The thread for people who hate their jobs

[Silver]

Right, I cant be the only one here who absolutely loathes my job. I need somewhere to rant and rave and vent about it as I cant do it on facebook so this thread will be the place Expect to see me here ranting and raving quite a lot.

So if you hate your job why and what do you hate about it? Is it the people, the company, the policies, the office politics and gossip, the actual job itself, the building/office environment, does social anxiety affect your job and relationship with work colleagues and make you hate it? Or is it just getting up early, the commute, the socialising etc.

And feel free to rant about job applications, interviews, job searching etc too.

If you hate your job, what would be your dream job? What do you do to make the day(s) more exciting/bareable/manageable (e.g. eat junk food, surf the net, listen to music, read in breaks, go for a walk etc)

For me, whilst working at a university does have a lot of perks (50 quid a year for swimming, free lunch/food at work sometimes left over from events, nice campus etc) the job itself is basically shite. I do clerical work which is the most boring load of crap you could imagine. It is basically doing work for other people that they could just as easily do themselves but are too damn lazy or busy too. A monkey could do what I do. I can honestly say I learn nothing from my job, it doesn't challenge me, I feel like a robot doing the same boring mundane crap every single day, gradually feeling more and more depressed and hopeless each day. I feel trapped, working here honestly feels like a prison sentence at times. The building is depressing and I am stuck in an office with a load of chatty girls including one who is particularly loud and never bloody shuts up. Thank god for music is all I can say. While I know I am lucky to have a job, there has to be way more to life than doing this crap day in day out . But having low self esteem/SA/being quiet/not very assertive and not having good people skills makes job searching/applying and interviews EXTREMELY hard and an on-going struggle as you constantly feel you are not good enough to apply for jobs, feel knocked down and discouraged, rejected and like you are just not getting anywhere. I think being quiet and lacking in confidence holds me back tbh but how do you change this if you are constantly getting rejected for jobs??

My dream job would be a social researcher within local government or maybe for a specific company. I love finding out what people think about things (hence this thread) and am really interested in social issues. I hope one day this dream comes true I really do.

So feel free to rant away.

[goldenjuniper]

Never do a job you hate, life's far to short. If you don't enjoy it don't do it.

Hand in your notice and go find your dream job or before you know it you'll be sixty years old and still moaning about working at the uni.

[goldenjuniper]

^probably not the sort of reply you were hoping for sorry


Don't think I've ever done a job I've hated maybe I'm just odd :/

[Pablo Huntsbach]

^^^I'd agree, although I would just at find a more tolerable job for now to make the search for your dream job a little bit easier,. I kept on with a job I hated for years, eventually things blew up and I got the sack. Would much rather have left on my own terms.

[Platypus]

Excellent thread. I had my dream job, being a video game programmer. It was all I ever wanted to do and was lucky enough to do it for nearly 20 years. The job was interesting, the people were great (almost all were also introverted in nature), and office politics was just as it would be anywhere else. Up until a few years ago everything was great. Well, maybe not everything. The worst elements were journalists and, sadly, gamers themselves. So many people can be a critic, without knowing how games are really developed. Case in point being the PC version of Watch Dogs. But anyway... then Apple and Google came along ruined everything.

An industry can't survive on 69p and free mobile games. A business can't find a reliable income when a fraction of 1% of games will make any money at all - the quality of product no longer has any relevance. The media only report on how great everything is, rather than report on how messed up it has all become and how the console market is nearly dead. Publishers and developers can see it but the media won't acknowledge it. And how is it right when experienced people, who are really good at their jobs, struggle to make a minimum wage yet something awful written by a kid can make money simply because they 'trend' on social media. It's become a lottery.

Makes my blood boil and it all got to me in the end and I left the industry. Feel so sorry for all those who working on a game related degrees at University as they've no idea what lies ahead for them.

A dream job is never going to stay being that dream forever.

[Sunshine Recorder]

Working in a kitchen for many years has taken it's toll on me. The work very few hours, and the hours I do work can be exhausting, as I'm having to juggle many kitchen chores at once. Having a boss that finds excuses to moan at me is no fun either.

At the moment, I'm just putting up with my job, until I've passed my driving test. Then, I'll step up my job search, and join some employment agency. Right now, the process of finding a new job fills me with dread, but it's necessary, and I'll have to overcome it some day.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by BFG

Never do a job you hate, life's far to short. If you don't enjoy it don't do it.

Hand in your notice and go find your dream job or before you know it you'll be sixty years old and still moaning about working at the uni.

