At the end of my rope

I'd consider myself a hard worker with a strong work ethic & the ability to work through any situation but I'm about to lose my mind working for a company that is so horrible at what they do with no accountability or attempts to improve.

Ideas are immediately shot down and met with hostile feedback while people who clearly can't do their job are allowed to continue unchecked.

I feel like I'm becoming one of those people I hate. The ones that don't care about their job or how well they do. I don't want to be that guy but I really can't stand this place.

Lazy or Brilliant?

Am I the only one that feels like people are getting lazy these days? I see daily reminders of people that jump to conclusions & complain about things before they bother to think or research the situation.

Far too many people assume they know all the details, yet they know nothing. I don't know why this makes me so crazy. I'm just tired of people expecting others to do all the work for them because they are too lazy to do a little research on their own.

Your employees have ideas...LISTEN!

I'm perplexed by the number of people that are completely opposed to change and/or new ideas.

Yes, we put a procedure in place a year ago. Many things have changed and the fact that you "find no value" in the suggestions that your employees have is unacceptable.

Even worse is the hostile attitude you give when your employees attempt to discuss it with you.

I have never been treated like this at any job...not even a minimum wage, fast food joint. I honestly don't know how people like this get to a position of leadership.

Maybe the prosecutor was right...

During the trial to find out if Josh could come home or go back to juvenile detention the prosecutor said they might as well just let him go home so his mother could ruin his life. I really feel like he was right. Josh has gone downhill ever since he came home. He's refusing to do anything that I ask, he won't clean up after himself and now he's refusing to go to the doctor or the dentist today! He won't do his school work and we don't want him to go back to school. I'm really wishing I could call the judge and tell them I was wrong and that he needs to be locked up. Clearly, he has no respect for me or himself and nothing I do is working. I'm seriously about to ship him to Colorado and let his dad deal with it. I've put up with this crap for long enough, let him have a turn at it. If I wasn't sure that he would end up even worse I might do it...heck, I might do it anyway! I'm sick of the fighting and if he doesn't want to live by any sort of rules, I'm pretty much done with his lazy ass!

What to do?

Josh's court cases were all closed and he's no longer on probation. I got all the stuff lined out to homeschool him til next year and now he wants to go back to school. I just don't know what to do. Having him stay home all day is doing nothing but make him bored & obnoxious but I don't want to end up back in the system again. I think I'll call the principal and set up a meeting to see what he thinks.

Parenting sucks!