fuck this job.com

first of all let me say i actually like my job as far as the duties that i handle day to day, and i get along reasonably well with my co-workers. i have been with the company for almost 5 years now and while there have been situations that were completely unfair, i was able to just forget about it, moveon. i am a pretty easy going girl. however, i have found out about something that has me so pissed i can barely even stand it. i go to work everyday now with it on my mind.

If you work for a firm that puts business attire high on its agenda, then you are not alone. Most audit/accountant firms like the one I work for are sticklers for appearance. The big plus point of being in such a firm is that you can earn merits with the least effort. Take a look at your boss or immediate senior and if they wear shirts with French cuffs and cufflinks, do the same. Invest in a collection of assorted neckties and rotate daily – a boldly striped tie can avert attention from your ageing pinstripe and is cheaper than a suit.

What's wrong with you people? I freaking love my job.

Woop-de-fucking-do... I'm back in hell. Actually, hell is probably more predictable and manageable at this point. I think I am in the shithole trailer park down the street from hell...

This company is seriously held together with hopes, dreams and paper clips. Everyone's attitudes suck, mine included, and it's got to be because we all know that we are dancing our way down a gangplank that is hovering over the pit of despair! At least all of the office staff is like this because we don't make shit. Packets of sugar make more money than we do. Meanwhile the human paper weight we call our 'President' clears about $10K a month, and he's been telling everyone that he's taken a pay cut to keep the business afloat. WTF? I'd like to know what he was making before he took the pay cut!

That's it. I'm officially hunting for a new job. What was going to be casual, window-shopping approach will now be a full-force, all hands on deck, out-and-out search. I've had the longest week of my life. Monday and Tuesday were busy. So fucking busy that the only breaks I got were to piss. Why? Because I believe in doing a good job. Perhaps it was a bad judgment call, but oh, I don't know, crazy me wants to do a thorough job. Yesterday I went for a one hour break - and caught shit from my supervisor. She was worried about the "perception" that my officemates might have gathered from my break.

One of the new labor market war cries is that the new generation has no sense of employer loyality. Well, can you blame them? I don't care what anyone says, seniority is a greater liability than an asset. Gone are the days when employers recognized the value of experience that comes with longevity. Now, senior employees are nothing more than a payroll burden.

I just got royally fucked by my own seniority -- again. Bad enough Senorita Psycho, the incompetent interior designer wench, shitcanned me for allegedly not knowing my job ... the same fucking work I've been doing for the last 24 years. The same work she knows absofuckinlutely nothing about. Now they went and cashed out my accrued leave balances and, in their infinite generosity, will give it to me in a lump-sum payment. Great. Now I get to pay a shitload of taxes back to the same govt operation that just got through shoving it up my ass sideways.

So, I mentioned in an earlier posting that I've been feeling paranoid lately.

Annnnnd...I mentioned in my very last post that I was summoned to a meeting with both of my supervisors.

I have now learned that my instincts are frighteningly sound.

I was informed today that my duties are being reduced and they are moving me from my peaceful, cozy office to a cube wherein my nearest neighbor is the department asshole. All because the executive office is out to get us and, well, I'm taking the fall. I was supporting the (I'll call her) branch supervisor and her staff - people I love dearly, the only nice people in the dept, if you ask me. Now I'm to focus on a different part of my job and support people who don't need support, shoved in an office with 3 other people: the retarded HR woman, a very nice, boring finance woman, and the dreaded finance bitch who pretty much no one can get along with - every last person finds her difficult, AT BEST.

Before I launch into my tirade, I wanted to note how grateful I am for this site. Lately, every email I've been sending my friends has been littered with complaints about work. These are justified, I suppose, but I feel bad to unload my ever on-going struggles with work onto my loved ones, over and over. So, whenever I'm tempted to email a friend and talk about how miserable my day from 8am - 5pm is, I'm going to come here. No one who reads or writes here expects anything different - a safe haven, if you will. So, to whoever started this and all of you who use it, thanks, I really need it.

That said...things are awful at work, just wretched. I'm sitting in my office with the door closed weeping as I write this (again, hormones are a contributing factor). It’s been busy, extremely busy and I made a mistake yesterday. It was cleared up, but I feel awful, especially considering I’ve been working my ass off. I feel like everything I do/have done is wrong and I’m terrible at this job. Maybe I’m just fated to fail, though I'm will to say that some of it must be my own fault. Maybe I’m overworked, maybe I don’t work hard enough, maybe both. The point is, I hate this job, I hate the work, I have everything about it and feel trapped here.

Wise words, sadly not ones that I dreamt up, but worth sharing with you I feel. Kudos to Smiley :-)

1. Any job done exclusively at a desk on a computer can be exported.

2. There are millions of hungry and smart folks available to do your job for less than you.

3. Companies consider people to be disposable commodities, no more important than office supplies.

4. Companies will try to foster loyalty from you while giving none in return. Being loyal to a company is suicidally stupid.

