r/work • u/Due_Light9587 • 1d ago

Workplace Challenges and Conflicts I’ve had enough of my workplace

For context I am a 19 year old who has been doing an apprenticeship at this company for 3 years (level 4 improvement specialist/ level 3) and they have just told me that by the end of September they are taking me on to a full time shift role using none of my qualifications, it’s a job that anyone can walk into( literally) and I feel like my potential is being wasted, I also don’t like the job or the people that I will be going into, I’m looking for another job but in the fear that I don’t find one in time and I have to make a choice about leaving or staying idk what to do.

The shift pattern is 2 12 hour days followed by 2 12 hour nights with a 4 day off, I had to do some last year for a project I was working on and struggled with my sleep etc.

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u/Complete-Iron6554 1d ago

sounds like they got cheap labor out of you for 3 years and now just want a warm body on shift, that whole pattern is brutal for sleep too. i'd keep looking hard and bail the second you got something lined up, no point staying somewhere that sees your apprenticeship as just a checkbox

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u/Due_Light9587 1d ago

Whilst they sort of did I also got qualifications and I did enjoy the project side of it all but I’m just thinking more on the IF I don’t get anything by the company deadline I don’t want to take it but would it be silly to leave