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Bigfeely123
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At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job?
#23405073 - 07/02/16 07:47 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This questions pertains to shitty jobs you've had in the past. One day you get so fed up with the bullshit and just say "I'm out!" Tell me your story.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405080 - 07/02/16 07:50 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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i went down to newport beach for the fourth of july once, put my resume on a managers desk while i was down there, he hired me on the spot. stayed down there a week, no called no showed. went back to grab my tools. spent 10 years down there without looking back.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405083 - 07/02/16 07:51 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fell asleep in the lunch room, went home when I woke up and never went back. Another time I felt physically sick from the repetition of the job and walked out on the spot and never returned. Another time I had to get up at 5AM and decided the job wasn't worth it.
All of these were low level min wage factory type jobs.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123] 2
#23405099 - 07/02/16 07:58 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Depends on the job and my ability to replace said job...
One restaurant I worked at for several months, being too young to realize how easy I could find something better, I put up with unreasonable bullshit for about 6 months. My fiance was a manager and the owner would intentionally schedule us so we couldn't spend time together (for the last month), as well as constantly harassing myself and everyone else.
Most of the crew quit because of this miserable bitch, and she admitted to my ladyfriend that she would intentionally harass people unto quitting. We're down to 3 cooks, two of which would cover the night shift, while I covered morning and early afternoon - doing most of the prep work, prepping shit on the fly in the middle of throwing together 8 tickets, washing all my dishes, everything in a busy kitchen. The owner even lied about giving me a raise. At some point my fiance actually took her side in some absurd issue, so I broke things off with her, you don't take side's against family with someone who is essentially an enemy.
Something like two days later, I was absurdly busy, running the whole BOH operation by myself, including last nights prep work which was not done; and the owner gets on my ass about dishes not being done. My ex comes back and gives me an attitude about the dishes, then goes back to the front to stand behind the counter.
So I let myself fall behind, let shit build up, then spent about 20 minutes chewing out the owner in the dining room (full of customers), before grabbing my shit and walking out the door. There were no other cooks on schedule for hours.
She went out of business within a season, I replaced that job in less than a week.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89]
#23405123 - 07/02/16 08:07 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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ill share my story... they're not that crazy but anyway.
one time i had a custodial job where i had to wake up at 5 in the morning everyday. 7 FUCKING DAYS A WEEK. I was cleaning the parking lot and surrounding wooded area outside of this bar that was pretty popular amongst a young college crowd. found a lot of pretty cool shit. even found some money a few times. A LOT OF quarters and other loose change. Found an armani exchange watch, oakley sun glasses, and so on. I'd always take naps when I had this job, which I never do. One day I just was like fuck this shit, waking up at 5 am every single day. Fuck it. So I quit... the cleaning company who was hired by the bar practically begged me to stay and tried to guilt trip me that they'd have to have this old lady do it. I was like nah.
Another time I was working at this construction job cleaning up houses/apartments/buildings that had gotten burnt to hell by accidental fires. it was kind of a cool job in a way, we got to keep whatever we wanted inside the house that we found because insurance company paid for everything and got to smash the shit out of dry wall and what not. it was pretty crazy to go inside a house that was completely destroyed by a fire and think, wow someone used to live in this house... literally pretty much all of their belongings were destroyed by the fire. when id go home id blow my nose and cough up black loogies it was so bad for my health. i also quit because i couldnt stand the people i was working with. mostly inner city teenagers. one time the boss's son came to work so doped up on heroin and got into a fight with one of the supervisors. it was like wow these people are fucking losers i cant stand to be around these jerks. (all of them were huge assholes) i nearly got into a fight with some 40 year old skinny crackhead. i just quit after one of the jobs we had to do.
