Sorry if I ramble, or have half thoughts in here. I’m bad about jumbling things. But I just need to vent/rant.
So. I’m an accountant at a little accounting firm in my town. I’ve been working here since January and I graduated college last December, so they hired the biggest newbie, but they’re desperate for employees.
At first, I loved my job. I loved working during tax season and getting all this new real-life experience. I love doing payrolls and the sales tax. Also, I’m pretty nosy and like seeing confidential information in peoples’ personal lives (and I love being trusted to keep this information a secret). I loved my job until about a month ago.
Starting here, I was put in a room shared with a higher up so I could learn. Understandable. Then I learned they go through a lot of people like me. I think they’ve gone through at least 5 of me’s within 3 years. Obviously none have stayed longer than a year (some overlapped and worked here at the same time). I was like okay, whatever, maybe they just found out they don’t want to do this as their profession. Soon after I found out they left because the supervisor lady I share an office with is a gigantic ***** and the boss doesn’t like to give raises. Trying to not be like everyone else because they depended on me and paid me well (or so I naively thought), I stayed because every job has a bitchy co-worker. I was like, if this is the hardest part of this job I’m completely okay with it. There’s another lady in the office who is basically our entire HR department and the boss’s secretary. Her and ***** Supervisor are like BFFs and gossip all the time. I was like awesome, I love listening to gossip. Really they just ***** about everything and everyone.
Then they started gossiping about me. Wanna know how I know? They started acting shady and instead of HR lady coming to *****’s and my office, B started going to HR’s office. They would always instant message each other now instead of talking through their phones. Plus I saw it, ha. B went to the bathroom one day and her computer was left open, so me being the nosy person I admittedly am, I checked their messages, most of which bitched about me. Of course over petty, unimportant things.
I am so tired of this place. Not even a full year and they hate me over stupid things. Every morning I come in to work, I open up my e-mail to at least two e-mails yelling at me from either one or both of them. And of course they send their e-mails to each other as well as me so they know what the other is talking about when they have their regular ***** session later.
I love what I do, but I f*cking hate the people I work with. I can’t stand to come here anymore and be bullied like I’m back in high school. I’m tired of being mid-break-down everyday I’m here. I can’t be here but I need the money. I understand why everyone really left now.
I only have time to type this because they’re in HR’s office bitching about me right now. I walked by “to get a drink” and heard.
I f*cking hate everything..
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Sorry to say this, but what you mention is pretty standard in most jobs. When i was back working at regular normal schedule/hours i left my first job for the same reason and later on the line i left another one. I’ve heard similar stories from ex-class mates as well. Not saying that every job has gossipy people or bad working conditions but… you’ll find tons of those, and it does take time to find a one that really meets your needs (and even then you are bound to find bad situations from time to time). Since you’ve graduated recently you use it as getting work experience, so it’s not such a bad thing, few people keep their first job as their primary one over the years.
The last job I worked at was a factory job and everyone was so nice and understanding there. They were so friendly and close. It was like a giant family. I didn’t mind the work, it was just really tedious and it sucked doing the same thing everyday. I would’ve stayed if I didn’t work second shift there. :/ I’m okay with bad situations or every once in awhile a bad day, but if I dread coming in everyday, there’s a problem. Or if I get yelled at and shit-talked everyday, there’s a problem. I want to stick it out for the experience, but I don’t think I can take much more of the bullying. It’s only getting worse.
You could always look for another job in the meantime (kinda obvious so I guess you are already doing it, but I thought I’d mention it), that way whenever you find a better once you can quit right away.
I am. I’m also looking for another place to live once my lease is up, as my boss is also my landlord. Stupid me, I know.
Yeah, I say just get the work experience and the paycheck. Don’t think you’ll be there forever because there’s always more job opportunities out there.
I’ve never worked but from witnessing my family’s work experience, I can tell you most of the mean co-workers are that way because they feel stuck. The only thing that gets these “bitchy” co-workers through the day is making everyone as miserable as they are. Misery loves company, right? It’s ridiculous but there are some people who are so miserable with their life and job that they have to spread that misery to others and make others suffer.
Well, I don’t really know if this makes much sense..haha. My brother has dealt with awful co-workers at his job because he’s good at what he does and that incites jealously from others.
Just know you won’t be there forever. Soon you’ll be saying ‘adios’ to those awful people and will find a better job with people who will respect you.
