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Bored at your job? |
| Message Name: |
2-way street |
| Date Posted: |
12/03/2001 |
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Ok, I posted like what back in June and I am still bored! Now, whenever I ask if anyone has anything for me to do when I am bored, they give me a big stack of filing! GROSS! no one wants to file, thats why the pile has been sitting there for like six months and now when I have work to do, everyone walks past me and says well the filing is getting kind of high! i don't care, i wasnt hired for this...i didnt go to college to become a professional filer! I am thinking about leaving, but the market is so SLOW, there are no jobs in this area in my field. |
| Message: |
Employees have to want to be motivated -- nothing an employer can do will make an unproductive worker productive again. So in that sense, it is up to the employee to find happiness on the job.
However, what I've seen too often is an employer actually DE-motivating employees. For example, we had an ongoing problem for over a year owing to an unclear policy. I took initative and worked for three months to create an interpretation everyone actually agreed on, that had clear rules and processes. My boss took it to the VP and he threw it out with barely a glance, telling us we shouldn't have bothered to create something new -- demoralizing not only me, but my boss and her peers as well. Six months later the veep asks my boss for an interpretation on the policy because he suddenly realized it wasn't working. We dragged out the old documents and spruced them up, changing a few things to match his current whims. 3 months later and he's still "considering" it, while the business has reverted to what I call "chaos as usual."
Now my boss tells me if I want to keep working here I have to find a way to be motivated while working on projects that will likely never be implemented. I'd love to be motivated and "create my own happiness," but for the life of me I just can't figure out how!
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