OOooo you’re getting such a wedgie!
I just did that with the entire company, and things are going great now.
I have worked at the store since October 2013 when I was hired as a temporary, part-time cashier. I’m still there, working full time and everyone agrees I’m an excellent employee.
The head cashier tells me yesterday that I have to take my vacation time this month of lose it. Why? Because a pregnant cashier is going on maternity leave in August and I’ll be needed then.
Nothing like advance notice to make some vacation plans. The cashier found out she was pregnant five months ago. You couldn’t have mentioned her leave back then?
I’ve been at work a grand total of one day and I already want to kill myself.
Literally. I seriously considered just rolling out onto the state highway on my bike into oncoming traffic.
I don’t know what the fuck to do.
That sucks, BPC. Can you call someone and talk about it? Please call a hotline in your area or this national hotline: 1-800-273-8255. Eveyone should take you and your statements seriously, and the people on the hotline will do that.
Please let us know how you are.
Yes, talk to someone. Now. Get out of there and grab lunch with someone (maybe a therapist?), and make a date with a good friend for after work.
I spent years at a toxic job, and all that got me through was meeting mates afterwards and unloading on them. Even better was people from the new job who were as frustrated as I was. Our convos always started with “Is it ME that’s crazy, or TPTB?”
ETA: And you can also unload on us. (It’ll look like you’re hard at work…clackity clack…)
Stabilized. Thinking of someone close to me helped.
There’s a lot of shit going on that I mostly sorta ignored for a few weeks while on vacation because everything else was good. Now I’m back at work, getting the blame for shit going missing or getting stolen (again) even though I’m one of many people involved and not the last person to see it (again). So yeah. That happened. I spent the last three hours at work becoming increasingly panicked about it and then it all just sorta broke on me, a whole bunch of shit I’ve had at the back of my mind for ages.
And I know it’s not actually all that bad - look at me, thinking of killing myself over what amounts to like 500 bucks of hardware and a few floundering relationships - but everything just feels fucky and I don’t know how to feel good. I’m already on antidepressants, and I thought I was doing better. My next appointment is in a week, so I guess if I’m gonna have a huge mental breakdown, now is better than later.
Been there. Had a paranoid boss who called me in to accuse me of petty theft. Quite the red-faced spittle-flecked diatribe against my “total lack of work ethic and shoddy morals”. I just stared at him, and my jaw literally dropped. I laughed in his face and said “Do you really think I’d screw up my karma for fifty bucks’ worth of office equipment? Nuh uh, if I’m going to hell, it’s gotta be for three million, minimum.”
I mean, the asshole knew I spent my weekends as a Scoutmaster and an Asst. Minister. Yeah, just the profile for Cat Burglar Of The Office Storeroom!
But this guy kept me awake at night, my pulse hammering, never knowing what shit was going to hit which fan the next day. I knew I had to get out of there if I was ever going to return to sanity.
Took a job for less pay, gave three days’ notice, and may have saved my life…
ETA: forgot to say Thanks for getting back to us, and glad you’re doing better. But that cycle will continue… flee*!*
my company was recently purchased by another corporation. the official buyout happened on July 6. I just found out my boss’s job was eliminated yesterday, her boss is with the old corporation, my other boss (dual role) is on vacation for another week. I feel so lost. I barely know what my job covers, I worked so hard in the past two years to grow into this role but I don’t know if it is enough and I am too old to be looking for another job (61). this is so hard.
TIL that cargo shorts are not professional enough for an IT helpdesk guy in mid-summer. Huh. Well, back to sweating like crazy, I guess. -_-
Now’s your chance!
Both your previous bosses are gone. So act like you are the boss, and do what needs to be done to get the job done efficiently. If there are any procedures that should be changed to make things work better, do that now. Document those revised procedures (but don’t put a date on the documentation).
If you do this right, when the new management gets itself organized, they won’t even realize that you are missing a boss. Then after several months of this, suggest that your job should be upgraded to supervisor or management level (and your pay).
Speaking of toxic workplaces, I have an update on mine. I’m job hunting again, with the vehement blessing of my husband after I told him of the latest drama.
