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My frustration just peaked and I felt I was one step away from just getting up, saying, "I quit," going to my car and never coming back. And I thought that would be irrationally hasty, and so I decided to vent here instead.

 

Hating your job right now and escaping into Loveshack? Post here!

 

I am already at the stage where I've checked out mentally, and my mind is on other matters, like where I'm going from here (I have a wonderful seasonal job lined up that starts at the beginning of next month and so I'll soon be giving my notice anyway, and I'm continuing to get well-paid contract work in another discipline in which I'm professionally trained). I work alone in the office and so when it gets busy with other co-workers having to be here, meetings, etc., I'm at the point where I feel like, "You people all are bothering me!"...whereas before I would dive in like an excited border collie saying, "What can I do to help?" Now I just don't give a sh*t, and I resent how overqualified I am and how menial the work is that they have me do.

 

As I said in a previous thread, this truly is the WORST JOB I HAVE EVER, EVER HAD!!!!!

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I resent how overqualified I am and how menial the work is that they have me do.

 

 

Nothing worse than hating your job and feeling under-appreciated..

Have you thought about talking about this to your boss ?

 

I will say this though.. being overqualified and having menial tasks isn't a reason to hate your job.

I own the company and I also clean toilets on occasion :).. All in a day's work

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I'm all about doing whatever it takes to help. In fact, I also double as office janitor: I clean toilets, vacuum, wipe down the desks, do the dishes, sweep the leaves out of the front entrance, everything!

 

I have had 3 conversations with my boss about this and he told me it's because two women, one who owns the place (the other is her daughter), are threatened by me because I'm "young, attractive, and intelligent." I tried to play along, but I can't. These two women deliberately leave me out of the loop of company goings-on so that I have no way to offer ideas or get in on things at a higher level more commensurate with my experience.

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I'm all about doing whatever it takes to help. In fact, I also double as office janitor: I clean toilets, vacuum, wipe down the desks, do the dishes, sweep the leaves out of the front entrance, everything!

 

I have had 3 conversations with my boss about this and he told me it's because two women, one who owns the place (the other is her daughter), are threatened by me because I'm "young, attractive, and intelligent." I tried to play along, but I can't. These two women deliberately leave me out of the loop of company goings-on so that I have no way to offer ideas or get in on things at a higher level more commensurate with my experience.

 

I remember your last thread but sounds like it's just going downhill - so have you started applying elsewhere?

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i hate my job too! i really do not feel like i CAN complain much though- i really am not doing anything about nor i am looking for another job.

 

i am just sick of it and could care less if it gets 'better'... i am just done.

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My desk is right near my boss's office. She sits there all day clicking her pen. Click click click. May not seems too bad but after 8 and a half hours of click click click I want to harm an otherwise lovely lady.

 

Another girl that sits near me is the biggest bogan on the face of the planet. The otther day she ranted on about how her grandmother was once a prostitute and even now at the age of 1500 or whatever bones young guy. I also heard her tell one of our agents about how ill she was that day and whatever food she had was coming out both ends. And everyone else that was unfortunate enough to walk past her desk. One of those people that has no social graces at all and everyone dislikes but feels sorry for.

 

Also, the other day I was promised that a part of my job would get done as I was leaving early. I wouldn't have left if I'd known I'd get in the next day and it hadn't been done. Took me until 3pm to finally catch up. Then yesterday I got asked why it wasn't done earlier by the person that promised it would be done while I wasn't there.

 

My job is ok, the people just sometimes **** me.

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My frustration just peaked and I felt I was one step away from just getting up, saying, "I quit," going to my car and never coming back. And I thought that would be irrationally hasty, and so I decided to vent here instead.

 

Hating your job right now and escaping into Loveshack? Post here!

 

I am already at the stage where I've checked out mentally, and my mind is on other matters, like where I'm going from here (I have a wonderful seasonal job lined up that starts at the beginning of next month and so I'll soon be giving my notice anyway, and I'm continuing to get well-paid contract work in another discipline in which I'm professionally trained). I work alone in the office and so when it gets busy with other co-workers having to be here, meetings, etc., I'm at the point where I feel like, "You people all are bothering me!"...whereas before I would dive in like an excited border collie saying, "What can I do to help?" Now I just don't give a sh*t, and I resent how overqualified I am and how menial the work is that they have me do.

 

As I said in a previous thread, this truly is the WORST JOB I HAVE EVER, EVER HAD!!!!!

 

I suggest on the side you start your own business or seek further education to work your way out of the current situation.

 

I was in a job once where there was a lot of oppression .. I did extra schooling and got my real estate license..

