When you hate your job

[Aphro]

How do you make it through the days sane?

What are some tips/tricks you use to keep yourself from running screaming from the building?

Right now, I am pretending to be an extra in a movie, and any moment Brad Pitt is going to be walking by. It might work better if I stopped wearing my contact lenses.

 

[chillywilly2]

go to school and get a better job

 

[Aphro]

go to school and get a better job

Define "better"? Is better one that makes more money? Because I know plenty of people making lots of dosh who hate their job. Money isn't it. And I have plenty of schooling, but thanks for coming out.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I think better means a job that you don’t hate.

 

[chillywilly2]

better as in one you like going to

work goes on for too many years to hate what you do...move on

in the meantime, just ...beats me...have fun somehow. Tease the people you work with

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Define "better"? Is better one that makes more money? Because I know plenty of people making lots of dosh who hate their job. Money isn't it. And I have plenty of schooling, but thanks for coming out.

I’m always looking to hire a personal stripper, but I doubt that’s a job you’d be interested in.

 

[beew]

According to this talk, many if not most people hate their job.

I don't think that it's the job per se that people hate, it's the neoliberal bureocratization and "you're just a number on a payroll" culture.
I think that the % would improve if one feels either valued or allowed to express their ideas or creativity.



https://renegadeinc.com/brave-new-workplace/

"Since the 1990s research company Gallup has interviewed more than 25 million workers in more than 100 different countries, and assessed, in 70 different languages, attitudes to work, and workplace engagement.

The results are in and… they are not good.

On a global basis, only 13% of people reported feeling happy and engaged at work. In the US 30% say they’re happy and in the UK the figure is only 17%."

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm happy enough with my job...can't think of one I would like better

Well, other than conducting the interviews for the job Spiderman wants filled

 

[Aglaopheme]

According to this talk, many if not most people hate their job.

I don't think that it's the job per se that people hate, it's the neoliberal bureocratization and "you're just a number on a payroll" culture.
I think that the % would improve if one feels either valued or allowed to express their ideas or creativity.



https://renegadeinc.com/brave-new-workplace/

"Since the 1990s research company Gallup has interviewed more than 25 million workers in more than 100 different countries, and assessed, in 70 different languages, attitudes to work, and workplace engagement.

The results are in and… they are not good.

On a global basis, only 13% of people reported feeling happy and engaged at work. In the US 30% say they’re happy and in the UK the figure is only 17%."

Huh, dishrag?

 

[nowisthetime]

According to this talk, many if not most people hate their job.

I don't think that it's the job per se that people hate, it's the neoliberal bureocratization and "you're just a number on a payroll" culture.
I think that the % would improve if one feels either valued or allowed to express their ideas or creativity.



https://renegadeinc.com/brave-new-workplace/

"Since the 1990s research company Gallup has interviewed more than 25 million workers in more than 100 different countries, and assessed, in 70 different languages, attitudes to work, and workplace engagement.

The results are in and… they are not good.

On a global basis, only 13% of people reported feeling happy and engaged at work. In the US 30% say they’re happy and in the UK the figure is only 17%."

The only thing I disagree with you is that it has nothing to do with "neoliberalism".

 

[pointless]

obviously not me, but this pretty much covers what i did in my youth when i was sick of my fucking job.

 

[beew]

The only thing I disagree with you is that it has nothing to do with "neoliberalism".

You're right.

The guys from the video link that I provided, -they are socialists- put it down to neoliberalism too, and so did Karl Marx in his theory of alienation.
But as someone who worked in state-operated institutions in the past, I can say that it's worse there. And so did many random people that I talked to about it.

There are so many things that can lead to burnout, besides the type of work:
bureaucracy and the "cover your back" culture because of accountability, being seen as just another nomber on the payroll, the horizontal violence from other burnt out employees.
I think that the fall is worse for idealists who are raised with the view that day jobs bring fullfillment.

ETA
Anyway, that video made me have a "Yay! moment" seeing that it didn't use to be just me.

 

[spacekowboy]

Jerking off in the boss's coffee creamer.

 

[RunningJib]

I turn to Lit

Perhaps not the smartest decision.

Maybe I want to be fired . . .

 

[RascalConte]

How do you make it through the days sane?

What are some tips/tricks you use to keep yourself from running screaming from the building?

Right now, I am pretending to be an extra in a movie, and any moment Brad Pitt is going to be walking by. It might work better if I stopped wearing my contact lenses.

I guarantee that if you take dirty selfies for me in the staff washroom, one of us will enjoy your workdays a lot.

 

[Aphro]

Unfortunately, I can't pay my bills doing all the stuff I want to do, and enjoy. The starving artist thing is okay when you're 22 and don't mind living in a tiny apartment eating ramen noodles, suffering for your art. I am, sadly, a bit more attached to my creature comforts these days. Plus all the salt in ramen noodles makes my ankles swell.

 

[Aphro]

I guarantee that if you take dirty selfies for me in the staff washroom, one of us will enjoy your workdays a lot.

See? If I could support myself doing photography (no, not just nude selfies) I would be blissfully happy!

Alas...

 

[Libsam]

I'm so thankful for my job, and I love the people I work with. If somebody comes to work in a bad mood, it doesn't take long to get their head straight. A few crude jokes, some ass slapping, and morale improves.

There's only 8 of us. I imagine working for a giant corporation, with dozens of coworkers, and a PC culture is fucking miserable.

 

[chillywilly2]

How do you make it through the days sane?

What are some tips/tricks you use to keep yourself from running screaming from the building?

Right now, I am pretending to be an extra in a movie, and any moment Brad Pitt is going to be walking by. It might work better if I stopped wearing my contact lenses.

Maybe play tricks on people..set up silly little traps..a bunch of balled up paper above a door to fall when they walk through
dump a glass of water on the bosses chair seat

 

[nowisthetime]

and a PC culture is fucking miserable.

As for the question, aphro just be thankful of the really cool co-workers that you have there. Make the best of your weekends and holidays. Keep that resume updated and current and never stop looking for other opportunities.

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm so thankful for my job, and I love the people I work with. If somebody comes to work in a bad mood, it doesn't take long to get their head straight. A few crude jokes, some ass slapping, and morale improves.

There's only 8 of us. I imagine working for a giant corporation, with dozens of coworkers, and a PC culture is fucking miserable.

I think she has a job like that

 

[beew]

A guy once told me that the way he coped with a particularly unpleasant job was to do an hour of carpentry work in his garage the moment he got home. The manual effort put him in a better space.
It's amazing how easy it is for men to compartimentalize. Not so much for women.

 

[spacekowboy]

Oh, so I'm the ONLY one who jerks off in his boss's coffee creamer to stay sane?
Fucking liars.

 

[chillywilly2]

Oh, so I'm the ONLY one who jerks off in his boss's coffee creamer to stay sane?
Fucking liars.

No, but that gets old after a while

 

[chillywilly2]

A guy once told me that the way he coped with a particularly unpleasant job was to do an hour of carpentry work in his garage the moment he got home. The manual effort put him in a better space.
It's amazing how easy it is for men to compartimentalize. Not so much for women.

I spend a couple hours in my woodworking shop or garden every night but dinner after work comes first