Just left my job due to unhappiness:(

falko89

OP I can totally sympathise with you, I was at a stage where I had the runs shall we say each and every morning before work, I couldn't get to sleep at night thinking about work, and even at weekends all I could think of was work, I disliked the job itself but had issues with bullying etc as well but unlike you HR and management didn't give a rats and are very much of the pull yourself together brigade.

I am still in the same job at the moment and sure I am looking for something else daily mainly because I dislike the work but I reached a stage where I said to myself "f*ck it, I am fed up feeling this way" I can't change my environment at the moment but I can choose how I let it affect me, no one or anything can upset you unless you let it and it took me months to realize that and I don't think you hung around long enough to reach that point, you may come across a similar situation with a future position and you can't keep running.

FBaby

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

I think there is a sweet spot where one can work only just about hard enough to keep one's job and that is what I would recommend. Any more effort is simply benefit to your employer's shareholders.

However,in this case don't expect your colleagues who WILL work hard to be friendly with you, or wanting to make you feel part of the team.

makeyourdaddyproud

FBaby wrote: »

However,in this case don't expect your colleagues who WILL work hard to be friendly with you, or wanting to make you feel part of the team.

Working hard doesn't make you successful, just another grunt.

Use psychology to give the impression of working hard when you're not. It gives you advantage, invent things to impress the boss.

chris1973

No conversation and no radio would be a perfect work environment for me! I really enjoyed watching the "Make Me A German" programme where employees are 100% focused on their work when they are there. No constant playing/texting on mobile phones, no surfing, no joking around, no banal/pointless conversation, no eating etc. Just getting on with the job they are paid to do.

To be truthful, i've never known anything else. I've always worked in a manufacturing environment since I was 16 and its always been the same at every job i've been in. If my current employer see's you using a mobile phone outside of break / lunchtime then its a written warning. Get a few of them and you are out with no chance of a reference.

In the past we've often advertised for full time staff during busy times, many of whom are clearly shocked when they are 'advised' to leave their phones in their lockers or keep them switched off if they must keep them with them, some of even refused to accept an offered job when they find out the strict 'no mobile phone' criteria which working there brings.

I can only assume (from this experience) that some people would rather update facebook and play candy crush saga than do a days' work, as some get quite emotional when they find out that they can't do it within their employers' time.

Either way, Quitting work as a knee jerk reaction to 'unhappiness' seems to be an enviable position to be in. But I can't imagine that it will score many brownie points when a future employer asks them why they left their previous job, and the reply indicates that they are perhaps an overly sensitive person who gets emotional at the drop of a hat and who is likely to walk out the minute a colleague teases them.

makeyourdaddyproud

chris1973 wrote: »

To be truthful, i've never known anything else. I've always worked in a manufacturing environment since I was 16 and its always been the same at every job i've been in. If my current employer see's you using a mobile phone outside of break / lunchtime then its a written warning. Get a few of them and you are out with no chance of a reference.

In the past we've often advertised for full time staff during busy times, many of whom are clearly shocked when they are 'advised' to leave their phones in their lockers or keep them switched off if they must keep them with them, some of even refused to accept an offered job when they find out the strict 'no mobile phone' criteria which working there brings.

I can only assume (from my own experience) that some people would rather update facebook and play candy crush saga than do a days' work, as some get quite emotional when they find out that they can't do it within their employers' time.

... Thus proving why it sucks to be at the shop floor end of manufacturing. I much prefer the office coffee drinking, brain dead prattle, better paid and minimum hours luxury that working on pointless computer systems brings.

chris1973

I much prefer the office coffee drinking, brain dead prattle, better paid and minimum hours luxury that working on pointless computer systems brings.

Unfortunately its also often this type of situation which causes the problem which boredom brings and which has been highlighted previously in this thread. In other words, it may reach a point where "we are bored and there is no soap opera to watch - so let's create one of our own in the office"

Enough Said.

morganedge

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

... Thus proving why it sucks to be at the shop floor end of manufacturing. I much prefer the office coffee drinking, brain dead prattle, better paid and minimum hours luxury that working on pointless computer systems brings.

Sounds like a dream!
Can an unskilled, fairly unintelligent person (me) land themselves an office job like that?

Much like Chris1973, i've always worked in warehouse jobs, and if you're seen doing anything other than working (texting, talking about non-work stuff), then you're in trouble and risk losing your job. Basically a slave for 10 hours per day, 6 days per week. Better off dead.

I have 2 friends who works for a printing firm, and i'm amazed at what they're allowed to get up too! I'm talking, playing football in the workshop and watching !!!!!! online for at least half of the day! I kid you not!!

They are much happier people than I, who, when working, just prey for the week to hurry up so that the weekend can begin. I dread the other days (working days)

What is a good way to land a cushy, office job? (not overly concerned about pay)
Any qualification ideas for an easy life? Or maybe a certain office job that one can pretty much 'walk in to'?

falko89

morganedge wrote: »

Sounds like a dream!
Can an unskilled, fairly unintelligent person (me) land themselves an office job like that?

Much like Chris1973, i've always worked in warehouse jobs, and if you're seen doing anything other than working (texting, talking about non-work stuff), then you're in trouble and risk losing your job. Basically a slave for 10 hours per day, 6 days per week. Better off dead.

I have 2 friends who works for a printing firm, and i'm amazed at what they're allowed to get up too! I'm talking, playing football in the workshop and watching !!!!!! online for at least half of the day! I kid you not!!

They are much happier people than I, who, when working, just prey for the week to hurry up so that the weekend can begin. I dread the other days (working days)

What is a good way to land a cushy, office job? (not overly concerned about pay)
Any qualification ideas for an easy life? Or maybe a certain office job that one can pretty much 'walk in to'?

You've summed up how I feel myself on the factory floor, like a slave, and you're treated like scum by the office staff. We're not allowed phones yet its OK for the office staff, no radio while the office staff can stream online radio on their computers, they are also in and out regularly for smokes, if we dared try it instant dismissal. They also get things like bank holidays off while we have to work. There is just so much unfairness so its hardly surprising on the factory floor we have people leaving and starting what seems like every week while I can't recall anyone leaving from the office and would you blame them on a nice we cushy number like that.

Myself I have resorted to part time university study to try and get a decent job although I am not entirely sure that's going to help either as none of our office staff have degree's, all who you know or who you blow I guess.