another time i quit a job working at this pizza place because it was so under staffed i had to do so much shit. scrub dishes and other cooking utensils, prep the kitchen, clean the kitchen, make dough and prepare other ingredients for the pizza, so on and so forth. one night i was just like fuck this shit hole and i called the boss the next morning telling him i quit. i also really wanted to go to an upcoming music festival and having that job i knew i wouldnt be able to get the days off. that was part of why i quit.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405128 - 07/02/16 08:09 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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friend got me a job at an auto-parts warehouse in a shitty part of town
there were a lot of issues, but i could tolerate them since overtime was encouraged. we clocked in at 4am most days, 5am on weekends. one weekday, my 25th birthday actually, we had a couple inches of snow + 1/2" ice underneath, and one of the managers was sick. i show up at 4am....no one. wait till 4:30....no one. call the manager that was supposed to be there. no response. call every 5 mins until 5am. manager calls me back, tells me she has the flu but will be there asap to let us in; shows up at 6am despite living 10 minutes away. i work for an hour (not being paid for the two hours i fucking sat there waiting on her) and then decide i'm done. told her my time is valuable and i felt highly disrespected that she never called to say we wouldn't be starting on time. clocked out. /end job
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: demiu5] 3
#23405139 - 07/02/16 08:13 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I used to work in this place called "xxxxxx xxxxx office park"
I was having a pretty bad week and a rough day, I started sitting there stewing over the fact that they called the place a park.
It really, really pissed me off. Parks are among the most important things in my life. I volunteer in them, I spend any time I can in them. I grew up in them and I love parks.
I ended up barging into my boss's office and just going off on this tirade.
"How dare you refer to this place as a park! There's not even trees on the property! No one has fun here! There's no grass to lay in and frolic in the fucking sun! This place is nothing more than a soul sucking prison!"
And I just stormed off and never came back.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Rustifer]
#23405141 - 07/02/16 08:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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im close to saying fuck it to my current job. its a customer service based job and it's pretty damn draining getting talked to like shit for hours a day. i'm always in a shitty mood and life is too short to feel like shit 24/7. i hate people more and more everyday. it's like hello asshole! im here to fucking help your stupid ass. at least show me some respect. i have enough money saved up to where i can visit an old childhood friend that lives across country and make a vacation out of it. i have this incredible urge to travel. i think about it every single day.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405145 - 07/02/16 08:15 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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When the pay wasn't sufficient.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: MycoGawd]
#23405164 - 07/02/16 08:25 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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dont kid yourself, the pay is never sufficient.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Rustifer] 2
#23405175 - 07/02/16 08:30 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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LOL, rusty, that's hilarious. I hope you never accidentally find yourself in an industrial park.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Burke Dennings]
#23405177 - 07/02/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Burke Dennings said: LOL, rusty, that's hilarious. I hope you never accidentally find yourself in an industrial park.
thats some funny shit
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405190 - 07/02/16 08:35 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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The first one I really had that I said fuck it and quit, was when I was 15 or so and paid under the table 5 dollars an hour for yard work. I was supposed to be being hired to help the guy. He ended up doing almost nothing ever and let me do all the work. I have no problem doing it, but for 5 bucks an hour, fuck that. I quit when he told me the next day we'd be shoveling sand all day, which meant I would be shoveling sand all day. This is in Texas, in the middle of summer mind you.
I also quit a dish washing job which I still kinda regret because it was pretty good money. It was right after I got hired basically. I went in when I wasn't scheduled because all that shit wasn't really worked out yet and was told to go home. I kept asking are you sure you don't need me, I'm already here, once I call my ride I can't stay etc. Told repeatedly no. As soon as my ride gets there then all of a sudden "a bunch of people called in, I need you after all".. Well tough fucking shit. I just hung around up here for 30 minutes basically begging you to let me work and you told me no and you were sure you wouldn't need me. I asked for one day off the next week and I was scheduled for ONLY that day. Yeah, what a coincidence. So I quit.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Shroomslip]
#23405201 - 07/02/16 08:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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man, i have heard my whole life that the hospitality industry is fucked.. you guys are really putting a nail into the rumors.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Shroomslip]
#23405205 - 07/02/16 08:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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The funny thing is, that I once again, work inside of an office park.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: rackem] 1
#23405212 - 07/02/16 08:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This thread kicks so much ass! I was getting ready to quit pretty sharpish myself. Too bad things imoroved 
Maybe one day I'll have a good story to add.
