The employees who haaaaatttteeete their jobs!

Fluffy Cat 88 · 28-03-2016 03:33AM #1

Ok - I don't hate my job! I know many people in other jobs which have long hours/sh1te contracts/shocking bad pay etc but my job really ain't that bad. Employees are treated well here and paid a decent wage imo.

But I work with people who absolutely despise the place. They come in every day with faces like grumpy cat and go on a mighty whine-fest for the day/night (shift work). I work with both men and women - both sexes are guilty

"I haaaatttteeee this f'n place!" - if I had a euro for every time I heard that....

I don't engage in conversation much as this would lower my mood, that constant negativity just drags me down. I'm a quiet person, I just get on with the job

So do any of ye hate your job, or work with people who hate their job?

28-03-2016 03:51AM

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

Ok - I don't hate my job! I know many people in other jobs which have long hours/sh1te contracts/shocking bad pay etc but my job really ain't that bad. Employees are treated well here and paid a decent wage imo.

But I work with people who absolutely despise the place. They come in every day with faces like grumpy cat and go on a mighty whine-fest for the day/night (shift work). I work with both men and women - both sexes are guilty

"I haaaatttteeee this f'n place!" - if I had a euro for every time I heard that....

I don't engage in conversation much as this would lower my mood, that constant negativity just drags me down. I'm a quiet person, I just get on with the job

So do any of ye hate your job, or work with people who hate their job?

Up to my contract ending Friday, i worked in a call centre for a bank. If im being honest, i was never cut out for it in the long term but looking back at the good and bad days i wouldn't change a thing overall. I've made amazing friends who gave me a great send off and i gained a 18 months of experience in a dynamic office environment (and boy was it dynamic).

Last place i worked was a medical device factory a couple of years ago before i went back to college. Many hated the company who were an American multinational. Initially i was just delighted to earn the few bob but as time went on, it became a fairly toxic work environment. A core of us became a very close knit group of friends over time but on our particular line there was a group of bitchy women. There was such a horrible vibe throughout the place too and mistrust from one person to the next. Some of the supervisors were absolutely disgusting in their behaviour and the more the recession kicked in, the more they stamped their authority. One particular muppet was a noted bully in the organisation and is probably still there. Im not though and thats the main thing.

I wholeheartedly agree with Steve Jobs when he addressed the graduates at Stanford back in 2005.
"Your time here is limited, so don't waste it living someone's else's life"

One eyed Jack · 28-03-2016 04:40AM

I couldn't be around miserable shytes like that all day, so I'm somewhat relieved at least I've never had to be! I've worked a number of different career roles and taken a few different paths, but never hated any of them. I've been very fortunate to have worked with some incredible people over the years, only had a handful (could literally count them on one hand) that would drain the life out of you. They make work harder when it really shouldn't be!!

gimmick · 28-03-2016 08:03AM

I have a crappy dead end job which I do not like as I am bored senseless in it. I could move on but my lack of qualifications would prevent me from deviating too far from where I am already.

On the plus side it is a Monday - Friday 9-5 and it is pretty cushy so my complaints are not too valid.

Alf Stewart. · 28-03-2016 08:32AM

True story, but I shared a house with a guy who worked in a porn/sex shop.

That might not sound like too bad a gig, until you hear what he did.

You know them little private viewing booths, where blokes (and the occasional Sheila too I believe) select their particular porno for their particular chosen fetish of that day, and then watch it in the "privacy of their own booth"?

Someone's gotta "clean and mop up" after their self loving sessions.

Poor fưcker, he hated that job.

TG1 · 28-03-2016 08:40AM

It's not my dream job, if I could have done anything in the world it's not what I would have picked. It gets busy and I get stressed about it, and don't enjoy every minute of the day while I'm in work, but isn't that what being a grown up is about, accepting that and getting on with life?
Can't stand people who sit around and whinge about it! I'll vent to a couple of good friends when it gets really bad but it pays the bills so I can't complain that much!

ArtyC · 28-03-2016 08:52AM

I've to work beside the biggest whinge bag today. Been dreading it all weekend. She makes my life at work miserable.

