Job Frustrations 2 in Life In The Now.

Hi all,

So since my last entry I’ve just been kind of plodding along in my job, well until today that is.

Today I decided that enough was enough and I won’t be going into work tomorrow. I’ll be visiting the doctors to get signed off for a little bit until I can get a new job, of which there is an opportunity already on the horizon it seems, but we’ll see with that come Friday I think.

For the past couple of weeks I was waking up and thinking, can I really be bothered? What’s the point of working for a company and doing your best when they really couldn’t give two craps about you? You get no support but they’re more than happy to take, take and take, is that really what I want?

The answer is no. I’ve saved them plenty of money in the long run, resolved countless complaints and high level escalations but the company isn’t interested in rewarding what can be proven and shown to be dedicated by someone with an ability to do the job to an exceptional level.

Instead I’m moved sideways into different roles whilst inept people remain in their positions even after having consistently poor results, whilst I’m constantly given pointless advice like:

• Raise your profile within the site.
• Keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll get recognised.
• Create your own role and a demand for it.

Whilst listed there, they all seem like reasonable and plausible things to do and I’d agree with that if it wasn’t the same 3 years on. In the years my centre has been open, only two people have actually gained promotions to a new grade, that’s a scary fact but also proof they aren’t interested in promoting people and prefer to place people in secondments which they can then take away at a later date.

Don’t get me wrong. I know I’m totally bitter when it comes down to it and the reason for that is because I cared. I cared about my customers, the company and what it wanted to achieve but whilst they are “doing what’s right for its customers” they are screwing over the staff and they aren’t even getting the customer part right either, far from it.

So today I woke up and said to myself, enough is enough.

I’m not going to be able to change what they are forcing upon everyone with the hours, nor am I going to be able to get what I feel I deserve as an opportunity to progress because they’re happy where I am and I’m not.

The situation can only get progressively worse and my current secondment ends this week, so what’s the point of even finishing that off when it only benefits them? I saw no point when there is no reward and I was so fed up of listening to myself whine, hence my subjecting all of you to it now instead, you’re welcome :)

So that’s where I am up to at the moment anyway. I’m kind of hoping the other job doesn’t get posted for a couple of weeks so I can take that time out and prep myself properly but nor do I want to be off for to long due to boredom lol.

Hope you’re all doing well out there and thanks for reading.

G