I've been increasingly upset with work. Our secretary got tired and disgusted with our ogre of a boss and she quit. So, now, I have to also be a secretary. It's not a very good arrangement. He was screaming and swearing at his wife on the phone and I knew it was going to be a very long day. We got into an argument, so then he got up and left the office and went across the street to the bar. Must be nice. I responded by going up to my friend and co-worker, John, and said, "Well, ain't I a son of a bitch! I drove him out of the office and into the bar. " John laughed and said, "Thanks, Vince". Of course we knew that he would be back and he was 1/2 hr. later. I'm so disgusted with that workplace. Have you ever hated going someplace so much that you felt like you were literally walking into pain??
Of course there's another way to look at this problem. It's rarely good to feel sorry for yourself. The focus needs to be on the solution, not the problem. Another thing I have been thinking about is the people who have it worse than I.
Right now there's tens of thousands of troops overseas. Undoubtedly, there's an enlisted person angry and frustrated with his/her superior, whether it's a seargent, lieutenant or whoever. The point is they can't say to their boss, "I quit, I'm leaving because you're an asshole!" They can't spend their free time sending resumes out to potential employers with the hope of finding a better place to work w/ more pay a month later. Those troops with the bad superior have to spend more time with that superior than I have to spend w/ my boss.
I can feel bad that the 1 1/2 years I've been at the firm seems like a decade. I can lament that I spend 45 hrs. a week at a place I dislike but what about a look back in history? What about all those men and women who worked for a nasty dictator like Josef Stalin or Mao Tse-Tung?
Do you think anybody ever came up to Josef Stalin and said, "You've been hell to work for, Comrade Stalin. I request a transfer!" He would have got a quick transfer with a .22 caliber bullet. There were millions of people who worked their ass off for Stalin and Tse-Tung (and their respective countries) only to be disgraced and executed over some cockamanie, petty bullshit. Anybody out there ever read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler? That book does a far better job than I explaining the plight of the Soviets at the Kremlin. With that in mind, I guess I better change websites and look for more paralegal vacancies so I can send some more resumes.
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On the other hand, "It could always be worse for someone else" isn't a good reason to stick around somewhere that sucks ;-) Took me a few jobs to find a place with sane management and nice stuff to do, but it was worth it. Tally? Quit twice, got fired once.
Good luck with the resumés.
the "it could always be worse for someone else" is used ALL the time to downplay peoples' personal struggles. It pisses me off because it's not like I don't know there are other people who have it worse, but that doesn't mean my dilemmas are gone. But I understand if you want to use it to make yourself feel better; I'm just saying I hate it when people throw that in my face
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