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Post by Qetesh on Jul 2, 2014 16:01:04 GMT
Day after day I get hit in the face and have to put out fire after fire. If I don't put out one fast enough I have 3 more popping up. I am not able to pull a fracture of what I should being as an owner and yet I can't walk away from it without screwing over other people and losing all my investment monies I put into it. I hate Medicare, I hate Obamacare, I hate the Doctors that want blood from a stone, I hate providing a service and not getting paid on time but yet being demanded to pay my overhead on time. I hate the stress and I hate the server that fraks up constantly. I hate the constant law changes and I really hate having to pay thousands of dollars to just remain in business for "accreditation fees". Such Total bullshit.....maybe this will make George and Matthew feel a bit better.
My job sucks, I would kill to just be a maid or bartender or ditch damn digger.
Rant over. Feel feel to join in if anyone wants too.
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Post by stuhacking on Jul 2, 2014 16:04:01 GMT
What is it that you do?
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Post by Qetesh on Jul 2, 2014 16:18:43 GMT
It's a very small mobile medical ultrasound company getting squished at every angle by huge competitors and laws designed to put the little guys under that cater to the larger corporate giants. Things like the electronic health records that I am "exempt" from. This means if I can't front the 40 grand myself to convert over, Medicare won't reimburse me because it was not required due to my exemption, so half my clients want me to be EHR compatible but I can't afford it. So, I lost some more clients to that aspect. I could go on and on, but have to go jump back into it since my prison contract is changing hands and the woman that used to take 3 weeks to pay me because of "approvals" now is demanding I get her all outstanding invoices, just sent to me a few minutes ago, so that she can send me my last check today. It was all BS because ever study done at a prison is pre-approved before being ordered. Just a crap day, on a rotten week from the last two years of royal pooh for my company. |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 2, 2014 17:59:24 GMT
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Post by Monkeythumbz on Jul 4, 2014 12:07:26 GMT
Day after day I get hit in the face and have to put out fire after fire. If I don't put out one fast enough I have 3 more popping up. Yup, I know that feel  |
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Post by Crumpy Six on Jul 4, 2014 17:51:36 GMT
I have a love-hate relationship with my job. Love? A lot of the people I work with. The opportunities for progression and sponsorship for professional qualifications.
Hate?
I have to put up with a lot of corporate bullshit. Like, a LOT. Residential training courses in it. Working long hours for little or no recognition is normal. It's hard to complain because whoever is on the desk next to you probably has a worse deal. When I first started this job I was determined only to work my contracted hours, but over the years my tolerance has crept. 9-5:30 has become 8-6 and that's a good day. At busy times of year it's easily 8-8. I prefer the out-of-hours working time, because there's minimal chance of the phone ringing with some senior manager demanding I drop everything to spend a few hours on their pet project. Those "few hours" will be made up in the evening, at home. I recently got in trouble for saying no to one of these demands. The feedback was that I was being "too assertive." Coincidentally, the following week I was on a corporate training course that included a session about how to be more assertive. Also, this job involves a lot of apologising and taking responsibility for other people's mistakes and laziness. I would rather this than to work in a place with a culture of blame, but it's wearing.
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Post by Monkeythumbz on Jul 4, 2014 18:16:46 GMT
I have a love-hate relationship with my job. Love? A lot of the people I work with. The opportunities for progression and sponsorship for professional qualifications. Hate? I have to put up with a lot of corporate bullshit. Like, a LOT. Residential training courses in it. Working long hours for little or no recognition is normal. It's hard to complain because whoever is on the desk next to you probably has a worse deal. When I first started this job I was determined only to work my contracted hours, but over the years my tolerance has crept. 9-5:30 has become 8-6 and that's a good day. At busy times of year it's easily 8-8. I prefer the out-of-hours working time, because there's minimal chance of the phone ringing with some senior manager demanding I drop everything to spend a few hours on their pet project. Those "few hours" will be made up in the evening, at home. I recently got in trouble for saying no to one of these demands. The feedback was that I was being "too assertive." Coincidentally, the following week I was on a corporate training course that included a session about how to be more assertive. Also, this job involves a lot of apologising and taking responsibility for other people's mistakes and laziness. I would rather this than to work in a place with a culture of blame, but it's wearing. All of this sounds VERY familiar to the experience I had when I was working in a previous publishing role. Dem feels... |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 4, 2014 21:08:34 GMT
I have no job. Somebody have one for me that I could hate?  |
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Post by Qetesh on Jul 4, 2014 21:24:05 GMT
I don't know about other places, but in America a "salaried job" is a double edged sword. I used to crave for one till I got my first one and found out it meant working ungodly ( no pun intended) hours with no extra pay and on top of that, my old boss tried to guilt me out for every single time I needed to leave early or come in late, even though I came in early most days, beat her there, and left late late, plus there was the expectation of the stack of work taken home each night and the calls on every damn vacation. I was always on call.
Still, I would go back to it in a heartbeat, that company went under and I miss that job to this day. I had a paycheck every week there.
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Post by 13thGeneral on Jul 5, 2014 5:09:48 GMT
I have no job. Somebody have one for me that I could hate? I have discouragingly been in and out of work over the last decade - the longest recently was two years unemployed - so I know that feel. But, amazingly a chance to go back to school presented itself, so I refocused my aspirations and studied drafting & engineering design - and did quite well in it (top o'the class). now I'm finally in a place that I may have a chance to change my long-term financial outlook; here's to hoping. And trying, desperately trying. What's your skillset/background? |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 5, 2014 8:24:32 GMT
I have discouragingly been in and out of work over the last decade - the longest recently was two years unemployed - so I know that feel. Same here, except 3 years was my longest dry spell. But, amazingly a chance to go back to school presented itself, so I refocused my aspirations and studied drafting & engineering design - and did quite well in it (top o'the class). now I'm finally in a place that I may have a chance to change my long-term financial outlook; here's to hoping. And trying, desperately trying. I went back to school as well, but in the end the circumstances didn't allow me to finish it. What's your skillset/background? A little bit of a lot of things. Got a diploma in Audio Engineering but was never able to find any related work. Lately I've been studying Informatics which is basically software engineering. I learned CAD on the job but that was a long time ago. Did some minor courses along the way such as web-editing and report design. Every employer is asking for degrees these days though, doesn't matter which one as long as you got one. It's ridiculous. By the way, to be somewhat on topic, I really hated my last job. It was rather long hours for a lousy pay and it physically wrecked me. |
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