Hi all
I started a new job a couple of weeks ago and I feel like a failure because I hate it. It’s only a few hours several days a week but it’s already a nightmare. The staff all bitch about the management and each other. The management seem useless at organising things and there are never enough staff to cover everything. At interview they asked me if I minded heavy lifting, I asked how heavy the lifting was and they said that one person can do it fine. Turns out one person can do it fine, but there is so much heavy lifting everyone ends up with painful back and shoulders afterwards. All of the staff have awful back problems!!! I’ve already got a severely painful shoulder needing hot water bottles and painkillers.
To add insult to injury, despite them knowing I’m a single mum who needs to do the school run twice a day, they booked me onto a training course that runs over two days from 9-5. I said I literally have nobody to help me with the school runs and the manager was really snotty with me on the phone and told me the course is costing a lot of money and that they can’t change it just for me.
I’m so fed up that I feel down all the time.