What Work Moment Made You Go From Proud Employee To "I'm Just Here For The Paycheck."?

[Anonymous]

So.Many.Things.

My incompetent, lazy boss
My incompetent, lazy coworkers (not all of them, but a significant number)
The foul language and racist, sexist comments (male dominant field with a lot of Trumpers)
Being “punished” for being good at my job because I get to do ALLLL the important/critical work.

But I get paid well and I have awesome benefits, and despite being lazy and incompetent, my boss pretty much lets me do whatever I want.

[Anonymous]

These stories are making me sad. I thought my employer was uniquely horrible -- but strangely, hearing that others are also awful isn't making me feel better but worse. I'm presently so demoralized I can't even seem to summon up the energy to find a better job. It's the going on an interview and feigning enthusiasm for starting over that I"m having trouble with. Those of you who left, how did you get the energy to do so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When my coworkers (white older males) that I'd never even met or spoken to filed fake EEO claims against me (a younger female). And then management didn't throw the EEO claims out as fake and made me proceed with being interviewed and everything. It was harassment and bullying.

I mean that sucks but don’t they legally have to go through the process?

No. I'm a lawyer and read through the EEO regs. People who continually make EEOs to harass can have theirs thrown out. Key should have been that I'd never met these guys or spoke to them even. I was being bullied for what group I was in at the office. Instead my manager laughed and laughed when it happened to me. They were also GS15s and I was a GS12.

[Anonymous]

Covid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When my coworkers (white older males) that I'd never even met or spoken to filed fake EEO claims against me (a younger female). And then management didn't throw the EEO claims out as fake and made me proceed with being interviewed and everything. It was harassment and bullying.

I mean that sucks but don’t they legally have to go through the process?

No. I'm a lawyer and read through the EEO regs. People who continually make EEOs to harass can have theirs thrown out. Key should have been that I'd never met these guys or spoke to them even. I was being bullied for what group I was in at the office. Instead my manager laughed and laughed when it happened to me. They were also GS15s and I was a GS12.

The proper response is to file your own EEO complaint against the 15s and claim that theirs was preemptive

[Anonymous]

When an utterly incompetent and unqualified person was promoted to our office head over other very good applicants who know what they're doing but they apparently didn't kiss ass with the decisionmakers. The new boss is an embarrassment, is seriously bringing down morale, and has ruined what had been a great workplace for me for 20+ years. It's so disheartening. I still like the other people I work with as well as the work itself but this change has really affected my attitude about work. I don't care about supporting the new boss or trying to toe the management line.

[Anonymous]

When I realized people just talk at meetings for the sake of talking and nothing else. It made we want to stop piping in unless I absolutely had to.

[Anonymous]

The government shutdown in early 2019. I was a true believer in public service and left a private sector job paying more than double to work for the government. To hear the (former) President say that he would keep the government shutdown forever an that government employees were worthless was a kick in the stomach.

My morale hasn't recovered. I used to work long hours, seek out the big cases, and bring a sense of excellence to everything I did - now I do what is needed to keep a good performance review and otherwise phone it in. Yes, there has been a change in administrations, but it is going to take a long time for me to recover from that betrayal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they gave me a "Not a team player" review as I covered everyone when they needed a shift covered.

Same thing happened to me.

[Anonymous]

Last week when we had a meeting and were told we were all here for the sole reason to make money and nothing else. If that doesn't say we are all here for the paycheck, not sure what does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So.Many.Things.

My incompetent, lazy boss
My incompetent, lazy coworkers (not all of them, but a significant number)
The foul language and racist, sexist comments (male dominant field with a lot of Trumpers)
Being “punished” for being good at my job because I get to do ALLLL the important/critical work.

But I get paid well and I have awesome benefits, and despite being lazy and incompetent, my boss pretty much lets me do whatever I want.

I'll trade your job for mine with everything the same except its all liberals. You will feel at home.

[Anonymous]

When I got lectured about not having enough billable hours my second day back from maternity leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we had a layoff and they made some really nonsensical decisions about who stayed and who went.

+1

YES! The "favorites" who do next to nothing all day, while we put out fires all freaking day. Nothing worse than a boss who has no idea what is really going on, takes direction from a Board who is not even on this continent, and generally doesn't GAF as long as she isn't adversely affected.

+2

They sent the people that were to be laid off one by one into a conference room with all glass walls, so we could all see who was getting fired as it was happening. Why the heck would I be loyal to an employer like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When an utterly incompetent and unqualified person was promoted to our office head over other very good applicants who know what they're doing but they apparently didn't kiss ass with the decisionmakers. The new boss is an embarrassment, is seriously bringing down morale, and has ruined what had been a great workplace for me for 20+ years. It's so disheartening. I still like the other people I work with as well as the work itself but this change has really affected my attitude about work. I don't care about supporting the new boss or trying to toe the management line.

Thanks goat girl! You picked a winner! Could have picked a better one out of my nose!

[Anonymous]

Two things. We operate with a skeleton crew and owners couldn't give a rat's ass about correcting that, even with high turnover. Second, no raises or bonuses in the last two years. Yet they offered retention bonuses and two people were paid $100,000 each. They can both kiss it.