New job not going so well

BrettMorganxD

falko89 wrote: »

So day 1 in new job and I hate it, At the interview I was asked about all my experience, even told I am more qualified and experienced that 90% of his work force, I was prepared for a bit of a drop down in skill levels, so in I go, given a job that requires no skill or experience, think of a solicitor being stuck as a secretary as an example, I knew a few of the guys from another job I had, they said I was stupid for taking a job in there and they where serious, upon leaving today I got asked if I will be in tomorrow, they have a high staff turn around and those there at present seem to take pride in the fact they are sticking it out even though its horrible. So don't know what to do? I haven't sent in my JSA form yet, do I just leave and say nothing and hope I don't get caught out? Do I stick it out but make getting another job number 1 priority? I'd love to know who the bright spark was that said "Something better is around the corner" From my 1st job each job since has been a steady decline until I am at the stage now where my skills are irrelevant.

awwwww man that sucks. I would stick it out I hated my last job to the point of tears i was eventually unfairly dismissed. Now I have a new job which I love and wouldn't give up for the world. My only regret was not looking for it while feeling the way i did. Would of avoided ever going on the dole

TrickyWicky

falko89 wrote: »

I am sticking it out, I have a high pain tolerance but even I admit this is getting hard

On the contrary, I don't think you do have a high pain threshold or much of a work ethic. Today I've been out doing my weekly volunteering thing for a local tourist attraction. I've been moving tree logs across a field on a tiny 4 wheeled trailer, digging up ground, moving wheel barrows full of soil etc. Thats for free as a volunteer.

Sure your job might be crap and it might be hard going but I can guarantee I've done worse. I've had drug dealers shouting right in my face, I've had people try to get me sacked because I wouldn't get involved in their scams, I've had b*ll*ckings from management for being efficient and doing a good job because they didn't like it. I've even done walking jobs with a very painful defective vein in my leg and then knee problems and more severe pain in the knees on top of it.

Do you really think you've got it as hard as that? Seriously falko, while I feel for you being in a hard job I don't think you know what it's really like to be in a sc*mmy job and I certainly wouldn't say you've got a high pain threshold - if anything you've got a rather low one.

falko89 wrote: »

I've not met anyone who has a good word to say:( I got hit for overtime today this was also a laughable affair. I got asked to stay to 8pm that was from 8am this morning, 3 extra hours

Are you serious? Thats extra money in your pocket. I used to do shift work in 12 hour shifts - 4 days on, 4 off, 4 on, 4 off etc. I not only had a ar$£hole boss bullying the crap out of me, I also got bullied into doing as much overtime as he demanded and often had to go in to do overtime and put up with his attitude towards me. I did 7 yes SEVEN days in a row of 12 hour shifts - Thats 84 hours in a week. Thats 36 more hours than normal. I'd frequently end up doing extra hours on top of a 12 hour shift too. Like many people in the nation I just got on with it.

Honestly falko, please stop moaning. I'd prefer to be working right now earning some money and then I'm here reading your posts moaning about how bad it is that you have a camera to make sure you're not slacking and you had to do a whopping 3 hours overtime. Sorry falko but you're rubbing peoples noses in it who are unemployed and have a grafter work ethic.

dandelionclock30

You two could do a swap.

falko89

TrickyWicky wrote: »

On the contrary, I don't think you do have a high pain threshold or much of a work ethic. Today I've been out doing my weekly volunteering thing for a local tourist attraction. I've been moving tree logs across a field on a tiny 4 wheeled trailer, digging up ground, moving wheel barrows full of soil etc. Thats for free as a volunteer.

Sure your job might be crap and it might be hard going but I can guarantee I've done worse. I've had drug dealers shouting right in my face, I've had people try to get me sacked because I wouldn't get involved in their scams, I've had b*ll*ckings from management for being efficient and doing a good job because they didn't like it. I've even done walking jobs with a very painful defective vein in my leg and then knee problems and more severe pain in the knees on top of it.

Do you really think you've got it as hard as that? Seriously falko, while I feel for you being in a hard job I don't think you know what it's really like to be in a sc*mmy job and I certainly wouldn't say you've got a high pain threshold - if anything you've got a rather low one.



Are you serious? Thats extra money in your pocket. I used to do shift work in 12 hour shifts - 4 days on, 4 off, 4 on, 4 off etc. I not only had a ar$£hole boss bullying the crap out of me, I also got bullied into doing as much overtime as he demanded and often had to go in to do overtime and put up with his attitude towards me. I did 7 yes SEVEN days in a row of 12 hour shifts - Thats 84 hours in a week. Thats 36 more hours than normal. I'd frequently end up doing extra hours on top of a 12 hour shift too. Like many people in the nation I just got on with it.

Honestly falko, please stop moaning. I'd prefer to be working right now earning some money and then I'm here reading your posts moaning about how bad it is that you have a camera to make sure you're not slacking and you had to do a whopping 3 hours overtime. Sorry falko but you're rubbing peoples noses in it who are unemployed and have a grafter work ethic.

That's the problem with this country in every way, its a race to the bottom, who's more worse off etc etc, I've noticed with my colleagues bragging about how they stick it etc, its wrong and not something to be proud off, being treated like carp is never anything be proud of or brag about.

But since were on a who's d*cks bigger that who's tangent, I've had my fair share of carp as an apprentice, up on scaffolding mid winter with you hands freezing to it, digging ditches in the !!!!ing rain, or a quite common one was being socked to the skin first thing in the morning and having to trapes around in soaking wet clothes the rest of the day.

