MUCH happier NOT being at work.

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medusa999 wrote:Leo...the forums will not let me answer you yet. But i am good. ANYHOO....I am now positive that my job is what is keeping me in a foul mood a lot. I am on vacation this week and giving my attention to things that are important to me and I feel as if a weight has been lifted off me. I am not even going to go down there and get my paycheck this Friday. I have nothing pressing and don't feel that i need to go near that place even to get paid. You KNOW you hate a job when you won't even take the time to go get paid.

Dear Medusa!

Wow! I thought you were here by a Million Years by now. I guess it does not take that long to become old friends. But you still can’t post PMs…. But that problem will soon go away.


Wow! We are exactly the same – I Hated my Job! You know, I am subject to Anger Issues, but when the boss called me into the Office and told me that I was the One who got Downsized for the New Contract (the Boss never liked me much… he had been promoted up from being nothing more than a clerk, but because he ‘seemed’, on paper’ to have the requisite experience. BUT, while he was still a co-worker I made it quite obvious that I thought he was a useless do-nothing Idiot…. Oh! So Unwise! It is the Useless Do-Nothing Idiots that become Bosses, no?).


But, I THOUGHT I would have an emotional reaction to being fired, BUT, even at the very moment, I didn’t. ‘Okay’, I thought… ‘I didn’t have a Job when I got this One’. No Big Deal… and I had money in the bank.


Oh ‘Jiminy Cricket’ it was SO GOOD not to have to go, every day to a Hostile Workplace. Yes, One must Control One’s Anger, but Patience and Human Endurance weens thin when at one’s workplace one is consistently treated with disrespect and actual rudeness ( the Idiots think they are being ‘subtle’… but they never had the capacity to know that with me, well, nothing they could do would be ‘subtle’ – part of the problem with them is that they never could admit that I See and Know Everything… well… relative to those Idiots…)

So… being ‘Retired’ (on social security which pays most of my bills, but I have bank account to fall back on) I am very much more Happy.

I have decided to start a 2nd Career -- to be a Math Teacher or a Tudor. In the University I had gotten a BA Degree, but had since then felt remorse that I had not gotten a BS Degree. My Father was abusive to my older brothers for not doing well in Advanced Math and Science Classes, and so I steered around them, and it shaped my Future. I should have realized that I was SMARTER than my older brothers and had no need to worry…. But weighing the possible penalties (humiliation and actual beatings) against the Rewards (of which I knew nothing…. Back then, if one Graduated from College in ANYTHING, one’s prosperous future was virtually guaranteed… well, so I thought… those days were over. The Endless Recessions kicked in.

But, NOW, it’s never too late. I wake up… do the household chores, and then study Math until late in the Evening… when I do my Music Practice (I am the Best Musician I know… on several instruments. But it is not like anybody Pays for Good Musicians…. So that is not a Career… just a very relaxing and emotionally rewarding Hobby).

The Math Studies keep me busy and out of trouble. And so I am Happy. I wish it would progress faster, but, there is a big difference between knowing how to struggle through Math, and being able to Teach It. So I go back and repeat entire chapters until I can Talk My Way Through Problems… just like an actual Teacher Could… or Should. My Perception is that Most Working Math Teachers and Tudors are probably not as fastidious as myself – they go over it in their lesson plans and become aware of the problems presently confronting them…. BUT if anything else pops up… some unexpected question by a Very Smart Student, well, they, I suspect, would be caught off guard. So I review and repeat until it is second nature to me… what else do I have to do? If I am going to be a Math Teacher or a Math Tutor… well, I am not going to be Half Assed about it.

So, yes, Medusa… Workplaces, with all the politics, can suck. Not because everyone Hates you for the Right Reasons (being lazy and incompetent) but for exactly the Wrong Reasons --- People in slightly Higher Job Classifications absolutely HATE IT when people ‘beneath them’ are apparently more qualified than they are – they find it threatening. Well, Idiots do. When I was in the Military and found that one of my Subordinates was Simply Outstanding, well, I let it be known all the way up the Chain of Command… even if the possible interpretation was that I was, in effect, saying that my Subordinate was better than me. So what if he was? If the Guy was as good as I said, then I wouldn’t mind working under him…. Simple as that. But, well, I am an ENLIGHTENED BEING and probably have been, for the most part for some 20 or 30 years. But there is no accounting for the Clouded and Be-Nighted Idiots that crowd the Work Force… making like miserable for all of Sweet, Peace-loving, and Enlightened Workers who are only trying to make a living, but while doing the Best that we can…. Which is resented, perhaps more times than not.

I am disliked at work because I don't join in the vapid gossip. I am in a small town in the bible belt, so that is rampant.

medusa999 wrote:I am disliked at work because I don't join in the vapid gossip. I am in a small town in the bible belt, so that is rampant.

Oh, Yeah!

There is Actual Work to Do! the Guys would be Chit Chatting among each other (what we were doing is almost Science and I cannot imagine how they could do their Jobs and listen to Music (I love Music) and Talk at the same time while they are supposed to be a actually performing the Jobs they are being Paid to Do. I'd try to chime in once every couple of hours... when I could break away from my Concentration on the Job... but it was never enough. they though me a Snob and Aloof... I was not 'One of the Guys'.

It does make me feel Darkly Better that since they "downsized me', the Lab has apparently went to Hell in a Hand basket, so to speak.... their Back Load is so bad that the Customers are Out Sourcing. The Big Speed Bump in their way is that what I could do in 6 hours, takes them 15 to 24.... but My Scheduled Workload keeps coming in on the Schedule.... if they can't turn it out as fast as I did, well, they fall behind. poor guys. I REALLY feel sorry for them.

Wow! I have neglected this forum for a bit. It sounds to me like perhaps you were doing the bull's end of the work; concentrating on your JOB instead of socializing. That is, umm, kind of the IDEA of being at work....LOL!!!

medusa999 wrote:Wow! I have neglected this forum for a bit. It sounds to me like perhaps you were doing the bull's end of the work; concentrating on your JOB instead of socializing. That is, umm, kind of the IDEA of being at work....LOL!!!

Thank you... that was so cute... I know that anybody with Anger Issues, such as myself, should NEVER encourage their selves in sessions of B___ing and Complaining..., as that kind of Thing just stirs up Horrid Feelings... but since I will never see those people again, well, I just let Fly. But, yes, thank you for understanding.