anybody else hate their job? The Official Job Rant thread :)

[Miss Meow]

Oh, the timing. My manager must've had a psychic in this job before me, because when he doesn't understand any work given to HIM by the director, he just says, "Nicole will work on that" and then not explain what the h*ll I'm meant to do. So I ask questions and he deflects them and wanders off, comes back the next day asking what I've done on the mystery project. So I write pages and pages and make lots of nice diagrams to cover my butt and it isn't even read anyway because "Oh we want some of the words used by these other people in it". Um, OK, there are about 300,000 words in the English language, I'm sure I can pop in a few that they use. My probation interview is next week so I'm trying hard to bite my tongue.

At least the gym membership is free and it's still a 100 times better than the place I last worked.

[Steffi N]

I am working as a freelance editor and looking for a full-time job. (I work in medical communications / advertising). Things are tough out there. I keep sending out resumes and using whatever resources I can find, but it’s frustrating. I worked my way up from word processing and don’t want to go back to office work. Many companies are just asking their regular staff to work longer hours and are not hiring as many freelancers as they used to. At one place I have worked at, the editorial supervisor has called me late in the morning to see if I can come in that afternoon. Anyway, it’s nice being able to spend extra time with my cat.

[slick]

I must a minority also. I been working for a non-profit society in the I.T. Dept for the past 17 years. I love it!! Not a day goes by that I don't learn something. The day I stop learning is the day I quit. Besides, retirement is only 15 yrs away....oops,,gave away my age...

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by slick
I must a minority also. I been working for a non-profit society in the I.T. Dept for the past 17 years. I love it!! Not a day goes by that I don't learn something. The day I stop learning is the day I quit. Besides, retirement is only 15 yrs away....oops,,gave away my age...

15+17=32

[slick]

Actually, I turned 50 this year.....Shhhhh, don't tell anyone.....


later...just read this
I turned 50 in Aug last year (going on 30). I guess you can really lose your mind when you're part of the Half Way Club!

[moosmom]

Hey Slick,

Welcome to the "Half Way Club". I just turned 50 in February but I don't feel it. I guess age is a state of mind. Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

Steffi N.

Before moving to Michigan in September, I was a writer for a CT newspaper. I love to write. It's my passion. Unfortunately, the newspaper business is a cut throat business. When I got to MI, I called some of the newspapers here to see if they were looking for freelance writers and they said that right now is a bad time for newspapers. The recession has really hit them hard. When I left CT, they were laying people off. I submitted a story back in June and worked with my editor through December, with his PROMISE that it would be published. Well, they killed the story and decided not to run it. The good news is, from all my effort and hard work, I got paid a "kill" fee of $300. That ain't no chump change. I'm going to work on it a little more and mail it out to some of the magazines. Someone will pick it up. It's a story about an adult child of an elderly alcoholic parent who is forced to play "caregiver". Based on a true story (moi )

[Brie]

lol lol lol

Don't get me wrong, but, you are all complaining about co-workers being lazy... hear this... I was just (for one of many reasons) "fired" because I AM NOT LAZY ENOUGH.

That's right, I didn't sit around all day and read the newspaper and chat and socialize with my co-workers!
I worked and I worked hard. So when the other employees started asking me about my personal life i told them that I don't want to talk to them about it because 1. it's none of their business and 2. this isn't the appropriate place to talk about it. WOW! My boss called me a bitch for telling that to my co-worker. No Joke.
The other reason I was "fired" was because when I was promoted to Buyer, what she didn't tell me, was that, by buyer she ment manager. I HATE MANAGEMENT. I would have never accepted the promotion if she said management was part of the requirements of this new position. So when I wasn't "managing" the store and employees I got punished with being "fired"

So, some backround on my ex - boss... she's diagnosed multiple personality disorder and manic depressive. She ran around work all day screaming about how she's glad California has a two day waiting period on gun purchases, because she would have killed herself that very day (and mind you, this comes out of her mouth every other day) She rants and raves about how much therapy she's been through, like it gives her some higher social status. ughhhh, needless to say, she didn't have to fire me, I resigned.

oooohhhhh, ohhhh, but, that's not the end of it. My paychecks bounced frequently. And I do mean frequently. Sometimes, she'd just decide she didn't want to pay us for ohhh... 15 or more days. It took her over a week to give me a final paycheck and she still owes me back pay for unpaid overtime.

Oh, but, it goes on, there's more. Yup, that's right. as the buyer my job was to purchase inventory for the store... so why is it, when the orders came, everything I ordered WAS NOT there. After I'd place an order with a company, she'd call in and have it changed. WHY HIRE A BUYER IF YOU WON'T LET THEM DO THEIR JOB!!!!!!!

OK, I'll stop there, but, there is a lot more.

Anybody know a good employment lawyer in California. I need to recover my back pay.

[COCatMama]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! that sounds like a nightmare job from heck!! you poor poor thing I am so sorry the psycho treated you so bad. I have had a similar prob as yours at my job. They fired an assistant dispatcher, and I had worked closely with him as I am the Office Assistant. He and I got along OK.

After they canned him, they tried to grill me for information i.e. what were he and I discussing online (when I was at home) etc. When I was not forthcoming with this information, the 'busybody' got allllllllll mad.

And my boss is going thru a bitter divorce (tho they weren't technically married) and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired of hearing about it, half the time i tune it out and just do my work. Well, today said 'busybody' comes over to my desk and whispers 'oh did you hear him saying XYZ, do you think he's backpedalling?' I said something to the effect since it was a convo between the boss and the 'busybody' I tried to tune it out, and did not hear much. I could practically hear the busybody roll their eyes.

I absolutely HATE being put on the spot like that, sooooooooo rude!!!!!

Those ppl you worked with should have respected your privacy, sheesh!!!!!

Hopefully, it was just a stepping stone to something much, much better

[Miss Meow]

The last job.

We referred to the company as 'Survivor Island' after the TV show as people either disappeared and never came back on Mondays or there were retrenchments weekly. So the joke became, "Pssst, who's been voted off Survivor Island this week?"

The afternoon before one round of retrenchments, my manager found a list on the printer of who was going to be given the flick the next morning. His name was on the list. Oops. He disappeared that night and it took management two days to tell us that our manager wasn't coming back (I actually found out from someone outside the company).

The only IT guy's name was also on the list so he went, but management forgot to get all the system information and passwords. Conveniently the ex-IT guy switched his phone off for several months.

I left there five months ago and my ex-coworker recently e-mailed me, demanding to know what terrible things I said about him during my salary review (which was more than eight months ago, highly confidential and I didn't even mention his name). Huh? So the remaining managers are using the memory of me as a management tool!

[Kfamr]

yes, i hate my job. school=job.

[Cheshirekatt]

I'm going to be the annoying happy person here, but I love my job. I'm a hairdresser (color specialist) and I get paid good money to play with hair all day long!