Work sucks

[alarimer]

I mean really, whose idea was this anyway??

Seriously though, my job is okay. It is my coworkers who suck (well sometimes). And they are the reason I want to leave. It's also the lack of advancement opportunities. But I nearly wanted to walk out today (despite not have another a job and not being rich enough to support myself!!!), mostly because I really, really want to tell these two to go fuck themselves. I can't wait until I can do that. Someday I will. Someday when I find a job with some other organization and I couldn't possibly have to deal with these two knuckleheads anymore. I got really upset over scheduling issues today. Mostly the lack of scheduling and the fact that they always seem to make the plans and never involve me in any major way. My boss generally leaves us alone to sort it out and, frankly, that is not working so well, given the personalities involved- one is an overbearing asshole and the other a weasel. It seems I am always on the short end of the stick but I feel like I'm being silly when I complain about it to my boss. I almost said something today to him but instead I sort of made a joke about it instead of having a serious conversation about the issue.

It's making me sick. I have headaches a lot and my stomach hurts on a daily basis (usually before work and before I know what the day will bring). I am trying to find another job but the outlook is bleak right now.

[ThomCat]

1. If it was enjoyable they wouldn't pay you to do it.

Work is, by definition, something they'd rather pay you to do than have to do themselves.

[alarimer]

2. The worst part is I recently decided to cut down on my beer consumption

I could sure use one today but do not need the calories.

[Deja Q]

3. Sweet Jesus. My problems are nearly identical to yours.

Though some details are different and nothing I can really explain right now, though I wish my body would die.

I know half my department is actively looking for other jobs, others call in sick multiple days in a row, confidence in our department has plummeted and it's the workers (not the inept managers) taking the heat, and an escapade of recent has employees FUMING.

[alarimer]

5. I just wonder if I am overreacting

I could be. I am very anxious generally and tend to make a big deal of some very small things sometimes.

It sounds like low morale at your work. I don't think that's the case for me (well, except for mine LOL). My boss is a hands-off guy and sometimes that doesn't work so well for everyone.

[SPKrazy]

4. I relate to you well...

I'm glad to have a job, I also have to work with assholes. (yes I know there are some here who would say that is divine Karma, however, there are two sides to every story... but that is a different story anyway) Some of them have done some really crappy things in general, and there are some who have done some crappy things to me personally. So today, I had the feeling of wanting to take off!

Luckily I was able to have lunch with a good friend of mine and she cheered me up enough that I came back and my attitude was different, and I felt better about things. She's just like that, and the funny thing is that she says I'm like that for her. Kinda weird, since I feel a lot of times like I'm Oscar the grouch at work.

I'm blabbing, but I will say this alarimer, we spend too much time in our jobs to be spending that time being miserable. I am inspired by people like Graywarrior who quit her job because she worked with assholes and she just said fuck it.

I've never done that. I've always had something else lined up before I had the satisfaction of giving notice. Days at work like today put pressure on the side of me that wants to walk. Friends like the one I ate with put things in perspective for me. It's all good really. I can feel good in a number of lousy situations (not all by any means) if my attitude is better.

So here's to making things better one way or the other! :toast:

:hug:

[alarimer]

6. I am always looking for better opportunities

My boss knows this because he realizes that the job is limiting in its upward mobility (and pay, can't forget that!). And he is also someone I can go vent to if I need to but I feel like this may be so very petty that it isn't worth dredging up.

[doc03]

7. Big time

[dysfunctional press]

8. that's why they call it work.

personally, i gave the stuff up for good when i was 38.

so- chronic pain and total disability isn't ALL bad.

[NC_Nurse]

9. I think that every day.

I just cannot surrender myself to the idea of working at the same job endlessly for the next 20 years....:puke:

Nursing has its rewards, but the coworkers tend to be a bit codependent...nurses, I mean. And then there are the docs...
some are great. Others are like little Napoleons who love to push people around.

And I haven't even mentioned the patients. Sigh.

[alarimer]

10. I have already been here 10 years

It's the longest I've held any job but then it is also the first "real" job I have ever had. Pickings are slim in my field without a Masters degree (and even then- a lot of state agencies are only offering contract/ no benefit positions and demanding Masters degrees of the applicants) so I have gone back to school part-time. I guess my coworkers will retire soon, at least the worst one (I can only hope).