Wish she'd find something else than drag everyone down with her moaning

stefanovich · 28-03-2016 08:56AM

Awful. If it were me I'd straight up tell them to stop complaining and keep their negativity to themselves. "If you don't like it then quit!"

If it continued I'd complain to management that they were having a negative affect on staff morale.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-03-2016 09:24AM

I always loved my job and never heard any others say they hated their job. If you truly hate a job then look for a new one but I suspect anybody who would go on and on about hating their job would not be happy in any job.

MarkAnthony · 28-03-2016 11:06AM

I've a PT job while I retrain. I really like it, however it's customer facing and people are c**nts. Seriously though most are grand, just a few people that should be taken around the back of a barn and hit with the manners stick a few times.

KatW4 · 28-03-2016 11:11AM

I love my job but when I was working in London, I hated it. I love teaching but over there I was in school for 10 hours each day doing pointless paperwork and getting in trouble for things beyond my control. I used to cry at least once a week. I'm not surprised teachers leave the profession over there.

Now that I'm back in Ireland, I love my job again and I'm actually happy going back in after the weekend/holidays.

intheclouds · 28-03-2016 11:13AM

I absolutely hate having to work. Hate it. Massive waste of my time and all my hard work just goes to making a grey haired rich old man richer. Same in every job I've ever had.

However, the job itself is ok and I even enjoy some aspects of what I do for a living, but I truly hate having to work.

TerrorFirmer · 28-03-2016 11:32AM

I like my job but I think even the best job does have moments where you just would rather be anywhere else.

I've had my fair share of jobs I professed to hate, but really they weren't bad at all. I think the thought of it is often worse than actually doing it.

Disgruntled Badger · 28-03-2016 11:39AM

I thinks it's a pity to waste your life doing a job you don't like. What you'll find though is if there are a number of people regularly complaining, this has just become a topic of conversation they find easy to use. Some people talk about football, TV programmes, others like to moan about things. on a note of caution, this can be a big red flag for depression.

If you think it's a mindset you can have some fun shaking them out of it by getting them to talk about how they'd make things better, or what they'd rather be doing and how they are going to go about doing that instead.

DFGrange · 28-03-2016 12:12PM

intheclouds wrote: »

I absolutely hate having to work. Hate it. Massive waste of my time and all my hard work just goes to making a grey haired rich old man richer. Same in every job I've ever had.

However, the job itself is ok and I even enjoy some aspects of what I do for a living, but I truly hate having to work.

Are you a Luas driver?

titan18 · 28-03-2016 12:20PM

I'm paid less than I should be, so I hate my job. Like the people I work with though, and have been at places where that wasn't the case, so it's got that going for it.

RayM · 28-03-2016 01:42PM

I've yet to experience a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself. I'm very introverted and being around people for longer than an hour or two overwhelms me to the point of exhaustion. And then there's all the little things, like the lack of freedom to even eat when you want - basically living your life to someone else's timetable. And that awful "I've never taken a sick day in my life" martyrdom-culture that exists in so many Irish workplaces, as though spreading germs and making other people miserable is a virtue.

Samaris · 28-03-2016 02:01PM

I love my current job, really enjoy it and actually look forward to going into work in the morning!

However, I did work in a customer-facing deli job and urrrgh, was not keen on it at all at all.I tried not to bitch, but quite honestly, I'd be getting a constant bitchfeed from one of the people I worked with up to the point where I'd ask him to kindly stfu before I stabbed him with something. Like an oven.

suicide_circus · 28-03-2016 02:06PM

Enjoyment is never something I've expected from a job. I've worked since I was 14 and I've never really enjoyed it. It's a means to an end, nothing more.

Samaris · 28-03-2016 02:24PM

Well, I think it does depend a bit on if it's a career-job or a bills-job, sorta. Some people are driven by really wanting to be in X specific area and will drive to get into it and love being in it. But it's damned hard to get enthused about working behind the counter in a shop day after day, say, or in a deli, or y'know, etcetera.

