need to vent

[alpinerabbit]

I also talk myself out of it because..maybe it is like that everywhere, even though I know it isn't because I have worked in lots of other facilities.

I thought that too on my first job, and I had nothing to compare to. It's not. There are normal, stress-reducing environments with colleagues that are all pulling their load.

[ridebikeme]

AHHH unfortunately I think that most of know that feeling all to well... what is to gain by these people? I worked in the ski industry this past winter as a retail mgr. Like you, I had a couple of those people as well. My boss the mgr/buyer hired a younger attractive woman... all of a sudden all of the guys were falling all over her (including my boss) and things started going crazy. Being the ***'t, several of the employees started bringing this up to me(obviously I was seeing it as well) and felt a bit out of place. I even had a couple of customers mention it as well. When I mentioned this to my boss, he simply dismissed it because of jealousy.(believe me none of these other women were jealous at all!) It even came down to others having their hours cut, and the younger woman had hours added to her schedule! Go figure...

But the moral of the story is leave... it sounds as though you have alot of talent and can be appreciated somewhere else! For me, I am out of that job and feel incredibly less stressed and once again workling on bikes!

[Velobambina]

There's always at least one doofus (gossip, liar, meanie, manipulator, negative nellie, etc) in every work situation, in my experience. You can choose how you react to that person. That said, sometimes there are so many of them and the place is so effed up that for your own sanity, you have to leave.

You are lucky that you have a relatively "portable" career/specialty. Seems like there are more to in your work environment to make it worth sticking out. YOu might get better benefits elsewhere, given your experience. Listen to and trust your instincts. You'll get yourself to somewhere better....

My last two assignments were nightmares. Eighteen (18) months of dreading having to go to work, being unhappy, & resulting in my seriously considering leaving federal service. Now I've landed in an interesting assignment working for a wonderful boss. I have two coworkers for whose personalities I find annoying (50 year old frat boy who thinks he's a woman magnet & a young female know-it-all w/a chip on her shoulder), but I just limit my contact with them and remind myself that their issues are NOT mine.