I hate my job. I hate working a job actually. A job where I have NOTHING to do, but feel pressured to stay because its a small office, I know everyone, and I was basically hired because my boss wanted to start a family, so I could take over...well thats still 4 months away, and I still have gotten no more responsibility. I was told I would be working in a fast-paced environment, but I literally sit for hours watching the time slowly click by. When I do have something to do it is busy work. For this I went to college? What is even worse is I can't imagine what other job I would like better. What 9-5 job would encourage creativity and brainstorming and creating things? I can't think of one job...all I see is fifty years down the road still sitting here, doing nothing, googling, "I hate my life" and seeing where it takes me.

M, Illinois, assistant, posted 8/10/07

I hate my job. Mostly because of what I used to do. I was an Air Force Fire Fighter. I was good at it and I loved every second of it. I served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. I didnt hurt anyone, my sole purpose was to save lives be it military or civilian, friend or foe. Then I was injured. My right knee was blown out and the Air Force sent me packing once they had used up every bit of me that they could. Now I'm home, with a wife a three year old son and another on the way. I am no longer able (in any fashion) to do the job that I loved so dearly. Forced to take the first thing to come my way I now work as some kind of hybrid office assistant/clerk/lackey. I file papers away, buy office supplies and listen to the inane rantings of the hillbilly @55holes that inhabit my workplace. If I even dare ask someone to do something the first thing they say is "You arent in the Military anymore and I dont answer to you". Nice tactic, use my service against me...I w!
ork for a big evil corporation who gives to squirts of piss for the advancement of it's employees. Nepotism and racism are alive and well here so I guess I am supposed to count myself lucky that I work here at all, considering I am nobody's family here. These people take everything for granted and have no problem blaming their short-commings on the nearest individual. Stealing from eachother, the company and the customers. Raping the business for paychecks when they know they havent lifted a finger all week. And I find myself having to cover it all up for them or risk losing my livelyhood. I wish I could be serving the public again. I dont need handshakes, and nobody owes me anything. I just want to feel good about myself again. I hate being ashamed of my job. I have tried endlessly to gain suitable employment but to no avail. It seems like nobody wants to hire a disabled military vet. We've had the best of us used up and now we are worth little to nothing.

B, Montana, Lackey, posted 8/8/07

OK so I beat you all! I sit at a desk and call people all day to bother them about getting their chiminy swept! Dryer vernts cleaned and air vents cleanded. I call and get maybe 3 people who want more info and then maybe one becomes an actual job for the company. Then there is the people who own the company. There are three of them and a 4th person who works for them that the only time they are actually doing anything is when we give them a lead then they make a phone call to close the lead. Ok they get paid way more than my measly 8:50 and hr and I heard the assistant say she gets 2500.00 a month and what does she actually do. She is a big FAT person who eats all day! She yells about having to make a call back if the person gave her any grief, meaning she actually had to try to convince them to do the job, or she has to WORK! yet she gets paid so much more than I do! She smokes and eats a horrible diet and has the nerve to complain about health problems.!
If you don't take care of yourself that is what happens you get sick. So on top of all that I just pray a lot for sanity to keep working there, Oh did I mention they bring their 3 dogs to work and that the office stinks like dog pee cause one of the dogs is not potty trained. And my other two co workers that are also telemarketers wont even use their real name when they make calls they are afraid of anyone knowing it is them! I get hung up on all day yelled at for calling and told they would never use our company because we keep calling them! I have to agree if I was being called 3 times a day till I was actually reached and then told no and then put in to the bin for next month I mean how do they expect us to get a lead by talking to the same people over and over again that have told us no.
Then there is the fact that the bosses everytime I do get a lead are in the back having a cup of coffee and chatting, it burns me up. OH did I tell you I am new to this job had it just a short time. I guess one of my co workers got pulled aside because we were talking to much and they asked her to stop talking so much. Did I mention that only like 1 in 20 calls if that you get someone who answers there phone and we can't talk! wow, Ok so I said to her well its not like they don't talk all day and Its not like they seem to do anything it's like we do all the work and they get all the money. We talked quietly that day and I guess I said to much cause the next day when I came in I was handed my check and told I would no longer be needed. I knew that girl would tell them what I said, The funny thing about that is I hated the job so much I wanted to get fired! And I did When he handed me the check no one else had the nerve to be there they were all being cowards and hiding !
in the back office, what a joke. Then I did the best thing and I was so happy, I said Oh great I get paid early and I don't have to come back, Great See ya! And I left laughing. I went to the bank deposeited my check and Got a better job in 3 days, better pay, better people, no stinky dogs, and no fat lady complaining about all the ailments she has created for herself! I am free. I was wanting to quit but not wanting to not have a back up plan seems I was not to be there and something better came about. If you really hate your job start looking for another one and get on with your life there is much better things you can do with your life that will seem like heaven compared to the old grind. I love that I don't have that job anymore as I really hated it. It was fear that kept me there because I have bills. I Thank that ---hole for fireing me. Take that job and shove it. Being fired was the best thing that ever happend to me. Laughing at my boss as I left felt re!
ally good! Oh just a side note, about a week ago I was at a local gas station and the co worker who talked to the boss pulled in at the other pump and acted like she was a long lost friend. Oh how are you doing bla bla bla, I said oh just fine since you got me fired, she got so mad (like she has a right to be mad I am the one who got fired) and she rolled up her windows and when her car was done pulled off in a huff I had to laugh. The man pumping gas says she got you fired I said yes and to think she is mad at me. He said you got guts to tell her you know. I said I am not into games and or being a fake friend, pretenting to care when I don't. I don't care what she thinks of me and I want her to know exactly what I think of her. What a b----. And the nerve to act like she missed me. Well anyways thats my I hate my job story.

