I keep trying to figure out how life got to be so complicated. Who would have ever thought life would get so crazy. It seems we are all trying to fit more into our day, trying to accomplish more tasks in a shorter period of time, trying to fill up every second of our day with complicated, time-consuming tasks. Yet what we are doing is driving ourselves nuts. As I get older, I don't want to get busier, but it seems with jobs the way they are and employers expecting so much more out of everyone, it is difficult to slow down. At the end of the day, we are more frazzled, more tired, less enthusiastic, more stressed out and we ask ourselves what the heck we are doing. They tell us we have to take more responsibility for our careers, so we do that. They downsize people, but the work doesn't go away, it just gets redistributed among us. They plan new projects that take hours and hours of time. Those projects are over and above our already planned out schedules. They bombard us with meetings all day long, filling them with trivial stuff like "how do you feel about our what so and so said...", or call a meeting while we are attempting to close the books on time to discuss what days we want to work from home. Petty, time consuming crap.
They are just setting us up for failure. They give us our yearly performance reviews, and in order to keep our raises low focus on the two mistakes we made all year long. This gives them more feeling of power. They are already managers, they already push paper around, plan meetings, talk at meetings, but they don't do the actual work. I'd swear they spend their time plotting out how to drive us crazier than we already are.
The company is a $5 billion a year company...how much more do we really have to make. How much more can we pay our executives, and what can they possibly do with all that money. Why is it so out of balance. Why do the workers not get paid for the hard jobs they do, while the managers just keep pushing the papers around their desks.
This is not what I signed up for in life...I need to figure this out sooner rather than later.
