I’m exhausted and completely demoralized. I have a good team, and I’m fully aware of the value of having a decent work environment and colleagues you can rely on. But that is, frankly, the only thing that makes me come to work every day. Everything else - overtime, bad management, toll the work with clients take, no career opportunities whatsoever, constant threat of layoffs, the profound sense of not being valued as an employee and as a human being, arrogant leadership out of touch, all of it makes this work the worst.
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I couldn’t do it, I left without a job to do to. 12-14 hour days, you had to walk a walk they you didn’t agree to or get training on. Even with tenure I just couldn’t do it!
I go through the motions on the daily. I give no extra effort at all because I know I’m in a job that could be part of a RIF at any moment. I’m here to collect checks until it’s my turn for unemployment.
I just barely do it, way less than I used to and could
I am still holding out hope the job market will open up later in 2025 once this tariff thing is settled. You will never receive a feeling of worth from management at this company unless you K a lot of A__. Try finding that outside of work for now. I am in the same boat with no opportunity for advancement at this company. I should have followed my gut and turned down the job offer at this company years ago.....
We’re all just widgets in the eyes of the leadership. Can involve humanity when we have stock prices (aka pretend fake money) to worry about