I feel like every job I have ever had has been like this... It never gets better and IDK how any of these companies stay afloat. I want to leave and I am really learning patience but I struggle looking for another job because most of them are SO TERRIBLE!
Put your energy and time into yourself, your family, and your friends. Hone your skills and make them transferable. Corporate loyalty and "job leader" loyalty are disposable for sure.
Do my best to treat my employees with respect and leniency. The absolute worst thing is to have a toxic work environment. I've lived through it and it drove me nuts, so I try not to be THAT guy. However, in my first year of management, I learned very quickly that if you are too nice, even by a bit, you get taken advantage of really fast. You have to walk a fine line, it's not something you learn over night.
That too. But employees respect you and will do everything you ask. I’ll be lenient, but I always stress that deadlines and when I call upon you I expect a level of respect and responsibility. You have a personal matter to attend to, fine…just remember that the monthly deadline is set at x time. It’s a balance…
I have a former manager that was the reason I left a toxic job and I look back with more clarity and time and I wonder why I didn’t quit sooner! She had a pathological need for control that didn’t just include work but every facet of her life. She was massively passive aggressive. Big gaslighter and liar. Micromanager. I had to leave to maintain my own sanity
My department manager is exactly the same. She is all about what she wants and the higher up managers continue to let her do what she wants. So those of us under her have to deal with her. Sad thing is is that she isn't even the worst one at the company.
Kudos for your insight and courage to stand up for yourself! I made ethics calls and they seemed to finally help after years of complaints. It shouldn’t have taken years and sometimes I regret not leaving, but that’s why I’m on a new path and exit strategy now. Have a nice day!
I can’t stand micromanagement micromanagers are Nieve plus they think that they know everything which they don’t finally you know that most people that don’t work want to social media influencers
More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.
The increasing prices have impacted my plan to retire at 62, work part-time, and save for the future. I'm concerned about whether those who navigated the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am currently experiencing. The combination of stock market volatility and a decrease in income is causing anxiety about whether I'll have sufficient funds for retirement.
This is precisely why I like having a portfolio coach guide my day-to-day market decisions: with their extensive knowledge of going long and short at the same time, using risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying it off as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, their skillset makes it nearly impossible for them to underperform. I've been utilizing a portfolio coach for more than two years, and I've made over $800,000.
‘’Aileen Gertrude Tippy’’ is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
Please try to leave that job. I know you shouldn’t have to- so, if you feel strongly about not leaving- I hope your therapist is talking to you about setting your boundaries. Boundaries is what helped me through a difficult time back in 2017. I had to set my boundaries and stick to my boundaries. My boss ultimately was fired and I am still with the company.
Most leaders have never been trained to or have experience (1) understanding and buying into a company strategy and then (2) leading cross-functional processes that deliver specific outcomes, and (3) designing the jobs required to execute key steps in the cross functional processes. Because of this there is chaos in companies because there is no coordinated way to bring products and services to markets. Managers and leaders are hired based on star performance. They are NOT hired because the have built or run, or led successful systems and organizations. They are hired because they were in many cases good individual contributors. Or in some cases they did lead organizations but didn’t necessarily understand how the organization was accomplishing what it did.
Leaders and other upper level workers are detached from the issues real everyday people struggle with. Even at small mom & pop shops in rural NH, the owners don't understand the issues that young people have
I checked out six months before I retired early, but I put a plan in place first, and that plan required a six month timeframe. So, I stayed around did the minimum, and left at exactly six months.
I quit the day after we had a meeting in which we were told if we didnt want to be there to quit so that they could find people who actually wanted to be there. Keep in mind this company is a shitty place to work at because they tolerate people who stir up drama, bully and harass other's in turn leaving to low morale and people wanting to quit. I lost all respect when i hear the condescending way in which we were told to either deal with it or leave. Rolled my toolbox right out at the end if the week and so far i love my new job. I can sleep 5hrs a day but still have more energy to do my job than at my old workplace.
