Who HATES their job?
Been at my place of work now for around 6 years now....
Started off ok but over the past 2 years or so, I've just been really pissed off
The money aint bad but it could be better, and I do live ok-ish...
Bills get paid, food in the cupboard, baby gets nappies etc, still go out with friends etc once or twice a month....(one wage coming into household by the way)
I know there are people in a lot worse situation then I am, but I really hate my job, all the people are great apart from the odd one or two...
Sometimes I feel like just handing my notice in and telling him to stick it!, the only other jobs out there are minimum wage....and lets be honest I would be a fool to jack this job in and earn minimum wage (and thats not a pop at people who are on mim wage btw)
Anybody else been in this situation? :sad:
Started off ok but over the past 2 years or so, I've just been really pissed off
The money aint bad but it could be better, and I do live ok-ish...
Bills get paid, food in the cupboard, baby gets nappies etc, still go out with friends etc once or twice a month....(one wage coming into household by the way)
I know there are people in a lot worse situation then I am, but I really hate my job, all the people are great apart from the odd one or two...
Sometimes I feel like just handing my notice in and telling him to stick it!, the only other jobs out there are minimum wage....and lets be honest I would be a fool to jack this job in and earn minimum wage (and thats not a pop at people who are on mim wage btw)
Anybody else been in this situation? :sad:
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I once had an offshore job, which I quit because of the way they treated me.
If I had continued working offshore, I would have earned twice as much today as I now do as a taxi-driver.
But still, the taxi-job is the funniest job I have ever had.
It's even funnier than being a TV-repairman, which I was for many years before this.
All the money in the world won't help you as long as you're not happy.
Spent a month looking at my options and then made a fatal error, I let an agency talk me into going for another IT interview...but this job promised so much more than the shit I had put up with for the previous 5 years.
I got offered the job and took it, my 6 month probation review is on Wednesday morning. Worst mistake I have made.
- sure I'm using .Net more, getting in to ASP.Net and all that and using SQL Server in ways I never imagined...but it's the same shit underneath it all. I should have gone to work in a pub or call centre for a year or something.
But I am looknig into doing my PGCE next September full-time and moving into teaching I think now...just have to wait another year.
Whatever you do, if it involves trying to change career, my advice is do just that...no "last tries"!
What you gonna do if the kids work themselves? F'kin nut them? :p
Interesting topic. I hate it when there's an issue that can't be solved because it's out of my control. Some things can't be changed but I still feel bad even though it's not my fault.
Examples (that happen when you work in Retail):
-Customer that wants you to do something that can't be done and makes a scene, or calls corporate to make a complaint.
-Computer that was repaired and in a matter of weeks has a completely new unrelated problem that "only happened after you guys worked on it"
-Customer that tells you that your service sucks because they had to wait too long while you were helping other customers (they see everybody's busy but they still don't get it. They know how to wait at the bank or post office, but not at a retail store. They are also rude sometimes and interrupt you while you're helping someone else).
-Customer who wants you to do things faster and find everything for them at the store (in essence be their personal shopping assistance for free) because they're late or in a hurry (if they're late, why not plan ahead?).
-Customer who complains and tells associates stupid things like "Why is this so expensive". How the hell should I know?
-Customer who thinks anyone who works at a store should memorize what's in stock and what's not and the price of every single item we have. They will wave and raise their voice and hand from far away and shout "Hey! How much is this?".
-Customers who wants things done fast and while they wait, but don't want to pay for rush fees. They think they're the most important person in the world, and if you can't do what they want they turn away.
-Customers who try to take advantage of you.
-Customers who live in Southern California in rich areas but ask for discounts because they're so poor. Riiiight.
-Customers who complain about service because an item is out of stock. If it's out of stock it's not my fault!! I offer to have it sent to their home the next business day for no extra charge, but they find that unacceptable.
Hmmm, someone ought to start a site for employees to vent. There are so many places for customers to say bad things about us, there should be something for us too...
Websites like this have been started but often higher ups snoop on them and the complaining employee is usually found out and fired for something ridiculous.
Let me add to that above list customers who ask where something is after coming from where it was, then say "Well I was just there and I didn't see it".
