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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.
I don't see my job as something worthy of my maximum effort. I see it as a means to earn currency to feed myself and do things that I love. I do the job properly, I never dilly-dally, but I adamantly refuse to do more than is required of me. Especially since in my country that simply means that you'd be doing more for less as nobody rewards hard work and the extra mile.
"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 do the absolute minimum work required. My employer has tried too many dirty little tricks to deserve my full effort. I take their money and they get what they pay for- no more. I was injured at work- tendonitis- and after prolonged treatment with little progress (the SPECIALIST said it would take time to heal, and even if I elected to go for surgery for a quick fix there was only a 30% chance it would be any more effective than natural healing)they sent me to the company-paid doctor for re-assessment. He was going to perform medical tests on me- and report back to the company WITHOUT GIVING ME OR MY DOCTOR OR THE SPECIALIST ANY LOOK AT THE REPORT. In other word I was to undergo a medical procedure and never be given the results?!
His response? "Oh- I can see how maybe you might be uncomfortable about that.." Like I was being unreasonable! I walked.
Two days later the company phoned me and says its all a misunderstanding- OF COURSE I'm entitled to see my own medical records and show them to my own doctors. And since suddenly they have to turn it over to my specialist to review- they find a result of - guess what? Tendinitis. I have no doubt whatsoever that the result would've been different if i had not insisted on that oversight by a specialist.
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If you think that one incident isn't enough to make me distrustful- I have more. The most memorable involves another work injury. I'd wrenched my back pretty good, so reported the injury and went to my chiropractor for treatment. On my second appointment, my chiropractor asked me if my doctor had received the medical report he asked for. I HAD NEVER WENT TO MY FAMILY DOCTOR ABOUT THIS- JUST MY CHIROPRACTOR! It turns out that a guy had phoned the receptionist, mis-represented himself as my doctor to get his assessment. When they finally tracked him down- he really was a doctor, but he had no license to practice- since he had another degree: HE WAS ALSO A LICENSED LAWYER WORKING FOR THE COMPANY IN HR HELPING TO DISPUTE MEDICAL CLAIMS. The union filed a complaint with the law society, seeking his suspension, although I never did learn what happened after that. Still, it's eliminated any trust I had with management. And people think I'm crazy for being a whole-hearted die-hard supporter of unions.
I'm working two jobs, six days a week, about 50 hours or so (not counting commute and having to change into my uniform for the second one).
Don't make enough money at either to really take advantage of the benefits. Both offer them, even though part time, though they're not great. But I'm just not making enough to be able to shell out the cash per paycheck.
One is hard work (FedEx) which I don't mind so much, though it's a demanding job and they expect too much from you. You work a lot of hours you don't get paid for, because there's so much prep you need to do to get ready, but they don't give you the time to do it on the clock. Also one of those jobs where you're in trouble pretty much from the moment you wake up in the morning, and feel like you have to "prove" every day that you deserve not to get yelled at. And... you're going to get yelled at, anyway.
The other is depressing because it is a job at the place where I worked before the "good times." That is, for many years I had a steady, well-paying job with great benefits. When I lost that job, I could not find full time work, and was becoming very, very depressed trying for so long. So I finally begged my old job from many years ago for work, and luckily they had a position similar to the one I had back then, but only part time. The place is not doing as well, or as nice as it once was, so there is all that in addition to the simply depressing deal of having to go back to a job I left years ago.
Sigh....
Workers comp: No no no, the log landed on your foot, the doctor wants to operate on your TOE. Two completely different things, you're not covered.
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 kind of miss my install job for this reason. Being out and about during the day, seeing the natural light and sunshine, being (mostly) on my own and figuring out how to do jobs. Plus, I had a really great team that I worked with and a supervisor who was incredibly supportive and even came out and helped in the field.
I meet various, very interesting people and get to see many beautifully arranged apartments and houses.
I actually found that working as a cable guy turned me off of being a home owner, oddly. Something about seeing the (sometimes squalid) conditions people live in, running under and around and through homes (even though I liked running cable through attics; clean, direct easy access usually); it just turned me off of houses. Kind of like seeing the man behind the curtain.
Plus, occasionally I would get panic attacks while on poles. Not often, but once in a while. And sometimes conditions weren't the safest for ladder access and such. But mostly I enjoyed it.