Walmart has tyrannical managers. I worked there 20 months, it blew my mind. Largest U.S employer. At 55yr old and semi retired, Ive had many years employed of many managers. I couldn’t believe the things I witnessed. I’m a stock holder in the company and feel guilty knowing how this company operates and treats employees
Here’s an example. We had two employees dating. Both about 20, boy and girl. They both worked minimum a year. The boy quit and got a job with AT&T, the girl stayed at Walmart. Few months later the boy commits suicide week of Christmas. The girl is broken by this. She leaves work and is told she can come back after the new year, like 5-6 days later. She comes back and is fired that day. A kid was turning 21 and asked for his birthday off, 2 months in advance in middle of June on a Thursday. He was declined. So if you ever wonder why Walmart can’t keep good employees now you know. BTW, if you work a holiday, no extra pay. Need 20 more examples, let me know. I could do this all day
@@SarahFox-y1f a store manager can now make $450,000 in annual salary. So department managers are trying to make a name for themselves, hoping to get position one day.
If anyone is curious, I had no absences after 20 months. I worked 3 days a week. My father was 84 and needed extensive care. I asked for time off to be with and help my dad, no pay etc. I was denied. My father passed away. I found it odd that college students and high school could leave for months at a time for school, but I couldn’t for dying father. I took the time off anyway and was fired. Me at age 55 got fired for first time in my life
In some jobs where you have to deal with all kinds of workers and a boss in person, there's a higher chance of dealing with a rude worker or boss who is in a bad mood, wants the work done fast, or wants the work done their way. It's worst to put up with this for long hours of working so much stress for one's mental health. No, thanks. The more people a person deals with, the higher the chance of a toxic environment. I prefer working for myself from home to make money where I can work at my own speed without dealing with rude workers or bosses next to me for many hours.
After working as a project manager for a few years, I would rather help people in self development and leading groups to other operational type disciplines. Projects and construction is LOTS of paper work and legal and contractual responsibility. But helping people to grow is golden. BTW you two are my weekly refreshers for interpersonal and career perspectives. Love you guys.
My husband had this problem at work, and he felt completely stuck because our house payment kept us trapped. We sold our big house, downsized and paid it off, and he was able to change careers and is no longer under bad management. Well run businesses seem few and far between. Sometimes the reality of the job market requires an adjustment, because it is pretty bad in most places. We could have the big house OR a job he loved, but couldn’t have both in our city.
Americans hate their jobs because the CEOs and leaders get RICHER AND RICHER as they lessen the amount of people doing a certain job, thus Americans are stuck doing the work of 2 plus people so that CEOs and leaders can continue enjoying their lake homes every weekend! We are worn out and burnt out!
@@Travis12861earth called you need to wake up this is reality. Your chances of finding any Corporation regardless of how big or small that does NOT want to severely limit the quantity of employees who are pulling the weight who are the ponds on the chess Battlefield is about as common as finding grass in a park the smell of gasoline at a damn gas pump
@@Travis12861 I was doing voice to text on my phone and the Samsung s20 for some reason left out the part where I said quote do not " or quote does not " want to
Healthcare has become all about paperwork.. My job has become less enjoyable over the last 20 years due to this. But in reality, I have found a location that treats me better overall. Management is definitely stressed, but I stay away from them as much as possible and try not to think about what 'might' happen or the 'what if's'. I work in a place with a lot of others in the same job. and everyones perspective is different. I like my job, and others are desperately unhappy. From where I was before, we have it pretty good at this location. Private Equity has taken over America and we are drowning in it. It needs to be stopped.
I was a middle manager for too long. Actually traded jobs with one of my leads. One of the best moves I've made in my career. My health and my family's health have improved dramatically.
When I left my IT job they had me working on 10 projects, some with multi-million dollar budgets across 3 Fortune 500 companies in roles from Director to developer, project manager and sr. analyst at the same time. 50 meetings a week then management responsibilities and code to write. Constant task switching left me exhausted. Nothing could get finished due to competing priorities. I was close to a breakdown. The comment about external pressures nailed it. Have to keep the shareholders, stock analysts and the board of directors happy so let’s run 100’s of projects without enough staff to keep cost down and grow, grow, grow.
I’m a new manager who is failing at my job. Not enough resources so I work 70+ hours. Commute is 90 minutes each way. Workers I’m responsible for are ‘grandfathered’ in to their low productivity. Boss doesn’t care, loads me up with special projects that’s not my responsibility. Shameful part is last night I slept in my car to avoid the long drive. I feel trapped.