Oh! But, there was one time where I sent out a bunch of resumes and only one company called, so I took the job. A few days later, another company that I wanted to work for way more called as well. So after a single week of working at place "A", I gave them one-week's notice. They weren't impressed XD
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Mr.Mouse]
#23405239 - 07/02/16 08:48 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Even funnier yet, is that while it's not the same exact office in the office park I stormed out of in 2013, it's the same damn office park.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Rustifer]
#23405261 - 07/02/16 08:53 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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That sucks! Let us know when you quit again
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Mr.Mouse]
#23405277 - 07/02/16 08:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Right before that other job, I worked at a diner for a month. It was an hour bus to work, then I would work for 12-18hrs with no days off, I'd get off work and the bus wouldn't be running for another 2-3hrs. So I would wait out in the cold, in a bad neighborhood in the city, with crackheads, bangbangers and prostitutes harassing me all night.
It really sucks when you haven't been asleep in over a day, working your ass off without any breaks or appreciation, wet from the dishes, cold being outside, and you have to watch your back to fend off the locals when they try and get the jump on you. Day after day, 4hrs of sleep.
Coworkers were assholes of the first order, I think they might've been hired from the halfway house next door, because they would say some weird delusional shit. Its difficult to even wrap around how to explain it, but one example being some random lady I had never seen before walking up to me in the middle of a dinner rush and saying "you know you're not the only one here?" then walking away. Fucking weird shit.
Anyways, one night I had had enough, grabbed my shit and left an hour before the bus-line closed without telling anyone. This was following one shitty job, leading into the next.
Out of 20 odd jobs, there have been maybe a handful which weren't a complete shit show. Being homeless was never that bad, usually it was just good times.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Rustifer]
#23405279 - 07/02/16 09:00 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Rustifer said: Even funnier yet, is that while it's not the same exact office in the office park I stormed out of in 2013, it's the same damn office park.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Mr.Mouse]
#23405334 - 07/02/16 09:19 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I dunno it might be coming. When I got hired there I was very, very clear on a few points.
I don't work before 10am, I require two days off in a row, I come in and leave at the same time every day. and my schedule must be set in stone. I try to make plans months in advance around my days off, I get my buddies to sync their schedules to mine so we can go do stuff together every weekend.
I told HR this, I told my manager this. I got 4 weeks on my schedule before it changed. I setup a shift swap with someone, and after he left my manager comes back to me and tells me I'm not working the same 11-8pm shift I always have. I told him "hey dude, I told HR that I don't do that before you guys hired me, I told you when I first got assigned to your team that I don't do that. You changed my schedule without asking or notifying me last week, and I kept my mouth shut about it, even though it's effecting my plans. I kept my mouth shut but now I just find out you changed my hours without notification either, and I'm sorry to be blunt and kind of an asshole about this, but I was told that accommodation of my few reasonable requests wouldn't be an issue what-so-ever and I've been very, very clear on this. I've also agreed to come in EVERY time you've asked me to. It's unacceptable."
fucking :rageface:
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Rustifer]
#23405340 - 07/02/16 09:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Been there man, exact same shit.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89]
#23405422 - 07/02/16 09:49 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I resigned a well-paying computer programming job because the technology was dying, the project was a flop, and everyone else had moved on.
I didn't want this failure on my name, and it was dead-end, so I jumped ship.
Before I quit, I made a list of 33 reasons why I should leave. I was under so much stress that I broke out in hives. When it started affecting my health, I knew that it was time.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405434 - 07/02/16 09:54 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've quit my job four times now, but my boss keeps asking me to come back, so I'm still working for him again. I think he finally gets that I'm not gonna put up with his bullshit anymore. Not only that, but I don't think he can find someone to replace me.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89] 1
#23405442 - 07/02/16 09:56 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shit man, I have a few.
=Got hired at 15 at shop rite and I had a labret piercing. No issues, job was cake, got paid crap but it's a kids job... New manager shows up, doesn't like piercings, straight up tells me "If you don't take that out, you will be let go." I said "I was hired with it in though, why is it an issue now?"
She goes and gets some manager who approaches me and I just told him "You guys hired me with it in, I dunno what happened to the guy that hired me but I don't wanna work under this nut."
