Sup monkeys,
So basically I have a job dilemma here that has been eating at me and I need some solid unbiased insight. I’m working for a physical shop and my issue is that essentially the whole company is too lax for me and seems toxic. I work hybrid I guess and get paid quite decently but at this point I’m probably clocking 20 hours max of work per week due to feeling anxiously paralyzed and stressed(used to be over 40 easy). The company was a start up where things were really on the go but when Covid hit, everyone started working from home and since then it’s been constant zoom meetings and disorganization and there really is no plan to improve, work seems to take a huge backseat to everything and as a younger guy in my career I can’t help but wanting to progress and learn more and feel a bigger sense of purpose. I understand many people may say you want to work to live, so what are you complaining about? Here’s the catch; regardless of this lax environment, we keep pushing to grow and hire people yet most of them are all inept, fresh to the industry hires and there’s zero training structure in a purely individualistic commission based system. They aren’t even fresh out of school hires, mostly all lateraling from very different industries(most people around age 30); I believe the reason for this is because the head office location is in sort of a desolate area so talent is slim pickings. Tribalism is rampant and people in your own company will stab you in the back/withhold important info to get commission on which I find to be extremely toxic. Pre Covid this was not an issue with 5-6 people(including me, all seasoned in the industry). It’s hard to do work and not have things blow up in your face when over half of your coworkers are untrained or have developed bad habits from not having had proper training and it’s too difficult to help them all. The company presidents since Covid have been AWOL 70% of the time too because as there are huge cultural issues, we still print decent money although it’s a complete grind and many things go wrong. It’s like as long as people make a couple dollars over what they are hired for they are proven to be a good investment and there’s no issue yet the people constantly shit on each other all day and the owners seem completely unaware or say that whoever brings this up as an issue is the real problem instead of listening. This isn’t to sound arrogant but at this point it’s like half our team is in the NFL and half is pop Warner, the gaps in skill and work quality are just too big yet traders need to work together.
I guess my question is does this seem normal and am I over analyzing things? Are most workplaces like this? I haven’t bounced around much so I can’t compare, and I would consider myself a pretty high performing person but I feel drained bad and am wondering if at this point I should look at new options or careers somewhere in finance or somewhere else or just find out how to cope normally if this is in fact a normal part of working life.
Thanks!