Oh I wish I could believe me, but I am filled with fear that if I quit this job then I wont find another one and that makes me feel worse

Originally Posted by HexagonSun

Working in a kitchen for many years has taken it's toll on me. The work very few hours, and the hours I do work can be exhausting, as I'm having to juggle many kitchen chores at once. Having a boss that finds excuses to moan at me is no fun either.

Right now, the process of finding a new job fills me with dread, but it's necessary, and I'll have to overcome it some day.

I have worked in a kitchen before so know how depressing that kind of work can be and tiring too. The bit highlighted absolutely sums up how I feel too, looking and applying for jobs has turned into a massive fear of rejection for me and the whole process just makes me feel depressed and knocks my confidence, so mustering up the courage and motivation to keep going is hard

I actually burst into tears at work earlier as I just had enough and felt so hopeless and unmotivated, but then went swimming at lunchtime which helped Seeing a mentor at work tomorrow about career progression so hopefully that might help too.

[LittleMissMouse]

I actually quite like what I do but I work for a small company and I have one colleague who is just slowly destroying my will to live. He is genuinely just a really obnoxious, arrogant little shit with a massively misplaced sense of importance in the world.

He is right up there on par with the worst people from the Apprentice and the worst thing is that his arrogance protects him from seeing how unpopular he is. We had to go to conference with him and we spent the evenings doing our best to avoid him, but rather than realizing that people just don't like him, I think he consrued it as us being a bit nervous of going for a drink with "our boss", which he isn't.

One of my other colleagues described him as an obligate contrarian - and this is quite a good description because he has to argue with everyone, except our boss, about almost everything. If I said something like "blue is my favourite colour", he'd have to reply with something innocuous like "blue is a shit colour, only plebs like blue, red is far better, you moronic pleb"
The undertone in almost everything says is either "you are a piece of crap" or "I am so much amazing than you, in fact, I am amazing, behold, you are so privileged to be in the presence of such greatness."

It's really just crushing me at the moment, because there is so much passive-aggressive bullshit from him whenever my boss isn't about. Like, if I put the aircon on, as soon as I leave the room, he'll get up, turn it off, open the windows and put the fan on. If I put the fan on, he'll have a bit of an exaggerated sigh, turn it off, close the windows and put the aircon on. But he won't do anything like that infront of our boss.

There are so many other things like this too, but I can't really go to my boss about a whole series of massively petty things, or say anything to his face without looking like a drama queen.

There, that feels a lot better having had a little rant. I only sometimes wish that casual violence in the workplace wasn't frowned upon as much as it is.

The one thing that keeps me going is that I get paid more than he does, mwah hah hah hah.

[iTz0kt0Bu]

I don't mind the job I'm doing at the moment, I have 1 college I bond with and enjoy some parts of the job. But it's definately no dream job and I feel I dislike some parts of the culture.

My boss says he has OCD, idk whether or not to believe him. Idk if this is typical, probably is, but tomorow some "important" ppl are coming to the office and we have been told to put things in different places that our office doesn't look like our office to look presentable. Whilst this is understandable I don't understand why we cant always keep our office looking neat as it is. I know this might sound like I am exaggerating, but I don't really like how sometimes it feels like the company is trying to make a forced idealised image for themselves. I know this is cause the main objective is to make money. The company is a startup. I guess I am just not completely keen on the aim of mainly making money, thats why I dislike these values. I know I need and want money, but I also want other things. Maybe to feel a deeper meaning than making money to a job.

I don't like how play or rest is seen as less important than work. I know it's a job, but working doesnt equal everything.

Idk what my dream job would be, I feel I might like web design.

[FraidyCat]

Originally Posted by binky

Excellent thread. I had my dream job, being a video game programmer. It was all I ever wanted to do and was lucky enough to do it for nearly 20 years.

I always wanted to program games, but ended up developing boring business apps instead. Only lasted 10 years myself, couldnt take it anymore.
Now i just gamble for a living. Its fun, except for the losing days, then it can be the worst job ever.

[Rich43]

I detest my job as I have to facilitate groups which obviously means I have to sit in front of people ! You can imagine how that makes me feel being an SA sufferer !!! I have to say that I really dont know how I do it as im facing one of my worst nightmares every day ! Its hell and I just live for the weekends when I can be with my son.

