Boiling Point
I believe I've reached the end of my rope. I'm not sure how else to approach these ridiculous situations. I just need to walk away without looking back and keep right on trucking.
*Sigh* This is another of those job related stress outs. There's so much crap that goes down up here, I wonder what the general public would think if they knew... so you're my general public, tell me.
I feel like I'm stealing money from the government every day because I sit here with nothing better to do than listen to music and surf the Internet. Occasionally I'll get some work to do but once that's done I go right back to sitting here with nothing to do. I feel like I'm wasting my life away and pretty soon all the skills and talents I have will have rusted up so much I wont know how to use them anymore. I shouldn't complain about this one because I do enjoy having an income that I can actually sort of live off but at the same time I just don't feel like I'm actually earning it.
One of the deputy directors here keeps mailing off job applications for a family member, ordinarily I would have no problem with that except she's using the inter-office mail... so basically your taxes are paying for her ex-daughter-in-law to apply for jobs.
My supervisor insists on being responsible for everything she can get her grubby little paws on and then complains about having to do things. She accepts recognition on things she had nothing to do with, instead of respectfully declining the awards and referring them to the person that actually did the work. As the Admin she's supposed to keep private information, like how much time people have or people's personal business that she might be privy to, private... except she shares it with anyone that will listen.
The assistants don't actually DO anything. One of them said that her job is to call people and tell them what to do. That's almost an exact quote by the way. Another one files a suit every time she gets rejected from a promotion because she's under qualified and under motivated. These people spend more time running their families from their work phones than they do actually working. One of my co-workers will chew out a vendor or someone in the field like it's nothing and then wonder why no one answers the phone when they see it's her calling. Another assistant is about to have a psychotic break because she thinks that management has people following her to make sure she's doing what she says she's doing (easy remedy? Try actually doing your job for a change... just a suggestion).
The agents that make the most money have been here longer but do less work but the ones that make the least amount do the hardest work. One of the agents doesn't do anything at all and allows his assistant to do all the work. So now that assistant is doing an agents job and management knows about it.
People take 1 hour and 30 minute lunches and don't sign out that extra 30 minutes. They take extra breaks throughout the day and don't see anything wrong with it. They print personal information out on the printers using paper and ink paid for by your hard earned tax dollars.
In the entire time I've been working I've never worked somewhere more unethical, so full of ridiculous people, or somewhere that when I didn't have work to do they couldn't find anything for me to do. Maybe these things are ridiculously petty and I'm just overly sensitive about it but I just can't stand how unbalanced working for the government is! How can you be happy doing nothing every day? HOW?!?
*Sigh* This is another of those job related stress outs. There's so much crap that goes down up here, I wonder what the general public would think if they knew... so you're my general public, tell me.
I feel like I'm stealing money from the government every day because I sit here with nothing better to do than listen to music and surf the Internet. Occasionally I'll get some work to do but once that's done I go right back to sitting here with nothing to do. I feel like I'm wasting my life away and pretty soon all the skills and talents I have will have rusted up so much I wont know how to use them anymore. I shouldn't complain about this one because I do enjoy having an income that I can actually sort of live off but at the same time I just don't feel like I'm actually earning it.
One of the deputy directors here keeps mailing off job applications for a family member, ordinarily I would have no problem with that except she's using the inter-office mail... so basically your taxes are paying for her ex-daughter-in-law to apply for jobs.
My supervisor insists on being responsible for everything she can get her grubby little paws on and then complains about having to do things. She accepts recognition on things she had nothing to do with, instead of respectfully declining the awards and referring them to the person that actually did the work. As the Admin she's supposed to keep private information, like how much time people have or people's personal business that she might be privy to, private... except she shares it with anyone that will listen.
The assistants don't actually DO anything. One of them said that her job is to call people and tell them what to do. That's almost an exact quote by the way. Another one files a suit every time she gets rejected from a promotion because she's under qualified and under motivated. These people spend more time running their families from their work phones than they do actually working. One of my co-workers will chew out a vendor or someone in the field like it's nothing and then wonder why no one answers the phone when they see it's her calling. Another assistant is about to have a psychotic break because she thinks that management has people following her to make sure she's doing what she says she's doing (easy remedy? Try actually doing your job for a change... just a suggestion).
The agents that make the most money have been here longer but do less work but the ones that make the least amount do the hardest work. One of the agents doesn't do anything at all and allows his assistant to do all the work. So now that assistant is doing an agents job and management knows about it.
People take 1 hour and 30 minute lunches and don't sign out that extra 30 minutes. They take extra breaks throughout the day and don't see anything wrong with it. They print personal information out on the printers using paper and ink paid for by your hard earned tax dollars.
In the entire time I've been working I've never worked somewhere more unethical, so full of ridiculous people, or somewhere that when I didn't have work to do they couldn't find anything for me to do. Maybe these things are ridiculously petty and I'm just overly sensitive about it but I just can't stand how unbalanced working for the government is! How can you be happy doing nothing every day? HOW?!?
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Move to Charlotte.
Love,
Amanda
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