As most of you now know, I do commercial janitorial for a living ! LOL! Especially after seeing the thread I posted today ! It is a pretty good living- most people are gone when I clean their offices , so it is pretty safe. The only work injury I received in janitorial was years ago old dirty wax got into an open cut on my toe and transferred Staph infection to my foot. I got to the doctor in time and he gave me an antibiotic. Also , did a little side asbestos removal work on a roof once and accidentally cut my arm with a new razor blade one-eigth inch deep. Did not bleed as it missed an artery , healed well. When cutting firewood once, I had never had an accident cutting over 150 cords in 8 years- then a oak wood chip flung out into my eye . Ouch. Doctor extracted it out, I got lucky, eye healed up fine ! Never had much mental stress though, as being self employed, I regulate my stress levels pretty well. It helps that I'm a laid back guy anyway.
So, enough about me, what about you folks ? In your employment how have you been stressed mentally or have you had physical injuries you have had to deal with ? I thought it would be good to share these together as hey, we live in a stressful world, what with crazy psycho controlling bosses, workmates, office politics, physically stressful jobs, etc. So, I invite your comments here on work related stresses and injuries you have had to endure. Let's share this together and perhaps it can take a load off ! What do ya say ? Look forward to hearing from you ! Peace out, to all, Mr. Flipper
Your Employment - Have you Been Stressed Mentally or Hurt Physically ?
by flipper 27 Replies latest jw friends
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flipper
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dinah
Mr. Flipper,
I managed a McDonalds. Talk about stress!!!! Opening the store was the worst. Half the time only one employee showed up (it was 4 am afterall). If one of the kids who worked for us punched in the cash tendered wrong, they couldn't make change without a manager to count for them. You would have two hours of nothing, then 8,000 people show up at once. Close one night, get home around 3 am, then have to go back at 11 am.
Believe me Mr. Flipper, I would work for a Port-a-Potty service before I did any fast food again!
The only saving grace was we had several outstanding teens who are still friends of mine 8 years later. I did make friends there, at least.
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Maddie
I haven't been physically hurt while at work but have been mentally stressed on numerous occasions. When I was working in care, looking after elderly patients with senility, we were always short staffed so the pressure was enormous. The work load was far too much but what upset me the most was that I couldn't give the patients enough personal attention.
Maddie
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lonelysheep
Very stressed mentally. Overworked and underpaid/undertitled. I won't go into detail since it is performance 'review/stand up for what you do everyday with little or no reward' season, and you just never know. But my gosh, office politics B.S., gossiping, catty bitches, lazy people who try to upstage me and a traffic filled commute has me feeling like crap so often. Life would be unbelievably sweet as a stay at home mom.
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changeling
Stressed mentally.
changeling
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Abandoned
I quit the job that I was sexually harassed at in October. I quit my other job a few weeks ago.
I've decided I'm not going to work any more at minimum wage. My self-esteem still needs a lot of work, but I'm not going to just settle any more. Even if I end up losing my car to repo, I'm not going back to work until it's something that takes advantage of my skills.
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flipper
Hey DINAH- Oh Gawd ! McDonalds ! Lord. I bet you really felt enslaved working for tose slave driver owners and upper echelon managers they had ! I worked for them at age 16 and started at $2.20 per hour in 1975 and 7 months later quit at $2.20 per hour . I much prefer self employed janitorial at $ 20.00 to $50.00 per hour. Makes things a bit better.
MADDIE- I can only imagine the stress you felt dealing with older patients. It is amazing how companies, medical or otherwise, will try to cut payroll and labor costs to save money. But in so doing they stress out employees needlessly, sacrifice patients care , then in the end you get worn out. A vicious cycle.
LONELY SHEEP- I'm so sorry you go through so much stress . I too in my early 20's before becoming self employed went through the office politics. And I was always an individualist, did not brown nose or kiss up to advance, so I learned early on , I had to be self employed ! Hopefully Sheep girl- you can get some rest on the weekends for stress relief. Try to be kind to yourself! . Peace.
CHANGELING- Stressed mentally ? Give me or Mrs. Flipper a call. We will be your friends and listen. Peace, sis ! We like to talk.
ABANDONED- Gawd ! I'm so sorry you were harassed at work ! I hope you are trying to heal now. It is good though you are not settling and want to get a better paying job which will recognize your skills ! Good luck, Bro ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper -
5go
I did Pizza Delivery up until I quit recently.
The thing that still pisses me off is how low end workers are treated with contempt by every one, even other low end workers. That is stressful in it's self. Then add that it doesn't pay the bills.
It was funny my bosses with few exceptions treated every one like dirt then were shocked to find out it got around town and now they have to pay an extra dollar an premium over the competition to get to apply there.
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flipper
5 GO- Yeah, I agree. Managers treat workers really bad many times. Actually like slaves, it's sick. That is funny though that your employer had to start hiring workers at a higher wage because of the competition, good stuff ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper Hang in there !
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brinjen
Stressed in my last job, definitely. Inbound call centre for a telecommunications company. Man, a lot of people hate this company too! Customer is screaming in your ear demanding they want to talk to your supervisor (cause they want you to do something you're not permitted to do), supervisor refuses to talk to the customer! I had one in particular who was quite nasty, checked the notes on his account, pages and pages from previous consultants on how this person said (among other things) we were the reason he cuts himself, he was demanding $100 on his account for the trouble of having to call. He demanded to talk to my supervisor (he wanted me to wipe a bunch of calls off his bill that totalled in the hundreds, couldn't do it), supervisor told me to try and sell him something first, then she would talk to him...
There was 'score cards', you had to sell so much ($1,000 every hour), you had to get so many win-backs (convince someone who has a phone line with another provider to switch to this company), so many mobiles, so many internet connections which you sold to them on "quality of service" (my provider charges half of what these guys do, no contract and their tech support is flawless). Then there was the "average handling time", 6 mins per call. "Adherance Time", get stuck on a call when you're meant to be going to a break or going home, that reduces the points on your score card. Don't make your score card? Say goodbye to 20% of your pay!
I left the place to literally go back to the supermarket I was working at the start of the year. At least there if a customer abuses you for doing your job, your supervisor will back you up. No expectations other than providing good customer service, and the boss is a pretty decent bloke who actually gives a rats about his employees (as he clearly demonstrated when Cyclone Helen visited recently).
I bumped into one of my old work mates from there recently, there was nine of us to start with. Only four are still there. I was the first to leave, the others followed not long after.
I've cut back my smoking by half without even trying since I left that call centre...