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AIBU?

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to ask if you have any idea what your DP does at work?

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MrsSeymourButts · 10/03/2015 09:32

God knows what mine gets up to all day. I have asked on occasion - I really have - but I get the urge to start smashing the crockery by the time he finishes the first sentence. I think it might involve a sophisticated way of counting toilet rolls.

AIBU to start making things up (weasel trainer, Beyonce's body double, etc.) if anyone asks me again what he does?

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CarolaStorms · 10/03/2015 21:08

This thread has flushed out all the librarians!

I don't think I'm going this time Thurlow, are you?

flippineck that sounds really interesting, I've always thought I'd quite like to work in a government department. Might be a bit of a shock after the private sector though!

CarolaStorms · 10/03/2015 21:09

Also didn't get the 'silly little woman' vibe from this thread. More like a 'aren't some modern jobs inexplicable?' vibe.

TalkinPeace · 10/03/2015 21:10

I'm his PA.
How his day is going appears on Twitter and FB and on a really good day, Youtube.

I'm an accountant though

Failedspinster · 10/03/2015 21:11

I just checked.

Turns out I know exactly what he does, and he hasn't listened to a word I've said about work in years.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 10/03/2015 21:11

Yes, we work for the same company. It's a very big company though so we don't work together thank god.

Esssss · 10/03/2015 21:13

I know exactly what my husband does as he offloads all his work stuff to me as a way of winding down, or getting advice. Doesn't bother me. Dh knows what I do but I don't really talk about it at home cause I like to keep work and home seperate. I find it strange to think that you wouldn't know what your partner does though!

Esssss · 10/03/2015 21:13

LaLaLaaaa · 10/03/2015 21:16

Serves drinks and runs a bar. He's a bar manager. He's the happiest man in the world and loves his job!

I'm a scientist in a niche area and I don't think he could tell you what I do. He's interested but probably only listens to half of what I tell him!

BerniceBroadside · 10/03/2015 21:19

I know exactly what he does, although he doesn't quite get what I do. To be fair, most people don't understand what I do. Even other people I work with and who use my services.

I've never randomly met another person who does my job, although there are lots of us.

FlabbyMummy · 10/03/2015 21:22

I know what he does and sometimes go to his workplace so he can show things off to me. In return he is interested in my work. Honestly I thought that this mutual interest was normal.

whattheseithakasmean · 10/03/2015 21:32

My DH is a teacher, so it is pretty obvious what he does. I doubt he knows my job title & couldn't describe my role. It would be too technical & tricky for his fluffy little brain

buffythemuffinslayer · 10/03/2015 22:50

I do - we work in the same industry and I used to work st his current company.

We talk about work a lot (mostly people) and know quite a few people in common in the industry. This evening he helped me with a spreadsheet.

TBH though if he had a very technical job that I knew little about, I'm not sure I'd take the time to know about it in depth, and vice versa. Knowing what he does is lovely for both of us, but mostly because it's a dialogue rather than a monologue situation.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 10/03/2015 22:59

Exactly as buffy says, we work in the same industry (met while working in a previous company together), know people in common, both work fairly locally in small companies so we get to know each others colleagues socially and we both advise each other on tricky aspects of the others work.

Most of my friends/extended family only have the vaguest idea of what we do though, it is fairly niche.

WingsofNylon · 10/03/2015 23:20

DP connects feeder pillars in solar parks into transformers then into the grid.
But when I want to wind him up I ask hin how his day of changing light bulbs for old ladys went. Endless entertainment! 'That's not what I do! Shall I explain it again? Where is the diagram I drew?'
Ha. I will never get bored of it.

SE13Mummy · 10/03/2015 23:50

Yes. He's a teacher.
So am I.

WrappedInABlankie · 10/03/2015 23:55

My DP's job is something to do with box's making/moving/ stacking them somewhere not 100% sure but wouldn't want to get into the depts of cardboard.

He also works with a bunch of morons as an engineer, surprised how that places is still open though one who is a half attempted driver, one who can barely manage to answer the phone without wetting himself and his dad who bails the other two out continuously. I'm often told it's hard work and I believe him

SwirlyThingAlert · 10/03/2015 23:58

My DH is Chandler from Friends. I know where he works, and vaguely what he does. but if you needed a synopsis of his job including what exactly it entailed then I;d be stuffed.

lertgush · 11/03/2015 00:21

I do know what he does but I couldn't do it.

I think it would be dealing with the policitians that would kill me, although it might be the 'having a psychopath for a boss' that's the final straw.

lertgush · 11/03/2015 00:21

I do know what he does but I couldn't do it.

I think it would be dealing with the policitians that would kill me, although it might be the 'having a psychopath for a boss' that's the final straw.

emwithme · 11/03/2015 00:28

He's a Science Lab Technician in a Sixth Form College.

He complains about teachers changing requirements at the last minute, students dropping chemicals everywhere, the dishwasher breaking and no one having authority to get it repaired supports the staff and students in their learning journey.

AlpacaMyBags · 11/03/2015 00:31

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BuggersMuddle · 11/03/2015 00:33

Yes I do.

I did check our mutual understanding though. He has a better grasp of mine than I do of his, but his role has changed recently. It's highly technical / fairly specialised, so I couldn't rock up and do it, but I know what he delivers and the sort of tasks he undertakes to do so.

I'm a project manager though. Being able to understand & communicate technical stuff without necessarily being able to do it is part of my job description

FibonacciSeries · 11/03/2015 00:47

He works in IT too but never gets to actually write code anymore (on account of being more senior). Hearing about his work has definitely put a curb on my ambition as he has to deal with a lot of horseshit!

however · 11/03/2015 00:54

Neither of us is really interested to know the detail.

Neither of us is particularly passionate about our jobs.

SmillasSenseOfSnow · 11/03/2015 01:03

Yes, he works in a warehouse where customers from the supermarket can come and pick up larger items they've bought in said supermarket. He's usually either on the desk processing their orders and then going and getting the items, or he's sorting out deliveries received from suppliers.

I've been over there a few times, not least because he bought me a bike at said supermarket - at a lovely price - and met me over at the warehouse so we could assemble it and ride home together.

One time when I was free early he invited me over to have lunch with him there in the staff room, and he was very keen to show me round where he spends his time. I did some sweeping round the computer station to be helpful and then he let me have a go at driving the forklift-but-not-at-all-a-forklift-crazy-contraption-thing. I had to stop that pretty quickly because it felt like I was going to knock everything over/drive it into the wall...

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