Mr Black wrote:
My job... seriously grinds my gears. I was hired on two and a half years ago straight out of college for my audio/video editing skills as well as writing/editing (took print/broadcast journalism). Was pretty stoaked, worked in a really nice office with 20+ people in an up and coming software company. It was great. My first two months there I won company tickets to a Sens Stanley Cup Finals game, glass level (for all hockey fans it's a wet dream and one of the greatest experiences of my life). It was great!
Now for the last 7 months things have been going EXTREMELY downhill. At the end of February 90% of our workers were let go... all my friends in the office were gone. There were only 6 of us that survived the layoffs, with myself obviously being one of them. That wasn't even the worst part...
End of March we were told there was a minor delay in our paycheques as our parent company was holding back funding... the minor delay went on 6 weeks... no pay. Things were ok for about a month pay wise and we again went 7 weeks without pay. It took me threatening our President/CEO that I was going to the labour board for our parent company to get us our pay.
Now we've been bought by a larger company, had a name change and have moved from our very nice, large office near where I live to a small, cramped office in the heart of downtown Ottawa which is WAY farther/harder for me to get to work. I went from a 15 min drive to an hour bus ride. Anyways, the only reason we're even still around is because of this huge project we're doing and the potential customers it could bring in. I'm literally the only person under the production side, and I have to QA my own work (not to mention I'm in charge of training parnters all over the world in this software.... something I'm not even qualified to do but I'm all that's left). My boss and his new boss have been kicking their heels about this for 2 months that I've been working on it and now we're in the final two weeks they're FINALLY starting to concentrate on it, checking my work. They're breathing down my neck EXTREMELY hard and having me redo work that should have been QAed by them 2 months ago. We have until next week to get this project done and we're not even half way yet due to my boss' extremely slow work. I've been working 12+ hours and working weekends and still am getting hammered by pressure by the CEO and my boss to work harder and make less mistakes when I'm the only person producing this shit. Pretty much the entire company is riding on my shoulders right now (and I'm not exagerating at all, it really does) and am still being jerked around. I know they're going to pull me into a meeting and hammer me for making mistakes (which shoul have been caught in their QA that should have been done 2 months ago) and I swear today if they're not careful with what they say I will quit on the spot. I don't even care anymore. If I leave they will be so screwed and won't get this project done. Fuck I hate my job so much right now and have applied for so many others and haven't gotten anything. We shall see what happens today in my most likely 12 hours of work and see if I'm still employed....
Sorry for the giant rant, but I'm so pissed and so stressed right now...
Yeah dude, office jobs are hell. I mean, my job isn't exactly thrilling. I have to deal with people all day. Not just any people......but parents of children in our child care programs. Having to sit there, take phone calls, work the front desk by myself from 12:45 to 9:15, talking to parents who are so damn meticulous with how they want their children to be cared for. The worst part is....I don't take care of any of their damn kids! I'm an Office Clerk and even when I instruct them to talk to the site directors about caring for their children, they insist on telling me everything, and expect me to relay all this specific information (especially the vegans, how I hate thee!) to the site directors in full context.I get paid 9.00/hr full-time, and I don't get paid enough for that shit.
So yeah dude, I feel your pain. I'm thinking about being a pimp. Get some bitches to do my work.