I hear this… a lot.
And when I respond
with “Get a new job”,
I get a lot of weak-assed excuses.
Steve Tobak has a better response.
(this post on workplace myths
is AWESOME)
“For one thing it’s work,
not happy hour.
Also it’s a free country.
You get to decide
what you want to do for a living
and where you work.
Isn’t that enough?
Sure, the economy sucks.
So if you’ve got a crappy job or
a boss who’s a jerk,
you’re sort of stuck for a while.
Sometimes it’s worse than others,
but the economy is cyclical and
it’s been that way forever.
Besides, if you think your company is hell,
your boss is the devil, and
your coworkers are political, backstabbing creeps,
there’s a fair chance that it’s you.
Nobody wants to believe
they’re the problem.”
If your job sucks,
either change your job
or change YOU.