Author Annie Dillard famously said, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” So given the fact that the average person spends one-third of their adulthood at work, it’s only normal they want to be happy there. Sadly, that’s not always the case.
There are plenty of ways companies make their employees’ lives miserable: lack of training and two-way communication, excessively strict policies, toxic managers, lousy wages, the list goes on. With their miserable job descriptions and offensive interviews, some organizations even find ways to get under people’s skin even before they hire them.
Many of these disappointed folks turn to the internet to voice their frustrations. So in an attempt to recap today’s job market and working conditions, we compiled a list of complaints we see online the most.
#1 Trophy And A Dog Park
#2 Truth
If we were to look at the numbers, the U.S. job market came through January in much better shape than expected despite a winter wave of coronavirus infections.
According to a new tally from the Labor Department, employers added 467,000 jobs last month, far outpacing even the most optimistic forecasts. Which is even more impressive when you consider the surge in COVID-19 cases brought on by the omicron variant.
The unemployment rate inched up to 4% in January from 3.9% the month before, but that’s only because nearly 1.4 million people entered the job market.
#3 Buy Fewer Yatchs
#4 Cut CEO Salary By $ 1 Million
#5 Hear Him Out
The positive report was good news for the Biden administration, which had been bracing for worse numbers.
“America is back to work,” President Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday. “Our country is taking everything that COVID has to throw at us and we’ve come back stronger.”
The share of people working or looking for work has increased, spelling possible relief on the horizon for employers who have struggled to fill vacant spots amidst the Great Resignation.
#6 Salary Transparency
#7 Unrig The System
#8 He’s Going To Learn The Hard Way
#9 I Already Know Tons Of People Can Feel The Pain In This Tweet
But according to a 2017 Gallup poll, only 15% of the world’s one billion full-time employees are engaged at work.
Surprisingly, the situation is significantly better in the U.S., where this figure is around 30%, but this still means that roughly 70% of American workers aren’t satisfied with how things are going.
#10 A Sad Story
#11 Finally Someone Who Gets It
#12 Ain’t That The Truth
#13 Taking Your Job
In her book Happiness At Work, Jessica Pryce-Jones pinpoints the major elements that contribute to a person’s happiness or discontent. She thinks that if a worker has high levels of confidence, commitment, conviction, contribution and culture fit, paired with feelings of recognition, pride and trust in the company, they will achieve their potential at work.
#14 Discuss Salaries From Now On
#15 Work Is Work And Should Be Paid
#16 Give Us More Money
#17 Believe In Yourself
But not all of these things are in the hands of the employers. Happiness also depends on our own attitude and perception. “We expect that something has to happen in order for us to be happy,” Srikumar Rao, professor at the London Business School, told Forbes.
#18 Protect Your Coworkers
#19 Damn Good Idea!
#20 That’s Why It Is Soo Hard To Get A Job!!
#21 Every Manager Needs To Hear This
Rao said that while we push our prospects of happiness into the future (‘I’ll be happy once I get a promotion, my bonus, the corner office’), we’re missing out on the chance of happiness at work right now. “We don’t recognize that we have tremendous control over our happiness.”
#22 I Mean…. I Would
#23 My English Teachers Favorite Line
#24 This Is Reality
#25 Run Me My Money!
To combat this barrage of negativity, Rao believes workers should stop labeling things as good or bad.
“The moment you say something is a ‘bad’ thing, you experience it that way,” he explained. “You live your life in a constant cycle reinforcing itself.” Rao rejects the theory of positive psychology which suggests that thinking happy thoughts will make them a reality because according to him, it’s a form of self-deception. Rather, he suggests looking at situations as they truly are.
Just like the people behind these tweets.
#26 Good Job
#27 Emotionally Checked Out Of The Week By Then
#28 All Colleges Should Offer This
#29 Mcdonalds
#30 Hospital Janitor Work Extra Hard In The Pandemic And CEO Got 13 % Raise
#31 Finally Somebody Who Understands The Importance Of The Working Class
#32 Mission Impossible
#33 There Isn’t A Job Shortage, There’s A Shortage Of Adequate Pay
#34 Take This Job & Shove It
#35 My Treat
#36 Get Paid For Your Depression
#37 We Should Not Have To Work 2 Jobs To Be Self Sufficient. This List Doesn’t Factor In Having Kids Either Smh
#38 We Will Not Sleep For Two Hours
#39 Job Ad
#40 Bert And Ernie To The Rescue