By the way it’s really cool you’re an accountant. I don’t know, it takes a lot of knowledge and strength to be an accountant. Sorry, if that sounds weird..x)
I don’t even feel the pay is worth it anymore. They give me more and more everyday and I basically do part of everything around here. It gets really confusing and overwhelming. Then they get pissed if I make even the slightest mistake and tell me I am doing a horrible job, which I know I’m not they just want to find the slightest chance to yell at me. And you’re right. They do feel stuck, or less than me. I’m 20 and have a degree in accounting, while B doesn’t and technically, my work is above/more important than HR lady’s. I have so much ahead of me and they can’t excel anymore. But jeez, trying to tell me I’m so bad because I made a mistake that takes 20 seconds to fix? Or telling me my work is slipping because I’m doing my job and our receptionist’s job while she’s on vacation for two weeks? I still did everything in a timely manner.
I just want to open my own store and make my dream real now. I hate it here.
And thank you. It’s really not that difficult as long as you’re good with math lol. It’s not weird. :p
I guess I think it’s cool because I’m really bad at math…haha. I believe you’ll be able to get out of there and accomplish your dream. You’re very smart and you are a great person, don’t let these jerks get you down.
I don’t know, I might say this to everyone but it’s true: I’M ROOTING FOR YOU!!! *shakes pom poms*
Lol you made me smile. Thank you. 🙂
I hate bust your bubble but it could be so much worse. I had the worst boss for like 5 years and had suicidal thoughts like every minute of work. I would day dream about leaping on the railroad tracks near my work. He was like tri polar. One minute he was scrooge making me work on Christmas the next Mr Potter telling me how lucky I was to scrap a slum rat living working for him and then he would be Santa Claus the rest of the time and everything is wonderful and buy lunch for the whole office and shit. Raises were like non existent. Had to play hardball to get shit and then one day I played chicken with him about a raise I wanted cause I had recently won like 20 grand gambling and was flush with cash. I was like you can give me this raise I deserve or not but I don’t need to be treated like this and I wont. He gleefully had the secretary write up a resignation for me to sign. I was like no need to look so happy. I don’t need your unemployment. I offered 2 week notice and he was like no you can leave now no need to even finish the day. Everybody that works there hates it. I went around and said bye to everybody like I had just won the lotto. They were all shocked I quit and stood up for myself. They all thought I deserved a raise. I was the hardest worker they ever had. I take pride in my work. When I’m at work I bust ass. Anyway the asshole goes and hires 2 people to do my job. I had been working like 50 hour weeks for a long time. Then he offers me like 5 an hour more than I wanted to be paid in cash to do some grunt shit for him and I was like okay. Did 2 hours of that like 3 days later and never talked to him again. That’s the thanks I get for building his business. This jackass was running his business out of his garage and because I busted ass for years and kept the machine running smooth by the time I quit he owned his own warehouse and office building. A big ass boat and a second huge house in flordia as well as like a bomb proof Mercedes. Couple of 1.5 million dollar contracts from catapillar fell in his lap. Bullshitted his way into contracts saying it was all made in USA when really it was all being shipped in from korea. The one day I listened in on a conference call. It was the best bullshiting I ever heard. This women must have asked him about the ISO certification 15 times that they wanted documents on and he just ignored her and plowed on. Don’t worry did I say that price I mean half that. Oh yeah we will build a dedicated facility just for your parts. She finally gave up asking about the ISO cert and gave us a 900k contract. That was like cummins. He would just keep going like he never heard her and she caught him in like 4 lies and he just comes up with even bigger lies. Hilarious. A true master of bullshit knows that the longer and louder you say something and the bigger the lie the more likely they are to believe it. In a previous life he was probably Hitler himself. Did any of the employees get a dime of that success hell no. I was the only one to get a raise in like 3 years cause I played hardball. I know cause I saw the payroll.
I forgot to mention. I had been bitching to my coworkers for like the last week about how I didn’t need his shit and could quit anytime. I demanded the raise after he bitched out like the entire place about a mistake that was entirely his own fault and many people had advised him not to do before hand. Everybody tried to stop me. I was like fuck this I’m going to go play chicken and I’m a train. I wasn’t moving an inch. All in or all out. So when I get back to grab my shit they were all shocked I actually did it. Best decision of my entire life. He would regularly make people cry at work. He treated everybody like they were expendable. He would come up with a new imaginary worker every week that was somehow doing the job better and faster. He would be like John do you want this job? Justin or Pablo or matt or whatever says he’s willing to work for 5 dollars an hour. When he screws up he offers to take a deduct. He’s new so he actually pays me because of all the deducts. He would joke about firing people all the time and thought it was hilarious. His sister was renting a house from him. She stopped paying him rent and lived in it for like a year. I supervised the cleanup of this house anyway. She turned a nice house into like a crack den. There was 40 bags of rotting garbage piled around the house. And she stole the huge plasma he had put in the house. Lol being a money grubbing asshole makes you old sad and alone. His only friend is money and they guy would actually say that and like show off like 2 grand in hundreds. His like the only company I need is my good friends Ben Franklin