Are You Dealing With Bullies At Work? It Is A Prevalent Issue in Today's Workplace.

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

My job is monotonous. I do research for a financial firm and have very little to do every day, but the small amount of responsibility I have affects millions of dollars’ worth of stock. 90% of the time I’m bored out of my mind and the other 10% of the time I’m stressed out like no one would believe. 

My boss does not deliver any insight or constructive criticism to his employees except for once a year during 20 minute personal evaluations.

I am also on a team and have been harassed for the past 3-4 years by two women. My teammates talk loudly within earshot of my office about how strange my personality is, how I don’t fit the corporate culture (wealthy with yachts and large families), how I’m too risky with my decisions at work, how my hair looks, etc. I’ve been repeatedly followed to the bathroom by a co-worker who told another teammate she “just wants to see what [I’ll] do.”

I’ve complained to human resources and have been told that I can file paperwork for harassment, but in all likelihood I would be fired instead of my co-workers for “rocking the boat.” I feel like my job has very little purpose and the only thing I accomplish by going into work is being the subject of harassment.

~Worker Living in CONNECTICUT

 

Today, I will deal with any bullies at work, even if that bully is my boss. 

How I deal with it is up to me. 

I might not confront them directly, but I will deal with it. 

If they have been bullying me for years then obviously what I am doing isn’t working, so I need to do something different.

We aren’t kids anymore, but workplace emotional bullying hurts just as much as when we were kids in junior, middle and high school. But we aren’t kids. We can take care of ourselves.  We can make adult decisions. We can deal with these workplace bullies. 

~Ridea Richardson

Once You Put First Things First Everything Else Will Fall Into Place

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

 I’m stressed and need to find peace, figure out my passion, and put my family and friends first.

~Worker Living in TEXAS

When you put first things first everything else falls into place.

~Ridea Richardson

Can You Look In The Mirror, Be Proud of Yourself & Do Your Job?

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I’m driving all over the state “trying” to see doctors whom I cannot see.

I’m tired of educational resources, that aren’t educational at all!

I’m bored.

We cannot call on hospitals, but that’s where we should be.

I keep getting told, “change is coming.”

I’m tired of having to deal with co-workers on the western side of the state who break compliance rules all the time and have asked me to do the same. Completely, undeniably, unethical!!

~Worker Living in IOWA

Some of us have been here; where doing our jobs are almost impossible.

What we are asked to do is just not working. Everybody knows it’s not working, but we keep right on “trying” to do it. 

We skirt around the edges of ethics just to get it done.

It gets old day-after-day and we want a change, but change doesn’t seem to be coming fast enough.

Today, we need to ask ourselves: “Can I look in the mirror and be proud of myself AND do this job?”

~ Ridea Richardson

KNOW You Are Smart; College Degree Or Not

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I’m 23 and I feel as though I’m stuck in a dead-end job that has an amazing bonus structure but isn’t in any field that I’m remotely interested in.

I have to have this job in order to pay down my overdraft but I intensely dislike the people I work with.

I constantly feel patronized by my trainers and I feel that there should be more to my post-university life than this.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

We were told that we needed a degree, maybe two or three.

We believed the system that told us that we needed a degree. So we got a degree or two or three.

We put letters behind our name and we felt proud and smart. 

We are smart: but we are in debt and we feel stuck in dead-end jobs.

We are smart: but we are in jobs that aren’t related to those degrees.

We are smart: but we work with people that we don’t like.

We are smart.

We are smart enough to figure this out.

We are and will figure this out…degree or not…we will figure this out and will find our way…

~Ridea Richardson

 

It's A Brand New Day & Everything Will Be Fine

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

The volume of work is too high for one person therefore I do not have time to cross-train or learn other responsibilities.

I’m not learning anything new and I’m sick and tired of doing the same crappy load of work day after day.

I just can’t do it anymore.

~Worker Living in NEW JERSEY

It’s a new day.

It’s a brand new day. 

Yesterday was yesterday and it is gone.

Today, just for today believe that things will change.  You will make a change in your life.

Don’t worry about your job, or the work, or the work load – TODAY do something to move towards THAT change.

Everything will be fine.

~ Ridea Richardson

There Are No Mistakes, Only Lessons and Messages

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I need a change because of health reasons. I’m feeling trapped and very unhappy and I just blew a chance at a job transfer.

~Worker Living in ILLINOIS

There are no mistakes.

You haven’t blown it.

If you didn’t take the transfer, didn’t do well on the interview, didn’t get the job offer, or the promotion, or whatever you DIDN’T get; it wasn’t for you. 

There are no mistakes only lessons and messages. ~ Ridea Richardson

Are You Living Comfortably But Hardly Living At All?

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I am stagnate. My current job no longer aligns with the steps I need to take to fulfill my goals and pursue life and happiness, other than to pay my monthly bills. These bills are relatively small, as is my income. Most other jobs would fulfill this need. 

I have a long commute and work full-time. I need for my work + commute to be less hours to free up time for educational, business, and self-improving pursuits; or to find a job with a time commitment that aligns with these goals. Preferably, both.

Alternatively, I may be able to structure a lifestyle where I educate myself and pursue my own business, without ‘working’ at all. 

Now that I dislike my inconsistent commute, I may be fired any time anyway. My superiors are not competent, and I do not enjoy my repetitive job duties. I am not positively challenged in my job, and my job is a large percentage of my life, therefore I am living ‘comfortably’ but hardly living at all. 

~Worker Living in CALIFORNIA

Something to Think About Today:

Are you “living comfortably, but hardly living at all”?

Is there a lifestyle you can envision where you don’t have to “work” at all?