To ask if you're in a job where you get a lot of 'shit'...

[bordellosboheme]

And how you deal with it. A colleague today (after sending me a shitty email herself) actually said to me she sometimes feels sorry for me because my role (or something intrinsic about me I dunno) means I am in a place where I get a lot of shit from colleagues. I'm not their direct line manager, but my role often involves leading a series of enhancements and changes.

My question is is it normal these days to be in a job were people publically give you shit from time to time or is it something about my role or performance I need to change?

I have a garage and fuel station and we deal with shit from customers all the time, I even have had it from some staff. I could go on for ever with a list of examples but I would loose the will to live as I'm sure most of you all would to.

I do wonder why I bother at all sometimes its a thankless task.
Business thankfully being took over over the next 6 months and I'm actually hoping to become a dinner nanny while the transition takes place with the hope of training to be a teaching assistant at a later date, I wonder if I'm jumping from the frying pan in to the fire!!! Same shite different environment... I dont think it can be avoided really most jobs have there fair share of shit.

I'm always pleasant to retail or service industry workers as I know I couldn't do their job and I hate that they get so much grief for working for the public who can be horrible
Even if there is a gripe I'm still polite as losing your cool doesn't help matters at all.
I do feel for people in the front line of any job

I am a teacher. I never cease to be amazed at how rude and personal some parents can be and how much they expect the rules to be broken for their child.

I work in the NHS and get less shit than you'd think from our patients and families, who are normally fab and very grateful. I have had complaints made about me in the past ( normally 1 point about my role in a v long list of others about the whole medical management) that clearly come from a family struggling to process what is happening to thier loved one and want to lash out and blame others. I've had colleagues leave their jobs from accusations and conpliants people have made when they were trying their best and things went wrong ( as life often does).

I get it and they are in a vulnerable place. Lots of shit from colleagues normally due to poor communication.

People are so rude though in other aspects of life. I was standing behind a lady collecting a parcel who hadn't brought ID at the post office, which it clearly states to bring on the card they leave. It escalated to her screaming 'fuck you' at the man serving her who had been nothing but polite. I was gobsmacked.

I think it's a combination of life being more stressful, increasing privatisation of university's, NHS etc with a corporate type feel, some parts of the media being derogatory about professions and generally please want instant results and are entitled these days.

@31RueCambon I also used to work in a bank and it was exactly like that!
It was so depressing feeling like you were backing up policies that had been made by the management team, then getting abuse from customers, followed immediately by further abuse from the managers because you hadn't provided outstanding customer service. Woe betide you if you later got a negative review from the customer as you then got a second helping of abuse from management.
I was frequently told to F Off and called a bitch. It was soul destroying. Even my worst days in my current job have nothing on any day working there.