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Feeling useless at my warehouse admin job

I've been working as a “warehouse admin” for 2 years now and legit all I do is sit on a computer and wait for orders to come in. Then I print the orders and give them to the laborers. Then I wait for all the orders to get picked and print more. My job is so easy and takes so little time and could so easily be done remotely or automated, that I have lost all sense of self worth. There are two companies in this building, and there's someone who sits next to me who has the exact same job as me but for the other company. He just chats and eats all day and seems to have the time of his life. But I'm quiet and don't really like chatting, and I constantly feel guilty that I'm not doing enough work. And I can't learn certificates or whatever…


I've been working as a “warehouse admin” for 2 years now and legit all I do is sit on a computer and wait for orders to come in. Then I print the orders and give them to the laborers. Then I wait for all the orders to get picked and print more. My job is so easy and takes so little time and could so easily be done remotely or automated, that I have lost all sense of self worth.

There are two companies in this building, and there's someone who sits next to me who has the exact same job as me but for the other company. He just chats and eats all day and seems to have the time of his life. But I'm quiet and don't really like chatting, and I constantly feel guilty that I'm not doing enough work.

And I can't learn certificates or whatever during my time at work because if someone sees me doing that I'll get it trouble. So I make bullshit tasks for myself like putting all the orders into an excel spreadsheet and ticking them off when they're done. Then I print them all out and organize them. At the end of the day I take my spreadsheets and put them in the paper shredder.

I want to tell my concerns to my boss but I'm worried he will ask me to pick and pack. Fuck that.

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