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Posted: 9/5/2024 8:16:07 PM EST

I've literally lost count of how many "my job sucks so fucking bad anymore" conversations that various people have started with me over the past few months. It has become a VERY common topic of conversation. FWIW, my job sucks ass lately as well.

I also know several DECENT, hardworking, and experienced people who've recently lost their jobs.

What's going on out there?

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:18:26 PM EST

[#1]

No idea. I'm retired. But I liked my job a lot. In fact I still pick up some small jobs now doing the same thing. of course being self employed helped but I really like my job. I normally don't get into those conversations because people don't want to hear you like your job and don't have a boss. So I skip them.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:19:40 PM EST

[#2]

Ain't got no windows

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:19:43 PM EST

[#3]

Everything sucks when Democrats steal an election and take over the country and implement their treasonous policies.. but I digress.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:19:57 PM EST

[#4]

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No idea. I'm retired. But I liked my job a lot. In fact I still pick up some small jobs now doing the same thing. of course being self employed helped but I really like my job.

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What did/do you do/did/done?

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:20:02 PM EST

[#5]

Lots of bad management out there now. I could write a book.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:20:04 PM EST

[#6]

Actually really happy with mine right now. If it sucks that bad leave, life is too short

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:20:12 PM EST

[#7]

I like mine.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:20:27 PM EST

[#8]

Covid changed things. Dunno why.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:21:19 PM EST

[#9]

Don't love it but I don't hate it.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:22:05 PM EST

[#10]

I love my job!

Wait, loved…

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:22:31 PM EST

[#11]

I enjoy my work environment.

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Posted: 9/5/2024 8:23:26 PM EST

[#12]

I like my job.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:24:41 PM EST

[#13]

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I have had a variety of job titles for doing the same job.

My actual job I started out doing before I out of high school is a structural steel detailer. Someone that produces shop drawings from engineering drawings so a shop can fabricate the structural steel. I also do large plate structures like precipitators, bag houses, carbon capture structures etc... Other titles for basically the same core have been project coordinator, estimator, project manager, and I also program machines like plate burners and two head 5 axis cnc beamlines. There are a lot of people in fabricated structural steel offices that can't read design drawings or detail drawings. The larger and more complicated the better. I moved into the 5 Bs. Something broke down, something burned up, something blew up at a chemical plant or refiner so I did a lot of on site measurement and quick design/detail work to get a process going in hours/days as needed.

It's always been ineresting to me, and every job is different. I've done chemical plants and reffineries mostly but also bridges, buildings, power plants, paper mills and such.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:24:53 PM EST

[#14]

I like my job, and it pays well. And the people I work with are generally great people.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:26:08 PM EST

[#15]

I like the work I do, I hate my job. I don't trust management or the process. It is a garranteed no layoff position.

The field is full of liars and cheats trying to get ahead.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:26:21 PM EST

[#16]

I am happy with my job. So is my wife and daughter.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:26:56 PM EST

[#17]

Used to love my job.
Used to…

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:27:13 PM EST

[#18]

I love my job. It's my life's work and I'm very happy doing it. I spend more time doing that than anything else. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:27:36 PM EST

[#19]

job market is favoring employers

employers turn into fucking assholes because they have no worry about retaining/replacing staff

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:28:23 PM EST

[#20]

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Don't love it but I don't hate it.

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Posted: 9/5/2024 8:28:38 PM EST

[#21]

Not me, my job is pretty damn good.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:28:49 PM EST

[#22]

Hate mine. Pays well but idk how much longer I can put up with it.

Before I switched companies same type of work 40% less pay. I loved work.

Debating getting into real estate appraisal

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:29:08 PM EST

[#23]

Or is it just that the culture that has time to hang out on TicTok and YouBoob is the one that doesn't work so they're all you hear about?

I miss Rush.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:30:05 PM EST

[#24]

I don’t hate my job, but between the customers, the coworkers and the boss it makes me want to quit and work for myself.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:35:26 PM EST

[#25]

I swear no one even works anymore.

I worked from home for a LONG time before the covid nonsense, I loved being able to go to stores during the week and they’d be empty.

Now, Costco is a freaking madhouse open to close every day.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:35:48 PM EST

[#26]

I am a huge glass half full guy, but I loathe my current work situation…

I’ve been in high stress, demanding jobs before, and loved the challenge. This one is soul-crushing. It is not sustainable for me.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:36:24 PM EST

[#27]

Tired of being short handed. Tired of only having 10 applicants where 8 of them don't have any experience in the field they are applying to. The 2 that do, one won't answer the phone to set up an interview. The one guy that comes in, either doesn't want to work in the department he sent the resume to, OR, he ghosts you after passing the drug test/background check. Tired of twenty-somethings not knowing 2 comes after 1, "c"comes after "b" and before "M".

