Being messed around in new agency job?

74jax

Sncjw said:

Welcome to admin you will do monotonous jobs. It's a job and you earn money.

What is it that an. Open plan office makes you anxious? 

One of my old work places changed internal walls to be an open plan office and the lead director said it stressed him out, so the company  paid to have the offices brought back.
He said it was sound, too many people and too 'busy'. 
I like an open plan over an office, but last job I had the best of both, by being an office off the open plan. 

DanS1

well 3 weeks in and still no sign of doing what i went there to do. Severely !!!!!! off and still have to spend all day sitting next to the world's most annoying person.

Dakta

time to move on?

I'll tell you something for free though, almost every job is monotonous if you work it most days. That's not going to go away

moneysavinghero

Companies don't usually take on temps to give them the rewarding jobs. It's mostly for the jobs that need doing but no one wants to do. In the offices i have worked in, a temp coming in usually results in everyone finding lots of work for them (all those jobs they don't want to do themselves). That's the reality of most temp jobs (at the lower end of the pay spectrum anyway). If this is not what you want to then you will need to start looking for permanent work. 

Do you really think that data entry is going to be any more interesting and less monotonous? 

DanS1

To be honest I don't think it is the monotony that's getting me down. I'm someone who is usually prepared to do any old rubbish. I'm starting to think it's anxiety of being in an office of 30-40 people that I'm sat here on a Sunday evening considering calling in sick tomorrow, even though I want to also see the rest of the assignment (3 more weeks) through. But this anxiety is something I've been feeling since the first day. As I say usually I'm OK doing boring jobs but if I was in a smaller office with only a few people, I think I'd be better.

yksi

Hoo boy. If you think this is tedious...
Once you've been in data entry for three days you'll be reminiscing for the days where you got to stuff envelopes.
I would advise you to count your blessings, be grateful that boredom means you're getting paid, and think about the people who can't manage to land a boring job. And I don't say all this to try to put you down. Gratitude actually works and you'll feel better if you can talk yourself into appreciating this as best you can.