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The comments below this story are interesting. Having worked in a corporation/office environment, I can say beyond a shadow of any doubt, I would deliver pizza at a Pizza Hut before going back in an office of any kind. I'd be a bartender. I'd ride shotgun on a garbage truck. I'd mow lawns. I'd walk dogs.
I'd make less money, and god forbid, not be able to wear a tie to work, but I'd be a much happier camper at the end of the day. Money and benefits don't mean squat if you're pushing up daisies at the age of 50.
Stress is a killer, and there ain't much stress involved in bringing someone their pizza.
Just stay away from retail whatever you do. It seems like an unimportant job but I promise you they ride you like hell and you get absolutely no work/life balance.
Having a hostile work environment makes it a breeding ground for someone to snap. It makes no sense for anyone to cause such hostility in the office when they don't know how the ones they are hostile to will respond. It is dangerous.
When you work in a hostile environment, it affects your entire life. I was taking medication in order to be able to continue working in the environment I was in, I literally did not want to go to work.
Get a new job...it took me two years...and I moved to get away, and feel much happier...
Most job environments are not healthy. So what are you going to do, unless you can start your own business?
Yes, for me it was. My job was literally driving me to drink, the environment had become so toxic. I'd cry on my way home. Being on unemployment gave me time to heal, and I eventually found another job, one I enjoy and that is not stressful, mentally exhausting, or hostile. Less money, but at this point in my life, I'd rather have less money and keep my health and sanity.
And some people seem to be okay with this bullying and hostility by saying "get over it" or "stop being so sensitive". Maybe they just have't gotten it good enough yet or have not experienced it. It is like high school and completely silly. My concern is what I posted earlier about not knowing how the bullied person or people will react. It is dangerous because that person could snap in a heartbeat. That can lead to dangerous workplace violence.
When you work in a hostile environment, it affects your entire life. I was taking medication in order to be able to continue working in the environment I was in, I literally did not want to go to work.
Get a new job...it took me two years...and I moved to get away, and feel much happier...
That is one good reason to keep an emergency fund, so you have the ability to tell your boss to go to hell if you need to.
I wouldn't wait around to find a new job if I was being bullied on a daily basis. I'd flip them the bird and live off whatever I had saved up until I could find a new job.
When you work in a hostile environment, it affects your entire life. I was taking medication in order to be able to continue working in the environment I was in, I literally did not want to go to work.
Get a new job...it took me two years...and I moved to get away, and feel much happier...
I know how that feels, but just walking out to nothing wasn't an option. I learned to keep cool around the bullies and later found another job.
But I know it is hell, I know how one cannot sleep, Sunday nights feel like one is dissolving into hell, and how it occupies your mind and ruins your sanity when you are at home.
I know what it is like to start shaking on the job, to have to go outside to get away from the wolves.
And we all know medication is just a coverup, because remove the stressor, remove the bad job, and one is fine.
All you can do is look for another job, and remember that this too will pass, because I look back, and any hellish job I ever had, I am not there now.
I am glad you found something else.
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