I Can't Take It Any More
That's it. I can't take it any more. I started this blog with such high hopes that I was going to do a weekly entry and I have failed miserably. Why, you might ask? Because my intention was to make this a positive commentary on work.
HAH!
What a joke.
I haven't been able to come up with one single creative yet helpful blog to write in three weeks. I just keep thinking about all the things that make me crazy about this new job. So to hell with it. For as much as I didn't want this blog to be just another rant site, I'm putting whatever comes to mind out there!
Take today, for example. I am normally chained to my desk as a receptionist (which was not how the position was described to me). However, I was invited (encouraged) to sit in on some computer training that lasted about an hour and a half. Well.....I forgot to tell the LEAD boss that I was going (to an office around the corner) and I guess I was considered MIA. I came back to my desk and opened an e-mail from a co-worker advising me to send my daily schedule to the LEAD boss to report any time I expect to be away....lunch, training, meeting, vacation, whatever. I am so used to coming and going whenever I pleased. I was so used to being trusted to do what I needed to do and my wherabouts were never questioned.
I had always heard about the oppressive culture of the cubicle but never fully understood it until today.
Anyone else out there feel like this? Anyone? Anyone? Really? Am I the only one?
HAH!
What a joke.
I haven't been able to come up with one single creative yet helpful blog to write in three weeks. I just keep thinking about all the things that make me crazy about this new job. So to hell with it. For as much as I didn't want this blog to be just another rant site, I'm putting whatever comes to mind out there!
Take today, for example. I am normally chained to my desk as a receptionist (which was not how the position was described to me). However, I was invited (encouraged) to sit in on some computer training that lasted about an hour and a half. Well.....I forgot to tell the LEAD boss that I was going (to an office around the corner) and I guess I was considered MIA. I came back to my desk and opened an e-mail from a co-worker advising me to send my daily schedule to the LEAD boss to report any time I expect to be away....lunch, training, meeting, vacation, whatever. I am so used to coming and going whenever I pleased. I was so used to being trusted to do what I needed to do and my wherabouts were never questioned.
I had always heard about the oppressive culture of the cubicle but never fully understood it until today.
Anyone else out there feel like this? Anyone? Anyone? Really? Am I the only one?
I agree with you completely! I worked in the Corporate world, although it too had its downsides, after 22 years there I had freedom, flexibility, and what used to be called VACATION! Then, being over 45 years old, I was suddenly "downsized" and forced to scramble to land a similar paying job... landed one in the legal field, good salary, but what I didn't realize when I took the job is there is NO freedom, NO trust that you can do your work, NO breaks, and NO VACATION! They now have what is called PTO time... a lousy 15 days a year for everything, if you are a few minutes late... it comes off your PTO, doctor appt... comes off your PTO, sick family member... comes off your PTO so by the time I reached one year on the job and summer hit... I had no time left to take a vacation break. I feel like I am in a prison and I am hardly the only one there with the same thoughts. Why don't they understand that limited a person's ability and not being flexible or even slightly understanding actually hurts productivity? Amazing. My question is how do I find either a better more family friendly and flexible employer or how do you go out on your own and make it financially?? Thoughts?
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