He laughed and I said peace
=I briefly worked as a personal trainer at a club that didn't get enough business. I was blamed for the low training numbers and just told them it's not me. I got tired of being told it's me so I just stopped showing up and kept getting paid. 3 weeks went by and I was finally contacted by my manager and he said "Where are you?" I was like "Dude I am sitting in my basement at home, I quit 3 weeks ago what's up?" He sent me an onslaught of texts about how I never quit and how they kept paying me LOL.
=Worked at some warehouse and was warned by every employee that the manager was a shit head. Everything was great then 3 months in I am called into HR, shown an email written by my manager that I am constantly walking away from my station. This one is a long story but I was able to crank out this products we were manufacturing and then go and I'd help other workers down the assembly line. Anyways, the warehouse supervisor was at this meeting and I asked them to pull up the units per shift I was doing. I was assembling 20+ units more per shift than the second and 3rd shift guy. So I asked the warehouse supervisor "If I was walking off like the guy claims, why am I completing over 20+ more than other members per shift?" Supervisor told me "PH we're not agreeing or disagreeing with what you're saying we just want you to acknowledge this email by signing your name on this line that we spoke to you about it." I said OK, so I am being brought into an office about an email that I am slacking when in reality I am cranking out 20+ more than your other workers per shift?"
And again he said "We just need you to acknowledge that we had this meeting, this means nothing for your career with us."
I just toldem "Listen man, I was warned about that guy, he's the problem, you see the numbers yourself, I'm done here." He turned bright red and the HR woman fuckin knew I was right it was glorious.
Had another job in a week
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: PreparationH]
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When I was working construction, putting in 13-15 hour days consistently for a good 2 years. I busted my ass everyday and had pretty good knowledge of my trade, even the old timers working there said I was gonna be the next big name for this particular shop. I got paid $12 an hour and asked for a reasonable 50 cent to a dollar raise and got denied. I was pissed but continued to bust my ass to show I was worth it. The same week a new guy shows up on my crew with no experience what so ever and says I'm supposed to train him. A couple days go by and somehow it slipped that he got paid $16 an hour to start. A whole $4 more than me and remember he had no experience and I was to train him. I asked my boss why he got started out that much higher than me when they had such a problem raising my wages by 50 cents, and he looked at me and said "obviously because he's Mexican, those guys are worth every penny." I didn't even look back as I walked away to my car, drove off and am happy to say it was a pretty good decision.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: StoneyBalony95] 2
#23405717 - 07/02/16 11:47 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Working at wendys when I was 18. Fucking dickwrench called me his little monkey as he asked me to hand him a screwdriver. I threw my apron on the floor and walked out in the middle of a rush. As I was leaving his snotty little daughter wished me luck on finding another job. I yelled out a fuck you and wheeled a job that paid 8 bucks more per hour the following day. Good times.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou] 1
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One time, I worked at a place called "His Royal Beefiness". We had to wear these stupid burger king like crowns while we worked, and at one point I just got so fed up with all the bullshit I was dealing with at the time, grabbed the announcer microphone, and said "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you" pointing at a several of my coworkers, "You're cool" to this old lady eating her meal at one of the tables, and then said a final "fuck you" to one of my coworkers before saying "I'm out" and I just left.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: 404]
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Real story though now. I worked at third party disney doing valet and bags and stuff. i had an injury on my knees while running for cars one night when it was busy, and got moved to a place that only did bags to the rooms. I ended up being verbally harassed by a female that hated my guts, while the manager was standing right there, i took it as he didn't like me either. I went and talked to the higher ups about it I think, I can't remember it was a long time ago. I got moved again finally back to valet at a really bad spot for tips. I got written up a third time for something stupid (first time was for missing a spot shaving, second time was for leaving with a room key by accident which is BS because they make you sign a document saying that you understand that you can be nixed for that, which i never got notified of beforehand or had to signed.. signed it after though) the regional manager turned out to be a huge cunt. she got in my face and started pushing my buttons and saying really degrading things to me, so I quit there on the spot and never looked back. Great pay and people when i was at my original spot though.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: 404]
#23405976 - 07/03/16 02:17 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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disney is fucked.. they will drop anybody at a drop of a dime.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23405979 - 07/03/16 02:18 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm actually getting to that point with my current job. I'm targeting making it til late September/early October. I got a vacation planned then so instead of asking for vacation for it I'll just inform them that I'm quitting.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89]
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I've had more jobs than birthdays, but once I found what I love to do, as an arborist, work took on a different role in my life
Instead of it getting in the way of my life it has positively enhanced my life
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: stzacrack]
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It was a factory job building trailers where a lot of the leadership did not make sense, it was a fast paced job, and a klinefelter would continuously harass me. I took my last check and went on a roadtrip with my friend.
