Hi, I'm in a tricky situation at work, for one I'm not particularly happy. I'm having difficulty with a certain manager who is making my days miserable, I (in fact much of the IT dpt.) is made to feel worthless at times.
I've put in a week of working until 8pm to make deadlines recently, and I'm on 24 hour call almost 2 weeks per month.
That aside, much of the work the company does is gay (litterally), and most of the male employees are gay, probably 95%, out of about 20 males.
I'm the only non-gay programmer in the IT dpt. I just feel I'm treated differently - recently a new programmer was taken on (was also gay), and within 3 weeks was offered a paid week in Berlin at some conference about the work I was taken on to do!
He had a wonderful time and had many expensive meals, etc, and gets showered with praise while I'm stuck writing a laborious application which I've been on for months.
I feel like everything I enjoy doing and am good at, and the parts where my experience is most useful is taken by this new guy, and I'm to say the least a bit miffed
I'm getting really stressed out as I constantly feel inadequate as I'm not delivering as much as him, but I'm just given the crap jobs.
When I was taken on I was led to beleive I would be doing basically what he's been given to do. Is this discrimination, because I'm not that way inclined? I could understand if my ability was lacking, but it's not - they know I'm good at what I do.
Bah, what shall I do, I'm sure some of you guys have been in the position where you feel bad / miserable at work. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I've put in a week of working until 8pm to make deadlines recently, and I'm on 24 hour call almost 2 weeks per month.
That aside, much of the work the company does is gay (litterally), and most of the male employees are gay, probably 95%, out of about 20 males.
I'm the only non-gay programmer in the IT dpt. I just feel I'm treated differently - recently a new programmer was taken on (was also gay), and within 3 weeks was offered a paid week in Berlin at some conference about the work I was taken on to do!
He had a wonderful time and had many expensive meals, etc, and gets showered with praise while I'm stuck writing a laborious application which I've been on for months.
I feel like everything I enjoy doing and am good at, and the parts where my experience is most useful is taken by this new guy, and I'm to say the least a bit miffed
I'm getting really stressed out as I constantly feel inadequate as I'm not delivering as much as him, but I'm just given the crap jobs.
When I was taken on I was led to beleive I would be doing basically what he's been given to do. Is this discrimination, because I'm not that way inclined? I could understand if my ability was lacking, but it's not - they know I'm good at what I do.
Bah, what shall I do, I'm sure some of you guys have been in the position where you feel bad / miserable at work. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
