What are the things that make your experience of work so crap?
Here’s my far from complete list that I came up with as I wrote this week’s ‘The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter’. What would you add to it?
When I met my wife, she had a dog. She made it clear he was part of the package. She told me, “Love me, love my dog!”
I didn’t realise how dangerous my workplace was.
I mean, it was just an office, in a division of a big company. One that was generally reckoned to be a ‘good’ employer. What harm could I come to?
An employer has no business with a man’s personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation.
It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power.
Since I entered the workforce a few decades ago, lots of new words about it have emerged
Stress
Downsizing
The extra mile
Burnout
Is the ‘Future Of Work’ conversation played out?
It’s certainly less intense than it was because a lot of things have settled out.
Here’s my take on what’s DONE, what’s NOT DONE and what could be COMING.
Do you get the ‘Sunday Scaries’?
Quite a turn of phrase for something so common that 8 out 10 employees experience it.
We used to call it ‘the Sunday blues’, the dawning realisation that tomorrow was a work day and the fun would have to stop soon. The…
If you’re one of the 6 in 10 that are not engaged at work (it’s 9 in 10 in the UK!) then you have some choices.
2. Change jobs
What if you don’t burnout?
What if you never quite get to that tipping point where you stop functioning?
What if you never have a dramatic moment of crisis that forces change?
“People at increased risk of burnout due to more demanding workdays, TUC says”The Guardian, 23 July 2023
Are we reaching the end game for the version of work on offer in today’s last stage capitalism? The machine is running so hard that the…
