Ever Hated Your Job?

My job just auto-enrolled me onto a pension plan and i lost £31.86 of my wages. :() The website won't even let me sign in to opt-out. All done on purpose of course. So yeah, right now i hate my job.
 
Corporate management is quite often the issue. You have people hired on management skills rather than any technical ability; so far removed from the what they are actually doing and only really concerned with share price (which i suppose is why they were instated). I suppose this is the price of globalisation.

Coupled with a perfomance management system aimed at salesmen that promotes ball licking wooden yes men who are so keen to tell you how they are going to plan getting round to organising what they're going to do.

My enthusiasm was killed a long time ago for what I do.
 
jms198 said:
Corporate management is quite often the issue. You have people hired on management skills rather than any technical ability; so far removed from the what they are actually doing and only really concerned with share price (which i suppose is why they were instated). I suppose this is the price of globalisation.

Coupled with a perfomance management system aimed at salesmen that promotes ball licking wooden yes men who are so keen to tell you how they are going to plan getting round to organising what they're going to do.

My enthusiasm was killed a long time ago for what I do.
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Indeed.
A lot of the issue is that companies don't care about people any more. They pay lip service to being "good employers" but the reality is usually far from it.
 
PooBrain said:
My job just auto-enrolled me onto a pension plan and i lost £31.86 of my wages. :() The website won't even let me sign in to opt-out. All done on purpose of course. So yeah, right now i hate my job.
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You hate your job because your employer has done what they're legally obliged to?

I'm not very fond of my job at the moment, but then I'm jumping ship soon.
 
Know what you mean, I couldn't work for a profit driven firm again, or rather I would hate to.

If you can get a loan, go to university, you can afford it. Rent a cheap room, give up your current level of luxury and go back down to basics for 3 years.

If you can't get a loan, seek alternative funding options, grants etc.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
You hate your job because your employer has done what they're legally obliged to?

I'm not very fond of my job at the moment, but then I'm jumping ship soon.
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I found out earlier they had to do it legally but it's the opting out part that really gets on my nerves as it just isn't letting me. It doesn't want me to opt-out.
 
No, err, and no.

Chosen career, yes, possibly sometimes, but places I've been and people I've worked with, no.

I would consider a career change, but sadly, I don't think there's much else that would make similar money.

I would love to work with / for someone like Titan Salvage :)
 
My job can be extremely rewarding and challenging at times, and soul crushingly tedious at others. This last two months have been the latter.

I'm pm'ing our new consultancy firm who are overly keen to make life difficult for themselves in order to prove how good value they are.
 
Devrij said:
Are you in the care industry? If so, I don't blame you for hating your job. It's pretty rough to work in right now.
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Thank you everyone for your replies, really nice to see other peoples experiances.

Hey Devrij, I dont work in the care industry. I work in the Welfare to work industry at the moment. My true skills are completely wasted here and i find less and less reason to want to perform -_-.

I honestly feel as if there will come a day I will just not come in. The company does not deserve the employees it has let alone new ones they brainwash into believing that they are actually helping people.

I do get one now and then I am satisfied to help but I go out of my way to get push those people into things they want to do.

If the company had its way with me, they would make me put every clientin bog standard 0 hour contracts just to get targets for them.

I dont want to push people into jobs that have no sustainment so I work my hardest to push them into careers that they can sustain and earn a living for an extended period.

However that does not necesarily meld with what leadership want as they just want targets now now now.

Needless to say I hit those targets.



Its just soul destroying, I want to strudy astro/aero engineering and I will do it there is no question. I just feel like every day here is taking a part of me >_> .

I have tried to have a positive mental attitude and I tell myself all the time there are people worse off then me, there are people in the world with nothing. Yeah cool story but I have ambition, and staying in this job is not growing me in anyway. Ive often heard the ususal " your better off then most people leaving uni as atleast I have a job" yeah sure I may be I have work experiance which gives me oppurtunities. How ever I also dont intend on wasting my time on a bad degree either.

Im just stuck moneywise. I will look into engineering apparenticeships at respective companys to give me a good view of what I can go for.


:mad: Just feel so O_o
 
Any chance of looking into open university courses or similar? You may be able to start part time and get some modules in; at least to get your maths up to a suitable level (I'm lead to believe this what engineers spend their first year doing). Maybe tie these into doing the course at a later date; if anything you'll be able to spread the payments.

I was the last year who didn't have to pay tuition fees; I felt sorry for the people a year younger than me but compared to today they were probably much better off.
 
At my last job (retail for a large second hand games and technology company, the red one) staff were decent and made it bearable, but the general public are terrible at the best of times, let alone when you're dealing with those who have to sell every last possession in order to live.

One customer let her daughter defecate on the floor and said nothing, then left it for us to clear up. Ended up walking out after an argument with the supervisor, turns out she got fired shortly after anyway :p
 
I was in a job where after 2 hours I'd finished my work for the day - sounds good but you were not allowed to do nothing and internet wasn't available (12 years ago) it was just soul destroying. Other departments were stacked out and working 12+ hours. They refused to hand over any of their work.

The day I walked out of that job I promised myself if ever I dreaded going into work I would leave. Only ever done that twice and didn't regret it after the door closed behind me!
 
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I've had a few fairly rubbish jobs but the two that stand out were door to door sales trying to get people to sign up to monthly direct debits for charity and insolvency administrator.

The door to door sales I could just about rationalise as helping charities gain more money than they'd normally have received although the argument is a bit tenuous and I learned that I was never going to be much good at "selling" something I didn't believe in.

Insolvency administrator was pretty horrible though, dealing with people who had sometimes got themselves into quite horrendous amounts of debt and the worst part was when they didn't realise how they'd done it so would ask you if this could ever happen again. It just felt like profiting from other peoples misfortunes (albeit almost always self-inflicted) and although I was much more competent at this than I ever was as a salesman I couldn't keep working there so quit and went back to temping until I found something better/that didn't bug my conscience so much.

My current job has moments where it's not all fun but broadly I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing now.
 
I hated my previous job with a passion. Everything about it was a joke and some of it illegal. It actually made me ill. I stuck it out for over a year thinking of the money (even that wasn't great towards the end). Luckily I've moved on and got a job with a fantastic employer and the old job is long behind me now.
 
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