TrickyWicky

No this isn't a rat race to the bottom. Everyone is in the same boat, the difference is that most people try to find something that keeps them motivated to go to work. In most peoples case it's "The jobs crap but I still come in and stick it out". Sure, they hate the job, they know they're going no-where in life and yet what would you rather they do? - sit on their backside moaning about how crap it all is?

You think you're the only one who's worked in the freezing rain? - I've done it too with just a shirt on - no coat, nothing. I've been so drenched my underwear has been soaked and you could see my nipples. Just last week at my volunteer position the same thing happened - I was working outside ALL DAY in the pee'ing rain as were my co volunteers. We just got on with it and did it - for free. I didn't get paid a penny for it either but I did it out of my own choice and I felt good having contributed towards something worthwhile.

I am not trying to compare !!!!!! sizes as you put it. All I am trying to do is show you that there is always someone worse off. The fact is you're not under massive pressure for overtime and you yourself have admitted you have nice people to work with.

wapow

As people have mentioned but no one can bother to read this entire waste of a thread. Youve been a nuisance throughout.

Now that you have a job you dont want to do it.

The problem is YOU.

You just cant be happy. You cant gain pleasure in anything you have to do for others.

Except things you do for yourself.

It all comes down to this sunshine -

Can you survive on the dole?

If so, leave your job for someone who really needs it and stay on the dole.

If not, then work it out.

I take it you still sponge off your parents and probably have no ownership of any bills.

DCFC79

Just have a vision of a job you would enjoy to do or think positive thoughts, worked for me at times then i realised that i was at place X doing job X.

MikeAUK

Falco I feel for you so let's try and help.Firstly, you have a job so whilst it sucks it's still a job, don't get worried about it being your life as it won't be. Personally I find my job sucks the life out of me, it is slow paced and more often than not I am giving no meaningful work to do, the people are all hoping to leave on redundancy (civil service) and i get passed around departments as a free resource supposedly for experience.....i dont even have a desk sonetimes. I sometimes feel it stops me being who I really am, a confident able person. However I know that over 750 people went for my job and only 18 of us got in so im lucky, I had to move and still travel over 3 hours just to get here and home each day, but imlucky. Why am I lucky? It has given me the time and desire to realise what I actually want to do for a career and in October I will start doing that on a voluntary basis, when jobs come up I will apply and one day I'll get it........what im saying is you need to consider what you want from a job and start working towards it, use this time in your head as a stop gap...a bit like you are on on tour and doing what you need to do to survive until things improve. If you don't think ahead past this job and be positive how will you ever be happy?

falko89

MikeAUK wrote: »

Falco I feel for you so let's try and help.Firstly, you have a job so whilst it sucks it's still a job, don't get worried about it being your life as it won't be. Personally I find my job sucks the life out of me, it is slow paced and more often than not I am giving no meaningful work to do, the people are all hoping to leave on redundancy (civil service) and i get passed around departments as a free resource supposedly for experience.....i dont even have a desk sonetimes. I sometimes feel it stops me being who I really am, a confident able person. However I know that over 750 people went for my job and only 18 of us got in so im lucky, I had to move and still travel over 3 hours just to get here and home each day, but imlucky. Why am I lucky? It has given me the time and desire to realise what I actually want to do for a career and in October I will start doing that on a voluntary basis, when jobs come up I will apply and one day I'll get it........what im saying is you need to consider what you want from a job and start working towards it, use this time in your head as a stop gap...a bit like you are on on tour and doing what you need to do to survive until things improve. If you don't think ahead past this job and be positive how will you ever be happy?

This is great advice but I don't actually know what I do want to do, I didn't know when I was 16 at school in Careers class and I still don't know now at 31 and life is just passing me by. The carpentry is an option but it doesn't pay well any more, as my boss said when he interviewed me, he asked how much I was looking, I told him, he laughed and said I have a string of people after that job and showed me the CV's so what could I do and thats the problem everywhere now, jobs that once paid £10-£12 per hour now at £6.20, its very much an employers market.

I did do a few I.T courses at the Open Uni years back, I could start that again and get a degree but the problem there is that I.T is over saturated at the moment and with working 8-5 and now with 3 kids that would be a struggle, I am wrecked when I come home in the evenings.

The only thing I can think of at the moment is getting a part time job, 21 hours or so, and do Open Uni in something else, the tax credits will bump up wages to what I am getting now and I'll have more time to do it and more time with my kids aswell, its an option.

As for my learning to drive, I have been weighing up the pros and cons of this and I don't really think it'll be of any benefits, my Mrs needs the car to get to work/kids to school and the rest so i'd need another car which I couldn't afford.

My head is wrecked thinking about all this, I just don't know what I want or to do, I guess at the moment all I can do is keep searching, I already have a job so its not all bad I guess.

duchy

falko89 wrote: »

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I did do a few I.T courses at the Open Uni years back, I could start that again and get a degree but the problem there is that I.T is over saturated at the moment and with working 8-5 and now with 3 kids that would be a struggle, I am wrecked when I come home in the evenings.



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You are "wrecked" at the moment because you're not used to working-couple of weeks and you'll have adjusted . After all plenty of single parents work full-time and then go home and look after their kids-they manage. Also you're only working 5 days a week-that's two full days a week to study.

I used to finish a night shift come home-study for a couple of hours and then collect my son from nursery after lunch0at least with OU you can fit study time around your own schedule-but you do need to be motivated -and frankly I don't think you are at the moment !