To ask what you like and dislike about your job?

[Lazy56789]

I'll say mine:
Like- hybrid remote
Colleagues are nice
No evenings or weekends
Overtime is voluntary and never pressured to do any
Generous lunch break (if unpaid)
Can forget all about it once logged off
30 minutes additional break per week
Casual dress

Dislike:
Obsession with KPIs from management
Every minute of the day monitored by management incl. Toilet breaks
Pay isn't that great- under 27k for full time
Limited progression
Sometimes end up having to stay late so it's hard to make appointments after work as you could be staying for at least an extra hour

Interested to hear others

Pros
I don’t have to consider anyone else if I want leave.
I adore the team, not one PITA.
I’m valued and appreciated.
Cons
My counterpart in the north always moans about everything.

I write novels, and teach writing at a university.

Pros: I get to spend time in worlds I’ve invented. When it’s going well, it’s like being unusually alive. A good writing workshop can be really rewarding.

Cons: Sometimes it’s brutal. I’ve deleted months of work. Sometimes it’s like psychological like breaking rocks while sitting down. Your agent doesn’t like it. It gets lukewarm reviews. It doesn’t sell. A bad writing workshop is like setting concrete. Lots of admin. Doesn’t pay much.

Like:

• well paid
• nice colleagues
• interesting work

Dislike:

• constant cost cuts preventing me generating value
• lack of long term investment (eg in IT and infrastructure)
• commercial teams (im head office/corporate function) waste a lot of money and get away with it
• leadership want people in 4 days a week for the sake of it even though 3 easily meets business purposes

I have had a shocking few weeks after a temp promotion so…
pros.
secure job.
I have never ever had a day where I have been bored in 21 years working there.
Really good pension.
I am on good money as I have been promoted twice. Currently have another temporary promotion but don’t want it.

cons
no flexibility with shifts or hours. Today I finished 6 hrs late. So I worked from 7 - 5 the drive home and got a phone call so logged back on at 630 pm. Logged back off at 22:35 and I’m on call until 7am.
for the on call I get paid £25! Absolutely not worth it. That is before tax.
I miss at least every other Christmas,
There are some very rude people that work there.
very rarely get a lunch break or any sort of break.

Pros:
Great people to work with
Very positive atmosphere
Great seeing life in the place
Encouraged to check in on each other or people coming in

Cons:
Not flexible. I mean no one's going to worry if I need to leave an hour early for an appointment, but on the whole I need to be there for set hours, and I do try to be.
I'd have preferred 4 days a week, but it wasn't an option.

Pros:

• The patients - even the ones that bite and scratch!

• My colleagues

• I get to do science everyday

• Most of our clients

• The view from the clinics windows

Cons:

• The pay is shit, and does not reflect my (or my colleagues) wide skill set and knowledge.

• Being verbally attacked by the general public and media, and being accused of being money-grabbers. It's an everyday occurrence in my profession.

• Losing a patient

• The wear and tear on my body

• Losing colleagues to suicide 😭

Pros- hybrid remote which works for me
Office is near my house anyway
Nice colleagues (mostly)
Job does make a difference which is nice
Has good pension
High standards of behaviour for everyone and no horrible office politics
Not ridiculous hours

Cons- sometimes the day-to-day of it gets dull
At times a lot of pressure as it is important
Sometimes have to practically force people in other departments to do their job
Pay whilst good compared to average doesn’t really reflect the responsibility
Not many people from my immediate team work at my office

Thanks though OP - this thread makes me realise I do like my job on balance

Pros: I get to work in an area I love and share my knowledge and passion with others. I have brilliant colleagues and a beautiful workplace. Short commute and free parking.
Cons: terrible pay and a zero hours contract

Pros:
Super flexible & hybrid
Amazing pension
My building is a lovely place to work
Not micro-managed
Opportunity for promotion
Training opportunities
Easy to 'shine'

Cons
No medical cover.
The eye watering waste of public money actually kills me
Weak leadership.
No appetite for change.

Similar job..

Pros: building relationships with clients, looking after patients for their whole lives, detective work with complex medical cases, finding the right approach for the contexts I'm presented with, ancient cats with wisdom and opinions, teaching younger colleagues.

