I’m sick of not getting a raise for doing a damned good job and saving the place tons of money and getting no credit for it. I’m tired of the fuckwits screaming all day long how busy they are instead of shutting the fuck up and doing their god damned job. And I’m suck of fuckholes that give those fuckwits all the attention, raises, and promotions they crave. I hope they get a huuuuuge fucking bonus, all in pennies, right on top of them, all at once. I hope it crushes them beyond recognizable.
I’m sick of people getting special jobs and special privileges in public positions just because they know someone that fucked their mother. Congratulations, you have relatives. I’d say “enjoy knowing that you never earned anything in life” but these fucktroughs wouldn’t catch the sarcasm.
Oh, and fuck people who ignore it as “just part of the system”. If we can work to eliminate it we should!
Weak pit, I know, but I feel like this place is sucking the life out of me to the extent that I don’t even have the energy to give a fuck anymore.
Please tell me you’re actively looking for another job! If you’re not, let me be the first to say, it’s time! Get on it!
Knowing their accomplishments are not their own, has to be one of the circles of hell, from which there is no escape. That nagging doubt that you weren’t good enough to get it on your merits, it never goes away. It festers until it infects your every relationship with insecurities and dysfunction.
Count your blessings, know you’re better than them, and move on to greener pastures. Life is too short to work at a place or with people who suck the life and drive out of you. Anger and bitter resentment, as a steady diet, will truly screw you up. Get out. Get out now. And don’t look back.
I guess, but in my own experience, and based on talking to friends who work in a variety of different jobs in the private sector, the situation described in the OP is far from unique to the public service.
Anyone who thinks that incompetence, unearned promotions, laziness, whining or nepotism are somehow confined to occupations associated with the government has led a very sheltered life.
On the other hand I’ve also known a lot of people fuckups who deserve all of the inattention they get who still somehow consider themselves god’s gift to the employer who just isn’t understood.
So I’ll do what I do with everybody else and just continue eating my sandwich while making vaguely sympathetic grunts.
In that case, anyone know where one would go about finding a Public Sector accounting job in Georgia? I’m so out of touch with job-seeking, which is terrible for a 26 year old, I know, but I come from a family so broke that just having a job was enough.
Why only public sector? You’ll have a lot more opportunities, chances for promotion, etc. in the private sector, and anyway if you include private sector in your search, you will increase your job options several-fold.
Other than that, I haven’t done job-hunting in so long (way before the internet) that I have no useful advice about how to do job-hunting now. But I will wish you good luck.
Roddy
I pit the attention-seeking special fucking snowflakes who can’t be arsed to put their whining fucking rants in the long running and obvious as fuck workplace griping thread.
I’ll have you know that I’m screaming all day long about how busy I am while doing my job! And surfing the web, and making appointments to get my winter tires put on, and chatting with my wife. But if I didn’t scream about how busy I was they might realize that they can do without me and that just won’t do.
Well, on top of records management improvement (which probably can’t be quantified) that made records much more accessible (even though it isn’t technically my job) which should help protect us from lawsuits, in my first month I switched all the paper records for my position to electronic. That’s about 5-10k pages per year. Oh, and I instituted a successful direct deposit policy that reduced our amount of checks printer per year by 15,000. It goes on and on, and there is no point in proving it on the internet.
As to why I want to stay public; student loan forgiveness in 10 years. Since I already have 3 years it would only be 7 more to go and that is significant for me.
I didn’t post this in the workplace griping thread because I’m a selfish douch and I wanted a thread all for me. Feel free to pit me for it.
One thing I’ve learned over the years, if something isn’t your job - just don’t do it. Take on extra tasks if you’re asked to, of course, but just voluntarily going above and beyond sounds great and all but rarely does it really pay off. Better to spend your time learning the politics of the office and who you need to be in good with to get the attention you’re lacking. You can still kick ass at your job and all that, but make sure the right people are looking out for you.
I think his beef is with the fact that in some places, the guy who comes in at 7:30 and leaves at 5:00, does his job well enough to the point where there’s no drama, no issues and everything is smooth, gets overlooked for promotions and raises in favor of the person showing up at 10, but leaving at 6:30, who always is behind the 8 ball and letting everyone know, and who may manage to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, but always in a last-minute, dramatic way.
It’s like some perverse version of “squeaky wheel gets the grease”- I’ve had it happen to me a time or two- being good enough at your job that it ceases to become a drama and isn’t a high profile project as a result somehow makes your performance less “worthwhile” relative to those working on things that are high profile simply because they are being mismanaged.
Well, what exactly do you want out of your job? Personal affirmation? Or a steady paycheck?
It’s one thing to be working at a job you hate with a bunch of assholes. That sucks and there’s no reason to put up with that unless you seriously need the paycheck so you aren’t living in your car.
In many workplaces it is pretty much impossible to get a promotion without some serious political skills. Doing your job well and not causing trouble means that you get to stay where you are forever. The only way to get make more money or climb the ladder is to move to another org.
If your workplace is one where personal connections are the only way to get tapped for new positions then you can either work on cultivating personal connections with the powers-that-be, or you can remain content with your current position, or you can change jobs.
And you’ve been at this job for 3 years? Well heck son, welcome to the rest of your life. Unless you are a superstar how many layers of management do you think are, that you can get a raise and a promotion every other year? Of course there is plenty of room at the top, but you’re never ever ever going to get there by doing your job well and keeping your nose clean. That’s the standard for not getting fired, and even that doesn’t work all the time. I’ve had plenty of jobs where the company itself failed, and it didn’t matter how well I did my job or how clean my nose was.
I pit selfish douches who notice a selfish douche and then act like a selfish douche by calling them on being a selfish douche.
I once stuck my head in my boss’s office and said “Hey, you don’t mind if I ignore all the drama and don’t even defend myself against crazy accusations, and just keep my head down and get my work done, do you?”
He looked up with a sardonic grin and said “You don’t know how rare that is… now, get outta here. Get back to keeping your head down.”
(ETA: I did end up as a Supervisor… after the drama queens imploded, there was “no one else with grey hair left”.)
I for one love having people like AnthonyElite at my workplace, whining little bitches make it easier for me to get promotions and bonuses. Work is a game, if you don’t like it move onto another company with different rules and players.
If you want to find out if you’re as good at your job as you think you are, quit.
If they say “ok” you weren’t that good at it.
If they try to talk you out of it, you were acceptable at it.
If they try to get you to you to stay with more money or other perks you were pretty good at it.
If they try to keep you with a real promotion and money you were very good at it and they were just waiting for you to show some initiative.