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404 said: One time, I worked at a place called "His Royal Beefiness". We had to wear these stupid burger king like crowns while we worked, and at one point I just got so fed up with all the bullshit I was dealing with at the time, grabbed the announcer microphone, and said "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you" pointing at a several of my coworkers, "You're cool" to this old lady eating her meal at one of the tables, and then said a final "fuck you" to one of my coworkers before saying "I'm out" and I just left.
Did no one get this reference?
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Re: At what point did you just say [Re: Bigfeely123] 1
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Bigfeely123 said: This questions pertains to shitty jobs you've had in the past. One day you get so fed up with the bullshit and just say "I'm out!" Tell me your story.
I quit my old barista job when I went back to being a full-time student. I love serving as a barista, but that place fucking sucked. Their espresso machine was this hulking dinosaur that works just fine if you're prone to accidentally ordering espressos instead of drip coffe. Speaking as a professional, the thing was long past ready for the dump. The boss would keep hiring people to come and poke at it, but its manufacturer stopped making the parts that actually needed to be replaced at least two decades ago. She knew this but she kept on hiring the same repairman to keep coming in, looking at it, and leaving it broken. It's shitty enough if you don't want to bother with a functioning espresso machine, but if you are going to hire me based on my professional qualifications as a barista only to then tell me that the machine is working when it's obviously fucking not, it just feels like an insult. Even worse when she wastes money on repair people just to shut me up.
I love working as a barista when I get the chance to delight people with my work. Did not get the chance at that job, even though they were hurting for business and probably would have paid off the machine with the business that real espresso would pull. I might as well have been serving fucking drip coffee with milk heated on a stovetop, it had literally none of the rich creamy layer that makes an espresso an espresso, and she was just trying to get away with that shit, at a coffee shop in Berkeley! People around here know what a good espresso is like and their judgment is pitiless. You can't just handwave that shit here, it's a fucking craft, not something you just haphazardly pump out in a hotel kitchen for whoever wants it in the lobby.
And the boss was such a fucking asshole too. She would never talk to me at all unless she wanted to yell at me to get on top of some duty I'd never been asked to fill there, ever. She wanted me to just read her mind or something. Ugh. I was at the bottom of the totem pole there and she treated me like her monkey. If she had just worked with me instead of being so assured of her superiority as the owner of the place, she could have gotten so much more business. The damage to her business over it was plainly visible but I'm sure she does know best how to waste her shrinking profits and drive her business into the ground. I was fresh the fuck out of chill for her when I was done there, I never even picked up my last paycheck. It wasn't a lot of money anyway, somehow it felt better to just leave her with it and never see her again than to go and get it.
If I work as a barista again, it's gonna be for somebody who respects and challenges my talents. There is so much more to my craft than refilling drip coffee every hour.
EDIT: I'm legit surprised at how quickly that escalated into an angry rant
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: 404] 1
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404 said: One time, I worked at a place called "His Royal Beefiness". We had to wear these stupid burger king like crowns while we worked, and at one point I just got so fed up with all the bullshit I was dealing with at the time, grabbed the announcer microphone, and said "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you" pointing at a several of my coworkers, "You're cool" to this old lady eating her meal at one of the tables, and then said a final "fuck you" to one of my coworkers before saying "I'm out" and I just left.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: 404]
#23406257 - 07/03/16 07:49 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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1. When I took an early smoke break once and my boss caught me and shoved me by the shoulders so I knocked him on his ass.
2. When the boss of another team shouted at me super aggressively for having my feet on my desk while I was on break chatting to someone so I stood up and knocked him on his ass.
3. When a kitchen boss tried to force to to wear an apron to wash dishes. I threw it on the floor and walked out.
Suffice to say, I was a fool in my youth. I lost the best job I ever had the same reason as the first two above, only the incident was at a Christmas do. I promised myself from that day onwards I could never hit someone at work again, and as much as I've badly wanted to, I've always managed to hold it in... man it's hard sometimes though.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23406287 - 07/03/16 08:05 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I found a dream job in my field that paid amazing - on paper.
