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What do you honestly hate about work itself? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 1 day ago by pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Coming home too damn tired to do anything else, even including chores, is top for me.

I have dishes lying around, laundry needing to be done at somepoint, some extra small tasks to do. But, trying to go 'above and beyond' for a shitty job just leaves you with nothing left to do them, having to waste time off to finally do them.

I'm in a building that's not my home, for 8 hours (used to have some days where it was 10 hours), a night. Where my company tries to tell me to treat their building that I work in, as a second home. Dealing with all of these tasks that ultimately mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Dealing with people who conveniently forget a lot of the time, as to how to be a normal human being and they being at your expense.

And in addition to coming home too damn tired to do anything else, I'm sometimes worrying if what I'm making now for however many hours, is enough to cover everything I need to have or want to have.

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago
  1. the dreadful commute
  2. the corporate policies that are profoundly arbitrary
  3. the business processes that add needless amounts of overhead, all to justify people's jobs
  4. the needless meetings and back and forth for things that should be solvable in five minutes
  5. spineless leadership
  6. entitled clients

5/6 go hand in hand. For my current project, because we have leadership unwilling to push back on the client, the client feels entitled to demand things above the contract terms. This of course trickles down to everyone else to accommodate.

Overall my work is fine but these things stick out. I am incredibly indifferent to the success of any given project. My investment beyond my daily contributions is low to nonexistent. At the end of the day, if they're going to pay me to be inefficient what do I really care.