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What's the worst thing about your job?

And those people don't clean up and there's crap everywhere!

I hate my job cuz everyone thinks their an HR expert.

The Sr. HR Mngr doesn't know what she is doing, lies all the time, spends the whole week looking at the same spreadsheet, doesn't give a damn about the employees, and basically is taking up space and a salary that should be given to someone who really needs a job.  I really want to smack her around a couple of times.   

The breakroom always runs out of sugar.

Office and Corporate politics.  I am not a suck up and I hate sucks ups. 

My supervisor is a bully and a control freak.   Management and co-workers are always tossing people "under the bus".  I think the bus goes around our building 5 times an hour!!  HR jobs are hard to come by around here. 

Working in a heavily matrixed organization is getting really old really fast.  In my past life I was a decision maker and made things happen.  Today, I am a concensus builder which is not a "value add" propostion.  How many HR people does it take to screw in a light bulb anyhow?  I guess that depends on how large and how complex the organization is.  Is this any way to run a business?  Time will tell.

I hate my boss because she has an issue with me being pregnant!  When I came back she told me it was my fault I had the little brat!  Real professional from the VP of HR

how do you handle - when your boss can keep chatting and talking about all other employees, and just not do anything, nor be team player, cannot do their jobs nor allow you you to perform, and then work late nights submit reports and data you gave her, and prove she is teh smartest, thought had to tolerate - needed some canadian experience and had to work on my designation, but seems like time to look for another job - 4 years has been a long time...

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how do you handle - when your boss can keep chatting and talking about all other employees, and just not do anything, nor be team player, cannot do their jobs nor allow you you to perform, and then work late nights submit reports and data you gave her, and prove she is teh smartest, thought had to tolerate - needed some canadian experience and had to work on my designation, but seems like time to look for another job - 4 years has been a long time...

 Four years is a long time.  I think you show great forebearance in having tolerated such behaviour for so long.  I think that getting a new job is a great idea, and I'm sure that you'll do better with the new boss.  Goodness knows we hope you don't do worse!

We are on a hiring freeze (so as a recruiter I have absolutely nothing to do), they've cut overtime (so I've lost $200 per month of income), they are laying people off, and I don't know what to do in this economy!!!

A Bully is a chicken sh** with power or position. Show no fear and they will back down. I hate the people that think they know more about HR than I do because they read one paragraph in the handbook.

I hate my job today because of several reasons...one--I'm working on a big project that every time I think I'm done, the HRD thinks he needs to scrape over it with a fine tooth comb and find some grammatical error or something wrong with punctuation. I can't move forward with the rest of the project until his review is complete and I'm SICK of it. Two--I thought I loved HR. I have almost 10 years experience in HR, I have my master's in HR, and I have my PHR but I think I want to do something else with my life. I don't feel that I'm moving up the ladder fast enough and I feel my talents are being wasted. Three--My company has a hiring freeze right now and my work has sssslllllooooowwwwwweeeeddddddd down. I don't do very well with boredom. They keep trying to find projects--one of which was to clean out a closet--for me to do. I didn't go to school, work in HR for this long, etc. etc. to clean out a freakin' closet!!!!!