So I really loved my job. It was the first time I had liked a job in ages, and it was because I was dealing mainly with professionals and a more polite generation.
However it is now time to quit. Why?
Well for one thing, as usual I wasn’t wanted there. The person that did not want me there probably thinks he is unique. He is about as far from unique as Little Shiva was, which is not at all. Men are insecure little piggies with nothing in their heads and no understanding of what single females have to do to get the bills paid.
One company I was unfortunate enough to work for had two lazy golfers employing me at minimum wage to complete their deadlines whilst they took their kids to school. They used to stand in the office openly complaining at female staff, who were actually running the company despite being administrators, getting even the most modest pay rise.
I have no idea what irked this trainer so, probably he is just an insecure little man who has little under his control so he thought he would take it out on me.
I survived a year of this, but quit on Friday and am now working out my notice. I had three job offers today alone, so I am not particularly concerned about this.
I could write a blog just about work, I have seen so many crap people and crap companies.
This time, an outsourcer had successfully negotiated with a large financial entity to reduce their staff costs and was rapidly employing people to replace the staff they were getting rid of, who had been in the job for years, were very knowledgable but unfortunately had decent wages so they had to go, obviously.
So now the same large financial entity has a phone system that doesn’t work, staff that do not know the topic and who are told that they have failed every month. I was no exception to this, I don’t think I have had a single month in the last year that I have not been told that I am a failure. He likes to pile on the failure too, so things that other staff would be told were minor are absolutely huge when it is my error.
Things like turning up at work, being vaguely pleasant to the customers, showing any willingness at all to find out things you don’t know don’t matter. Getting an initial out of place is the same type of failure as giving incorrect information, so the way you are rated is entirely skewed, and there is no progress, because nobody with any sense stays in that situation for very long.
I could literally have earned more in 20 hours a week over the last year than I did full time, because I wanted to know about the topic, but have found over time that I am not learning very much apart from how not to encourage people to get better at the job and how I really cannot be bothered pretending to be a peer of someone less than half my age that could not care less about anything apart from being nice to superiors in place of knowing anything about the job.
Today alone I ignored two mistakes from other people, because why should they lose their job just because I am leaving and very pissed off? This is not a healthy or positive way to do anything.
I went as far as suggesting they put someone capable of creating a structured training programme in place, but decided that I really didn’t want to contribute to this any more. It wasn’t doing anything for me, so why should I do anything for it?
Very telling was the fact that a drunken misogynist who did not turn up for training got a permanent job quite a while before I did on the grounds that this trainer liked him. This left me very pissed off even before the year started. Now that I have handed in my notice, I am free not to care at all and am likely to be taking some time off shortly rather than put myself at further risk from this job.
Again I was not alone in being hated and discriminated against, evidently this person was also a racist, because a Pakistani and an Indian were rejected before me in the rejection queue.
I am tired of bad companies, bad policy and bad management.
What’s the point of caring, when nobody else does?
