Nothing like a pain in the butt customer to make your day less than fun. You’re over worked, you’ve put in a ton of help to a ton of different personalities already and STILL these types of frustrating customers come along and steal what little bit of hope was left in you. It can really begin to grate on the nerves.
Do you let this constant barrage of hot-headed and horrible clients ruin your day or do you rise up above it all and see what you can learn from the situation? It’s so much harder to do the latter, but it sure does spell growth and experience in the long run. You might be surprised just how many other people like yourself experience this same level of pain.
Thousands of test takers were asked a little bit about themselves before diving into the strengths test. Part of this is to help center their minds around the reason they are taking the test, but also to get them to get into the deep-contemplation mode before diving into the questions. Here’s what they were asked:
Describe what you feel is the most frustrating thing about your current job.
Why Understand People’s Frustrations?
It isn’t until we begin to understand what makes our daily life harder that we begin to understand what we need to change in our life, work, or relationships. By getting a better understanding of what make life more challenging, I can begin to help folks with the problems that matter most to them.
I am seeking understanding, ideas, and focused attention on making valuable change in the world. Can you see some use from this information, too?
List of Workplace Frustrations – Part 8 of 10
- I don’t have a job. Studies itself is too frustrating.
- I have to start a new enterprise with my self goal
- Dealing with difficult, hot headed, short knowledge customers.
- I fell threatened by other colleagues. I feel they are constantly competing or manipulating me. I feel I do my job well and that makes them feel threatened. I constantly feel they are trying to sabotage me.
- If if can make it through and how to make it work
- What truly motivates me
- Lack of direction and organization.
- What area can I improve my personality?
- I do not find joy in it.
- Getting up early.
- Not getting tangible results and converting it into consumer goods
- No potential for growth
- Working with people who have a poor attitude and work ethic
- Managers who do not manage in the proper ways that will best benefit our business.
- Boring – need to be around people moving forward
- Having to keep clients that make my life miserable in order to receive payment. Not doing what makes my heart soar!
- That I am trapped here all day. No flexibility.
- Ability to build a dedicated team
- Lack of management support and additional training
- The most frustrating thing about my current job is not having enough time to implement the new programs I have been planning. I also need more support in a program I am currently running but due to staffing shortages this is not possible.
- I am not sure what to major in for college and what career to pursue.
- What is my strongest aptitude?
- Agents who don’t do their own work and clients who have unrealistic expectations and aren’t loyal. Bottom line, dealing with taxing, high maintenance people for little pay.
- What are my strengths in my personal life and future reporter career.
- People are not motivated to work hard.
- I don’t want to work with shallow people. I want to work with people with whom I can have intellectual conversation.
- What are the values we should fight for?
- What allows me to be successful?
- What career is best for me?
- What am I good at? what ability can if convert into a product?
- I am graduate and am performing duties as clerks, as if feel that my job nature is not to be well acknowledged to others having no powers and social importance.
- Job security and money
- It is not fulfilling.
- The lack of commitment from those around me.
- Not organized enough
- Boss checking over shoulder every 2 minutes
- Lack of alignment and focus on what matters
- Travel time is my biggest frustration, it takes so long to get there it feels like a waste of valuable time, time I could be using to accomplish something.
- No opportunity for growth or goals
- Peoples thoughts on me
- People don’t think outside the box
- I don’t love it
- Everyone talks about people behind their backs and people don’t clean the rooms properly and no body cares if they hurt people and it makes me made
- Nothing happens the way I want it to.
- I think here nothing is permanent. Sometime I feel frustrated but within some time I can recover it. I mainly feel frustration for distance of my family members.
- That I’m still in school and I do not know what I want to do with my life.
- I do not sleep very well
- The most frustrating thing about my job right now ( part time working at McDonalds, I’m still a high school student ) is that I am constantly berated by everyone around me. It’s hard to keep picking yourself back up again day after day after day, especially when it comes from your superiors, as well as the people you’re paid to be nice to.
- I have not placed into action my dream job/business. Frustrated that I can not see all the steps needed to launch this yet.
- Too many things to do which mean I have to compromise on the quality/standards of how I complete them.
- Not utilizing my strengths
- I am not passionate about what I do.
- I was in sales and I am not a sales person. I stayed for over 14 years because I loved my clients. Meeting with, connecting and helping them was the best part of my job…making a difference in their life. However, I no longer felt happiness in my industry, health insurance sales.
- I feel like if cannot get ahead, everyday is one failure after another. Sometimes I wonder if I have any strengths.
- Not sure if I am doing what I’m suppose to do career wise
- I wish I was closer with my co coworkers
- No clear description of what my job is and how long I am going to be establishing credibility
- I get frustrated if if cant figure out the way to do something. I don’t like being stuck purely on one thing if want to just learn it and be done with it. I find that hard sometimes though.
- Am I going to success in my career and in the company that I am planning to have?
- I feel like I have no authority at work. I am a manager however none of the people respect me. I look to my manager for help and advice, though she offers none.
- Lot of uncertainty, don’t have the feel to work, control my financial stuff, Not recognizing my hard work, want to spend my soul & talent in my business to get the best out of it,
- Long hours mostly
- Being self-employed, I find it most frustrating when I see the competition getting a better response to their products and services via social media, when I know my work is of better quality.
- There’s nothing to improve on. My idea’s aren’t being heard and there isn’t much to improve on
- People and the fact that they do not have work ethic
- I seem to do well at many things and enjoy helping others but I can often find myself stretched too thin and would like to find the tasks I excel at
- I am absolutely comfortable with current situation but if am keen to learn more.
- The hardest part about my job is not feeling like there is any growth.
- I have to live through Montreal’s winter
- That will not help me In the process of where I want to go
- When I face someone’s opinion that seems denying my opinion, I am frustrated.
- Lack of feedback from superiors
- I find that I want improve things and can’t understand why people that work around me are just happy to stay as they are. I also can’t understand why people do not want others to become stronger.
- Who I am?
- I am not scheduled enough.
- I don’t work actually, I am a student. I want to know myself more better so as to chose my lifetime career.
- One supervisor tells juniors officers everything we discuss and never keeps anything secret. It comes across as if he has to be their best friend. He confides in them and not me.
- Having to teach many children.
These are insights into the go-getters out there. These are insights into the people that you work with, work for you, and lead you. Have you learned anything from this mega list of work-place frustrations?
Share your own comments or stories of frustration in the comments below, please.