Happy at work?

[MarkF]

Noticed some really weird posts lately, about office life with "issues" that I can't really attach any importance to, I certainly can't understand them anyway.

I work from home and from an office (when needed), in all there are 4 of us, I reckon we spend 95% of our time either laughing, taking the piss or just talking about stuff, y'know, where space ends, thin Elvis or fat Elvis etc It's very enjoyable, in 5 years I cannot recollect one argument, no tiffs, tantrums whatever.

We can't be the only ones, who else is happy at work?

 

[Maz]

I'm not happy at work.
What do you do, MarkF?

 

[Greedo]

We are. I have 6 people working for me and they all get along. Never had a problem in the office with them not getting along. I worked in recruitment for years though so spent sometime looking for the right people. The time invested in the start and tough interviewing has found me 6 good people.

I have my own office as I think the boss sitting in the same office puts a dampner on the atmospere at times and some of the meetings and calls I make are confidential and sensitive finance wise.

We like a laugh and some banter but they all have personal pride in what they do so never take it too far where they're all sitting about doing eff all if I'm not there.

You've got to blend different personalities. You can't have an office of people who are all the same. Recipe for disaster

Noticed some really weird posts lately, about office life with "issues" that I can't really attach any importance to, I certainly can't understand them anyway.

I work from home and from an office (when needed), in all there are 4 of us, I reckon we spend 95% of our time either laughing, taking the piss or just talking about stuff, y'know, where space ends, thin Elvis or fat Elvis etc It's very enjoyable, in 5 years I cannot recollect one argument, no tiffs, tantrums whatever.

We can't be the only ones, who else is happy at work?

 

[MarkF]

I have my own internet business and work (have a retainer) for a small bricks and mortar building industry distributors. I buy and sell I suppose, which in itself brings pressures, I have to sell to earn. No regular salary, no holiday pay, no sick pay, no company pension scheme and yet, I am as happy as a pig in s**t

Sorry to hear that you are not happy Maz Why not and why do you still do it?

 

[Renard]

Is it only offices which have politics or is there such a thing as shipyard politics, coal mine politics, etc.

 

[Maz]

Sorry to hear that you are not happy Maz Why not and why do you still do it?

I work in Aerospace and have done for 18 years or so since graduating. Work is dull uninteresting and very slow but it's all I know. Currently doing a TEFL course which is interesting and maybe a way in to full-time teaching. On top of all that my wife hates living in Leicester as she's on her own looking after our youngest. She feel isolated with no family in the city.

 

[colly]

I work for myself too, have done for 25 years or more. The only things I miss about working for a large organisation is the office banter, seeing pals every day at work, and the ad hoc footie matches we used to arrange.
Oh and Janice from the accounts office.

As for all the other bullshit I miss it not one jot.

 

[mr Mag00]

i am very happy in my work mark when i am teaching i find it extremely rewarding!! what i find hard to deal with is a dictator of a boss who treats the place as there own, which it is not and the complete disregard for other people which is shown by her, the way she talks to ppl, complains behind their backs, lies, double crosses and has no respect for any one in the business and i think that is shown by what she did to my office over the weekend

 

[tyred]

I've been in this job for four years now. I wouldn't say I was ever in love with the job but it's bearable and when I started first it was a nice atmosphere. Then a change of management meant a boss who seemed to have been Hitler re-incarnated, a control freak of the worst type. He was sacked himself a few months ago and the nice working atmosphere has returned gradually. The only problem is that most of the people I liked moved on to other jobs.

 

[Kirstie]

Work is supposed to piss you off! I would love to win the lottery so I didn't have to work again. All organizations are sociopaths and act remorselessly and without conscience or care for the consequences of their actions for the everyday person. The system sucks, but is also a big part of my identity.

Over the years I've managed to avoid the bits of my job I don't like and make more of the things I do like. The best and worst parts of the job are my colleagues.

In any case I'm unemployable in anything outside of what I do so i'd better learn to put up with it...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Over the years I've managed to avoid the bits of my job I don't like and make more of the things I do like.

I think that's true for me too - and not having to teach for a while is great! I don't dislike anyone where I work now, it only seems to be the senior management of the university who keep coming up with bizarre schemes that are entirely unconnected to what we need to do...

 

[col]

I enjoy my job,there are politics all the time amongst the ones who are in charge,and who they pick on for reasons of old mates,face fits,ect,but i just stay well away from it all and get my head down.Some are very unhappy for these reasons and there are lots of examples iv been told which are valid.The main problem i see is a lack of consistancy among it all,rules for some,different rules for others,and i can see why the staffing levels are always a problem,especially when a good day depends on what mood some who are in charge are in or not.The ones that dont take the unneccesary digs or unfair treatment are the ones that its worse for,so i stay neutral and do my job.

 

[WelshYiddo]

I work from home (with a bit of travelling about thrown in) and love it.

Prior to this job I worked in an office with 2 others which was a 5 minute walk from everyone else in the dept. We had a great laugh but probably spent too much time playing.
Job before that I was in an office with a miserable boss who was universally disliked and an insane woman who literally wouldn't shut up when the boss was out.

 

[MarkF]

I work in Aerospace and have done for 18 years or so since graduating. Work is dull uninteresting and very slow but it's all I know. Currently doing a TEFL course which is interesting and maybe a way in to full-time teaching. On top of all that my wife hates living in Leicester as she's on her own looking after our youngest. She feel isolated with no family in the city.

I was an electrician and that was all I knew till I walked out, that was the start of a series of walking out's till I got somewhere enjoyable. There is nothing worse IMO than not enjoying your work. It's a cliche but you do only have one life and if you are not enjoying your work and your wife is not enjoying her life................

My good lady is looking at TEFL, we are relocating to Asturias, hopefully it will provide her with some work.

 

[Maz]

My good lady is looking at TEFL, we are relocating to Asturias, hopefully it will provide her with some work.

If she goes for it, the most widely recognised qualifications are called CELTA (the one I'm doing) and the other is Trinity CertTESOL.