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Posted 10/2/2013 5:25 PM (GMT 0)
i just want to quit. right now. RIGHT this very second I am at work and I want to leave. I want to hobble my sore and frustrated little self out the door and just go home. I am so tired of people calling here or coming in here yelliing and complaining. I am all for customer service, but really stop whining and stop yelling at me, all i do is answer the darn phone and sit at the darn desk. so aggervated with this company. they need to ge ttheir affairs in order so that all these customers aren't so mad all the time. i have a migraine, and I have already taken my fair share of aleve today and my back is killing me. i just want to go home, i hate leaving my house. i have become such a homebody. I don't mind going out for a few hours but then its right back to the comforts of my house and my pets. I feel like such a brat. Crying that I want to quit my job, my job is not difficult, just annoying. I really need to make a good investment or something so I can make money and get health insurance from my couch. Because all of this non sense at this place is gonna give me a breakdown. smhair
Posted 10/2/2013 6:32 PM (GMT 0)
Hmmm, sounds pretty bad.

My daughter worked for a credit card company a few years ago. She started getting awful stomach pains from it, it was so stressful. They had her, and the others in her area, actually lying to people who called in, telling them their accounts had been closed as requested, when in reality, they hadn't! She just couldn't take it any more.

I try to keep that in mind when I'm getting frustrated by the run-around we have to so often go through on the telephone these days. It's not the person on the other end's fault.

I hope you start feeling better soon and your day hurries up and you can go home.

Debbie
Posted 10/2/2013 6:39 PM (GMT 0)
Do we work for the same company ? I manage a store for the top cellular carrier in the company. If their service or phone fails to work. It's my fault. I just smile take deep breaths and kill them with kindness. It's a phone people RELAX is what I would love to say. Is there anything else you might enjoy doing more? The job market is definitely not booming at the moment. Breathe don't let them get to you. The stress will only flare you further up. Hang in there and enjoy the rest of your week.
Posted 10/2/2013 9:24 PM (GMT 0)
@ ACHEYBODY

That is awful nono . but similar to whats goin on here, basically they call and ask if their parts are here or if they have been ordered, and all I can tell them is if they are here then yes, if not that they have to contact the person who was suppose to order it, and of course those people never answer the phones and they lie too. and then when they ask for a manager all I can tell them is that unfortunately the only person that can help them is the person that has been lying to them from the beggining eyes   hopefully your daughter is doing something much cooler now.

@michael1968

shakehead  no we dont work for the same company but it seems more and more like what all companies are doing. Honestly CUSTOMERS are what keep businesses flourishing, you can only get away with it for so long until you wind up like Time Warner Cable barely breaking even and everybody HATES you and switches to verizon fios and dish network.

I would really love to either have like a little burger joint or work with animals. my boyfriend loves my hamburgers, says they are the best in state =]

Posted 10/3/2013 3:00 PM (GMT 0)
you are not alone in the I just want to quit feeling at work...

I work for a large corporate company in UK and im in the design studio...Its a lot of computer work and I do 4 days a week with 2 kids also! Some days I just want to scream and run out the door and other days im proud of myself for making it through.

Some things which have helped me at my company and if you have a HR dept you should be able to ask for these things if they are aware of your condition: A special office chair cushion to help my back and coccyx - this has eased some of the pain - I get up and move around every 20mins - even if its to go to the loo or get some water
Can you ask to work part time - is this an option? do you already?

Interestingly enough I just had 6 weeks over the summer off work to spend with the kids, we did something every day - trips, swimming, heck we even played a bit of tennis!! I was almost pain and fatigue free...the moment I got back to work BAM...burning fatigue, muscle pain, twitching, tremors, buzzing feet, all sorts...I dont get it!! This tells me from walking and keeping active I am better

Not sure if this helps but just wanted you to know someone else is going through the same thing :o)
Posted 10/4/2013 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
Good grief.  nono   Something's gotta give in our society!!

In the meantime, I guess all you can do is, yes, breathe and try not to lose it.

I hope you all can get through it all right. Wish I had a magic wand, I'd give you better jobs today!

Debbie
Posted 10/4/2013 4:35 PM (GMT 0)
@ WACKERS34

Having time off is like a double edge knife. its great when you get to do things on your own pace and rest when you need or move when you need to. then going back to work make is like, pain in a bottle and you open it up when you walk through  the door.

