Dropped the ball at work

One More Solo

One More Solo

One More Solo

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It’s been coming. I’ve completely lost my interest and motivation for my job in the past couple of weeks, and found it increasingly difficult to do the tasks set of me. On a surface level my work was looking OK but I, stupidly, hadn’t done a job which I was asked to do and it’s all out in the open now. I work in admin for a small gym in a larger chain and we were audited a couple of weeks ago. No major problems were found but I kept putting off resolving the minor ones until the end of the month when it mattered. Long and short of it is, I was spot checked today and it hadn’t been done so I’m getting bent over now.

I fully accept that it’s my fault. I’ve barely had the energy to do anything the past week at work, and I’m completely conscious that I’m underperforming, but I simply haven’t had the willpower to pull myself out of it. I felt undervalued prior to the audit and some of the criticism I received as a result of it was incredibly unjustified, but it certainly would have been easier to stomach had I received any praise for the good work I had done prior to it. I left work today and got two phone calls asking why this or that hadn’t been done, and I had no answer to it, but the horrible feeling it left me with convinced me that it’s no longer worth it. I’ve been feeling the effects in my personal life for weeks and months now and I know what is more important.

I have considered walking away from the job before, but now with my degree finished it seems to be the time to move on. I’m really concerned about taking a leap into a crappy jobs market, but it can’t be any worse than this at the moment. I worked in a different role in the company at basically minimum wage before, and now I earn 25% more but take 200% more rubbish.

There’s not really a point to this thread, but I’m at home on my own and feeling terrible. I’ve just graduated, am I mad to give up a job when I may not get anything?
 
I would find something else before moving on, there are nearly 2.5m people out of work so it will be hard to find something else.
 
Stick with it for the time being. As someone who is looking for a job it's hard. I've applied to about 20 places in the last week and only heard from 2 companies that they've acknowledged my CV and will let me know soon.

The job may suck but finding a new one is much harder.
 
as with hopefully every other responder will say..

Get another job first before you walk out of this one and never burn your bridges, you never know when you might need to come back and grovel ;)
 
TBH from the sound of what your saying I wouldn't put it past being somewhat down to depression, not enough vitamins such as vitamin C, etc. or a blood sugar related problem like diabetes. If you seriously have a problem finding the energy to do anything, etc. you might want to see a doctor.
 
I totally get what you mean. My current job makes me absolutely miserable. We are treated like crap, have to fight for our basic rights and it's obvious the management doesn't respect us as human beings. I've only been here for a little over seven months but it's eating me alive. I've been looking for a new job for ages but it's really, really hard, so I'd recommend trying to find a backup plan before quitting.
 
cymatty said:
I would find something else before moving on, there are nearly 2.5m people out of work so it will be hard to find something else.
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This.

I go through phases of being poorly motivated at work where I just hate my job and can barely be bothered to drag myself out of bed.

End of the day though you have too, life can be a bugger but ultimately its own your own head to motivate yourself and get yourself to work and do the job right. No matter what job you do and no matter how much you love it you will always occasionally have moments like this.

Step up to the plate and tackle the challenge, you will feel a bigger and better man for it (damn im inspirational :p)
 
stick at it while looking for something else if you can.

from experience its better to be miserable with money than miserable without money (which you will be when your skint applying for more jobs than you can remember and not getting replies)
 
"andy" said:
stick at it while looking for something else if you can.

from experience its better to be miserable with money than miserable without money (which you will be when your skint applying for more jobs than you can remember and not getting replies)
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Agree. At least miserable with money you can party on the weekend.
 
i'm in pretty much the same boat mate, but you gotta tough it out-you'll be 100times more depressed/lacking energy and all the rest if you arent earning and trying to find work. get looking, maybe even take on something if its's only a stop gap not related to your degree. but most of all you gotta keep positive, remember and i know its an old cliche but there's always some1 worse off than you.

finally thing;

if work is starting to affect your health, get to the doctors get a short term sick line and give yourself a few days breathing space to get your head 'right'

good luck mate
 
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