Just a lil vent on how ridiculous my job is

[Miss Jasmine]

I think you need to go back to school for further grammar classes. I can understand the informality of posting on a message board, but the misuse of apostrophes, words, etc. makes it nearly impossible to read your posts. Also the letter size and colors are very much over the top.

If you act like this in your workplace, I can understand the difficulties you are having.

 

[dawnball]

Well yesterday I emailed my supervisor that I needed 'post-it' notes, some color file folders and carbon/duplicate phone message book.................................... ............................................. this is the reply I got................................................................... well we will take it into consderation, but we need to wait until we get your specific accommodations before you can have those items....................

Actually, depending on the accomodations you need - ordering you those things now could very well be a waste of company funds. For example, if you had RSI and one of the accomodations was that you needed to write larger (requires less fine muscle control, I moved to wide-line paper and it helped quite a bit) then the message book could prove useless to you - and they'd have to buy you another one. Or you might need to move to a different filing system (maybe you hurt your back/shoulders) and don't have the range of motion to reach into a normal fining cabinet - instead you need open shelves with end-tab file folders).

I suffered from terrible RSI for many years (Exacerbated in times of stress) and failing around randomly for *something* that would help didn't solve anything - it just wasted money. I finally went to the ergonomics folks and we worked out a solution that actually worked - it just wasn't intuitive.

 

[azgal81]

I'm sorry you aren't happy at your job. Maybe you should find a new one??

My company has a rule about what supplies we can order. Maybe they think the supplies you requested aren't necessary or don't you have a supply room with a bunch of basic supplies?

Why are you typing in such big letters??? It's really not needed!

You say you stay there because you need the medical, don't most jobs have benefits like that?? Unless you are working at a hourly job.

I guess I'm just confused why you don't find a better job if you do in fact have your graduate degree. Alot of people with just high school diplomas have done pretty good in the business world I don't think you supposedly having your graduate degree makes you better then them. They all might be laughing at you because they are making the same with their high school degrees and you went to all the trouble to get your graduate degree and it doesn't matter.

 

[Cruelladevil]

Sounds ruff

 

[hentob]

What was your major in college?

I hope things get better for you soon

 

[Caradana]

I have got to tell you ...

... you sound a teensy bit difficult to work with.

I am sure you are a very nice person in real life. But the posts here ... brutal.

- Dana, whose white-shoe Wall Street firm will not provide colored folders as they are "not on the official office supply list." And I have an Ivy League degree and I actually really adore my coworkers, who range from 10th grade educated to post-doc.

 

[Cruelladevil]

Zoiebear - It sounds like you need to find a new place to use your degree!! I have to say that there must be two sides to this story especially since you seem to get confused about yours. Time is a wasting, do you want to wake up 20 years from now and wonder why you stayed in such a low level job....with all of your education.

 

[ducklite]

Sorry you're having health issues. It's been my experience that most people don't resent those that are fortunate enough to earn advanced degrees. They resent those that think they are better because they have them.

I was thinking the same thing.

OP--It sounds like you are being very disruptive to the flow of the office. As a newer employee, you need to back off and either learn to fit in, or find a new job. I'd be very put off by someone who was a fairly new employee making all sorts of demands and trying to take over. In fact I'd make sure that one way or another you were out the door.

Have you heard of the term "managing out?" It basically means that an manager wil subtly make life so difficult for an employee that they find another job and leave. It can be anything from giving an hourly employee four hours every other week to denying vacation requests, to refusing supply requests that aren't on the regular supply list or required under ADA.

Personally I'd find a reason for you to be out the door. I refuse to have people disrupt my office with pettiness and politics. I've got one in my office right now that has a foot on a bannana peel, she's covered under ADA, but she's going to be fired for being rude to customers and coworkers, not for anything to do with her condition--although she lied about her ability to do her job when she was hired, and that would be enough grounds right there.

Bottom line, how have you been an asset to the company? Don't say you've got a degree, because unless it's absolutely essential to your position (nurse, CPA, architect, etc.) it's not relevent. I don't have a degree and renegotiated a contract this week that will save my company $10,000+ a year. That was one of many that I have or am in the process of renegotiating, by the time I'm done, I project that I will have saved the company more than four times my annual salary every year. Bottom line, that makes me a much more valuable employee than the chick in the office next to me with a BBA who takes a lot of time off for personal issues and spends a lot of time gossiping and/or complaining about how much work she has to do when she is in.

Anne

 

[ducklite]

Dana, whose white-shoe Wall Street firm will not provide colored folders as they are "not on the official office supply list." And I have an Ivy League degree and I actually really adore my coworkers, who range from 10th grade educated to post-doc.

You need to make friends with the person incharge of approving supply orders--that would be me in my office--and I make exceptions now and then for people who play nice with others.

Anne

 

[debden]

I would say either lay low and keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut or find yourself another job.
IMHO is sounds like you have your foot on a banana peel (as Ducklite was referring to in her post)....
Debbie

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Wow! This thread is old!

 

[debden]

LindsayDunn228 Wow! This thread is old!

I never noticed the date on the original posters thread.It's from back in March.
Does the OP have any updates??
Debbie

 

[Cruelladevil]

Ducklite I think you hit the nail right on the head! IMHO the original poster sounds like a high maintence employee who would be very difficult to have around!!

 

[Stacerita]

Removed post

 

[Free4Life11]

OP GOOD LUCK! Sometimes jobs suck! And for the record I like the colors and big font. It's kind of fun actually.

ETA - NOW I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, TIME FOR AN UPDATE OP.

 

[debden]

OP GOOD LUCK! Sometimes jobs suck! And for the record I like the colors and big font. It's kind of fun actually.

ETA - NOW I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, TIME FOR AN UPDATE OP.

I agree with the above poster.OP IT'S TIME FOR AN UPDATE! DON'T KEEP US WAITING ANOTHER MOMENT!!
Debbie