Then there's a third section which is "I really want to do this job (say, teaching), but dear god, the kids in my class are driving me batty and the principal's a lunatic", so you do love the -job-, but the specifics of where you're doing it right now are bringing you down.

intheclouds · 28-03-2016 02:54PM

DFGrange wrote: »

Are you a Luas driver?

Why, do they hate having to work?

Permabear · 28-03-2016 03:01PM

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maudgonner · 28-03-2016 03:19PM

intheclouds wrote: »

Why, do they hate having to work?

They certainly seem to be taking every opportunity to avoid it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-03-2016 04:28PM

intheclouds wrote: »

I absolutely hate having to work. Hate it. Massive waste of my time and all my hard work just goes to making a grey haired rich old man richer. Same in every job I've ever had.

However, the job itself is ok and I even enjoy some aspects of what I do for a living, but I truly hate having to work.

Work, of anybody in the private sector, is designed to make some man/woman, somewhere, richer. Such is enterprise and the reason you're employed there at all.

Lux23 · 28-03-2016 04:35PM

I like my job most of the time, I've been off for over a week and I'm feeling apprehensive about returning but il be fine once I get stuck in. I hate all the emails you have to wade through on the first day.

There are some very miserable people where I am though, they are long term civil servants who really don't realise how lucky they are. If I ever get like that I won't stay on. It's not worth it.

ArnoldJRimmer · 28-03-2016 04:59PM

I came into work this morning super relaxed after a sleep filled long weekend. After about 45 mins, two different people managed to put me in a bad mood with completely unnecessary tantrums. They hate their jobs, therefore everyone else has to be miserable too.

I'm getting to the point where I have zero patience for the whingeing of fellow employees and in some cases, lack of anger management. Go and be fcuking miserable elsewhere, and leave the rest of us get on with making the most of the opportunities we have and trying to do so in good spirits.

mr.anonymous · 28-03-2016 05:03PM

People who are present in work just to get paid for that day and don't contribute anything are the worst. I expected it in my part time job in college but found the same contagious indifference in later office jobs. I've suggested doing something extra before and got a "whatever you want" answer. Dedication to doing the absolute minimum!

intheclouds · 28-03-2016 05:20PM

Camila Wooden Sidekick wrote: »

Work, of anybody in the private sector, is designed to make some man/woman, somewhere, richer. Such is enterprise and the reason you're employed there at all.

Well of course, hence the observation, its been the same in all my jobs.

Just seems so pointless. I have regular existential crises when I ponder it.

maudgonner · 28-03-2016 05:29PM

intheclouds wrote: »

Well of course, hence the observation, its been the same in all my jobs.

Just seems so pointless. I have regular existential crises when I ponder it.

I think that everybody who gives out about how they're making money for 'the man' should have to go run their own business for a year.

Either you'll love it and have nothing to moan about, or you'll hate it and go back to working for someone else with a different perspective maybe.

intheclouds · 28-03-2016 06:24PM

maudgonner wrote: »

I think that everybody who gives out about how they're making money for 'the man' should have to go run their own business for a year.

Either you'll love it and have nothing to moan about, or you'll hate it and go back to working for someone else with a different perspective maybe.

Ugh, I'd hate to run my own business. I just wouldn't be interested enough in "work" to either be any good at it or like it.

I can't think of any job I'd really like to do tbh. I'd get sick of anything if I had to do it everyday.

Olishi4 · 28-03-2016 06:55PM

I once worked in a place where you couldn't really vent to your co-worker about the job. It was a big department and kind of had a culture where you had to always make out like everything was constantly peachy. I find that acting false all the time is a drain.

Another place I worked in, we were always giving out. It was more of a joking way but it made us relate more and get any work frustrations out in the open. Actually sometimes it made us find better ways to help each other out.

In another place, my desk was directly a cross from a man and we always chatted. One day I noticed that every time we got into a long conversation, it always ended up about something really morbid, very often ending up talking about war and world war two in particular, like a real life godwins law. He was really nice though.

The employees who haaaaatttteeete their jobs!

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