Cog in the machine,
Cogging it up.
Sometimes while in employment for less than a month since the day of one’s hire, you’ve been thoroughly made to feel like a cog in the machine. You may be overworked and willingly do so while your colleagues give no shit about you and don’t even say hi or meet your eye. Oh right, you’re turning into a cog, a very sad cog, left behind at a corner desk to rot away, indefinitely. So how do you know when to leave or not (if you’re thinking of doing so?) and dropping that resignation. You knock your head and think again, what should I do?
Here’s some major boo boo flaws to take into consideration, if you are indeed at the very end of the line and contemplating pulling the plug:
1. Is your boss an absolutely deplorable jerk?
Maybe he or she is. And continuously annoy the shit out of you as asshole more than 20 days in a month. The truly evil savage Miranda Priestly. Some bosses are terrible persons putting on countless facades to appear decent, acceptable and nice. But they harbour selfish intentions and despise people who are less rich and successful, as well as being not as educated as them. King, Queen exploiting narcissists building their colossal empire. After performing your due diligence at work, your boss do not properly thank or appreciate you in any humanly-expected way. On top of making you feel like you don’t mean a thing to them and is replaceable by a click of a mouse.
A long queue awaits this job opportunity and staff members are subordinate pieces of flesh. All your best ingenious ideas seem average and common sense, as though someone else could always do better than you, and so your wages are undeserved. In fact, they would rather not pay the job you’ve done in their deepermost cheapo-est hearts. If they are grateful for your presence in some projects, they would take you out for lunch or dinner, but it’s not special - just any low-price point diner that comes to mind.
AND, of course, on even the fairest of days when nothing went wrong - these bosses place themselves on a pedestal high horse in a condescending throne of authority like you owe them. Yes, you owe them. When you have just been doing your job everyday on time (well not on time all the time), but you do your best in most things. Right, so is it your acme to quit? I’ll leave it to you to decide.
2. Is your workplace environment an unpleasant venue to work in?
Functioning offices should be budding spots that not only are well ergonomically designed, but have good access to toilets, water supply, safety entry and exit. But not for some offbeat, eccentric office settings. Employees may be tasked to sit at certain designated zones with frequent exposure to noises (gossip included) and other hazards leading them to become mentally affected by the commotion, which can hamper work productivity. Computers, softwares, stationery and tools are always limited or out of order and a fix takes eons to arrive.
In addition, if you are not even assigned a desk or a locker to secure your belongings, you would have to carry all your stuff with you every single work day (especially if you are a Customer Service personnel). You would tend to feel lesser of yourself, like a manual labourer not even entitled to a little accommodating space in a job. Worse still, the air-conditioning often screws up and you are left to work out in a sauna by yourself with wonky dusty-rusty fans. When the water container runs out at the dispenser, no one ever initiated replacing it. By the way, the concrete ceiling is on the brink of collapse. Good old fuck’s sake. This doesn’t seem like fair-trade practice.
3. Are your colleagues the suckiest persons alive on this planet?
This is one of the major dealbreakers for members of staff in even the largest of corporations. Your co-workers are SHIT-ASSHOLES. They don’t care, at the very least they don’t. Zero fucks given when they do nothing but watch Chinese dramas made in China during office hours on paid company money. While frequently, very upsettingly not doing their supposed jobs like crediting your salary on goddamn time. Conniving, they simply refuse to apologise for their honest mistakes when reproached in screwing up the slightest. Their horrific excuses and attitudes in negotiating their business out of anything remotely possible when they should be taking charge on point gives you high functioning anxiety and you have to be on guard all the fucking time.
You always have to be on your toes to suavely pull off the Katniss Everdeen defence in fending these shitsos off shirking their responsibilities on you chucking their shabbiest note. On top of them questioning your self-worth in the company because they don’t think you are even worth being nice towards (in their lack of empathy). These asses indulge in bullying as they are ultimately mired in their own agony and misery. Oh, did they forget your payslip after forgetting your salary payment too? These completely sunset cop-out motherfuckers tick the hella out of you into shoving their heads into sharks.
hi, i’m just a lego
4. Pay and perks are the lowest in the market
Yes, the company hands out the lowest wages in the market and do not offer competitive renumeration packages for painstakingly hardworking employees. All the more, making you feel like a cog in the machine which can be replaced this very minute. What about the benefits? Nothing praise-worthy or raveable. Only 7 days of annual leave and you are made to work like a bull regardless if your parents or relatives passed on. You find yourself in miserable, insufferable situations of taking regular non-paid leave while trying to stay out of trouble and gossip spice. Being nice sometimes just doesn’t pay.
5. When you are taking on responsibilities outside your pay grade
If you are doing more than 10 people’s workload duties, some of which are outside your experiences and qualifications, you may have to ask yourself what the fuck are you doing here. You have been cluster-fucked. Oftentimes, some work just don’t measure up to success and you are being handed tasks more than you can operate. There is a huge structural disorganisation going on, and you aren’t certain if the things you do would help to change anything. Obviously, some responsibilities require a manager’s decision, but there isn’t even a manager and that tends to overlap into what you perform. Shit, there is no guiding anchor to carry the weight. You are that cat below winging whatever comes in your way while clinging tightly to a pathetic tree in a billowy tornado. Good luck.
shit’s happening.
6. When the organisation mottos are a complete fluff
Let’s say, this company A is positioned to carry out XX promises and deliver them all in their products and services. However, they never live up to their standards and their name. You begin to question the integrity of the business and it’s inefficient processes that made it so vulnerable to criticism by the public (and even their staff). You wonder why the company’s values are steeped in paradox and contradictions, and never found the reason to iron out it’s position no matter if someone breakthrough tried to contribute to its success. For example, if a beauty company mentions that their facial mask removes all blackheads after use especially printing that truth out on the product label, the mask still just doesn’t do anything right at all and maybe even triggers more spots than necessary. The mask gets a ridiculously poor review by beauty assessors and soon the general beauty population shuns the product company for being a liar. You as an employee for this beauty store will be seriously in twenty feet hollows because after 15 years the product is still stocked on shelves and more people are complaining. How do you press on with even the best marketing?
7. There is absolutely no future for you to be working here
After a long stint at a company, you find yourself still doing the same old stuff from 5 years ago with about similar wages, and no talks about promotion. So where’s the promotion? Where is the meaning in you toiling for the sake of growth in your worn out shoes? The tenure you’ve spent here is a broken clock gear-tripped since antiquity. However, you, the old you just came to a halt in the tracks. In sorry state and begging to get a better role for the dedication, loyalty, above and beyond commitment you’ve easily far outweighed yourself. Years of you being competent have gone to waste because you could have done something else, elsewhere in a company that loves and values you more.
OH, YOU THINK. I’M SO FUCKED.
Should I quit? Hell yeah.
(That said, if you have 3 kids, 2 requiring college education while yourself burdened by mortgage and loans, just do the fucking job and go home by end day.)