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:36:50 PM EST

[#28]

Work isn’t something I love, but I don’t hate or dread it.

I was at a decent place, but a bit of a long commute. A few months ago got something close to home and it’s a better culture too.

Anyway, I can do 20 years and not want to hang myself.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:37:04 PM EST

[#29]

I'm doing quite well.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:37:05 PM EST

[#30]

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Lots of bad management out there now. I could write a book.

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A single book wouldn’t be large enough to hold all the content. It would require an encyclopedia to record it all.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:37:30 PM EST

[#31]

Used to love mine. It kinda sucks now but pay is great.

My VP is just a terrible leader. Never commits, manages up exclusively.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:37:59 PM EST

[#32]

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I swear no one even works anymore.

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Or wants to work.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:39:52 PM EST

[#33]

I like my job.

But corporate has been overrun with nepotism, work from home, sycophants who are becoming increasingly insufferable & are having a shockingly negative impact on day to day operations with their endless emails, reports & trying to one up each other by cooking up “busy” work for the staff that adds nothing of value. So it probably won’t be long until I join the “my job sux!” crew.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:40:33 PM EST

[#34]

Mine sucks mainly because of a contracting fuck up, so at least the end to a one man show ends soon.

Once the others are back full up I'll be back to knocking out my area and helping when I feel like it versus doing everything.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:41:22 PM EST

[#35]

I actually really like my job right now. I've gotten promoted twice in the past four months.. First time I got promoted I got an $8k a year raise. The promotion I got yesterday came with an $18k a year raise. And yes, I still work for the same company I used to complain about.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:42:23 PM EST

[#36]

I don't think so.

I hate mine, but all the people I work with seem to be content with where they're at. I very much need to start studying for a different job or am considering just quitting and figuring things out from there.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:42:44 PM EST

[#37]

It’s been getting steadily worse for the last few years and no signs of it getting any better.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:44:32 PM EST

[#38]

I moved to a small business for the first time in my professional career two years ago and it's been great. (I worked for a small local restaurant in high school)

My MBA hate comes from real world experience, working for large companies. The problem is not "the corporations" as leftists think, it's both leftists not understanding real world human nature and also not knowing about their industry. "I got my MBA, clearly it applies to carpentry." Have you worked with wood? "No."

The education system sucks, but also US monetary policy has somehow made small business risk adverse while large companies pile on risk and get baked out. We need more small businesses. My favorite HVAC guy graduated high school with me and is killing it, while also being honest and informative.

You can't be a subject matter expert unless you actually do the subject matter.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:46:00 PM EST

[#39]

Put simply, who do you go to for brain surgery?

#1 graduate Harvard, #1 graduate Mayo Clinic

Or

I went to Northwestern but I have done 250 brain surgeries

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:46:27 PM EST

[#40]

Mine is a roller coaster. Right now it’s feeling pretty shitty

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:47:16 PM EST

[#41]

I love the job
Hate the fucking people

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:47:22 PM EST

[#42]

I like my job, just hate the management team.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:50:56 PM EST

[#43]

Love my job. Things have been getting progressively better since 2020.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:53:07 PM EST

[#44]

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job market is favoring employers

employers turn into fucking assholes because they have no worry about retaining/replacing staff

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In retail pharmacy, there is a HUGE retention problem; the young'uns aren't signing up like they used to, and the older hands are bailing out due to being burnt out and saying fuck it.

My wife called her regional manager Tuesday to report an issue, and the first thing out of the manager's mouth was "you aren't calling to quit too, are you?" They had 3 pharmacists, all long-time employees quit, in the last 2 days. Replacements are few and far between.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:56:37 PM EST

[#45]

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I love the job
Hate the fucking people

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I like my job, just hate the management team.

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People quit managers, not jobs. MBAs are the soul sucking force of our economy.

Would you like to make widgets? I think I could make widgets! Could you work (schedule)? Sure I could work that schedule!

Men tend to find fulfillment in work, whether you're painting cars or fixing pipes or manning artillery. People are being trained to shun that, "personnel is your #1 expense" and other such nonsense. MBAs can measure every metric except humanity. And adopt every shitty Japanese flow theory they just read a book on. But they can't be bothered to ask you what your job entails, what's easy, and what's difficult.

This disconnect in how work is actually completed, how people are fulfilled, how profits are made, and how customers are retained, is the single biggest force making people miserable.

Posted: 9/5/2024 8:57:01 PM EST

[#46]

Nope. Love mine.

Posted: 9/5/2024 9:00:58 PM EST

[#47]

I love my job.

Best one I ever had.

I hate my income taxes though.

FBO FJB

Posted: 9/5/2024 9:00:58 PM EST

[#48]

I love my job.

I love the people I work with.

I enjoy most of the customers I work for.

The thing I enjoy most about work is at times being in a position to allow my employees to go home early with their full day's pay.