Find a new job. DONT talk to your boss unless you have a nice savings. He/she doesn't seem to care anyway. They might fire you if you complain to them.
You need to find out these things before starting another job. Ensure you have the personnel…if you don’t ensure that they’re willing to build the team that YOU want. I started a job coming into 2024 that required me to do a lot of work, but I understood that coming in…added members to the team that are professional and understood my vision. It was stressful at the start..now it’s on auto pilot because I’ve had the skills and experience to turn the place around. But I’ve said that this job really was to prove to myself that I could and also to pad my CV…my next job I’ll make sure that I don’t have to rebuild a department like this again. Once was enough
I do like watching conversations of importance. I will say the office people seem to be someone else in the work place where the folks who do physical labor not in the office setting seem to be happier and more themselves.
The key is to stop thinking linearly and add the third dimension of a side hustle and your manager won’t take up one’s precious mental real estate. In fact, the right fitting side hustle will energize one’s primary job and perform even better. The topper is with the combined income, you (and your spouse) will be making more than your manager (and even the director). So beautiful.
I have a sibling who works in what she considers to be a toxic environment... Actually I think she is the person who is toxic because of her entrenched attitude... It depends on your attitude when you are at work.. No matter where you are in the world if you're intention is to be a kind in loving person. It doesn't matter where you work or where you shop or who your neighbors are... It is true that at a job there are some tasks to perform... But it's your attitude that makes the difference. Buckle down
I was telling someone this the other day…most times the person who complains that it’s a toxic environment contribute to the toxicity. People do not self evaluate. I do know that there’s instances where it’s not your fault and other people are just miserable..but there’s some instances where you can just buckle down and do your part
Monitoring productivity and saying you have to work x amount of whatever is what ruins works and makes it miserable. You can’t do good work when you’re forced to rush through things just to hit their productivity goals.
I hate my job because 1) no leadership vision nor authority to make a difference, 2) no team except via virtual VTC teams (no one come to the office to actually interact), 3) always resource constrained so people are always busy on "priorities" with no time to collaborate, 4) lots of things are on "duct tape and bailing wire" and leadership has no funds to repair, 5) no one willing to take time to change for improvement and actively resists change, but offers no feedback on what can be done. Lots of passive-aggressive resistance to changing anything for improvements, and lots of complaining that "processes don't work". I'm sure a lot of folks might complain about pay and benefits, but my greatest beef is overall feeling that I wish I could be making a difference and not being able to.
There is a lot of pressure now to be more and more efficient. I work in Civil Engineering on US transportation infrastructure. I now compete for work with employees in the same company that work and live in India and make 1/5 that I do. Word from above is 30% of all projects are to be produced overseas. The expectation is to add 10% per year until we are at all Engineering is produced overseas. US staff will then convert into sales and management. So much for the next generation. They wont get the chance to lean and grow and will not have the background to go into project management and sales.
I work for a large defense contractor we develop the technologies that keep America safe, all first level managers don't have the necessary staff and budget to train and develop the work force, and yet our company paid out 2023 5 Billions dollars in buy back and dividends, our benefits are getting cut evey single year, I called the enemy from within...
@8:10 dude cops here in NJ small towns make 180k/yr, dangerous yes, i dont recommend, but the dollar sum is there, and as for danger all jobs driving a vehicle have higher fatality rates at work, and a lot of lawyers and finance guys i grew up with are already having heart attacks in their 40s, and are in terrible health.
It’s real simple. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your business and customers. It all starts with the CEO. They should be asking their “leaders” what can I do to make sure that you take care of your people. Then, leaders can ask their employees, what can I do to make sure you have what you need to take care of the customer. What happens is that employees are neglected, over worked, taken advantage of, and it affects the customer and moral of the organization. It’s depressing.
Most managers would throw a good employee under the bus to save their bonus or promotion. I know it’s not what people want to hear but it’s true. Integrity has gotten washed away in the modern American workplace environment
My manager makes jokes about firing people at every opportunity. We are over here thinking this isn't funny, because we can't feed our kids if we get fired, and lose health insurance because of how insurance is tied to jobs in this insanely crazy way it works in the US. There is no training at my company for middle managers, and only a few are good. The good ones are usually overworked, and end up quitting.