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Hey--I don't want to hear it! At least you all HAVE jobs! I have been looking for months now, and nada.

 

:mad::mad::mad:

 

I hear you, believe me. I was jobless for over a year, and sent out at minimum one job application per day, every day, and...nada. I'd NEVER been in that kind of predicament before, and it SUCKS! I'd just moved to a new city 2000 miles away, and was anonymous to everyone, and no one for the longest time would give me a chance. But then I got this job, and initially I was so excited about it, and now it's a paycheck and nothing more. And I know how just having a paycheck is a boon.

 

Anyway, hang in there--it can't go on forever; just remind yourself of that and also that you ARE valuable! Good luck :)

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My desk is right near my boss's office. She sits there all day clicking her pen. Click click click. May not seems too bad but after 8 and a half hours of click click click I want to harm an otherwise lovely lady.

 

Another girl that sits near me is the biggest bogan on the face of the planet. The otther day she ranted on about how her grandmother was once a prostitute and even now at the age of 1500 or whatever bones young guy. I also heard her tell one of our agents about how ill she was that day and whatever food she had was coming out both ends. And everyone else that was unfortunate enough to walk past her desk. One of those people that has no social graces at all and everyone dislikes but feels sorry for.

 

Also, the other day I was promised that a part of my job would get done as I was leaving early. I wouldn't have left if I'd known I'd get in the next day and it hadn't been done. Took me until 3pm to finally catch up. Then yesterday I got asked why it wasn't done earlier by the person that promised it would be done while I wasn't there.

 

My job is ok, the people just sometimes **** me.

 

I had to look up the word "bogan"....

 

The pen-clicking would drive me NUTS! Can you work with an iPOD?

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AN unemployed person chastising another is like a single person telling a battered wife, Hey at least you have a Hubby!!!! Geesh, sorry that air of 'One should be grateful' is not what this post was about nor is the person going to be grateful when they are less then pleased with their current work environment.

 

I do not HATE my job, I do detest the rhetoric and perpetual left hand not know what the right hand is doing mentality. Poor communication and the desire to have far to many chiefs and so few indians to get things completed.

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GreenCove: Thank you for your kind words. I am trying to hang in there, but it's so frustrating not being able to pay your bills. I am a month away from living out of my car. No joke.

 

I'm sorry that you are having issues at your job--hang in there! Put applications in elsewhere while you're working, but don't quit your job! Money is, unfortunately, a necessity.

 

Tayla: I don't think the analogy applies. One does not HAVE to have a husband; however, one does HAVE to have money in order to survive, however unfortunate that may be. It sucks to work someplace you don't want to work, but if you have a paycheck coming in, I say, "Count your blessings." If you don't like your job, look elsewhere, but don't leave until you are sure you have the job.

 

I didn't mean to come off unempathetic, but I am just really worried for my future at this point. I mean, I am 25, trying to finish my Master's degree, am not welcome to go back home, so I MUST find anything, even if I come home in tears from the utter disdain I may feel regarding whatever job I may find--though, I hope that's not the case.

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GreenCove: Thank you for your kind words. I am trying to hang in there, but it's so frustrating not being able to pay your bills. I am a month away from living out of my car. No joke.

 

I'm sorry that you are having issues at your job--hang in there! Put applications in elsewhere while you're working, but don't quit your job! Money is, unfortunately, a necessity.

 

Tayla: I don't think the analogy applies. One does not HAVE to have a husband; however, one does HAVE to have money in order to survive, however unfortunate that may be. It sucks to work someplace you don't want to work, but if you have a paycheck coming in, I say, "Count your blessings." If you don't like your job, look elsewhere, but don't leave until you are sure you have the job.

 

I didn't mean to come off unempathetic, but I am just really worried for my future at this point. I mean, I am 25, trying to finish my Master's degree, am not welcome to go back home, so I MUST find anything, even if I come home in tears from the utter disdain I may feel regarding whatever job I may find--though, I hope that's not the case.

 

I will PM .....

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I had to look up the word "bogan"....

 

The pen-clicking would drive me NUTS! Can you work with an iPOD?

 

No iPod allowed. I'm sitting at someone else's desk today to get away from it. :laugh:

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My company made an effort to implement "flex space", which is a trendy IT thing where people can show up and sit anywhere they want at small workstations. It's really just a way to jam more people into less (expensive) space. But people griped that they wanted their own desks. So we got the small workstations, but were assigned to them. It's kind of like the call centers where stock traders work.

