Warning: grumpy post

This might turn out to be one of my vintage grumpy/whingy posts, so thought I'd better warn you. Today was the worst day so far at work, very long and very boring. Twelve hours from leaving the house to getting back in. I wouldn't have a problem with that if it was for more money, but every day I spend working I feel more and more that the job is worth way more than the staff get paid. In all seriousness, each staff member has the ability to completely cripple BA flights out of Terminal 5 with just one mistake on the computers. That's not an exaggeration, and the mistakes could happen easily. BA is fined a grand for every minute that one of its flights is late, so delays are a serious problem. All it takes is for someone to forget to enter a passenger's personal details onto the system and a plane can be impounded at the airport. That's just one example of how a simple error could cost BA a lot of money. Really, the capacity for human error is huge, yet the staff get paid a ridiculously low amount.

I was discussing this with one of my colleagues today, and she said that the computer-aspect of the job is actually bringing her close to tears, just in the classroom. I'm not quite that bad, but today was the first day where I seriously thought about quitting at some point along the line. I told her that I thought there is about a 40% chance of me quitting within two weeks of moving into Terminal 5 (not quite sure how I came up with that figure, but it's close). She pleaded with me not to, but said she totally understood. Incidentally, she also got a 2:2 at university and only went for the BA job out of desperation.

I'm aware that I might sound like a prick for complaining about a job at a well-established global corporation with decent career prospects, but that's how I'm feeling at the moment and this is my blog, so hey.

Anyhow.... a 40% chance of me quitting within 2 weeks at Terminal 5 equates to the following odds:

1.6 that I haven't quit by that point
3.5 that I will have quit by that point

Anyone interested?!