I am convinced that my company takes the absolute worst candidate possible, and then promotes them to management. There is not any logical explanation for why this happens over and over. WHY! I'm going to have to quit my job AGAIN because of having another terrible manager who texts me after hours and then writes me up for not replying on my personal phone almost immediately.
If minimum wage kept up with gold inflation, we’d all be making at least $60 an hour. Our houses, cars, and student loans would be paid off. We wouldn’t be so stressed out.
Management should ask the employees for input how to do the tasks more efficiently, instead of telling us how to do our job when they have no clue how to do it. They spend more time doing reports than managing people.
Hmm. You cannot control all that. Those of us can barely buy groceries. How do we change eating habits and the rest of our lifestyle without funds to do so?
It is good business to keep people inspired and have a good work environment. If not, then do as you say and earn your paycheck and move on somewhere else.
The way people speak about getting laid off being this existential crisis is odd to me. I’m a carpenter and I’ve been laid off hundreds of times. The job ends and you find new work. All the people that freak out when laid off don’t really have any skills that are worth anything and that’s why they get scared. You only put all your trust in a corporation and hope they carry you when you have nothing to offer the world.
The problem is there is no right and wrong anymore. It’s just what happens to be RIGHT, right now for the powers that be. There’s zero predictability of what side you’re on. You know what’s right, but then you hear the complete opposite needs to be done.😮
People don't like their jobs because we are underpaid, overloaded with mind stressing tasks! and we have no time autonomy. And if you tell "stop winning you millennial" ill say "Fu boomer, convert your pdfs yourself"
I can tell you what happened. We started putting MBAs into "management" positions instead of experts at the actual work. But something else has happened. MBAs are all educated basically identically. They learn that people are "resources" to be "managed", not persons to be lead. We now use weasel words to describe things in the work place. Team leads became "supervisors", the personnel office became "human resources", staff personnel became "managers". The bottom line is this: the entire problem is created by, sustained by, and demanded by neoliberal indoctrinated morons with "business" degrees. Being an engineer in a department "managed" by "business" degree holders means that no actual engineer work ever gets done. Add DEI hiring to that and you get what we have. Toxicity at every level.
Record amounts of jobs have been outsourced into other countries that are starter positions, up to mid-level positions in both blue and white collar jobs. The same executives farming out American labor to save money are the ones we should respect? Curious to know how many of the same jobs they’re sending overseas were the same or similar ones they cut their teeth on when starting their careers.
People don't like their jobs because we are underpaid, overloaded with mind stressing tasks! and we have no time autonomy. And if you tell "stop winning you millennial" ill say "Fu boomer, convert your pdfs yourself"
The problem with my job is we have a lot of managers, but NO LEADERS to be found....
You must be talking about my company cause it's the same way where I work.
And the middle managers are cowards and won’t stand up to anybody, especially the people above them. So the basic people get ran over
I tell my boss,
You're here in case, there is no TP in the john, or I don't get my check, or I need time off.
Fully autonomous.
I feel like every job I have ever had has been like this... It never gets better and IDK how any of these companies stay afloat. I want to leave and I am really learning patience but I struggle looking for another job because most of them are SO TERRIBLE!
Wow, you nailed it. The managers where I work are just awful. Everyone's afraid to make a decision, so projects languish for months and even years.
Put your energy and time into yourself, your family, and your friends. Hone your skills and make them transferable. Corporate loyalty and "job leader" loyalty are disposable for sure.
Do my best to treat my employees with respect and leniency. The absolute worst thing is to have a toxic work environment. I've lived through it and it drove me nuts, so I try not to be THAT guy. However, in my first year of management, I learned very quickly that if you are too nice, even by a bit, you get taken advantage of really fast. You have to walk a fine line, it's not something you learn over night.
That too. But employees respect you and will do everything you ask. I’ll be lenient, but I always stress that deadlines and when I call upon you I expect a level of respect and responsibility. You have a personal matter to attend to, fine…just remember that the monthly deadline is set at x time. It’s a balance…
I have a former manager that was the reason I left a toxic job and I look back with more clarity and time and I wonder why I didn’t quit sooner! She had a pathological need for control that didn’t just include work but every facet of her life. She was massively passive aggressive. Big gaslighter and liar. Micromanager. I had to leave to maintain my own sanity
My department manager is exactly the same. She is all about what she wants and the higher up managers continue to let her do what she wants. So those of us under her have to deal with her. Sad thing is is that she isn't even the worst one at the company.
