I Hate Your Job

“Did he really just say that?”
You and other IHYJ readers sharing the stupidest things they hear on a regular basis. Sounds good right?

Sometimes, our co-workers or boss will say something so offensive, so trite, so demeaning, or so stupid that we have to pause for a moment to make sure we heard it correctly.

That’s […]

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A Guest Post By Dante Alighieri
That’s right everyone, after a week of working my telemarketing job, I’m back and ready to do some more writing! The Second Circle was terrifying, yes, but this one is worse still.
For anyone who has ever had to depend on an incompetent co-worker, this is the part of […]

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Do you hate morning people?
Well, here’s what I learned today: morning people are persecuted. This is shocking for me because I always thought of them as the aggressors.
There was a while where I was having to be at work every day before the sun came up, and I am a morning corpse, the opposite […]

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A guest post by Dante Alighieri
Imagine everything you hate about your current commute… and be thankful for it.
In the Second Circle of Job Hell, your actual job is irrelevant. Most of your time will be spent languishing in the most heinous daily commute imaginable.
Employees of the Second Circle discover emotions below misery and […]

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A Guest Post By Dante Alighieri
Alright, so first, big thanks to Chuck for letting me have a platform to get back into writing. Let’s get started with a little background about Job Hell.
The 9 Circles of Job Hell get progressively worse the deeper you go. It’s just standard hell operating procedure, really. […]

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An Introduction To This Feature
You spend 70% of your waking weekday dealing with your job. Do you want those days to be more enjoyable and more fulfilling? I do too. It’s too big a chunk of your time to just tolerate.
This blog helps you do that in two ways:

To address particular problems: Especially […]

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That Sinking Feeling
Picture yourself at your desk at work. You open your email inbox and sitting right at the top is a fresh email from your boss, your boss that you haven’t been getting along with for a while. The subject line reads, “Regarding your work.”
It leaps off the screen to your attention. […]

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College is (NOT) the best four years of your life!
How many times have you heard that it just doesn’t get any better than college? I know that this “secret” was shared with me time and time again. Maximum freedom and minimal responsibility. Ah, the life…
Imagine what that means to the college senior. […]

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Do you know anyone under 25 that doesn’t like their job?
The Young and the Restless?
According to a survey published by The Conference Board in February of this year, more than 60% of workers in that age-group are dissatisfied with their jobs, the worst percentage of any demographic.
Why is this newly working generation so frustrated?
It’s […]

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