Have you ever tried to make something at home? Bookshelf? Birdhouse? Garden center? What happens when you don’t have the right tools or materials to get to the next step? Sure, sometimes you can improvise with the tools and stuff you already have, but this is not always the most efficient and powerful way to proceed.
When our resources and level of authority are stunted by those that are in control of the work environment we operate in, there is a clear cap on the quality of products that can be delivered. This cap, while clearly cutting into the bottom line of the company, is almost completed blamed on the employee being capped because of the way the system is setup. Many folks want this to change.
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 5 of 10
- I don’t like the management
- Staying on task and motivating myself
- How to exploit my strengths
- I’m not in complete control of the results, and I’m not paid for my efforts.
- It is very frustrating because I don’t feel appreciated
- The culture and the management
- Too much confusion
- People being messy
- Lack of upward mobility, stale rewards structure, often mundane tasks that add little value to the customer.
- No clear SOP
- People being too demanding for the time I have and lazy coworkers
- Staying in college unnecessarily for long time and having dinner in haste in college itself. reaching late at hostel.
- Not to use my abilities
- Anger and annoyance
- What is my purpose?
- Lack of respect.
- Long shift and no time to complete our own work in 9 hours.
- No hope for development
- Constant work load
- When the boss is the behaving well and not assigning proper tasks and don’t find time for myself under work pressure is the most frustrating thing about my current job.
- WHEN SOME ONE TRY TO DOMINATE ME
- Lack of resources
- Working with people who don’t do their jobs or work right.
- What career choices would offer me best satisfaction and earnings
- No opportunities to make command decisions.
- It’s not my job bothering it’s just me, I am making myself annoyed. I used to have this dreams and used to know all I wanted and get excited about everything and even loose hours of sleep thinking about how successful I would be if I kept going through the path I was on, but a year ago all of that changed, it’s like I am not the same anymore, I am confused about my future and the thing is that I thought I knew what I was going to do and be, but suddenly something changed and now I don’t know what I am going to do with my life and I don’t get that thing I said before that I would loose hours of sleep thinking about how it would all end up for me, and it’s frustrating because I wasn’t like that and I miss that part of me that I don’t know where it has gone. It used to like being challenged but now I don’t, I used to be very optimistic and I thought I was really smart but now I have realized that I am not.
- What are some of my strengths?
- The most frustrating thing about my current job is not knowing what to do next. When I complete a given task I like to know what the next task is. I feel frustrated when I’m standing around waiting to be told what to do next.
- I really love my job. If I have to find something that I don’t like, I suppose it would be inconsistency. I am very flexible, but not knowing where I’m stationed for the day or for how long in each area is very annoying to me.
- I am a student. It is most frustrating when I get behind or overstress about things.
- Being away from my son!!!!!!!
- I don’t currently have a job however the most frustrating thing about my last job was the lack of training available.
- Doing the same thing over and over for people who don’t know what they want
- People do not accept rules.
- Constant change
- Not knowing if I am doing my job to the fullest.
- My job is crazy and insane. omg . too much . but I love it
- Being torn between two managers with sometimes opposing opinions.
- Who do you want to be on life?
- Being locked into 8-5. No clear goals or direction.
- Too much administrative detail
- Not knowing how it all works together – who is responsible for what
- The amount of work
- I want to be more self aware
- Not being able to have the power to make big changes
- Its not challenging
- How to work faster and more productively.
- Management is not behaving in professional way. They are not ready to take suggestions to make it in better way.
- Not fulfilling
- I don’t know what I really like to do in my life. I want to be successful one but I don’t know which kind of branch I would work. This is my main problem. I want to find myself.
- I feel like if need to grow to another level and also get a better paying job
- Not knowing whether or not I’m exceeding or just stagnant
- Not enough pay
- No confidence given, only criticism.
- It’s time consuming. Other than that I love it.
- The Customers and lazy employees
- The most frustrating thing is employee incentives are nothing to write home about. So discouraging.
- When people around me are gossips about me and try to dominate me.
- How confident am I?
- I lack the self perseverance to push myself to have the skill speed and concentration that if need, and they wont fire me, no matter how hard if try, because are blood ties are to thick
- Coping with others’ sincerity.
- No light at the end of tunnel!!
- I like to know actually who to do at work ,and not feeling lost .if really like detail, and manage time well
- What career should I have?
- People aren’t clear on what we are supposed to do.
- Bureaucracy and tedious tasks
- Having a lack of information.
- The people are always so noisy and if have a hard time understanding what if am doing when if am suppose to do it and getting my work down is a very difficult trait that if seem to posses.
- This is making me scroll back up and down and now if am really made
- I own a business and struggle to in the direction needed to move forward.
- I’m a student and I’m getting frustrated with the course I’ve chosen.
- The most frustrating thing is science because the teacher talk forever.
- Its just a job and not a career
- Not enough work to do/doesn’t pay enough
- My bosses are not around and look from a distance.
- Workload, because my workload is too heavy
- If I would become a successful designer that I can promote myself and have my own brand label. If I can keep growing to be more successful in my career and if I have what it takes.
- Often times I do not know what I should be doing and I don’t know the specific projects I should be working on.
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.