Well, I'm about to change jobs.
The company I'm currently at sends me around the whole city to work and given that I don't have a car I spend almost an hour only getting there. I also have to switch stores almost every day. Sometimes I even have to spend my day at two stores at once (mornings in one and afternoons at another) and that SUCKS! (At least getting to the other store counts as work time and therefore I get paid for that)
The worst thing is that while I get sent around and have sparsely free time because of the long way home, somehow my own hour count is too low while some of my colleagues work overtime. (Which means, since we’re paid by hours, I don’t even get paid enough)
I've been waiting and asking for things to change for one and a half years by now. But they didn't change and they don't seem to change any time soon. Needless to say I got a pretty short fuse from the frustration that keeps piling up thanks to these working conditions.
So I decided it's time to put my foot down and end this; I can’t work under these conditions any longer. The colleagues I talked to about my situation are amazed I even put up with this for so long. I’ve been there for almost ten years, and things started to go downhill about five years ago.
I've already cast an eye on another workplace; I just have to wait for their response. And when they accept me, I'll quit my old job. I won't leave that place though until I got the new job (that would be stupid, because if I quit now and the new place won’t accept me I’d be without job). The job itself is basically the same; I'm just changing locations. But I know it will still be hard for me to get used to the change since I've been at my old workplace for so long. After ten years the place and the people grow on you.
But I've put up with the shit my workplace is putting me through for so long and I won’t do it anymore; enough is enough and even I have a boiling point.
Well yeah, that's been going on. And how are you?
Sorry for the late reply, by the way; my life's been busy (as you can see) and I sometimes forget about this site