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Default Feb 09, 2020 at 05:50 AM
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After decades of struggling I finally landed the job I always dreamed of. I'm super happy with that despite being underpaid and hard.
I got in as a temp or a filler for my coworkers days off and I was put in the night shift because it's the shift where we can learn and fail and no one cares.
One day, the guy that was doing the night shift quit so there was an opening. There were other temps (fillers) who've been working there for way longer than me that were interested in the place. One of them (let's call it A) tried to play me and play games to get the job but it didn't work.
I got the job. Great!
That temp slammed the door. Never to return, they didn't like her she didn't like them. She hates me (I've always been super nice and supportive to her)
2 years now. I still don't have a contract.
Because the guy that was there before me chose to work that shift consistently he created this idea on the other coworkers that they didn't have nor should do turns because they're too good for that shift.
The manager called a very unprofessional temp to do my "days off" (let's call him B) and he sucks (late, absent, drunk, sleeps at work)

The guy that works with me on that shift (C) is watching TV all night. His work is lazy and bad. No one likes him.
I keep doing the best I can as if it was a daylight shift and someone cared. And they say I'm good. (Let me rephrase: I'm better than the ones they don't like, which is not a compliment but it's as far as they go to compliment me)
I also showed them that I can do hard daylight shifts, in the rare moments I was given that opportunity or it happened (sometimes my shift has to extend another hour).
So after 2 years I'm still in the worst shift, the one no one else does and wants to do, not even the temps. No one replaces me.
The temp (A) returned but refuses to work dawns because she's too good for it. And they say: ok.
I'm doing my own days off most of the times, because the temp (B) that was supposed to do them can't go every other week - And no one solves this. So I work more than everyone for a bad salary.
Both this temp (B) and my shift coworker (C) do a lousy dismissive job and no one cares, so it's ok to be bad on that shift.
And when there's an opening in a daylight...they call temp (A). Oh, and she goes on and brag about how much she loves that job, how she's amazing, and how much she sacrifices for the job she loves without a problem. And they think it's ok.
I talked to the boss about my situation some time ago. That I was illegal and being treated like I was not one of them. He told me not to worry but didn't change a thing.
I feel sad, frustrated and resentful.
I feel threatened. She's a b. She's capable of playing games to step on me. I can see she tries to copy my work. It's scary.
Because the bosses and managers don't care. If they take me out of that shift they don't have anyone else. They prefer to subject to the temps demands (not doing night shifts, come to work, etc) than to value my work.

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Default Feb 09, 2020 at 06:11 AM
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You do not sound "super happy...". You sound angry and frustrated. It is hard when you work hard and enjoy the work itself but do not work with or for people who do not feel the way you do or see what you are doing as worth rewarding. This does not sound like the kind of work environment you will ever be rewarded in for hard work. It is not your job to take the place of people who do not show up to work, unfortunately it sounds like the kind of place that wouldn't care if you slammed the door on your way out. Please don't feel threatened by someone else who expresses happiness or "copies" your work, this is someone you could share the good bits with---and 'copying' may be a compliment to your work. If you can, you may want to begin looking around for other work. (are you 'illegal'? if so, this could have a lot to do with the way you are treated, and your willingness to cover shifts of someone unreliable...) I hope things work out well for you. What do you do outside of work?

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Default Feb 09, 2020 at 06:31 AM
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I'm "super happy" because I finally am where I always wanted to be, but yeah, they treat us like crap. Everyone's moral is down. They are bad leaders, self serving.
I'm illegal at work, because they keep me as a freelancer, even though I work for them 5 days a week every week, I have a hierarchy, a work place, a schedule and a salary defined by them, so it's not a freelance job. But this way I pay my own taxes. They benefit.
I am angry. This is my dream job and I can't quit. There's no alternatives. The seniors in my category who left never found a better or similar job and they had connections, lots of experience and skills.
I can't do anything outside work because this shift is exhausting. It drains me. I have just a few daylight hours before going back to work and I'm constantly drained.
I told them that too. After 2 years this is very unhealthy. If the guy that left was happy to do this consistently that was his choice. But this is very unhealthy. They know...they appreciate that I take it for the team...yeah right.
Exactly. When they allow that a guy that goes drunk, had done a really bad job recently because he was drunk and fell asleep, who skips work twice a month (he only needs to go 2 days a week, if he can't compromise he's not the right person), comes late, doesn't leave the work prepared for the next shift, then they're saying that it is ok to be terrible. That the company doesn't care for quality, that the other workers who show up and do their best are wasting time, and that I'm so bad that I can't leave the shift where they allow this type of bad work.
I'm sad. I have a coworker with whom I can talk about this, but I mean...I'm feeling horrible now. I can't keep nagging him with this. But the manager and the bosses don't care.
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