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sakon76*points up at subject line* As in, I HAVE HAD IT.
I am now officially job hunting.
I have had one piddly-ass raise in seven years, there is ZERO chance for any sort of advancement or career path, my manager puts in half days at the most, and none of my coworkers have positive attitude or any sort of camaraderie.
And today? Coworker X, who is an old white male hired a couple years after I was and somehow feels himself to be entitled, told me to do something he was entirely capable of doing himself (putting ashes in an urn by a certain time). Now, he has done this to me plenty of times, and ROUTINELY they're not needed until hours or even days later. While I'm out putting ashes in urns in the order in which they're received, he comes out and yells (yes, actually yells) at me because the family's been waiting and I haven't put them in the urn yet. I was supposed to magically know they'd been waiting, because no one had come out and told me. Then, when I put the ashes in the urn and bring them in to him, he yells at me again, in front of the customers. I left the room and the conversation; I do not get paid to put up with that kind of shit.
The straw on the camel's back, though, is that even when I tell the manager about this on Monday, NOTHING will get done. Because Coworker X is in golden with the owner and the boat captain. He lives in the apartment over the office rent-free. He routinely shouts at customers over the phone (I can hear him from upstairs) and shoves as much of his work off on anyone he can, as he can. Doing his own e-mails is NOT THAT HARD, you know. Odds are good, that I will get told I should have been doing exactly what Coworker X told me to. Never mind that he is not, in fact, my boss, and was the one making a scene in front of our clients. Never mind that he was sitting on his ass playing solitaire on his computer and was PERFECTLY capable of seeing to his clients' needs himself.
So. That is why I am job hunting. I am tired of this shit, and I need to move. Honestly, I should have moved on years ago, but better late than never.
Now the only question is, how does one go about job hunting?
I am now officially job hunting.
I have had one piddly-ass raise in seven years, there is ZERO chance for any sort of advancement or career path, my manager puts in half days at the most, and none of my coworkers have positive attitude or any sort of camaraderie.
And today? Coworker X, who is an old white male hired a couple years after I was and somehow feels himself to be entitled, told me to do something he was entirely capable of doing himself (putting ashes in an urn by a certain time). Now, he has done this to me plenty of times, and ROUTINELY they're not needed until hours or even days later. While I'm out putting ashes in urns in the order in which they're received, he comes out and yells (yes, actually yells) at me because the family's been waiting and I haven't put them in the urn yet. I was supposed to magically know they'd been waiting, because no one had come out and told me. Then, when I put the ashes in the urn and bring them in to him, he yells at me again, in front of the customers. I left the room and the conversation; I do not get paid to put up with that kind of shit.
The straw on the camel's back, though, is that even when I tell the manager about this on Monday, NOTHING will get done. Because Coworker X is in golden with the owner and the boat captain. He lives in the apartment over the office rent-free. He routinely shouts at customers over the phone (I can hear him from upstairs) and shoves as much of his work off on anyone he can, as he can. Doing his own e-mails is NOT THAT HARD, you know. Odds are good, that I will get told I should have been doing exactly what Coworker X told me to. Never mind that he is not, in fact, my boss, and was the one making a scene in front of our clients. Never mind that he was sitting on his ass playing solitaire on his computer and was PERFECTLY capable of seeing to his clients' needs himself.
So. That is why I am job hunting. I am tired of this shit, and I need to move. Honestly, I should have moved on years ago, but better late than never.
Now the only question is, how does one go about job hunting?
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Date: 2012-01-21 05:37 am (UTC)Employment Development Department.
....beyond that, can't help you. >,<;;; But hopefully they'll be able. <3
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Date: 2012-01-21 07:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-21 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-21 04:29 pm (UTC)I'm going to wish you luck on this. And *hugs*
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Date: 2012-01-21 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-22 03:15 am (UTC)even for Admin Asst work, I have found Monster & Careerbuilder to be good jump-off points. You might try the local Jobs Commission office as well (tho admittedly for that, CA may be diff than no. VA)
Good luck & LD HUGS!
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Date: 2012-01-22 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-22 06:38 am (UTC)slavepositions. i hadn't heard of them before i started using them either, but a friend recommended them to me after she found her graphic design job through them.no subject
Date: 2012-01-22 08:46 pm (UTC)From my recent job hunting experience, the market in California in general and SoCal in specific is picking up. Now is a good time for a change. Take a look at craigslist. They have a lot of stuff posted there, and fewer people look there than the major job boards. Another site I've used in the past is simplyhired, which aggregates listings from a number of other job boards. Manpower is a good agency to talk to. They do short term and longer-term jobs, and short term jobs can convert to permanent positions - particularly right now where people have been short-staffed for a long time and budgets are starting to open up enough to allow for remedying this problem.
Now for the funky sounding stuff. A lot of job hunting is a head game. First off, you will find another job. It's just a fact of life that if you look and apply, you will find something. The only question is when. Do not listen to anyone who talks about how hard it is or what a bad job market it is or anything negative like that. Just don't. At all. Regardless of whether it's true or not, paying any attention to it actively sabotages you. (Trust me, I've tried it both ways, and that was the difference between taking 6 months to find a job in a decent economy versus 4 months -- including the holidays -- at the worst of the crappiest economy in decades.) Job hunting can be discouraging and it's easy to slide into the "what's wrong with me that I can't find something?" Don't play that game. If you're thinking that it undermines your efforts in hunting, and in an interview people will pick up on it and you won't get the job. Only list why you're qualified for a job you're interested in, don't bother listing why you're not. The what you can do is more important than what you can't. Everyone's got stuff they can't do. Not everyone can do the same stuff that you can do.
Speaking of stuff that you can do, have you ever considered talking to somewhere that does clothing alterations? No idea if you want to take your hobby and turn it into work, but you do enjoy sewing, and places like bridal shops need folks who are good and there aren't a lot of people out there who are as good as you. *shrug* Just tossing the thought out there, take it for what it's worth.
Bon courage in your job hunting adventure!
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Date: 2012-01-22 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-27 06:32 am (UTC)Best wishes on finding something much better soon!