Anyone else fed up of the whole work culture in the UK?

Try retail for 'treating adults like delinquent children'. No option for working from home. Abuse from customer? Free gifts for arsehole customer and no backing for staff. Too frightened of bad reviews.
Limited opportunities for promotion unless they want to move you. Good at your job and they will keep you in that role. Turn over of staff is too high to promote those who know the job well. All for NMW or if its a 'good' company 50p above! Bare minimum holiday allowance. Bank Holiday working.
Get another job, I hear you say..I'd love a high paid, low stress job..ain't happening is it. Nearly 60, bad decisions when I was young. being a parent number one on the list employers hardly queuing at the door!
You want cheap shopping, extended opening hours..somebody gets the short straw. you could organise your life better, shop better in reasonable times and retail employers would have to change the model

I think it depends on what kind of job you do. I love mine and whilst I’m not very well paid, I am passionate about what I do and I work in a caring and compassionate environment, which makes a huge difference when I need to go the extra mile to make things happen.

We have quartly meetings with 2 directors. They do it with the whole staff. And in the last one was telling us about it being on of the businesses partners birthdays and he literally said thanks to our hard work they are going to the celebration party thing.... yep no problem enjoy 😂

I think part of it is also the widening gap between earnings and cost of living. At every level people are becoming disillusioned about working. It takes a huge amount of will to perform more than the minimum required of a role when the salary you're getting paid barely makes ends meet (and looks set to decrease in real terms for the foreseeable future).

It takes time and energy for management to be innovative, dynamic and progressive. Much easier (and safer) to tick a few boxes.

I hear you. I occasionally look for another job and if I knew what I wanted to do it might help, but I don't so it doesn't! I've had a variety of jobs over the years and actually what I would like to do is retire but I'm several years away from it. I'm sick of the endless tool box talks, emails pretending to care about our mental health and then finding fault over the smallest of things. As well as making a big deal of mistakes like it's the end of the world. Just fuck off! And Managers wonder why morale is so low and loads of us are off sick.

I think 3 days in the office and 2 WFH is pretty good actually, in this climate. More and more companies are moving to 4 or 5 days a week.

For many years I ran a business before selling for a lot of money. The reason we got that money was very simple. Once you have business unless it’s completely original, the thing that makes the biggest difference is the people. So we made a point of ours being a lot of fun for our colleagues. We became known for this and, no surprise, good people wanted to work with us. Better people build better businesses. Few managers are familiar with the old saying “contented hens lay more eggs”.

Annoying but they're damned if they do, damned if they don't

I was in the civil service for 30+ years, as the years went on it became as you described. Accounting for every minute, tick box online training. They did away with wonderful trainers and produced ‘how to’ online guides which were useless. Many people had been in the department for 20/30 years with loads of experience but most have left now replaced by agency workers on temporary contracts. During covid we worked part time at home and part time in the office, we were sent rotas every Friday for the following week via WhatsApp. Then one week everyone was back in the office for good, no one even spoke to us about it when other offices in the same department carried on working from home and still are. I finally had enough and left 3 years ago. Talking to friends who are still there its got worse. You are just a number, they pretend to care what you think but they don’t

I don't work in a place like that it sounds archaic.
Tbe current trend in places I have worked is for phychological safety at work. Ie feeling respected, allowing autonomy and being treated like adults to manage our own work and projects. Lot's of wellness stuff, pay is ok and managers who care.
Not everything is perfect of course but not like where you work.
Can you move jobs? Not everywhere is like that in the uk.

Sounds horrendous. Luckily I’m self-employed so I don’t need to deal with this kind of shit 🫣

Find a new job.

My workplace is not like that, though have worked places that are. My recommendation is to find somewhere else - perhaps a smaller or family run business. They have different crap things about them mind you!

It was better when it was easier to get rid of people. It made for much more relaxing work places - the only ones who pretend otherwise are the one who took the piss

Now work places are stuck with people who are unsuitable and take advantage, so everyone is penalised.

I hear you. I think give or take a few places though the vast majority of workplaces are the same. We are all only a number and would be replaced in seconds.

Local authority by any chance? Too familiar (even the heating ) though we're being moved to a different office and they're just finding out there aren't enough desks so we won't be doing many in office days !

I hear you OP. My role is different and I’m hybrid but less days a week… but similar problems. The mental health support schpeel is lip service imo. I feel I see through all the corporate bullshit and it feels completely fake.

I work for a charity and you give everything to them but as soon as something goes wrong management don't want to take any responsibility. You are just disposable really. I am being made redundant soon, well fixed term contract coming to an end and no funding to keep me on. I'm not unhappy to be leaving as sick of it anyway. Just not sure I want to work anymore at all. i may just take a private pension early and try to get by.

YANBU I work in a min wage job with a high turnover, you get a £50 bonus for ten years service 🙄

not all jobs are like it I assume, but the idea of working five full days a week every single week (bar four weeks ‘aNnUaL lEaVe), having to feel sorry or guilty for being sick for the rest of your good years whilst not being able to afford a decent quality of life… meh

I feel exactly the same. Bored yet trapped. I know I'm lucky to have a job but after my mortgage and bills have gone out, I barely have anything - and I have a "good" job! I don't know how I'm expected to keep living like this for another three decades, minimum.
I live on my credit card. Can't afford to go on holiday. Can't afford to renovate. I don't like that we're expected to just work to survive and be grateful for the few scraps thrown our way. It just doesn't feel worth it.
YNBU.

Yes, back in the days when they didn't talk about mental health, they actually seemed to care about their staff, and did look after mental health even without using the term (generalising I'm sure, but too many older people I know say this for there to be no truth in it). Now, it's box-ticking. Same with DEI/H&S in some of the places I've worked.
But OP, I don't think it's only the UK that's like this, and small business owners say recent government initiatives have made their lives so difficult that I would think carefully before changing (as you say, a lot of people have it worse-doesn;t make it ok, and you have my sympathy).

Change jobs.