Finally most have stopped the madness of 8-10 hours of working to make others rich in nonsense jobs. Finally. People can now rest and be able to just live.
People and lands are being restored.
Everybody stop, breathe, pray for restoration.
It is a wonderful time to be alive.
I can’t stand this workplace, the environment is negative, the workers are unhappy, the customers are ghetto and classless.
The Store Director has a chip on his shoulder.
It’s a very political place.
It is a sales job and I’m interested in the marketing side, specifically market research. My current sales job has heavily increased the amount of merchandising I do, and I feel that I didn’t go to college to do something I did as a teenager for a summer job.
My boss also enjoys taking responsibility for big sales I make.
I often work 8am to 8pm while being asked why I didn’t get to all my stores. My superiors play a game of willful ignorance about customer level issues that cause all the sales reps to work long, unpaid overtime (which is illegal-they’re getting sued for this) because their hands seem tied in terms of covering their own “butts”. Even talking to them about any technical issues in the slightest results in a response of: “I don’t understand. I don’t see how that could be” and me slamming my head against the wall.
Our territories in the past two years have become overly large due to not replacing old territories and we’re still pushed to do what 2.5 sales reps could barely handle two years ago.
Other members of my company come into my territory and screw things up with my hot leads by trying to sell without me, often claiming sales while not actually ever speaking to the decision maker, and then I have to defend myself later when the sale never comes through.
I’m surrounded by work 24/7 because our selling displays are in my house. I work from home and go into the field every day. I have files and boxes all over my house.
The Monday-Friday article you wrote perfectly describes my life every week, and I need time to learn SPSS and other statistics programs to make a change. However, since my life revolves around this job I have a hard time finding time to work on my skills.
~Worker Living in Wisconsin
I’ve been there too long, going nowhere; in fact I’m going backwards.
Work has affected my mood.
I am sick to death of my job.
I’ve been through a crisis and my work city is not where my support networks are.
I lose a lot of time on work and cannot pursue my interests which in turn cannot be created into a career that I want to create it into.
So, it is a vicious cycle of making ends meet so that we have some money to pursue what we really like, but lose time for pursuing the things we truly like. And we get back in the cycle of earning more money and trading time.
P.S.
Below is a pretty interesting post about finding balance and doing something now towards your interest/dreams even while you are stuck in your day job.
I have been looking for another job for the past 5 years.
I have done at least 2-4 interviews a year and still haven’t gotten another job.
I’ve been burnt out from my current job for the past three years (I’ve been at my current job for 9 years).
We recently changed companies and the new management has been hard to deal with. More than 5 managers have left on their own just within the past 5 months.
I try to go in with positivity but it always quickly turns into negativity due to the lack of communication and the style of management.
You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live
