Job Worries

[FMJeff]

Anyone else stress out everyday that they are going to lose thier job? I show up late all the time cause I'm a lazy fuck...5-10 min but its still late...my boss eyes me every time i walk in the door.

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[Furtherman]

Lateness isn't too much of a factor in my job. What I have learned is to shut up and keep to myself. No more happy hours with the co-workers. Everyone bitches about everyone else and it always seems to get back to that person. I've had friends let go just because they were not liked by a couple people. Apparently, if you get a little gang together and head up to HR you can have someone let go. The guy I knew did an excellent job but was let go (with a package at least) because two of his higher-ups didn't like that their clients had a better relationship with him than they.

Doesn't make sense does it?

I'm currently looking for a new job because I'd rather work at a professional atmosphere and not a high school one.




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[reeshy]

I work in a job that is very, very stressful. Everything I do has time limits on it and I do mean everything!I am so wiped out at the end of my shift I could go to sleep sitting in my car on the way home. Then you come back the next night and have to hear the supervisor tell you that you literally forgot to dot some i or cross some t in your documentation. Forget that maybe, just maybe, you saved a patients life the night before-that doesn't count-just the fucking paperwork!!

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[HordeKing1]

Jeff, if you're consistently showing up 5-10 minutes late, knowing that your boss sees you every day, and despite fearing for your job, it seems that some part of you is almost daring your boss to fire you.

Perhaps this job isn't as much to your liking as you think. Perhaps you feel you can do better elsewhere.

Otherwise, just set your alarm 20 minutes ahead of the time it's set at now and you should get to work with time to spare. If you still arrive late, then you know for sure that you are not happy with your job and that on an unconscious level you're deliberately arriving late.

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[Cybersoldier]

There are rumors over where I work that job cuts could come in the summer, and being a college student I need the job

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[DJEvelEd]

I was going to post a new topic but this thread fits perfectly.

I am VERY depressed today because:
1) I just found out I'm losing my job in August. I've worked for my company for 15 years and I'm in the union. I'm not the only one they're letting go but it's still no consolation. I just got 5 weeks vacation time this year and now I'll never get to use it. I love running the auditorium and it's something I'm good at. I am the only person in my building who has the knowledge of our auditorium where we do worldwide broadcasting from so I'm hoping to pull a few strings and let management know what is going on before I fall through the cracks. I have knowledge of satellite, fiber, routers, switchers, video/audio patch bays but it seems like it's all for naught. I've survived about 4-5 layoffs but this time people with 18 years are out the door. Looks like I'm back to square one. I'm so stressed and I feel like such a fuckin loser.
2) I'm losing my license July 1 for DUI. I've NEVER driven drunk in my life but the cops found a speck (o) (actual size) of pot on my floor so in Jersey that means no license. The cops added injury to insult when they beat and kicked me on my front lawn while in handcuffs. (I'm filing Civil Rights charges against the officers but it still doesn't get my license back)
So I had to move out of East Brunswick where I was a caregiver for my Grandmother(she had been living with me since her stroke and I miss her so much I'm crying now) this fuckin really suxxxxxx
So in the meantime I'll be an unemployed no license motherf'er in Bayonne. I feel my life is crumbling around me...






I could really use some good toilet humor today

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[walking joint]

for the first time in a while i feel more secure about my job. i work in the financial industry and job security has really sucked with the market going down so much the past 2-3 years. finally a bit of a rebound and my company is actually hiring again.

[hyperspace]

ive been outa work a year!! i voluntarilly left my job (medical lab driver) after 5 years because i just couldn't take it anymore!! i kinda regret it now but its too late!!!!!

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[HBox]

I am rumors over where I work at is that job cuts could come in the summer, and being a college student I need the job

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[DCfezzyfan]

I was actually "let go" because a senior person didnt like me. It sucks, but it happens. I need to learn to keep my effing mouth shut!

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[Reephdweller]

I definitely feel this. My company was recently taken over and so everyone is in panic mode that they're gonna lose their jobs.

Hopefully after the dust settles I'll still have a place to work. As for the late to work thing, I have the same habit.

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[sr71blackbird]

I worry all the time that my company will downsize or outsource our department. My co-workers arent woried because they feel that they are union, but there are like 5 people in my own office that are EIT (employee in transit) until they find them a permanent position. I dont wanna do that! I trained for what I do and I dont wanna mop some floor some place because I dont have seniority. I think this whole phase our society is going through will smash any worker who had visions of a work place ethic into thinking that its better to look out for "#1". Thats just my humble O

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[Legolas]

I'm a 22 year old sociology major. I was scheduled to graduate this year, but due to credit issues, I won't be. The bills are overwhleming and I've borrowed so much money from the bank to go to school. I'm supposed to start paying them back in August, but I don't have any money. I still don't know what I want to do when I graduate.

Hordeking help me!!! lol.

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[HBox]

I'm a 22 year old sociology major


There's your problem.

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[Legolas]

What's wrong with being a sociology major?

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[FMJeff]

Perhaps this job isn't as much to your liking as you think. Perhaps you feel you can do better elsewhere.



understatement of the year

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[A.J.]

They're reorging here again. I'm deeply concerned.

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[HordeKing1]

Perhaps this job isn't as much to your liking as you think. Perhaps you feel you can do better elsewhere.

understatement of the year

There you have it. You feel undervalued and unchallenged. Your persistent 5-10 minute lateness is a manifestation of this. It's a slight act of rebellion or even contempt for the powers that be.

Despite the lousy job market, you'd be much happier looking (and of course finding) a more challening and interesting job.

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[sr71blackbird]

What's wrong with being a sociology major?


