Does anyone hate their job? #2

[StrawberryBanana90]

So I have a strong suspicion someone from the office has been on my work tablet and looked at personal messages I have sent to another member of staff and total disclosure we had been bitching about them on this chat
She’s giving us the silent treatment but obviously can’t say anything otherwise she’ll admit she snooped I need to get out of this toxic environment

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

So I have a strong suspicion someone from the office has been on my work tablet and looked at personal messages I have sent to another member of staff and total disclosure we had been bitching about them on this chat
She’s giving us the silent treatment but obviously can’t say anything otherwise she’ll admit she snooped I need to get out of this toxic environment

See this is where I am petty and if she read it then I would drop a hint or two.

 

[EleanorRigby]

So I have a strong suspicion someone from the office has been on my work tablet and looked at personal messages I have sent to another member of staff and total disclosure we had been bitching about them on this chat
She’s giving us the silent treatment but obviously can’t say anything otherwise she’ll admit she snooped I need to get out of this toxic environment

How do they have access to your work tablet? Do you not need to sign in to access it?

 

[camotea]

Every task on my list has opened up a can of worms this week 🪱 It’s got so when I get a straightforward one I’m wasting time triple checking it for believability

 

[StrawberryBanana90]

How do they have access to your work tablet? Do you not need to sign in to access it?

Unfortunately they’re new in the past week or so and I forgot to set up a password, entirely my fault I know! But also she shouldn’t be snooping

 

[House of Tea]

So I have a strong suspicion someone from the office has been on my work tablet and looked at personal messages I have sent to another member of staff and total disclosure we had been bitching about them on this chat
She’s giving us the silent treatment but obviously can’t say anything otherwise she’ll admit she snooped I need to get out of this toxic environment

To be fair if you have been bitching you are part of the toxicity .There shouldn’t have been snooping though.

 

[Tinkerbell cat]

Guys - Last year I was in a dead-end job wishing my life away, I would actually hate waking up in the morning and during the walk into work I would literally be counting down the hours until I got home. But I had no drive to want to leave either as my job was handy and close to home, with an early finish on Fridays lol what a silly reason for me to stay in the job.

Anyway, I had a nosey online one night and saw a job I'd applied for previously that I had actually been successful in getting but because of covid, they couldn't give me a start date so hence me ending up in the job I was in. My boyfriend pushed me to apply again and again I got the job so I thought duck it, I'm going to go for it.

I'm now in this job since January, its full time WFH and I am absolutely loving it - I don't dread logging on in the mornings, I don't dread when we have to meet up in the office now and again, I just genuinely like it and I find the people I work with all really lovely albeit we aren't together every day but its still improved my mental health so much not being in a job I hated, around toxic people and bored to death.

So honestly, if you can, take that jump - look online every single night, apply for anything or everything that you have the skills for and think you would enjoy. Its easier said than done but honestly one of the best things you will ever do is leave a toxic work environment. We spend so much of our time working, and it can really mentally drain the life out of you.

Reading some of your posts brings back so many memories for me and some of the horrible places and environments I worked in.

 

[101d]

So I have a strong suspicion someone from the office has been on my work tablet and looked at personal messages I have sent to another member of staff and total disclosure we had been bitching about them on this chat
She’s giving us the silent treatment but obviously can’t say anything otherwise she’ll admit she snooped I need to get out of this toxic environment

This happened to me but it was over Slack - didn't realise my managers could see everything I had sent LOL. Got a massive bollocking for it but it wasn't as bad as I thought as everything I said was FACTS!!!!

 

[StrawberryBanana90]

This happened to me but it was over Slack - didn't realise my managers could see everything I had sent LOL. Got a massive bollocking for it but it wasn't as bad as I thought as everything I said was FACTS!!!!

Hah yeah we had a meeting about it today although the big boss didn't care and just told me to apologise and moved on...he seemed more on my side than hers
As said above though, I fully recognise I'm part of the toxicity and I was a witch for complaining about her on a work program and I apologised genuinely. I just don't particularly want to work with someone who snoops on my PC like that

 

[Eureka]

Well since I last posted things have gone from bad to worse. Our roster is changing completely in the new year to accommodate no lone working. It means evenings and weekends and completely fecks up my college degree which I am doing on weekends because I've always had them off. It's annoying but not surprising and it's just not workable for me so I've started looking and applying for other positions. Wish me luck!