Kudos for your insight and courage to stand up for yourself! I made ethics calls and they seemed to finally help after years of complaints. It shouldn’t have taken years and sometimes I regret not leaving, but that’s why I’m on a new path and exit strategy now. Have a nice day!
I can’t stand micromanagement micromanagers are Nieve plus they think that they know everything which they don’t finally you know that most people that don’t work want to social media influencers
More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.
The increasing prices have impacted my plan to retire at 62, work part-time, and save for the future. I'm concerned about whether those who navigated the 2008 financial crisis had an easier time than I am currently experiencing. The combination of stock market volatility and a decrease in income is causing anxiety about whether I'll have sufficient funds for retirement.
This is precisely why I like having a portfolio coach guide my day-to-day market decisions: with their extensive knowledge of going long and short at the same time, using risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying it off as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, their skillset makes it nearly impossible for them to underperform. I've been utilizing a portfolio coach for more than two years, and I've made over $800,000.
How can I reach this person?
‘’Aileen Gertrude Tippy’’ is her name. She is regarded as a genius in her area and works for Empower Financial Services. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
I checked Aileen up out of curiosity and i must say i am impressed by her Credentials. i emailed her already, waiting on her response.
I'm afraid to tell my therapist how I feel about my manager. They'd lock me up.
LOL. You are not alone.
Please try to leave that job. I know you shouldn’t have to- so, if you feel strongly about not leaving- I hope your therapist is talking to you about setting your boundaries. Boundaries is what helped me through a difficult time back in 2017. I had to set my boundaries and stick to my boundaries. My boss ultimately was fired and I am still with the company.
@SarahFox-y1f I have a different manager now, but the overall culture is still toxic. I will dust off the resume just in case.
Most leaders have never been trained to or have experience (1) understanding and buying into a company strategy and then (2) leading cross-functional processes that deliver specific outcomes, and (3) designing the jobs required to execute key steps in the cross functional processes. Because of this there is chaos in companies because there is no coordinated way to bring products and services to markets. Managers and leaders are hired based on star performance. They are NOT hired because the have built or run, or led successful systems and organizations. They are hired because they were in many cases good individual contributors. Or in some cases they did lead organizations but didn’t necessarily understand how the organization was accomplishing what it did.
Leaders and other upper level workers are detached from the issues real everyday people struggle with. Even at small mom & pop shops in rural NH, the owners don't understand the issues that young people have
I checked out six months before I retired early, but I put a plan in place first, and that plan required a six month timeframe. So, I stayed around did the minimum, and left at exactly six months.
I quit the day after we had a meeting in which we were told if we didnt want to be there to quit so that they could find people who actually wanted to be there. Keep in mind this company is a shitty place to work at because they tolerate people who stir up drama, bully and harass other's in turn leaving to low morale and people wanting to quit. I lost all respect when i hear the condescending way in which we were told to either deal with it or leave. Rolled my toolbox right out at the end if the week and so far i love my new job. I can sleep 5hrs a day but still have more energy to do my job than at my old workplace.
Walmart has tyrannical managers. I worked there 20 months, it blew my mind. Largest U.S employer. At 55yr old and semi retired, Ive had many years employed of many managers. I couldn’t believe the things I witnessed. I’m a stock holder in the company and feel guilty knowing how this company operates and treats employees
Here’s an example. We had two employees dating. Both about 20, boy and girl. They both worked minimum a year. The boy quit and got a job with AT&T, the girl stayed at Walmart. Few months later the boy commits suicide week of Christmas. The girl is broken by this. She leaves work and is told she can come back after the new year, like 5-6 days later. She comes back and is fired that day.
A kid was turning 21 and asked for his birthday off, 2 months in advance in middle of June on a Thursday. He was declined.
So if you ever wonder why Walmart can’t keep good employees now you know. BTW, if you work a holiday, no extra pay. Need 20 more examples, let me know. I could do this all day
Wow. Do you have an opinion as to they “why” managers are or just be like this?
