Hating your job., A theme in your life? Options

[pandora]

So it doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that I've pretty much f**ked up my life by not having enough patience to stick with a job for longer than a year. If I could go back, I'd still be working for lifescript because they had GREAT benefits. But no, I decided to take the first offer of a bigger paycheck that came my way.

I was looking back at old blogs from sweetvertigo.com and I realized what an idiot I am.

April 4th, 2007: I Hate Yellow

If i have to create another yellow design for work, I will literally vomit in my boss’ face. I usually love yellow. In moderation. I have a lot of yellow shirts. Yellow is in right now. But yellow as a background for a website? No. I dont fancy getting sued for giving someone an epileptic seizure.

Of course my boss doesnt respect my opinion. Because hes an a-hole. Wait, no, thats not right. He’s a perky a-hole. He can be totally disrespectful, but happy and nice at the same time. And that makes it all the more infuriating. At least with a boss that just yells at you all the time, you can take comfort in the fact that if you tell them something and they yell back, they would have had to actually be listening to you in the first place. With my boss its like talking to a brick wall. A happy yellow brick wall that smiles and nods and completely just ignores anything you say or, even worse, patronizes you.

This job is pissing me off more and more each day. First he reels me in by saying I wont have to deal with customer support anymore, because that’s pretty much half of what i did everyday at my old job at iCella. But no. I still have to deal with customer support everyday. So he lied. He says I’ll be working with another designer at my side. Cool! I have someone to split the work with. Guess what, guys? That designer submitted his letter of resignation the day I started.

I know what you’re all thinking. It was me. I drove the designer away because I’m such a pushy bitch. No, no, no. Rick and I are the best of friends. We talk all the time online, and rant about how this job is so much bullshit. He left because he finally couldnt take it anymore. And now he’s an angry, bitter, mexican guy that screens his calls because he doesnt want anything to do with the company anymore. Is that going to be me in a year? He actually HAS patience. I know, because since I received absolutely no training before he left, I’ve had to ask him a million questions via emails and AIM about different protocols. So he has to have a lot of patience. But me? I have none at all. Between not getting paid the correct hourly rate for working overtime, to dealing with a boss that literally has sunshine up his ass, how long before I get fed up with the crap?

This was two jobs ago. I'm realizing now that it wouldn't be called a job if you loved every aspect of it. It's why you get paid for it.


What are some things you hate about your job or your past jobs? Is it enough to make you want to quit?