Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:56:03 PM No.33204942
I got a job maintaining a government database last year. I WFH for six days doing alternating shifts and get three and a half days off. The pay isn’t bad, around minimum wage, and I have to go in the office once a month.
Anyway, not going too well. I haven’t progressed on my development plan (email types get ticked off when you do so many with no mistakes in a row) since October and if I don’t pass on another type in the next few weeks I’ll be sent to the higher ups to figure out what to do with me. Some of it is silly mistakes I’ve glanced over, quite a bit of it is me not noticing where I’ve gone wrong and some of it I genuinely don’t get even with it being explained again and again. I had an in-office training session because of my error last month so it’s coming to the last straw for me. On top of that, we now have a phone line which I have had no formal training on but I’m also a huge autist. I stutter and freeze when I talk, forgetting the correct phrases and what to do in the spur of things and I genuinely can’t help it as much as I try. They’ve reviewed some of my calls and have taken me off the line for now and are putting me on training for that too.
Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s even worth continuing. It’s by all means a relatively easy and somewhat interesting gig and I am incredibly to have this job at 20 years old but I’m not too great at it and for the shifts they have me on (two sets of 6am-4pm, 12pm-midnight, night shifts in a row) for minimum wage, should I carry on? It’s already on the rocks, I’d rather leave before I get booted out but I didn’t go to uni, my grades are average and my parents will go mental if I’m out of a job for too long.
Anyway, not going too well. I haven’t progressed on my development plan (email types get ticked off when you do so many with no mistakes in a row) since October and if I don’t pass on another type in the next few weeks I’ll be sent to the higher ups to figure out what to do with me. Some of it is silly mistakes I’ve glanced over, quite a bit of it is me not noticing where I’ve gone wrong and some of it I genuinely don’t get even with it being explained again and again. I had an in-office training session because of my error last month so it’s coming to the last straw for me. On top of that, we now have a phone line which I have had no formal training on but I’m also a huge autist. I stutter and freeze when I talk, forgetting the correct phrases and what to do in the spur of things and I genuinely can’t help it as much as I try. They’ve reviewed some of my calls and have taken me off the line for now and are putting me on training for that too.
Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s even worth continuing. It’s by all means a relatively easy and somewhat interesting gig and I am incredibly to have this job at 20 years old but I’m not too great at it and for the shifts they have me on (two sets of 6am-4pm, 12pm-midnight, night shifts in a row) for minimum wage, should I carry on? It’s already on the rocks, I’d rather leave before I get booted out but I didn’t go to uni, my grades are average and my parents will go mental if I’m out of a job for too long.
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