Ever Hated Your Job?

I used to hate a job I was in. Not the work itself but the people there. Every day one guy in particular who I sat opposite would fall asleep at his desk, propped up by his arm on his desk, hand on his chin to make it look like was thinking. Every single day this would happen for a couple of years, more so in the afternoon after a long lunch.

The thing that grated on me was the department always had a backlog of work to do and management never knew how to clear them. The person's line manager was made aware of this numerous times and at one point even witnessed it but nothing ever happened. If you ever brought it up you were seen as the one rocking the boat and singled out as a trouble maker. Can you believe that.

In the end I had enough and found a new employer. I didn't hate the work but the people there just had me feeling down/negative as soon as I stepped through the door. Soul destroying. The way the department was run was a joke. The majority of "management" were only in their position because of the length of time there and not because they actually had the ability to manage. Nice enough people outside of work but that is probably where the problem lies. Other line managers signed off temporary staff that came in at 10 and left at 4, yet someone got paid for a full week. A complete mess.

Rant over for now :D
 
I'm working in retail.... At least I can be a complete **** to customers who treat me like garbage on Facebook under a pseudonym.

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Well if you're going into aero engineering you're probably going to end up at airbus, and this way you'll get paid and get experience otherwise you'll be here as one of the laughably bad direct entry graduates and out the door by the end of the first year for being useless like most of them.
 
Im an aero engineer and I hate my job too. After 23 years I'm at peace with my decision though. It pays the bills and if anyone asks me about aircraft I tell them I'd rather talk about tesco bar codes.

I'd rather work in a fish and chip shop again or deliver papers if it paid me the same.
 
Rilot said:
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.
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Don't care any more? They haven't from day one as far as I'm concerned :mad:

Since I left School, I've had 15 Jobs (full, part-time & temporary) I can say that the management team at ALL OF THEM couldn't care less as long as they reached their targets & their superiors were happy with what they were doing.

Its beggars belief how some of these employers managed to survive with management teams this poor, having said that almost every firm I've worked for over the last thirty years has either gone bust or been taken over (Could happen to the firm I work now too, its share price is less than a tenth of what its main competitor is)

There has been a time though, where my boss at the time made my life such a misery, 12 days 6 days a week & doing paperwork at home wasn't enough for him, I had constant reprimands and the threat of disciplinary action hanging over me for 18 months. I had (at the time) severe depression & had considered suicide. Their head office HR kept coming to talk to me to ask if there was anything wrong, but I didn't want to make any trouble.

I ended up leaving to take up bus driving (and that was even worse, I stayed four days) a Colleague left the same day as I did with no notice given (at least I gave notice) which meant said boss wasn't just picking on me, he left 10 months after I did for a competitor anyway, only to be sacked for his attitude to his staff. :D

These days if I find my position with my employer and my manager untenable (not with this one at the moment thankfully) that's it I'm off, bye. :p (I don't mean it here dons please don't permaban me) ;)
 
Most people hate there jobs, this is normal.

HOWEVER, some people's jobs re so dire, OR their attitude and ability to make the best of the situation is not strong enough to make them cope.

If the hatred intensifies sufficiently then you really need t seek help and change jobs.
 
I hated my job from 3.5 years ago. Which had put me in a state of depression.

In a better job now and a lot more happier :)
 
Ultimately businesses are there to make money. Many companies don't care about the staff or their talents, they are instantly replaceable, you're just a bum on a seat doing a job. And whilst the directors are making big bucks, it's irrelevant. This attitude always plays a part on these companies downfall, but it doesn't matter by then, because the directors are rich.
 
Crezzlin said:
everyday for the last 10yrs lol
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Pretty much this. All the jobs I've had in my working 10 year life I've hated. There was one that had a nice bit of totty that made the day more bearable, but it's still 'head-to-the-floor' upon the alarm going off at 7am 5 days a week.

Finish my degree next year, maybe that'll get me playing alongside Tiger on the PGA...;)
 
A good few years ago now I had a job working for the complaints team at Orange broadband... It was so stressful, you may be surprised at how horrible and dehumanizing people can be when they want a 50p refund.
 
I've been in this situation in the past, it got to the point where I quit with nothing to go to.. I short sighted maybe, as the period of following unemployment used up the savings Ihad for a house deposit, but it literally got to the point I'd lost all respect and drive for the job , and started taking time off, my alarm would go off and I'd think for half an hour or so about weather I wanted to go in., knowing I'd be in trouble but not caring enough to go. Eventually I jumped before I was pushed.