Also when customers who ask where something is after coming from where it was, then say "Well I was just there and I didn't see it". Then when you take the time to walk back over there with them to get one of whatever "it" is, don't say thank you, huff and puff, and look at you like you're trying to make a fool of them. If they had've opened their ****ing eyes wider or took more than a quick glance I wouldn't have had to stop what I was doing, and walk over there to show their stupid ass something that was right in front of them in the first place!!!
When I worked for compaq that was one site that was blocked for some reason :)
It's a site for frustrated owners and disgruntled employees telling their side etc.
apart from that it's great yeh.
worst job I ever had was cook in a chinese take-away. believe me when I tell you the head chef's 2 yr old son used to run around the kitchen with no clothes on, pissing on the floor at random, and climbing on the work surfaces while we were doing important things like chopping vegetables - I nearly chopped his fingers off once by accident. The boss (his dad) would have none of it when we complained about his kid running amok. ridiculous.
edit: and that was *drum-roll* ?2.30 an hour....happy days
no one aksed me to do it, i just prefered doing that to my actual work. :razz:
I didn't want any other office-based job, so a career change was in order. To cut a long story short, I became a train driver, and 8 years later I still love the job! (Although the 4am starts on earlies can be pretty tough!) There is no way I'd ever go back to doing what I did before.
Now may not be the best time to change jobs if you've nothing else lined up and mouths to feed, however I sympathise with the situation you are in as I was there once, there is nothing worse than going to work each day and dreading it.
I used to work for British Rail when it was in its last days of being British Rail. Had I not got into university, one of the things I was studying in "the escape list" (the internal job list that circulated) was going into S&T (signals and telecommunications). I often wonder how my life may have turned out if that's what had happened. I also considered train driving but I was still much too young at the time (I think you had to be at least 21).
I did enjoy my free travel on the railways, in those days you got 10 'boxes' a year (20 days worth of all line free travel). The late summer of 1991 just before leaving for uni I was exploring the Cornish branch lines, and then all the way up to Thurso in Scotland. Those who were working for BR when it got split up kept the all-line free travel so I'm told, those who joined the franchises afterwards got much worse travel privileges.
It was also the only time in my life I've been in a union, and really you needed it: BR management often really took the piss.
Wow, you actually receive rejection letters??? Most places these days don't seem to both sending any letters out.. :(
How do you become a train driver? I wouldn't mind trying that, :)
i looked at that recently, its mega hard, test after test after test.
i thought they'd just let you have a go at it, and see if you were any good. but apparently they have to make sure you know what your doing as you could kill a load of people if you **** it up.
i never went for it as apparently you only ever drive the same route. (ie most of what they do is learning the route)
also they are funny about criminal records. :p
Well i got one!
Interesting - I served my apprenticeship with BREL (British Rail Engineering Ltd) and they were happy to send us to uni on full pay.
I used the escape list to go into the Civil Engineers at Newton Heath (as a TO (Technical Officer) as the first step out of the workshops. After about a year I got an STO (Senior Technical Officer) at BREL HQ in Derby doing the loco design. When the gov closed the railways they bribed us to take redundancy and I ended up as an MS4 for pension and payout purposes.
As a "management" grade (i.e. working in the offices) we got unlimited free travel in the UK and 10 "world" free passes which gave you free or vastly reduced travel on nearly every rail system in the world. I used my last pass to go from Crewe to Narvik. They didn't let us keep the travel when we left.
It was a great job at Derby as we got to travel all over the world to do BREL projects and we did all the accident investigation work as well which was good fun.
So, I don't care if I like it or not, just so long as it's not 80 hours a week and pays a minimum of about $50000 pa.
Don't trust people who say they love their job, they are either delusional or simply have nothing better to do with their own time.
The bosses wife asked me one day (clear attempt to catch me out) when I said I was glad it was Friday..
"Don't you like your job then?"
I said "Yes but I like my own time better"
It was advertised in the local paper. Back in 2001 when I was applying, many train companies were advertising for drivers 'off the street', however the current recession has meant that there is much less external recruitment currently, most driver vacancies are filled internally by conductors etc., although I can see that changing when (if?!) the economy picks up again. I work for a passenger company, and our jobs have been safe during the recession, although I understand it has been tougher for the freight drivers due to falling freight volumes.
There is an excellent website that describes it all at http://www.railwayregister.care4free.net/becoming_a_train_driver.htm
I hope you weren't on a mobile typing this response with a brick on the dead mans handle! :-o
Just steal one !
Yayyyy, joy riding !!!