Job satisfaction vs nice people

skintmostofthetime

I'M SOOOO BORED.
Re previous comments - I took this job to get out of a really really stressed one and now I am sooo bored you would not believe. I can be @ work 8 hours and see/speak to NO ONE !
Its so difficult to know what you need until you ain't got it !
I have now found out - to my cost - that I'd rather be too busy than not.
Am searching - wish we luck.

wherediditallgo

Skint, if you haven't got enough to do, why not enrol for a course of home study, then bring it into work to do in your slack times? As long as you're doing your job it should be OK, & if you don't see or speak to anyone for hours at a time, no-one but you's going to know about it anyway. At least then you'd be keeping your mind occupied & improving your skills/qualifications where you feel it's necessary.

cheletastic

I know exactly how you feel and because I was in similar position, I ended up handing in my notice and I left yesterday!!:j My OH was fed up with me being depressed because of the people at work and because it was a small office with only 6 of us in there I couldn't even ignore the people who were horrid to me. In a way I feel as if I was forced out. I knew things had got bad when I was lying on holiday and worrying about what I would have to face when I got back to work. Consequently, the day after I started back at work I handed in my notice.

I didn't even care that I had no job to go to. I just needed to get out to keep my sanity.

The good news is that I went for an interview on Wednesday and have just found out that I got the job - and it's on more money and the people there seem really nice.:T

It's up to you in the end how long you can stand to work with these people but just start keeping a look out for new, better jobs.

Good luck x

hullight

I recently started, and it's a brilliant place to work. I have been thrown in at the deep end though! The people I work with are great, and there's very little bureaucracy. Also, I can work outside the department, e.g. I have designed a spreadsheet for tracking our company vehicles, and I also answer the phone and do some reception work.

Once Christmas is over I should be able to get used to the volume of work.

That is, until Valentines Day, Mothers Day and Easter!

I work in the flower industry...

theunknownstuntman

I love my job, loathe the management. I'm so stressed with all the s**t being thrown in our place at the minute my blood pressures shot up, but if I go off sick with stress, how does that look to other potential employees???
Often thought of just jacking it all in and becoming a tree surgeon.... I AM attepting to retrain at the minute though and have some exams in January.

mum2one

I was in the same boat - absolutely hated my job but at the time it was a means to an end. The stupid thing was I had done the job or 9 years (left 1996), left as the company was a franchise and there was strong rumours of the lease up on the premises, and also his franchise agreement, which as mgrs we knew he was not renewing, and the the "company" did not like franchisee managers they liked there own.
Spent 3 yrs in retail, had itchy feet - woe be tied,,,,,,,, I ended up back at the original job, what was meant to be a 3 mth part time job (still working full time), while ie went from franchiese back to company out of 5 mgrs 3 had left, company offered me full time job, no thanks, 5mths later, could I do a 6 week part time stint till they got there mgrs sorted out, said yes, (by this time surely I should of been thinking dodgy high turnover ... all put down to changes), there new mgr didnt work out, my fill time job moaned that I was no longer doing over time...... so the company said why dont you stay here!(2000) Ok, everything was ok for a yr, then it was a disaster, very long story, but 3 of us was doing 4 persons work as person 4 didnt get off there !!!!! But as I was getting 6 weeks a yr holiday then I stayed put and my hols were my lifeline, come that 1st day of hol I was on a plane, or the other end of th country.
Big kick of Xmas 2001 - went t*ts up..... new managers, change of team, was expected to relocate, but start of 2002 felt poorly, but I had my hols planned Kenya and Goa. That was going to see me through the yr then plan was look 4 another job.

But other plans happened - found out I was expecting - but due to how I had been treated as soon as I said Im pregnant the mgr above me did everything he could to make my life hell, moved premises 3 story, (meant the ladies staff loo was up flight of 30 stairs, my orignal premises was 1 level), when youve got morning sickness for England - 30 stairs aint a good idea.

Got signed off sick, had hell and back, lot of hassle never went back when my maternity leave ended, resigned, citing constructive dismissal, bringing a case through 2 employment tribunals, employment tribunals appeals in London, then when we were due to go back a week b4 I took an out of court settlement.