 

[Quarrantinemadness]

Things that seem better than starting work in an hour…

Eating a poisoned apple like Snow White and waking up in 20 years.

Death.

FML

 

[clueless]

I’ve complained about my job on here before - the workplace is nice, lovely people and the culture is great, but the role itself bored me silly… well the company hasn’t been doing so well and there’s going to be redundancies feeling really scared and just horrible now. I feel bad for ever complaining! Also really angry because it’s the fault of sales/marketing for not having any decent strategies to bring in new business. They are really poor and the rest of us are now suffering the consequences through no fault of our own.

 

[Quarrantinemadness]

I’ve complained about my job on here before - the workplace is nice, lovely people and the culture is great, but the role itself bored me silly… well the company hasn’t been doing so well and there’s going to be redundancies feeling really scared and just horrible now. I feel bad for ever complaining! Also really angry because it’s the fault of sales/marketing for not having any decent strategies to bring in new business. They are really poor and the rest of us are now suffering the consequences through no fault of our own.

Pretty tit going through redundancies, but it might be a blessing in disguise, if you’re bored it could lead you into something so much better!

 

[StrawberryBanana90]

Sooo our manager has resigned with immediate effect right before the boss is going on a business trip and has wiped her computer no handover, we have no idea what she does day to day or what was in the pipeline and she’s left customer accounts in a right state
I feel so anxious and sick thinking about where the hell we even start…

 

[tomato_paste]

Sooo our manager has resigned with immediate effect right before the boss is going on a business trip and has wiped her computer no handover, we have no idea what she does day to day or what was in the pipeline and she’s left customer accounts in a right state
I feel so anxious and sick thinking about where the hell we even start…

Don't make this your problem if you can somehow. It's simply that nobody cared that there was a Bus Factor of 1 - that should never happen in a well managed company. So it's down to your boss not having a good strategy to manage crucial assets.

How is your workplace? Do you like it? If so, you could take this as a strategic opportunity to increase your standing.

If you want to, you could suggest a data recovery service for her laptop to get the emails / contacts etc back for example; there's specialised data resovery services that offer that.

 

[Codiaeum]

Don't make this your problem if you can somehow. It's simply that nobody cared that there was a Bus Factor of 1 - that should never happen in a well managed company. So it's down to your boss not having a good strategy to manage crucial assets.

How is your workplace? Do you like it? If so, you could take this as a strategic opportunity to increase your standing.

If you want to, you could suggest a data recovery service for her laptop to get the emails / contacts etc back for example; there's specialised data resovery services that offer that.

Hard plus 1 to that. Do not let anyone try to make this your fault - your prior manager might not have been perfect, but given that the contract seems to make it possible to leave with immediate notice, anyone in the company must be prepared for someone actually also doing it. She might not even have wiped the laptop out of spite, I know several places were there's an instruction to do so as your last act of service before leaving.
Is there somewhere a central database of customers you could work backwards from?

 

[cushtybert]

To be fair if you have been bitching you are part of the toxicity .There shouldn’t have been snooping though.

Similar happened to me today, we have a small group chat and we were all having a moan but my colleague didn’t realise that our manager was behind and saw the group chat but on the bit where I kicked off about another manager. Nothing has been said yet but I’m now waiting for an awkward conversation. My fault I shouldn’t get so involved, lesson learned not to put anything on the group chat that I wouldn’t mind anyone seeing. Wish me luck for the rest of the week while I try and hide in the corner!! Mortified

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Work are Organising the works Xmas party.

I don’t want to go

 

[cushtybert]

Work are Organising the works Xmas party.

I don’t want to go

Don’t go if you don’t want to, life is too short to spend with people you don’t want to

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

Similar happened to me today, we have a small group chat and we were all having a moan but my colleague didn’t realise that our manager was behind and saw the group chat but on the bit where I kicked off about another manager. Nothing has been said yet but I’m now waiting for an awkward conversation. My fault I shouldn’t get so involved, lesson learned not to put anything on the group chat that I wouldn’t mind anyone seeing. Wish me luck for the rest of the week while I try and hide in the corner!! Mortified

If you get called in over it just say you thought it was a safe space to blow off steam and you feel your personal space is being invaded by management. I'm under no illusion that no matter how well staff are treated at some point they will have the asshole with me, rightly or wrongly, and I feel they should be entitled to it to blow off steam. Ofcourse I'm talking about a group chat or behind my back, not a full blown meltdown in the work place