[Silver]

I have turned into a total recluse at work to the point where people generally ignore me now and I barely speak to anyone now unless I have to and once people start chatting I stick my headphones in and listen to music to drown out all the pointless chatter. Terrible isn't it I also avoid everyone at work as much as I can. Right now everyone is in a coffee break and I am sat in the office on my own but I absolutely cannot see the point of all being crammed into a hot room with the same people on the same table talking about pointless shite day in day out. Its not my scene at all and as well as feeling claustrophobic, I have absolutely nothing to say and am happier sitting in the office alone with peace and quiet and surfing the net. I do worry what the others think of course but I think I have been here long enough that I have a right to do what I want to do when it comes to social stuff.

At the moment am contemplating doing an online market research course which will hopefully lead to a professional qualification which with any luck will help me get another job (fingers crossed)

[Silver]

Does anyone work with really annoying colleagues? How do you cope? There is one girl in the office who as lovely as she NEVER SHUTS UP and it does my head in on a daily basis. I feel so much more relaxed when she isn't there as I find it so stressful being around someone who talks constantly. Its also massively distracting at times. I have raised it as an issue but that was a complete waste of time as nothing changed. In fact she p****s me off so much I don't even speak to her now and just ignore her and don't even look at her which is really bad I know. Its also partly cos Im jealous of her too. How do you cope with annoying colleagues?

[goldenjuniper]

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[Silver]

Originally Posted by BFG

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I have earphones got them in right now listening to radio 1 very loudly to drown out my ****ing colleague I wish she would just piss off for good or get pregnant again and go on maternity leave for another year. Or for me to get another job. Seen 2 I will apply for in the next few weeks *fingers crossed*

[Silver]

Thank god for this thread, think I would literally explode at times if I could not rant.

[Tom Morello]

I don't hate my job, although I'm only 2 weeks in but I hate the radio station the manager insists on playing.

[Sunshine Recorder]

I can't wait until I have a driving licence, then I'm going to step up my job search. I think the job market does open up a little more if you have your own transport.

[Mr. Nobody]

[rant]
almost every job I have had has been stressful for me,.
some work colleagues have been a bit of a nightmare for me to deal with,
one guy in my last job was such a nightmare to work with that when he finally was sacked some ex-staff came back in for a day to celebrate,. lol

currently, I find one emplyee (I've had to supervise for a few years now) a bit hard to take,.
he seems incredibly lazy and really socially ignorant,. can't believe how ignorantly he behaves with me,.
but then,. in walks a manager and of course he's totally different - urghh. !! what a fake.

despite him having worked in this current position for a good few years now, I'm still having to tell him what to do, and still having to keep tabs on him as he's SO slow.
usually, I can find work to do quite easily and quite quickly, but he seems to just do nothing until I tell him to do something,. - usually by pointing out something really obvious that he could do.

the other day, I was talking to him about what he could be doing,. I was explaining to him something that needed doing,.
the whole time, he never acknowledged I was speaking to him, he never made any verbal noises of understanding, never looked my way,. no eye contact, nothing,.
instead,. the whole time I'm talking, he's looking away from me, out the door and rolling cigarettes,.
before I finished talking he had already walked out the door, never once acknowledging that he'd heard me or understood what was happening,.
this is something he does alomost on a daily basis.
[ he's totally fine with certain other people though, and makes eye contact with them, talks to them, interacts fine with them etc. )
I've tried holding back and letting him make his own decisions about what's needing done, but what happens then is he never really does anything,.

grrrrrrr - quite an annoying person to have to work so closely with.

he also probably has at least 6 cigarette breaks a day,. each of them lasting about 10 or 15 minutes,. and of course there's rolling cogarettes before he goes,. so it is probably about 1 1/2 hours a day spent doing these cigarette breaks,.
he's meant to be helping me with my busy workload, but he's rarely any better than me doing most of it myself.
there will be someone making a delivery, or a lorry to be unloaded and he'll just walk past all that and hide round the corner having a fag break,.
and inevitably, i'm the one having to always do all the menial work, AND my office-based work too,. - the whole situation is a bit ridiculous.

I think my problem is that I keep giving people the benefit of the doubt, and keep trusting them and giving them time and space to do things,, but all they do in return is use that as a green-light to do almost nothing,.
I hate confrontations and hate having to put my foot down, so people end up walking all over me and I usually end up doing their work AND mine, and suffering for it.
I've been close to asking for this guy to leave my department and work elsewhere, - I think I'd actually prefer to do all the work myself,. rather than "be helped" by this guy,.
knowing how insane my workplace is, he probably gets the same pay as me or something.

[/rant]