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[elvenwine26]

I don't care for my job atm.  My boss has expectations of how I should do my job, but he doesn't understand what my job involves and kind of like...prevents me from doing it efficiently.  He can't leave his personal life at home and any time something stresses him out he comes and takes it out at work.  There's nothing half as annoying as having someone ride your butt  and tell you to do the things that you're already doing as if you hadn't managed perfectly well the past year. 
I frequently get told that we need to reduce spending but then he hires another dead weight and tells us to order some heinously expensive piece of equipment for his son's business.  Last week I got fussed at for spending $20 on new keys for the office gate that keeps malfunctioning and then  told in the next breath that he wants to buy $1000 copier printer for his son's office...
The whole situation in general is really dumb.  I hate collections, I hate dealing with insurance, and I generally hate a good 1/5th of our patient base. 
Somedays I really wish I had an emergency martini in a mason jar stashed in my purse.
My new year's resolution is to find a new office to work for. 

[Beldarna]

I used to love my work. I was happy to be in a place with so many people in my own age who are mostly girls that actually get along. I used to love to work for a company that trusted it's employees and cared for them.. This past six month the dynamics have changed and when some people are scheduled to work with me, I put on a mental armor. Highschooldrama is almost everydaybusiness. The company has made some cuts so we're usually understaffed. The days when there used to be three people working, only two are scheduled nowadays, but still expected to get the same amount of work done. Stresslevels are high and I regret not jumping on the Program for archivists when I was younger. Being alone in some cellar archive is sooo temtping right now.

[aluke]

I wish I could have a job that would drive me crazy, at least I'll get payed for that! Beats paying for an education that drives me crazy seven days a week.

I don't want to go into rant mode about what a joke my program is but a condensed summary: I actually get the opportunity to pay my school so they can give me zero support and guidance in finding an internship (and we aren't exactly in an area where the industry is flourishing). There I get to work full time hours for about two months without pay, just to earn a diploma I've already spent countless of thousands on already.

To reiterate, I'm paying to work for free at a job that isn't even handed down to me. If I even manage to find one.

I'm up for said drinks.  *clumsily pockets all the cookies*

[BerryMouse]

My job drives me crazy cuz it's boring or should I say uber boring?
Lucky me I only have a 40 h/w and on the other hand I get money for that boredom so I guess that's okay then.
But for sure, I'm not very happy with my job. 

[fingerpaints]

I love my job, more than any other job ive had. But this week has driven me insane!  I am not a alcoholic, but I searched for a drinking buddy today for saturday night. It's driving me ti drink to a degree I hate sunday mornings. I haven't woken up on a sunday for over a month eithout a splitting hangover.

[UrocyonFox]

*hugs everyone and offers a cookie* I just quit my job of being a park range this year to take a job as a lab manager at a college. YOu would think that a park ranger job would be awesome outdoors all the time stuff but alot of it was retail mindset. Like "Fox you need to have higher attendance at your alligator show. Fox why are more schools not signing up for your wetland ecosystem education program? You need to increase your numbers or we're going to have to let you go...." I do remember back in 2006 state parks could offer free programs, animal shows, night hikes, and such but because of cuts and such they have take on a retail approach and nothing is free anymore. D:

Now with my new job I have some crabby people who are awful but honestly its not bad at all. Its not as stressful, I don't have the threat of loosing my job looming over my head non stop. My boss is a great man, he is very much woman power and such so that's a real change.

I'm sorry ya'll are having a bum time with work, hopefully things get better. *hugs*

[LeighAnnApanites]

Vodka cranberry, please!

I've been without employment for three-and-a-half years now thanks to being fired for "chronic lateness" after listening to the boss complain for six months about how bad business was and how she was having to use her line of credit to make payroll. Did I always clock in exactly to the minute I was supposed to? No. Was I ever more than 5 minutes late? A handful of times (literally, five times tops) over the course of three years. If it was a fireable offense shouldn't you have done it before I'd been working there for three years? Like maybe during that 90 day trial period? Oh, right, that was before I had "saved [your] ass" (a direct quote from the company owner) when, out of four customer service reps, two were on maternity leave and one had a nervous breakdown and flamed out going into the busiest, most important income generating period of the four year election cycle. (It's an election supply company and this was the fall of 2008. You know those little stickers that say "I voted!"? That's the most well known example of the kind of stuff they sell. Signs and security seals and whatnot.)

