Work rant #1

[reymonkey]

Just got off work. It occurrs to me that unless I sit on my hands a lot, there will probably be quite a few rants about work in here. For the sake of the welfare of mankind in general, I'll try to restrict them to cuts.


I'm looking for a new job. I went to the therapist with Ginny once (I can't *stand* therapists anymore, too many of them as a kid), and I told her a little about the job situation. I've been looking for a new job for a while now. Part of the problem is I can't seem to get a damn interview. I do really well in interviews, hell, I've been in sales. I didn't like it, but I was there for two years, so I know how to put up a good front. The other issue she pulled out was that I'm blocking myself because I'm afraid of betrayal. I have that issue with this job you see, for good reason I think. I was hired as a receptionist/AP/AR in a nice little office with AC, desks, lots of filing space, and two computers. I was interviewed there, and given one of the computers to work on, and I got to sit down (first real job I've had were I did). I liked it reasonably well. I was left alone for several hours right from day one, which I rightly took as kind of a bad sign, but I was learning Quickbooks by myself and cleaning up the train wreck their last person left, and I was enjoying it a hell of a lot more than my previous jobs. I really have no problem working alone, provided I kow what the hell I'm doing and am left with the resources to do it.
Two or three months into the job, he sold the building my office was in.
He didn't do the kind thing and fire me, but instead moved my 'office'. This is a dry cleaning plant, and my office became an old desk shoved into a corner next to a steam vent. I have one two-drawer filing cabinet. I have tried snagging boxes for additional storage, but the only spaces I have to put them tends to get them wet after a while from steam/pipe drips. The heat has pretty much killed the scanner part of the printer/fax/copier, so that it now takes a dozen tries to send a fax or photocopy anything. The boss won't believe me about why it doesn't work.
He took most of the Payable stuff away and has his wife do it from home, which would be fine, except that it doesn't *get* done. Do the collectors call his home? Of course not, they call me, and I can't do a damn thing but take messages about it because I don't even have a record of the unpaid invoices anymore. And why did he take them away? Not becase I was doing badly at it, because I actually had us almost up-to-date before he took them away, and that took work. He took it away because he needs me to spend as much time as possible tagging shirts, bagging orders, and running the counter. He did tell me my position would change "slightly" when the office got moved, but he never told me that I would have to fight him every day for every five minutes of time to do office work. And I do, and when I give up on it, he asks me how come various paperwork bits aren't done.
I could write a novel on how annoying my boss is. And yet, I have worked for him for over one year now. Maybe I am a masochist...

At any rate, Ginny's therapist points out 1)that I have betrayal issues, and 2) asks me if I can think of another time in my life I've felt betrayed.

1) No $*%^ing shit.

2) From about 1st grade on through college.

And I'm still looking for another job.

Comments

[justdbear.livejournal.com]

Yeah therapists can be helpful *laughsoutloudhisterically*

Um...talk to your labor board and see if what they are doing is legal, obviously this is a HUGE change from your job position you had. If it is not legal, you should be able to quit and collect unemployment from him *not great mind you* but it sounds bad to me there, like unhealthy bad.

Here it is illegal to change someone's job description too much without their written acknowledgement of it in a handbook or something and they can quit and it's not their fault, it's the company's. It varies from state to state though but I would ask your local labor board.

You can rant like crazy about your job, no one cares, it's YOUR journal do what you want with it. Go back a year and see how much I hated my old job LOL we were in the middle of a lawsuit and they were letting the business go down the drain and it was written on the walls. Ugh it was horrible and I bitched continuously about it.

You've got the skills, you will be able to find a good job, now how to bribe people into getting you interviews. *HUGS* I am wishing you much luck on that front. It's hard to get a good job. :(

Look out below! More rant!

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I know I've got qualifications, it's just there must be something wrong with my resume. I wanted a job at the receptionist desk for a vet up the street some months back. Put in my resume twice, called about every other day, showed up in person each time I handed in the resume and once or twice more besides. I could not get a single ****ing response out of them. And yet, they're a great vet, we transferred both cats over to them, and it looked like a wonderful place to work. And this was at a time they had a position open, I wasn't just walking in at random. They never gave me an interview.
What drives me nuts is not getting a single response. No one ever even has the decency to call me and tell me 'no thanks you aren't what we need,' or 'sorry we've filled that position,' or just 'we received your resume'. It feeds into an old gripe I haven't had in years, about having my existence acknowledged. I'm not looking for flattery or anything, just if I say hi, it would be nice for someone to say 'hi' back or maybe make eye contact or something. Geez.
And I'm ranting again. It just irks me because not only is it frustrating to me personally, but if everyone gets treated like this then it's frickin' rude.

I don't know that he could be held liable, the man has no freaking paperwork in the first place. I mean *none*. I did fill out a W2(is it 2 or 4?) a few days after I started because I tracked it down myself in a forgotten binder. He's a small business, so he's not liable for all the same things a larger company would be. There are currently 5 employees, including myself. That's just how small. Of course we're also understaffed and he won't admit it. He had more until he sold his coin laundry a week ago, but there were only two people working there.
I'm pretty damn sure I could get his whole business shut down in a heartbeat, but it's not worth it because I think the plce is slowly folding anyway. I just want to jump ship and let him deal with his own shit.

Re: Look out below! More rant!

[justdbear.livejournal.com]

Even with five employees he is being a bastard. That was my problem where I worked to. I MADE them make me a handbook with my job duties, I types the fucking handbook up myself LOL! It was an awesome one too.

I don't know what to tell you, I kept getting turned down at all my jobs because I was 'overqualified' blech be an Advertising Dept manager ONE time heh. My best friend is a business coach for a worlwide company, would like you to pass your resume' to me and let her go over it and suggest changes? I was getting nowhere with mine also until she went over it and tweaked it a bit for me. She had her own business for YEARS and was in charge of hiring lots of people...let me know if you want her to, it can't hurt. (well unless SHE is a stalker and stalks you down LOL) She doesn't generally do this, but she owes me big and so if you want I can have her do it. It helped for me and within a month I had this job. :)

DBear

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Um, sure. I'm really just looking for something part time at this point, so I can work on the comic/freelance thing, but if a dream job came along, I wouldn't pass it up. I guess I could eml the resume to you...

And yeah, he is a bastard, and an idiot. I could tell some good stories.

[justdbear.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Have you ever tried a law office? With office skills they hire people on a part time basis (the bigger ones especially) to cover for people when they are sick and or type of documents and such for them and such and they pay well. I wish you could get into comic freelance. I have contacts in big companies and the country music world but none in comicbook land. :( I can spread the word when get you published though and I can buy many copies! ^_^