While my case was going on the company sacked a mgr, she took her case for dismassal to ET and won, got a payout, wierd bit I settled no liability and soem confidential clauses, (fair enough), but walked out with 4x the amount the other won!

barron_hard_up

The worst point for myself was in a job back in 06 with a company I was working for, as an area sales manager. The sales Director was difficult to work for and eventually I was at the point where I was throwing up every morning before work for a month, and could only drink water and eat maybe 400 calories a day because I niether wanted to eat and couldn't keep it down. This could not go on and eventually the company and I aggreed to part company. In my departure interview with my boss, he asked why I wasn't saying anything and would I please comment in some way. Without being nasty or sarcastic, I told him he would catch more with honey than he would vinigar. He asked me to explain what I meant, so I told him that coming to work and dealing with him had made me feel like I had been having to drink two cans of vinigar everyday.

I'd also worked for a company a couple of years back that had a fantastic product, and some fantastic people in management, except for the b'stard who was vieing for the uk managing directors job, the present one being on the run down to retirement. This individual would make your life mserable then would force you to go on the comany night out. Also, some of the other people who worked in my department thought the sun shone out of their backsides. Had I been left to get on with doing what I did best, which was get on with the job, it would have been fantastic.

Now the good news! I kept plugging away until I found a company that I feel happy at. The situation now is that I have been in my present job for nine months, work with some great people who have decent morals as what treating people correctly is, the others in the management team are also terrific people. It's a small team but the culture is great. It was really confidence boosting a few weeks back when the one pratt in the management structure was fired for abusing another employee. It just gives you that feeling of fair play and confidence. I took a pay cut to join this company, but I am working on making my value to the company high enough to make them want to pay me more - but that's up to me. I haven't been as happy in my work for a long time. The job isn't easy, but I am glad to be where I am. I rhink if we work hard enough at it, we can make our situation better than it is. But nothing is worth wrecking your health on, what company or individual within a company has the right to make any one ill?

be-happy_2

It is comforting actually in a way to know that there are others out there who are unhappy in their jobs. I sometimes think I must be the only one! I work in a team of five colleagues who are all content and love their jobs despite difficulties with managers, yet I hate it! I am bored and miserable and it makes me feel like a failure that I can't make a go of it. Why, why why, it is what I trained to do, after all!! It is purely a means to an end for me. I have decided to hand in my notice after xmas and temp.:j

bathgatebuyer

In my situation, I graduated nearly 10 yrs ago in a career that I thought would bring me wealth and fortune, and in those 10 years I've had 10 jobs! Some have lasted 3 months, and my longest has lastest 2 years. When I did my placement year at Uni, it really should have been a warning shot that it's not what I thought it was going to be. I thought that maybe being at the bottom of the tree in the office was not the best guide as to what the career would be when I qualified, but I was wrong. I spent most of my placement year bored with maybe half an hour of work to do a week, but as I shared a room with 3 of the company directors I had to try and appear busy. I really struggle with boredom as I've always been the sort of person who has to do two things at once, and sitting in an office broed wasn't what I thought my life would become.

Along the way I've had some reasonable and some awful experiences. The worst being in a job that lasted 3 months - the company decided not to offer me a contract at the end of that probationary period. I was really enjoying the job, although one of the guys I worked with was really awful to me. He thought the company were going to take on a graduate to replace one of his mates (who never qualified) and instead they took on someone with more experience than he had. So, as soon as he found that out, I was threatened and he completely blanked me for the 3 months I was there. I used to walk in, "Morning", and get blanked, then another colleague used to come in and say, "Morning", and she'd get a, "Hi Jane, how was your weekend, did you have a good time............................blether blether blether" meanwhile leaving me sat there like a spare part. Eventually another company Director noticed him blanking me when I was asking him a question about the work systems and he was pulled up about it. He said, "She goes or I do", and the company kept him on as he'd been there for 6 years and I was only on probation. I then spent the next 7 months out of work as they refused to even give me a reference as it would mean that they would have to acknowledge that I was good at my job.

I now work in a place where I'm not really tested too much but the money is good, the pension is great, we get a company bonus, flexitime, 35 days holiday a year, private medical cover..........................and my colleagues are the loveliest sweetest people imagineable. Ok, I look at some of the people I went to Uni with who are Chief Exec of this and that, or one who was recently in the press talking about his million pound business, and I am a little envious. To me though, having worked in a place I was treated like dirt and discarded like a used nappy, I really value this place and the people I work with who are respectful, hard working and genuinely nice people. It may never make me a millionaire, but it does allow me to pay the bills and that's not something I can say about previous experiences where I've went somewhere for money an career advancement and ended up nearly losing everything I'd ever worked for.