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Does your job make you want to kill yourself?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    My job is pretty awful but I still prefer it to being unemployed - been there... THAT made me want to kill myself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Yes, my job was starting to annoy me. I was only answerable to a director who was a total wánker, so I told him so one morning and fcuked off home. Stephen or no Stephen, I've worked hard up to this point, and have been saving all these years. I'm happy to live off that for a little while until I take stock. Everyone around me thought I was nuts leaving in a job during the Stephen.. but I've a short fuse and low-tolerance for bull-shit.

    Meh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭tommyboy2222


    theres no more buzz about the place

    You do realise work is for work ???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    never does. i love doing my job


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Does my job make me want to kill myself?

    Nope, has made me want to kill other people at times though.

    Slow waitresses, bad restaurant managers, useless hotel managers, stupid customers!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    I like my job.

    Sorry its the first job iv had that i actually am happy there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    I really love my work: it's involved in something I have a real passion for (Poker Tournament Director/poker dealer) and it pays me quite well. I also do shifts in a post office as well. This is proper soul-destroying at times, especially when hungover.

    But all in all, I enjoy my work and I'd never wish to be unemployed. I think I'd go stir crazy and stuff.

    The original poster referenced his mates sitting around all day and doing nothing but playing Playstation etc. I tried that one time during my college holidays (deliberately took a long break) but it nearly drove me insane. After 3 days of doing f**k all, I had to beg to be let into my summer job in the P.O. early. Thankfully, they did need me...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    DazMarz wrote: »
    I really love my work: it's involved in something I have a real passion for (Poker Tournament Director/poker dealer) and it pays me quite well. I also do shifts in a post office as well. This is proper soul-destroying at times, especially when hungover.

    But all in all, I enjoy my work and I'd never wish to be unemployed. I think I'd go stir crazy and stuff.

    The original poster referenced his mates sitting around all day and doing nothing but playing Playstation etc. I tried that one time during my college holidays (deliberately took a long break) but it nearly drove me insane. After 3 days of doing f**k all, I had to beg to be let into my summer job in the P.O. early. Thankfully, they did need me...

    Oh fcuk off.
    You & your jobs.

    Any chance of a bit of work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    my advice is to leave Al Qaeda immediateally! and sign on :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Employers are definitely abusing the "You're lucky to have a job!" card. No, I can't say I enjoy my job lately.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭bobmalooka


    If you hate it then quit, I got shafted out of my bonus after making a ****load of money for a **** credit card company so i told them to **** off.Everyone tells me im a bollix cos of recession bla bla bla but if (a) you hate it and (b) they're using the recession to **** you,then pack it in

    Much poorer and happier for it:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Irlbo


    I work in customer service,the complaints department,for a major communications company,basically people ringing me up to roar the head of me,and me telling them there is nothing we can do for them(its usuall the customers own fault for having such a huge bill),soul destorying but you get used to it,but due to recession and other sh*te internally the call volume has dropped dramatically and so you have 20 people sitting there twiddling their thumbs dealing with about 10 calls a day which is tiny,we heard something was coming and were expecting the worst as in lay offs with reduntancy(secretly I was excited about this as I had an excuse for being unemployed),but alas it was a pay cut and big reduction in the bonus,be honest this is just the start,Id say lay offs are on the cards 6 months down the line,its just the union keeping us going here at the moment,But since then it has been unbearable to work here,so stressful been told we not making business and giving good service when its not our fault customers are leaving or not ringing in,or when not busy been made ring customers with past grievances to ask them 'are they ok now,and is there anything we can do for them?',its far more boring then it was before,and only reason I stay is because I have a young family,although Ive been doing some math and Ive actually worked out that I could survive if I had to go on the dole,we wouldnt be as comfortable as we are now,but we'd be far from broke either,so Im thinking strongly on quitting,I know a jobs a job,but I have to think of my mental health,and it would nice spend some time with my kids,who I rarely see during week due to me working till 7 every night


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Vim Fuego


    I think I'm fairly safe in my job, though there's a load of people in the office bricking it which doesn't help the atmos. My job itself is hideously boring, I fancy a career change and moving somewhere else (even just out of Dublin would be nice for a change). So yeah, I do dread getting up in the mornings and am stressed out constantly.

    It also doesn't help that I work in an office that promotes workaholism and 'being seen to be working hard' (ie staying in until 7-8pm as standard). F**k that. I look at people a few years ahead of me and they look wrecked, don't get paid particularly well and not particularly good to talk to unless it's about work. Depressing really.

    I also ready a book recently called the 4 hour work week: http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307353133

    That really made me not want to work 9-5 any more!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭✭Mena


    A year ago all I could think about was killing myself at the very thought of work. I moved onto a different job to save my sanity and that of my families. In fairness, I now get paid crap, but one thing I have learned is that money != happiness, you only think it does.

