I too hate my day job. I hate my boss, my supervisor... Just soaking in hate. I am desperately trying to turn my second job into my main job, which would make me so happy I might literally explode into firework and confetti.
I despise my current job and would like to see if there is anyone else in the same boat. What is it about your current job that you dislike? For me its the fact that they assume that you have no personal life and can come in at any time to cover when others can't make it in. "Bah your wedding menu tasting can wait...I don't care if the wedding is in 2 months"...
That and they don't believe in benifits or overtime pay so when you work 99.5 hours you have nothing to show for it...
Where do you live and what type of job do you work?
Chicagoland and I work at a 10-15 employee company so many of the labor laws don't really apply. Stupid "right to work" state...
...what type of job do you work?
answering service
Do you perform this work from home?
I'm not sure if that (no OT) exemption applies to answering services but it might.
Here is a number to find out:
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Overtime: Most hourly employees and some salaried
employees are covered by the overtime law and must
be compensated at time and one-half of their regular
pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
Hotline: 1-800-478-3998
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Here are some listed exemptions.
I'm having difficulty finding the exemptions for small businesses, those often referred to as family businesses which it sounds like your boss is claiming to fall under. I know they used to exist but I am having trouble finding the info. Perhaps my google-fu is just way off today. Or, perhaps they don't exist anymore.
The first phone number may be worth a try just to find out if things are being addressed properly. I've used such resource before to much success: sometimes to find out I was wrong and my employer correct and other times to find out my employer was incorrect and load up with ammunition.
Note: This works best to use as a fact finding expedition rather than a complaint/b&@&% session.
I'll reserve a spot to vent here. My relationship with my job is sort of like that cure song "Friday" (Think that's title). Sometimes I hate and sometimes I love. I'll post again when I have a case of the Mondays.
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I love my job. No, it's true, I do.
I loved it when I had to wake up at two in the morning and now that I am on days, I love it even more.
Also, I don't remember ever having a snow day when I was on Preload; on Days I've had two in the past month!
No work today--Huzzah! More time for Paizo!
My current job I like. Now my previous job as a bank teller was unpleasant. My personal hell is the 11-1 rush. Plus it's like groundhog day. Every day. For years
Used to work in a park.
Declogging drains, in the rain, standing in 3 feet of freezing water.. this was the part of the job I liked.
Blacktopping. Hot, sticky work that needs to be done NOW NOW NOW, no lunch, no breaks the blacktop is cooling off. The machine was broken, so instead of pushing the truck along as it paves it needed to get the truck out of the way and clean if every single load. We had a prison crew that worked with us, but by law they had to get served lunch at 12 while we worked through it. And they stole my cheese out of the fridge to make cheeseburgers out of the hamburgers the CO's were BBQing for them.
Wheel barrel needed to be fixed. Skipped my break, sat down in the parking lot and fixed it (because I didn't have access to any kind of work bench or area) Got told off because sitting looked bad.....
The prisoners don't work in the rain, in the snow, or below 32 degrees. They were also afraid of snakes, so I'd have to walk through and try to find some like a polish mine detector. I really didn't mind this, since the snakes seemed to like me. We had a few occasions of me walking through, someone walks along behind me and *rattle rattle rattle*
"You told that snake to do that didn't you?"
We don't rate a grabber/pick up stick. An 18 dollar piece of equipment was too precious to be trusted to peons, so they wanted us to bend down and pick stuff up, including on one occasion hypodermic needles and an entire work area full of pebbles.
Moving 300 pound logs by hand. Boss wanted us to cut them up on the ice to keep the chainsaws clean. Day 1 we had heavy machinery pulling them out of the frozen piles. Someone dropped their end, smashed my foot. Toe needed surgery. Workers comp insurance company held the surgery off for 6+ months because the log hit my foot and the surgery was to my toe.
Working alone with heavy equipment in the woods, trees, and chainsaws with equipment who's motto was "if it was good enough to defeat hitler its good enough for us". We had someone get crushed to death by some of the equipment after I left, they were there for probably 2 hours with no help. My back was out that week, and my family forgot i needed a car that day to go to the funeral.
