Hate Job

Your loyalty shows by how long you have stayed, but your misery is telling. Time to move along to greener pastures. Many happy and well run places to work. You will not have a problem with your acquired experience.

Give a two week notice (or whatever they require); take time to relax; then go in search. I’m sure there are many retail outlets looking for employees and you shouldn’t be unemployed too long. But first, relax!

Start the New Year off right.
Good luck 👍🏼🍀
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Honestly leave and don’t look back. I worked along side people having same issues as yours for 17 years it will never get better only worse. Don’t leave it until you get ill with stress leave now. You’ll feel a relief

My daughter worked for the same company for 15 years,got loaded with more & more work etc. when she left the company never even sent her a card.But she changed jobs five months ago & it’s amazing she is treated so well,terrific support,big company boss asks her advice & she is setting up a new system for them——— she is so happy & well respected.
So you are obviously very good at your job & anyone would be lucky to have you,you are going to burn out,you must try to change your job.You will damage your health if you don’t,you are being taken advantage of at present.Set a date in your mind of when you are going to leave & aim for it,the very best of luck.

I would start by determining how much salary you are getting for the hours you work and if it is enough to live on.

If it is then start looking and applying for jobs with a similar salary or better still more. Maybe mornings or afternoons only or make sure if you go for three days they are in the middle of the week I know someone who did this and the Monday to relax and Friday to shop and do housework made her much more able to cope at work.
Tell the Senior management, that there must be others who feel the same as you or are you the willing competent workhorse they always turn to?
Your health and well-being come before any loyalty to a firm treating you as it is.Best of luck.

When I read these threads I realise how lucky I was to be able to retire and draw my state pension at 60 and then go self employed.

When I was in my early 40s I left a job where I was fed up to go to university. I sent in my letter of resignation and didnt even tell my line manager. He was pretty shocked when word came down to him and asked me why and where I was going.

I told him "none of your business".

I enjoyed that. There was not a sodding thing he could do and I didnt need a reference.

Definitely I would look around to see if there is something else you could do. Have you tried writing out two lists. One of things you enjoy doing and the other of things you do not enjoy. every time you write something on the list fold it over so that you dont read it. Then when you have done quite a few put them away for a couple of weeks and when you have a quiet time open them and look and see what groups together. You may see a pattern that you hadnt been aware of before. Talk to your friends and let them know that you are looking around for something else. I think you will begin to feel better as y ou know inside that you intend to move and change your life and may 2024 be a much better year for you. Even if you get a job with no more money than you now receive if it is something you enjoy that is a great plus. As far as we know we only have one life so you deserve better than this . Very good luck to you

i have been hearing this a lot from my local morrisons and from family who work in asda. i started using my local supermarket 30 years ago, i think it was safeway or somerfield then it became morrisons, i was in everyday and got to know all the staff, over the last few years most of them have left and are being replaced by younger staff who are not getting trained properly, they look fed up and are not always helpful, they don't know where anything is and i have found out of date meat and bakery on the shelf. since becoming disabled and having to use a walker i have to shop online, not ideal as i like to see what i am buying.
i wish you all the best in finding another job but sadly i think most supermarkets are going this way.
ps - i went online to morrisons this morning to get a delivery for the weekend and was surprised to get a delivery slot for tonight.

I know what it’s like hating your job I’ve cried in the past when driving to and from a particular job and it affects every other aspect of your life
As others have said it would be good to see if anyone else feels the same and approach your manager, if that doesn’t work are you in a union you could speak to them
Good luck in your search for a new job 💐

It’s time to step out from what you know.It is hard but can be so much better than dreading going into work.
I did it at 55 and was so much happier.Youve got so many skills and would be so employable,get a cv done with help from someone younger who knows how to do it and write a covering letter, send it on spec to places you see as future employers,nothing to lose and a lot to gain!

I worked on the checkouts in a well known diy shop for about 20 yrs, it got worse and worse and more and more short staffed and high pressured due to this. We were expected to answer phones deal with queries etc and each year something else was added to our duties.
I decided enough was enough one day after a customer had a really nasty go at me because she had to wait in a check out queue, my go to retort for this was an apology and ask them if they would like to speak to a manager to express her displeasure.
So she decided she didn't like my attitude and wanted to report me for it. So I duly shouted her a manager and asked her to step aside so I could serve other people and point blank refused to serve her.
The manager served her and then called me into the office, to investigate the allegations, and said he agreed with me and I left the office.
Handed in my notice the same month as decided I had been exploited enough.

So you just made their jobs even more difficult by leaving your full trolley behind rather than queue GrannyGrunter. ‘I honestly feel sorry for the staff’ really? I don’t think so.

I hope you can manage to find a better job.,

I don't live in the UK and therefore don't know how easy or hard it is to get a new job when one is over 60. Here most bosses are very reluctant to employ a person who is older than they are themselves.

