I hate my job

LegacyUser

I know in this day and age a lot of people have no sympathy if you say you hate your job, but I really hate mine and it's getting me down.
It's a rubbish job, going nowhere. My boss is really cranky. I have to work more hours than her for half the money. I work with a girl who smells and I have to sit beside her and it makes me sick. I can't get into the area I want and so I feel I need to stay - no point giving up a job with no prospects I suppose. But I get no job satisfaction, I dread going to work, and am really depressed all the time. I might be better off on the dole

holystungun9

I suppose that you need to be as clever as you can about. If it really is getting you down that much you should start looking for an out. Any chance of promotion or training in some other aspect of the job. I think it would be better to be looking for a job when you are already employed than being on the dole and looking. Have a chat with your friends.

krd

Don't leave your job. Apply for other jobs while you're still in work.

If you're on the dole - regardless of what happened, the employers and recruiters will believer you were fired for being a social misfit.

Many jobs that are advertised. They will absolutely not give these jobs to people who are on the dole. Most employers the minute they realise you're out of work they throw your CV in the bin.

I once had to sit near a guy who smelled so bad, he used to make me feel like vomiting. He had to be hauled into disciplinaries again again for it.

Firetrap

I wouldn't go so far as to say prospective employers would bin your CV straight away if you were currently on the dole but it definitely does help to be in a job if you're looking for one.

Your job isn't something you're obliged to stay in forever and if it's making you this miserable, you should definitely try to find another one. Sure, going on the dole might get you out of your current situation and you could well feel euphoric at the start. It brings its own stresses though and I know this because I was on it once. Aside from the financial issues, there's the trying to fill your days, the uncertainty about the future, the worry about if you'll ever get another job and the stress of jobseeking and interviewers looking at that gap in your CV.

Sleepy

Have you said anything to HR? There was a guy with a hygiene problem in a place I used to work, someone made a complaint HR and they dealt with it privately with him.

krd

Firetrap wrote: »

interviewers looking at that gap in your CV.

The gap screams: Loser, outcast, misfit.

Come on this is Ireland. Either fit in, shut up, act ignorant, or get on the boat.

tenchi-fan

Get another job lined up before you leave the job you're in.

Your current job will be an incentive for you to get a new job, and most people I know starting work these days are people who already have jobs and are leaving to start a new job.

Firetrap

It all depends. People can lose their jobs for other reasons such as their employer going bust, for example or their deciding to close a section of the business. Anyway, here's not the place to have that argument. I think the OP will understand from what we're saying that they should stay in their job