Jake’s Life

Well I think it has finally become official. I am eagerly exploring my employment options. No, I wasn’t fired much to the chagrin of some of my co-workers. With everything that has gone on lately it has become obvious that my workplace is changing and going in a direction that I prefer not to follow.
Is it one thing that helped me decide? Nope. Everything has been stacking up lately: The slander against me that has gone un-addressed, being so short staffed that everyone is on mandatory 12 hour shifts, the driving away of the best Sergeant I have ever worked under, and the constant flow of never ending problems that can be solved early on but are ignored despite the screams from us petty field employees. Even if our administration got things together overnight, increased our pay, got equipment that worked, I still wouldn’t stay. The damage has been done. 

Anyone that has follow my blog knows that I have had problems at work before. Everyone does but for some reason I seem to have a lot of them at my current employer. I always seem to pull through though, but at what cost? Not being able to sleep? Dreading arriving to work? Beginning to hated what I do? Stress induced medical conditions? I think that’s far enough. A basic night at work seems to be one supervisor trying to find some way to fire me, along with the few field employees who try to jump on board. It’s been said that I must have something on someone to survive through these shit storms but I don’t. The only explanation I have is that I do the right thing, I document what I do, and what I do covers my ass.

I’m tired of it though. I deserve better, and so do some of my co-workers. The rest of them, on the other hand, deserve to stay in this work environment forever though. Or at least until they professionally evolve.