Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I’ve never really understood what people who work in offices do!

We have a surprising to me high number of non-office workers here on ENWorld. So it's not just you.

 

[Willie the Duck]

I’ve never really understood what people who work in offices do!

Play soccer mom to a bunch of people who would fit in here.

In my case, fixing a lot of other people's screw-ups.

A little of that too. Although probably not as much as I pretend. I have a great team, just with a lot of drama and you sometimes wish that Simpson drug Focusyn was real.

 

[Ryujin]

A little of that too. Although probably not as much as I pretend. I have a great team, just with a lot of drama and you sometimes wish that Simpson drug Focusyn was real.

The first two hours of my day on-site, today, was spent fixing the paperwork for repaired computers that needed to be sent back to users. Simple stuff that can be done in minutes, when a job is complete, but takes considerably longer when you need to track down what has actually been completed and screwed up.

 

[TheAlkaizer]

I’ve never really understood what people who work in offices do!

It really depends on the type of office.

I work in video games, so it's mostly programmers programming, artists drawing, designers talking, scribbling notes and playtesting.

But whenever I visit a more traditional office, I'm always wondering what all these people do. There's a huge amount of work in an an office that's generally just information passing around (emails, meetings, etc), coordinating efforts between people. But the actual concrete work (the equivalent of programmers programming)... I don't know.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It really depends on the type of office.

I work in video games, so it's mostly programmers programming, artists drawing, designers talking, scribbling notes and playtesting.

But whenever I visit a more traditional office, I'm always wondering what all these people do. There's a huge amount of work in an an office that's generally just information passing around (emails, meetings, etc), coordinating efforts between people. But the actual concrete work (the equivalent of programmers programming)... I don't know.

Usually, those people are monitoring and managing the worker bees, who are either in the field or interacting with customers by phone or via email.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I’ve never really understood what people who work in offices do!

I spend a lot of time on ENWorld.

 

[Wolfram stout]

In my experience, sit at their own hot-desk for the day in an open-plan office trying to look busy (and often being busy because they’ve actually been given way more work than they can handle because the team got downsized recently but they haven’t found anyone new and don’t plan to).

The specific activity depends on the job - it’s increasingly specialised in many fields (for instance in the NHS, the contracts management team have really very different skills from the informatics team and it’d take you at least a year of training and experience in the new job to be any good at it).

Add in logging what you did, in 3 different places, and then prep reports on the logs to send to managers high up enough not not understand 1st level workflows…. I work in compliance for investment company.