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De-motivated

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  • 09-11-2008 5:06pm
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    LegacyUser
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    Sorry this is so long - but I really do work for one of the worst companies ever!

    I'm having a really hard time at work at the moment. I've worked for the company for just over a year. Came home from holidays a few months ago and the girl I worked closest with had been let go. It was assumed that I would take on her workload, although I was not officially asked for a month afterwards.

    Given the current economic climate & wanting to keep my job I agreed - and have asked numerous times for the necessary training to allow me to do this other job spec. This training has been very spordic and has, in total, come to about 30 mins of a colleague sitting with me, and then me working my way through a training manual on my own.

    In an in-formal discussion with my boss I was called f**king slow and counter-productive, which when I challenged him on it he backed down & said it was my colleague's fault for not training me! Also, on one occasion my boss asked me to open porn on his computer (telling me it might turn me on) - this was when there was only the 2 of us in the office. I was shocked, said no, and when I brought it up the next day to say how inappropriate it was - he acted as though it was the sender's fault for sending the e-mail in the first place.

    In the midst of all of this my boss has become completely paranoid that everyone in the office is just there to take the piss out of him by doing nothing. They've started reading all of our e-mails, are taking away internet access and have requested that staff come in early and stay late - just to show an interest so they can choose to keep the most dedicated people when inevitable redundancies come around.

    I have no problem putting in extra hours when I need to, have worked Saturdays for trade shows etc but I think being asked to come in early & stay late just for the sake of it is ridiculous. I'm studying part time, doing a post-grad relevant to my job, so the little time I have to myself is precious.

    So I don't really know what to do. The staff turnover rate in the past year is over 100% and the company have a history of bullying people out of their jobs - although nobody has taken legal action. There has been 2 redundancies, and the rest is either people who got sacked or left. Ideally I'd like to leave on my own terms, but I'm also worried that now, I will get a bad reference when I do leave beacause I've been finding it difficult to get my head around the new job role and because the atmosphere is making me feel completely de-motivated.


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