Used to work in a park.
Declogging drains, in the rain, standing in 3 feet of freezing water.. this was the part of the job I liked.
Blacktopping. Hot, sticky work that needs to be done NOW NOW NOW, no lunch, no breaks the blacktop is cooling off. The machine was broken, so instead of pushing the truck along as it paves it needed to get the truck out of the way and clean if every single load. We had a prison crew that worked with us, but by law they had to get served lunch at 12 while we worked through it. And they stole my cheese out of the fridge to make cheeseburgers out of the hamburgers the CO's were BBQing for them.
Wheel barrel needed to be fixed. Skipped my break, sat down in the parking lot and fixed it (because I didn't have access to any kind of work bench or area) Got told off because sitting looked bad.....
The prisoners don't work in the rain, in the snow, or below 32 degrees. They were also afraid of snakes, so I'd have to walk through and try to find some like a polish mine detector. I really didn't mind this, since the snakes seemed to like me. We had a few occasions of me walking through, someone walks along behind me and *rattle rattle rattle*
"You told that snake to do that didn't you?"
We don't rate a grabber/pick up stick. An 18 dollar piece of equipment was too precious to be trusted to peons, so they wanted us to bend down and pick stuff up, including on one occasion hypodermic needles and an entire work area full of pebbles.
Moving 300 pound logs by hand. Boss wanted us to cut them up on the ice to keep the chainsaws clean. Day 1 we had heavy machinery pulling them out of the frozen piles. Someone dropped their end, smashed my foot. Toe needed surgery. Workers comp insurance company held the surgery off for 6+ months because the log hit my foot and the surgery was to my toe.
Working alone with heavy equipment in the woods, trees, and chainsaws with equipment who's motto was "if it was good enough to defeat hitler its good enough for us". We had...
yikes.
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Well, I partially hate my job. I'm a cable technician. I go around people's houses, setting up cables and installing boxes and modems. And that is the part of the job i really like.
I meet various, very interesting people and get to see many beautifully arranged apartments and houses.
The part of the job I hate is dealing with HR back at the company and with a few members of the dispatch team who are all obnoxious cretins picking on terrain technicians. Also, they think that you have no life so they call you in the middle of the night to say that a customer is complaining about a lack of signal.
Listen jerkbag, just because you're stuck in night shift doesn't mean I have to suffer with you. Call me in the morning, or better yet, send me an email so I don't have to listen to your horrid, nasal voice.
Whoever invented that "a customer is always right" maxim should be flayed alive. And if they are dead, they should be brought back and flayed alive.
Well, I partially hate my job. I'm a cable technician. I go around people's houses, setting up cables and installing boxes and modems. And that is the part of the job i really like.
I meet various, very interesting people and get to see many beautifully arranged apartments and houses.
The part of the job I hate is dealing with HR back at the company and with a few members of the dispatch team who are all obnoxious cretins picking on terrain technicians. Also, they think that you have no life so they call you in the middle of the night to say that a customer is complaining about a lack of signal.
Listen jerkbag, just because you're stuck in night shift doesn't mean I have to suffer with you. Call me in the morning, or better yet, send me an email so I don't have to listen to your horrid, nasal voice.
Whoever invented that "a customer is always right" maxim should be flayed alive. And if they are dead, they should be brought back and flayed alive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32
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I hate my job. I can't really go into detail about what I do, but the first day on the job I was told not to ever expect a raise. That wasn't in the budget and wouldn't ever be. There also wasn't any possibility to advance in position. That also wasn't in the budget. The whole job is state funded so at first I was okay with that. Just lied to myself that I could always go back to college at any time, but right now things were fine.
What was in the budget? A new wing on a building that would never pay for itself.
My last straw was when the state came in and told them I couldn't work in the current position, right after they rejected me for a rare manager's job. They found some legal ways around that and kept me in as a bottom employee, but I realized I needed to get out fast. Oh, and more than a half of my hours were cut to do me the favor of keeping me around.
