What would you guys say is the best way to quit you shitty job. Any ideas would be great.
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What would you guys say is the best way to quit you shitty job. Any ideas would be great.
Spontaneously combust while embracing the boss.
Do you already have a new job lined up?
2 week notice. Never burn bridges, even if you hate the fuckers.
Follow the sagacious Tippster.
Never burn bridges, no matter how much you plan never to cross them again.
But sounds like fun, let us know how it works out.
No matter how shitty and how much you would love to stick it to them remember that in the end you could be sticking it to yourself somewhere down the line.Quote:
Originally posted by matchstickid
What would you guys say is the best way to quit you shitty job. Any ideas would be great.
1. Line up a new job
2. Give them 2 weeks notice
3. Start new wonderful job
"Quiting a job"? Can't do it if you can't spell it.Quote:
Originally posted by matchstickid
What would you guys say is the best way to quit you shitty job. Any ideas would be great.
All were great advice.
1) Make sure you have another lined up.
2) Give two weeks of notice. As much as you think you "win" for walking out, you don't.
What did he spell wrong? I see he probably meant to say "your" instead of "you" but that's not really a spelling issue.Quote:
Originally posted by Anxious Mo-Fo
"Quiting a job"? Can't do it if you can't spell it.
Nevermind, I see you're looking at the subject line not the text he typed within the post (what you quoted).
don't be lame, just quit with notice. Where do you work? That depends a lot. I have a lot of bad ideas for retail....
take his advice. I learned it the hard way at the ripe young age of 16. I couldn't get another job after I burned the bridge to my old one. Unfortunatley for me the old job served as my only reference for my new job applications. It was a place I worked and did well at for 2 1/2 years, so I kinda forked myself over.Quote:
Originally posted by Tippster
2 week notice. Never burn bridges, even if you hate the fuckers.
Oh yeah another lesson I learned from that old asswipe boss of mine was to never work for someone that is going to pay you under the table. It may seem nice to walk out with cash at first, and it did, but it can really really fuck you over, and it did.
Need more info. to offer advise - could be either. 2 weeks notice or tell to go fuck themselves, depends.
Here's how the Monkey "quit" his job over a period of six weeks starting last December. I hesitate to use quit though since I never actually told anyone I wasn't working anymore.
Yes, normally I would say, don't burn bridges in these settings. But sometimes, a company is so heinous, and their managers so insidious, that you are left with no other options.
Week One. A general disinterest in showing up to work on time. An hour late here, 2 hours there. Nothing big. By end of the week, general disinterest in staying until the end of the shift. An hour shaved here and there and before you know it a six hour shift becomes 2.5. Also would bring ski porn to watch on the plasma screen(time share loops suck and aren't worthy of ever being played on a plasma screen). Of course, watching ski porn was banned in time too, whatever just try and stop me.
Week Two. Turn up week one's level to 11. My job was often staffed at the canyons so I would show up an hour or so late....just in time for the gondy to start running. Say hi to my colleagues....gear up and go ski. Come back after a couple hours. Say hi, return to the hill. Leave after some nice turns.
Week Three. They had a few of my shifts on main street. Fuckers. It's hard to slack off and ski if you aren't conveniently located to said lifts. Luckily, after arriving at the crack of noon(3 hours late) after spending the morning tasting beer, I found a tube of industrial stength adhesive behind the desk. I also found some change and lose things on the desk. Being the handy man I am, I happily fixed the lose things by gluing the entire contents of the desk to....the desk. Flower pot, discount credit cards, brochures, brochure racks. It was a piece of work. About $1.67 in change also got glued to the floor(empire records inspiration).
As I was leaving, I broke all the numbers off the lock box trying to pry it open since it was frozen. Some may say the tire iron I was using was a bit excessive, but I had to open it to get the key out so I could lock out. Hid the broken numbers, closed the door, resumed drinking. Someone else could figure it out.
Week Four. Stopped getting my schedule. Went skiing. Every day. Called a couple times to see what's up, they were kinda concerned. I wasn't.
Week Five - Six. Didn't even call them. Screened all my calls. Still skied on their pass just about every day. Avoided the locations on the hill with my master ninja disguise of a hoody. Those tossers never knew my game.
Around the end of january they asked for the winter coats back and I found out my pass had been cancelled in the middle of feb. By that time I already had a new one so no worries.
Tell your boss that you are going to pee on him. Then pee on him. Then, enjoy sweet freedom!
From the "never too old to learn dept"
I should admit upfront that I have a short fuse.
SOOOOOOOOO my wife is working for a company that is always trying to dick her over.It is company policy to try to get salaried employees to work 50-60 hour weeks thereby allowing the company to cut hourly employees and increase the bottom line for the business owner. This place is a real plantation. I advise my wife to tell her boss to stuff it and walk.Enough is enough.
My darling wife first finds another position, negotiates a start date six weeks away there by giving herself a nice little vacation and casually gives her 2 week notice making sure that it was the worst time of the year for them to lose a senior manager. Prior to leaving she lets it slip that she's taking a six week vacation and will be at our beach house chilling for a bit. Mouth froth was everywhere in that company. They did not even call her for an exit interview prior to departure. The cool thing is she upheld standards right up to the moment she left. There is nothing bad for them to say about her.
If I were in that situation, I'd probably be on a wanted poster by now.
Its a retail job at a skate and wakeboard shop that i got as a summer job with very flexable hours to work around my skiing and other intrests plus a pretty good discount. Im just tired of getting screwed over with my pay. I sell more than anyone else in our district and am one of the lowest paid. For example on last saturday i sold over $3500 in four hours. And im tired of dealing with bumb 10-17 year old girls. Yes the hot chicks come in from time to time and i cant complain about that. But you can see hot chicks anywhere. I dont really want to burn bridges but dont really want to be a puss about it either.
well look dude, if you think you're worth more than you're being paid, then say something about it. It's rather weak to internalize it all, never DO anything about it, and then bail. Esp. if they're flexible about ski time, that's pretty rare. Mention your sales figures, your successes, how valuable your services are to the store, and say that you think you deserve better than you're getting. If the owner/manager won't budge, then give your 2 weeks and serve them out correctly - maybe it'll force the issue. If you're as valuable as you say you are, they should realize that if they're worth half a shit, and will do what it takes to keep you.
Otherwise, fuck 'em, don't worry about it.
and if you positively, absolutely, have to go out explosively, then Half Baked had it perfect when Scarface quit. I don't think they could have done that one any better.
you will never get a raise without asking for it in the retail world, unless you have the coolest boss in the world. Just tell them "I'm the best worker, the best salesman, and the lowest paid. Pay me what I'm worth or I walk"
just in nicer terms. Oh, and always ask for 1-2 more dollars an hour than you want.