Job=Life?

[Roza]

Some places will be easy to deal with, others aren’t. I could go on about what I like to call hoops but then it would sound like me having a gripe session. Now I just want a job.

 

[tapiocapudding]

If you want a job where you never have to show up, work in collections! The place I worked at had such a high turnover that they didn’t care if you called in sick every other day (obviously you only got paid for hours worked) because there would be no one to fill in for you if they booted you.
It was the most miserable 4 months of my life though. Nothing like calling people and demanding they pay their overdue bills

 

[Roza]

Bill collections I don’t want to do again, I was doing tech. I had a 6 month medical leave, 3rd cranial nerve inflammation. Prescribed way too high a dose of steroids IMO, all of a sudden my balance was shot, I was falling over if I bent down to pet my cats. Ended up buying a cane because I had no clue back then if that’s what I’d be like forever. I finally called my doc and said the steroids were affecting my breathing and plain daily life so was going to ween myself off of them. I couldn’t talk to my doc, just the assistant who told me she’d mark my record that I wasn’t following doctor’s orders. I took myself off anyway and in 10 days I was walking normally again. I was tested on other things after that and eventually back to steroids but not as high. My uveitis is now gone and I’m thanking God for that every day. I can see out of 2 eyes again. They need more work but I can deal with this.

I had the Catholic co-worker who told me to keep putting holy water on my eyes and also that medal of St. Odelia. I don’t know why I drifted away from the Church or why I was so convinced Catholicism was so wrong… all I can say is I didn’t pay attention, didn’t get it. It took seeing qualm after qualm proven wrong to me and finally pretty much battling it out one night with a lot of tears. CATHOLIC!!! But, God!!! But every complaint I had… ok, I was wrong here, and here, and here… so I came back. I don’t know where I was the first time around other than I really didn’t pay attention. I want to learn now and keep growing in my Catholic faith… YES, CATHOLIC!

I had an HR person want me to have a doc note saying I was legally blind so they could get me equipment, told him I was far from that… they thought I was trying to not cooperate… but if I wasn’t legally blind, why try to get a doc to lie (as if they would) and say I was? I do best when I can see outside, I do best not in middle of the night shifts. I don’t ask for much but I’m a single woman living on my own. I want to be smart and not be out in the middle of the night.

 

[kage_ar]

Here is how I raised… the business you work for exists for one reason - to make a profit for the owners. The added benefits of that profit making are that they provide a good or service to the public AND jobs to people. As long as I am getting that paycheck my job is to be part of making a profit for that company. I owe that company allegience and gratitude, they could have someone else getting my paycheck.

Interesting, in the under 30 crowd, I see more and more an attitude that the business is lucky that I have decided to work here, and that the business exists for the sheer joy of giving me a paycheck. Yikes.

 

[vocatio]

You have to remember that the world is full of the living dead. Far too many people live to work. When in reality they should be working to live. Life’s not about putting money in your pocket, paying bills or making somone else money. We all have to choose something to do. It’s part of what I call the circle of life. “A man shall work by the sweat of his brow”. There is a reason we call it work. We’d love to call it fun…but it’s hardly fun all of the time. Some of the time, or hopefully anyway, it is fun.

I chose to work for the commonwealth. I work in government providing much needed services and expertise in many areas. Everybody needs water, sewer, drainage and paving. I also get to work on some pretty cool projects, parks for example. I have my footprint so to speak on some of these designs. It’s fun. But it’s not easy. The stress is to make other folks happy. Deadlines must be met to justify positions and to provide the public with utilities so that their businesses and family life can run smooth. Ultimately someone with money and power is in control. But hopefully you will find your niche and stick too it in spite of how green is on the other side of the fence.

 

[Pacbox]

Interesting, in the under 30 crowd, I see more and more an attitude that the business is lucky that I have decided to work here, and that the business exists for the sheer joy of giving me a paycheck. Yikes.

I really see this in the new girls at work. It’s “we (those that have been there longer) and the customers are there for them” and not the other way around. Sad thing is, most of the managers feed into this and keep the girls with these attitudes around instead of firing them. These girls get away with things that I would be fired for, if I did them. And they sure like to complain about every little thing while those who have been there a while just grin and bear it because we know that we are there to do work and not for ourselves. And that eventually, they will be fired because attitudes and behaviors like that don’t last.

