Friday, May 26, 2006
When A Good Job Goes Bad
I hate my job.
Now I hate it more.
Yesterday I learned that I would basically be required to do two people's work. I am not thrilled about this. Previously, my job duties sucked ass, but on the bright side there was little required of me.
The thing is, relatively speaking, I have a good job. It is stable, it is professional, I get paid well, it has good benefits, and there is a good retirement plan. However, my job duties have gotten consistently worse over the last year and a half.
My department has a forced transfer policy. They forcibly transfer people because there are crap jobs in the department that no one wants, and there are problem employees around whom their bosses are dying to transfer because they don't have the balls to fire them. So I was transferred to one of those crap jobs. Even worse, the crap job is beneath me. My department could save alot of money by having a less skilled and lower paid worker in this position. But they don't. And I am stuck here. And I am afraid that my discontent is turning me into one of those problem employees.
I used to get angry about it. Co-workers tell me it's not worth worrying about, to just work your required hours for the day and go home. But I can't follow their advice because it just sounds like they have given up. Also, I'm stubborn. And maybe a little stupid. Sometimes I feel beat down. But I have not accepted defeat. I am using my sick days pretty liberally though.
More on this later.
Now I hate it more.
Yesterday I learned that I would basically be required to do two people's work. I am not thrilled about this. Previously, my job duties sucked ass, but on the bright side there was little required of me.
The thing is, relatively speaking, I have a good job. It is stable, it is professional, I get paid well, it has good benefits, and there is a good retirement plan. However, my job duties have gotten consistently worse over the last year and a half.
My department has a forced transfer policy. They forcibly transfer people because there are crap jobs in the department that no one wants, and there are problem employees around whom their bosses are dying to transfer because they don't have the balls to fire them. So I was transferred to one of those crap jobs. Even worse, the crap job is beneath me. My department could save alot of money by having a less skilled and lower paid worker in this position. But they don't. And I am stuck here. And I am afraid that my discontent is turning me into one of those problem employees.
I used to get angry about it. Co-workers tell me it's not worth worrying about, to just work your required hours for the day and go home. But I can't follow their advice because it just sounds like they have given up. Also, I'm stubborn. And maybe a little stupid. Sometimes I feel beat down. But I have not accepted defeat. I am using my sick days pretty liberally though.
