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My once great job had becoe hell

leekohler said:
Not really looking for an answer here- just want to vent. I've been with the same ad agency for almost seven years. When I started, it was a great place to work, but over the years it has become oppressive. We were recently bought by a large company that has restructured us to the point of near- death. People are working 10-12 hours days plus weekends, including myself. I will move on if this continues, but I'll be sad. I love my co-workers. I'm just so frustrated. Anybody else experiencing this?
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Wow, sounds exactly like the situation i am/was in, i always had the long hours though. Gotta love the "efficiency experts" even though at least where i am at 90% of the choices they make seem to have little to no business sense. As for me, I am moving on, found a new job.

Good Luck
Ed
 
leekohler said:
Wow- nobody? I must be in a serious minority. I guess I should quit.
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It was only 40 minutes. Maybe everyone was having dinner? ;)

The last two places I worked at were like that and I bailed on both of them. Life's too short to work someplace you hate. I have friends that stayed, but they hate it. They just b*tch and whine, but they don't leave so I really don't feel sorry for them.


Lethal
 
leekohler said:
It's just so sad, you know? It used to be a great place I was proud to say I was a part of. Now- it's just awful.
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Yup i started to get those feelings after 6-7 months @ my last FT job :eek: and started to slide down from there .. like closing up/keeping all the stuff that goes wrong, i kept inside o felt like i had no support from my supervisors etc .. I'm hopeful that the new job has better respect conditions then the last .. :eek: :eek:

Thanks Lee.. srry if i hi-jacked your thread but i just need to vent too .. :eek:
 
leekohler said:
People are working 10-12 hours days plus weekends, including myself.
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Welcome to my world (although you didn't mention having to work night shifts too! Although I signed up for those hours and get paid for them. You've got to enjoy work (especially if you're pulling long hours).

Why not put feelers out to see how readily you be picked up elsewhere. No sense jumping ship if you can't see a lifeboat (unless of course you are a really good swimmer) - this metaphor could go on!
 
iphil said:
Yup i started to get those feelings after 6-7 months @ my last FT job :eek: and started to slide down from there .. like closing up/keeping all the stuff that goes wrong, i kept inside o felt like i had no support from my supervisors etc .. I'm hopeful that the new job has better respect conditions then the last .. :eek: :eek:

Thanks Lee.. srry if i hi-jacked your thread but i just need to vent too .. :eek:
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The universe is trying to tell you something Lee. There's something better for you out there, and you shouldn't be afraid to make the change.
 
Yep , know the feeling. I work usually 10 hrs a day and most weekends at some point. Sometimes I will get a call at home and have to come in and fix stuff. It sucks!!!!! And politics between different managers is alwasy stupid. There is always these two guys that are butting heads, and just won't let the job get done.

I have never had a situation where the place your work makes nearly impossible to get your job done. There is either red-tape/politics/or something else in the way!
 
I know how you feel. I've felt underappreciated and overworked at past jobs. I stuck with them for as long as I did mostly because of the people. I have the occassional late night at the job I have now, but I'm not complaining.
 
I've been trying to get Lee to quit this job for some time now, as he is more than capable of earning much more money freelancing.

Abstract said:
Do they pay you overtime for working 10-12 hours per day? If you were working 8 hours per day before, it hardly seems fair to work more hours for the same pay.
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No! No one is getting paid overtime. According to Lee, his company is cashing in on the "you're an artist - you're lucky to have a job at all" mentality, which is complete and total ********.

aquajet said:
The universe is trying to tell you something Lee. There's something better for you out there, and you shouldn't be afraid to make the change.
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100% agreement here.

Takumi said:
START your own company

Takumi
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I'm in 100% agreement with this too.

Lee, you're too damn talented to play pawn when you should be a king.

e
 
leekohler said:
We were recently bought by a large company that has restructured us to the point of near- death. People are working 10-12 hours days plus weekends, including myself. I will move on if this continues, but I'll be sad. I love my co-workers. I'm just so frustrated. Anybody else experiencing this?
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Lee, I am not in this situation anymore, but I can definitely sympathize -- I've been there before. And yeah, I decided to move on, but it was a very tough decision. I had to finally come to the realization that things were never going to go back to the way they were before.

Best of luck with whatever decision you make.
 
I understand the position you're in. I've been at [large Finnish phone maker] for seven years. The first few were great. Then the slide downhill began. A few months ago, 15 of the 20 people in my group were let go. I very much like the other 4 that remain, but work sucks. Nothing creative to do, Sword off Damocles over our heads, longer hours, etc.

Why do I stay? Great benefits and pay. However, I am looking to leave. It has reached the point where whoring myself out for the pay isn't worth it anymore, and the software job market is starting to pick up, slowly.
 
The second you feel your job is depressing, the very moment you wake up and wish you didn't have to go to work - don't.

A job that does not make you happy, and is not absolutely 100% what you want to do, is not only not worth doing, but is also better of being done by someone who wants to do it.

Far too often people find themselves with jobs that do not make them happy, and are content with the idea that 'any job is better than no job.' This is not true.

Do what you want to do, no matter what it is. A person who sweeps the street, knowing every day that there is no place he'd rather be, is much better off than a person with a top-level office with a window overlooking the world who hates every minute of it.

Go to work to be happy, not make money. This place doesn't make you happy any more, and that alone should be reason enough to stop going.
 
Josh said:
A person who sweeps the street, knowing every day that there is no place he'd rather be, is much better off than a person with a top-level office with a window overlooking the world who hates every minute of it.
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Yes, but does the street sweeper get group health insurance?
 
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