@@SarahFox-y1f a store manager can now make $450,000 in annual salary. So department managers are trying to make a name for themselves, hoping to get position one day.
If anyone is curious, I had no absences after 20 months. I worked 3 days a week. My father was 84 and needed extensive care. I asked for time off to be with and help my dad, no pay etc. I was denied. My father passed away. I found it odd that college students and high school could leave for months at a time for school, but I couldn’t for dying father. I took the time off anyway and was fired. Me at age 55 got fired for first time in my life
Understandable. Just let let me get your stock so you dont feel bad.
In some jobs where you have to deal with all kinds of workers and a boss in person, there's a higher chance of dealing with a rude worker or boss who is in a bad mood, wants the work done fast, or wants the work done their way. It's worst to put up with this for long hours of working so much stress for one's mental health. No, thanks. The more people a person deals with, the higher the chance of a toxic environment. I prefer working for myself from home to make money where I can work at my own speed without dealing with rude workers or bosses next to me for many hours.
After working as a project manager for a few years, I would rather help people in self development and leading groups to other operational type disciplines. Projects and construction is LOTS of paper work and legal and contractual responsibility. But helping people to grow is golden.
BTW you two are my weekly refreshers for interpersonal and career perspectives. Love you guys.
My husband had this problem at work, and he felt completely stuck because our house payment kept us trapped. We sold our big house, downsized and paid it off, and he was able to change careers and is no longer under bad management. Well run businesses seem few and far between. Sometimes the reality of the job market requires an adjustment, because it is pretty bad in most places. We could have the big house OR a job he loved, but couldn’t have both in our city.
Americans hate their jobs because the CEOs and leaders get RICHER AND RICHER as they lessen the amount of people doing a certain job, thus Americans are stuck doing the work of 2 plus people so that CEOs and leaders can continue enjoying their lake homes every weekend! We are worn out and burnt out!
@@Travis12861earth called you need to wake up this is reality. Your chances of finding any Corporation regardless of how big or small that does NOT want to severely limit the quantity of employees who are pulling the weight who are the ponds on the chess Battlefield is about as common as finding grass in a park the smell of gasoline at a damn gas pump
@@Travis12861 I was doing voice to text on my phone and the Samsung s20 for some reason left out the part where I said quote do not " or quote does not " want to
We work with a European company, they are off the whole month of August every year and December. How? That is unheard of in US
Exactly!
Dave Ramsey makes plenty of money and it appears (I have visited their HQ) that most of their workers are pretty happy.
Healthcare has become all about paperwork.. My job has become less enjoyable over the last 20 years due to this. But in reality, I have found a location that treats me better overall. Management is definitely stressed, but I stay away from them as much as possible and try not to think about what 'might' happen or the 'what if's'. I work in a place with a lot of others in the same job. and everyones perspective is different. I like my job, and others are desperately unhappy. From where I was before, we have it pretty good at this location. Private Equity has taken over America and we are drowning in it. It needs to be stopped.
Good conversation. MANY Americans in this boat.
I was a middle manager for too long. Actually traded jobs with one of my leads. One of the best moves I've made in my career. My health and my family's health have improved dramatically.
When I left my IT job they had me working on 10 projects, some with multi-million dollar budgets across 3 Fortune 500 companies in roles from Director to developer, project manager and sr. analyst at the same time. 50 meetings a week then management responsibilities and code to write. Constant task switching left me exhausted. Nothing could get finished due to competing priorities. I was close to a breakdown. The comment about external pressures nailed it. Have to keep the shareholders, stock analysts and the board of directors happy so let’s run 100’s of projects without enough staff to keep cost down and grow, grow, grow.
I’m a new manager who is failing at my job. Not enough resources so I work 70+ hours. Commute is 90 minutes each way. Workers I’m responsible for are ‘grandfathered’ in to their low productivity. Boss doesn’t care, loads me up with special projects that’s not my responsibility. Shameful part is last night I slept in my car to avoid the long drive. I feel trapped.
Apply apply apply . Escape try really hard to escape. This shouldn’t how someone should feel about there job
Find a new job. DONT talk to your boss unless you have a nice savings. He/she doesn't seem to care anyway. They might fire you if you complain to them.
