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Cake day: November 3rd, 2023
  • vestmoria@linux.communityOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•A curious conversation with a coworker who enjoys her job. How many of you like your job?English
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    11 days ago

    That doesn’t make any sense.

    if what I described happens anywhere, why even change jobs?

    Why is this such a big deal to you. So what if your co-workers enjoy their work. That has nothing to do with you.

    because I feel this is a trap where I’m supposed to say that I love my job more than anything, because I think this is how managers search for the ones who only want a paycheck and to leave work stuff at the workplace, because I work to live, not live to work, because I only want to do my hours and enjoy my life away from my coworkers, because managers actively search for the ones who drink the kool-aid and believe they will get a promotion if they just try harder, because the ones who ‘enjoy’ their jobs are the ones happy to work for the manager for free, because the ones who ‘like’ their jobs are the ones less likely to establish boundaries (and enjoy being exploited).

    Trying harder just means you get a pat on your back and a bigger shovel, not a raise.

  • vestmoria@linux.communityOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you?English
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    11 months ago

    I’m very introverted and to me any kind of question about me is a prying one: my age, where I was born, how long I’ve been living where I am. I simply don’t get why I have to tell my coworkers about this, nor I understand why they get offended if I don’t answer the question. If I’m fired or I quit I’m not going to see them ever again. Who cares?

    I’m a nurse and at my hospital there are rituals that bore me but anyone else finds, apparently, great: after report, talking time, usually 30 minutes. They talk about boring stuff, are loud and obnoxious, I simply don’t understand why adults act like this. I read to pass the time, but have to be there with them because we’re officially working. This happens at least three times per shift: once more to have lunch (for whatever reason we ALL must have lunch together, even if it means not having your own chair) and after charting, where, once again, I must remain with them because that’s officially working time. If I leave, have a seat in the pause room and start reading, I get yelled at, no matter than I can also hear the bell from there.

    It gets very boring. God my new job cannot start soon enough.

    I don’t have the luxury of having my own working station.

    I’ve started to do extra chores just not to have to hear them. It also reduces the chance of them asking me about me.