u/Top_Caterpillar9364

I am completely exhausted at my present job. Over half the staff don't work, and there's nothing management is doing. I often catch the staff hiding in rooms just playing on their phone. Other departments also have caught them! Or they'll spend days working on their own personal project while letting tickets build up as they see that as below them. Even other departments see right through it.

I have been trying to leave for 4 years, but I have been unable to secure a better position of better pay elsewhere. I am planning on going back to school this fall as I am fucking sick of it.

The pay is $60K and we just got 2% raises. The manager has called the department a young, man's game, which I am neither. The manager also openly has favorites, always young males. No matter how much work you do, it won't matter. Hard work is never rewarded. The end users are thankful for us that actually do out job, but none of it matters here.

Is this how IT is? If you know how to suck up and play politics, you get to move up? I see the ones that get to move up are young males. But there's been no moving up in the last 2-3 years. Everyone is keeping their jobs. Is it always ageist and sexist? I have been in 3 different companies, and this one has been the worse to get stuck in for this economy. I feel I don't fit at all. I like the work, but I absolutely dread the department I work in.

I don't know if I am in a bad class (I'm in a CNA class) but it's really put me in a bad place mentally. I am the only older adult, and the class is all high schooler or recent. It was really hard as I felt socially isolated. I had no one to have lunch with, no one to talk to. And once we were in clinicals, no one wanted to help me when I need help with a 2 person assist. The instructor had to pick someone since no one wanted to. I always tried to offer to help, but they always wanted to work with each other. It was something I wasn't mentally prepared for.

I am really worried this will be nursing school. I am still prenursing, I am taking my teas soon and applying for the school next month. But I wasn't mentally prepared for the social dynamic part. And I am worried about the stereotype of all mean girls become nurses.

I am also presently still working full time in a career where I also feel isolated due to sexism and ageism, so I am a little more sensitive to this. I just wasn't prepared for this, and it just dropped me back into high school where I was bullied pretty bad.

I am going back to school thanks to the job market. There hasn't been a job posted in my field for months, and I have been looking to get out of my position for 4 years now. And there's been no luck or leads.

I am going back to school, and I have a month session class where I was the only oldest person in the class (I'm in my mid 40's). It has been so very triggering. I feel like I am really messing up in the class since how isolating it feels to be shunned. I noticed they avoided asking for me to help them, and when I needed to ask for help, the instructor had to make them go as no one wanted to. It hurt so much. I would also offer to help, and it's like no one wanted me near them.

I was bullied pretty bad in high school, and it's put me in such a bad place mentally having the feelings back again. I freeze up when we have to go around for questions. I just assumed the whole group laughed at me or judged me when I would freeze up. It was the worst learning experience of my life.

On top of this, I am also at a job where I really talk to no one. I am the only female on the team outside of the supervisor, and it's also incredibly isolating there too. I usually have to go to an entirely new department to get help if it's a 2 man job. AND THERE'S NO OTHER JOBS TO GO TO! I have applied like crazy, and the only really sign I see is I need a new degree.

I have been so depressed, and I don't know how to find stable grounding. I also have large stresses of a career deciding test I'll be taking soon. I am just beyond burnt out.

I am going back to school thanks to the job market. There hasn't been a job posted in my field for months, and I have been looking to get out of my position for 4 years now. And there's been no luck or leads.

I am going back to school, and I have a month session class where I was the only oldest person in the class (I'm in my mid 40's). It has been so very triggering. I feel like I am really messing up in the class since how isolating it feels to be shunned. I noticed they avoided asking for me to help them, and when I needed to ask for help, the instructor had to make them go as no one wanted to. It hurt so much. I would also offer to help, and it's like no one wanted me near them.

I was bullied pretty bad in high school, and it's put me in such a bad place mentally having the feelings back again. I freeze up when we have to go around for questions. I just assumed the whole group laughed at me or judged me when I would freeze up. It was the worst learning experience of my life.

On top of this, I am also at a job where I really talk to no one. I am the only female on the team outside of the supervisor, and it's also incredibly isolating there too. I usually have to go to an entirely new department to get help if it's a 2 man job. AND THERE'S NO OTHER JOBS TO GO TO! I have applied like crazy, and the only really sign I see is I need a new degree.

I have been so depressed, and I don't know how to find stable grounding. I also have large stresses of a career deciding test I'll be taking soon. I am just beyond burnt out.

A co worker awhile ago made me feel extremely uncomfortable after touching my shoulder became into massaging my shoulder. I told them awhile back to not touch me, and then they started after my sister passed. Then I told them to never touch me, and their reaction to it freaked me out. They were so huffy. Like 20 minutes later, I saw them stomping around outside in circles as I left for another building. It made me terrified to ever go to HR.

I avoid him at all costs, but he still tries to get near, and it makes me extremely uncomfortable. He's not on our team, but things that could be asked via Teams he gets up to ask near people near me. It seems minor, but it's made me uncomfortable. This has been happening for months. I did tell the supervisor, but it didn't really help. Then today bothered me, there's multiple areas to sit for lunch, and I never have seen him, but he decided to sit facing me 2 tables away. It feels stalkerish or a form of intimidation. I don't like it. He also kept asking questions near people near me where it's usually messaged via Teams.

He also messages me on Teams but I never respond. It's usually for orders from clients that they tried to reach me. I will respond without him involved to the client directly.

Am I making it bigger than it is? Am I overreacting or would you as a female feel uncomfortable? I feel so unsafe, and I keep my voice small and just don't even talk half the time. It's done a number to my mental health.

There is an end goal to get out of the job, but he makes me feel so uneasy. I have a couple months left.

I am in my 40's going back to school, and I have people wanting to know what I am doing.

I am doing tuition reimbursement at work, so my supervisor has to know. She said "I don't know how you guys will do it, wiping people's asses. That's something I can never do".

It's really rubbed me the wrong way. I don't want people knowing I am going back to school. And I think it's really disrespectful to reduce a profession to "wiping asses". I am have learned to just stop telling anyone what I plan to do.

I am also not accepted into nursing school yet, will be doing an ASN program since the job I am at will pay the full ride, and I am not wanting another student loan (I paid off 2 already).

I am in my 40's going back to school, and I have people wanting to know what I am doing.

I am doing tuition reimbursement at work, so my supervisor has to know. She said "I don't know how you guys will do it, wiping people's asses. That's something I can never do".

It's really rubbed me the wrong way. I don't want people knowing I am going back to school. And I think it's really disrespectful to reduce a profession to "wiping asses". I am have learned to just stop telling anyone what I plan to do.

I am trying to organize everything before going to nursing school. Should I keep any of my print out or notes from preerqs like A&P? Just trying to cleanup, but I also don't want to keep it if it's not necessary.