When I had my last job I hated it, now being unemployed for almost 8 months I don't miss the job just the money.
Who hates their job?
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When I had my last job I hated it, now being unemployed for almost 8 months I don't miss the job just the money.I've heard this "patience is a virtue" junk all my life. I'm happy to say I have no virtue, no scruples, and no desire to wait too long for anything. In my humble opinion instant gratification takes too long!
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Right before our first son was born I despised my job. I managed a copy-center for OfficeMax. It was retail and all that came along with it. Management was constantly pressuring me to cut hours yet over achieve. The district manager was sleeping with various managers across the district. It was an absolute mess.
But the majority of my frustration came because I was several years out of college and was not doing anything close to what I went to school for. I went to school to be a minister, but because that tends to be a low grade salary, I had to build a skill to parallel my work. I took up graphic design and got involved in printing.
Anyway, one Sunday morning I had to be at work by 11:30. I got there early and sat in my car, watching people line up at the door for the store to open. That's when my frustration really peaked. Retail is so backwards in that they demand such high performances yet offer the most unnatural work environment.Being kind, one to another, never disappoints.Comment
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Yep that pretty much sums up retail.......Unless you an assistant manager or above, retail is pure hell.
One thing I never understood though is the customers........Damn near 1 in 3 people at one point in their life, their 1st job was retail or in the fast food industry. But yet when people get grown they want to be total arses to people that they once themselves worked at.
And another thing that use to piss me off when I worked in retail is that people assume that if you worked in retail you were uneducated. That you didn't go to college, didn't get good grades in high school or even graduate high school, so that is why you work in retail.
I must have heard a thousand or more moms or dads whisper to their kids, "see this is what happens when you don't graduate high school or go to college and get a degree, you end up working in retail."
That use to piss me and my co workers off so bad that we wanted to snap their necks. The degrading people do to retail workers is just unreal.Comment
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It's very rare that I meet someone who works in retail and enjoys it. Many people look down on it. Personally, I think retail is an excellent example of what's wrong with parts of society. It is a very unbalanced environment.Yep that pretty much sums up retail.......Unless you an assistant manager or above, retail is pure hell.
One thing I never understood though is the customers........Damn near 1 in 3 people at one point in their life, their 1st job was retail or in the fast food industry. But yet when people get grown they want to be total arses to people that they once themselves worked at.
And another thing that use to piss me off when I worked in retail is that people assume that if you worked in retail you were uneducated. That you didn't go to college, didn't get good grades in high school or even graduate high school, so that is why you work in retail.
I must have heard a thousand or more moms or dads whisper to their kids, "see this is what happens when you don't graduate high school or go to college and get a degree, you end up working in retail."
That use to piss me and my co workers off so bad that we wanted to snap their necks. The degrading people do to retail workers is just unreal.Being kind, one to another, never disappoints.Comment
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I probably fit in this category....although hate is too strong - dislike is a better term.
The pay is great, the bonuses are good (last two bonuses were between 10-15k), raises are in the 4-7% range yearly and the people I work with are pretty cool. However, we have very little vacation (10 days per year that have to be scheduled the 1st of the year...and is a pain in the butt to move), the lowest amount of holidays allowed (6) and 4 personal days that have to be scheduled. Burnout is way too common at this place and I'm at that point right now. Senior Management is also very difficult to work with....they run a tight ship with very little overhead - hence the good pay/bonuses. We're very understaffed, but that's how Sr. Mgmt likes it. Currently I'm running 8 different medium to large scale projects that all finish in late February. All of them are solely on my shoulders due to other projects being pushed on the 2 other members of my team. I've expressed my feelings to Sr. Mgmt, but they don't want to listen. They expect everyone to work 10-15 hour days every day and on the weekends...if you're doing that and still are falling behind, they'll consider getting more help. Until that happens, forget it.
I don't know if anyone else manages a datacenter, but imagine that you have approximately 200 servers, telecomm system, a number of routers/switches at the corporate headquarters and 650 stores with their own routers/switches and backoffice servers (I'm in retail, but work at the corporate headquarters) and there are 3 of us taking care of all of it. This is only break/fix stuff....doesn't even begin to get into the projects that we're working on and endless meetings to attend for each project. It's really a crazy environment.Comment
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It has to be the area because most developers start at 55K or so in Pittsburgh (and Pittsburgh doesn't have a high cost of living like NY or SF/SD). I worked at a development shop with a few hundred developers about 10 years ago. They developed the software running on many hand held scanners you'd see at grocery stores/Best Buy/Walmart etc... The developers with approximately 10 years experience were pulling close to 100K per year.Comment
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I should love my job, since I work for a sports team, but I don't. I like it for 3 months out of the year when we are in-season, but the other 9 months it's all sales which I absolutely hate. Add to the fact that I work 80 hours per week in the summer, effectively killing my entire social life in summer, with crappy pay and 10 days of vacation per year.
Once my fiancee and I get married in May, I'm going to start job hunting immediately and we'll both hopefully find employment in a new city by September. I really can't wait at this point. I would like to stay in sports in some capacity, but as long as I can find a job I enjoy going to for 12 months out of the year, I'll be ecstatic.Last edited by WazzuRC; 01-25-2011, 03:56 PM.Comment
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If all goes well I'll be moving into a development position at my employer shortly. I sure hope so. I love the atmosphere but I'm the tech support guy who can support every piece of software we have (in under 5 years time), write java programs for customers needs, implement and manage service projects, and who gets paid like my only job is tech support. :/Ah, so you're going to be a programmer! Excellent choice. I haven't yet found the big paychecks, but I'm sure that's based on the area I live in. I've been told that 60k is my glass ceiling for salary, which is quite fine for me.
I hate to dissent, but I love my job. I get to solve problems on a daily basis. It's AWESOME. My group is pretty great, and even though I hate the tester in our department, and our management kind of sucks, I love coming in to work on a daily basis.Comment
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That's true. We have even lower cost of living in Blacksburg, and I don't really mind the ceiling too much.It has to be the area because most developers start at 55K or so in Pittsburgh (and Pittsburgh doesn't have a high cost of living like NY or SF/SD). I worked at a development shop with a few hundred developers about 10 years ago. They developed the software running on many hand held scanners you'd see at grocery stores/Best Buy/Walmart etc... The developers with approximately 10 years experience were pulling close to 100K per year.
If you can write java programs for customers, you should be great at development.If all goes well I'll be moving into a development position at my employer shortly. I sure hope so. I love the atmosphere but I'm the tech support guy who can support every piece of software we have (in under 5 years time), write java programs for customers needs, implement and manage service projects, and who gets paid like my only job is tech support. :/Rose City 'Til I Die
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Yeah I know, it's just a small company where I have to wait for an opening which occurs once every 2 years it seems.Comment
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I use to manage a data center........until they outsourced it to India. I pretty much LIVED at work, no lie. Fast food and candy were my best friends. I had very little time for a home cooked meal. By the time I got home all I had time for was to bathe and go to bed.Comment
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What the hell............That would be like a PETA person working at a slaughter house.Comment

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