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[autumnluv143]

I think I'm ready to quit my job. I've fucking had enough and it's not worth my time and effort to drive this far, spend this much money in gas just to be this pissed off after only an hour. 


I should not have to hold someone's hand to do their job correctly.
I should not have to beg them to do something just because they feel like they are here doing everyone else a favor. 
No matter what the job market looks like, you should only have to put up with laziness and stubbornness so far.
After two months of getting nearly NO results, I'm frustrated beyond a point of clarity and beyond a point of forced calm.

I'm trying not to do something rash, but I'm really just not sure if I can take this. I was back there attempting to tell one of the guys that something he neglected to do this weekend because he "can hardly keep up" and "I'm only human" is a must...not a choice when the regional manager walked in and asked what was going on. I just walked away.

I'm frustrated, tired, down and seething. Not a great way to start the week. All of this because on Friday I told the same guy that I wasn't going to go back there everyday and beg them, act all coy and be sweet and "will you do me a favor?" just to get them to do what they are supposed to be doing anyway. He decides, because of that, that he's not going to do it because he doesn't feel like it? WTF??

I'm going to sit here, drink my coffee and try not to start screaming or packing up my desk. It's not professional and wouldn't be right.

Grrrr

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[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

I don't think that I understand exactly what it is that you *do* well enough to offer anything beyond sympathy at this point.

Angry puts other people in control. Impulsive decisions put you at risk (I know you know this).

What I'd be interested in knowing is: What is it about your work situation that's eating your lunch emotionally? Is it other people's not doing their jobs that makes it impossible for you to do the good job you want to do and you can't say anything about it without looking like someone you aren't (eg a whiney baby or a tattle tale)?

[autumnluv.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm the quality and safety officer for a coal testing lab. We pull coal off of river barges and petroleum coke from oil companies, test it for quality and report the results. Most of these companies are selling the products for alternative energy resources.

My job is to make sure that we are doing that to the very best of our ability. I have to ensure that we are following all available company standard operating procedures because they have been tested and evaluated and are the right way to ensure you are getting the best results.

My problems are that A) I'm working with people who have been doing the same things for 30 years and their philosophy is "If I've been doing it the same way for this long, why should I have to change it now?" Opposition to change is never easy and I know that. I was warned about it when I took the position from an easier one in Denver. It's only in the last couple of years that the company has gotten on the ball of making sure everyone company-wide is on the same page with procedure. B) I can't make anyone care about their jobs. I work with lazy, unmotivated, whiny-assed nincompoops who can't understand that what I'm trying to do is to make sure that the corporate people don't come in and make them go bye-bye and replace them with all new people.

They call me the police because when they won't work with me, I tell a manager and to get me to shut up, the managers tell them they have to do it anyway. I don't care about that but at what point is enough enough?

Yes, I have to do things right or I don't think there's a point in me being there. I stopped working in retail because I was told (in no uncertain terms) that I was being entirely too helpful to the customers and I needed to focus more on what they wanted me to do (which was not help the customers).

If any given part of today had been ok, I would be able to go into work tomorrow with a clear head and get over my frustration long enough to do what I could towards my job description (which they seem to be making up as they go along..it's bad enough that they only hired me because someone needed to do the job and none of them wanted to).

[fake-accent.livejournal.com]

babygirl, I totally feel you, ok. I took a week to think about it before I handed them a letter. Btw, I looked like shit that week that I took think. So, because of that, they knew it was coming.

[autumnluv.livejournal.com]

I just hate the fact that I love the experience that I'm getting and it's a job. It's income. To start over, I'd have to find a new job that pays me decently. On the other side of that argument is that I'm sure I can find something much closer to home. I travel an hour back and forth.

I'll figure it out...I just keep telling myself to stick it out for the rest of this semester and then I can find a new job. Oi, that seems like 4 years from now instead of 4 months.