I started going back to college, but also started looking for another job. The problem is that my area has so many unemployed and so few jobs that I compete with at least fifty other applicants for each job. They say flexible hours, but if you have college classes they are more likely to go with the guy who doesn't. I apply to everything, and interview in about a third of them. So far nothing.
So for now, I am stuck doing my old job while I try to get through school.
This year started pretty awesome though. I recently starting being a freelance writer for d20pfsrd.com. A decent start at what I actually want to do with my life.
I love my job. No, it's true, I do.
I loved it when I had to wake up at two in the morning and now that I am on days, I love it even more.
Also, I don't remember ever having a snow day when I was on Preload; on Days I've had two in the past month!
No work today--Huzzah! More time for Paizo!
Yeah working days is great...wake up at 9ish(somedays as late as 10:30) leave by 3 to 4.
Every minute over 5 hours you work in a day is at time and a half.
Though we have not had a snow day...though worked only about two houres and the full time supervisor is giving those who show more hours...and we to go in and work on Sunday for some more time and a half.
Oh wait sorry this is off topic...
Um..I hated the summer spent roofing...
I got fired from one of my jobs.
/hula dance
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My job is so boring, I know I could be replaced with a computer program and about $500 worth of cables and secondary screens. Day in day out I print e-mails and put them in a tray to be processed.
It is my definition of purgatory. I spent 3 months unemployed last year, and this job came up just before my savings ran out. But I need to get out of this place. It's the perfect storm of dull, but constant so you can't even do anything to distract yourself from the boredom.
I work in a dead-end machine operator position in a plastic extrusion plant. It was just gonna be for a bit until i could save up and go back to school. That was in 1996...
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My job is so boring, I know I could be replaced with a computer program and about $500 worth of cables and secondary screens. Day in day out I print e-mails and put them in a tray to be processed.
It is my definition of purgatory. I spent 3 months unemployed last year, and this job came up just before my savings ran out. But I need to get out of this place. It's the perfect storm of dull, but constant so you can't even do anything to distract yourself from the boredom.
Spend 500 dollars, write the computer program, and hunt jobs until they notice you've been replaced with a mop and a pair of glasseS?
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I enjoy my job. The one thing that stinks is I spend two weeks there, and then only have one week to spend at home (work on drilling rigs). If it was two weeks on / two weeks off, I would have no complaints.
Now, my last job... that was awful. But that's also why there was the following conversation:
MANAGER: Hey, Yakman, we're going to need you to work in Texas for a month. So you are going to have to start driving.
YAKMAN: No, I don't.
Best decision I've made in years.
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One of my very favorite jobs was a position I shared with two other dudes. A week of counting money and stacking it properly from 5AM to 10PM, then two weeks break. And if I get my vacation days, I can start after the end of break for more then a month of break. It was fun. Unfortunately we were replaced.
Just found out that a woman who misses a ton of work for "stress", has been caught sleeping on the job, and never takes responsibility for her fouls-up got one of the top ratings and raises. Hmmm...I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.
Just found out that a woman who misses a ton of work for "stress", has been caught sleeping on the job, and never takes responsibility for her fouls-up got one of the top ratings and raises. Hmmm...I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.
we talked about your job in a now locked thread. I'm sorry to hear things haven't improved, but I'm also concerned about how you go about your job. Something is up with either how you describe yourself or how you describe your coworkers or the job itself if this is going on.
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I've been having some friction with my new full-time supervisor on my new shift, so I filed three grievances.
Had a sit-down with the shift manager and my steward (and also drunken anarcho-syndicalist hetero life partner) and, at the end, the manager said, "Doodlebug, is there anything else that you want to tell me?" and I said, "Yeah, this is the best job I've ever had, I love it here!" to which he replied, "You know, I don't like it when people lie to me."
Hee hee!
