BadMamaJAMA
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I'm inches a way from walking out of here and getting donuts.
I'm not sure if it's the hormones, my crazy work environment, or both... but I feel like I can't handle my job today.
I have this co-worker (who has a higher title and salary than me) who needs so much hand-holding it's ridiculous. We're supposed to be working on a project "together," which roughly translates to her calling me all the time asking exactly what she should be doing and the rationale behind that and every little step along the way. IT'S SO FRUSTRATING! She's supposed to get content together, and I'm supposed to take the steps to get that content turned into a digital product. Why do I have to walk her through her job?! I already have one stepkid and another kiddo on the way - I don't come to work to take care of her. HARUMPH!
And then somehow I became to workhorse for every.single.project. I'm supposed to be doing communications, but here I am researching content for charts and whatever else... because everyone else is "too busy." I'M FREAKING BUSY! Getting dumped on is hard! And because I'm at the low end of the food chain and all the people above me are so busy, I work and work and work in what feels like a vacuum because the people who need to review my stuff don't have time to do so.
And this one manager is making me NUTS!!! I have to seek out her feedback because she's basically a whirling dervish who never sits still and thus never actually gets anything done. And she basically just told me to start over on something.. making what was supposed to be a simple task infinitely more complicated by sending me about a thousand links "for context."
I've just kind of had it.
What's worse is that, as an American, I don't get any guaranteed paid maternity leave. I earned FMLA leave of 12 weeks (unpaid) by virtue of being at this job for a year, thank goodness. My job USED TO pay all that leave, but now they will only pay 6 weeks. It's way too expensive where I live to have 6 weeks unpaid. So that's what I get (maybe an extra week or so of vacation time).
I'm bummed. I'm frustrated. I feel unappreciated and as though I'm being taken advantage of. Donuts it is.
I'm not sure if it's the hormones, my crazy work environment, or both... but I feel like I can't handle my job today.
I have this co-worker (who has a higher title and salary than me) who needs so much hand-holding it's ridiculous. We're supposed to be working on a project "together," which roughly translates to her calling me all the time asking exactly what she should be doing and the rationale behind that and every little step along the way. IT'S SO FRUSTRATING! She's supposed to get content together, and I'm supposed to take the steps to get that content turned into a digital product. Why do I have to walk her through her job?! I already have one stepkid and another kiddo on the way - I don't come to work to take care of her. HARUMPH!
And then somehow I became to workhorse for every.single.project. I'm supposed to be doing communications, but here I am researching content for charts and whatever else... because everyone else is "too busy." I'M FREAKING BUSY! Getting dumped on is hard! And because I'm at the low end of the food chain and all the people above me are so busy, I work and work and work in what feels like a vacuum because the people who need to review my stuff don't have time to do so.
And this one manager is making me NUTS!!! I have to seek out her feedback because she's basically a whirling dervish who never sits still and thus never actually gets anything done. And she basically just told me to start over on something.. making what was supposed to be a simple task infinitely more complicated by sending me about a thousand links "for context."
I've just kind of had it.
What's worse is that, as an American, I don't get any guaranteed paid maternity leave. I earned FMLA leave of 12 weeks (unpaid) by virtue of being at this job for a year, thank goodness. My job USED TO pay all that leave, but now they will only pay 6 weeks. It's way too expensive where I live to have 6 weeks unpaid. So that's what I get (maybe an extra week or so of vacation time).
I'm bummed. I'm frustrated. I feel unappreciated and as though I'm being taken advantage of. Donuts it is.
aww it sucks being stuck with everything. I don't work but my DH does, and he always gets everything dumped on him its ridiculous, and they underpay him quite a bit, but he's stuck cause his field is competitive so finding other work isn't as easy as it sounds.
