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Do you enjoy your job? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I am not in a comfortable situation in mine. It is a bit toxic tbh. The rest of it seems normal - so many meetings, everyone fumbling around trying to meet the goals that shift around. I do like the parts where I get to write code though:-).

Nobody enjoys 100% of every day and every activity. But do you enjoy your job... mostly?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No, but it's more the conditions than the job itself.

Baking can be enjoyable and actually kinda meditative. On the rare days that I get to just do that, it's nice.

But my average day is spent fixing what's been forgotten/ignored, and filling in every role no one else felt like doing that day. All four morning people can be there, I'll still have their leftover work to do as they all start getting ready to leave once I come in for the afternoon, and whatever was already planned for me.

They all leave their work space worse than a kindergarten class on fingerpainting day. Yeah, of course you need to leave an hour early, again. Your table is caked in 2 feet of icing and there's a pile of dishes pouring out the sink.

My managers shouldn't be allowed to work together, they spend more time talking about their personal issues than they do actually working.

I have spent months telling them that I'm burnt, we need at least one more night person, and on weekends having two together would help. They got another morning person instead. All while telling me we're getting in "so many applications".

Our company wants to sit there and praise us for being the top preformers in our area, but it's more important that the larger, but worse preforming, stores get all the new equipment. We can just put up with equipment they don't even make parts for any more. I work with the Ovens of Theseus, it's put together with entirely refurbished parts picked out of the salvage yard at this point. They also can't hold temperature for shit.

It feels even worse, because it's not something I feel like I can talk about anymore. I know my friends are tired of hearing me bitch about work, I can't talk to my coworkers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Yikes!? Ultimately it sounds like you are expected to either "take it or leave it", doing more work than them e.g. if you have to clean up after both them and yourself and also your planned work and also any of theirs. I've heard that about baking: it's toxic.

I hope you can figure something out, like maybe you can switch to the morning shift yourself? That might not be as ideal for your circumstances, but it sounds like "ideal" is out the window entirely at this point, and you are trying to simply survive somehow.