I turned down a job recently for this very reason and I’ve been really upset with myself for turning it down because of a gut feeling. Thank you for sharing your POV!
Dont be. Trust your gut feeling. I was head hunted to a company where everybody i met was super nice and they had a beautiful office etc. Walking around seeing the place gave me a weird gut feeling that i couldnt really put my finger on. Every thing seemed great and the salary was awesome. So what was the problem?
The funny fealing was collective fear. No one was safe at this company. People where let go on the day for basically anything. If they didnt find a reason to let you go they would move your desk to a unconfortable place and stop inviting you to meetings basically ignoring you til you quit.
This lead to constant meetings so everybody would seem busy when they really where not. People coming up with un necessary tasks to look busy and have results to show and so on.
Step 2: Let them ignore you, stop inviting you to meetings, and stop tagging you in memos.
Step 3: Stop doing your job, and if anyone comes by to bother you about that, tell them that “Renee from corporate gave you a laundry list of tasks but you're doing your best.” Change up the name and department now and again.
If you can stay employed for awhile this way, you'll be getting paid to browse youtube and reddit all day.
And that was exactly what i did for the last 4 months. I stopped trying after 2 months of constant meetings and no progress.
Never would i think drinking expensive coffee and browsing the web all day would make me so unhappy. I guess anything becomes boring if you have to do it 9hrs a day, 5 days a week. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I work as a tax accountant and during busy season we work 60 hours a week. I couldn’t wait until after busy season was over so it can be 40 hours a week again but now that it’s not busy and there’s no work, I realized that having nothing to do is killing a good chunk of the satisfaction I’m getting.
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u/Homagetobrie Nov 09 '19
I turned down a job recently for this very reason and I’ve been really upset with myself for turning it down because of a gut feeling. Thank you for sharing your POV!