I've worked for my current employer for over ten years. It has had its ups and downs, but generally it's been okay. Recently, though, it's taken a down turn. A year ago I had been getting discouraged and seriously considering finally getting out. Then some things changed just as the environment at my previous location started to get even worse with the transfer of some new managers that were little more than corporate company stooges and assholes. An opportunity arose for me to transfer out to a new location and a better position and I took it.
Now it's nine months later and things have gone south again. The first eight months were near gold. I liked my new position and the problem solving aspects of it. But the position was dissolved (it was a part of a pilot project) even though I performed admirably and beyond expectations in the role. What's worse, though, is that rather than getting a sideways move to the more traditional role of supervisor (which I had already been training for a year ago) someone was promoted over me, someone with nowhere near the experience and background I have. And numerous individuals in the store have remarked privately that they all feel I got shafted. I can't argue with that.
Now I'm back to doing something that I had long grown tired of. I can do it in my sleep. Whereas before I had to use my mind now I'm just an automaton going through the motions just to get through the day.
I feel numb and I now hate my job where before I felt positive about going to work. Everything around me stinks and I can't stomach the corporate like mindset around me that seems evermore pervasive than I ever noticed before.
What's worse is that I now have to defer to a very corporate minded individual who doesn't know a tenth of what I know.
Time to look for a new job because I now fucking hate the one I've got. I don't even think the prospect of this guy falling on his face would make me feel better. I'm that soured on the place. And note, too, that numerous people have complained about this guy. He's very much a clipboard-and-stopwatch-and-rule book type with a measure of full-of-himself mentality thrown in.
Speaking for myself I do have one failing: I have never bought into company bullshit and I've seen plenty over the years. And I've never been a yes man.
Anyone else hate their job?
Now it's nine months later and things have gone south again. The first eight months were near gold. I liked my new position and the problem solving aspects of it. But the position was dissolved (it was a part of a pilot project) even though I performed admirably and beyond expectations in the role. What's worse, though, is that rather than getting a sideways move to the more traditional role of supervisor (which I had already been training for a year ago) someone was promoted over me, someone with nowhere near the experience and background I have. And numerous individuals in the store have remarked privately that they all feel I got shafted. I can't argue with that.
Now I'm back to doing something that I had long grown tired of. I can do it in my sleep. Whereas before I had to use my mind now I'm just an automaton going through the motions just to get through the day.
I feel numb and I now hate my job where before I felt positive about going to work. Everything around me stinks and I can't stomach the corporate like mindset around me that seems evermore pervasive than I ever noticed before.
What's worse is that I now have to defer to a very corporate minded individual who doesn't know a tenth of what I know.
Time to look for a new job because I now fucking hate the one I've got. I don't even think the prospect of this guy falling on his face would make me feel better. I'm that soured on the place. And note, too, that numerous people have complained about this guy. He's very much a clipboard-and-stopwatch-and-rule book type with a measure of full-of-himself mentality thrown in.
Speaking for myself I do have one failing: I have never bought into company bullshit and I've seen plenty over the years. And I've never been a yes man.
Anyone else hate their job?
