Work stresses me out
I work at a nonprofit. I knew from the beginning I wanted to withdraw from here. When I applied it said receptionist but when they gave me the offer letter it was change to program associate.
What I do is more like telemarketing job, and I hate repeating myself. All the days seem the same. Repeating the same dialogue for 8 hours straight, everyday, no matter where I am in office or outreach.
They want me to report to them what I do or other obligations I have after work hours in case they need me. They want us to work overtime hours without overtime pay (they tell us to leave early to "even out" the extra hour or two). Which, when I was asked in the interview "are you okay with overtime hours" one assumes it comes with overtime pay.
Also, they don't like that I eat alone at times (I am an introvert. And the times I tried to eat with them, I was ignored and talked over, and when I was on my earbuds they talked to me like if I was supposed to pay attention to them all the time even if they never paid any attention to me when I try to speak). They also don't like I don't respond to all the messages with an emoji or something.
Work there has become more and more of a prison for me. I am desperately trying to find a way out. Also, they recorded when I was venting to my boyfriend about work and I got in trouble for it. Also, you know how in some work places you have a "work bestie" where you can speak to about work stress or things like that? Nope. Not here. They all blindly follow the directors without question or buts (even if is having to pay using your own money for a new certificate and having to maintain it by taking 4 test every year WITHOUT a raise. And the test is not cheap. They said we will have to pay $100 for the test (fail or pass) and hotel accommodations). Even when I slip up or have a human burnout moment, now I know that the coworkers were calling me out for it to the boss. Even when I ask if they did they said they didn't. But now ik that they did.
Also, I am burn out. They have me so stretch out and they expect me to be a robot and call 24-50 people, outreach twice a week, and in between translate and call for events and help with events preparations. Is too much. I never felt so underpaid before.
Now ik is work, and one should just stick it through. But this job culture doesn't fit for me. If I had tour the place like the other coworker did before they got hired, I knew I wouldn't accept it. I just can't stand being in a small, windowless, office, where is too quiet and all you hear is everyone repeating the same dialogue over and over and over again. Days after days, weeks after weeks, months after months. I just can't.
And we only have a 30 minute lunch, one day they wanted to eat lunch at a restaurant and we were out for lunch for over an hour. If I had known that eating with them would mean reducing hours and being paid for 7:30 hours that day I would have skipped lunch with them again.
And they monitor you, I get not being in your phones but damn. I just I feel like I am going insane with the same repeative task and not have something else to think about or make the day look different. The routine is killing me. Nothin like the indeed job description. Nothing.
@amiablePerson5008
Many jobs are nothing like the description and frankly what you have described i would suggest applying anywhere else.... the overtime and leave early almost never works out they conveniently forget you stayed x amount of time and if you say i am leaving to even out they look at you funny.
I do not know why some fit in those places but as long as you are undervalued and micro managed it is NOT worth it.
I am trying to apply some where else, anywhere at this point. My performance has gone a little up but I am still miserable at the job. My worry is, that when I leave if I will leave in bad terms (say after my period where they track my performance and right after I tell them I will leave). Because they ask me, "if I plan to stay with them for weeks or months to come" I didn't know what to say, if I said yes I could risk losing my job on the spot (and I prefer to quit than to be fired). And if I said yes then it would be a lie because I am not happy there.
I just don't know what to tell them when I do leave. If I give them 2 week notice or quit the same day. Not sure.
Everyone
Everyone that got the job tour in their first interview, I didn't because mine was virtual since our schedules didn't align. But if I did, I wouldn't have taken the job. I would have notice that it was not a reception job but a cubicle like job. Something I know for sure I would never apply to if it was in the job description.
So when I leave do I say "this job is just not a good fit for me, I tried but in the long run is not going to benefit me or this company. I thought this job was different due to when I applied it had a different role than what ended up being. " not sure.