you can always get another job, but once you reach your natural end you can never ever ever get another hour, or week, or year
i would like to state for the record that i am not the oldest person on this board!
if you knew what has been going on in my personal life it might have the backlash effect of entirely removing the word "wise" from your vocabulary
but thanks anyway :-*
Trust me. I had such a shitty job I literally felt it was keeping me from getting a boner.
It's better to not have a job than a shitty one.
You made the right choice. Sometimes, more than often the management of your company is so fucking far up the client's ass that they will literally do anything for them (or for their own senior executives) to show how much they are commited. Of course nothing comes for free and they will slave their own workers to death. It happens EVEN if there is no chance of the project/ deadline to be met just to show the client that "we tried out best, mayne!".
Fucking ridiculous.
Where to from here, though?
Don't you just hate when people ask this question, especially when you have nothing figured out yet.
After working 24 hours (the third day like that in the last week) of unpaid overtime, I refused to come in after another 4 hours. I dunno, was I being unreasonable here? Yeah, we were past our project deadline but (a) it was our own self-imposed deadline, and it was blatantly obvious a week before that we wouldn't make it, (b) there was basically no end in sight and (c) not sleeping doesn't actually help the project get done faster, in fact it delays it because more mistakes get made, etc. It sucks because my financial situation is pretty weak atm ...
I'm fairly tempted to follow suit. The situation where I work has gone completely down the crapper. I started here as an assistant to the IT tech for two business units. Doing so, I started with fairly low pay, as I was just learning. The hours were not too bad, around 40 a week, but usually not over unless there was some sort of special project. Then the IT division of the company took over this campus, and everything changed. I'm now the only person on-site for 18+ business units, I have zero on-site assistance. I support 5+ business units remotely. My counterpart in Georgia is a moron, and will constantly call me for help, which I really don't have the time to give him, because if I could tell him how to install a program five times, I could have installed it ten. At any time, I have 10+ items in my ticket queue that need worked on, and people wonder why things aren't done the second they're put in. I started getting emails at 7AM today about someone that wanted a laptop set up for today. They were traveling out of state and had to give it to a user there. I got the ticket YESTERDAY to set this laptop up, and it said they wanted it worked on today, not done today. But even so, how am I supposed to get anything done when the priority keeps getting bumped for the squeaky wheel? Just tell everyone to call my boss and complain? I've already had complaints about things not "getting done in a timely manner". There's nothing I can do without help, which they refuse to hire. And I honestly don't feel that compelled to work much harder, since I haven't seen a raise since I started here. I'm still making assistant pay when I'm the only fucker here. It kills me that someone can flip burgers for more than I make. And this is my "career".
If I had a better offer, I'd be gone in a second.
I'm fairly tempted to follow suit. The situation where I work has gone completely down the crapper. I started here as an assistant to the IT tech for two business units. Doing so, I started with fairly low pay, as I was just learning. The hours were not too bad, around 40 a week, but usually not over unless there was some sort of special project. Then the IT division of the company took over this campus, and everything changed. I'm now the only person on-site for 18+ business units, I have zero on-site assistance. I support 5+ business units remotely. My counterpart in Georgia is a moron, and will constantly call me for help, which I really don't have the time to give him, because if I could tell him how to install a program five times, I could have installed it ten. At any time, I have 10+ items in my ticket queue that need worked on, and people wonder why things aren't done the second they're put in. I started getting emails at 7AM today about someone that wanted a laptop set up for today. They were traveling out of state and had to give it to a user there. I got the ticket YESTERDAY to set this laptop up, and it said they wanted it worked on today, not done today. But even so, how am I supposed to get anything done when the priority keeps getting bumped for the squeaky wheel? Just tell everyone to call my boss and complain? I've already had complaints about things not "getting done in a timely manner". There's nothing I can do without help, which they refuse to hire. And I honestly don't feel that compelled to work much harder, since I haven't seen a raise since I started here. I'm still making assistant pay when I'm the only fucker here. It kills me that someone can flip burgers for more than I make. And this is my "career".
If I had a better offer, I'd be gone in a second.
Can't you get a job at a porn store?