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Spent my whole academic career trying to get a job in media and now that I’ve been in it for 5 years now, I’m pretty much fed up with it. Constant fear of layoffs and shitty salaries. Last round of layoffs I got moved over to social media so that they didn’t have to fire me after they cut my old department in half. I barely even look at my own, but I have the skills to pull the job off competently. I hate it though. People are vicious and brutal on the internet and my new department is full of gossipy corporate types that are making me pretty miserable. I used to be able to laugh and joke around with my old coworkers way more through the bullshit, but that’s waned a lot after the move.
So I’ve been studying pretty obsessively for the last two months so I can get a teaching certification to teach high school. Hoping I can make the move before next school year. It’s a big change and I feel like I’m starting all over. Scared honestly. But I have to get out of this place. The stress and anxiety I’m living with is fucking with me mentally and physically at this point.
/end vent
UPDATE: I’ve been a middle school English as a Second Language teacher at an at-risk school for 3 months now. It’s cute how I thought this was an answer to my problems.
While I know I’m lucky to have options, picking a health plan is tedious and confusing and I hate it.
I always breathe a sigh of relief when I don't have to change anything at open enrollment. Constantly worried I'll fuck it up somehow.
I didn’t have to do anything last year, but for some reason this year, they changed my plan so that self plus one costs more than self plus family, so at the very least, I have to switch to self plus family. But my premium, deductible, and copays are also all going up, so I am shopping around to see if I just want to change plans entirely, but I’m afraid I’m going to switch plans and then hate my new plan.
I kept meaning to start this thread. Dave Maynar and others have some great workplace stories, as do I, and I thought it should probably get it's own thread. Post your work stories here - get it off your chest, but make us laugh or, at a minimum, empathize with you and feel your pain.
I'll start. The other day, guy comes into my office and starts talking. In the middle of his boring monologue, he pauses, picks at something in his nose, pulls out a treasure from the chest, looks at it with a small measure of pride, and then proceeds to flick it onto the floor of my office. Then continues talking as if nothing happened. I was too stunned to do or say anything.
Working at a guitar shop brings more of these stories than anything else. Feels like I'm a sanitation worker some days.
I got into an hour long debate over homosexuality and gay marriage in the context of religion with a coworker today. She’s religious, but also in Mensa....
I’m proud to report that I, a non-Mensa, non-religious, Ohio dirtbag, on multiple occasions made her stop and try to reframe her argument after talking herself into a hole on several occasions.
Post by heyyitskait on Dec 13, 2019 10:28:31 GMT -5
I started my new position this week. Well, my body showed up but my brain kinda turns off just shy of halfway through the day. Going from mindless data entry to use-your-brain work is rough.
Also losing faith in the ability of medical professionals and their attention to detail. We can’t credential you if you don’t fill out the application. You can’t just sign it. You need to fill out the whole thing.
I’ve worked retail or grocery during the holidays every year since high school and actually enjoyed it most of the time, but something about this year has really crushed my spirits. People truly suck, and I’m over this capitalist bullshit. Bring on the Marxist revolution.
I’ve worked retail or grocery during the holidays every year since high school and actually enjoyed it most of the time, but something about this year has really crushed my spirits. People truly suck, and I’m over this capitalist bullshit. Bring on the Marxist revolution.
Post by heyyitskait on Jan 23, 2020 11:28:57 GMT -5
Yeah. I made a mistake accepting this position. It’s not the work. It’s the team. Haven’t had a conversation with anyone on my team since my first week. Pretty much get shut down whenever I make an attempt to join in.
My team lead doesnt even train me. No one does. I ask questions and get ignored. It’s a bad fit for me personally. And I can’t go back to my old department. So the search begins again. Ugh.
Yeah. I made a mistake accepting this position. It’s not the work. It’s the team. Haven’t had a conversation with anyone on my team since my first week. Pretty much get shut down whenever I make an attempt to join in.
My team lead doesnt even train me. No one does. I ask questions and get ignored. It’s a bad fit for me personally. And I can’t go back to my old department. So the search begins again. Ugh.
Ugh. I know you were not a fan of the last job hunt, but not fitting with the team is the worst.
In my news, we had someone leave last summer. Offered a job to a supremely qualified candidate at the beginning of September. Everything went downhill from there. She would not turn in her notice at her previous job until her raise at hire was approved even though she said she was coming regardless. When it got approved, she requested four weeks before she started despite saying it would be more like three at the interview (she needed to move). After that, she had personal issues which complicated her move. We bent over backwards working with her to make it work because of her qualifications. She seemed minimally appreciative of it while the need to workaround her issues got more and more intense culminating with her being allowed to resign last week after contributing basically nothing to our office for her two months of employment. Hopefully, we will be able to list the position again soon as we have been down a person since July. The fun part with that is we have to get her position closed out first and then we are apparently changing the software we do our hiring through, so if it takes too long, we will have to wait until the new software is online and running. So much trouble for an entry level position.
Yeah. I made a mistake accepting this position. It’s not the work. It’s the team. Haven’t had a conversation with anyone on my team since my first week. Pretty much get shut down whenever I make an attempt to join in.
My team lead doesnt even train me. No one does. I ask questions and get ignored. It’s a bad fit for me personally. And I can’t go back to my old department. So the search begins again. Ugh.
I'm sorry. That sounds really awful. Hopefully they either turn a new leaf and start being a little more helpful and friendly, or you can find something else quickly.
I'm actually in the opposite boat. I love my team, but my job is getting old. The company (of 13 people including CEO) is in chaos. They've been trying to restructure the way we do things and have been saying things are going to change "soon" since October. Literally nothing has changed except that our COO is moving into a more "globally focused" position rather than a domestic one (read on to find out why that is....).
