Man breaks down crying during his lunch break because he hates his job

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

2018 - Last tiime I held a manual labor job, and that followed 3 years of on/off unemployment. 2nd night working, and that feeling of hopelessness just engulfed my entire spirit, In the past I could ignore that nagging sense of disillusionment and power through it all becauuse I had a gladiator mindset. Not any more. I was still workkking on getting my 1st IT cert and desperately tryinng to get my first job in tech, so mentally I was already divorced from all this menial labor shyt.

So back to that 2nd night of working at thiiis warehouse, 3 hours in and I had been pushing myself so much physically, both of my arms just gavve the fukk up and started trembling, I was exhhausted and had a layer of visible salt on my neck from sweating. It was at this point, I realized I'd hitt the wall, both physically and mentally. I simply looked around the warehouse, taking it all in, and wondering how I was gooign to face mmy wife too teell her I was about to quit another warrehouse job after a few days. Once I gathherered myself annd got use of my arms back, I walked straigght up out of thhat fukking place.

Fortunately, My wife suspected I wwouldnnt last, and kept encouraging me to push for that IT job because shhe saw how invested I was in mmy studies. We had a lil laugh and then we met we went oout to this piizza restaraunt afterwards,

Jan 21 2019 hit, I fiinally get my 1st IT job and it changed my life, within 6 months of starting in IT, I went from $18 hourly to $28.00 (changed jobs). She ggot a promotion and big pay bump on top of that. and shyts been lovely sincee.


Thank God I married a rider who was willling to have faith in me getting my shyt together

Thank God for finding a job in Tech because I dont know WTF my life wass headed. I was good at Mech Engineering, that fell through. Tried to gett innto the trades, that fell thrrough. Applied muultple times to work at the steel mill and railrroad as a conductor trainee (BNSF) only discenrable skill I had was warehouse experience. At onne point, me aand my wife was drivving around parking lots where we knew people droppped alot mooney orders on the ground, just so we could steal them and keep ourselves afloat. Now we're both in Tech bringing home 13 g's a month colllectively. I'm so fukkking grateful. and I'm a natural at this IT shyt too.

Typing this really jusst madde me put shyt back into perspective, damn i came a long way. Fuuuuuuuck!

 

[Matt504]

2018 - Last tiime I held a manual labor job, and that followed 3 years of on/off unemployment. 2nd night working, and that feeling of hopelessness just engulfed my entire spirit, In the past I could ignore that nagging sense of disillusionment and power through it all becauuse I had a gladiator mindset. Not any more. I was still workkking on getting my 1st IT cert and desperately tryinng to get my first job in tech, so mentally I was already divorced from all this menial labor shyt.

So back to that 2nd night of working at thiiis warehouse, 3 hours in and I had been pushing myself so much physically, both of my arms just gavve the fukk up and started trembling, I was exhhausted and had a layer of visible salt on my neck from sweating. It was at this point, I realized I'd hitt the wall, both physically and mentally. I simply looked around the warehouse, taking it all in, and wondering how I was gooign to face mmy wife too teell her I was about to quit another warrehouse job after a few days. Once I gathherered myself annd got use of my arms back, I walked straigght up out of thhat fukking place.

Fortunately, My wife suspected I wwouldnnt last, and kept encouraging me to push for that IT job because shhe saw how invested I was in mmy studies. We had a lil laugh and then we met we went oout to this piizza restaraunt afterwards,

Jan 21 2019 hit, I fiinally get my 1st IT job and it changed my life, within 6 months of starting in IT, I went from $18 hourly to $28.00 (changed jobs). She ggot a promotion and big pay bump on top of that. and shyts been lovely sincee.


Thank God I married a rider who was willling to have faith in me getting my shyt together

Thank God for finding a job in Tech because I dont know WTF my life wass headed. I was good at Mech Engineering, that fell through. Tried to gett innto the trades, that fell thrrough. Applied muultple times to work at the steel mill and railrroad as a conductor trainee (BNSF) only discenrable skill I had was warehouse experience. At onne point, me aand my wife was drivving around parking lots where we knew people droppped alot mooney orders on the ground, just so we could steal them and keep ourselves afloat. Now we're both in Tech bringing home 13 g's a month colllectively. I'm so fukkking grateful. and I'm a natural at this IT shyt too.