So they have me working on two scrum teams. I sent an email to all the business analysts on both teams asking for help brainstorming a solution. (My motivation: all of the BA’s on one team are inexperienced.) I had no clue what happened next until a few weeks later when a coworker who I like and trust clued me in by private email. One of the experienced BA’s took my email to a manager to complain that since the solution was not for her scrum team, she should NOT have been asked to help with it. (I’d prefer that she simply decline my request, especially after we had previously told each other we’d always be straight with each other.) She didn’t stop there, but also stirred up shit about it in a team meeting (where I was not present), making the inexperienced BA’s feel offended also.
Then the manager told them all that they’d be written up if they told me all this went down.
So I can’t even go apologize to the people that I accidentally offended because then they’d know someone told me and there would be discipline handed out!
We have a set of documents that everyone on my team needs to review. Next stop is my supervisor. We’ll never see them again.
So my company’s Access-based tracking system can be used to generate reports, two of which are particularly relevant to my department. One lists parts on open orders in-house that need to be dealt with by engineering, and the other shows tracking information across all departments for in-house parts on open orders. In the last year or so, my supervisor had expressed a preference for the engineering-only report…it’s compact, and it’s easy to see who signed off which parts. He had also gotten out of the habit of actually assigning parts to individual engineers, instead relying on us to view the report, see which parts had arrived, and plan our work accordingly.
I just found out this afternoon that not only has he suddenly switched his preference to the extended report, he has also gotten back into the habit of assigning individual parts. I hadn’t been aware that I should be looking at the extended report now, so I completely missed that one of my jobs had been assigned to someone else, so I’ve been sitting here doing someone else’s work.
>.<
So today mandatory overtime was announced, an hour a day thru Thursday, in other to meet service level agreements. All of the management level and higher staff left at their regular time today. For some mysterious reason morale is sinking and call-offs are going up. :rolleyes:
So how do they verify that the worker bees stay the extra hour?
Dear workplace management: this software you are trying to force on us is shit, doesn’t do half the things the system we already have in place does, and costs more than my ENTIRE ANNUAL SALARY before even getting into end user training (of which I will need tons). It’s shit. For the love of god just fucking stop. Also, if I have to be up at 4AM to catch my goddamn flight to make this fucking shitty seminar, saying that my workday starts at 10 is a goddamn bullshit cop-out and you fucking know it.
Dear guy trying to force this software on the IT department: this training course is a huge waste of time. If you implement this software I will find another employer not run by screeching fucking howler monkeys, and take the knowledge I gained in a seminar that cost MORE THAN I MAKE IN A GODDAMN QUARTER to them.
Dear coworkers: it is TEN FUCKING THIRTY AT NIGHT. Stop talking business. Stop talking to me. I have not had a goddamn MINUTE to myself since 7:30 AM. Yes, dinner was nice - I thought the company was fucking paying for it, but it was nice. If you start talking “job” to me over breakfast I am going to fucking scream. I work 35-hour work weeks. I am legally protected from working more than 10 hours a day. Shut the fuck up. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.
I cannot take another fucking day like this. I just can’t. It’s not. Fucking. Happening. It just isn’t.
Hey, big shocker, I couldn’t take another day like that. So when dinner dragged on and on and on and all anyone talked about was work and cars, I quietly got up and left, telling them I felt ill and was going to catch some air. Then I walked back to the hotel. This morning my coworker read me the goddamn riot act over it. This trip can’t be over soon enough.
I hope you find another job soon. Not necessarily one with shiny bells and harmonious whistles, but definitely one which doesn’t try to kill you.
I’ve regaled you guys here with my job tales of woe so many times that I’m sure you kind of remember how much I hate it and how toxic it is. I’ve been job hunting off and on for the past year. (Off during the lull in the market when nobody was hiring anyway.) Today’s rant is about how absolutely awful the job hunting experience is in general. All of the lamentations that you hear, it’s all true. Plus I seem to have topped that with something I have NOT heard others report:
In the past year I’ve gotten to the verbal offer stage with two companies only to have both of them fall through/ be revoked.