Hi everyone,
How does everybody else deal with stress around work? does it get to you or are you able to forget about it once work finishes?
The reason I ask is because i'm totally stressed out at the minute. It all started about 6 weeks ago, basically I felt that the work I was doing wasn't appreciated and that I was getting paid poorly for doing extra jobs not in my contract. So I had a meeting with the management and told them how I felt, their response was to first of all critise me because I don't always do certain minor jobs, usually because I was busy doing important jobs! Then after that they offered me a smallish pay rise and lumped on a few extra things I had to do(don't get time to do what I was already supposed to do). Then later in the day I was told that I was being made the manager of my department to justify my pay rise. So basically I was unhappy being paid little to do my current job, now they want to pay me little to do a management job!With little things like "flexible hours" thrown into the contract. Meaning they want me to work through dinners and stay late without being paid, all this for an extra 90p an hour!
Anyway I wrote a letter tonight declining the offer and will find another job ASAP as it's totally stressing me out, in fact i've got a test for another job on Thursday
Sorry for the long post but had to get it off my chest
John