Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - If You Hate Your Job, Join The Club

Episode Date: August 19, 2017

An in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles has concluded that the American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile.  On average, one-fifth of Americans are complaining about their jobs.    Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. It's hard for me to believe that you just, if you find a place that's less than desirable, you don't just move on. But according to this study, 3,66 U.S. workers,

a study by the RAND Corporation, Harvard Medical School, and the University of California in Los Angeles. Nearly one in five workers say they face a hostile or threatening environment at work. Can you believe that? Do you believe that people get threatened at work? I mean, if people would just do their jobs, they wouldn't get threatened.

It's real simple. If people wouldn't leave boxes of donuts sitting around when the fat man said don't do it, they wouldn't have their jobs threatened. It's real easy. Now, that includes, of course, sexual harassment and bullying. Workers who have to face customers endure a disproportionate share of abuse.

Really? Isn't that part of customer service? Of course. Some customers you get treated like crap. That's what it is. There's also customers that treat you nice. And you're happy on those days when the customer treats you nice. I can't tell you the number of times because it never happens.

I can't tell you the number of times that, you know, people have said, oh, it's so nice to have someone say thank you and smile today. It's just been a rough day. a lot of people have been complaining. Yeah, I can understand that since that's your job. Nearly 55% say they face unpleasant and potentially hazardous conditions. Well, unpleasant and hazardous are two different things. Unpleasant conditions? You don't like the way you've got to go to work.

You don't like where you work at. Do you move on hazardous conditions? I mean, hopefully you're getting paid, a hazard pay. Anyway, every job is 55% say they face unpleasant, potentially hazardous conditions, whatever. Nearly three quarters say they spend at least a fourth of their time on the job in intense or repetitive physical labor. Now, according to one of the lead authors, Nicole Mastas,

a Harvard medical school economist, Oh, I was surprised at how physically demanding jobs were. Were you? Were you, Miss Harvard? Oh, you mean, those construction jobs, people actually work physical labor? Yeah. Yeah, they do, Miss Economist. You know, the economy that you look at every day in your little paperwork about those factory jobs and stuff?

Yeah, those people are working. Physical labor. You know, the roads you drive on? Yeah, those were made from physical labor. Oh, I was surprised at how physically demanding jobs were. Thank you, Harvard Medical School Economist. Telecommunity is rare. 78% say they are required to be present in their workplace during working hours.

That's changing pretty fast, though. Especially if you become a person that nobody wants to see. they're pretty easy and say, you know, why don't you just work from home? Oh, okay. Good idea. So that's a little tip for me. Become the person that nobody wants around.

Do the job good, but just become the person nobody wants around so they, you know, they want you just work from home. Oh, man, I wish I had a thought of that. 38% say their jobs offer good prospects for advancement. That's probably even lower in today's world, man. good luck about half say they work on their own time to meet the demands of their job

i mean really that means that that's part of your job right you're if you're on salary that's your job just do your freaking job shut up is that harassment is that bullying is that a threatening work environment we appreciate you doing your job shut up