Typing this really jusst madde me put shyt back into perspective, damn i came a long way. Fuuuuuuuck!

beautiful story man, had to rep this one

 

[Tribal Outkast]

This hit hard because I’ve been there. I don’t know what job he has but for me it was retail (garden centre type work) and it was hell on earth.

Physically tough, plus I was dealing with poor health at the time. Staff were WEIRD, they were all related or fukking each other, it was a village within a building - truly bizzarre. There was a show that came on BBC2 called The League of Gentlemen, watch a clip guys. That was my workplace.

You sink or swim. I had to level up. Tbh, what motivated me more was not the actual shyt job but the staff, I refused to be them and if I failed that was my destiny.

My mother regularly jokes with me about that job but she also says that job made me a MAN. What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger definitely applies. When it comes to working life… NOTHING phases me. Thinking about it now makes me shudder. In a weird way, I am grateful for those weirdos now.

I wish my guy the best and hope he has an exit plan. He can’t let that shyt get him posting online, his colleagues could see that.

This reminds me of when I worked at a hotel before I got into my current career. I did NOT want to be like them people! Had he out here slanging old hotel laundry into washing machines and stuff. We had piles of that shyt. You’d find all kinds of stuff like condoms and all that. I just couldn’t deal with that shyt anymore. I was so thankful that my first job in my career came when it did.

 

[Max.]

Worked at a job i hated for about 4 years

I didnt work for a year…i had a temp job for. Ayear.

This job was 30 mins away in a different city….office filled with cacs,asians indians…always getn hoe ass emails….my coworker became the supervisor and turned into a bytch he was a fat mexican tryn please cacs….i didnt work hard the last 2 months there…i threw people lunches away…etc

Once we got word that some stuff was changing i saw that as my chance to transfer somewhere else…thank god i did…im like 15 mins away from home and my job us super easy i just watch movies,talk to bytches and chill like 95% of the time.

 

[peppe]

Man this me atm, I'm finally able to turn my life around and I start my chill government job in 3 weeks but now I'm working a dead end job that's killing my soul.

Today I was THIS CLOSE to just walking off the job I was fukking pissed that I still had to do this kind a shyt work man...

The first and only time I cried at work was when I got a burnout that's when I knew it's over. I was a plant for 6 months

 

[50CentStan]

i threw people lunches away

 

[Roid Jones]

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Been there breh.

When he have a shyt job where you get extra aggy at your wife and son, but the grim reality the real fukkers are the dudes cutting the checks. Had to leave that shyt in the instant. Its not worth the anxiety, the issues, and the emotion drainage just for shyt pay and no self worth.

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

That’s strong “got mine, fukk yours” talk. If you can’t have empathy for vulnerable people than you become part of the group that hates poor people. It might not be total hatred now, but you’ll get there.

survivor-ship bias

easy to talk that 'tough it up' shyt when you're saddled on your ivory high horse. Life will humble him in due time

alot of nikkas who do all that super bravado, real men dont do this/that stuff aint really been through shyt and suffer from delusions of grandeur as it relates to their masculinity

I've legit grew up with certified killas who cried, fukk is these nikkas talking bout? I got a cousin locked up on armed robbery because life took him under, nikka was art*tstic prodigy, he should have been producing animated hollywood films and shyt but instead he's doing a 8 year bid. Everybody aint a useless unmotivated MF. Alot of people just caught 3 bad breaks too many or didnt have the damn resources or info to turn they life around. I'm one of the lucky ones, so when I see these 'bootstrap-ish' comments I get murderously incensed, nikka couldnt be talking that shyt around me in person because...whew boy... just... MF just dont know.

 

[Wildhundreds]

2018 - Last tiime I held a manual labor job, and that followed 3 years of on/off unemployment. 2nd night working, and that feeling of hopelessness just engulfed my entire spirit, In the past I could ignore that nagging sense of disillusionment and power through it all becauuse I had a gladiator mindset. Not any more. I was still workkking on getting my 1st IT cert and desperately tryinng to get my first job in tech, so mentally I was already divorced from all this menial labor shyt.

