For me: I had a moment today where all I could think about was that meme which went around a few years ago that was along the lines of …
You wake up. You’re still a lizard sunning on a red rock. It was all a dream. The concept of selling feet pics to pay back student loans is already losing its meaning as you open and lick your own eyeballs to moisten them. Time to eat a bug.
Not familiar with this one but I love it. Well told
I’ve been thinking of quitting my current job.
It’s got good working conditions, but a lot of the people I work with are so massively incompetent and don’t give a shit that it makes working here miserable.
The holidays just made me realize how utterly miserable I am. So I’ve updated my resume and I’ve started applying somewhere else.
I come in today, and there’s like a hundred fires and everyone’s running around like headless chickens.
I can’t wait to get the fuck out of here.
I don’t really do New Years Resolutions, but holy shit my goal for 2024 is to get a new job.
/rant
Sounds like good cultural or social working conditions with people who generally get along. This plus leadership who don’t want to upset the so-called flow or hurt someone’s feelings = Many small issues that escalate and essentially merge into a larger fire. Sprinkle in a few people with the knowledge to fix things, and who were told more than once to not step over some imaginary line, and you have the sideliners facepalming while casually scrolling LinkedIn and Indeed in their spare time on the company’s toilet.
Most good teams can run themselves 95% of the time. The last 5% is where decisions requiring someone senior comes in. Senior being unfortunately some manager or exec that happens to have a stronger title.
BUT, in fairness, there are also many excellent managers and executives. We just don’t often hear about them.
You’ve basically nailed it for the most part, yeah (down to the LinkedIn/Indeed scrolling on my spare time).
Like, I get great working conditions. I don’t hate the job itself. The people I work with just make my life absolutely miserable. Doesn’t help that the business has the “more years of experience = more qualified for leadership” mentality, and half the people above me are completely clueless about the most basic shit needed for work.
I genuinely think I’d stick around if it wasn’t for the people in my team, but management seems determined to keep me with the current one, no matter how many times I ask. Their desire to keep on that team is the thing that’s making me leave.
The Peter Priciple is a nefarious little middle and upper management goblin. While I don’t expect bosses to have all the answers, I do expect them to be competent in basic leadership and promoting a strong team work structure. The easiest way to do this is by building cohesion through a team that self-sustains and works through issues without necessarily bringing in a manager, and through strong compensation - not just in salary, at all levels.
Your values aren’t being met and your leadership team has eroded your trust in them. Even from this short interaction I can tell what at least two of those values are. So there’s no way I could blame you for wanting to move on. Here’s hoping you land somewhere awesome when the time comes!
This is also my New Years resolution! 🤣🤣🤣 Good Lyck to you!
You’ve got the right attitude. I’ve spent years hanging around in the wrong places. I’ve never ever ever regretted leaving a job, but I always wonder if I will.
Depends on the job. I’ve had some jobs where I always felt like a slave and lost the will to live. And finally after years of shit jobs after shit jobs, I got this current job. It is a drop from heavens and I’ll never let it go until I retire.
Congrats, that’s encouraging to hear!
Thank you. It’s been a brutal 14 years in the US, but I have finally made it to the finish line.
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You can’t just say that without telling us what it is
Anything you like. Shovel shit, make excel sheets, jerk off horses, kill people. Doesn’t matter. Whatever floods dopamine into your head while lowering cortisol. Hopefully it’s not that latter.
Truer words have never been said. <3
I’m so sorry, I don’t know why I didn’t say it. lmao I’m a programmer and I work from home amongst my wife and kids <3. I have had shit jobs the entire 14 years I’ve been in the US until 2021 where I got this job.
The last meeting I had before my break was with an aggressively toxic team. It left me stressed through the holidays.
My boyfriend had to work Christmas and New Years which left me alone a lot of my time off.
Today I was supposed to go back to work and I just couldn’t. I called in sick and had a mini-breakdown with my boyfriend.
Something needs to change for me but I’m not sure what. My stress levels are unmanageable. I keep feeling like I’m putting off living a happy, healthy, life until I can retire.
Something needs to change for me but I’m not sure what. My stress levels are unmanageable. I keep feeling like I’m putting off living a happy, healthy, life until I can retire.
The tragedy is, this is not abnormal anymore. Especially not in the U.S.
True. And I recognize that I have a lot more to be grateful for than most. Today just hit me a lot harder than usual.
I had a laughing fit as I walked towards my front door this morning.
It’s so absurd, I laughed. But there was nothing funny.
