I've reached the point where I hate my job (rant)

[skygazer]

I didn't used to hate it. For a long time, I liked - never loved - it, found the work enjoyable, felt appreciated. Never cared for the corporate mentality but had a boss who would back me up and support me because he knew I did an excellent job.

That was then.

It's all changed. New manager, more aggressive corporate mentality, backstage shenanigans that allow them to send me all kinds of junk I don't order or need because they're paid at the corporate level to take it. No appreciation whatsoever for the fact that I pull in the best sales of the entire district, in a store that is half the size of most of the others.

Well, I take that back. They do recognize that but their way of showing appreciation is to send me all the crap from other stores that are the result of their liquor department manager's over-ordering, poor back room management and general ineptness. So I get to clean up other people's messes because I do a good job myself. :nuke:

This stupid job is paying my way through school so I can get the hell out of it and find something else far away from the madness that is the corporate grocery industry. That will not happen fast enough for me. :nuke:

:rant:

[grannylib]

1. I'm sorry to hear that...it sucks to have those kinds of days at a job

you really need, at least for the moment...
I hope you find a way to make it tolerable for as long as you have to stay in that position

[skygazer]

2. Thanks grannylib

I'm off tomorrow thankfully, which will give me a chance to decompress. Then I'll get up, dust off and wade back in. ~sigh~

I used to really enjoy my job and now every morning when the alarm goes off, it's like a tolling of doom. :P

Whaddya gonna do? :shrug:

[grannylib]

6. Me, I take out my frustrations in the garden. I name all my weeds

(most of them are named after my boss) and it's lovely to rip them out of the soil and toss them aside to die slowly and then be burned :evilgrin:
*sigh* I can't wait for spring...

[TZ]

3. I sympathize

I worked for 6 years in retail and I remember dealing wih a lot of the stuff thats driving you crazy...I liked it for awhile..but at the end..I was exceedingly grateful to get out of he industry...:hug:

[skygazer]

4. It's sucking the life out of me

The better you do your job, the more crap they pile on you. A good friend of mine got transferred with no notice to a store that was just a god-awful mess in her department because she did a good job and they wanted her to clean it up. Way to reward good work, huh?

They ever try that crap with me, I am outta there in a New York minute. I've been thrown out of better places. x(

[Gormy Cuss]

7. You need to learn to lay low.

It's a sad reality that bad management does exactly what you've described, burdening the best workers without regard to the cost to morale of same. Good management uses the best employees to clean up messes AND rewards them for doing so.

I had a great job, was damn good at it, and burned out after always being the person assigned to clean up other's messes. The last two years at that place I stopped giving it my best effort and instead just provided better than average effort. The weird thing is that there was no negative impact on my performance ratings, salary actions, or any other measurement but I was much less stressed out.

[Deja Q]

9. SECONDED!!!!!!!!!

Due to a sad situation I'm in, I've thought about taking time to breathe too. Other people with half my skills get to move beyond their job to something else. And proper training. I do feel left out and something is not adding up.

I do like my job, so it's not terrible, but it still feels unequal. And maybe that's where the problem lies; the feeling of un-equality.

[skygazer]

11. It just doesn't seem to be in my makeup

I think you're absolutely right and you're not the first person to say that but I just can't seem to stop caring about what I do. It really is stupid - no one appreciates or rewards it but I do it nonetheless. Why?

I'm honestly not really sure. It makes me feel good about myself, I guess, even though on another level I feel so frustrated. But I think I at least get some satisfaction out of meeting my own standards whereas if I just coasted, I'd feel unfulfilled AND like I was somehow letting myself down.

I don't suppose that really makes any sense - just that stupid damn Yankee work ethic I have. x(

[Gormy Cuss]

13. I didn't think that I could do it either, but

as long as I was doing better than expected (but not my best) it didn't feel like coasting. Still, it's only something that I could do when I wasn't in a position to quit. Damn Yankee work ethic.

[Parche]

5. I Feel your Pain

:hug:

:hi:

[Deja Q]

8. The only person to work for is one's self...

but then we'd still have to deal with other people anyway.

:hug:

[Darth_Kitten]

10. Every job is like this.........

Good people picking up the slack from others....etc etc.

Here's a hug though. :hug:

[skygazer]

12. I appreciate the hug but no, not every job is like that

I've had jobs that weren't at all like that. I used to work road construction and I loved it. The work was damn hard but it was rewarding, it was appreciated, I was well compensated, I was promoted when I achieved instead of just having more crap dumped on me for the same pay like I am now.

People who didn't perform were relegated to lesser positions or dismissed, there was honest feedback. It wasn't a perfect situation by any means but there wasn't this added stress of dealing with this huge, impersonal corporate giant pulling the strings behind your back.

I know there are alternatives because I've seen them. I just have to find my way back to one. :hi:

[Mugweed]

14. Yup...

I worked for a regulatory agency and instituted a crapload of new policies that changed how things are done throughout the state (that bewildered me, becuase I really don't think I'm all that smart). More efficient without putting more stress or workload on the underpaid public servants. Anyway, the rewarding job became a shitstorm of frustration when the "upper management" decided that they were responsible for the paradigm shift and tried to add moronic bullcrap to it, somewhat like riders and earmarks to decent bills being introduced to congress. The person in charge (they call them Directors) was an obvious Republican shill, a kiss-up/kick-down jackass, and a wash-up who obviously was no longer viable in private service. Long story made short, I had to go because my position was somehow being downgraded to a "team leader" from management. I still suspect this is because I had more vision and actually pointed out shitty ideas when they were shitty.

Things don't change that much when you get into the "professional" world. I'm currently entertaining offers from others to jump from my employers because my immediate "boss" is a middle-aged egocentric asswipe who thinks he's still a frat boy...and isn't qualified to lead sheep, let alone engineers.

[MichiganVote]

15. My sympathies. I'm laboring under the same type of mess at present.

[skygazer]

16. Soul-sucking, isn't it?

:hug:

[MichiganVote]

17. It sure is and I just don't know what I'm going to do. I had some news today that

might result in some improvement but I just don't know. I don't think I can take much more of this and I have never had a job situation like this before. I am working in the movie Idiocracy......

Thanks for the commiseration...I hope your situation improves.

[PVnRT]

18. My job consists of masking my contempt for the assholes in charge

and at least once a day retiring to the mens room so I can jack off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble hell.

[PassingFair]

19. Billy Liar.

Your post reminded me of the movie.

One of England's BEST.

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/5661/Billy-Liar/overview

[LynzM]

20. "So I get to clean up other people's messes because I do a good job myself."

I think that's the story of most people's working life who work hard and do well, sadly. :( I know it's certainly been my experience, across several different fields of work. /sigh

[OmahaBlueDog]

21. Life is too short

.. and your moron of a boss has a competitor.