Maybe its just me

WhiteWalls

I should be glad to have a job in a meat factory but I am close to quitting. The reasons being,

I am dealing with a dead animal and doing the same small task over and over again for 8 hours.
I can't talk to anybody as due to the noise of the machinery, I need to have ear muffs in. The money is also quite bad, just over the 300e mark for a weeks work.

I don't really have any other alternatives but this job has me in bad form, dreading going to work everyday.

BeerWolf

No free Steak perks?

neamhspleachi

Fúck it, if it's doing your head in that much, take the leap, it's not worth the mental stress, something else will turn up

Best of luck

Buzz Killington the third

There's people who'd kill for that job :pac:

comongethappy

Eh.... I'd quit.

JSB will cover a chunk of pay till you find something else.

Buzz Killington the third

comongethappy wrote: »

JSB will cover a chunk of pay till you find something else.

No it wont!

You may be disqualified from getting Jobseeker's Benefit for 9 weeks if you:

Left work voluntarily and without a reasonable cause

The Backwards Man

comongethappy wrote: »

Eh.... I'd quit.

JSB will cover a chunk of pay till you find something else.

JSB is a balls.

It's just the dole, except you've already paid for it whilst someone else gets it for free.

userod

Ya pack it in and start drawing the dole there and add to the drain that is the useless swelor my taxes pay go to every month

solomafioso

Sounds like my ideal job! :pac:

Can you not plug in some earphones / listen to an audio book / podcast underneath the ear muffs?

Also sounds like you're living the life of a Slipknot video.

Sir Arthur Daley

WhiteWalls wrote: »

. doing the same small over and over again for 8 hours.

Welcome to factory work.

--LOS--

There is no situation where I would ever take a job like that. Is the money worth it for you? Otherwise it's causing you too much stress.

HomelessMidge

WhiteWalls wrote: »

I should be glad to have a job in a meat factory but I am close to quitting. The reasons being,

I am dealing with a dead animal and doing the same small over and over again for 8 hours.
I can't talk to anybody as due to the noise of the machinery, I need to have ear muffs in. The money is also quite bad, just over the 300e mark for a weeks work.

I don't really have any other alternatives but this job has me in bad form, dreading going to work everyday.

I'll swap? You can have my welfare for your job? Sounds like I'd love it!

Oink

I don't know if you should quit, that's for you to decide. But you certainly need to take your mental health into account.

Bubbaclaus

Quit your job OP. I'll support you with my taxes

NewCorkLad

Start looking for a new job its easier to do this on 300 a week compared to 188

PizzamanIRL

Definitely no white walls in your workplace. Ha, I'm ****ing hilarious.

Do a course and look around for something else if it is that bad, plus you need to pep up you outside life and view work as the place you to get money for all the interesting stuff going in your life. Its far easier to do a job you don't like if your out side work life is full of interest whether its sport, restoring a car, books, music, trying your hands at making home made beer, going away camping at the weekends whatever interests you.

Dubh Geannain

Life's too short and will be even shorter if you hate your job.

I've been in a similar situation before, albeit in a multinational and quit. I was 4 months looking for another job. Job seeking can a major drag on your self belief but your are dealing with two different emotions. It's a case of which is worse. Despite finding the job search tough going I had zero regrets at the time and still don't.

If you can financially afford to do it. Then Quit. My replacement job paid less again and it took me 2 years to get to the same level of income, but money certainly isn't everything.

Dubh Geannain

mariaalice wrote: »

Do a course and look around for something else if it is that bad, plus you need to pep up you outside life and view work as the place you to get money for all the interesting stuff going in your life. Its far easier to do a job you don't like if your out side work life is full of interest whether its sport, restoring a car, books, music, trying your hands at making home made beer, going away camping at the weekends whatever interests you.

This is also good advice and it really depends how much you hate it. There is always a tipping point.

kylith

don't just quit. It's much easier to get a job when you already have one.

Buzz Killington the third

OP, you should be king of this thread at this stage

Barely There

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

Life's too short and will be even shorter if you hate your job.

No it won't.

If you hate your job the time will drag and your life will seem way longer.

jester77

Just get out of there. You spend over one third of your adult life working and getting to/from, one third sleeping and the rest is made up of other stuff. You wouldn't put up with a crappy bed? Get a job you enjoy as it is where you spend a major part of life until you retire.

Birneybau

Meat is Murder.

But so is looking for a job in the present day.

Tough decision.

Buzz Killington the third

Birneybau wrote: »

Meat is Murder.

And masturbation is manslaughter... wont stop ya though

Joe Duffy..

Stick with it until something better turns up, working ( even for minimum wage) is a hundred times better than claiming social welfare.

Freddie Dodge

Educate yourself out of it OP.

I worked in factories as a young fella, then as a chippie, then management.

I'm currently tour driving and guiding around Ireland, which is a brilliant job and well paid but only 6 months of the year. I've a big mortgage and a kid on the way so I work the winters as well, but many of the single/divorced guys just fek off to Thailand for three or four months on their savings (10k plus) from the summer.

Someday soon I'll be behind a desk in management again. Just some ideas...