I soon realized my supervisor / boss was the most horrendously, horrifically unpleasant person I had ever met in my life.
Every second of interaction with her was hellish torture .
I was making more than I ever have before or since, but my quality of life was evaporating like a drop of water on hot asphalt.
I was constantly anxious and depressed about my interactions with her. Every minute of time with my wife was consumed with rehashing her latest Abuses or worry I about the next day.
Finally I realized I couldn't handle the misery for any amount of money. I almost said fuck you and quit. But instead I filed a formal complaint against her with HR detailing how malicious, hostile and abusive she had been including actually mocking my clothing and appearance.
I knew that by doing so I would not be able to continue my employment , which was the point.
But I am so glad that I did it that way. If I had quit or been fired I would have been ineligible for employment insurance. But because HR deemed my termination of unemployment to have been through no fault of my own, I was eligible for a long period of regular pay checks at a surprisingly good wage (because it was based on what I was making at my latest job) and that held me over until I found a new job and eventually my current job, which is a literal dream job.
It pays far less but I have never been happier in a career.
Even with the biweekly paycheck though, being unemployed was horrible and the most depressed I have ever been. It taught me that I need employment to be happy.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#23406291 - 07/03/16 08:07 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, but fuck letting people push you around.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: stzacrack]
#23407473 - 07/03/16 03:03 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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stzacrack said: I've had more jobs than birthdays, but once I found what I love to do, as an arborist, work took on a different role in my life
Instead of it getting in the way of my life it has positively enhanced my life
Yeah, I feel the same about performing and sometimes teaching (Classical music).
However, I'm a composer and I wasn't raised into it, started as a teenager and have taken on a very large project which has taken the better part of a decade to complete. While I have performed and made money doing so, I won't commit to performing full-time until my work is ready.
Which is very soon, but in the meanwhile: more day-jobs.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89]
#23407661 - 07/03/16 04:25 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Worked as a bartender in a bar - it was a mix of college bar and ghetto - the food was actually great, and we had a solid cult following around the campus that we were just off of. We had an already bloodied baseball bat that sat menacingly in the corner, and I had been followed home by a few drunk guys after closing and my boss no longer let me walk home on my own. This would've been okay but the kitchen staff and my managers were just as bad as the drunk ass patrons. We actually had a policy not to card unless my manager gave me a specific 'signal'.
I was like 20 years old, going to school, and working another job, and just incredibly sick of being creeped on, sick of being harassed and verbally abused by customers, and staring at the bloody baseball bat that my boss strategically placed right next to the register just in case some dumbass came in and tried to rob us(again?), though he loved to joke about it too. My coworker ended up shot in the stomach, but that was a separate incident in a different part of town, I had gotten robbed at gunpoint recently and idk, there was just a lot going on in my life and eventually I said 'fuck it' and never went back to that miserable place.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: pirate-blues]
#23408164 - 07/03/16 07:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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i dont blame ya there. if your safety is actually getting compromised because of your work place, its time to go
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: rackem]
#23408263 - 07/03/16 08:06 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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i fell in love with the married woman working next to me, it was my birthday. she brought me a cupcake.
i struggle with my birthdays already, but seeing this beautiful woman in this shitty place and her smile felt so good. i dont know what happened inside of me, i worked inside of a loud factory, but for some reason everything seemed silent. i felt more empty than usual..
but i asked her...what if i left here today and you never seen me again?
she smiled at me and reassuringly said "i know where you live"
so before i left i just kind of stood near her silently for a second, i felt as if i was in a movie or something, like everything was about to fall into place and work itself out.
i just walked away from my machines as they ran, left her cupcake. and walked home through the night.
its been 2 months, and have yet to see her at my doorstep.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Aedium]
#23408270 - 07/03/16 08:08 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Should have taken the cupcake?
