How to Tell Your Boss You Hate Your Job
Job dissatisfaction is a major factor in employment turnover rates. A recent study conducted by Robert Half Legal cited disappoint with management and lack of growth opportunities as top reasons why an employee resigns. Just telling your boss that you hate your job is unlikely to achieve a positive result, but you can successfully approach your manager about issues of employee satisfaction.
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Things You'll Need
- Your job description Your performance reviews Statistics on company performance
Instructions
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Think about why you hate your job and then write it down. Consider things like job responsibilities that you dislike; coworkers you can't stand; or management you have lost confidence in, resulting in company failures. Be as specific as possible in your examples. Use your job description, performance reviews, and company performance data as a guide as well as an employee satisfaction survey like one from SurveyShare (see Resources).
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Determine what it would take for you to be satisfied in your job. Perhaps you would like an increase in salary, management responsibilities, relocation to a different office, or the opportunity to learn a new job skill.
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Schedule a meeting with your boss. Leave ample time to discuss your issues of job satisfaction and ideas for improvement. Be open to the feedback and ideas your boss offers. Be prepared that your manager may need to investigate certain things with human resources and other departments before agreeing to any changes. Agree to an appropriate amount of time for those groups to advise your boss.
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Sit down with your boss and again discuss the options. Be flexible; you may not be able to get all the changes you want. If you see you manager making a good faith effort to support you, do the same in return.
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Conclude the issue. If you and your boss have agreed on changes to your job, salary, reporting, or location, finalize those plans with a definite time frame. If the end result is that your manager cannot create a situation in which you may be satisfied in your job, then determine a transition-out plan.
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