Think I'd better 'leave right now' as Will Young suggests?

[JayEgo]

How many of us dedicated KT'ers are so sick and tired of their workplace that they could quite easily simply walk out?

I am an Ego on the edge to be quite honest and if things get much worse, I shall be off to pastures new and stuff the ward, the staff and the management, who can have the whole lot rolled up and beaten about their heads :irked:

°Alter xx

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I am a student and not working. But not by choice! If I could find work I was qualified for I'd take it in an instant :cry:

[JayEgo]

I am a student and not working. But not by choice! If I could find work I was qualified for I'd take it in an instant :cry:Yeah, take it, then hate it, then wanna leave it...

:irked:

°Alter xx

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

possibly, but its better than bein left flat broke!

[Jax]

hmmm you didn't put enough options in there..... there's the option of yes I hate my job but can't leave, there's umm well, I don't exactly love what I do (pack apples) but I like the atmospehre, kinda, I've been told I'm very good at it (when we have to make em look pretty) but I really do hate physical labour though, currently I have had cramp in my thumb for the last 3 hours or so :roll: not to mention the sore knees, back and feet!
I get treated fairly there but I'm not fit enough to handle it very well :roll: :D course, if I worked more than twice a week it might start to change!

Bronze, sometimes you just have to do a job you don't want to do, I'm a qualified nanny and I pretty much have only done about 2 weeks of work in that area since I got my quals in 2002, my bf (Thalarob) did a 4 year uni degree with maths and computers and he's currently working at a supermarket - both of us spent more than a year looking. sometimes you just have to settle for something even if it turns out to be long term interim....

[Lady Faizah]

Not working, here. (On a disability pension)

I hate my lack of a job. :roll: (And my lack of ability to get a job, which qualifies me for the disability pension)

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Bronze, sometimes you just have to do a job you don't want to do, I'm a qualified nanny and I pretty much have only done about 2 weeks of work in that area since I got my quals in 2002, my bf (Thalarob) did a 4 year uni degree with maths and computers and he's currently working at a supermarket - both of us spent more than a year looking. sometimes you just have to settle for something even if it turns out to be long term interim....
Yup, I know. Even if it turns out I hate it, it's still a job. I'd rather be stuck with an icky job than be at home doin nuthin and being broke.

[wulfin]

i love my job..it's taken me a long time to get to where i am, but i'm loving every moment of it :)

Of course, i'd rather not have to work.. *continues her search for a rich man to marry* :D

[Jax]

Wulfin, that is the worst thing about not having a job, you get so used to every day being a weekend :cry: I get so frustrated with the shops being closed on Sundays because I don't always think about what day it is :roll:

[Nurianna]

I lucked into my current job, which is a return (sorta) same non-profit organization with some management changes and my job is slightly different than it was, but the goal is the same.. Im helping low-income people survive~

and as frustrating as this job can get~ It still makes me feel good about what I do.~

[AnnMarie]

I am at the point I HATE my job, but I can't leave...I need the money.

I can only hope once I move and can start working in the UK, I get a job I actually don't mind.

[Dux]

My job has its good days and its bad ones. Stay at home mom - no pay and you can't quit.

[Master Harper Andrea]

I like most of my job, but the atmosphere is getting very tense due to some problem issues. Parents here think they can call and yell at you if you hold their kid to a standard. And the standards are different for athletes than regular kids, or if you give a lot of $$$ to the school. I do NOT like those things, and a lot of the faculty is unhappy about this. There has been a tremendous amount of turnover in staff, and this concerns me. Hmmm..........maybe packing apples would be ok.

[Rho]

I've just started a new job (working with/selling Apple computers) and I'm loving it! :heartbeat After 16 years as a stay at home mum/childminder, it's great to have a change of direction. :bouncy:

[TamTam]

I don't have a job to walk out of now, but I did have one job that I walked out of, literally. Market research, calling people on the phone and reading surveys to them. :banghead: Worst job ever! So one day, after seven months, I just got up and walked out. :D Man, it felt so good. Then I remembered that I didn't have a fallback job. :sad:

[C_ris]

I am a student.

I also have a job. During the holdiays, I work in a supermarket. I hate that job.
I also sometimes hate being a student. I have to THINK all the time! :crazy:

[Kalli]

I'm a student, right now my classwork keeps me way too busy to even think of getting a job until summer break rolls around. :crazy:

[Purpura]

I'm not working... and not a student... Going to remedy the not working part soon

[Wolfegar]

I am at the point I HATE my job, but I can't leave...I need the money.

*Snippys.*
That's about the current situation with me too.