I work full time, part time is not really an option due to money. Also my position requires I be here when I am scheduleld, If im here and not having a good or bearable day and need to go home, well I can't. I work mon-fri 8am-6pm. I open the store and I close it. there are people here with me during those hours but they come in later than I do and leave earlier than I do...luck of the draw i guess. An because I work in customer service and take orders, I have to meet them in a timely fashion within a day or two. This job also requires me to make trips to local hardware stores and supply houses, yesterday I had to go buy some boxes of flooring, and I didn't have time to wait for one of the associates to help me, and oh boy am I feeling it today. sad

How do you keep bringing yourself to go back everyday, when you know that when your NOT there, life is easier and less painful?

Posted 10/4/2013 5:59 PM (GMT 0)
Justababy - I admire you for working 8-6 five days a week with this condition...I couldn't do that much...I used to pre kids, but not anymore.

Hmmm not sure of the answer to bringing yourself to go back everyday, I guess I too need the money, if I don't then our lives would suffer less my wage. At the moment, If my husband said to me give up, I would in a heartbeat..Kinda like my job and my colleagues..hate the commute.
Just stringing it out at the moment until the new year, where I will then revise my options and try yet again to cut my hours some more

Chin up - I know there are a lot on here that work full time also that maybe able to help better..but what your are doing at the moment is admirable...I know what you mean aboout having days which are unbearable, i have some days where I have had 0 sleep and zombie is not the word, not sure how I even breathe those days...distraction somehow gets me through
Posted 10/4/2013 6:28 PM (GMT 0)
I love my job. It is easy. I answer phones and take reservations. I sit at a computer and do homework or play online and just wait for calls. But even still getting up and going every day is a struggle. If I could come in at say 12 I would be fine. But being here at 9 is awful. As it is I only work 3-4 days a week and we really need me to work all of those days. We are beyond broke. This year I have missed more work than I have gone to. I have no excuse.

I blame my upbringing. But that is just an excuse I have to learn to over come. When I was a kid I was kept home from school at the slightest cough. I was born sick. The doctor left me in too long after my mom's water broke and I came out jaundice and really ill. So I could go to the doctor faking sick and get a week off school. I missed more days than was legal every year and because I was a good student they always over looked it. I have even gotten away with it in college. I have to learn that intrinsic motivation. Now that I am sick I have to have the exercise and stimulation. I need to do it now in case some day I really can't. It is just so hard to change the whole way you have been raised.
Posted 10/4/2013 8:13 PM (GMT 0)
@TEDDTLOVE

well sounds like we are very different. My parents didn't so much believe in the doctor and more or less always used the " your young, your fine" motto.

I have been working since I was 8. I worked on my uncles golf range collecting balls and cleaning clubs 4 nights a week until I was 12. Then I worked at an arcade/ mini golf course handing out prizes and clubs. Then at 15 I started working for the local supermarket, worked every hour they would let me. turned 18 and became supervisor and onboarding quardinator for all of the new hires. Also became a customer service assistant. pretty much ran the place while my boss was taking care of bigger things. started working a second job, and worked 75-80 hours a week for the last 3 years. Within the last 12 months my pain has just taken over, I love working but my body wont allow me to do it. 6 months ago I finally switched things up, quit my jobs and got just one new one where I sit more often and i have a more steady schedule.  It's rather upsetting, I used to really like what I did but I just couldn't keep up with the hours. And now I don't love my job, but i don't hate it. but im still working and even though its less, it's getting harder everyday.

@wackers34

I don't know if i would call what I do admirable, but thank you for the thought. If you read the above note that I wrote to teddtlove I really do like working. its just my body and pain are making it miserable to do. killing my joy of it. I have a really strong work ethic. and the only time I have ever missed work was when I absolutely could not be there due to an illness that  I couldn't just buck up. and the only time I missed work more than a day at a time was when I was in the hospital for 8 days. I had 3 surgeys in 4 days and with recoop time I only missed a total of 13 days. the thing thats bothering me is its not like I dont want to work, I do. my body is just deciding I can't. I can barely struggle through the 10 minute ride home at night. And when I get  there I have about 12 steps I have to either crawl up or ask my boyfriend for help because I exert everthing I have from 8-6. Being only 21 its really hard for me to think about not working, my boyfriend is doing everything he can to make things easier and he is hoping for another raise soon. He would rather if I could not work, but it's not applicable at this time. I just don't know what my options are confused

 

Post Edited (JUSTABABY) : 10/4/2013 2:27:19 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 10/4/2013 8:59 PM (GMT 0)
JustABaby You reminded me there was a time I had a good work ethic. I was 16 it was my first job. I went every day no matter what. They loved me so much they were trying to change the rules to make me a manager even though I was not 18. But then the manager I was under got fired and I quit for a boy. But I did really good at that job. They held me to standards.
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