K, Oregon, Telemarketer, posted 7/19/07

The dumb receptionist.
I hate my job. I come in Mon-FRI 8-5,
I hate these hours, especially when I sit at my desk all day long, and have to call someone to sit at my desk, if I need to go to the bathroom! All day long, people call and think just because I answer the phones, that entitles them to tell me their whole story, about their broken computer of phones. HELLLLO, I'm not a repair man. All day long I sit here and listen to pages from the phones, and everyone has to say everything 2 x so the other person will catch the page. We all sound like broken records all day. I have the most annoying boss, that yells all day at everyone, I can't even stand to be around him, he acts like he is God on this earth, because he owns a DUMB COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY COMPANY. last but not least... amber, you are the biggest FAT ASS, AND YOU ACT LIKE YOU KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT IN THE MEAN TIME YOU'RE ALWAYS FUCKING UP OTHER PEOPLES STUFF. IF YOU TELL ME ONE MORE TIME, HOW TO DO SOMETHING, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF, AND DO SOMETHING USEFUL, AND LOSE!
SOME WEIGHT!!!! I've vented, and I'm done

A, Ohio, Receptionist, posted 7/6/07

I hate my job and all of my co-workers. I work with the worlds greatest idiots im thinking of nominating them for the Guinness Book of world records if they had a dumb division. Four years of college to hear people have celebrity debates over paris hilton. who gives a flying fuck? I thought going to fashion school was a great career idea. no, no no! I sit in a ice box all day and type style #s for clothes i never get to see and listen to 100lb girls talk about how fat they are wondering what they say about my well over 100lb ass!

K, New York, Assistant, posted 6/19/07

My office smells like an airplane bathroom because I work less than 2 feet from an airplane bathroom. Flight attendants make about 45,000 a year on average and smell human dung and farts 10 to 12 hours a day. My co workers think People magazine is higher learning and passengers love to ask if I love my job and do I love to travel. I'm in Cleavland in a Holliday Inn. What do you think? I spend my days off alone staring at the wall hoping I don't have to go out in public and be around more rude, stupid people. I recently asked a friend to smash my foot with a hammer so I could stay home. Sadly, they declined. This job made me an alchoholic. I didn't even drink before this job.

J, Utah, Flight Attendant, posted 4/25/07

I hate my job. This is the family restaurant that i work for. Only 3 employee isn't relate it but the other are daughter, in law,brother and sister of the owner who work there.  From morning i have to cook a lot of food for the buffet by my self, cooking a la carte for a lot of customer who driving me crazy with a lot of different kind menu and have to cook fast if not they will complain and I'm working alone in the kitchen. have to fill it up everything if that empty, washing dishes and washing the floor in d kitchen before we close ( even i don't have time to have a break even go to toilet for a pee). and I'm doing all of that by my self ( my boss doesn't want to hired other helper to help me for have more profit). My salary its suck,
i have to work every weekend and red calendar with no extra money, no overtime, no bonus, no tips. The family of the owner who work there got a monkey lazy ass just ask me to cook for them and eat and eat and sleep in personal room.
I work 7,5 hour a day in the contract said i have 30 min break but in fact i can't have a break at all. and the greedy owner just pay me for only 7 hour work daily. They bought a new car and 2 new horses last week and they go to vacation to other country this week....nice ass, and I'm stuck with the hunger customer in the holiday season like this.