You absolutely deserve to feel that way no matter your gratitude. I was not trying to criticize you and I’m sorry if I came off that way. It’s a tragedy because a lot of people are pretty entitled to feel like that. Including plenty of people who used to be considered middle class.
Absolutely quit that job. It’s not worth the damage it’s causing to you. If you can’t just up and leave, spend your downtime and free time on the hunt and just bounce when you get a new gig.
Your happiness has value, and if this company isn’t contributing to that value, they’re not giving you enough.
I keep feeling like I’m putting off living a happy, healthy, life until I can retire.
Yeah that resonates with me too
Sounds like an awful place to work. What field you in? Do you know of any better places to work out there?
You couldn’t go and spend time with your mates on New Year’s Eve at least? Surely it’s just a case of joining a party?
Salute to all the service industry workers who had to smile through the “oh you poor thing, they’re making you work on Christmas” from the people who insisted on using the service on Christmas. If they’re really lucky they might even get a few Christian extremist customers who berates them for working on Christmas because that’s a sin and they’re going to hell.
Friendly reminder the “service industry” includes the overwhelming majority of white-collar jobs in the US.
A financial advisor works in the service industry.
When we say the US has shifted to a “service economy,” it’s not a reference to retail workers, but to services like banking, data management, etc
customers who berates them for working on Christmas because that’s a sin and they’re going to hell.
The irony here is that working retail on xmas, putting up with customers like this, probably feels like hell all on its own.
I’m not religious, but I’ve always “understood” hell to be a state of being, a place you currently exist in if you don’t follow the teachings that were meant to order society and tell people what behavior is acceptable and what isn’t. That if we all act like selfish assholes then we’ll “go to hell” as in that’s the world we’re creating.
So yeah, those extremist religious nutters literally create hell on earth.
Got a great job - pays well enough, no employees or middle management to worry about. I’m in the middle of two weeks off and it took me about 6 days to reach “what day is it?” status. I still don’t want to go back. I’m just done. Covid rush about did me in.
Damn I’m regretting not taking 2 weeks. I just took the 1, but then have actually ended up really enjoying the holidays for once. Work starts in 14m for me now. Oh well, it’s going to be really lazy as people trickle back in at least
That’s the one good thing about normal white collar over-the-holiday weeks - there’s rarely a panic so things are a little more laid back.
For my 50th birthday I took a month off and pre-scheduled nothing to do. It. Was. Glorious. Of course, I didn’t get paid, but it was a fair birthday present value / trade.
I did virtually nothing during the holidays, and it was great. My first 30 minutes back to work with was a zoom meeting, and I’m already dreading the work.
Unionize, it’s the only way to get more time
I like my job and this is how I feel…
I feel like a bit of a shill, and wish I was doing something more meaningful, but I do miss working after a while.
Years ago, I quit my job that I had had for five years the day after I got back from my honeymoon. Basically, I looked around after a very rare vacation and I realized that I could do more with my life.
That’s why they don’t want you to take them.
The thing is at Christmas everyone feels the same way so at least in an office, you have the luxury of most work being done at a snails pace. My big problem this year was that I booked my holidays ending with the family stuff and that was a bad idea. I needed that week holiday after being with family all week
Today is the last day of my 13 day vacation and I couldn’t agree more
I’m 50 and I’ve never had that many days off in a row since I started working at 13.
That’s rough bro. I’m sorry to hear that
I actually can’t wait to get back to work
Same. It’s actually like a vacation after vacation
Yeah, I like my job so that’s probably part of it, but also doing something rewarding really helps.
I’ve been in both circumstances. Where I wish I could just quit and keep playing around at home and where I’m just twiddling my thumbs or worn out from home and can’t wait to go back to work.
We were there with you. Then the MIL stopped by. Now work is blessed freedom away from her. Please send relief. Or arsenic.
I come back tired and missing home. Maybe because I travel cheap and rough.
Tried to plan my PTO days to where I had 4 day weekends and 3 days weeks for a few weeks during the holidays.
This week is another short week but damn am I unmotivated to do anything.
Briefly had an option at an old job where we could flex our time throughout the week.
Boys and I could cover for each other’s duties, so we arranged out where we each worked 10 hours a day and alternated having opposite Mondays and Fridays off.
It worked out that every 2 weeks we had 4-day weekends without burning any vacation time.
And with the horrid commute I had every day, leaving 2 hours early meant that I beat the traffic, which message I effectively only worked 1 extra hour and got way more time off.
But then I got a job offer for my current position I just couldn’t turn down. I work more, but the money is way better.
