Why I hate my job
August 28th, 2008 Posted in Life in General
- Meetings, meetings, meetings. Everything gets discussed to hell and back.
- Capslock should never, ever, ever be used in a corporate environment. NEVER.
- I don’t care how much you’d like it to happen, boss, technical support can not help me violate the laws of physics and technology.
- I am not an engineer. Why the hell do you have me working on servers? Pay me for it or go away.
- 6 am sucks as a start time.
- My boss currently has like 13,000 emails in her mailbox. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get her to reply to an email?
- I have three weeks of vacation that I haven’t been able to take because I’m “the only person who can do my job”.
- Did I mention I’m the lowest paid person under my boss? I’m the only one still hourly, too, because she’s too damn busy to remember that she said a year ago she would promote me.
- It’s impossible to work here without backstabbing or being backstabbed.
- STOP WITH THE MANAGERIAL LEET SPEAK. WE ARE PEOPLE, NOT RESOURCES. YOU DO NOT ‘ENGAGE A RESOURCE’, YOU ASK AN ENGINEER FOR HELP. IT’S NOT AN ‘ACTION ITEM’, IT’S A TO-DO LIST.
- Bosses, please don’t micromanage. If you ask me to do something, trust that I’ll get it done without calling me at 11pm.
I’m sure I’ll be adding more to this as the day progresses.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
seriously!! You know they agreed to give you vacation time it’s their problem to worry about how to cover it. Not to mention, what if you, as a disgruntled employee, quit without notice? Who’s going to train your replacement?
Anyway, I feel ya.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
A reminder to write anything down that transpires like this, and a friendly ‘can you e-mail that to me’ to back it up when promises are made. Put a calendar tickler in place, too, for your own tracking.
Another thing is to actually remind the boss. You can always request a meeting a day or so in advance and leave the topic as ‘Career Advancement Options’. Thnk about what you want to get into. Then you make sure you bring up the promise from last year. You should make note that you had made some changes in the past few months (moved out, exploring new possibilities in hobbies, etc) and it reminded you of moving ahead at work, and the promise from last year. They are welcome to give more promises (or excuses) in response, but at the end get them in writing - ask for a meeting summary.
Oh, and as for vacation, send 3 weeks notice (or one week more than they generally request) and tell them you are burned out, and you are going to lose it if you don’t take a week vacation now. It’s not your job to fill in the void when they have already granted you the time off.
And schedule the next week off for 3 months later. Buy the train/boat/plane tickets and inform them you won’t be near cel towers for that one, either. Consider the wilderness, somewhere away from civilization.
Otherwise, take every (or every other) Friday off, and make sure you get over/double time if they call to come in when you are away.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Listen to me, once more.
When you are at home, turn your cellphone off. All the rest of you can snag you by gtalk. Turn the damn thing off.
If your boss is not paying you to be on-call, you do not answer the phone.
Also, vacation, take it. You have the time and you’re earning it. If they can’t survive a week without you while you take some time to destress, how are they going to manage if you get hit by a bus?
Set your boundarys and stick to them.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I agree. Employees are not slaves and people should not feel guilty about not letting themselves be exploited by their employers.
If they want to pay you to work 24/7, they should offer you a contract that says so and pay you accordingly.