It's a tough call but if it's making you feel like that you have to ask yourself what your doing, and make a change.
 
I've hated my job for years, stuck at the bottom with little prospect of moving up.

However, its looking like I'm going to be paid to leave due to re-organisation. I'll receive a nice pay off due to all the years I've wasted there.

I'm planning on using the money to retrain. I literally can't wait.
 
I did 13 years driving fork lifts in my last job before everybody got made redundant, brilliant job so laid back & pay was good.

The Job I'm in now which is retail, i hated at first because it is 5 nights a week, but I've been there 7 years now, the staff & management we all consider each other pals rather than workmates or bosses, we all spend a lot of time outside of work, going for nights out ect & basically just having a laugh both in work and out.

This is how a job should be keeps moral high & i actually look forward to going work.
 
Allnamestaken said:
What I really want to do is study Aeronautical Engineering and go to Uni, Im only 23 and its something I really want to do and make a life time career in. Im just struggling to figure out how I can do this now, how I can afford it.[/B]
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Yeah we have all been there, lucky for you Lao-tzu left you the answer to your problems ~2500 years ago, result!

"A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet."

You want to be at Z, your at A, figure out all the steps in-between and start doing them. Pick three things you would like to do, work at all three, one or two will come good, hopefully it will be planes.

Most of all smile, and your going to be absolutely fine.


At 23 you wont get this but here goes:
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I once worked as a document/post room supervisor for a small but prestigious solicitors who dealt with catastrophic injury and other quite specific cases on behalf of insurance companies. The facilities manager who hired me at my interview didn't let me know until after I'd started that I was the 3rd person in my position in 3 years and he was the 3rd in 2 years at his.

The reason - the owner of the company was a person with the social skills of a 5 year old who had inherited the company from Daddy after being spoilt to death all his life. He'd rage around the office shouting at people and throwing files around like a child having a tantrum when things didn't go his way. Because we were in the basement section, we'd have secretaries come down to our office and break down crying as they were treated like dirt by the seniors solicitors. They were mostly older guys who had been passed over for partnership at other firms and had come to that firm for the money. The owners attitude filtered down right through those guys.

My staff were an anorexic gay Frenchman who wouldn't lift more than 1 box at a time as it was to much of an effort, an almost silent lad, who I later found out had learning difficulties and had never really gotten any help and 2, 18 year olds fresh from college who thought tramping in with vertical bed-hair, 20 mins late was the route to success. All of them were almost incapable of carrying out simple instructions more than 1 day in a row and were constantly cocking things up.

I'd open up at 6am, 2 mornings a week, otherwise I was in at 7:30-8:00am and would work to 6-7pm with no lunch. I'd do all the distribution of court papers, runs to court and chambers, incoming and outgoing archiving and all the outgoing courier booking as I couldn't trust any of them to do more than fold letters up and walk work round the place. Without doubt, at least 3 or 4 mornings a week I'd get e-mails from someone about something they'd asked one of the lads to sort out which got cocked up, given to the wrong person or just never done. It got to the point where I absolutely dreaded going in every day and it was making me ill. I'd send reports to the HR peeps and nothing would come of it, so I was stuck with who I'd got. I actually did sack one of the young lads on the spot for taking a load of papers over the road to the park so he could sort them all out while he sat in the sun.

The lesson I learned is life is too short to put up with it and I would never stay in the sort of environment again. I admin/customer support for a housing association now and it's like night and day. It's really the first firm in years where I actually feel appreciated (mind you, it's probably because I do twice the work of some of the other staff :) ).
 
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jpod said:
Yeah we have all been there, lucky for you Lao-tzu left you the answer to your problems ~2500 years ago, result!

"A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet."

You want to be at Z, your at A, figure out all the steps in-between and start doing them. Pick three things you would like to do, work at all three, one or two will come good, hopefully it will be planes.

Most of all smile, and your going to be absolutely fine.


At 23 you wont get this but here goes:
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<3 your post hehe made me smile.

As did a lot of everyone elses.


Today just solidified my hatred towards this company. There is dislike and hatred and im approaching the latter.

I have had those days where I wonder If I really want to go in or go do something else entirely. :rolleyes:

Hurrrrr
 
If you don't like your job that much then it doesn't matter what the job is walk away and don't look back. Just be certain it is the job you need to walk away from though and not some aspect of yourself you'll take with you so you end up repeating the cycle.
 
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