Well, its that its going to be difficult finding a job as a sociologist or social worker. They typically arent paid well anyway.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Today I was talking to one of my sales reps. He told me about this guy at another publishing company. He's in his late 60s and they kept offering him the retirement package. He kept declining. He loved working. They eventually just laid him off. Now he has no retirement package.

I'm glad I don't like working THAT much. If I know my company is in trouble and they offer me a package, I'm taking it!!!!

Besides, retirement isn't what it used to be. Years ago it meant you just stopped working. With today's economic situation, retirement is more about leaving the job you HAD to do and then doing the job you WANT to do (given that you saved well). So, 28 years from now, I'll be a puppy wrangler! :-)

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[FUNKMAN]

I get stressed once in awhile, mainly because i feel I'm not keeping up with the Technology like the others in my dept. I work in the Network and got my Cisco CCNA certification, but most others took 4 other tests and have their Cisco CCNP certification.

My boss is a Networking genius and LOVES Networking. Maybe that makes a difference, he sets up Networks at home. I particulary don't like Networking, it's a job for me. When i go home I want to leave the work behind, concentrate on my music, family, house, relaxing, and posting on this board.

I have "very good" troubleshooting skills and know how to use my resources, I just don't "solve" the problem but I can pinpoint it or rule out alot of other "causes".

What helps me now is I'm in a Union and have the 2nd most seniority in a group of about 11. I get to work on time each day, don't call out sick "excessively", and work "very well" with others.

What hurts me a bit too is I work nights and weekends and can't feed off of all of the co-workers with the "knowledge", they all work days...
I guess it helps my Manager that I'm willing to work the nights and weekends, these are the times that almost nobody wants to work...

it seems to me that we are responsible for alot of things:

Firewalls - Nokia and Pix
Cisco - routers, switches, terminal servers, load, Secure ACS balancers
Bay - routers, switches
Telenex - Matrix switches
Nortel VPN
Kentrox Multiplexers
Peripit Data Compressors

and have to be familiar with at least 15 different type of GUI Applications and Troubleshooting tools...

worst thing you want to hear is:

"the networks slow"



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[furie]

I'm not stressed that i'll be out of work. My main problem is that I'm not sure what my job will be or where. I work for the government, and right now I'm getting caught up in this homeland security restucturing. I'll still have a job, and my pay and title will be unchanged, but I don't know what i'll be doing. I have a nice quiet gig here.

I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop since Nov 2001. I'm just hanging in.

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[furie]

Well, its that its going to be difficult finding a job as a sociologist or social worker. They typically arent paid well anyway.

I was a sociology major. I'm doing just fine.

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[reeshy]

Hey Jeff,
Have you been late this week at all???

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[Jennitalia]

i've been very lucky in that i've had 2 fantastic bosses. my current boss pretty much is almost like a second mom to me in some aspects. but she constantly sends her boss and the HR women emails saying what a great job im doing (which, it's more along the lines of i just help her out a great deal). she's allowed me to work once day a week from home during the summer, or at other requests. i can come in at 11 am, and at 530 she yells at me to go home, but gives me a ton of overtime. the company gave out pay cuts last year, laid off a bunch of people, and lots more are quitting. she secured herself a position in our nj office, and then went out of her way to keep me with her. i was supposed to get a pay raise, but the powers that be never got around to it, so now my boss gives me at least 15 hours in overtime each pay period.
then again, a lot of people take advantage of her kindness. a couple of people used to come in late and put down they came in earlier, would take 2 hour lunches, or go out in the middle of day to run errands. one girl didnt want to come in, so she left a v/m for her friend to turn on her pc and to call her cell if she got any pages. well her friend also played hookey that day, and my boss saw that his light was on and wanted to make sure it wasnt anything urgent and heard the message. neither were fired.

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[fiestygal]

jeff ..worry about what would happen to your car..jk

all kidding aside...i agree with HK...i think if you are so worried you dont want your worry to become a reality nah mean

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[ShelleBink]

I'm having the opposite problem.

Recently, of the 3 dispatchers we have at my job ((myself included)), one had to leave Jersey, so we're down to me and this other woman. The other woman does her job well, and we both do are best to make up for the lost person. Because of this, and with difficulty in hiring someone new and proficient for the position, my bosses are terrified if I or the other woman have to leave.

And I get paid more than some of the physical laborers at my job. And my job consists of talking to customers, dispatching work, abusing my boss, and surfing online.

Hate me.

And Jeff, if you're possibly looking for something -- let me know, I know the computer guy we have already has fucked us over, its only a matter of time before he's canned.

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[LilLibra]

At my job, I'm at the bottom of the totem pole. I'm a student-worker... ewww... We pretty much get treated really well if the advisors had a good day, or like shit if they don't. We get told not to do the very things that they do but can't voice our opinion because they are our bosses. Still, because I know I'm a good worker (and I know they know it too. Hell, I just got a raise a few months ago.) I don't bother with them anymore. I do what I have to do, smile every once in a while, and as soon as my shift is over, I don't even know those people. What's more, I see things they do that they shouldn't do and can easily take it all to the Dean. So... I think there's a hidden understanding between us and them. :eg:

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[Evilpete]

Well, its that its going to be difficult finding a job as a sociologist or social worker. They typically arent paid well anyway.


well, imagine how it feels to me a Communications grad like me!!!

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[2BigFeet]

Try civil service, no worries there!

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[JustJon]

I've been out of work since 1/31. Bitch all you want about your job.

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[FUNKMAN]

Jon,

sorry to hear about it, hope something opens up soon...

this does change someone's perspective who is working... makes them a little more grateful...

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