I hate my job...
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- fifty50
Please post your stories as to why you hate your job.
I'll get it started...
I started this job over two years ago while I was in college for graphic design. They declared it would be a freelance position and I would get paid under the table which isn't too bad, and I could come in when I want and take trips overseas whenever I want. Now comes the bad part: it's a business run out of someone's house and the bosses are husband and wife.Not long after starting here I became irritated by how the husband and wife are constantly at each other's throats. I had to start bringing in headphones to ignore all the yelling and screaming and the CONSTANT chattering. The "office" i work out of is a small room on the upper level of the house. There are usually three or four people in this room with me at a time, including the other designer, the wife/mother and their daughter. She's not even a good looking daughter and she's not a hell of a lot better than the bosses themselves because she's the BIGGEST bitch in the world.
So, in between listening to their fights I would actually get some real creative jobs to work on. A lot of the time I'd come up with something generally respectable and then the bosses would chime in and tell me to do the design their way. Their "style" (i'm hesitant to call it style) reminds me of something a pre-teen would come up with. Clearly neither of them have been trained at either marketing or design. The husband/father half of the management-duo is a self-proclaimed "marketing genius" and has had "many years in this business." He couldn't find his way out of a paper bag to be honest. I have come to the conclusion that both of the bosses/parents are on some kind of drugs. Actually, the mother admitted to me not long after I started here that she was on all sorts of drugs back in the 70s when she was my age. As impressed as i wasn't by her stories she tends to piss off everybody around her by either arguing with them or just plain telling them off. Her voice has become a rusty nail being driven into my eardrums after this long.
I could go on and on about how much I hate this dysfunctional family and how little I feel like a designer anymore but rather a puppet of their "genius" design skills by purging out their ideas onto paper and mindlessly doing the work which they shouldn't really be paying me to do. I have lost all respect for myself as a designer as soon as I walk in the door every morning and feel like killing myself every evening as I walk out the door.
Thankfully though, I have found a job in Germany which is my dream job and I never have to come back to this hell hole again. Thanks for your attention. Anyone else got a story of how much they hate their job?
- robotron3k0
never work for a husband and wife business. i hope you learned you lesson. move on.
- Chimp0
That soounds like form
- lustor0
run!
run far away!
personally, i'm not happy where i am, but thank god it's not like that.
- mr_snuggles0
yes that's horrible, congrats on gettin' out though!
lustor and I could share some stories but we're already depressed enough for fun friday.
- aliendn0
u sir have a sitcom on your hands!
- mg330
I love mine.
I just crawled on all fours into an attorney's office while his back was to me, got halfway under his desk and put a pair of handcuffs around both ankles!
- fullerc0
I hate my job too....
I work for a company that their idea of "design" is how big you make the word SALE!
Every time I ask to purchase a stock photo or want to hire a professional photographer they ask..." Don't we have a digital camera?"
The icing on the cake was last week when a project HAD to go out and I worked my ass off and stayed late to finish and upload the project to our printer.
First thing the next day the PM had a change to the file the he had approved.
Now I know things change and changes have to be done but the thing that pissed me off is this. He emailed the changes to me at 9 a.m. And at 9:15 he called to see "how's it going". At 9:30 he called again to see "where I'm at". That's when I asked him if he wanted to do the changes himself! It was a change to a 250MB psd file.
The guy hung up the phone and charged across the office at me. I thought I was going to have to deck him! He yelled at me and accused me of "dragging my feet" and that the deadline was last night!
I then yelled back that he was the one that made changes after it was approved and that I will be so glad when I don't have to put with his shit!
( I recently passed up a promotion to make a lateral move so I wouldn't have to work with him again.)Thanks for letting me vent!
- grafholic0
i am brainwashed.
i am on 4-year salary freeze (the entire company is) and i no longer question the insanity of having worked here for so long. likewise, i have given up on asking my boss for more money.
- ricstultz0
I would hate your jobs too.
No matter what working for someone else just sucks.
- e-pill0
I hate my job because i have major unrealistic deadlines, i have to travel overseas to mainland china 4 times a years for minimum of 3 weeks and work everyday at least 14 hours a day and eat nasty greasy food and possibly aquire SARS!!!
my boss who only plays with his hair shops on ebay and calls his boyfriends makes out with all the cash all the grace and his career is moving smoothly because of people like me the lil worker...blah
i hate my job because i work with only guys no girls!
i hate my job because i do!
i hate the bullshit of my job...!i have an appointment for an interview that i am late for because of unrealistic deadlines from my job WHICH I HATE!!!
- seantdk0
i love mine. but too much stress sometimes working for yourself....
- derekblais0
word
- shellie0
I love my job now. But, i hated working for a husband and wife. Both of them were a few cards short of a deck.
The wife instigated drama with every breath that came out of her body and both of them are incredible liars.
Clients hate them now. Some big clients even dropped them like a ton of bricks. It’s all over the place that i don’t even have to say anything. Once in a while I’ll be at a party with former or current clients of theirs and they'll bitch and complain to me because they know i used to work there. I just shrug and say *i dunno*. There’s no need to even shit talk cos they're doing a good job fucking themselves on their own.
The Cleo’s this year are going to be jokes for sure. 2005 will be an interesting year as well. It’s good to know that talent and karma really do come around in the end and the good people eventually get what’s coming... and the assholes are SOL. ego and games only get you so far.
A bunch of old workmates talked a lot of shit and played the game as well. I'm not salty about it. but, as far as I can help it they'll never work with me again. It certainly limits their options, not mine. Ah... those are the breaks.
I don’t know why people think they can get away with that kinda scmuckery in this industry. It wouldn’t be tolerated in any other industry. Common sense and business etiquette are lacking in web design and entertainment for sure. Oh well.
*back to work*
- del_razor0
just be glad you have jobs..
- nick0
i make banners all day.
i fucking love my job!
- fifty500
i think the only time i'm nice to my husband and wife boss is when i collect my paycheque.
Please, people, for the good of humanity, DO NOT work with your husband or wife, it will piss off your entire family and make your employees want to kill themselves.
- derekblais0
aww shit
- derekblais0
flash banners nick?
- canuck0
I went for a job interview with a husband and wife team in toronto last year. the work was out of their house too (basement). haha I wonder if it was the same people.
- fifty500
probably not. job i'm at is in mississauga and it's on the top floor. (althought you can hear the yelling from the basement)