Does anyone hate their job? #3

[AlwaysSummer]

For some reason it’s not enough to be polite respectful and generally friendly at my work. My colleagues are always oversharing, trauma dumping and none of us have worked together that long. They expect you to overshare and if not theyll ignore you (when I’m being polite) ir met with a cold shoulder as though you’ve done something so terrible. Is this normal in work spaces. I do not want to overshare my personal life and I certainly don’t want to people please, which is something I’ve had to work on in the past. I just find it all draining and fake to be honest

It’s so common these days. Years ago I quit Facebook when my then line manager sent me a friend request. When the lines between work and private lives become blurred, you end up in teams of people who fake-know each other and feel comfortable to over share. I’ve had a colleague share in a great detail about her marital struggles without any prompt and asking me for advice. Completely inappropriate given we’ve never socialised outside of work.

My line manager regularly does trauma dumping. I’ve learned to just nod along and try and move the conversation back to work. I don’t need to be more than civil with anyone at work and my privacy is far more important than trying to impress John from accounts with my colourful social life. Feels so good people can’t stalk me on social media either as I’m not on any.

 

[TheGlossy]

I spent the last 2 days doing copy & paste of screenshots and the two days prior making sure sentences were aligned properly in a word document. I’m about to lose my mind as to how I’m literally doing the job of an intern.

Honestly, with 10 years experience, I should be doing something a bit more substantial than this. Absolute waste of skill-set and potential.

 

[WeepingCassandra]

Could you raise a datix, it’s obviously not confidential but if it’s a patient safety issue then at least it’s logged and the more of a picture they get of these tin gods the more chance they will see a pattern.

Just an update - I merely mentioned the name to a senior member of my team today and they told me they're compiling evidence as this consultant is notorious for being vile towards almost everyone (including their own team). So I've sent an email with details in to them, and it'll go to the chief of medical staff soon.

 

[LifeOfMog]

I am really so desperate to leave, the more I'm here the more down I feel, and I'm just not waking up with the passion I once had Trying so hard to find something new and creative but it's so hard at the moment !!!

 

[Codiaeum]

That company I had the initial screen with a week ago and that would "get back to me early next week" hasn't gotten back to me, yet. But I did get an automated email from them asking to rate their application system. I've no idea what that means is this the mailthey sent everyone a week after the screening call? Or is this an oblique "You're out but thanks"?
I'll give it another few days, this week and next week both have bank holidays in them so it's very possible that people are on vacation and the company is really small, they might only have one or two people doing interview coordination.

One of the other companies sent a rejection, after three weeks, which is okay I guess, better then the third one I applied for where I again only get crickets but of course the listing is no longer online.