Topic: Officially, I quit my day job. Anyone else hate their job/boss? (Read 2821 times)

It's suppressed but it does exist. I should get off my fat ass and start looking.

How's the market for a new job for you?

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to complain.

I used to love my job, I'm decently paid and am responsible for some things that actually make a big difference to my company. My job has been getting worse for years, management have run the company into the ground and there is no longer money for essential equipment, some months wages get paid late. The assistant I was promised never turned up, The day I was meant to interview him I was told there was a change of plan and I'm not getting him. If I leave there is nobody to do any part of my job. Management are all scared of the micromanaging control freak CEO. This CEO is screwing a secretary half his age who now gets paid 3 times the going rate and gets a company car too. The rest of the management are too spineless to do anything about that situation. This CEO nitpicks everything to find problems that in most cases don't even exist then demands solutions to them. The company refuses to hire sales staff or advertise their core products although there seems to be a huge market we are not even attempting to sell to. The idea of paying sales staff on commission won't even be discussed. Current sales are not enough to reliably keep the company functioning but advertising costs money so they don't do that. The suggestion that we should make the website prettier ( because it currently looks like shit ) was met by an email flame war that lasted weeks. The website still looks like shit. The entire management team appear to be arrogant to the point of telling anyone who will listen that their potential customers are wrong about everything. Anyone who comes up with improvements for anything is given hell by the management who appear to be bitter that they have not come up with a single good idea this century. The company insists on employing an army of pointless administration staff who spend months doing pointless tasks like picking a color for a new carpet when there is no need and no money to buy new carpets. Email has become a torture tool with vast floods of irrelevant mails flooding everyone's mailbox. The CEO appears to spend 6 hours a day reading email and doesn't understand why everyone else doesn't do the same thing. Good staff are quitting and useless staff are staying only making the situation worse.

Good on you Electricbees. I think you did the right thing. Now go find something better and do it well! EDIT: I see you already did.

I work 8 hours a day. 5 days a week... I hardly do any work.... I get paid a decent wage for what I do..... I can't complain......... I am sitting at home on the PC writing this post and getting paid for it...



Yeah paid lunch...

I quit 12 months ago from a cosmetic company
ups and downs since then, but an interesting ride.

Dream Big !

All work is self-employment. There is no indentured servitude anymore, except sometimes in prison. Whether you fulfill a contract or punch a clock, you have opportunities to learn valuable skills which can translate into areas you never imagined. If you hate your boss, what would you do different? If you feel strongly about something the boss does, are you afraid to say so to their face? Personally, I think Fifth Avenue management tactics in America are pretty fail and executives are often downright criminal.

I grant your wish! You shall now make as much as the goddess Penia.

I wish I made a goodly amount...

Because you wouldn't. That's the kind of job you wouldn't quit!



I've got another job as a paper carrier, which nets me about 30k pretax while I still attend college.
The job I quit? 4,000 plus some odd change for my federal/state return.

I worked about the same hours at both jobs. After getting promoted several times at the paper, quitting became much more appetizing at the ice cream place.

I might also add in that I've been working on and off at the paper since I was about 5 years old. Boss is also my father. Now, I wouldn't be making QUITE as much as I do if that wasn't the case, but I do a damn better job than most of the half-brains he employs. I make fun of people/students/kids with poor work ethic, and I think I am in a position where that's not hypocritical.

My boss is a cool guy and my job is basically my dream job. Even if I was unhappy, why would I quit and give up a goodly amount of income in this economy?

No, I work in a children's hospital.

...A job one looks forward to? What the hell do you do? Build the cardboard tanks for BAE Systems?

(On a side note, I would love to build the cardboard tanks for BAE Systems...)

NEET?

No, love my job, I have a manager who actually knows how to manage people *and* still get clinical work done. I look forward to coming to work in the morning.

Having low stress and being able to drop off and pick up my kids from school is worth the low pay of my current job. Plus my wife earns a shitload as a manager in her job which more than covers the bills. I quit my last job by backing the truck into a bulldozer 

That was just the thing.. We got shit customers like that too. We dip cones, and people would ask to mix flavors. We'd explain that it contaminates one flavor with another, and can't do it. On more than one occasion, customers would throw anything we made away, and demand it be remade. "I THREW IT OUT BECAUSE YOU DID A SHIT JOB. MAKE IT GOOD THIS TIME."
Beverages have been thrown on our windows, we've been robbed, and all the while, our boss who simply owns the building refuses to let us managers work with a full crew because he's a cheap bastard...

Whoops.

All is forgiven, then. Booze is one of the universal excuses.


Oh, the stories I could tell.... That one's a good one, though.

Whoops! I hate it when people do that. But in my defense, I was drinking a little too much last night. Actually, way too much...

]It has it's up's and down's. I worked front end for two years. You got to keep in mind that every needs to eat, so you will have to deal with every type of person.

I once had this stupid bimbo walk up to my counter, rang up her food, then she starts incoherently bitching at me. "What's wrong ma'am?" "THIS THING! IT DOESN"T FUCKING WORK" "Well, hold on, let me see". I proceed to check the Creditcard PIN machine. She cuts me off right before I tell her that it seems to be in perfect working condition. "IT WAAYYY TO DIM! HOW THE FUCK ARE CUSTOMERS SUPPOSE TO SEE IT IF IT"S NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH?!". (I chuckle a little on the inside) "I am very sorry, ma'am. I'll have maintenance check on it right away". She finishes paying, then leaves. I turn around to my manager, he's already facepalming and laughing his ass off. The chick was wearing sunglasses.

Don't work in a super market.

I normally enjoy engineering, it can be very fun/interesting/rewarding. But my employers recently put me on a bullshit project where I manually time how long it takes ANOTHER guy to do manual labor. Since I have ADHD, going from autonomy and producing results to... this... has been excruciating in a way that is difficult for me to describe. I'd rather be the guy doing the manual labor if I could keep my paycheck.

It actually coincided with the current rally, so I've found myself entertaining "I quit" fantasies similar to what you guys describe. C'mon $1000/BTC!

Good for you! The land of the free and the brave needs more of you.

I work for myself and am also starting a mobile marketing plan for local businesses.