Day 109 of writing every day.
It’s my last full day off of work at my current job that I’m leaving. It’s been a long journey of going to lessons every weekday and working my brain to its limits. I wrote in an earlier post that I found it hard to believe only one week had passed. Well it certainly feels like a month has passed by in the span of two weeks. I’ve just been so busy and active and I enjoyed every bit of it.
My job had become so tedious and uninteresting due to the fact that I wasn’t being utilized in a way that challenged me and offered me a future to new opportunities beyond “team leader” which also asks for “leadership experience” that can only be gained through “leader training” and actual experience as a “leader.” It’s like asking for candidates with job experience that can only be gained by doing the job to qualify for the job.
I also did not appreciate my private life schedule being subjected to the whims of clients who have no need for all testers to be synced with their work hours as long as someone else on this end was in contact with them and able to relay communications. Eight hours of work is eight hours of work.
Testers aren’t working a cash register and the company isn’t a store that opens and closes based on when people are able to go shopping or anything. We’re just on the computer or gaming consoles and performing checks to see if things are working as intended or not. Unless there is a time sensitive test that has to be done at certain hours of the day, there’s no reason to be forced to start the day late. At least that’s what I believe and asked for before I decided to leave my job.
On the other hand, I spent around two weeks starting the day late and ending it early evening like some dream work schedule. Imagine working full time was 11-5 and that’s including an hour long lunch break.
I feel like a shorter work day would be more than fair to account for the increase in worker productivity. In addition, workers dread being at work and just watching the clock tick until the boss says they can go home. This, if anything, encourages “laziness” in the sense of deliberately working slowly so that there are things to do until the end of the day. There’s no bonus for getting the work done both well and quick when being paid by the hour. The boss will just see you as a good bargain for what they’re paying you, and just throw more work your way.
I’ve said enough. I’ll have to be up a little earlier than usual since I’ve been forced to work starting at 11 for so many months and have adjusted to that schedule, but I’m more than happy to do it as the last step of leaving my job and moving on to greener pastures. I know not the challenges that await me before I find the ideal fit for me, but the journey is bound to be worth it.
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