Why is working so much like life?
Why is it that when you work a job with shit for pay, and that just plain sucks, you meet the coolest, and nicest people ever, who agree with how you feel and everything. Why is it when you get a job that has great pay, benefits, etc, the staff just plain blows? Why is it so much like life, where if you have many friends your going to have a lot of trouble in the future, and if you have a few, but best friends, your better off?
Re: Why is working so much like life?
Originally posted by JToTheP
Why is it that when you work a job with shit for pay, and that just plain sucks, you meet the coolest, and nicest people ever, who agree with how you feel and everything. Why is it when you get a job that has great pay, benefits, etc, the staff just plain blows? Why is it so much like life, where if you have many friends your going to have a lot of trouble in the future, and if you have a few, but best friends, your better off?
I know what you mean!
I am at this shit job now - and the pay is crap - and the customers treat me like shit and every week I keep telling myself I need to find a new job - but.. I love the people I work with,, I just have the best time here, and all the people I work with are so good to me..
my boss is nice but he is CHEAP!! and made me work christmas eve, x-mas day, thanksgiving, new yrs eve and new yrs night -UGH😠
This is why I shall never work, but rather stay at uni for the rest of my life... But seriously, I kind of agree, people in lower paid jobs often are nicer, and a more mixed bunch, I love working at bookshops, not great pay, but usually great people. Although I did actually work in a law firm over a short period (not as a lawyer, not sure what I was, I got the lunches, a go-for maybe) and there were a couple of good people, but the rest were just obsessed and not particularly great, just it seems that the higher paid the job, the more personality and happiness one has to sacrifice...
Originally posted by mechmoggy
That's a bit of a generalisation isn't it?I earn a fair crack, and work with people on even more than that, and we all have a great laugh. ✅
Too add more to that, you can dick around more at a lower paying job, and only be scolded, at a higher paying job, your boss tells their boss, then they tell their boss etc. 🙄 Dammit, you can't win. 😛
It depends on the situation or type of person you are Clovie.
I can act like a damn teenage fool, a child, talk with my friends in a mature manner, or act like a complete fool. It's all in the type of situation, or how you are. I constantly zone out at work lately, because all we get is returns, and I'm on register, so I'm being paid to do nothing, but talk to my friends, and the girl I like initially. So that makes me want to consider staying until I graduate community college. Also because I wouldn't want to lose these kids as friends, and I'd die if I couldn't talk to/see the girl I like as much/little as I can.
Re: Why is working so much like life?
Originally posted by JToThePthis is a pretty true statement jp...less paying jobs I've had had really cool people to work with...right now I'm making the most money I ever did and loath going to work because I can't tolerate my co-workers or the people I work for.
Why is it that when you work a job with shit for pay, and that just plain sucks, you meet the coolest, and nicest people ever, who agree with how you feel and everything. Why is it when you get a job that has great pay, benefits, etc, the staff just plain blows? Why is it so much like life, where if you have many friends your going to have a lot of trouble in the future, and if you have a few, but best friends, your better off?
it's a evil catch-22 I suppose...but I rather have more money then work buddies because I have my real friends outside of work.