I hate my Job!!!

Evilm

Right the fact that your manager is often AWOL doesn't mean that they don't know that you are 1)coming in late regularly 2) doing as little work as possible and 3)not pulling your weight. Let alone reporting metrics management may (and usually use) they will get feedback from other members of staff and from clients. Even if you believe it isn't showing the likelyhood is that it is (Especially when you get in late - people do clock those things! Even more so when in the firm I once worked for 90% of people were at least 30 minutes early).

And, actually yes, I would expect that to be part of the reason that they won't support you for other roles or promotions. If a manager has a few options for offering a promotion/job role change to is he going to support the one who is lackluster and not excelling or the one who is excelling and making great progress?

Feel lucky that your firm doesn't do what one I worked with does - register every minute logged as using the internet and where that usage is! It soon became apparent when one of the secretaries wasn't getting her work done and was blaming it on other things that actually she was spending far too much time online and on sites that were nothing to do with work. That got short shift and so did she...

Caroline_a

Interesting. On a much lower level to the OP, we have a receptionist where I work. She claims to have qualifications in HR, but as a member of the office she is shocking - late, unreliable, off sick for ridiculous reasons, etc etc. Recently there was an HR junior post came available and it was filled very quickly externally. She has moaned and wittered about how they didn't give it to her (she didn't apply! - but even if she had she wouldn't have got it!)

OP, if your work behaviour is as you describe, you're actually letting your colleagues down. They are having to cover for you when you're late/off or not doing your job, and their resentment will build and you will never get a different role within that firm.

falko89

Caroline_a wrote: »

Interesting. On a much lower level to the OP, we have a receptionist where I work. She claims to have qualifications in HR, but as a member of the office she is shocking - late, unreliable, off sick for ridiculous reasons, etc etc. Recently there was an HR junior post came available and it was filled very quickly externally. She has moaned and wittered about how they didn't give it to her (she didn't apply! - but even if she had she wouldn't have got it!)

OP, if your work behaviour is as you describe, you're actually letting your colleagues down. They are having to cover for you when you're late/off or not doing your job, and their resentment will build and you will never get a different role within that firm.

I'm a big believer in the law of attraction, I detested my job, weekends where ruined with the thought of it, holidays couldn't be enjoyed, the politics, the back stabbing the list goes on. I always thought being on the dole would be better than that, It was min wage I wouldn't be that much worse off, I wanted to leave ever since I started really but I was trapped, I had commitments etc and other job opportunities where limited but the law of attraction came into play, I got made redundant, well we all did, the rest all got took back though when it started up again, I didn't, but believe me, I might not have much but I am still happier now than I ever was in their.

nightingalesgarden

OP - Have you thought about the working culture/environment that you are working in vs. your preferences?

Or the type of people/behaviours/preferred working ways of the people around you vs. your own preferences?

A job is never just simply that - it's made up of the content, the tasks, the availability of personal development/stretch, the "way things work around here" and, of course, the people.

If the culture is - head down, lunch at desk, little social interaction and wait in line for promotion but you want - gossip over lunch, drinks after work on a Friday and the cut and thrust of fighting over promotions - it aint going to work :eek:

Sometimes people make big career changes when the reality is that they just want a different environment. It isn't just about the work content - you have to think wider.

I don't know what your personal preferences for working are (try a Myers Briggs on-line test - there's loads of free ones about) but if you are working against these then you are going to find it tough.

As you go through your working life (I don't mean to sound patronising here) you will become more aware of these preferences and choose jobs according to the cultures that that your know (or hope) suit.

But be honest with yourself - if you cannot play along with the rules at your present workplace (the spoken and unspoken) what would have to change in your next role for you to be happy?