Teaching- any other jobs that make you cry regularly?

I don't understand why anyone does healthcare reception work. It's major stress for minimum wage. So of you're being paid minimum wage, why not go and work in Waitrose instead?
I am a clinician in a medical centre. I look at all our lovely receptionists who have to deal with rude and complaining and abusive patients who get irate and vent at the receptionist, and I just don't understand why they do it for a job. They are on minimum hourly rate. It's an outrage. They could go and work in a nice shop or garden centre for the same money and have a much nicer time at work.
I also think if all healthcare receptionists walked out and got other jobs, then the pay might get increased. It's a disgrace what healthcare receptionists are paid.

@ShagratandGorbag4ever busy morning trolling?

Headteacher.

Why do adults treat each other so badly?

Why are some adults not able to follow policy?

Why do some children have such a poor quality of life?

Why is OFSTED the worst experience ever?

Why have I not had a full nights sleep from the day I started by job?

Admin - I know but I have had some managers be so cruel and nasty. You are lower than them and they will address and treat you so you know your place.

I think this is a really insightful post. Obviously there are plenty of jobs where the conditions or environment are toxic. But it’s interesting to consider the personality types drawn to particular jobs, and if that makes them more vulnerable to feeling emotional about work. So in the cases quoted it is because they’re self-critical and high achieving types. In the cases of teachers / people in healthcare etc it might be because they are particularly empathetic and went into a career motivated by the desire to help. Add in external factors or toxic work environments and it’s going to be even worse.

Hilarious😂 The nuns of the 1920s were too busy making others cry.
Your too funny 😁

community carer
knowing you just dont have enough time to provide optimum care

Oooh, is this why many gp/dentist reception staff are horrible to us nice polite people. Take it out on all of us. 😂

I don't think I've ever cried due to work. I've had a few public facing roles and people can be awful but nothing has made me cry, I think I box work into a different compartment in my brain.

This is thought provoking …

I’ve had many different jobs over the decades. The only time I remember crying because of the job itself was as a teaching assistant. It wasn’t a heavy workload or a rough school. But I was young and eager to please, and the kids (age 12-14) knew they could play me up. I left in tears one day.

At the time, I was planning to train as a teacher. I’m so glad I had the chance to find out that wasn’t the career for me!

Some stress is unavoidable. But there’s no excuse for bullying by colleagues or management, or rudeness by service users.

Sending love and hugs to everyone having a bad time at work, especially in the essential services eg teaching, healthcare, social work.

Those teachers had less to contend with in terms of pupil behaviour and parental expectations than modern teachers do.The likelihood of a pupil telling a nun to fuck off was pretty low, and if it happened, the nun would have been at liberty to crack the pupil over the head with a ruler; in fact, it was probably encouraged for the good of the pupil's soul.

This is a really sad thread to read. We owe a lot to those working front line roles in teaching, health and social care sector who are dealing with all these stresses. These are vocational roles that people should be able to stay in for their entire careers, but it just doesn’t seem possible anymore as burn out is so high.

I’m a speech and language therapist in the NHS. It is a stressful role as we have long waits and don’t have the capacity to offer the input that we know children desperately need. BUT we at least do have an hour per appointment and a very supportive team surrounding us. I rarely cry at work. I see how hard our teaching colleagues work and it’s a different world.

Anything customer service. In retail I would regularly be threatened with a lawsuit if I didn’t give a refund. I would be shouted at, patronised, belittled and generally treated as though I didn’t matter. Management would always back the customer. You had to hit your targets or you would be threatened with losing your job. For a minimum wage job with no perks, it was truly horrible. I used to go in the stock room and shed tears.
Also as a call handler for healthcare. I get shouted at by patients daily, threatened and I have to repeat the same information 100 times a day. It is mind numbing. I have often answered my next call with my head in my hands fully expecting another rude, entitled ranty patient.
The ones who are really ill never treat people like the ones who have a very minor issue but ‘demand it looking at immediately’

Not uncommon for employees to work all hours, in the night, weekends.

What was the worst thing that could possibly happen if the designer got it wrong? Women might spend a season wearing floaty floral chiffon midis rather than bold block-print minis?

Support role in a secondary school. The students were absolutely brilliant, easily the best part of the job and what kept me there for so long. The problem was everything else. The toxic, negative environment. The bitterness of certain colleagues who resented anyone with more competence than them, teachers who felt too important to acknowledge you in the corridors, the staffroom that functioned more like a clique than a team...

Then there were the mind numbing, pointless staff meetings, exercises in box-ticking and control. Sitting through long sessions, even whole inset days, that had nothing to do with my role, just to be seen attending, when I really could have done with the precious time to get files up to date, etc. But no, you just had to show up and if you weren’t there, they'd come and find you!! Never mind that they expected you to complete work in the meantime that was physically impossible to have done if you were in yet another staff meeting, when the meeting itself was irrelevant to you. It was all about compliance and control, not productivity.

And the expectation that you’d take on responsibilities far beyond your pay grade, with zero chance of progression, ever. Minimum wage, maximum exploitation. It was demoralising, and I used to cry most Sunday afternoons at the thought of returning for another week. The kids made it worth it, until they weren’t enough to justify staying at the expense of my mental health.

Fashion design - toxic hell hole. I saw people being bullied, harassed and treated like crap every day. Women crying at their desk, quitting jobs on the spot because it was so terrible, people being paid off and signing NDAs. It's amazing how desensitised I came to it. I saw senior leaders throwing things across the floor in temper, screaming at staff, humiliating employees in meetings. Not uncommon for employees to work all hours, in the night, weekends.

Presumably there is a reason or the receptionist wouldn't be asking them to do it...

I’ve cried multiple times as a project manager. Last one was just before Christmas. I was mortified, was on a site and had to be consoled by an electrician

Shame on you.

Marketing manager. Other people's shitty attitudes and need to push blame on to others really stressed me out and had been questioning myself constantly

To all the gps on here….i want to thank you for the work you do. It has surprised me that twice when speaking to my own gps to find that they felt undervalued. You are stars. I was a teacher and loved it. So I’d also like to thank the teachers who are so important to our world. Of course everyone on here is doing some good in the world too.

In a 25 year career in the Civil Service I have had 2 instances of bullying managers that lasted a few months in each case. In both cases I managed to get promoted out of it. I am now fairly high up the food chain and I love my job and have a great manager.

My worst job many years ago was as a PA to an MD, who was the most vile woman I have ever had to work with. I actually considered suicide by throwing myself under a lorry making it look accidental so my DH and baby would be financially OK. I was the chief income earner. Ironically I see this monster quite a lot on social media as an advocate for women’s mental health and she coaches other high flying women. Urgh.

Moral of this thread is don’t bother becoming a lawyer. I would never recommend it to anyone.

Oh put a sock in it