From the article: I Hate My Job
Do you hate your job? Read about the jobs About.com readers hate and, if you hate your job, add your job to the list. Share Your Reason
Tired of the Liars
- I hate my job. I was given a task regarding compliance. I did the research and found that the company needed to make some changes. Boss states in a meeting that we're fully compliant and that I didn't know what I was talking about. Ticked me off so much that I wanted to tell them to f-off and walk out. I figure they'll find out real quick that they aren't when they get audited since they are under a government contract.
- —Guest J
The Only Male in the Department
- It's not really the fact that I'm a male in a department full of females, but it's their dumb excuses for when they do something wrong. As a supervisor, I try to help them through their work but they still manage to say "Oh sorry, I didn't know that before now," or "Oh yeah, I forgot." One even holds two degrees... she may have a degree but she has absolutely no common sense. It's really stressfull having the dumbest employees and not being able to train them because they don't care about their job, or fire them because the big boss thinks they are nice. I wind up taking the heat for them and do the work they didn't. I'm ready to quit this place with or without a job lined up. This stupid employees just suck the ambition for success right out of me.
- —Guest tired.can.and.will.walktheplank
The "Joys" of Retail...
- I work part-time in a retail clothing store, and it completely deadens my soul. I just graduated from college but have found absolutely nothing calling for an English degree. I wish I didn’t regret studying my passion, but now that money is needed, I sure do. Desperate to move out of a bad home situation, I took whatever work I could find. I make minimum wage and barely get any hours. Most of the customers there are nice, but getting attitude from even one terrible shopper makes me feel horrible. I’m just too sensitive not to take the abuse personally. Also, my coworkers are so fake it stinks. If anyone dresses or behaves strangely, my coworkers can’t wait to broadcast nasty comments through their headsets. They’re some of the most superficial people I’ve ever gotten to know. I’ve never hated the human race as much as I do now. As soon as I get out of work, I go home to more people I intensely dislike. There’s no rest in the equation – I’m probably due for a breakdown soon.
- —Guest It goes on and on
Love My Job, Hate Management Systems
- Why I hate it: 1. Never fulfilling promises such as software upgrades. IT consultants keep saying it is done and management says it hasn't been implemented. All the while consultants keep getting paid for their time. 2. All staff salaries were cut but they keep sponsoring customer events and going on worthless "business trips". 3. Made workflows bureaucratic and too complex. 4. Keep changing policies too often. 5. Too many meetings and then blaming staff for lowered productivity. 6. asking for too many excel spreadsheet reports and then not using it.
- —Guest too tired
Princesses
- I work with all women and apparently I shouod work with all men. There is one employee who acts like she is the princess and all should revolve around her and she gets pissed and tattle tales if your not working as hard as her. I do a completely different job than her, so my work load is different. I'm not always as busy but when I am busy I work harder than her. I wish she would mind her own business and get over the fact that we do different jobs which means I may have more time to chill than her. Worst part is the manager treats her like the princess and gives her whatever she wants.
- —Guest Annoyed
Corporate Grunt Work
- I was feeling very poorly about my job and then started reading all these 'horror' stories! My #1 complaint is that I don't feel that I am allowed to contribute as much as I am able and most of the time I feel nearly useless. Same as a lot of people, it's a corporation situation. At first the job was great, and then went sour after a bad position move. Now I work with what I consider grunt tasks in a snake pit with no way out. It's degrading. Most corporations are degrading. If people aren't retiring at 40 from a corporation don't join. (It means the company does not share in it's success)
- —omgitsfriday
The Boss Picks On Me
- I can't take my job anymore. I'm a heavy machinery mechanic, but my boss has this little pick on me which is very irritating. I try to avoid it, but I guess it's not just a pick on me because 3/4 of the people who work there hate it.
- —Guest myjobsux
Control Freak Boss
- My boss lies, is a control freak, micromanages, doesn't take care of important issues, does not trust anyone, favors some more than others. I can't get time off. It's just plain old irritating.
- —Guest Joe
Company Loyalty is Long Gone
- I'm a professional and not a job hopper but I've been at my position for 6 months and I'm already looking for another opportunity. I was told by HR my concerns were shared by the same guy I replaced and he hated it there. My boss is 33 and never had direct reports but he was given a directors position!! I was there for 4 weeks and noticed he is unqualified and that i made a bad decision, but they also sold me a bunch of crap during the interview because what I'm doing is not what was discussed. This has happened twice in the last year and a half for me and maybe I'm not doing my due diligence, although I ask plenty of questions during the interview process. The only part that validates my unhappiness is the person in the position before me hated it, and hated my boss. I never had a meeting with my boss in 6 months to get direction. Where is the business headed? I don't blend in because he has his favorites and I don't kiss his ass. It's sad how companies fill spots with unqualified people.
- —Guest labrat
I Could Write a Book!
- I'm a library worker. The patrons smell, have awful B.O. and are rude and hateful.Boss is bi-polar, cuts herself, slams head into wall outside, receives hand-holding couseling from the branch manger who is a lesbian that is dating and living with a former in-mate who used to work here. The rest of the women are incompetent,lazy,rude and disrespectful catty, disgusting, and miserably lonely and hateful.
- —Guest Library worker
So Tired of My Job
- I am so tired of my job... everybody there is so phony.. not even cordial, point blank PHONY! I am 22 years old & most the people I work with are older than me & act COMPLETELY younger. Down to the annoying immature remarks the "boys" there make, or the old women who enjoy being hit on by young guys. I am sooo BEYOND tired of this place! & yes I am currently going to school to further my education to get the HELL. out of this s**thole but its not coming fast enough.. I do not want to just quit rationally because I do.
- —Guest prettywayy
Can't Wait To Quit
- I hate this job because the wingnuts I work with bully newer employees (myself included) without end, and the owner condones & participates in the bullying. (He called me an incompetant idiot because I never received the swimsuit he ordered for his daughter. How am I responsible for what UPS delivers or his wife orders? We're an accounting office!!) They've had 5 employees quit in less than one year, and it's an 8 person staff! The women are catty, religious know-it-alls, who gleefully pick your work apart, call in sick once a week or more, swear & throw things in their office. They don't hesitate to blame you whenever they're in the hotseat. The owner is the worst boss I've ever had -- he changes his protocols, sometimes dailly, making him impossible to please. When I've done personal favors, like pick up his lunch, or get him a soda, he complains about how long it took me -- no gratitude. My revenge: I actively job hunt 2 hours a day at work, & I now shake up his soda cans. HA
- —Guest Jenna H.
I Tried Hard
- I hate people I work with I tried very hard to get along just not worth it now sick of trying give up.
- —Guest Lady
Time to Talk About Jobs
- I hated my job and then I quit and became a filmmaker.
- —Guest Nathan
I am tired of being the enemy
- I work in Corrections and have done so for the last almost 13 years. Working for an employer who could care less about their employees who have worked their butts off and gotten an advanced degree, (I have a Masters in Public Administration). The administration continues to promote and open up positions to individuals based on favoritism. I mean they literally have created positions and not made it an option for everyone to apply or even be considered for those positions. Also, because basically all I do is babysit and discipline inmates who of course mostly despise me and my co-workers, And believe it or not some of their family members, I am tired of feeling like the enemy. And to add to the stress, some of those that are promoted to management and these elite positions are rude, incompetent, and just plain ole' .... I need a change desperately or I see myself falling into a deep sense of depression like many in this field do. And if you are wondering why I stayed so long? $26ph
- —Guest Tired
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