Day 59 of writing every day.
There are less than two months left before my current job contract is up. I have no intention of renewing it should the offer come though. I mean who would want to continue working from 11AM through 8PM for the foreseeable future? I wasn’t even given an offer of higher pay for a shift that might not matter to the company in terms of how it operates, but my quality of life has gone down drastically because of it.
No raise they can offer me will change my mind as they’ve destroyed any measure of trust I had in them after they decided to make free use of the contract clause stating that my work hours can be subject to change at their discretion. I’m not fresh out of school with nothing better to do than work. I’ve already established things I want to do in life that I find makes living meaningful to me.
So what do I want to leave behind? As much as I’d like my current employer to change their ways, it’s not going to happen in the time I’d be willing to work for them. I couldn’t care less for the people higher up in the corporation. I think what I want to leave behind is a positive professional relationship with those who I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside with, not under.
Being stern and severe to those who work under them while being loose with themselves are signs of lousy managers in my opinion. Those who lead from behind or just relay things from above with zero appreciation for those getting things done aren’t setting an example. They’re just sending others to do work they’re too lazy to do and looking busy just keeping tabs on things.
It’s even more frustrating when people can’t even extend the human courtesy of a “Thank you” to acknowledge the effort everyone makes to keep things from falling apart. All it takes is one bad experience or negative comment to undo the positivity felt by several compliments, yet what people in positions of power often seem to do is deal out comments that are neither helpful for morale nor as pointers on how one can do better.
When thought of this way, it seems like life is filled with mostly bad examples of how not to do things and who not to be like. Role models are often celebrities who most people mostly know superficially in terms of actual time spent alongside them on a regular basis. Put another way, it’s like there’s no one around to look up to.
Like any job that has specific tasks and knowledge that can’t be readily relayed by managers and superiors who aren’t even involved, I’ll probably be spending my final days scrounging up time to update information files for whichever unlucky fellow that gets sent to takeover for me. It’s a courtesy that not everyone does but I don’t want anyone to have to experience the same cycle of negativity I had to endure and wish that cycle will break before it breaks all the people who come and go.
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