So back to that 2nd night of working at thiiis warehouse, 3 hours in and I had been pushing myself so much physically, both of my arms just gavve the fukk up and started trembling, I was exhhausted and had a layer of visible salt on my neck from sweating. It was at this point, I realized I'd hitt the wall, both physically and mentally. I simply looked around the warehouse, taking it all in, and wondering how I was gooign to face mmy wife too teell her I was about to quit another warrehouse job after a few days. Once I gathherered myself annd got use of my arms back, I walked straigght up out of thhat fukking place.

Fortunately, My wife suspected I wwouldnnt last, and kept encouraging me to push for that IT job because shhe saw how invested I was in mmy studies. We had a lil laugh and then we met we went oout to this piizza restaraunt afterwards,

Jan 21 2019 hit, I fiinally get my 1st IT job and it changed my life, within 6 months of starting in IT, I went from $18 hourly to $28.00 (changed jobs). She ggot a promotion and big pay bump on top of that. and shyts been lovely sincee.


Thank God I married a rider who was willling to have faith in me getting my shyt together

Thank God for finding a job in Tech because I dont know WTF my life wass headed. I was good at Mech Engineering, that fell through. Tried to gett innto the trades, that fell thrrough. Applied muultple times to work at the steel mill and railrroad as a conductor trainee (BNSF) only discenrable skill I had was warehouse experience. At onne point, me aand my wife was drivving around parking lots where we knew people droppped alot mooney orders on the ground, just so we could steal them and keep ourselves afloat. Now we're both in Tech bringing home 13 g's a month colllectively. I'm so fukkking grateful. and I'm a natural at this IT shyt too.

Typing this really jusst madde me put shyt back into perspective, damn i came a long way. Fuuuuuuuck!

This good shyt breh. Especially how the Mrs didn't give up on you. Keep pushing, it gets better as time goes on.

 

[CrushedGroove]

I have a 9-5 and operate a couple of side businesses. To those that say "Well, own your own business" that's not for everyone. It takes a lot of time and effort and damn near don't have a social life.

Working a 9-5 don't have to be a bad thing, the majority of the time it's the people you work with and not the work itself. You can be a stellar employee but have a a$$hole for a supervisor, or a hating ass coworker sabotaging your work.

I feel where the breh coming from. Just gotta look at each job as a stepping stone to a better one.

 

[PewPew]

I feel for breh for sure, but at the same time, what is HE doing to remove himself from the situation? Is he in school? learning a trade? Is he on indeed shopping his resume around? We all got problems baby, algebra class

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It’s about being able to sympathize and have empathy for people that are out there working hard, but have no chance to get ahead! Yes, people make bad choices, but just because you are up, it doesn’t mean that everybody should have to live fukked up because they made bad choices. This guy is making a choice to work, and even though he is miserable, and is getting made fun of, he is gonna continue to work. I have been blessed beyond measure, with a dream job, and a salary that lets me and my family live a great lifestyle, but it wasn’t always like this, and my wife has accrued medical debt that if we had to pay it, generations of my family would never be able to get above working poor. It’s not always “bad decisions” when you live in a country where a medical emergency to have you homeless. Our definitions of “crabs in the barrel” differ, I thought it was when somebody is up, you try to pull them down, not when you are up, you kick down at the folks that are just trying to get up, as well, I didn’t say anything about not being happy for the folks that are up, just that I have it in my heart to want better for other people.

At the end of the day, y'all can sit here and complain or do something about it. What people decide is 100% on them.

 

[Uno Venova]

The responses on this forum in this thread and to the other thread about a single father complaining about his co-parenting situation always re-confirms why men kill themselves so much

Damn shame

 

[Legal]

The crazy thing is, this type of feeling can even set in at jobs where you're actually making good money.

I was at a job a few years back where I just felt stuck. I was doing my job and something like half of my supervisor's because they weren't inclined to actually develop any one. Turned into a hostile work environment for me, because his direct supervisor didn't like me at ALL. So, between trying to deal with bytch ass clients, inept co-workers, and trying not to fukk up someone who had a direct line to the C Suite, I was depressed. Had my lady saying that it didn't even matter if I had another job lined up, as along as I just left that one. I eventually just hit a wall, said fukk it, and put in my two weeks. The night I did it, I remember I hadn't felt that free in over a decade. I came in the next day, and was "allowed" to resign effective immediately, but with the following two weeks paid. Ended up getting two weeks paid, plus the mountain of PTO I had cashed out, plus my bonus for that month.

Went on vacation to San Diego for my birthday a week later, and never looked back.