Sentences with phrase «of dull job»

A favorite moment of mine came when Tom encountered a chunk of his office that had been transported to Hell, still full of workers tapping away at their keyboards like lethargic chimps, and commented that he was pretty sure they hadn't even realised anything had changed, such as the already Hellish nature of their dull jobs.

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Eliminating the dull jobs, plus the dirty and dangerous ones, has in fact been the point behind the entire history of technology.

Rethink's reliable, safe and easy - to - use collaborative robots are helping manufacturers of all sizes automate dull, dangerous and dirty jobs, while achieving greater productivity and higher quality.

He is drinking more, especially on weekends, to deaden the dull ache of feeling trapped on the job treadmill.

In the aftermath of Carvalho's decision to turn down the job, Phillips confirmed the news on Twitter, saying that «there is... never a dull moment in our great city.»

«Balls has shown himself to be less than suited to the top job: his public speaking is derided as «dull», his slightly awkward manner as «charmless», and he has many enemies within the party, precisely because of his relationship with the PM.»

However, given a knowledge of the source and nature of biases in the workplace, a job candidate or new employee can use diligence and persistence to dull the negative biases he or she might face.

It is a nice comfort in uncomfortable times, wether it be the dull, cold and messy weather that we have most of the year, or after having to endure some mundane job all day long.

He has a steel plate in his skull and a gnarled set of fingers from a rodeo accident he may never fully recover from — and which may kill him if he stays in the saddle rather than submit to a dull, safe job.

He also takes a dull shelf - stocking gig at a supermarket, where (in one melancholy scene) he's recognized by two young rodeo fans who ask, with a hint of worry in their voice, if this is his new full - time job.

We're in a world of huge lofts, tiny coffee cups and tight black turtlenecks, as Radha Mitchell's ambitious Syd takes a job with a photography magazine and finds her old life — and her old boyfriend — just a little dull in comparison.

McKay and co-writer Charles Randolph do a great job of breaking down the complex financial jargon into something the average moviegoer can understand, turning what could have been a dull and dense PowerPoint presentation on mortgage loans into an entertaining lesson about just how messed up the whole financial crisis really was.

Poor Stephen Rea has the thankless job of playing a dull, illogical (even in the sense of deranged logic) killer and trying to make something of him.

This is a small story on an archetypal small - town stage: waitress Jenna dreams of escaping her bad relationship and dull job.

She has a dull job as a bus tour guide and spends much of her time taking care of her ailing father.

But it's ok as long as a WiiU and a PS4 will always have their unique strengths and weaknesses and in the end its gonna be history repeating as my PS3 did her job gracefully but always stayed quite a dull peace of tech while the Wii and now the WiiU just have character.

Every crumb of Netflix's Buckingham Palace drama «The Crown» is scrumptious, all 10 hours of it, but job No. 1 remains the hardest: How do you make two of this planet's dullest people even halfway interesting?

His wife Sarah (Kate Hudson) has supported him by holding down a dull office job, but is now beginning to tire of this arrangement.

Life at 55 (dull job, troubled marriage) for the former champion can't match the excitement of his past.

The whole feels less than the sum of its parts and although it does a fair job of holding the open - minded viewer's attention, in retrospect it feels both forgettable and dull.

The California Department of Education is setting aside $ 250 million for school districts to link high school curricula to careers beyond the classroom, an initiative designed to keep students engaged in classes often consider dull and dry, while preparing them for a high - skilled job market.

I've had dull, repetitive jobs in the past but always tried to move on to something that maybe didn't pay more but gave me more of a feeling of personal satisfaction.

For several years I supported my writing habit through a variety of dull, poorly - paid, and sometimes horrible jobs (the weirdest was probably my stint as a research assistant / housekeeper / dogsbody for an egomaniacal self - help author whose elderly husband spent much of his time in the basement with his huge collection of Hustler magazines).

Before I started writing, I ran a start - up business as a sole proprietor and learned very quickly that part of the job, as dull as it might get is keeping good books, book keeping books that is.

These may come as an unwelcome surprise for some people who haven't spent the best years of their life reading through dull and boilerplate small print (alas, tis my job to pour over small print so that you do not have to.

The X-genes do a good job in the first hour of covering up the simplistic and dull combat system.

Tired of your ramshackle apartment, dull existence and boring jobs, you're accepted into the exclusive organisation, so you can pry into the privacy of the «caged monkeys» as they go about their lives...

Ships are detailed as are the other obstacles in your path and your weapons and HUD to a nice job of looking as they should Also, while some backgrounds, like rotating planets, move and add to the realism; others are still images which become increasingly dull to look at, especially given how many time backgrounds repeat themselves.

Rockstar tried to use Niko, Roman and it's collection of racial stereotypes to tell an interesting story in GTA IV, but amidst all the dull friend missions, overcooked accents and never - ending escort jobs, they proved to be a collection of unlikable, tediously miserable bastards.

The environments are dull, you're either stuck in dank sewers or the Oscorp science tower facilities and some of the rooms feel like blatant copy and paste jobs.

You stuck to the dull daily routine of a salaryman until you quit the job and worked out what else you could do.

Square Enix also does a great job in the aspect of world building and I can't recall a single, dull world in the series.

As with any job, the life of an arts hack can be a dull one at times.

It is a long job as it involves ploughing through hundreds of research papers (many very dull - Mann and Hansen tend to write the most interesting papers - and Judith of course), visiting the Met office archives and will need a journey to the Scott insitute in Cambridge.

The big challenge for job hunters is that the common approach to resumes simply adds up to a dull list of past employers and bulleted work experience.

Drafters of legislation can have rather dull jobs at times.

When a judge leaves the Supreme Court prematurely, it is likely a combination of all these factors — tough job, dull town, attractive opportunities elsewhere, not much love in the air on Wellington Street — plus, no doubt, a few idiosyncratic personal considerations.

While the ranks of those who drink and drive may be swelling in the current recession, many of those new alcoholics are drinking to temporarily dull the shame of having lost their jobs.

The bit in - between is dull with long periods of sitting down and dozing — actually a perfect way to train you for an office job — but in the meantime you need some fun in your life.

Many job seekers think of a resume, cover letter or Linkedin profile as a work history and tend to communicate a very standard, dull brand with every application.

But, judging by the number of job seekers who send out dead dull resumes and wonder why they're getting nowhere in their job search, it seems true.

The previously stuffy, pedantic, and let's face it, dull, world of «How to write a resume» has figured out how to do the job properly, for a change.

The job of a recruiter or HR Consultant is never dull.

Video resumes, while not as popular or highly - accepted by recruiters, are another way for job candidates to spice up what was once simply a dull piece of paper.

Instead of just creating a dull list of the jobs held and basic duties, include any special achievements or recognition you earned in a descriptive way.

You can be the best - qualified person for the job and not even get an interview because your cover letter was so dull or full of errors that the hiring manager never took the time to look at your resume.

«Drones are essentially flying robots,» he said, explaining that robots can replace a job for a human that is one of three things: dirty, dangerous or dull.