Who hates their job?

[The GIGGAS]

Re: Who hates their job?

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.

Good luck, brother.

[mjb2124]

Re: Who hates their job?

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.

I know the feeling. It's not helping that I'm trying to workout and lose some of the extra weight I put on the end of last year. I've been struggling waking up at 5:30am to get in 45min on the elliptical before work. Never knowing what time I'll be home after work makes it nearly impossible to work out then. Plus, I want to spend time with my wife and my dog when I get home. The dog is alone enough during the day when we're at work....gotta give him company at night.

[ElroyJetson]

Re: Who hates their job?

I work at Target and I hate it, when I got hired in my availability was open, well I tried to change it 2 months in and they told me I had to be 90 days in, tried changing it 3 months in and they told me I had to wait till the holiday season(christmas) was over. Well 2 weeks ago started college and put in my change of availability and they denied it. Complete ahole's where I work.

[TracerBullet]

Re: Who hates their job?

I work at Target and I hate it, when I got hired in my availability was open, well I tried to change it 2 months in and they told me I had to be 90 days in, tried changing it 3 months in and they told me I had to wait till the holiday season(christmas) was over. Well 2 weeks ago started college and put in my change of availability and they denied it. Complete ahole's where I work.

I've never met anyone who has even slightly liked the management at Target.

I don't have a job right now, but I hated my last one. I worked at a Little Caesars where I became the go to worker. Problem with that is no one else ever really wanted to work and somehow I ended up with the worst hours. No idea how they have no one else who can close the store, but on the days I was off they managed too. I was the second longest tenured worker there. I loved when they decided the best person to help me on the morning was the 69 year old lady as well. She ran and hid in the front of the store to "count the safe" about 10 times. Then my manager wonders why I didn't have the sunniest disposition the rest of the day.

And the best story was the one where one of my shift leaders tried to accuse me and one other workers of being rapists... . That still annoys me till this day.

Hopefully whenever I get another job it's better than that one was. I don't think I could handle another one like that.

[KG]

Re: Who hates their job?

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.

Not a datacenter but I managed a couple of call centers. One was supervising actual customer service reps and the other was a Tier II managing call routing traffic to 100+ government sites. Same family but two completely different experiences. One with very little face-time with people and the other with too much interaction. There were times when I lived at work and was on call for 24 hours. Clients would get mad if they called at 4AM and I didn't pick up the first time.