It’s not worth it. It really isn’t. I’ve been here for five years, and all I can think of lately is what else I could have done in that time. I know it’s silly to think that way, and most pastures are not greener, but still. I reached the point of literally hating coming to work every day, and not being able even to imagine feeling differently in the future. I honestly believe that WF as a workplace is intentionally designed to chew you up and sp-t you out.
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I was in the same situation. Got tired of the mental beat downs working here, the daily threat of being a lay off victim, the constant cutting of benefits, cr-ppy managers that just parrot what their manager tells them to say and the lies of how "excited" they are about the changes...
So, after 26 years... I quit. It was an easy decision once I realized that waiting on severance was an anchor, not a parachute.
Left for a new job, in a new field and guess what? My mental health could not be better. Working with people that actually like where they work and who they work with for a company that is NEVER in the news for fraud and misconduct.
I no longer have to hide my face in shame when meeting new people and they ask where I work.
So, if the OP really feels the way they write about, all I can say is come up with a long term job search plan and MOVE ON. Take a risk. Take a chance. Get off the stagecoach before it drags you with it as it goes completely off the cliff
Regarding the post below (by me). Sounds like your next step (if you are so unhappy) is to LOOK ELSEWHERE - please don't drive your car into a tree (that was NOT the step I meant). I meant, if that's how you feel, it's time to QUIT! I quit a job because that's how I felt each morning on the way to work. It was a wake up call.
If you go to work and want to drive your car into a tree on the way there, start actively looking. Sounds like that's your next step ................................ START ACTIVELY looking elsewhere.
I just don't do sh-t. It will take them 6 months to PIP me or 6 months of severance. I've had people "worried" about me, but I just say its all good. I can't seem to get a PIP or a Golden Ticket. I do make an effort to show up for meetings or say another meeting is a conflict otherwise, "My pants would be down for the spanking", from an HR perspective, to use a totally natural and not at all contrived idiomatic expression.
I understand. 100%.
I was thinking of starting a post on this site, "How Are you Keeping Sane, Given the Layoff Initiatives and the Resulting Fallout?"
But I already know what kinds of responses we'd see and what recommendations would appear.
Better go see a therapist. There is a thread on that already cause you know, somebody else has already addressed this topic.
You are not alone and many feel the same way. I hope things get better for you.
Many feel the same way, but the corporate (not just banking) job market is pretty bad right now. You could take a job somewhere else and have it be just as bad and/or just as unstable.
It's just a bad time for employment right now.