 

I thought I could deal with it, but I've found certain things about it very trying. One thing that drives me up the wall is the sound of my co-worker eating each of his two daily apples. It never even occurred to me before, but now I know that the sound of eating an apple is the single most disgusting sound a person can make.

 

That is... second to the guy across the room who periodically tries to cough up a furball that must be the size of a baseball. He definitely coughs up things from the depths of his lungs, and that almost satisfies him. But he keeps trying because it will be a banner day when he can cough up something from his bowels. I think we'll have a little office party on that day.

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My division of about 25 people consists entirely of twenty-somethings. It's everyone's first job, and by the nature of our profession, we are used to being the awkwardest people we know; so when we get together each day at 7, all professionalism goes out the window in our glee to be around others of our kind.

 

It's a pretty amazing atmosphere to work in, almost a social experiment since many of us spend most of our free time together in addition to being around each other 9 hours a day; but I'm always nervous that it will turn dystopic one day as someone pushes some unspoken boundary.

 

Having pushed most of the normal boundaries myself and gotten away with it, I am holding my breath in expectation of what that uncrossable boundary might be.

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OMG yes I am finally going to vent! My job has been getting less and less challenging for several years - and over those years I have been more and mroe afraid that I would be made redundant. Of course in this market, at my level - that put the fear of G-d into me (some of you may recall my personal history that I have more than a few others depending on me).

 

Well I finally got told this year that December 12th would be my last day of employement with my current company. I went through through the whole emotional roller coaster and then rolled up my sleeves and began to netowrk like mad. Only to find out that wow out there I am actually truly valued! YIPPEE - right?

 

Wrong - my company has now decided not to let me go (basically now withholding a boatload of money from me). In my industry that means other companies are more reluctant to hire me, since they now know they will have to buy me out.

 

UGH!!!!!!!!!

 

I've decided to continue pursying outside, likely walk away from the $'s - at some point I need my soul back TYVM!

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I've decided to continue pursying outside, likely walk away from the $'s - at some point I need my soul back TYVM!

 

You go girl! That's the thing--where is that line between, "It's a poor economy and I'm lucky to have this job even though it's demoralizing and I encounter daily flagrant disrespect," and "If I don't look out for myself, no one will, and my emotional well-being and self-respect is at least as crucial to my/our future as my financial security." When do you say enough is enough and get out of a soul-sucking job?

 

I remember back when I was still in college, I was working freelance at a pharma advertising firm where the pay for copywriters was AMAZING. I had no interest in the industry; I was there to sock away as much money for my next year of college as possible. There was a middle-aged woman also freelancing on the editorial staff, and one day, while we were all bent over our computer screens (I was writing a Viagra ad!!! :laugh:), this woman just lost it. She pushed back her chair, stood up, and cried, "What am I doing here? This is bulls*it! I'm an ARTIST! I'm a SCULPTOR!" And she just up and left the building.

 

At the time, I thought she was pretty dumb to up and leave such a lucrative freelance job. I mean, freelance by definition means you are pursue something else (another line of work, raising a family, etc.) on the side and want the flexibility and lack of commitment to/from the company to pursue these other things. But her words, and the passion with which she uttered them, really struck a chord with me. And who knows? Maybe she walked out of there and put up an amazing show of her work, and her artistic career took off. I see so many people who have just given up, and stay year after year an an utterly dead-end and demoralizing job in the name of "financial security," only to be laid off, fired, and usually in an even MORE demoralizing and downright insulting way than the conditions under which they worked all those years.

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AN unemployed person chastising another is like a single person telling a battered wife, Hey at least you have a Hubby!!!! Geesh, sorry that air of 'One should be grateful' is not what this post was about nor is the person going to be grateful when they are less then pleased with their current work environment.

 

I do not HATE my job, I do detest the rhetoric and perpetual left hand not know what the right hand is doing mentality. Poor communication and the desire to have far to many chiefs and so few indians to get things completed.

 

An awful comparison.

 

My comparison would be of people inside a restaurant eating and complaining about their meal .. while a hungy person stands outside looking in.

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An awful comparison.

 

My comparison would be of people inside a restaurant eating and complaining about their meal .. while a hungy person stands outside looking in.

