Probably not wise but I just couldn't this morning...

I just couldn't go to work today.

I couldn't face my team of idiots one more time.

Tomorrow is my last day before I move to a better team.

A more competent team.

A team that works as a team and actually does work; instead of buck passing or pretending they don't know what to do because they just can't be bothered helping out their team mate or me, their boss.

Today I just looked at my phone, dialled the number, and said, nope, not coming in. I’m sick.

I have never chucked a sickie.

I have never faked a sickness. A cold. A flu. Anything. Nothing to get out of work.

But today I just couldn’t.

I am so very tired.

I couldn’t look at them one more time and hear the constant whinging about how they have to do work.

These people are being paid $70,000 - $80,000 a year (I guess it includes super etc) but the point is, is that they don’t deserve. They haven’t earned it. There are another people out there, earning much, much less, and actually contributing to the world. These people avoid work, don’t help, and rock up to work about 9.30am and then whinge all day before slipping out at 4pm. They haven’t even done a full day’s work. This doesn’t include the hour lunch they take.

As their supervisor, I have brought up my issues about it all, only to be told that this is the public service. As long as they are doing the work, then it doesn’t matter what time they show up, or leave, as long as the work gets done. Now, I give them work. They claim its getting done but after they leave, the big wigs ask for it, and it’s not done. I bring up the next day (after I have had to complete it all), only to be faced with a blank expression and another whinge. This has been going on for four months.

Four long, long months.

I left my old team because I was harassed and overworked to point of exhaustion. I was told to put up and shut up, and just do the work… even though I was doing the work of three people, while others sat by. I left that team because they were arseholes (excuse the language but there is no other way to describe them).

And so I moved to this team, only to be faced with another set of issues. Lots and lots of issues!!!

I don’t pull my hair out. I don’t get angry. I don’t lash out. I don’t do these things because I know my real job is waiting for me. I just have to be patient and wait for my start date…

So for now, I smile, I nod, and I politely tell them that they are paid very well and have little responsibility, therefore they need to do the work. They bitch behind my back (I’ve caught them a few times) but they do the work.

Tomorrow is my last day with them and it’s going to be the longest day.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, I just need to be patient.

FYI - i am actually sick. I have worked through my cold for the past two weeks without time off. I think my body is tired for having to smile, nod and be polite to idiots.

I think my body, my mind, my soul is rejecting my efforts to be polite to idiots.

I should look into that.