At work we're having a phone meeting every week for a while that I feel like I don't fit into. It's with the maintenance guys and I don't do maintenance. I'm clerical; receiving and outgoing of mail and packages. It's a big waste of time for me to be at those phone meetings. At it's at noon also which is not a good time.

I dread those meetings and I wish that I could get out of it. I hate to ask if I could get out of those meetings because I could risk losing my job. Besides not being in maintenance, there's nothing much to talk about at my job because not much is happening.

I have loved my job for such a long time but lately it's just not as good as it used to be. Maybe it might be time to get out of it but I wouldn't know where to go. I'm at retirement age and it would be hard for another place to pick me up.

I have an old-man friend who tells me to just suck it up and I'm making a big deal out of nothing. He's not the best friend I could have, but he's all that I got.