 

 

Omg, that made my heart clutch. That's a very apt comparison. All last year I had to socialize with total strangers in my new home across the country, appear care-free and conversational, while my savings were draining away and I was desperately scouring for jobs. They all KNEW it, too, and only one or two actually tried to help me out. I was at a point where I'd take ANYTHING. I walked into all the restaurants, asking if they needed a waitress. I applied in person for a floor position at The Container Store, and even said I'd be available for 5 a.m. warehouse shifts. I drove 200 miles to show up unannounced in the office of the CEO of my current company, because several emails and calls to her asking about job positions had gone unanswered. As time wore on and still no job surfaced, I began to contemplate packing up and moving home, living with my mom for a month or two until I could reconnect with old work contacts in my old city and hook up with freelance work. I had no friends or support network here. It was so awful, and especially so b/c my roommate at the time who made 50k and whose family was all just down the road and whose best friend since childhood was our neighbor would complain about our rent while I paid half of it even when I didn't live there for several months (I stayed in employee housing 200 miles away when I got a seasonal position). I felt like Cinderella, waiting for a prince in the form of a job, any job.

 

Ah, recounting that not-too-distant memory brings tears to my eyes. It was such an awful time. I feel so much compassion for people who have lost their jobs, or can't find a job.

 

But sometimes the other side of the fence, the side where a person actually has a job, is not pretty, either. To return to DesertIslandCactus's comparison, sometimes the meal might be quite tasty, but the conditions under which people must show up to get that meal (verbal abuse, sexual harassment, etc.) might be truly horrendous.

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laRubiaBonita

Ok- so i just submitted documents to be reclassified- aka, i want a better job title that better reflects what i actually do. a pay raise would be nice too, but i ain't holding my breath

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AN unemployed person chastising another is like a single person telling a battered wife, Hey at least you have a Hubby!!!! Geesh, sorry that air of 'One should be grateful' is not what this post was about nor is the person going to be grateful when they are less then pleased with their current work environment.

 

I do not HATE my job, I do detest the rhetoric and perpetual left hand not know what the right hand is doing mentality. Poor communication and the desire to have far to many chiefs and so few indians to get things completed.

 

Tayla, I just read your thread about your job situation. How disgusting; I definitely think it's time to think about leaving that company. When people can be that unprofessional, without fear of any repercussion, honestly they're capable of anything.

 

I've decided to give notice this weekend. Yesterday our medical director called me at the office and said he was sitting in the CEO's office (in a different building), and they were trying to figure out what my schedule was, and then he asked me what my salary was, and then what my equivalent hourly rate was (and all the while I was thinking, why, if you're sitting there with the CEO who hired me and determined my salary, do you need to ask me? And why do I have to tell YOU; you're the medical director who oversees CLINICAL matters). ANd then he said he was asking because the CEO's precious daughter can no longer work the one weekday I don't work and they need to hire someone else. And I felt even more uncomfortable because I couldn't understand why they wouldn't just ask me to work 5 days a week, fewer hours in the day, rather than a full-time schedule crammed into 4 days a week. And the thought occurred to me that perhaps they expect that I'm going to leave, and they're hiring someone else ultimately to take over my role entirely.

 

And then I thought they might fire me, and then I thought I need to beat them to the punch and give notice, which I was going to do in another week or two, anyway, because I have a seasonal job lined up.

 

Practically everything they do here seems inept to me. ANd every interaction I have feels somehow discomfiting and degrading. I wish I'd just said to the medical director, "I don't see why I need to discuss my salary with you?" INstead I was thrown off guard.

 

Anyway, I just feel it's past time. I've known for the past several months that this job is a flop, and I made it this far....

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My frustration just peaked and I felt I was one step away from just getting up, saying, "I quit," going to my car and never coming back. And I thought that would be irrationally hasty, and so I decided to vent here instead.

 

Hating your job right now and escaping into Loveshack? Post here!

 

I am already at the stage where I've checked out mentally, and my mind is on other matters, like where I'm going from here (I have a wonderful seasonal job lined up that starts at the beginning of next month and so I'll soon be giving my notice anyway, and I'm continuing to get well-paid contract work in another discipline in which I'm professionally trained). I work alone in the office and so when it gets busy with other co-workers having to be here, meetings, etc., I'm at the point where I feel like, "You people all are bothering me!"...whereas before I would dive in like an excited border collie saying, "What can I do to help?" Now I just don't give a sh*t, and I resent how overqualified I am and how menial the work is that they have me do.

 

As I said in a previous thread, this truly is the WORST JOB I HAVE EVER, EVER HAD!!!!!

 

I am so sorry, lot's of love to you and hope things get better for you

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An awful comparison.

 

My comparison would be of people inside a restaurant eating and complaining about their meal .. while a hungy person stands outside looking in.

 

Yes, I hear you. It's one thing if there is abuse on the job, but I have had to work jobs that I didn't like and jobs that were way too much on me (I was very sick at the time), BUT I had to eat:)

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