If you are a member of a union, consult them about these problems - the kiosk sounds like a safety risk, so you might find them helpful.

If you are not a member of a union, join the appropriate one now, and make sure they pay unemployment benefit and how long you need to be a member before they will do so, if you should be fired.

I doubt you can retire in any European country at 63, so you have probably another four to six years of work ahead of you, and you don't want to spend them doing a job you have come to hate.

So good luck finding something better.

To be truthful, the days of companies rewarding and respecting their work force have gone. Before I retired (20 years ago), I have always loved the jobs I have had and the companies treated me with respect. When I now go into a supermarket there are tills closed, people queing down the aisles and not one member of staff on the floor. The other week I went in for a quick shop and saw one assistant stacking a shelf, I asked her if there was anymore stock of a certain item and she just said, I have not got a clue and I haven't time to find out.

I honestly felt sorry for her because I remember when things were different and staff actually tried to help you.

It is no wonder that more and more people, myself included, do online shopping. I am finding it with other types of stores as well and that is why the high streets are closing stores because when you go into a store and ask an assistant, you have managed to find, if they have a different size, they always tell you to go online.

One of these days there won't be a store you can actually shop in as everything will be online because people are sick and fed up of spending their hard earned money in stores where there are no staff around to help them. Do not talk to me about self check outs, as far as I am concerned, the store should be paying us as we do their work for them, pushing a trolley, putting food in it, taking it out and putting it through the self service checkour and packing it up again.

I honestly feel sorry for the staff and if they all walked out in protest the managers would have a flaming meltdown and then perhaps do something about it. I have, in the past, taken to filling my trolley and because of long queues, just left it in the middle of the aisle and walked out.

Sadly, it is a sign of the times and more and more people will do online shopping and then all the stores will close forever and more people will be on the dole.

I don’t know which one you work for but I was very happy at ALDI who are always happy to give folk a work trial and then, if you are reliable, they take you on. Also The Range has very good broad minded Managers. I can recommend trying an ‘en spec’ paper CV to them and Lidl - has always worked for me

Good luck Lucy in finding a better/more suitable job Asap! No-one should do a job they hate, it’ll make you unwell ultimately.

Before I retired I wanted to leave my job as the workload was increasing and managers seemed to always be looking to pick you up for the slightest error. I drew a countdown chart to when I was to retire and coloured it every day. Then Covid came and we were sent home. There was very little we could do in the first lockdown as the school weren't geared up for online teaching so the kids were just set work to do. As an LSA I just had to keep in touch with my student buddies and their parents by email. I was also supposed to do online training courses - mostly stuff I'd been doing for years and pointless for someone about to retire. In the end we were due back for 3 inset days before my retirement date. I realised I missed my colleagues and wanted a proper send off so I stayed on for another half term before I retired. I still work for the school at exam times as I do invigilation and that is much less stressful most of the time and only casual. It keeps me in touch with the colleagues I miss and I don't have to deal with the ones I don't miss! I was surprised that I missed people.

Try to work out any positives in the job and focus on them until you find something better. Work out if you could afford to leave. I couldn't and I nearly left with a view to doing supply work just to get out. If I had I would have had no work at all during lockdown so would have been in a pretty dire situation. The countdown chart kept me sane for a few months!

Time to move on.

Life is too short to be miserable at work. I am nearly 60 and since turning 50 I have never worked so hard in my life. Employers will happily work you to the bone and think no more of you for it. I am just trying to hang on in there for another 15 months when I will be able to afford to leave. You need to find somewhere else to work: things are not going to change. Good luck!

You absolutely need to be happy doing your job. Move on now. Find something, anything and go. Life is too short you really must be happy at least in a new job you will be learning to start with which will keep you more satisfied.

No staff member deserves to be treated like this and particularly one of your long service. Good Heavens! From what I see and hear around there should be jobs aplenty for your type of loyalty and steadfastness. Go for it girl and the sooner the better. Good luck.

Absolutely agree with RosiesMaw. Go with your gut feeling/instincts, although obviously you need to take your financial needs into consideration too. It’s all about balance - basic financial needs, job satisfaction and fitting in with commitments with children/grandchildren/parents. It isn’t easy.

Life is too short to waste it on a job you hate.
There are loads of vacancies these days (possibly for a reason) but it is a buyers market.
Look after number 1. and work out what salary you need- then go for it!

That’s very true Germanshepardsmum

Good for you Shinamae 👍🏻 job satisfaction is important, feeling that you’re making a difference even in a small way.

Look around for another job and then when you’ve been hired hand your notice in. You’ve been in your current job for such a long time, things are bound to have changed and perhaps you’ve now got a reputation for being a little bit too flexible and uncomplaining. Time to go, but not until you’ve secured another job. Who knows, your manager may be so shocked that they make you an offer you can’t refuse. People often get another job offer to improve their current situation.