Current Events > Yo I feel like a therapist at work

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Everybody is depressed and traumatized and I have to spend all day listening to them and giving them positive reassure. I like the feeling of being useful and helping people but it is emotionally draining.

I relate to this so much. At my previous job I was the office manager and ended up having to play diplomat to grown-ass people who were older than me and had conflicts with each other. At this job, people are just perpetually unhappy and constantly venting.

This is I why I mostly work alone

My advice usually boils down to:

1. If you have the ability, fix the issue.
2. Talk to or enlist the help of an individual to help in fixing the issue.
3. The issue is unsolvable. Either make your peace with it, or find another job.

Wear an out-to-lunch sign

I run into this at work a lot but it doesn't require me to do much. Nurses will go into my office and lay down on the floor and just cry. They're all super stressed and my office is way in the back, so no one can tell where they're hiding. I don't even know most of their names. I mostly just ignore them as they vent, but it's a weird af work environment

I bartend. I really should be getting paid what therapists get paid.

Get a real job

Every office has that one person everyone goes to to vent about shit.

I feel like a therapist at work but that's because I am one

they should pay a therapist instead of vomiting words at you TC. If it was me Id just tell them I have other stuff to attend to.

I feel like Im a damned therapist when customers call in bitching about stupid shit.