 

[psr13]

I’m having a problem in a way with my employer, too. I work retail and have for all of my previous jobs, so I know what it entails. However, where I currently work is completely different. I was hired as a cashier and this entire week have been doing stock work at 6AM. OK, some stock I could deal with. However, I wasn’t hired for doing it eight hours a day without any training and then getting chewed out for not doing it perfectly. Sorry, today was a very bad day at work. The manager even said that if we didn’t get something done by a certain time we would be doing it off the clock. Yeah. Not happening. It was my second day ever doing anything related to that and we were redoing it because the people who had previously done it did it incorrectly. Then I was scheduled until 9 one night and scheduled to start at 6 the next morning. That’s only 9 hours. So, with sleeping 8 hours I would only have one hour to get home, eat dinner, get up, get dressed and ready, eat breakfast, and get back there. None of this I was hired for. I’m looking around, but I’m only planning on working another couple months until we adopt anyway. I’m also having problems with other labor laws and this place. I never get a break. I worked eight hours today and only got a lunch. Even that was later than the madated fifth hour marker.

I do not get upset when employers expect you to work when you are scheduled to work. However, I have a problem when they don’t even give you enough time to sleep and make you do things you weren’t told about in the first place. Plus, saying you are going to be doing something illegal is always a problem.

 

[pumpkinbeast]

Here is how I raised… the business you work for exists for one reason - to make a profit for the owners. The added benefits of that profit making are that they provide a good or service to the public AND jobs to people. As long as I am getting that paycheck my job is to be part of making a profit for that company. I owe that company allegience and gratitude, they could have someone else getting my paycheck.

Interesting, in the under 30 crowd, I see more and more an attitude that the business is lucky that I have decided to work here, and that the business exists for the sheer joy of giving me a paycheck. Yikes.

I don’t think I have that sort of attitude… if you have a job, you should do it to the best of your ability, because you are getting paid for it. I have encountered the people you’re talking about, those who seem to think that customers are annoyances best to be avoided, when they are getting PAID to serve us. When I have a job, I do it. What I’ve having trouble wrapping my head around is the attitude of companies and bosses, who seem to think that life doesn’t exist outside of work for their employees, that nothing will ever go wrong for them and they will always be able to work whenever the company/boss calls on them. Em had a good point, about there being a chain of people who’s work all depended on each other, so I can see why there would be issues with people not being able to finish their work… I dunno, I’m still trying to hash this all out in my mind. I guess if I had ever struggled to find a job, and then finally found one, I would be pretty grateful and loyal to it, but I haven’t had that experience, yet. I am pretty confident that right now I could go apply for a few different jobs and get hired on all of them. Maybe the changing economy will affect that, though…
This are my thoughts so far… this is all very interesting.

 

[iluvmybabies]

Yes. My job is my life. My bosses never understand any of my problems or limitations…I’m on call 24 hours a day and I NEVER get a day off.

I’m a SAHM.

I am very sorry to say that’s the BEST JOB EVER!!! and even though I understand the union can’t help you there, let me tell you the benefits of over working thyself is worth it!

 

[iluvmybabies]

Actually I have been seeing that lately with all the under 30 crowd…and actually under 25 crowd…it’s as if we owe them something!! it’s very disappointing when you go to the store or a restaurant and they greet you with an attitude instead of a smile…

I have been like excuse me a little help here and they wave their hands while they are txting on their phones or chatting with a co worker and it’s like how does this company stay open???!!

 

[psr13]

Please don’t say all the under 30 crowd. DH and I are both under 30, actually, I’m also in that under 25 group. We are extremely hard workers. Dh has three jobs. We don’t think that companies owe I anything except to have us do what we were hired to do and do it legally. I think the issue with many of the under 25 people is that they don’t need the jobs. Many of them are still living of mom and dad and only have their jobs for extra money.

 

[iluvmybabies]

Please don’t say all the under 30 crowd. DH and I are both under 30, actually, I’m also in that under 25 group. We are extremely hard workers. Dh has three jobs. We don’t think that companies owe I anything except to have us do what we were hired to do and do it legally. I think the issue with many of the under 25 people is that they don’t need the jobs. Many of them are still living of mom and dad and only have their jobs for extra money.

I didn’t mean ALL because I am under 30 and so is my db but seriously lately most of the under 30 and 25 crowd I have met are just terrible!! Didn’t mean to offend anyone! SORRY!