Bitch, bitch, bitch

[vaxjedi]

There is just no pleasing some people.

I'm getting really tired of being surrounded by negativity. The techs at work constantly complain about everything. This policy sucks and this tech sucks and this supervisor sucks and this customer sucks and this application sucks and I didn't get a big enough raise, even though I'm a slacker who avoids work whenever possible, and I didn't get a promotion, even though I'm a screw off who has gotten nailed several times and this company is the worst company I've ever worked for, blah blah blah.

Yes, I bitch about my job. A lot sometimes. But it's always these same people and they are ALWAYS bitching about something. I want to tell them if they hate the job so much, they should go the fuck away so they don't bother the people who ARE trying to get something done instead of having to listen them complain every hour of every day.

Yes, there are a lot of things about my company that sucks, and there are days that I hate this place with every fiber of my being. And I come home and bitch at Eleri for an hour ot so. But I don't inflict my pissy attitude on everyone around me. And I don't get pissy at people who have no control ovber it, like people take swipes at me all of the time.

Techs complain about what jerks techs are to them all of the time - it amazes me that almost all of them treat others the same way.

Comments

[royhuggins.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should tell them that there are hundreds of people in the Portland area who would love to have their jobs... :)

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

I hate my current job, but I care enough about my performance that I turn this off at work no matter the bullshit and how much others are being idiots.

[flaim.livejournal.com]

Negativity will wear down a person, even just hearing it. Do what you can to isolate yourself from it. Those negative people are creating their own negative environment basically assuring that they will continue to work at crappy jobs for the rest of their pathetic lives. In your position I would invoke a higher power because it *will* continue to affect you.

work.

[ryoganox.livejournal.com]

When I was a MIT there at your work, when they had them. I use to hear the same thing. Again, Pot -> Kettle -> Black. Though in my defense I did take off when I got fed up with the company. Its' true the company sucks. I have found every company has its' good points and bad points.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Mark Twain
This quote reminds me of your work. There are good things that the company does, such as supply a decent to well paying job. Comparatively. Most the people that complain that I remember were there for a while. I would say that they have lost touch with unemployment. Or have never really worked a crappy or difficult job.
I use to tell people who complained about the job, that Burger King down the street is always accepting applications at minimum wage. You are right, we should be paid more. But This is the wage you signed and agreed to. So either love it or leave it.

My 2 cents. (if I can afford that much with what they pay me at your work!!! hehe)
Ryan

[toilteanas.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I remember it well.
Possibly, I was one of those people, but mostly what happened was, I complained to my supervisor (to whom I was supposed to complain), and he would do jack shit and say stupid ass stuff like "The principle's not important." Then I would bitch to my cubemates.