I hate my job because.....

[TheLordJohn]

I hate my wife's job as it took us to Gibraltar, where I can't get a job myself!

[Mr Snrub]

Having to deal with the departments that were outsourced to India to save money. Utterly, utterly useless. For some unfathomable reason they have to fax us documents that we fax to customers, instead of doing it directly. Anyway, when they phone it usually goes something like this:

"Hello well yes, the customer is saying they have not received the documents"
[we go and check]"you never faxed it to us"
"Ok thank you for informing me of this. Could you please resend it"
"You haven't sent it to us yet"
"yes thank you for informing me of this but the customer is saying they have not received it. Please resend"
"How are we supposed to do that if you haven't sent it to us?"
"............................the customer is saying they have not received it."


Then there's the letters they send out, which are QA checked by people who obviously don't speak English as a first language. Every time I see "I request you to advice me" or "I enclose £10 of cheque for the same" I die a little inside. Oddly half of them have picked a completely random set of western names to use such as Alwyn,Vincent, Roddy, Luvleen, Rosy and Stalin (yes, Stalin)

[carmadgaz]

Moronic customers that couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instruction were on the heel.

The constant mindless drivel that I have to put up with from some colleagues (Dubbed by the rest of us, including the boss as "The WI"). They can have a 10min conversation without a single piece of useful information being exchanged. The worst one can whisper across a field and repeats everything 20x like an old Jethro joke. It's like Mumsnet in there some days all clique like and gossipy.

Getting constantly whined at (but by the WI not management) because "I need to be processing orders" and not in my workshop (I split my time between both). Then the management complain that the stuff in the workshop hasn't been done and I should be in there not processing. So I go back to the workshop then the WI bh to the management that I'm not pulling my weight because I'm not processing and I get moaned at again. (For the record I'm not sat on my arse doing sweet FA )

Orders I need to make going in the general pile not in my tray so I don't get them until it's too late to sort them that day then the boss moans that they haven't gone out. On other occasions the reverse happens and stuff is put in my tray when I have stock sat on the shelf. The lass who brings in the orders is supposed to check the rack for stuff I need to make but she can rarely be arsed so just seems to dump them where she feels like. Have tried complaining but she just carries on as it doesn't affect her so bks to me.

Rinse and repeat EVERY fkING DAY.

Yet the boss is a great bloke (knew him before I worked for him). It's 9-5 Mon-Fri, The money is good for the job and area, it's practically on my door step and (when I'm left to my own devices and not fked around with) I enjoy my actual job.

Biggest problem is in trying to minimise the outward frustration towards the situation (I've been pulled up before for "being completely unapproachable" when I've been quiet for fear of saying (yelling) something I may regret) I'm starting to really fry my head (and I'm not the only one).

Sorry if that's an incoherent rant but I do feel better for it

[Liokault]

I hate my job because people.


Other than people, my job is perfect.

[Type R Tom]

Don’t hate my job but something really get me down including being constantly told I don’t know what I’m doing or talking about; being asked for stupid/impossible things by people who should know better and being told I’m responsible for the potential death of hundreds of people per year.

[MarshPhantom]

Troubleatmill said:

If you hate your job.... find something you love.
Life is too short,

Or... do something epic with your free time.

Finding a job you love can be tricky, one you don't hate shouldn't be too hard.

[chopper602]

I'm beginning to hate mine more and more. Promotion to a team leader has come with no financial benefit. I'm supposed to be managing people who are getting paid more than me (quite often a lot more!), taken on more work and more stress and because I'm only an interim then they don't want to know, this has been going on for more than 12 months now . . .

Going to vote with my feet soon . . .

[danny0001uk1]

Because its sunny and I want be outside instead of hiding from everyone till 4pm

[TheLordJohn]

chopper602 said:

I'm beginning to hate mine more and more. Promotion to a team leader has come with no financial benefit. I'm supposed to be managing people who are getting paid more than me (quite often a lot more!), taken on more work and more stress and because I'm only an interim then they don't want to know, this has been going on for more than 12 months now . . .

Going to vote with my feet soon . . .

Hopefully not too harsh, but most of that sounds like your own doing...

[Potatoes]

Potatoes said:

This thread made me go on a wild jobhunt... I don't know how many roles I applied for, but it was a lot. There's clearly a lot of growth in my sector at the moment.

So thanks PistonHeaders, this thread is partly to blame for me quitting my job today... well, not "blame", maybe "helped me see the light"!

So, no job, no income but I feel like an enourmous weight has been lifted

Looking forward to my next chapter in life, wherever that may be... and I'm going to be seriously poor for a few months.

[V8mate]

Liokault said:

I hate my job because people.


Other than people, my job is perfect.

Dat^.

[Poisson96]

Left my job dealing with people. Now don't Ave to deal with people. Instantly better...

[Otispunkmeyer]

TheLordJohn said:

chopper602 said:

I'm beginning to hate mine more and more. Promotion to a team leader has come with no financial benefit. I'm supposed to be managing people who are getting paid more than me (quite often a lot more!), taken on more work and more stress and because I'm only an interim then they don't want to know, this has been going on for more than 12 months now . . .

Going to vote with my feet soon . . .

Hopefully not too harsh, but most of that sounds like your own doing...

The first post is why I am wary of staying late often or taking on extra work regularly. I have been lambasted by friends who say its a poor attitude to "just work the hours paid" but as the post above shows, I think there is very high chance that doing extra hours and taking on extra work will simply be taken for granted rather than rewarded.

I don't work to rule or anything; if stuff needs doing I will stay and muck in. If someone suddenly finds they've got too much to do in the time, I'll take some off their hands. But I won't stay late if there is no good reason...even if the boss man is still there. I think its a bit of a balancing act; don't want to come across as a clock watcher but equally don't want to present yourself as a door mat.

I don't hate my job, there are a few things that are favourable. The pay is decent but its the location from home that is ideal. Steadily losing interest in the work though and the motivation and enthusiasm to do it. I am not learning anything new. Also I do genuinely not see a future for this place. The management projections and business plan are literally a house of cards. Its smoke and mirrors. In fact we'd probably have a more secure future if we simply sold smoke and mirror packs!

[addz86]

I hate my job because I have to deal with the general scum face to face, and they all think they're trade and are all home mechanics.