I was talking to a co-worker yesterday who also happens to be the CTO so he's in all the big-picture meetings that no one else is in, and he was saying that at one point when the 4 of the main managers (CEO, COO, CTO & the new guy they brought in to help with the restructuring) went to meet in Adelaide, it got so heated that the COO actually resigned on the spot and our CEO begged him to stay on. No one knows about this and it all happened in like November, and he's still there, so whatever negotiations went down to make that happen must've been good, and clearly part of that was an immediate JD change for him.
Anyways, now I'm in this weird position where I'm tired of basically doing the same entry-level shit I did when I got hired, despite having a promotion to a senior title. I do other reporting type things and help with social budgets and stuff, but I've taken like a half step up. They're making all these promises that I'm going to be made head of marketing here soon and will have to fly to Adelaide to train people and will be working on global SEM stuff. Which sounds awesome, but my faith in it ever getting that far is quickly fading. 😕
So yea. I just applied to a Music Marketing Executive job at a company who is a client of ours (already checked, I don't have a non-compete), and is basically like Live Nation here. They're probably the biggest Australian promoter, so it'd be a huge step up for me and hopefully into a company with some actual direction and goals in mind. But after all that, I still feel SO guilty about applying to other jobs. I like my team and I like the idea of our company, but the leadership is just...... not good.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Wish me luck.
Somehow my current project is behind schedule and over budget.
Which is weird, considering that I've worked over 40 hours a week every weeks for the last few months to catch it up and havent charged a single hour over 40.
I think it's rude to require an online test, then a in person test (which I got confirmation that I passed), and then not be called for an interview. That's probably 4-5 hours plus an afternoon off of work for a rejection letter. Evaluate my qualifications after passing the online test, then see if I pass the pencil and paper test (It was completely a technical test, not personal).
Plus side though, had a phone interview with another company Friday that I think went well.
Post by Mr.BelgianAmbers on Feb 26, 2020 23:13:35 GMT -5
So today was the first day in the new office...which is part of my house.
Not sure if I can get used to it but we'll see. It wasn't too bad, just have to plan my personal stuff accordingly so my colleagues don't see "anyone" leaving in the morning or arriving after work.
I like to keep some stuff seperate from them, not that I'm all that private anyways.
The MAGA guy I sit next to at work is very upset with the company policy that restricts travel because of the coronavirus. He has a vacation to Asia planned for April (he's doing a "90 day fiance" thing). He's arguing with his boss in front of other people that you could catch it anywhere so he should be allowed to travel and not do a 14 day quarantine afterwards.
I don't know if it's the same thing, but I used to work with a dude who told me how he went to SE Asia to get his wife. His story was that he essentially bartered with her father to be able to pick her and bring her back to the US. It made me very uncomfortable to hear.
I don't know if it's the same thing, but I used to work with a dude who told me how he went to SE Asia to get his wife. His story was that he essentially bartered with her father to be able to pick her and bring her back to the US. It made me very uncomfortable to hear.
I don't know if it's the same thing, but I used to work with a dude who told me how he went to SE Asia to get his wife. His story was that he essentially bartered with her father to be able to pick her and bring her back to the US. It made me very uncomfortable to hear.
Post by heyyitskait on Mar 5, 2020 12:46:21 GMT -5
My supervisor was let go and his position eliminated yesterday because of budgetary reasons. They’ve also eliminated all open positions in my department. I really liked my supervisor.
First week of being a part of the Anthem group is just wonderful so far.
The MAGA guy I sit next to at work is very upset with the company policy that restricts travel because of the coronavirus. He has a vacation to Asia planned for April (he's doing a "90 day fiance" thing). He's arguing with his boss in front of other people that you could catch it anywhere so he should be allowed to travel and not do a 14 day quarantine afterwards.
My supervisor asked me if I was willing to change my hours on a weekly basis. Wants me to rotate jobs within the department, one of which requires coming in and leaving 45 minutes earlier than I normally do.
Trying to change it to monthly, so it's at least easier to follow.
Post by Dave Maynar on Mar 11, 2020 6:09:10 GMT -5
Yesterday was yet another appearance of a coworker in another section that just loves to send a bunch of b&w shit to the color printer and not check it for half an hour or more which leaves people who print after him to come, find out the paper is gone and wait through his stuff to finish before our jobs can print. I have started pausing his jobs if nobody else is there. I have to resist an urge to cancel them altogether.
Today is another appearance of the glory of going digital in that all of the portals our work goes into are down, so I am mostly left sitting here staring at the ceiling until it is fixed.
Post by abrakapokus on Mar 20, 2020 23:06:33 GMT -5
I've been off the boards for the last few years while I was getting my nursing degree so now I'm a fresh baby registered nurse, 7 months in and a pandemic hits. I took a med/surg job at a hospital because all my instructors said, "Get a year in med/surg and then you can go anywhere," well I could have gone anywhere anyway, it turns out and I HATE my job. I cannot stand working for suits who don't care about their employees, I don't really relate to anyone who works there, they are so judgy and gossip all the time. I do love my patients and have outstanding marks from them but in every other aspect, from the $19 dollars an hour to holding sick time until you are out for three consecutive shifts, to the way they treat women and nurses in general. I. HATE. THIS. JOB! So even before this pandemic, I wanted out, at least out of the hospital and on to psych nursing, and now this? I have kept my bartending and housekeeping jobs because they pay so much better but now those are done for the time being. I know Dave Maynar is sick of hearing about it, so now that I have a week left off, I thought I'd rant to y'all, too.
