Fed up

posted May 21st, 2015 at 8:03 PM

I am extremely fed up with life. I am working at a crazy place. My contract ends in a couple months. There are two women who hate each other and they are driving me crazy. They are so immature. I have another lady who got promoted to be a Supervisor (IT) but she is so patronizing and rude. A total Bitch. A director of department and he is so gay he does want to admit. The mail clerk makes over 80 k. Guess what. It is an union job and I am exempt staff. I am not part of the union. It is crazy. I have a masters degree and these people only have grade 12 education and make more than me. The stupid mail clerk was complaining that he has been on vacation in the last four months. He went to California. I have not been on vacation for the past ten years. I thought I was going crazy but I found out I work with teh crazy ones. Vancouver is a tough job market and you have to be a lazy SOB to working here. Good bye!

3 Comments

Anonymous

May 22, 2015 at 6:49am

Hang in there. Take your passions where they will be appreciated.......Start your own company or business. Do not envy the person stuck in a limited job. They may be stuck there till the end of their lives. Stay positive at work. Make time for vacation.

You do not

May 22, 2015 at 8:53am

Have a master's degree. I feel like I just read the confession of a 12 year old.

Unions

May 22, 2015 at 9:47am

There was a time when unions actually did some good. They are now out of date and need to be busted. I belonged to a film union for a couple of decades and slowly watched them give away all of their power, to 'bring the jobs to Vancouver.' For all the work that they did manage to pull in, it didn't matter anyway. Just about every province and state now have a competing film industry. They care nothing about their members, or the skill level of those members; they kept letting in totally unqualified, useless losers, just for their yearly dues. That's how the union makes money, it doesn't matter to them that 90% of their members are out of work at any given time, just as long as they keep paying their yearly dues.

When unions have too much power, we end up with summer long transit strikes. We end up with mail carriers who decide they don't like to deliver the mail if it's snowing that day. We get teachers who think they don't make enough money, going on strike. That one really pissed me off. Those little peckerheads (children who shoulda been in class) were running wild and harshing my mellow. We end up as hostages at the mercy of everyone with too much power.

The only good thing Ronald Reagan did in the eighties, was to fire all of the striking air traffic controllers. They had to reapply for their jobs. You cannot hold an entire country hostage by shutting down all of the airports of a world super power. That strike ended as quickly as it began because Reagan refused to put up with that bullshit.

You say the mail clerk makes $80K?? That's disgraceful. No skills or education required.

It also helps if any of your family members belong to whatever union you want to join. Everyone else is SOL.