Anyone else really unhappy in your work?

[Anonymous]

Loved my Fed job for 20+ years, then I got an asshole new boss. Plugged along for another 2 years, then took early retirement.

Life is too short to deal with assholes.

[Anonymous]

Bad bosses suck.

[Anonymous]

Bump.

Today really blew.

Anyone else?

And they wonder why I won't take a more senior position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bump.

Today really blew.

Anyone else?

And they wonder why I won't take a more senior position.

Indeed. I turned down the chance for SES positions 3 times in my last 14 yrs., chose not to join such a dysfunctional club ...

[Anonymous]

I started my job not loving--but not hating it either. Over the past 8 months, another department refused to have anything to do with a certain project, and the Director ended up dropping it on my group.

The subject matter expert/GTM on the project is very knowledgable, but does not explain anything in a way that is easy to understand. Thus, my group knows nearly nothing. Now we have to deal with recompeting the contract, and have a week to implement changes to the Statement of Work (again, which none of us have ever done before).

Everyone that is on the project has started looking for details or transfers to another department or agency, because this program is falling apart at the seams and everyone dreads what will happen tomorrow. If we could go back to our normal duties, it wouldn't be all that bad.

I have wanted to work in federal HR since college, and am still trying to get there...but I need a job until that happens. I just hope I don't get stuck in this job series or this program forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bump.

Today really blew.

Anyone else?

And they wonder why I won't take a more senior position.

Nope, but today did!

[Anonymous]

DH is like you, OP. I'm wondering if he is you, OP! He hates his job every single day, but goes to work because he has to support our family. I'm going back to work when I finish my master's degree, but I'm not employable without my half-finished degree. So he slogs on.... He has been looking for another job, but he's over 50, and jobs are scarce for middle-aged managers. I pray every day he can find another job and get out of the toxic environment he's in. I don't want him to get sick from the job (he already has, actually), but I can't support the family yet. I totally feel for all of the posters who hate their jobs! The stories DH tells are so depressing and demoralizing! Many total asshats are in management possitions, and they seem to delight in making their staffs miserable. All I can say is hang in there, OP, and keep searching! I know people who love their jobs, so it can happen, no, it WILL happen! Expand your horizons, see if you can picture yourself in another career, use your skills in a different way, something, anything so you can keep going! That's what I've been saying to DH, and it seems to help him a tiny bid. Gawd, it's awful to hate your job, and be unable to quit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread (though depressing) is the best thing I've read in a while. I've always felt like it was just me who was struggling to go to work each day and hated every second I spent there.

I moved to accept a position as a manager/buyer that was completely fictionalized. I do NOTHING all day. Not a thing. I'm supposed to be a manager, but with two bosses who are micromanaging, petty, lying, misleading, and downright abusive I feel like I'm in an asylum.

There is no morale, let alone low morale. The boss talks about everyone behind their back, or makes snide remarks to other employees about someone within earshot. Then the boss acts like everyone is their best friend! It's insane! I legitimately think that my boss is a sociopath.

There are other possible legality issues that I've yet to explore in detail. I'm fairly certain that a lot of the staff are taken advantage of in terms of how many hours they work and how they're actually compensated. If you question anything, however, the boss makes your life a living hell.

I stay because, like most previous posters, I have to financially. I look at other jobs constantly. I look at jobs far away.

In the beginning I turned to drinking to handle it. I've stopped that now because it only fuels my resentment, anger, depression, and anxiety. I try to have a positive attitude and I try to keep morale high with the employees, but it's emotionally exhausting when everyone is being mistreated and basically called stupid.

There's a huge staff turnover because no one can deal with our boss. Of course, he refuses to belief it's him and blames whichever staff member most recently left on anything that's gone wrong in the past few weeks or months.

It's awful and I don't want to go back tomorrow. It is nice to see that many people have managed to get out of this same position I'm in. I need to soon before I go berserk.

Wow sounds crazy, what industry is this? What jobs are your coworkers doing where they are being taken advantage of? Accounting? Do they know you have hardly any work yet they have too much? Good luck with putting up with the job.

It's sad because it's retail and should be really fun. I have a degree from a great university and I feel like I should have just stuck with a desk job. I didn't, however, because I loved being around people and working hands on! Until recently. Now I feel so resentful toward customers since I'm stuck at this horrid place, and the clientele has no idea! They always insist that I have the best job in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently made a job change, and realized almost immediately that it was a huge mistake. So angry at myself for being so stupid. My boss bad-mouths everyone behind their backs, gives assignments and 6 months later changes his mind, etc. Any other nightmare situations out there?

I totally feel you. I made that choice thinking of grass is greener on the other side by taking a 15k pay cut and ending up at the same bs if not more.

[Anonymous]

I wish we were allowed to work 24 hour shifts like firefighters so I could be done with my weekly hours and not have to think about going back until the next pay period.