My current job, not so much. My coworkers annoy me. I think my eyesight is being strained by sitting in front of a computer all day. I've pretty much mastered my current job and have nowhere really left to go in terms of development at my current position, and with the budget crisis here, it's hard to find any sort of vertical promotion. I am on the list for a promotional opportunity, but I recently interviewed for a position and got passed over for a different candidate. No idea when/if another position will be open here.
So I'm pretty much ready to move on, but finding another job can be hard and frustrating.
On the plus side, at least I do have a job, and it pays fairly well and has good benefits. So there's that. I'm just underutilized, not challenged, and don't particularly like the work I'm doing.
If you think that one incident isn't enough to make me distrustful- I have more. The most memorable involves another work injury. I'd wrenched my back pretty good, so reported the injury and went to my chiropractor for treatment. On my second appointment, my chiropractor asked me if my doctor had received the medical report he asked for. I HAD NEVER WENT TO MY FAMILY DOCTOR ABOUT THIS- JUST MY CHIROPRACTOR! It turns out that a guy had phoned the receptionist, mis-represented himself as my doctor to get his assessment. When they finally tracked him down- he really was a doctor, but he had no license to practice- since he had another degree: HE WAS ALSO A LICENSED LAWYER WORKING FOR THE COMPANY IN HR HELPING TO DISPUTE MEDICAL CLAIMS. The union filed a complaint with the law society, seeking his suspension, although I never did learn what happened after that. Still, it's eliminated any trust I had with management. And people think I'm crazy for being a whole-hearted die-hard supporter of unions.
yikes. That sounds grimy in the extreme.
I get to play Cops & Robbers and get paid for it. It's great. I absolutely love my job, even when I dislike certain aspects of it.
A few years ago, I fell into a fountain at a mall when taking a simple shoplifter call. It was a hidden fountain in the front that had been off for a few years. I was walking over it - like I had done a hundred times before and tens of thousands of people had as well - and it literally collapsed underneath me. I damn near broke my leg. It was my first and only on-duty injury. It was a very simple worker's compensation claim, but it was still a surprising amount of paperwork considered I only missed about two hours of work while I was getting a tetanus shot.
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...
Grr! Boards ate my first (long) response to this.
In any case- same thing happened to me once. Worked a temp job and got passed over for a woman who worked there a far shorter time than myself, but whose mother was well known and worked in the Dean's office. I was told "We felt she was more outgoing."
By which, I took it to mean that- yes, she comes in and spends all day gossiping with others in the office, while I put my nose to the grindstone, keep largely to myself, and do the work. I'd worked as a temp for a couple of years at that point (two periods of working as such; I'd been brought back the second time because my supervisor liked my work and work ethic).
Not more than a few months after she was brought on full time, the woman went out on disability for two years and never returned. Get what you pay for, I guess.
(I don't blame my supervisor, who was nearly as upset about it as I was. It was her bosses that made the final call. I quit because I felt like it was a slap in the face. I did later return to the same department, different division, when a friend I had made there who had gotten promoted asked me to come back to help out during a busy period there. So I know that people who worked directly with me and knew me appreciated me.)
If you think that one incident isn't enough to make me distrustful- I have more. The most memorable involves another work injury. I'd wrenched my back pretty good, so reported the injury and went to my chiropractor for treatment. On my second appointment, my chiropractor asked me if my doctor had received the medical report he asked for. I HAD NEVER WENT TO MY FAMILY DOCTOR ABOUT THIS- JUST MY CHIROPRACTOR! It turns out that a guy had phoned the receptionist, mis-represented himself as my doctor to get his assessment. When they finally tracked him down- he really was a doctor, but he had no license to practice- since he had another degree: HE WAS ALSO A LICENSED LAWYER WORKING FOR THE COMPANY IN HR HELPING TO DISPUTE MEDICAL CLAIMS. The union filed a complaint with the law society, seeking his suspension, although I never did learn what happened after that. Still, it's eliminated any trust I had with management. And people think I'm crazy for being a whole-hearted die-hard supporter of unions.yikes. That sounds grimy in the extreme.
I know. And still the prevalent attitude it seem these days is "Blame the unions- cuz no modern ENLIGHTENED civilized corporation would EVER try to mistreat, swindle, bully or browbeat their employees..."