One of my very favorite jobs was a position I shared with two other dudes. A week of counting money and stacking it properly from 5AM to 10PM, then two weeks break. And if I get my vacation days, I can start after the end of break for more then a month of break. It was fun. Unfortunately we were replaced.
By computer program and $500 worth of accessories?
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By computer program and $500 worth of accessories?One of my very favorite jobs was a position I shared with two other dudes. A week of counting money and stacking it properly from 5AM to 10PM, then two weeks break. And if I get my vacation days, I can start after the end of break for more then a month of break. It was fun. Unfortunately we were replaced.
Nope by guys willing to work for less money.
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When I hate my job, I generally quit. This leads to hardships and difficulties sometimes, particularly if I didn't plan my exit well. But I don't have that "take crap from people" gene I guess, or I did too much time and have to try too hard to resist b%### slapping a punk, and I now get very physically distressed when I have to go someplace I hate to be (other than prison, strangely. I totally accepted that I deserved to be there because I consciously did stuff that I knew was taken pretty seriously by law enforcement).
Seriously, I lost twenty pounds in the last two months because of anxiety about going in to a job I hated. I needed to lose the weight, but not from not eating before work because my stomach was turning in knots, dreading getting treated like crap for another shift (even though I was the best they had, by far, and made the most money).
The hardest part for me is I am completely inexperienced with any kind of "out of the ordinary" anxiety. I've had normal anxiety (will she dig me? I hope I did well on the test. Stuff like that), and I've had acute situational anxiety (like when I was busted) that disappeared as soon as I accepted the situation, but I have never had anything in life make me sit on the couch, holding my stomach like I had an alien larva popping out of me, wishing a helicopter would crash into my living room and flatten me so I didn't have to go to work.
Yeah, I know "I hate my job". But I love when people find something for work that can sustain them AND bring them happiness every day. Gives me hope I'll do the same soon :-)
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I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.
Sucker.
I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.Sucker.
bnw, I'm surprised at you! Don't call people names just because they're not doing what you would do in a tight spot or bad situation.
That said, gendo, I do feel your job is taking advantage of you. It's time to move on or transfer.
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bnw, I'm surprised at you! Don't call people names just because they're not doing what you would do in a tight spot or bad situation.I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.Sucker.
... HOW long have you known me? :)
Its not what they're doing but how they think I'm poking a jab at. Hard work doesn't work. It just shows that you're productive where you are, so thats where they're going to keep you. Screw ups you can't fire because they've put in paperwork saying that they have x condition so missing work is a medical excuse are promoted to the point that they can't screw anything up.
That said, gendo, I do feel your job is taking advantage of you. It's time to move on or transfer.
To what? The alleged unemployment rate is still around 7%, the real is closer to 12. No ones hiring.
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I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.Sucker.
Too much evidence to support your statement.
I never understood why people put in more effort then they really need to get the job done? Nobody is going to pat you on the back or appreciate that. Nobody important anyway.
Some people actually like to do what they do as well as they can.
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Just found out that a woman who misses a ton of work for "stress", has been caught sleeping on the job, and never takes responsibility for her fouls-up got one of the top ratings and raises. Hmmm...I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.we talked about your job in a now locked thread. I'm sorry to hear things haven't improved, but I'm also concerned about how you go about your job. Something is up with either how you describe yourself or how you describe your coworkers or the job itself if this is going on.
I just had a sit-down with my Supervisor over this. The gist of what I was told is that while I do an "exceptional" job - his word not mine, my lack of social interaction beyond purely what is needed puts me on the bottom of the "plays well with others" section of reviews. He even showed me some complaints about my terseness with my coworkers. My response, "Thank you for showing me that my efforts of the last 6 years are completely meaningless." I got up and went back to work. I am in the process of seeking new employment.
