# Why Aren't People Working? (Personal anecdotes only) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-people-working-personal-anecdotes-only/995662 "2024-01-05T17:34:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 150
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-people-working-personal-anecdotes-only/995662/150 "2024-01-08T18:14:27Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > In my opinion, the opposite is true. Finding happiness and fulfillment at work is impossible for the vast majority of jobs, and the attitude that work should make you happy is a huge part of the general discontent in the workplace and some of the more annoying antics of corporate America (the only “morale boost” I ever needed was decent pay). I have never had a job I loved and ironically every job I’ve had people have told me “You love it here, don’t you?” It seemed that way because I had that Zen-like not-seeking thing going on, and for the most part my life outside of work was great. [New poll on the subject of loving your job or not.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/4368) * * * OK, putting this here. Thru the end of 2019, my job as a tutor was ideal. Great fellow teachers, awesome students (for the most part), knew I did a good job. [for my poll it would get a 2.5 rounded up-I had some issues with the curricula we used] Then in April '21 my boss, half my age note, started to gaslight me and blame me for a bunch of stuff which I didn’t do. The last straw was my having to save an ACT client, who was so confused by her last session with another teacher that she only did 7 questions out of 20 on her homework assignment, completely lost. [checking his log I noticed he was so oblivious to her state of distress that he went to a completely different chapter in another subject for the last 10 minutes.] She left in immensely better spirits after I explained everything. So I get called into a meeting with my boss, who proceeds to blather about how “80%” of test prep students don’t want to work with me, incl. one young man I had for his first day who said “thank you” at the end of the session-then allegedly told my boss he didn’t want to be with me anymore. After I went over my salvage session, he just blithely said “Oh! Everyone wants to work with X exclusively, but nobody wants to work with you!” I immediately notified him that I was officially putting in my 2 weeks’ notice and walked out. If we were in a bar or something I would have socked him right in the jaw, but I managed to maintain my composure. Then his mother just repeated his lies to me-note they both couched their horseshit in religious trappings, and I stuck with my plan to resign. At that point it would have been a -2 on my poll. That was almost 3 years ago, been quasi-retired since, had to deal with my mother’s loss this past year after I had to move to her Ohio town to clean out both her house and apartment (she was a terrible hoarder and it cost me 40K to clean out the house. I may try to find a part-time position as an environmental educator this spring, but don’t need the income. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-people-working-personal-anecdotes-only/995662)._