Never mind that I had offered to quit just a couple of months before I got fired. The job was a sales job that had been sold to me as a customer service (I know, it's a fine line) job or I wouldn't have accepted it in the first place. There was NO work coming in and there's a limit to the number of times I'll call the same person about the same products that they've already told me they don't want to buy right now. My internet surfing got a little out of hand (although I definitely was not doing anything anyone else wasn't doing, just getting caught. Not an excuse, just frustrating.) Anyway, we were working that out and I told her the job expectations as they existed were a bad fit for me and that I was prepared to just go. We restructured my job description and I took a pay cut instead, which would have been fine for me. Two months later I get fired for what really read as a lame excuse. Fire me for doing things wrong that I'm actually doing wrong and I'll deal with that. Come up with something off the wall that hasn't been a problem before after telling me specifically that you've been borrowing money to pay people? Does not compute.

I've tried really hard to be thankful for that crazy b, because she really did do me a favor. I hated the job and she was/is crazy. We've been getting by and I've gotten to stay home with my munchkin. But, grrrrr, I haven't been able to let go of the idea she thought I was stupid enough to not put all that together. Whatever, now I'm freelancing and *I* get to be the crazy boss. At least I can cuss myself out if I get too crazy.

[Galactica]

I work too hard- it really burns me out sometimes which is why I come over here!  I basically struggle to solve complicated problems all day- some of which are completely unsolvable, in which case my job is to explain just how bad it really is and what my client needs to do.  It really is not relaxing- so by Friday I am fried.  Of course I often have to work on at least one weekend day too... so that's not good.  But on the upside I really like what I do (most of the time) and my boss is really really awesome.  Having had many a terrible and psycho boss, I can tell you that that is one of the most important things.

I used to work food service and had a terrible human being for a manager. Prepare for tl;dr and some discriminatory language, it was the worst two months of my life.

I needed additional income with my toy store job so I got a second job at a specialty pastry shop. I was thrilled until I actually started working. The manager trained me by hiding in the back and yelling at me "you suck" "fail" and other things. Customers heard and watched him berate me. The best thing was I got pity tips. He violated labor laws by denying his employees rest breaks. If we went into the back for a break, he'd yell at us to get back out. The only people he let have breaks were my supervisors (his BFF) and his sister. Everyone else had to constantly work or he'd yell and threaten to fire us.

The day before I got fired he storms in, yanks my iPod earbud out of my ear (I had one in since it was totally empty on a slow day and my supervisor told me to sweep and focus on cleaning, send any customers to him) and starts yelling at me threatening to fire me. Shortly after, he goes into the back room with my supervisor and his sister. I hear him laugh loudly and I could only make out the word "retarded."

I'm high functioning autistic. This wasn't on my application but even if he didn't know, he just used discriminatory language by company standards. So in all he has violated labor laws, anti-discrimination laws, and that's not even getting into the sexual harassment by an ex-employee who would wander in from time to time and ask me if I had a boyfriend and other way too TMI questions.

Day after I was fired. I had to get out quickly to avoid laughing and thanking them for freeing me of that horrible job. I never called the company to report my horrible manager. He'd been there for years and somehow the company never came down to see why that shop was always hiring.

Now I work at a hipster dog daycare as a dog handler and it's the best job I've ever had. Everyone is super nice, I get paid to play with and snuggle with dogs, and I'm allowed to have any electronics I want (which is great for my little autistic quirks) as long as the dogs are cared for. Even better is that they know and understand my disability and have no problem with it.

Wow - that is really shocking.  You really really should send a letter to the company to report that guy- think of what he will do to the next person?  He deserves to be fired.  YOu could also talk to an employment attorney, but sometimes that ends up being more trouble than it's worth.

[shockponie]

*raises hand*

I used to like my job a lot, but lately my manager has pretty much checked out. Our clients are starting to notice and have started complaining to me that my manager is unresponsive. Uh, tell me about it. Then she sticks me on-call all the time. She had one of my co-workers take a "lead" role while she's "too busy" working on other "tasks", and now he's playing boss, giving us quizzes and homework for things I've known & have been doing for years. He tells me that they're more for the n00bs, and me doing it is just more of a formality. I know my job. I'm constantly getting reminders for my co-irkers' mistakes, so apparently I'm the only one doing my job right. They're always telling me "this doesn't apply to you," and yet I have to read their huge long-winded emails daily and acknowledge I've read them.

Where's the wine? I'll partake.