Im 28 F. I’ve worked in a warehouse for a cabinet manufacturing company for a little over 2 years, and worked there previously 2 years also. The job has always been some what stressful, but since new management took over about 6 months ago it’s all been downhill. Employee morale is nonexistent. Everyone is stressed and tired and overworked and they do not care.
It all started 2 weeks before Christmas when they fired 30 people. Which meant basically we were working nervously all day waiting for them to fire people in our department. Honestly I’d consider myself lucky had I been one of those few. They did it again (20 or so) a couple months later. Everyone has been on edge. As you would expect, existing employees were expected to compensate for the lack of employees.
My job, personally, was pulling doors for production. Then I was also pulling drawer fronts, which was fine. On top of doing a job I’ve had since I started which I usually do in a couple hours and finish once a week. Now I’m responsible for 2 other areas. What goes into this all isn’t as simple as pulling parts. I have to keep things stocked, unloading several pallets some days looking for back orders, finding missing parts as there’s no organization, staying on top of ordering the material as the person who orders will just order whatever he pleases if I don’t, among a bunch of chaos and disorganization.
My supervisor had assigned someone else to do one of the areas, as she’s only doing one “job” as of now. According to management no job in there is 8 hrs worth of work. Friday, he told me that I would be responsible for that particular job once again. And I lost my cool. I was so frustrated, trying to explain to him that I’m already overwhelmed and there’s too much on my shoulders, I’ve received no raise (which is besides the point bc I truly can’t handle the workload regardless), I literally can’t handle it. But he’s never listened. He doesn’t understand what goes into all of it as he doesn’t have to personally do it. I’ve always been one to speak on things, my coworkers might think it and say it to me, but they don’t speak up. He’s never liked that. He kept saying I need to change my attitude to which I replied I’m not going to stop standing up for myself and setting boundaries. I’m crying at this point because I’m so frustrated. His “solution” to this was to trade me out with another woman who is not trained at what all I do, and put me on hers which I’m also not trained to do, also knowing I’ve always been uncomfortable using a chopsaw which I only have to use minimally currently. I ended up leaving because i was so upset and discouraged. I’m tired of feeling unheard and undervalued. I’ve been drinking so heavily lately because of the stress. I have my insurance through them which I hate to lose. I’ve brought up staging a “walkout” to several people which a few seemed on board but idk if that would even work at this point, much less organizing that. There’s so many other things I can say but not enough space to say it all. I guess I just need some acknowledgment on my feelings and to know I’m not alone, maybe some guidance. This job has only worsened my existing depression and anxiety to the point it’s affecting my home life.