Get out of there
You need to find out these things before starting another job. Ensure you have the personnel…if you don’t ensure that they’re willing to build the team that YOU want. I started a job coming into 2024 that required me to do a lot of work, but I understood that coming in…added members to the team that are professional and understood my vision. It was stressful at the start..now it’s on auto pilot because I’ve had the skills and experience to turn the place around. But I’ve said that this job really was to prove to myself that I could and also to pad my CV…my next job I’ll make sure that I don’t have to rebuild a department like this again. Once was enough
I do like watching conversations of importance. I will say the office people seem to be someone else in the work place where the folks who do physical labor not in the office setting seem to be happier and more themselves.
The key is to stop thinking linearly and add the third dimension of a side hustle and your manager won’t take up one’s precious mental real estate. In fact, the right fitting side hustle will energize one’s primary job and perform even better. The topper is with the combined income, you (and your spouse) will be making more than your manager (and even the director). So beautiful.
I don't have a leader, I have an extreme micromanager. I'm neither inspired nor motivated to do much of anything but quit... If I could.
I have a sibling who works in what she considers to be a toxic environment... Actually I think she is the person who is toxic because of her entrenched attitude... It depends on your attitude when you are at work.. No matter where you are in the world if you're intention is to be a kind in loving person.
It doesn't matter where you work or where you shop or who your neighbors are... It is true that at a job there are some tasks to perform... But it's your attitude that makes the difference. Buckle down
I was telling someone this the other day…most times the person who complains that it’s a toxic environment contribute to the toxicity. People do not self evaluate. I do know that there’s instances where it’s not your fault and other people are just miserable..but there’s some instances where you can just buckle down and do your part
Monitoring productivity and saying you have to work x amount of whatever is what ruins works and makes it miserable. You can’t do good work when you’re forced to rush through things just to hit their productivity goals.
I hate my job because 1) no leadership vision nor authority to make a difference, 2) no team except via virtual VTC teams (no one come to the office to actually interact), 3) always resource constrained so people are always busy on "priorities" with no time to collaborate, 4) lots of things are on "duct tape and bailing wire" and leadership has no funds to repair, 5) no one willing to take time to change for improvement and actively resists change, but offers no feedback on what can be done. Lots of passive-aggressive resistance to changing anything for improvements, and lots of complaining that "processes don't work".
I'm sure a lot of folks might complain about pay and benefits, but my greatest beef is overall feeling that I wish I could be making a difference and not being able to.
There is a lot of pressure now to be more and more efficient. I work in Civil Engineering on US transportation infrastructure. I now compete for work with employees in the same company that work and live in India and make 1/5 that I do. Word from above is 30% of all projects are to be produced overseas. The expectation is to add 10% per year until we are at all Engineering is produced overseas. US staff will then convert into sales and management. So much for the next generation. They wont get the chance to lean and grow and will not have the background to go into project management and sales.
I work for a large defense contractor we develop the technologies that keep America safe, all first level managers don't have the necessary staff and budget to train and develop the work force, and yet our company paid out 2023 5 Billions dollars in buy back and dividends, our benefits are getting cut evey single year, I called the enemy from within...
@8:10 dude cops here in NJ small towns make 180k/yr, dangerous yes, i dont recommend, but the dollar sum is there, and as for danger all jobs driving a vehicle have higher fatality rates at work, and a lot of lawyers and finance guys i grew up with are already having heart attacks in their 40s, and are in terrible health.
It’s real simple. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your business and customers. It all starts with the CEO. They should be asking their “leaders” what can I do to make sure that you take care of your people. Then, leaders can ask their employees, what can I do to make sure you have what you need to take care of the customer. What happens is that employees are neglected, over worked, taken advantage of, and it affects the customer and moral of the organization. It’s depressing.
Most managers would throw a good employee under the bus to save their bonus or promotion. I know it’s not what people want to hear but it’s true. Integrity has gotten washed away in the modern American workplace environment
We have a awful work life balance
My manager makes jokes about firing people at every opportunity. We are over here thinking this isn't funny, because we can't feed our kids if we get fired, and lose health insurance because of how insurance is tied to jobs in this insanely crazy way it works in the US. There is no training at my company for middle managers, and only a few are good. The good ones are usually overworked, and end up quitting.
Can anyone suggest a few side hustles with low barriers to entry that don't involve driving?
