Since I’m trying to cultivate more positivity in my life, and particularly as far as work’s concerned, I wasn’t sure I was going to write for this week’s topic. But it’s too hard not to. As usual for me, this isn’t in any particular order.
- The commute – but I haven’t yet found similar work I can do closer to home
- The perpetual sense of crisis
- The pervasive low-level anxiety
- The way it seems that no one really knows what anyone else does
- The way it seems like no one really wants to learn what anyone else does
- The territoriality of some departments
- The hoarding of information
- The cliquishness
- The difficulty in getting people to follow proper procedures and channels
- The seeming lack of interest in knowing what the procedures actually are, or should be
Sheesh, this is depressing. It’s not the work itself, it’s the culture, apparently. Why do I work here again?
Well, next week’s Ten on Tuesday will be the opposite of this week’s, but I feel the need to get a headstart on it now and counteract all this unpleasantness with a special edition of Today’s “Gratitude 5” – Things I Appreciate About My Job:
- My boss, who pretty much “gets it”
- My departmental coworkers, who work hard and do their best
- My work itself, which still holds my interest most of the time
- The relative stability of our agency (read: job security, or as much as can be expected these days)
- Working in the nonprofit sector, even though what I do doesn’t directly serve anyone
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Good list. (Or should I say, “Bad list.”) Sounds a lot like junior high, but most jobs do.
Seems to me this is a place where being an introvert will stand you in good stead!
It’s really not as bad as I make it sound, I swear! And I don’t have to deal with all the nonsense all the time. But it’s a children’s-services agency, and some days it’s like the children are the ones who work here.