I went to my stupid work everyday, i really much hate it but I went it anyway. ( no choice have to pay all my bills)

J, Norway, Assistant Cook, posted 4/25/07

Okay... by far I have the worst job every! I am a cashier for truck drivers... at a truck stop! It SUCKS so bad! I deal with assholes all day long. I am like a freaking babysitters for ASSHOLES! Everyday I wake up and try to find a reason to continue to go there! Finding reason's to call out are too easy. My boss is a DUMBASS by every stretch of the word. He is lazy and a thief. He had a audit that was 10,000 dollars short and he had the nerve to post a note saying "is this embarrassing to you? If not you should find another job". My thoughts are i can't be embarrassed because I am not a thief and I don't really care. I get paid the same anyway. Maybe I should care... but I don't. I am so tired when I leave that hell hole that I can't find the strength to look for a new job. I guess I am equally lazy. But let em tell you. I am currently watching them hire assistant manager's in and having cashiers train them... what is wrong with this picture? My job sucks. I gues!
s I will be faking the flu again this week. Who would blame me? After all they are not going to fire me because that would mean paperwork they would have to fill out and they don't have anyone else trained to do the shit I do. My boss doesn't even know how to do this shit. The worst part is getting cussed out every morning by a nasty truck driver and the best part is when I walk out the door every afternoon.

R, Tennessee, Cashier, posted 4/25/07

I hate my job because I am so fucking bored! I am supposed to be building a website and marketing materials ... but since we haven't had any business in the past 6 months, they have no money to pay for any marketing materials. When I was hired I was told I would have my own office. I still sit in the lobby with the receptionist. I have grown tired of surfing the internet. I have a Bachelor's Degree and THIS is the best I can do. What the FUCK!!! My parents are so proud. And the job market sucks so hard that I can't even find a new one. God knows I look ... everyday. 6 months and they still haven't programmed my phone so I can call into offices or transfer to voicemails. And they have the nerve to ask me how my classes are going at night ... WHAT???? What fucking classes? Did you even READ my resume!?!?! I graduated from college 2 fucking years ago! And trying to pay it off even though I get paid less than the assembly workers in the warehouse.

--B, Maryland, Graphic Designer, posted 4/25/07

i hate my job. the more im there the more i feel all my hopes and dreams just fading. im usually so happy go lucky and creative and now i just sit and stare like a box. the life sucked out of me. fortunately i've found my career BUTTT i wont start it until the 17th of april thats nearly 7 weeks i'll be here dying and watching my spirit whither away to nothingness. i want to just walk out sometimes but my bills wont let me- at least i've found something, i just wish the time would go , so i can say see ya lata suckassss! - oh wont that be a happy day ...

--E, Hampton Roads, Timeshare Appt. Setter, posted 3/7/07


i come in every morning early and leave late every day. i watch everyone above me making money hand over fist and when i ask them for a raise they give me some stupid fing goal to hit to get a free trip to seattle who the hell wants to go to seattle? i do all the freaking work for this company marketing problem solving helping others training doing my own work and then some. i am so sick and tired of everyone making money that i am to the point that if i could do it all over again i would have joined the military in a heart beat! for everyone out there that spends 20 to 100 grand in collage i say your stupid because it never gets you anywhere i have seen people with 80grand degrees be passed up on for a raise so some high school graduate can get it so he can go smoke himself stupid. I HATE MY JOB!!!!!!!

--R, Glendale, Financial Consultant Mgr, posted 3/7/07

I hate my job because it is making me stupider (more stupid?-exactly) by the minute. I work around a bunch of fucking idiots, who claim to be management. There are people here who are completely unaccounted for on a daily basis. Usually about 1 or 2 o'clock people start questioning where they are and if they are coming in at all. Another classic act that happens here is when my boss, who does absolutely nothing at work and can't handle going home to his wife and kid, instructs me to call so-and-so at their office for him then proceeds to tell me the phone number!^&@%&^$* Are you fucking kidding me, dude? Christ, in the time it took you to get it out of your mouth you could've actually called and had the person on the phone. Ugggghhh! I hate my job! I'm so friggin' bored here that I decided a year ago to start screwing one of my co-workers. In fact, the only saving grace is knowing that we had sex on my boss' desk. I could go on for days but why bother. Giddy up!

--JT, New Jersey, posted 3/7/07


I work at a factory where agricultural equipment is made. I don a pair of stinky welding leathers at 6 AM,6 days a week and spend the next 10 hours in sensory deprivation under a welding helmet. The only reprieve is two 15 minutes breaks that I spend reading because I don't watch football, NASCAR, go to the bar or own a snowmobile so that leaves me out of about 95% of any conversation. Thoreau said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation. What a crock! I would like to travel back in time and bitchslap him. His grasp of the obvious was uncanny. I find myself envious of homeless people because they don't have to spend their days having their souls sucked out by the corporate vampire. I stay because I am a wage slave and my family has grown accustomed to living indoors.

--C, Welder, ND, posted 2/27/07

I HATE MY JOB! I've worked for this "great company" for over 2 years. They just closed 5 stores in our area, but I was "lucky" enough to land a job working for the same company in one of their other stores...but only after a $1.50/hr pay cut and a demotion. I am responsible for the whole store at night, hold store keys, and make $11 an hour?!?! My job is so unfulfilling and repetitive. Sometimes I ring up customers for so long, so many hours, I get delirious, and start to twitch and perform the same repetitive motions on accident, like reach for something thats not there. The customers are rude and spoiled and think they are soooo wonderful. I practically have to wipe their asses for them! And my boss thinks he has done me a great favor by letting me have a job there, since they did let go of 200 employees right before Christmas. YAY!

--S, Assistant Service Manager (glorified cashier), Phoenix, posted 1/18/07


I hate my job. I hate doing nothing, which is what I’m paid to do. I sit for hours, sometimes even days on end, doing nothing but googling my own name and staring at the same websites because my boss thinks he needs an assistant to handle the 3 phone calls that come in a day. I am so freakin bored- I ask anyone and everyone if they have anything I can do? Do they need help with anything? “Here you can send this fax..” GEE THANKS, soooo glad I went to college, it’s really paying off, big time- not to mention I’m still paying it off. Did I mention that my cubicle not only faces a wall. It faces two walls because it faces a corner at an end of the office no one really comes to.
Aside from the mind numbing day to day work I do (sending A fax…answering A call…getting A lot dumber) I have to listen to office talk. It’s as if the fluorescent lights are melting our brains.
Bob: “Alright, I’m leaving for the day”
Ron: “Ya headin’ out?”

YES RON! “LEAVING” generally tends to mean that you are heading out. While I’m sure in some corners of the world people declare they’re leaving as a way of saying “hello” – here in the office “I’m leaving” f’ing means “I AM LEAVING”. I also love how, (my hours are 9-6) at 6:15 I’ll say goodbye and, inevitably, my boss will look at his watch- as if I’m leaving early. Screw it! I’d stay- IF THERE WAS WORK TO DO!

I hate this, I hate not being able to interact with people and I hate being bored. I’ve lost the ability to spell and think because all I do is use spell check and watch clips on YOU TUBE all day.

--Gatsby, Assistant, LA, posted 12/28/06


I hate my job because...it is a big focking pain in the arse. I am forced to give 2 shites about whether or not customers get all their damned boxes of shite in the specified time frame, with the right labelling, on the right truck, loaded in the right amount of time... blah blah blah... As the General Manager of the facility I feel like nothing more than the biggest monkey amongst the group (of fellow monkeys- only ones far more stupid than myself- which isnt' saying much).  "Oh- what's that you say pissed off customer?" - You're customer claims they didn't receive 2 boxes out of the 10,000 boxes of dog shit that they ordered? I am so terribly sorry, and I apologize from the bottom of my heart. I assure you I will run out to the warehouse with my whip and beat those worker monkeys senseless!! This is an outrage and the monkey's will PAY!

Seriously... just shoot me now.

--Alex, Warehouse Manager, Los Angeles, posted 10/26/06


I hate my job because...I spend my days arguing over nickels.  Actually, that's giving it too much credit, we actually argue over tenths or hundredths of a penny. Sure, it adds up over millions of pieces, but in the context of the negotiation, we actually argue over percentage points of a unit of currency people are more likely to throw away than put in their pocket.

To take it one step further, the true intent of my job, which is to save money, actually, in most cases, does the opposite. Due to the automotive industry's annual giveback culture, everybody builds extra padding into their business case so they can give it back, therefore increasing the original price. In the long view, I actually make the product you buy more expensive.

People demand answers immediately, then provide zero feedback or decisions for months.

Couple that with more procedures than the Manhattan project, including an 18 step process for asking how much something costs, and the whole occupation is about as soul-corroding as it gets. I'm with this Alex guy. Somebody shoot me....or give me a more interesting job.

--E, Automotive Purchasing, Detroit, posted 10/28/06


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