that sounds an aweful lot like what the Ops Managers here do. Except we do HR. But we have the same issues with our client.