How your work affects your personality

[arturbdg]

Ok
Here is the question - do you like your work? If yes then how much did it take you to find the work you like , if no? Then why do you still work there?
I am only asking because my work has a specific purpose - change the mindset of people at the shop floor to increase their quality. Problem is that it seems that I am the only one person that really try to do this and it is very annoying I talked to my Manager about it - he said that every change takes time blablabla (the process has been created around 2 years ago so come on it is quite a bit of a time to make something change or is it not?)  The Management is reluctant to help - either by lack of knowledge or will and it is really annoying because I always get attached to my work and right now I am in position where my effectiveness depends heavily on the other people and they seem to not be bothered that much.

Artur

[Mahiqun]

Sometimes all you need to do is just relax. Especially in England- if you work in TESCO or such and people pack the things on the cages the way they fall down and hurt people, if that's your case I fully understand your pain but whatever you say and do it will happen again .

For me- I like my job- I'm a carer, I worked 2 years in nursing/ EMI and now in all sorts of places and with all sorts of people. It is interesting. and good thing- when you finished work, that's it, you don't have problems to sort out. Bad thing- the wage, but I'm planning either to go into tattoing or start studying medicine if I'll be able to afford it.

[arturbdg]

No I do not work for the TESCO, I work in Quality Assurance for one of the largest electronic manufacturing companies. My job is very specific to this company as it has not been implemented anywhere else (apart from the USA which it originates from).
Anyway my job is to inspect the work that is done by a Technician, check whether it is done up to the right standards, whether right tooling is used etc. If something is wrong my job is to provide a feedback to the Technician and fill in some forms.
On that forms one part need to be filled by the manager and it is his job to provide a solution to prevent further recurrence. Now problem is that managers that I work with are so not qualified to work with the people that you can see it miles away.

Example - a woman has issues - you can see it, she told them about it, they know it, their solution ideally would be to put her through disciplinary action thats it period - this is the solution. No other options etc.

Other example - other technician got some issues at work and it seems that it is related to some personal issues. The solution of manager is to wait till its cool down. Action to prevent further recurrences: Putting it simply - it is all getting better so nothing is needed. But what about another instances in future. It happened more than once so it will surely happen again, so how come a manager can't think of something to prevent it from happening. To explain it a bit further - problem is that this person did something wrong once, then within a week she did something wrong again so it was possible to catch the problem at the first instance and resolve it but they choose not to.

That is the issue I have.

Artur

[Mahiqun]

Inspection jobs are probably the most psychically unrewarding. I have a few friends working for veterinary inspection and they are often very frustrated, I heard some stories and I'm not surprised. I gave TESCO example because I worked there for short period of time and there was plenty of accidents just because of people stupidity, one guy nearly lost his eye in one of them.

[pixx]

Take it as challenge, not as problem. Maybe your task is to fix management by seeing why people do not bother to get motivated. Un-focus. Use lateral thinking. Play by gut. And go do some wild sport (this may bring you to basics)
(assuming you still find this job is working for you, maybe it isn't)

[thinkingprocess]

it depends on what you consider work.  I have certain jobs that i will always enjoy and others i will never enjoy.

[gone]

Have you only just realised most people are incompetent in their work? The wrong people are in the wrong jobs, given those jobs by someone who's equally incompetent which is why they staff badly and this is the situation.
I've been one of these incompetent people in more than one job. A long time ago I had a job writing for a newspaper (I couldn't spell) I also had to proofread my own & others work and no spell checker was available in those days, hehe o fun times.
I couldn't see mistakes in print, but I could quite clearly see the mistakes the managers made. As they too were incompetent, risen through the ranks yet had no relevant skills or experience to manage the department and would go the long way around things & defy logic at times. However everyone was really nice and that's all that seemed to matter.

The thing I've noticed is people don't like change, they just want to plod on unchallenged while thinking about porn or their next holiday.
It's rare to find 'enthusiasm' in the workplace, sadly, as this is motivation for change & as most people don't welcome change they snub enthusiasm. So you are caught in a catch 22, a decision most competent people find themselves faced with. Either stick to your guns and do your job as you believe fit, or do your job the way others believe is fit (and become sedate like them).. It's up to you.

And I would have thought the personal problems the staff on the shop floor would have been dealt with Human Resources.