Current cons...
Being told what stock we we can keep
Stupid computer systems
More and more trivial things being expected to be crammed into a 15 min consult to produce corporate data.
Lack of admin time
On line booking system

Pros - Work FT from home.
Made good friends on my team.
The actual work isn't bad, when we get the right amount of time to actually complete it.

Cons - Money is appalling! (MW).
Being micromanaged to within an inch of our lives.
IT systems are shit, constantly don't work and then we're expected to still meet deadlines with no allowances being made for the time spent not being able to work because of THEIR IT issues.
More work being piled on us, more responsibility for no extra pay, no incentives and not even recognition.
Company claims to be all about supporting employee's MH and having a good work/life balance, when it's complete BS.
Management is shit.

Like:
wfh and flexi hours
good benefits, they pay for private health care
very creative work

con:
project turn arounds are very short and causes pressure and friction between teams

this is industry specific rather than this specific job but the software we all use is terrible and causes me so much rage

Pros:

• Work from home full time
• No dealing with the general public
• Nice line manager
• Not overloaded with work

Cons:

• Bitchy colleagues who jump on you for any little mistake
• IT systems that crash

Likes: it’s consistent
i feel I’m treated well by my company
I like my team and managers
there is potential for me to advance
I care about my work and like what I do
i feel helpful and useful

dislikes: low pay
sometimes patrons are A LOT to deal with, and I’m not a therapist or social worker
it can be exhausting

I work in a library

Pros
No two days are ever the same
Some rewarding moments when you can see a penny drop
Get to spend time with some engaging people
Learn new things every day
Laugh often
Cons
No flexibility in terms of time off - difficult to get to medical appointments/children’s
events
”New” initiatives brought in and abandoned regularly
Some unreasonable expectations about what’s possible with the time and resources available
Workload

Pros:

FT WFH
Salary is huge
Big car allowance even though WFH
Max pension contributions easily affordable
Able to manage my own diary
Very flexible allowing me to do some school runs and other tasks
High level of autonomy

Cons:

No further career progression possible so can get a bit repetitive at times.
Answerable to a very demanding regulator who can effectively sack you via licence removal.
Having to provide very intrusive information relating to personal finances of myself and family to regulators.

Pro
Hybrid working.
Great company and collegues.
Seeing growth in confidence and engagement
Can be different everyday
Never boring.
Good pension.
Plenty of personal development.

Cons
Constantly changing delivery
Resources woeful
Too much admin
Some heart breaking back stories.

Likes:

• helping people
• really passionate colleagues
• no overtime
• WFH when I need to
• flexible hours

Dislikes

• low pay
• fighting with public services over scraps
• one colleague who abused the flexibility and is a shirker but can't be fired

Pros: not being responsible for sanctions
Great colleagues
Routine

Cons: not being responsible for sanctions
Politicians changing the law but not evidence based.

I’m at home with the kids these days but worked as as a hospital doctor before …

Pros
banter with colleagues, the camaraderie with fellow ward staff, especially when everything is a shitshow
Getting a diagnosis right
Seeing blood results improve after a really simple intervention or antibiotics. Seeing the CRP fall is so satisfying
Eating buttered toast and watching the sunrise at the end of a set of nightshifts

Cons
angry patient relatives (I do get why sometimes as a mother of a child in hospital this year!)
Bullying!! Everyone is stressed in NHS and brings out the worst in a lot of staff
Having to move hospitals/home every August
the bottlenecks in training
expensive post grad exams
how bloody roasting hot the wards are
how short staffed everything is.
how so much stuff doesn’t make sense or is extremely inefficient
trying to find equipment and going round multiple wards to look for something constantly
patients thinking I’m a secretary (or other non doctor role) despite wearing scrubs, a stethoscope, having a lanyard that says doctor and introducing myself as a doctor. This happens a minimum of once a day as a woman.

I don’t miss it at all and would discourage my kids to go into medicine unless something huge changes in UK

Pros
The children make me laugh
Pay is ok
I work part time
Holidays
I like most of the people I work with
Never bored

Cons
I am completely broken by it all-so stressed, overwhelmed and micromanaged-I dread Mondays and even now, a week into the holidays, still can't switch off-it causes palpitations, panic attacks and I haven't slept properly in months.