5. When you work for wages, figure out a way to save at least 1/2 your salary so that one day you have a hope of becoming one of the wealthy exploiters rather than a typical exploited wage slave.

I don't have any energy left for anger. It's hard to hide the tears while I'm here in hell writing this. I feel like hugging the toilet and spilling my lunch, but instead I have work to do.

Today, I discussed the written content for a huge project I've been working on for a while with my supervisor. His response was lackluster. I should have expected this--every time I turn something in for review, I basically have to start over from scratch. There's never a time where what I've done is accepted--which makes it seem like everything I do is crap--which is far from the truth. I am a humble being, but I know my job and I have high standards for my work. So when I spend a lot of time doing something and it is met with 2 minutes of shallow criticism, I find myself close to going ballistic.

I finally snapped. I went to my asshole engineer and put in my two-weeks' notice because I'm sick of that shithole factory and got tired of waiting for the Local 58 to call back about my apprenticeship status. Guess what his bitch ass told me? "You do realise you'll have to put up with this crap wherever you go..." My response after telling him that I've been literally burping up swamp gas from stress and carrying an entire department for a year, "Guess what, my next employer will be a better fit." My only problem, I don't have anyone lined up! Oh well, those fuckers can go find some white trash carney or ghettophile dropout off the street to replace me, I was a fluke to that company anyway. At least the next job won't pay me some bullshit incentive. Take away a 1/3 of my pay for being 1 minute late! THAT SHOULD BE FUCKING ILLEGAL, DOCK ME FOR FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES LIKE ANY OTHER LEGITIMATE COMPANY AND PAY ME ONE RATE YOU FUCKING TWATS!!! Not that I'm late that often, like once every 90 days tops, it's just the prinicple of the mother-fucker... Time to get on my knees to a certain degree and beg all the other plating and stamping shops around here for a new job. At least I'll get a change of scenery for a while... Plus those fuckers took enough money out of my pay to prepay a month of health insurance. Speak of the devil, I talked my doctor into referring me for some bloodwork to see if that ass job is literally killing me, I'll find out on Tuesday. Wish me luck everybody, at least I'll get to be miserable somewhere else by September 7th. FUCK CURTIS METAL FINISHING COMPANY, YOU WISH YOU WERE GODDAMNED DUPONT OR PITTSBURGH PAINT GROUP YOU FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT! YEAH I SAID YOUR NAME, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? FIRE ME?!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAAAHHH!!! Tell it to Mr. Brainface you trick motherfucking hater bitches!!! Just be glad I could never afford that .45 built for rapid-fire competitive pistol shooting with the fifteen round clips I've had my eye on... >:(

So, does anyone here actually think Social Security is a good thing for us? I assume most of us are in the generations that will be screwed over by this. I think this is a big money laundering scheme designed to take your money and give it to a bunch of deatbeats. I hear everyone in the SNL congress trying to save it. Save it from what, exposure? This whole scheme sucks. What makes me mad is that some people treat it as some kind of golden entitlement that comes at the expense of everything else. Even talking of letting people opt out of it is like trying to pull teeth or sticking a broom up the butt. I hope SS goes bankrupt because I'm sick of it (ironic that Nazi Germany's police force was called the SS) and I hope it takes AARP with it too.

Anyone out there get summer fridays? You know you get an extra 5 Fridays off in the summer when your industry is always slow. Guess what? Oh I think you know what's coming. . . that's right!!! No more summer fridays for my sorry ass or nobody else in the company.

Time to go and find another stupid job in this terrible industry that will give me those days back.

FUCK

I found this gem of a job opening while I was looking in Madison, WI. Mind you, this is a city that is not terribly expensive but not cheap to live in. This is partially why I think a lot of people aren't going to school any time soon, at least those who live in the real world.

"Chemist
Location: US-WI-Madison
Job Category: Science

Purpose:
Aerotek Scientific is looking for a Chemist to join a growing biotechnology company.

As a Chemist, you will do the following:
*Conduct and evaluate analytical results
*Maintain and operate analytical instrumentation like HPLC and GC
*Document work

This job is lame.......One week we'll be given a new policy, the next week it has either changed or is dumped...all we get are e-mails from upper management about how bad we are doing, and then they'll give us 5,000 more files to complete by the end of the month...and the people who work here are all robots...the guy who sits in front of me watches me when I get a phone call...he'll even ask me who it was...none of your fucking business!!!!...but he is a little brown noser, who'll do anything to get someone reprimanded...

I hate this job, where the hell would i find a good one? All the ones around here pay too little...fuck this job