Overworked and underpaid

[i_kender]

Ah fuck this for a game of cards… I’m so bored of my job. Nobody is organised, the communication sucks, and the work itself is so gorram boring… what’s the point of busting my ass when nobody recognises what I do, and every time I try to show initiative I’m batted down because other people are so lazy?

And while I’m at it… what on earth is the point of commuting in London? I leave my house at around 7.30am to get to work for 9am, I finish at 5.30 pm but don’t get home til about 7pm… are you seriously telling me I have to be out of the house for 12 hours a day either working or travelling to work just to earn a living? Sheesh, I don’t care what kind of salary I’m getting, that just doesn’t seem worth it to me. Where the work/life balance there? Where’s the quality of life?

And it’s not like I’m an exceptional case… everyone I know in London is working the same kind of crazy hours, if not more.

Why?

Why exactly is it necessary to work to the bone and only have 4 or 5 hours to myself every day to spend on all the other things in my life that aren’t work?

Why do people agree to do this every day?

Why are the weekends so short? Why are the bank holidays so infrequent? Why are the days in your annual leave never enough? And why, if I’m out of the house for 12 hours a day, don’t I get paid (more) for my 60 hour weeks? Not that any amount would be enough.

Why do people do this?

I'd like to just blow the whole damn ratrace right outta the water. 

Comments

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Well, I prefer the rat race to the service industry, I must admit. As to the blowing out of the water, here!
DER FABULOUS TANK OFF 99 LUFTBALONS

[i_kender]

Hee! :)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere a while ago that the average commute was 90 minutes. Which is, as you say, fucking horrifying. It's probably more than that now, that was 5 or 6 years ago.

[i_kender]

...in London. People outside are slightly saner.

[cabarethaze.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY!

There are a lot of people here in LA who work downtown or near to the center of the city, and it must be a 2 hour commute to the sleeper communities. So you get to have a nice house with a big yard and...see it for an hour or two every week *G* Of course I'm not one to talk, I've never had a proper 9-5 sort of job in my life. I instead choose the most time sucking jobs ever : acting and opening a business.

I should've joined the circus.

[i_kender]

...but they commute FROM TOWN TO TOWN! ARGGGHHH!!! There's no escape!

*fleas*

[cabarethaze.livejournal.com]

But at least that's like, drive to next city, stay a few days to set up and rob customers, lather rinse & repeat...

I think my next career will be being a trophy wife.

[honeymink]

When you're unemployed and poor, you might have time to yourself but you'll find there's not much you can do either and then you crave a job. And you don't even have things you can work up a rage about like your employers. /boring voice of reason

Blowing up things sounds a bit extreme. Ever thought of arson? I'm only a trainee arsonist but I know people!

[blankbadge.livejournal.com]

I hear you. These stupifying jobs just drain me of motivation too. I find myself having to work to concentrate on simple tasks presumable because my brain is trying to escape the boredom.

Although I've spent time unemployed and in a faults call centre where I felt sick at the thought of going in every day and in a charity call centre which made my soul feel dirty. Boring and incompetent is far from the worse kind of job. I think right now our main hope should be that by the time we reach retirement we can simply upload our minds into the internet and spend our old age in cyber porn sites.