Everyday for six to seven days a week I wake up and attend my job. Typically these are ten to twelve hour shifts with no concept of a break or lunch. Although there is food to be eaten, time is not taken away from work to eat. Simply eat while working is the policy in place. The work in itself is not so difficult, it is the constant use of double standards and verbal abuse that is used to ensure “quality” product that makes work difficult.
Power flow is a reverse pyramid, with me being the only “employee” and there being multiple heads above me who follow a domino effect. Two can say “job well done” while the third can say “That looks like shit” which instantly reverses the attitude of the prior two who then backpedal and say ” That looks like shit, are you fucking retarded!?”
When I took this job I had bright eyes and was optimistic about work, now I loathe it. Every day, as I go in I’m put down, that my dreams and aspirations are as stupid as I am; that this job is all I will ever amount to, and that I even suck at that. I’m told I should be proud and happy to work here, as in these “tough economic times” work is difficult/impossible to find. I could write pages of my experiences here, but who really cares?
I have thought of leaving this job to find other work. However, I gave them my word that I would stay until a certain date, and if I don’t keep my own promises, then what have I got left? —Helping Every Little Person’s Monster Exist
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2011.
Canada, right?
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/L-…
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/labour/health_s…
Have a read and get back to me.
Hay, you got a day in May named after you. Whaddya want – a union?
Some people’s parents *headshake*
Hey, wage slave. Here’s a tip: ask person number three why your work is not acceptable because it was just praised by persons one and two. Ask for specifics. If #3 can be specific, he/she has higher standards and is more observant than 1 and 2. If 3 can’t be specific, reiterate what 1 and 2 said and ask for further clarification. Sounds like you work in a restaurant with front and back of the house managers, yes? Remember the old adage: anyone who works in a restaurant and is hungry, deserves to be.
Sounds like you work at the woodside.
10 to 13 hour shifts, nothing but critics who mostly watch & do little or nothing themselves !
Unless I am totally out to lunch this sounds like a Mom venting. And, despite my earlier flippant comment, when I think of the times that I was a mingeing ,self-absorbed, ungrateful little shitbird, I’m not without sympathy.
http://images.politico.com/global/office%2…
Sounds like a page from the Dexter const. Management handbook, where everyones a boss but you.
First, start looking for a new job.
Second, find out how long you are entightled for a lunch break… Then leave the property for that amount of time.
Third, treat it like a job, not a career, and don’t worry with all those resumes out there, you won’t be there long.
I have had a couple of jobs where my hard work was not recognized, one thing to always remember, these jobs are only temporary, and there’s nothing more satisfying than quitting on the spot with a “fine you seem to know how to do my job better than me… Nows you’re big chance douchebag. I QUIT” (always have a new job starting the next day)
By law, they must provide you with adequate time for lunch PLUS breaks, the number dependent on how long your shift is. They can’t deny you a lunch break. Read the links that Hugo posted ^^
“I’m told I should be proud and happy to work here, as in these “tough economic times” work is difficult/impossible to find.”
The funniest thing about a manager who would open his mouth and say, “You’re lucky to have a job at all” is that these managers never seem to think they’re lucky to be working—just everyone else.
“You’re lucky to have a job at all” in an era of more than 9 percent unemployment is the same as saying, “I can’t believe you manage to stay in that 90 percent of the population that is working.”
It’s a huge insult, but worse, a statement of personal failure on the manager’s part.
People who live in fear don’t tend to see the potential in themselves, or in others. If your manager’s native mode is critical, and if she tosses around compliments like manhole covers, know that there are plenty of other employers who’d be happy to have someone like you in the mix.
I have three thoughts.
My first impression is that you were expecting something unrealistic and now that you realize working sucks, you’re tending toward the overdrdamatic and ridiculous to try and rally confidants who hate working as much as you do. Welcome to reality.
My second impression is that you’re NOT being overdramatic or stupid and that there is a serious, SERIOUS issue in your workplace because if it’s going down as you describe it, that shit is illegal and needs to be addressed with the law immediately.
In either event, you have a shitty attitude, either unjustified or somewhat justified. But do yourself a favour and get off the cross because that shit’s annoying and makes people tend to not really believe anything you’re saying.
Start by reading the link that Hugo posted because it will be the primer of what you should and should not expect to put up with in the workplace and will be valuable for organizing and articulating any valid complaints you might have.
Sounds as awesome as my micromanaged existence. Shoot me now.
I am not’ lucky to have a job’. 9 of 10 working age canadians have jobs, those are good odds.
Quit your job. Life is not meant to be like that and you don’t owe your workplace anything.
CHANGE YOUR LIFE, get a job that you enjoy, you are here once. Enjoy it.
OP, you need to take back the little things that they never should have taken away from you.
it is time for you to start saying things like “If you want this job done correctly, I need you to……”
10-12 hours shifts? Fuck that. Get a 9-5 hour salary job. They’re out there for the educated. Oh and it truly is all in who you know.
wrong, Seb. its not who you know, it is who you meet.
imo, who you know is a self defeating attitude, who you meet is an optimistic attitude.
been it that situation more tmes than i care to remember o.p.,that’s why i now work for me. i’m the only boss i have, and if i fuck up, then yes, i am to blame. i’m usually good at what i do, but sometimes, even the best of us fail. that’s what being fucking human, is all about. just do the best you can, til you find another job, and then tell your bosses, to go get fucked, see if they can find another sucker out there.some ositions are very hard to find people to put into, and this sounds like one.
Your employer doesn’t have to give you a scheduled break if you agreed to not have one.. like restaurant jobs and such don’t seem to have them. When I worked at Subway, we didn’t have breaks but we were allowed to take some time when it was slow to eat but I agreed to that so there wasn’t really anything I could complain about. Actually, I think heard someone say once that our breaks where when we were prepping and weighing the food and stuff. Woohooo. In fact I think it did me good because there are people I work with now (and in any other job I’ve had) who can’t go an hour without flipping the fuck out if they can’t go outside for some “fresh” air while I’m just there for hours, actually doing work.