What makes you dislike your job?

[MintLeaves12]

Currently on my morning break and feel like running away!!!

Hoping other stories can give me a giggle.

My manager is the micromanager or all managers. We have to let him know what are plans for the day are, every task , everyday. They must be across all tasks (for no reason )
At the end of the day we must have accounted for every minute of everyday in a booking system with notes on every task.
We must notify everyone in the team chat when we make a drink, when we go to the loo etc (for no reason again - not a call centre or on a line?!)

None of us are trusted to do tasks a lot of the time he will 'do them with us' to help and it's just us sitting there watching them complete it (as simple as a stationary order) but we are all perfectly competent!

Constant criticism and judgement. Some things I can't say as very specific and outing (doubt anyone would have been told these things as quite shocking)

Just want to scream

Why do you dislike your job? Is it worse?!

I don’t dislike my job as such
But
Micromanaging managers
Lack of communication
People being late
People Complaining to me about things I can’t change
Clock watching
Plus lots of other things

Drive me crazy

I like mine except for it's really hard to get time off as it means it has a knock on affect to lots of other people. So calling in sick I feel so guilty even though I've been bed bound. I had the boss ask me 'can you come abit later then?' No? Likewise booking off annual leave for the same reasons. It's so annoying having to plan months in advance. But yeah apart from that I'm lucky really.

@Mabelface - This sounds scarily familiar. Do you by any chance work for a professional services firm with offices in the south and Wales?!

Terrifying shortage of staff.

Shortage of equipment.

Public expectation and lack of understanding of the constraints faced daily.

Expected to go without breaks and be off late. Almost daily.

Nhs midwife currently finishing her notice period.

People who don’t answer emails

Love my job but 50% of work colleagues are highly irritating to the point where I'm not sure I can carry on much longer.

Colleagues, bosses and customers!

Bosses very against working from home , even though it can be done from home. Stuck in dreary office with poor lighting and annoying colleagues.

Lazy, lying, manipulative colleagues who get away with everything.

The increasing number of rude and aggressive customers .

Being made to feel like a sponger for having basic employee rights (like being made to feel "not a team player " or a massive inconvenience if you put in a holiday request).

The culture of being at your desk half an hour before your official (paid) start time, the expectation to work through breaks and stay half an hour later.

No pay rises in 4 years.

No management or personal development/ feedback . Just a telling off when you've not got your crystal ball working.

Bad performance of customer facing staff , not being audited or managed, so customers leave bad reviews which makes the job even worse.

And all this for 30p over minimum wage . (For which we're expected to be unwavering grateful !).

People not wearing their contact lenses for a contact lens check up / even when I’ve reminded them, even when I’ve given them an extra pair to wear fit the appointment.
I can only do half a contact lenses check if you do not have them in fir at least an hour before hand.

Argh - it happens at least once every day.

I am adding night staff who come in at 10.20 when their shift starts at 10 to my list. It happens every night and nothing gets done, we cant leave until they arrive, then you have to do handover. Its beyond annoying and disrespectful.

Customers But without them I wouldn't have a job
My team and manager are great

Day shift staff who turn up late. Afternoon shift staff who disappear hours before the end of shift.
No stock, then being told off for a) using too much of the invisible stock or b) being told you aren’t using enough of the invisible stock.
Usage of a work WhatsApp group. (Now on silent)
The state people leave the toilets and smokers area in.

However I work alone, so don’t get bothered by actually having to work with someone or management and I get paid well with a fair bit of downtime.

Having no choice but to bring my work home - no opportunity to complete at work. On only just above minimum wage too, so feel like I work for peanuts

I work for a family business; doing an important role that only 2 of us employees do. The other ‘employee’ with me in this role is my bosses son.
He turns up when he wants, leaves early. 3 years in and i’ve never seen him work a full day nor 5 days (a full week). He makes inappropriate comments at me fairly often. I am going on maternity leave soon; taking a total of 16 months off roughly; my boss begging me to go back ASAP. I make more money for the business than his son. I love my boss & we really get on; but honestly.. I fantasise about working part time on a supermarket checkout for a big chain. If I can avoid going back, I will!!!!

The pay is rubbish

..also just after I joined, the company faced liquidation. Even then he could not apply himself. Staff, especially me, worked hard to save the company, which we did & we are now in a much better place. After the recovery, he told me one day he had a pay rise & had ‘too much money’ in his account. Needless to say I asked for a pay rise and got it immediately. He is unaware. He regularly runs out of money and his dad / my boss gives him cash, normally 2 weeks into the month. It’s toxic and it’s heartbreaking in equal measure; the lack of respect for anyone; employees and even family, astounds me. I genuinely think he is a mentally ill sociopath & will wind up bankrupt and possibly dead from a drug overdoes or similar. He is in his mid twenties FYI.

Processes and people employed to identify and document them. Right now in my department there I s one person employed to write processes for every one person actually doing a front line revenue earning job.

My recent favourite involved a one hour meeting with a process colleague who wanted to know about various legal, regulatory and industry practice obstacles to my projects but just the problems not the solutions.

She then produced a PowerPoint on these obstacles and had a another one hour meeting with a different colleague to ask him what the solutions were. Not knowing the answers he then organised another one hour meeting with me to provide the solutions to my own questions, he then presents these back to my process colleague who then has a final one hour meeting with me in order to present my answers to my questions.

A genius complete waste of time but everyone thought it was marvellous.

@SleepingStandingup.
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂. Brilliant ! When I first read this I thought Christ poor cow. Then I got to the end and realised.

Very funny sleeping. But don't wish your time away. It is not called "the terrible twos" for nothing.

Chronically short staffed which means that I get pulled off of my specialist role to cover the statutory work that needs doing elsewhere (leaving my caseload dangling). My managers are sympathetic but unless our commissioning group realise that we need considerably more staff to cover the work, things aren't going to change. We've lost all three of the full-time staff that work in my team recently and are failing to recruit to the roles . It's so soul destroying.

@Ichoosechocolate - no, it isn't. Currently in dispute with them so won't identify them.