Hersheys Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 In a couple of days I'd be returning to work. I took a one week off because I felt like I could not take it anymore there. Employees are nasty and picks on or bullies the newest employee that just arrived. I haven't talked about any of these to my boss and feels like I should not add up to his problems and responsibilites anymore. I have decided to quit the job instead but contract stipulations require me to show up for a couple more weeks. Here's the thing: I don't think I could go on there for a couple more weeks. I'm scared/terrified of going back. I don't know what to do. The job has given me so much stress since October. I don't want to fight it out with the nasty employees because I feel like it's not worth doing that anymore as I don't want to have anything to do with them anyway months down the line. I want to survive the next couple of weeks. I don't want to go insane over there. What I plan on doing is that ignore the employees and just do what I have to do up to my last there. What else should I do? Any advice would be very helpful for me. Thanks in advance!
dannydrifter Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 What sort of company/line of work are you in? Just curious. It sounds like a nasty environment. Nobody should have to take this kind of abuse in a job. If you must be there for a couple more weeks due to contract expectations, but you don't think you could survive, then by all means talk to your boss or the HR people. I think you would probably be in the right to break your contract due to the working conditions and the threat to your mental well being. F* the place and find another job!!
Author Hersheys Posted January 3, 2009 Author Posted January 3, 2009 Thanks dannydrifter! My job is in retail. I've asked myself many times if I'm just being melodramatic and sensitive or having difficulties fitting in but a job has to be somewhat bearable right? I said I might go insane over there because there have been times when I know I was taken advantage of or my honesty tested. I have grown increasingly paranoid everytime I am told to do something and true enough, the task could either be an employee asking a favor which puts my job on the line OR a test of honesty which involves money I should not touch or if the money is lost, my job is on the line. If I refuse to do the favor, I know that the next day my "punishment" or "lesson for fitting in" will come, the bully employees will make me make me do duties way below my designation. All these have been going on for months. I know I should have walked away the first week I was there but I needed the paycheck and I wanted to hang on to it because it's tough finding a job these days. Sometimes I'm tempted to put on a subpar work just so the boss will fire me and not go through what's written in the contract anymore but I want to somehow get a good or at least decent recommendation from them. I don't want to turn my situation into an HR matter because I want to just get out of that place immediately and not have to deal with the job and its people anymore. I admit I'm at fault here too. Things happened so fast that I got a little too enthusiastic with the job that I failed to set some limits or boundaries.
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