to feel really cross about a situation at work, resentful of management, and unhappy...

[Samjam10]

even though I love my job, and know I'm very lucky to have it? And to feel so cross that my partner (in the same line of work) is so totally dismissive of the fact that I am upset, and says "That's the way things go sometimes", when I just want him to listen to me moan just a little bit, and make the right noises. (I expect I am!)

Huge sexist generalisation coming up (esp as I am a girlie and do the former)

Men listen, assess, attempt to fix.

Girls listen, empathise and discuss a problem untill it is beaten into submission.

You need a rant then rant away on MN, you will get the whole gamut of opinions and you can decide if you are being oversensitive or if there is an issue with work or with your attitude to it.

Oh bum. So you are going to have to do what you didn't want to do, which you in fact did last year, and will have no time to breathe? He's a bumface.

Quite. And partner annoyingly unsympathetic. I just needed to rant about it, and the fact that I can't change it and feel misrepresented is, in partner's words "One of those things". I know it is. I just wanted him to make sympathetic noises!

Men are crap at sympathy. As above poster said, men tend to problem solve. When I was at uni, if I had a problem I offloaded onto one of OH's friends (atypical male - always had a stash of chocolate and a sympathetic ear), then when I felt I'd ranted enough, told OH who looked at it all very logically.

Mr Samjam should have sympathised a wee bit though. Tell him to consider himself told!

Thankfully, my friend next door has given the appropraite "Of course you're right, Samjam. what an arse, here have a glass of vino" response! .

Sometimes, I can even spell and punctuate correctly.