The new hire reported directly to her boss. My ex colleagues told me that 2 more new hires joined and left after me (1 even left after 1 day!) and the company decided to “demote” her by not giving her any staff. I was so damn proud of myself that I had survived and not let my boss win. I have been in my current job for 10+ years. It was like I had extra energy to job hunt. From that day on, I honestly don’t know how I did it, but I went to work, came home at 2-3am and continued to devote at least 1 hour to job hunt. I had decided to leave and I cried tears of relief. Suddenly I had a dream/inspiration/whatever u want to call it. This phrase stuck with me and I went and prayed at Novena church (I’m catholic). After that is just constant worry and misery until you find another job”. However, I remember one of my seniors in school saying that “the only time you are happy is when you submit your resignation letter. She encouraged me to quit immediately even though we were getting married with lots of expenses the next year. It meant that management knew and decided to do nothing about it. What broke me was when my boss’s boss came up to me one evening and told me to give my boss chance cos she was newly promoted. At first I told myself that I’m a strong male and this is nothing as compared to NS but what really got to me was the loneliness of going through it alone. I was the only one reporting to her so was suffering alone. My boss was a lady who was only 2 years older than me and would verbally abuse me by shouting at me in the office, throwing my work on the floor and I have to picked it up, threatening to slap me etc. During my 1 year with the company, not once did i went home before 12 midnight. Long story but please bear with me and read it. Just quit, you'll be in a much, much better place. "You can find money elsewhere." That's what my parents told me. I remembered finally opening up to my family and without knowing it, I burst into tears like a baby boy. I know my ex colleagues had no choice because they have families to feed, got a new car, house, etc. Some days I would doze off in the train until my phone fell to the floor and made a "bang" sound and get stares from aunties and uncles. I just kept closing my eyes and rolled left, and right, on my back and on the other side until the clock is at 630am. I remembered feeling so anxious and depressed that sometimes I didn't sleep for days. I remembered answering customer enquiries and reading messages from bosses at 3am. We have been brainwashed to think that working while you are spending time outside with friends and family is "cool". We, especially Singaporeans, need to stop normalising working after work hours as "hardworking". He just doesn’t have the time to properly teach lol. Should I quit my job? Is everywhere else like this?Įdit: just wna add that, while I think he’s honestly quite a shit manager. But everyone is too busy to actually help and properly guide me. But I feel like my mental health has suffered a lot because of this job.Ĭolleagues are great too. The pay and benefits is good for a marketing job. But I can’t read his mind so I constantly don’t hit his standards. I’m doing my due diligence and asking my colleagues to mentor me, doing my own research and all that too. He doesn’t rly take the time to teach me but he expects me to understand. This is my first job so there’s obviously a lot of things I’m not good at but my boss is quite impatient with me. I also work outside of working hours (maybe 10pm-1am/2am) so that I can deliver work to him by 8.30am because I know he’s the most free at the start of the day. So I’m constantly just waiting for him to approve my work before I can continue and execute stuff. I hold smaller client accounts and he doesn’t put me as a priority. My boss has to check all our work individually before we can send to client. My entire team and boss is very overworked. Like everyone else, I’m terrified of talking to him and submitting my work to him. My boss has pretty bad mood swings so the entire team is scared of him. This is my first job and have been working for a year since I graduated.įeel like I’m in a job that’s been rly bad for my mental health. For context: I’m 25, F and currently in a marketing job.
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