Office Politics

The project I am in right now sucks. It ends a month from now but the managers are very annoying. There is this one guy who cannot shut up and keeps telling you what to do and I really cannot focus or work with him. I'm just angry most of the time. I've told this to my company and for all the obvious reasons they're taking the clients side. I do feel like the company I am working for isn't worth it anymore. They also said that they haven't got a new client in a couple of months, so that's another reason for them to keep sticking up their existing clients. I don't feel like applying for jobs at the moment. I kinda need a break after this project is over but they're already adding me to another project. Any ideas suggestions on how to deal with this. How do you deal with office stress? Need some motivation to shut the hell up and start looking for jobs.

Hi Guys, I'm an SDE and I have this weird problem where I stress too much when some work is given to me which I don't understand. Basically I'm not scared of high workload, as long as I know how to do it. Because then I know IT WILL BE DONE, I just have to work to finish it. But when I get stuck on a problem, I DONT KNOW IF IT WILL BE DONE, I just keep thinking about it even if I close my laptop. The more I think, the more scary the problem becomes and then I start thinking if it continues and I'm not able to deliver more work, I might get fired and then during background verification for the next company, they will see I was fired and then no one will hire me. Basically my thoughts spiral out of control and make my life miserable to the point where I don't feel hungry. If I'm confident I'm very confident, I feel like i can do any problem but when I see myself failing multiple times, i lose my mental strength I need help and I want to improve this nature, not get stressed when things go south. Do you guys feel the same or know how to handle it Any books or words of wisdom or thought process that you follow which helps you deal with job related work stress will be extremely helpful.

Lately i have been struggling to cope up with my work and family . It’s been very difficult at my work lately. Also my personal life is a roller coaster mentally! I feel difficult to cope up. People at my work are sarcastic about my performance even though i am fulfilling all my basic tasks. I sleep very late thinking about all these things especially my personal struggles! How are you guys coping up?

How you deal with having to work with a frustrating managers/colleagues and hold yourself back from quitting/telling them what a trash person they are :(

Recently i am facing some personal issue and it is difficult for me to focus on the work in the office. How do you guys handle this? Do you have any tips

Lately it's been really hard trying to cope up with derogatory comments and people trying to pull you down. I build/refactored some of our codebase and things go south in terms of performance at few places. I realised the mistake and fixed the performance bottlenecks that happened because of me in least time possible. But people still look down on me on and manager keeps passing hurtful comments about the incident every now and then. Moreover there's worse happening fellow people start blaming you for the performance of code you haven't even touched. You are just utilizing some function in your codebase written by some other person. I don't know how to handle all this and what should I do to avoid this? Mistakes happen, bugs go on prod, things can break but as far as once everything stabilise, we should move on.

I have been suffering from work related anxiety for the last 3-4 months. I have recently started taking medications for it. I am supposed to move to Bengaluru as my wfh has ended. My parents think it's a good idea as it will help change my environment. I am wondering if it's a good idea to share about it at my workplace with my manager/superior. I know it's subjective, but still. Because I am worried this has started to affect my performance. Also, I am a talkative and emotional person and may end up slipping these things anyway.

Not having a good day and something unexpected happened at work. Feeling angry and helpless at the same time.

Hey guys, I'm sure that almost everyday we see the news of layoffs and I feel like I made the mistake of switching in this tough time. I have 3.5 YOE and I switched my job in September 2022 last year from a very comfortable SDE job, only the pay was less, I had a good reputation there and only switched because of money and growth, since I thought that i'm not married yet so I can take the risk. I was very confident when I joined but then I saw that it is client facing work and with strict deadlines, my confidence has been waning every day, the environment here is completely different from my previous company, they need work quickly and i'm scared to ask for challenging work, so far I have survived with picking work that I know or somewhat know, but I don't know how long it will last, i'm scared if they give me something I dont know and I don't deliver, what will happen. I have enough money for 5-6 months and I give myself some comfort by thinking, the worst they can do is fire me, not kill me. But then I see all these layoffs and I think how will I get a job in this environment. And If I do get a job and it turns out the same with the same stressed environment, then will I switch again. I feel trapped and think I made a mistake when I was confident, I should not have aimed for growth, I should not have left my comfortable job and should have known my place. Is feeling like this natural or is it just me, how do you guys maintain your peace of mind when you feel trapped and stressed. I don't want to give up but I also want this horrible feeling to end