Coming home too damn tired to do anything else, even including chores, is top for me.
I have dishes lying around, laundry needing to be done at somepoint, some extra small tasks to do. But, trying to go ‘above and beyond’ for a shitty job just leaves you with nothing left to do them, having to waste time off to finally do them.
I’m in a building that’s not my home, for 8 hours (used to have some days where it was 10 hours), a night. Where my company tries to tell me to treat their building that I work in, as a second home. Dealing with all of these tasks that ultimately mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Dealing with people who conveniently forget a lot of the time, as to how to be a normal human being and they being at your expense.
And in addition to coming home too damn tired to do anything else, I’m sometimes worrying if what I’m making now for however many hours, is enough to cover everything I need to have or want to have.
- the dreadful commute
- the corporate policies that are profoundly arbitrary
- the business processes that add needless amounts of overhead, all to justify people’s jobs
- the needless meetings and back and forth for things that should be solvable in five minutes
- spineless leadership
- entitled clients
5/6 go hand in hand. For my current project, because we have leadership unwilling to push back on the client, the client feels entitled to demand things above the contract terms. This of course trickles down to everyone else to accommodate.
Overall my work is fine but these things stick out. I am incredibly indifferent to the success of any given project. My investment beyond my daily contributions is low to nonexistent. At the end of the day, if they’re going to pay me to be inefficient what do I really care.
Companies that tell you to treat the building as your “second home”, but then frown when you want to bring your laundry to work, do yoga or workouts at your desk, or bring your kids or Grandma into the office so you can keep a eye on them.
I am very commute sensitive, won’t take a job too far away.
Other than that, I hate, hate, hate the unequal compensation the most. Too much money to the people at the top, and raises by % just make it worse.
I’ve had countless shitty jobs and shitty bosses. Now I’m in charge of a team and, as a product of who I am and my own lived experiences, I treat them fairly and with a degree of kindness and sympathy that I’ve never really had from my former bosses.
I overlook a lot of the petty paperwork and have various on-going deals with staff whereby I’m extremely flexible and they reciprocate by often going the extra mile for me. Our team mostly runs well and my own manager is pleased.
However, I occasionally feel unappreciated by 1 or 2 staff who have been there so long that they’ve forgotten how things could be if I was inflexible, stuck strictly to the rules and came down on them a lot harder - which an other boss could easily do.
I suspect that some mistake my kindness for weakness, even though I’ve always spoken with authority and plainly, albeit in private to those that have needed it.
Truth is we’re local gov, the perks are good, as is the job security, but there’s an element of complacency and an awareness that you have to do a lot wrong to get fired - and it’s a long process.
So yeah, I mostly don’t mind my job, but I resent staff who haven’t had it as bad as I have in the past and don’t seem to understand that their decent conditions are because of who I am, and are not really the norm in other departments.
The coercion and the exploitation without proportionate compensation
The notion that 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, we are productive.
I do real work for a few hours each day and I still get told I work too much or am “the fastest” on the computer.
depending on it for survival
Daily commute. Fuck cars and fuck city planning around cars. I stay in a box for 1 hour so I can work in a box, so I can stay in a box for another hour until I can finally get back to my box
Productivity goes up, all tools are used to achieve it, but pay and hours stay the same.
Employer.
People who have neither worked direct patient care in over two decades nor ever worked in my specialty—trying to tell me what’s best for my patients. I work night shift so that my interactions with such people are minimal, but they do still happen occasionally.
I don’t hate the hours, but I hate the constant process of it all. That we are expected to be at the computer about 8 hours every day, even if it’s clear that our efficiency has dwindled.
And I’m in a lucky enough situation, that I wouldn’t even really have to do this. I could easily take a few days off sometimes, but I just … won’t until it’s actual vacation time. So after the vacation ends, I end up working efficiently for a month, so-and-so for 3 months, then absolutely shitty for a month and then it’s vacation again. Because I choose to.
It would be easier to list what I like about it: nothing.
I honestly hate work itself, I’m not doing what I want if I’m working. There is no job I want.
What is your hobby? I turned my hobby (web design) into a business in 2004 while in college because I had the same mentality you posted.
I tell this to people and they simply do not understand. “What if you found something you like doing, then it’s not really work!” It’s still working. I will not enjoy it. I would rather have the freedom to choose what I’m doing at any particular time. People just cannot grasp that idea. But I also may not be explaining myself well, such is life.
People are brainwashed to believe that their value is tied to their productivity
Depends what value. It is good to be contributing to society. But you can still be contributing and not working 996
True, but most people confuse contributing to society with contributing to billionaire pocket linings
There is a difference
When management/HR treats the employees like children in kindergarten with condescening words and tone of voice, playing stupid games to force getting to know co-workers, and generally having an “I am better than all of you” attitude.
Being forced to stand on jobs where you’re just doing a repetitive task that doesn’t require moving around. Guarding a single door, cashier in a shop, QA inspector on a assembly line, etc. No god damn reason these should require being on your feet 8-12+ hours.
Physical labor in general. Shit hurts.