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89]
#23408275 - 07/03/16 08:09 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Repertoire89 said: Should have taken the cupcake? 
yea then maybe she would have came right? truth is i forgot it even existed
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Aedium]
#23408277 - 07/03/16 08:11 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think you were being too subtle in general man
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Repertoire89]
#23409172 - 07/04/16 02:33 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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i have quit so many jobs because i was an entitled little highschooler
its what made me realize i am an entreprenuer
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: thelanzii]
#23409559 - 07/04/16 07:57 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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9 years at the place. Hardest set in the building. Once extremely regular in my appearances, the regularity dis-solved in my alcohol like a laudanum cocktail. Woke up in psychosis again, thinking i had to deliver food to the hamburger lady by the bowling alley and two others for my other job at three in the morn. By the time i came to my senses, i would have already been late so i re-treated to snuggle the pillows. Next day; gung ho to go in. Set three or four alarms. Blow right on past them and the boss' calls and sleep twelve hours, awaking in a pool ov sweat. Next day i requested off to go see Diamanda perform. I walked the streets ov Harlem before the show all faggy like in lipstick and a bag and wondered into an all-black bar to wander the question ov whether i should quit or not. In betwixt drinks the sweet ebony tender was serving me, i decided to text my job ov nine years away at 5:02pm. I then proceeded to the church for the show, seeing Hecate upon earth work her majick with keys and larynx. And that's that like a dead cat.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: lavod] 3
#23424377 - 07/08/16 06:18 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I very nearly hit this point today. In fact that point may become reality on Monday.
I already work 45-ish hours a week. Today a higher up (douche bag fucker, I never liked him from day one) called me and said, "just wanted to tell you that we're going to add another 10 hours to your work week, just wanted to let you know". 2 hours more per day on top of my already 9 hour per day.
I just flat out said no. He then replied "I'm not asking you". I said no again. Told him I work enough as is and I'm fine with my current work load. I think he was a little stunned at this point. Then he said, "well we'll see on Monday". I was like, "what does that mean?", and he said "we'll revisit this again on Monday", and hung up.
All I do is eat, work, and sleep as it is. I don't care about the extra money.
If he issues an ultimatum on Monday then I'm fully prepared to say, "okay bye".

I've already targeted late September as the end of this job for me, so this would in effect just speed up the process.
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#23424392 - 07/08/16 06:23 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you're likely quitting Monday you have all weekend to come up with a really awesome way to do it. I expect the story Monday night. Go get a fake suit from a stripper store and put on beach clothes underneath it, rip it off and put on some sunglasses, then tell him to deal with it in the middle of his speech and walk the fuck out.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Shroomslip]
#23424400 - 07/08/16 06:25 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: Go get a fake suit from a stripper store and put on beach clothes underneath it, rip it off and put on some sunglasses, then tell him to deal with it in the middle of his speech and walk the fuck out. 
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Niffla]
#23424440 - 07/08/16 06:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fuck it. I can feel it in my body when I get angry at work now. Like adrenaline rushing through me. I'm not putting up with customer's and co-worker's shit anymore for the sake of keeping this job that I absolutely despise anyway. I've been getting into minor feuds and arguments with customers lately and I can already see it coming... me quitting because I reach the point where I can't take it anymore (I don't want to snap at work and whup someone's ass) or they just fire me.
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#23424656 - 07/08/16 08:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: I very nearly hit this point today. In fact that point may become reality on Monday.
I already work 45-ish hours a week. Today a higher up (douche bag fucker, I never liked him from day one) called me and said, "just wanted to tell you that we're going to add another 10 hours to your work week, just wanted to let you know". 2 hours more per day on top of my already 9 hour per day.
I just flat out said no. He then replied "I'm not asking you". I said no again. Told him I work enough as is and I'm fine with my current work load. I think he was a little stunned at this point. Then he said, "well we'll see on Monday". I was like, "what does that mean?", and he said "we'll revisit this again on Monday", and hung up.
All I do is eat, work, and sleep as it is. I don't care about the extra money.
If he issues an ultimatum on Monday then I'm fully prepared to say, "okay bye".

I've already targeted late September as the end of this job for me, so this would in effect just speed up the process.