[Beisla]

I'm a student, and, um, happy enough with my school. ;)

[Kitsch]

I'm firmly in the hate my job but can't afford to leave camp. Actually I like it a lot more now I moved to a slightly more salubrious location, but still, if I won the lottery you wouldn't see me for dust :evil:

[-H-]

i love my job ... but i want to leave anyway :roll: ... i'm getting sick and tired of making incedibly silly journeys on a weekly if not twice weekly basis to see my sweetheart ... i'm looking northwards ;) for new permanent horizons :D

[Jax]

ooooo H!! Juicy gossip!! :D

[Shadow*]

So fast you wouldn't see me except for the swinging door as I made my exit. Just one drawback to actually fullfilling that ambition....I can't afford to. There isn't a whole lot of choice where I live and nothing that pays what I get at the moment, although to if I lived in a city it would probably appear as a pittance. Still it pays the bills at the moment.

I think my main gripe is an excessively lazy boss and boredom with the job that I have been doing for 10+ years.

[Selene]

I like it.....................so far :disguise:

[Sassie]

Not working, here. (On a disability pension)

I hate my lack of a job. :roll: (And my lack of ability to get a job, which qualifies me for the disability pension)

I heartily second every thing you say Lady Faizah, I'm in the same situation and HATE it..... :roll:
Ask anybody and they will normally say 'Yes, They'd love never having to work again’ but after two Months or so I bet they'd be climbing the walls!
It's a question of choice; I managed to stay working for six months after the Quacks told me to stop! I suffered alot of pain and ended up having to accept the inevitable and give in.
I spent the first year looking for something that I could attempt doing but as I couldn’t be certain of being able to commit myself to any regular hours, I couldn’t even do any volunteer work, plus with the way the benefit system works, it would have been a cold day in hell that I could do anything even unpaid!!!! :banghead:
Good thing I enjoy reading :bow: saves my sanity, there are no barriers in books :ok:

[Sassie]

I dug this out of my files to cheer you all up!!!! :ok:

The next time you have a bad day at work...think of this guy. Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on your FM dial in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.
Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realise its not so bad after all.
Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realised what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonising in-water decompression stops totalling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. :blush: :blush:
Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..."

[Danae]

:eek: What a great story Sassie! I sure would hate to be that guy. I'm a student right now and I don't have a job. Of course, I wouldn't want one if it came equiped with a jellyfish in my butt. :roll:

[TamTam]

:rofl:

Great story, Sassie!

[Keita]

Student here! I love the work, just not the actual writing up of reports!

[Faren]

:rofl: What a great story, Sassie! :good:

And I really like my job. There are good and bad days, but on the whole I'm pretty happy with it.

:hugs: Alter :hugs:

[JayEgo]

hmmm you didn't put enough options in there..... <Work-Hating-Snip>I don't think Alter was trying to be inclusive of all ideals... I think he may have been trying to make a point about how w**k's been making him feel! Although, he wanted to make it in such a way as to promote some converse... :evil:

I'm ok, I don't w**k, I leave that to Alter :darkside:

Ja¥son xx

[Faren]

Well, I sympathize with Alter. I know how tough that management/staffing squeeze can be. That's one reason I've avoided management positions like the plague. As bad as things sometimes get here, when I walk out the door I can leave it behind me. Of course, it took many years to actually do that. :roll:

Give Alter a break, Jayson. You know he's the one that's paying for that computer you're typing on. :evil:

[JayEgo]

Give Alter a break, Jayson. You know he's the one that's paying for that computer you're typing on. :evil:Actually, hubby bought me this laptop for my birthday last year! :evil:

But I get your point!

Last couple of shifts though, Alter has been about as low as he gets! I'm not sure if, in the long run, he's going to stick with this job, which ultimately is the field of nursing he enjoys most! It's awful really because there's so much pressure being placed on him and his colleague that neither of them feel able to support the team aaround them which is crumbling away itself. It's sad to see a really good working enmvironment being destroyed by management and bad change. If we'd not moved hospitals, we'd still be flying high with standards of care and teamwork! Now we're struggling to get by each day without compromising patients safety or arguements!

:irked:

Ja¥son xx

[-H-]

ooooo H!! Juicy gossip!! :D

Juicy???? whats juicy ? ;) :shhh:

[skysong]

I am a first year college student, I do not have a job now, but I am planning on getting one next year. :bouncy:

[Faren]

Actually, hubby bought me this laptop for my birthday last year! :evil:

But I get your point!

Last couple of shifts though, Alter has been about as low as he gets! I'm not sure if, in the long run, he's going to stick with this job, which ultimately is the field of nursing he enjoys most! It's awful really because there's so much pressure being placed on him and his colleague that neither of them feel able to support the team aaround them which is crumbling away itself. It's sad to see a really good working enmvironment being destroyed by management and bad change. If we'd not moved hospitals, we'd still be flying high with standards of care and teamwork! Now we're struggling to get by each day without compromising patients safety or arguements!

:irked:

Ja¥son xx
That's a tough one, and I've seen it happen again and again. It happened here where I w**k and I stuck it out, though I came VERY close to leaving. It actually took the hospital failing a government inspection for administraion to straighten up and fix things. :sad:

I know you enjoy the nursing aspect, so perhaps you need to change back to a position where you can do it...instead of the management aspect. It's a knotty problem indeed. :group: