Over the last several months I have grown weary of my current job, and found it has been a significant contributor to my present depressive state. This has caused me to try and figure out what exactly it is about my job that makes me so miserable.
So I started examining my frustration levels at work and paying close attention to what would be occurring at the time these levels would peak. What I found was primarily that I have grown to vehemently despise the people that I am forced to work with on a daily basis. Now I am not talking about my coworkers, but rather the people that we are hiring as temps to send out on our assignments. To put it bluntly, they suck.
I would normally never hire a single one of the people who come into our office. However considering that the jobs we are placing people on aren't usually rocket science, and any idiot could do them, this is why we cannot turn these people away. We have no choice but to recruit and hire these people, and hope to gawd that they will actually show up for work and stay there until the assignment ends. Quite often, they don't.
So guess who has to track down and counsel these losers on a daily basis, then spend more time having to send in another loser to replace them, all the while making a little sign of the cross in hopes that this next clown won't go and do exactly the same thing. When you are speaking to the errant temps who have taken off for the day without telling anyone and try to educate them in the fine art of Work Ethic, they talk to you with disrespect and arrogance, often using foul language, if you can even get them on the phone at all. Often you never hear from them again, until the next time they are really stuck for work and come crawling back. I enjoy turning them away when this happens.
I honestly don't know how anyone could actually enjoy this type of work. However my younger colleague, who is much more patient and tolerant of delinquent behaviour than I am, seems to find the job isn't too bad. Either that, or she just doesn't let it show how absolutely at her wit's end she is.
Well I have tried on three occasions to find alternate employment within this company, as I prefer to be loyal to my employer rather than just jumping ship, which most people would do. I have yet to be accepted for another position, either because someone else was more successful, or the position that I had applied for turned out to not be the job I thought it was. This third position that I have put my name down for is a one-year contract, and is going to be further away, so I will have to commute 45 minutes to work each day. Otherwise it is much more along the lines of what I want to do. I advised the manager as to my salary requirements, which is well within the pay band for the position. I had to factor in the cost it would be at least $5000 for the year just in gas alone. My current manager, who is involved in the process of moving me, tells me that this is going to be tricky to negotiate due to the fact that the company will not routinely give wage increases of more than a certain amount, which the gas costs alone will exceed.
I won't find out until the last week of August whether or not I will be successful in obtaining the job for the wage I require. If I don't, I guess I have some tough decisions to make.
