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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I want to run away ...
... from work!!
Grr, I just don't know what to do anymore. I work for a small family owned insurance-related business and have been here 5 yrs, it's a pretty dysfunctional place but lately it's been getting worse - the atmosphere is just toxic, and I feel sick to my stomach all the time. Last Saturday I woke up, remembered that I was supposed to go in for OT, and started crying.
It's time to change the situation, and hopefully not have to give up things like food and electricity to do so. LOL. If anybody has any job juju to spare, I would not mind y'all sending some in my direction! 
Whewwww. Vent over. At least it's Thursday!!
Re: I want to run away ...
Sorry to hear you're having a rough time with your job- I was in a very similar situation about 8 months ago before I found out I was PG, and was very stressed about it, and pretty much hated coming into work. You have my sympathies!
Is there another job/field that you are currently looking into, or is this just a general "ready for change" feeling? Either way, sending lots of good job vibes your way that you find something great, and you're able to get through your time at the current place- hang in there!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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Dude, I'm with you. I'm over having people give their information to the other person in my office and have her hang onto it until such a time when she feels like she needs to show me that she knows more than me. Like, I only find the stuff out when it comes up in conversation and then it's like, oh, didn't you know? No, actually, I didn't, because you didn't effing give it to me since you can stand to let the things that you don't do anymore go.
*rah* Maybe we can start a chapter of Job Criers Anonymous or something.
Ugh, I really sound like a complainer this week, don't I? I promise I'm not always this bad.
yes, please....I just got another "thanks, but no thanks" call at 9am this morning. This was after the Third fvcking interview. I had to pull over I was sobbing so bad. It sucks.
This sounds like me. I have a degree in Business, which is basically useless. I've thought about going back to get a Vet Tech degree, MS in Social Work, or MS in Occupational Therapy as well as a few other things. I go back and forth. Lately I've been thinking about getting my CNA and doing that part time to figure out if I like nursing. Then maybe going back to nursing school. Then I remember sick people gross me out. *sigh*
Hope you find something soon! Good luck with your job search.
Ugh, that's the worst. You can't help but get excited even if you try not to, especially if it's gone on for that many rounds. *hugs*
Jess, they are fools.
Jess, they are fools.
Grrr!! I'm sorry, that has got to be so frustrating
HUGS.
hugs to Jess and Interro
and MIB
and MIM
::happy job dust:: to all who need it!
geez...sorry to hear everyone's bad news!
I, too, have been in a job that made me sick, literally...I stayed for seven years (I even left for another job and WENT BACK!)...and, sadly, I think the only reason I was able to leave was because we moved out of state. I'm afraid I would still be there otherwise. Just try to use this time to really consider what would make you happy - my biggest fear was rushing into something that wasn't right, just to get out.
Count me in too... We're facing the definite threat of significant lay-offs at my small office. After just having Colby, I want to stay home with him more than anything right now (mom asked me today while shopping in Kohl's what I felt about staying home for the next several weeks on maternity leave, and I started crying at the thought that I'll have to go back.)
I wish they'd do me a favor and lay me off - I could switch us to DH's insurance and stay home for a while and look for a better job. However, I'm "lucky" enough to be protected under FMLA, and they can't.
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HUGS to everyone in this post with job woes.
Our HR manager was out for a few days this week at a conference and she is now back and said that the big boss called her in the middle of one of her meetings, flipped out on her about assigning work and some other crap, and she had to leave the meeting and didn't get the credits for whatever certification she was there to renew. He does this all the time - not just with her but with customers, reps, employees, etc. Usually he will leave his office door open so everyone can hear the train wreck - I guess that's his way of trying to scare people into "behaving" and doing what he wants? He really is a despicable human being.
The funny/ironic thing is that the HR mgr. was at a conference where businesses can apply to be listed as one of the best places to work in Maine and develop programs to help them get on the list. LOL. There is no way in hades this place will ever make any such list!!