Honestly, if you do quit monday, good for you - just try to be professional and not totally burn the bridge. I've let jobs flat out rail road me and have put in so much blood, sweat, and tears for work I was passionate about but my employer took advantage of that willingness to do a lot of work for not nearly enough pay. Now that I'm older and wiser I refuse to subscribe to that lifestyle anymore or undersell my capabilities as an employee and apart of that is standing my ground and saying no.
Sometimes people have no choice and the stakes are too great to risk unemployment and there are better paths to take, but if you're not supporting kids, then I don't blame you. I've gotten caught up in cycles where all I do is work, and I'm kinda in one now, and if you're not loving every second of it(and I have before) then what is it all for? The money that you never get any opportunity to spend doing all the cool shit that you never have time for?
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: pirate-blues] 1
#23424760 - 07/08/16 08:49 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I just said fuck it and quit my job a couple days ago. Wasnt enjoying it and it was just ahold over gig anyways. What was funny was I did it while they were being all super serious and talking to me about some minor thing I messed up on. Which in my defense they never informed me of. I cut him off mid sentence and said I quit, quietly, deadpan. He was kind of flabergasted. I got up and handed him all my shit before they really had time to react. It was beautiful.
Now Im just gonna kick it at home and pump out furniture pieces, already got a really nice table Im working on all laid out and ready to go. Should complete it in a couple days time. Its a work of art, its immediately useful and theres absolutely no restraints on me. Fuck yeah.
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#23424863 - 07/08/16 09:28 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: I very nearly hit this point today. In fact that point may become reality on Monday.
I already work 45-ish hours a week. Today a higher up (douche bag fucker, I never liked him from day one) called me and said, "just wanted to tell you that we're going to add another 10 hours to your work week, just wanted to let you know". 2 hours more per day on top of my already 9 hour per day.
I just flat out said no. He then replied "I'm not asking you". I said no again. Told him I work enough as is and I'm fine with my current work load. I think he was a little stunned at this point. Then he said, "well we'll see on Monday". I was like, "what does that mean?", and he said "we'll revisit this again on Monday", and hung up.
All I do is eat, work, and sleep as it is. I don't care about the extra money.
If he issues an ultimatum on Monday then I'm fully prepared to say, "okay bye".

I've already targeted late September as the end of this job for me, so this would in effect just speed up the process.
Honestly, if you do quit monday, good for you - just try to be professional and not totally burn the bridge. I've let jobs flat out rail road me and have put in so much blood, sweat, and tears for work I was passionate about but my employer took advantage of that willingness to do a lot of work for not nearly enough pay. Now that I'm older and wiser I refuse to subscribe to that lifestyle anymore or undersell my capabilities as an employee and apart of that is standing my ground and saying no.
Sometimes people have no choice and the stakes are too great to risk unemployment and there are better paths to take, but if you're not supporting kids, then I don't blame you. I've gotten caught up in cycles where all I do is work, and I'm kinda in one now, and if you're not loving every second of it(and I have before) then what is it all for? The money that you never get any opportunity to spend doing all the cool shit that you never have time for?
Yeah exactly. I really wanted to survive the job until late September (I got a vacation coming up then that's already booked), and I figured that would be as good as time as any to part ways and close this chapter, but making it til then is looking pretty iffy at this point.
I really shouldn't burn the bridge, your're right, and I hope I'm mature enough not to. But my maturity has never been a strong point to say the least and I got a pretty short fuse for this dude -- the guy is a real cocky motherfucker and I was about a millimeter from telling him to go fuck his self after he told me that "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you" shit today.
I'm gonna sound like I'm borderline breaking my arm patting myself on the back here but I've been a model employee for them since day 1. I've never called in sick -- not even once, and I bust my ass every day and get my shit done. I don't bother them. I just show up, knock my shit out every single day, and clock out. And it's not like I work limited hours. I total over 40 plus easy every single week. And for him to drop that shit on me out the blue like that, idk, if he sticks to his guns then that's the last straw I'm afraid.
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Re: At what point did you just say "Fuck it" and quit your job? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
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Bodhi of Ankou said: What was funny was I did it while they were being all super serious and talking to me about some minor thing I messed up on. Which in my defense they never informed me of. I cut him off mid sentence and said I quit, quietly, deadpan. He was kind of flabergasted. I got up and handed him all my shit before they really had time to react. It was beautiful.
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