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Antiwork 2: No One Is Getting A Pay Raise

Realized the mental health field isn't good for my mental health.

I'd rather work in the predictable hell of retail than wonder if a client will swing on me today.
 
May 3: Suspended from work for unexplained reasons. Figured termination was coming and I treated it as a soft firing.
later in May, was told I was under investigation for shoving a resident. The state and Recipient Rights told me the claim was substantiated. The state and RR had pretty much decided by the time they talked to me.
May 31: Terminated from my job. They charged me with Abuse Class 2, which means I'm not getting back into residential care any time soon.

It's just been a real struggle to find another job since.
 
My computer is a crash addict. It’s a crashhead.

…It all started two weeks ago. At first, it would only crash a little, like it just wanted to get the occasional taste of that first crash, but now it gets crash as fast as it can. It usually holds out a little more than a minute between crashes now, but it’ll get another crash within five seconds if it can.

Crash. The gateway new work computer.
 
I'm going back to a previous employer, pending reference and background checks.

Working with behavioral and traumatized youth, most of which need assistance with ADLs.
 
The problem with being a manager at raise time wasn't figuring out my staff of 1's raise, it's knowing the budget and then getting mine which is .5% lower than the budget and wondering who my boss gave that extra .5% to. Also, getting to see her notes on my performance review 3 months after she submitted them to find that I need to basically be someone/something I'm not. To paraphrase, 'wT did all the things but she doesn't get involved in projects she's not on'. I work in a boy's club that sucks at communicating, despite being on the management team half the time I don't know what's going on. Sorry I wasn't in meetings I didn't know about. Sorry I don't invite myself where I wasn't invited. Introverted wT is not going to go in places guns blazing. It's just never going to happen. And while some of her other quality managers may have done more, I've done what I could with what I have. I went most of the year without a quality engineer, to be told this year that position is not going to be filled now, closed the req. Also, compared to the other plants mine is a poop show. I've been there almost 6 years and we've had just as many plant managers in that time.

Anyway, very demotivated. Left work on time yesterday, and think I will stop giving this company more than 40 hours a week. eff it. Applied to a few jobs last night.
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
The problem with being a manager at raise time wasn't figuring out my staff of 1's raise, it's knowing the budget and then getting mine which is .5% lower than the budget and wondering who my boss gave that extra .5% to. Also, getting to see her notes on my performance review 3 months after she submitted them to find that I need to basically be someone/something I'm not. To paraphrase, 'wT did all the things but she doesn't get involved in projects she's not on'. I work in a boy's club that sucks at communicating, despite being on the management team half the time I don't know what's going on. Sorry I wasn't in meetings I didn't know about. Sorry I don't invite myself where I wasn't invited. Introverted wT is not going to go in places guns blazing. It's just never going to happen. And while some of her other quality managers may have done more, I've done what I could with what I have. I went most of the year without a quality engineer, to be told this year that position is not going to be filled now, closed the req. Also, compared to the other plants mine is a poop show. I've been there almost 6 years and we've had just as many plant managers in that time.

Anyway, very demotivated. Left work on time yesterday, and think I will stop giving this company more than 40 hours a week. eff it. Applied to a few jobs last night.
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Sometimes companies make it clear that you'll never succeed there. It sucks, and I'm sorry.


I was so insanely luck this past winter/spring. I decided I needed a change and like 9 weeks later I started a new job. Lightning absolutely struck for me.
 
I've been at my current firm 18 months now and the new job high/smell/aura whatever has definitely worn off. Worst part is this time I have to acknowledge it's entirely me. The firm has treated me great, I love my immediate coworkers, the pay is great, even the actual legal work is good.

It's the stress of general firm life (billable hours, being essentially on call all the time, drive some new clients, etc) that's getting me. I loved the fact that with few exceptions, i could clearly delineate work time and non-work time at my government job. If I was on vacation, I could literally be on vacation and not check work email until i was back on the clock. Now I feel obligated to at least check email and most likely do some actual work while traveling and semi regularly on nights and weekends. And I don't like that.

I'm not planning any immediate moves, but it is just disconcerting for me. 6 months ago I would've said 100% I'd want to stay on and go equity partner track. Now I'd say that's 50/50 at best. And given how dramatic a shift that is in a relatively short time frame, I'm really questioning myself.
 
I feel you. At my old job i worked for a consulting engineering firm. The constant stress about billable hours and long hours took its toll. Now that I'm working for a large company I still have to do a time card but I don't have to stress as much since I can just ask my boss for more projects.
 
Swansong said:
Sometimes companies make it clear that you'll never succeed there. It sucks, and I'm sorry.


I was so insanely luck this past winter/spring. I decided I needed a change and like 9 weeks later I started a new job. Lightning absolutely struck for me.
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Succeed is relative. First of all, one must not count out the idea that the boss is making sure that their job isn't being threatened. Second, being in management is a success any way you put it, as long as your group is productive. Even though your upper management may not see it, if you are making sure the people who work for you can get their jobs done easier then you know you are doing a good jon.

And lastly, at some point, you will know that you are done with moving up. Basically when you know that you don't want to put more *time* in for the sake of time. For sure, you will put your normal effort in at work- which is higher than normal wT- or you would not be where you are. But finding that balance between work and life has to be found for everyone. Some are willing to work 120 hours a week even if they are only at work 50 hours. Some are willing to work 30 hours a week when they are there 40.

Not saying that wT shouldn't move on- that's a very personal decision. But given the climb in the organization- it's a success. Now you need to decide whether it's enough to be where you are or not.
 
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