In work and loving it: sort of...

Can we ever be truly happy? lol...

Ok, just a update here. Been in the new job for three weeks now and yes, i do like it. The job is ok itself, and something i've done before, but management are neither the brightest or best, and seem to put up new hurdles in the way of doing your job properly every day, which is extremely frustrating, especially as they are also target obsessed and never fail to keep reminding people what their performance is.

Which i could understand in a Sales environment, but not in a manual work environment. Sure, there are those who will always be lazy and will always need a theoretical kick up the arse from good management practice, but this is constant, "our work levels should be higher" which makes it feel as if the management have no faith in you, and add this to the constant goalpost movement and, sadly i hasten to add, it makes me feel sometimes as if there's no incentive to work hard, as it's always gonna be wrong...

Hold on, you might say: "you've been out of work for over a year, surely going back to work and earning is good enough incentive moves?" sure they are, but we are always in constant fear of losing our jobs early.

The contract ends in Feb 2010, but a sad, and strange thing i'm seeing is that if you make silly mistakes, you aren't reprimanded, in the words of Sir Alan Sugar: "You're fired."

No, seriously. The company (mention no names) is so obsessed with rules and targets, that you can be the best car valeter going but failure to dispose of rubbish properly makes you eligible for P45 collection duty in the name of "Health and Safety", but i think it's a acronym for "Hire and Fire", trust me, i've seen it happen. It shouldn't happen, but it does-we all knew we were on temporary contracts but it seems sometimes that the contracts are a bit too temporary...

Will report more soon...