I am convinced that my company takes the absolute worst candidate possible, and then promotes them to management. There is not any logical explanation for why this happens over and over. WHY! I'm going to have to quit my job AGAIN because of having another terrible manager who texts me after hours and then writes me up for not replying on my personal phone almost immediately.
Interesting convo
If minimum wage kept up with gold inflation, we’d all be making at least $60 an hour. Our houses, cars, and student loans would be paid off. We wouldn’t be so stressed out.
Oil kept up that's what a lot of oil guys make or more.
It’s not the leader it’s what leadership has become….
I hate my job because it's not the type of work I like yet I keep trying to keep the place from imploding.
If your job stresses you out THAT much, you are in the wrong job... It's not worth it! No amount of money is worth your marriage or health.
I know that if I work really hard, one day I'll get lucky and die.
Im struggling to be a good employee because our system upgrade did not go well. 😫
Management should ask the employees for input how to do the tasks more efficiently, instead of telling us how to do our job when they have no clue how to do it. They spend more time doing reports than managing people.
Hmm. You cannot control all that. Those of us can barely buy groceries. How do we change eating habits and the rest of our lifestyle without funds to do so?
Those who call others toxic are toxic themselves. Jobs were never meant to inspire you or build your mental health. Earn your paycheck and move on.
It is good business to keep people inspired and have a good work environment. If not, then do as you say and earn your paycheck and move on somewhere else.
@@georgeschindt1685 wishful thinking, sounds like you need to open your own business. Unicorns will be your mascots.
I need a comfort lizard.
Green Iguanas are great
Hol up... Is Dr. John wearing Deloney AC⚡DC shirt?
Responsibility with no authority
The way people speak about getting laid off being this existential crisis is odd to me. I’m a carpenter and I’ve been laid off hundreds of times. The job ends and you find new work. All the people that freak out when laid off don’t really have any skills that are worth anything and that’s why they get scared. You only put all your trust in a corporation and hope they carry you when you have nothing to offer the world.
Not everyone can find new work as easily as the trades.
@@JewelBlueIbanez people with actual skills can. Lots of unskilled office staff floating around with nothing to offer except a warm body.
I hate my life. It sucks. Getting old sucks.
The problem is there is no right and wrong anymore. It’s just what happens to be RIGHT, right now for the powers that be. There’s zero predictability of what side you’re on. You know what’s right, but then you hear the complete opposite needs to be done.😮
I just hate that I can’t find a job. 2024 is cooked
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Also, I think managers should have the sack enough to tell his/her hire ups NO. Moreover, why not.
We hate our jobs because we know the corporations are looking for ways to Automate or AI our jobs.
@@joshemkes14 hahaha, you'll come around. it's coming for you as well
I friggen hate working. GD help me. Ahhh lol
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No one cares kid
People don't like their jobs because we are underpaid, overloaded with mind stressing tasks! and we have no time autonomy. And if you tell "stop winning you millennial" ill say "Fu boomer, convert your pdfs yourself"
One word: Boomers
Is beta boy Ken try0ing to mirror the fake doctor?
OMG I didn't think Ken could look more foolish but he proved me wrong
I can tell you what happened. We started putting MBAs into "management" positions instead of experts at the actual work. But something else has happened. MBAs are all educated basically identically. They learn that people are "resources" to be "managed", not persons to be lead. We now use weasel words to describe things in the work place. Team leads became "supervisors", the personnel office became "human resources", staff personnel became "managers".
The bottom line is this: the entire problem is created by, sustained by, and demanded by neoliberal indoctrinated morons with "business" degrees. Being an engineer in a department "managed" by "business" degree holders means that no actual engineer work ever gets done.
Add DEI hiring to that and you get what we have. Toxicity at every level.
Record amounts of jobs have been outsourced into other countries that are starter positions, up to mid-level positions in both blue and white collar jobs.
The same executives farming out American labor to save money are the ones we should respect? Curious to know how many of the same jobs they’re sending overseas were the same or similar ones they cut their teeth on when starting their careers.
People don't like their jobs because we are underpaid, overloaded with mind stressing tasks! and we have no time autonomy. And if you tell "stop winning you millennial" ill say "Fu boomer, convert your pdfs yourself"