Is the grass always greener...

Is the grass always greener on the other side? I often find myself asking that as I sit in a job I dislike even more than the previous one. The last one I disliked some of my coworkers to the point that it was making me go insane. If not for them, I'd still be there. I loved what I did and I was damn good at it. But then after five years, it had become time to seek new challenges and in this case new co-workers.

Now I find myself in a job lacking all professionalism or at least that’s the best way I can describe it. In the short time, I’ve been here two employees from my department alone have left. The icing on top of the cake…my two predecessors were fired. Or as management liked to put it “let go.”

As I dig deeper into the mess, I learn they were “let go” because they started questioning the status quo and ultimately making some department heads look bad. Ugh, that doesn’t bode well for me. I’m not one to keep my mouth shut.

The list of atrocities against a professional workplace goes on and on…people arrive in jeans, t-shirts and flip-flops. One cannot find a specific list of responsibilities that you should be executing, other than the job description. I could go on, but I’ll practice a little restraint.

Remember the Career Builder commercial with the monkeys? Yeah, I feel like that guy.

Now to start the search for something else, I know what I want to do. It’s just a matter of getting my foot in the door to prove I can do it.