I clear international freight through customs, if you've got a pulse and can type have I got a job for you haha. It wasn't so bad when I started, it was terrifying due to the volume of information you have to learn (back then it was 3 weeks in a classroom before you touched a shipment, now it's 2 and then everything you touch is quarantined and reviewed before it gets submitted) but over the years it's gotten more and more blah.

When I started we didn't share desks and up until maybe 4 years ago only like half the office shared desks. Now basically everyone does unless someone quits even though we have like 25-30 new desks they bought planning to add more jobs to our office but then opened 2 satellite offices in other states instead... but those desks aren't in the core area so no managers can peak out of their offices and see them.

We have a lot of issues with our building (water/mold, leaking pipes, blah water, HVAC goes out all the time) but that's not my employer's fault, we lease the building (I believe from IND airport authority) and you know how that goes... landlords generally suck.

As far as dirty people, pick and stickers, people peeing on the floor, people crapping on the toilet seats... well, a lot t of that happens on 2nd and 3rd shifts. You attract a weird group of people that want to work from like 9pm-5:30am.

In the past we had someone that would smear their feces on the wall, you could see their fingerprints in it. We also had someone that kept flushing paper towels down the urinals. It got to the point where it was a very real threat that bathrooms would require management to go with you because we were having so many issues in the men's rooms and the managers were the ones that had to clean it up. A couple of people quit that summer though and it magically stopped (poop on walls, paper towels). That was just one or more disturbed individuals probably.

It's all just a lot of little stuff that adds up and makes you miserable. Sharing desks is super annoying as you come in and your keyboard has crumbs or hair on it, your monitors are moved, every possible setting on your chair is changed and all of your stuff has to fit in one drawer and you have to buy wipes to wipe everything down because you don't know if the person was sick. Then the HVAC being inconsistent means you never know if you should dress warm or dress light because it might be 66F and it might be 74F in the winter and in the summer You're lucky if it's 74F and it might get to 82F for a few weeks in the office (again, not my employer's fault, totally the building owner's fault because they'd rather send someone out for 5 hours to tinker than actually replace the HVAC equipment). Then you've got 2 microwaves and 100ish peopel there during the day. Then you've got 1 soda vending machine and 1 snack machine and the vendor comes once a week but will sometimes vanish for 3-5 weeks without notice and the machine is mostly empty within 3 days and you don't have time to go anywhere with your 30-minute lunch if you need a caffeine fix because we're on airport property and the closest thing is McDonald's which will take about 20 minutes roundtrip if it isn't busy and the two refrigerators aren't big enough for even half of an entire shift to store stuff in.

It just adds up. Then all the constantly changing government stuff... it just adds up.