    *Still want to win the lotto though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Irlbo


    Vim Fuego wrote: »
    I think I'm fairly safe in my job, though there's a load of people in the office bricking it which doesn't help the atmos. My job itself is hideously boring, I fancy a career change and moving somewhere else (even just out of Dublin would be nice for a change). So yeah, I do dread getting up in the mornings and am stressed out constantly.

    It also doesn't help that I work in an office that promotes workaholism and 'being seen to be working hard' (ie staying in until 7-8pm as standard). F**k that. I look at people a few years ahead of me and they look wrecked, don't get paid particularly well and not particularly good to talk to unless it's about work. Depressing really.

    I also ready a book recently called the 4 hour work week: http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307353133

    That really made me not want to work 9-5 any more!

    I hear ya brother!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,540 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    God I hate my job so much.

    When redundancies were announced and a guy in our group got it the boss came over to me first to console me not him.:D

    2 weeks before that I was in bitching to him about the place, the amount of bull**** i have to do and how I wanted out of there...so understandably he knew how upset I was when I didn't get it.:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    You do realise work is for work ???


    God love your employees :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭swingking


    Abigayle wrote: »
    Yes, my job was starting to annoy me. I was only answerable to a director who was a total wánker, so I told him so one morning and fcuked off home. Stephen or no Stephen, I've worked hard up to this point, and have been saving all these years. I'm happy to live off that for a little while until I take stock. Everyone around me thought I was nuts leaving in a job during the Stephen.. but I've a short fuse and low-tolerance for bull-shit.

    Meh.

    stop calling it the Stephen !!:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I work in a place that looks after people who suffer from dementia and alzheimer's disease and also people who suffer from mild psychiatric illnesses so my job makes me realise how short life is and to value it all as it can happen to anyone. (too serious for AH?)

    I do think employers are taking the pee with this whole recession lark affecting everyone... they soo lie to cut costs and make you scared.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    swingking wrote: »
    stop calling it the Stephen !!:mad:

    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭D_murph


    Larianne wrote: »
    I do think employers are taking the pee with this whole recession lark affecting everyone... they soo lie to cut costs and make you scared.

    X2^ :mad:

    Employers everywhere are using this recession excuse to flah the employees because they know that they will have to toe the line or GTFO and there's a lack of jobs out there so they know this terror tactic will work :mad:.

    A few years ago, employers probably wouldn't try this kind of crap on their employees as they would most likely get pi$$ed off and get another job but now, they know they can bend us over the barrel because there's nowhere else to go :mad:.

    I totally agree with the OP on this one. I have heard the same BS from so many people lately and I absolutely, positively am sick to death of my job also.

    Ridiculous new (higher) targets and breaks being watched along with the craic gone cos all of us temps (some of us over 2 and a half years as temps also :rolleyes::mad:) are most likely getting the chop in September from what we hear. Its enough to do your head in when someone tells you that you are lucky to be putting up with that.

    Im back in after a weeks holidays tomorrow but the shift is all through the weekend while my buddies are out in the pub etc :rolleyes:. Allergic doesn't cover it TBH.

    As someone else on here mentioned previously, I have been saving for a (possibly long) period of unemployment with a good while now and I hope I can ride it out long enough to get another job in the meantime but I will not miss this one.

    I never felt like a second class citizen in any other worse than this one, even from some "fellow" employees :mad:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    Hell yes. Dunnes stores sucks.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No. If I let it, the job will do that for me anyway for free! LOL


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    kieranfitz wrote: »
    Dunnes stores sucks.

    Cool. Introduce me to her. I'm sexually frustrated at the mo! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Biggins wrote: »
    Cool. Introduce me to her. I'm sexually frustrated at the mo! :D

    Mrs Biggins not doin' it for ya, no? I can relate.



    No wait, I can't. Anyway, try ****.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Mrs Biggins not doin' it for ya, no? I can relate.

    No wait, I can't. Anyway, try ****.

    I tried a Wan King but she turned out to be an expensive Chinese. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Biggins wrote: »
    I tried a Wan King but she turned out to be an expensive Chinese. :(

    A prostitute joke? Ugh, I hate wonton vulgarity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    themadchef wrote: »
    Love my job, for me nothing has changed (for now anyway). I do feel lucky. I actually smile going into work and smile coming out of it.


    I really pity people who hate the thought of going into work. I could never hack that. At least you do it, fair play for not giving up.

    Are you a pimp???

    Would love a job, but pretty happy having to do nothing ever :P Oddly enough, I am extremely busy all the time... there is always something to do...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    A prostitute joke? Ugh, I hate wonton vulgarity.

    In that case I won't tell you the sordid details of a Russian prossie I knew.
    Now what what her name? O' yea ...Onya Bakkayabitch.


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