Should I Hate My Job??? You Be The Judge

I have been at my new place of employment for about six months now. The transition was not easy at all. I had to adjust to a new way of working. Most of all, I had to adjust to working with other people. You see, my former job required me to work alone, sitting behind a desk all day, greeting guest, and keeping track of who comes into the building. I didn’t have to worry about other officers; I didn't have to worry about relief because I was the only officer working that site.

I've dealt with people but the contact was kept at a minimum. My former job was dead end with no chance of promotions. I had to find someplace else to go because I had bills to pay.

A month later, I was blessed with another job in the same profession, but under much different circumstances. There is a new concept in which security is now merged with customer service, so not only are we protecting, but now serving. My position is not the traditional security job where you dress up in a toy cop uniform, and parade around a building with your mace, and night stick. We now wear these corny ass three piece suit and tie. However, I can deal with the tight ass uniform that’s the least of my worries.

Now I’m not a people person, I never have been, and I probably never will be. I like working alone; I don’t like a lot of people in my personal space. Unfortunately, I have boo coo people in my fucking face all day. Let me explain my job to you, and let you know why I feel the way I feel because I know most of you are saying: "She should be thankful she has a job" Or "Its people out here who don’t have jobs" and "Things can always be worse" and that’s true. However, I can be thankful, and feel the way I feel at the same time I'm entitled to that.

I work at a very famous art gallery I'm not going to say which one. All in all, security is responsible for protecting billions of dollars worth of art, and artifacts. The responsibility of protecting such valuable pieces is stressful in itself. On top of that, we're standing for 8to 10 hours a day. In addition, we deal with the public and sometimes private events. In my case, coming from an environment where I worked alone, I had to make a huge adjustment. I had to pretend to like being around people.

To make a long story short the question of the day is: Should I hate my job?? You be the judge.

Reasons:

I feel like I’m walking on egg shells when I go to work. There is always someone lurking in the cut, watching you on camera trying to conjure up a reason to fire you.

Seeing good people let go, while people who don’t want to work continue to work, and get over on people.

Office politics: The petty stupid shit that goes on. Not only do we have lurkers from protection services looking to fire security officers, but lurkers from other departments are ready to snitch, and lie to get us fired.

Dumb fucking, ridiculous rules: No color nail polish, no chewing gum, you can’t wear a rubber band in your hair unless it’s black. New Rule: We were given ear pieces for our radios, but we can’t keep them. At the end of the shift, we have to return them. I think the ear piece rule is not only ridiculous and stupid, but also unsanitary. I will not wear an ear piece that has been in someone else’s ear.

Security is expected to do everything, but when something goes wrong, or an item is stolen, security is blamed for it.

Sometimes we don’t have a choice in staying late. Sometimes we have to stay because staff is short.

I absolutely hate dealing with rude people, and have to still be nice to them. This burns me up every time. I cannot stand having to smile in a muthafuckas face while he or she is rude to me.

Standing on my feet all day, chasing grown ass people, and making sure they don’t touch the art work, or the artifacts, and get cussed out by some who don’t want to adhere to the rules.

Dealing with fucking snotty, snobby, stick up the ass rich donors who think their entitled because they donated money the museum.

Having people, get to close to me when they talk, some have breath that smells like they ate shit for breakfast, and some don’t even cover their mouth when they cough.

*BOUNUS: Using people’s credit history as an excuse to fire them

I know, I know, I should be thankful to have my job, I thank God everyday. On the other hand, I’m human and I’m entitled to my feelings. Love it or hate it.