I just had a sit-down with my Supervisor over this. The gist of what I was told is that while I do an "exceptional" job - his word not mine, my lack of social interaction beyond purely what is needed puts me on the bottom of the "plays well with others" section of reviews. He even showed me some complaints about my terseness with my coworkers. My response, "Thank you for showing me that my efforts of the last 6 years are completely meaningless." I got up and went back to work. I am in the process of seeking new employment.Just found out that a woman who misses a ton of work for "stress", has been caught sleeping on the job, and never takes responsibility for her fouls-up got one of the top ratings and raises. Hmmm...I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.we talked about your job in a now locked thread. I'm sorry to hear things haven't improved, but I'm also concerned about how you go about your job. Something is up with either how you describe yourself or how you describe your coworkers or the job itself if this is going on.
I'm glad you're looking for another job but I still maintain that this(socialization) was something I mentioned to you in the last thread.
I never understood why people put in more effort then they really need to get the job done? Nobody is going to pat you on the back or appreciate that. Nobody important anyway.
For me, anything less than my maximum effort and ability is a waste of time. I see goals as objectives to be exceeded by as wide a margin as possible. What's the point of doing something if you aren't going to put everything you have into it.
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I'm glad you're looking for another job but I still maintain that this(socialization) was something I mentioned to you in the last thread.I just had a sit-down with my Supervisor over this. The gist of what I was told is that while I do an "exceptional" job - his word not mine, my lack of social interaction beyond purely what is needed puts me on the bottom of the "plays well with others" section of reviews. He even showed me some complaints about my terseness with my coworkers. My response, "Thank you for showing me that my efforts of the last 6 years are completely meaningless." I got up and went back to work. I am in the process of seeking new employment.Just found out that a woman who misses a ton of work for "stress", has been caught sleeping on the job, and never takes responsibility for her fouls-up got one of the top ratings and raises. Hmmm...I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.we talked about your job in a now locked thread. I'm sorry to hear things haven't improved, but I'm also concerned about how you go about your job. Something is up with either how you describe yourself or how you describe your coworkers or the job itself if this is going on.
You did. It had a ring of truth when you said it. It became a 16-ton weight dropped on my skull when my supervisor brought out that the complaints.
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"Thank you for showing me that my efforts of the last 6 years are completely meaningless." I got up and went back to work. I am in the process of seeking new employment.
Its not what you know its who you...
And if you're too busy working to socialize, you're not doing that.
I've had to use the phrase "you are not sending boxer to the glue factory, napolean" more often than i'd like.
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I just had a sit-down with my Supervisor over this. The gist of what I was told is that while I do an "exceptional" job - his word not mine, my lack of social interaction beyond purely what is needed puts me on the bottom of the "plays well with others" section of reviews. He even showed me some complaints about my terseness with my coworkers. My response, "Thank you for showing me that my efforts of the last 6 years are completely meaningless." I got up and went back to work. I am in the process of seeking new employment.Just found out that a woman who misses a ton of work for "stress", has been caught sleeping on the job, and never takes responsibility for her fouls-up got one of the top ratings and raises. Hmmm...I must have a different standard for what one has to do to get a good eval and raise...like work, don't slack off, meet and exceed all goals, don't miss work, don't treat work like it's a social event, go the extra where possible whenever possible.we talked about your job in a now locked thread. I'm sorry to hear things haven't improved, but I'm also concerned about how you go about your job. Something is up with either how you describe yourself or how you describe your coworkers or the job itself if this is going on.
Gendo, this was really painful to read. However, FDM and BNW are unfortunately correct in their assertions. In my opinion, the main issue for you is that you view work ethic in the more traditional "merit-based" sense whereas the business world cares less and less about that by the day.
This is compounded by a number of factors:
-The requirement of extroverted traits within the business construct
-The rampant use of social media and the baggage that comes with it
-A businesses inability to fire people based on clouded legal structures
-The overall collectivist viewpoint within the business structure as it pertains to social paradigms (i.e. people treat work like they treated HS/College - as an extension of their social circle rather than as a separate portion of their existence)
Good luck to you, and I hope you can find better employment with an employer that can help you maximize your potential without having to sacrifice some of your principles. However, as my wife's father is oft to point out: "If you expect work to be a Shangri-la, you will be disappointed every time."