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Offline ScubaGuy

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Well I quit my job today
« on: April 01, 2009, 07:25:58 PM »
Twixvoy claims to be a supervisor at Target.

Uh huh, sure you did

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Well I quit my job today
   
Well I put in my two weeks today. Retail was already the pits, but it seems every year the ****ers at HQ design new ways to screw over everyone at the bottom.

I had just turned in to HR my annual reviews I had written for several employees. Many of them top performers. The HIGHEST raise HQ would allow me to give them was 3.5% of what they currently make. (all under $10/hr... even the ones who had been with the company multiple years)

I was informed by our HR manager at that time that HQ has just further decreased the merit increase guidelines, and I must go back and revise the reviews because the new maximum is 2% - which means the top performing people who bust their ass every day now get less than 20 cents for the ENTIRE YEAR. We only give out raises once a year - no exceptions ever.

I was advised to write comments on the reviews that suggested 2% was a very generous increase.

Our CEO just got a couple million dollars bonus.

I decided enough of this bull shit. I wrote a letter of resignation, filled out the voluntary termination form, and left it on our store managers desk. I will be gone in two weeks.

Being in management at retail has done something to me. I see my self as the emissary of hell for the executives at corporate. They find a way to screw over people more, and I am the one that is expected to make it happen. I am tired of getting hateful looks every time I have to deliver more of this to people who are just trying to survive.

Half of the other people in management I work with go along gladly with all of this. Part of me believes some of them actually enjoy it. Half of them actually are deluded enough to believe one day they will be the executives at corporate making millions and screwing over everyone else. What is more sick is the fact they desire that. I look at them every day and hope to god I never become them. I won't become them.

I remember last year giving out annual merit increases. One of the people I was responsible for giving a merit increase to came to the United States from the middle east. She always told me stories about people with guns in the streets, having to fear for her life every day. How she and her children had to drink urine to survive some days.

She has been doing the same job for years at our store. NEVER comes in late. ALWAYS gets the job done. One of our best employees. Puts up with bull shit such as leaving the store at 12AM and being expected to come back at 4AM.

The maximum raise HQ allowed for her was 20 cents bringing her to less than $8/hr. She just cried and said to me "I wish I go back my country. It better there"

I will always remember that. I am done working for mega corporations. I am getting the **** away before they change me.


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I got fired today.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2009, 07:35:51 PM »
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2009, 07:47:01 PM »
3% to 5% annual increases are standard for that type of job and most jobs, DUmb-ass. :whatever:
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2009, 07:51:33 PM »
So everything was okay till Obama got elected?  :uhsure:
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2009, 08:03:01 PM »
Yeah,whatever. :whatever:
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2009, 08:04:03 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on April 01, 2009, 07:47:01 PM
3% to 5% annual increases are standard for that type of job and most jobs, DUmb-ass. :whatever:
I work in one of the surviving industries...healthcare...and NO ONE got raises this year.  We're just glad we have jobs.   ::)
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2009, 08:04:07 PM »
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I had just turned in to HR my annual reviews I had written for several employees. Many of them top performers. The HIGHEST raise HQ would allow me to give them was 3.5% of what they currently make.

Hell, that's about .5% over the norm.

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(all under $10/hr... even the ones who had been with the company multiple years)

Is it me or does it seem this company has a high turnover rate? Look at how the DUmmie emphasized the people that had been there "multiple" years. The DUmmie is writing that as if it's an anomaly. Every employee at my office has been there multiple years.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2009, 08:06:16 PM »
Quote from: ScubaGuy on April 01, 2009, 07:25:58 PM
Twixvoy claims to be a supervisor at Target.

Uh huh, sure you did


Translation

I got fired today.



     So...let me get this straight.

     You quit because you could only give 2% merit increases? We lost something like 750,000 jobs in March. You don't think your people would appreciate having a job, period?

     What a *******ed ****ing moron. Nowonder you worked at WalMart.

    
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2009, 08:13:00 PM »
My wife got 1% this year and we were DAMN grateful that she got a raise or a bonus at ALL considering the state of the economy.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2009, 08:16:38 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on April 01, 2009, 08:04:03 PM
I work in one of the surviving industries...healthcare...and NO ONE got raises this year.  We're just glad we have jobs.   ::)

I wish I still had a job. 
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2009, 08:24:11 PM »
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The maximum raise HQ allowed for her was 20 cents bringing her to less than $8/hr. She just cried and said to me "I wish I go back my country. It better there"


I like the way TwixVoy quoted her middle east friend just perfectly.

That's one of the bouncies in her story. 

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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2009, 08:27:57 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on April 01, 2009, 08:13:00 PM
My wife got 1% this year and we were DAMN grateful that she got a raise or a bonus at ALL considering the state of the economy.
Exactly. Being a public servant, I realize that tax revenues are down and that people are strapped. I wouldn't dream of asking the citizens of my city to pay more in taxes with the current state of the economy. If I get no COLA or even a slight pay cut, I'll still consider myself fortunate to be employed. Rather than curse the powers that be, I'll just look at how the Lord has blessed me with gainful employment and the ability to keep food on the table. If we don't take a vacation or can't buy whatever doodads that Mrs. Tantal and I have had our eyes on, so what? Then again, I'm not a DUmmie.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2009, 08:28:41 PM »
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I had just turned in to HR my annual reviews I had written for several employees. Many of them top performers. The HIGHEST raise HQ would allow me to give them was 3.5% of what they currently make.

And yet when the little goons find out the men and women of the armed services are getting a raise of the same amount it's called a bribe and "too much".
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2009, 08:32:57 PM »
 

     I'm picturing a large sticky note on the side of TwixVoy's monitor that reads, "DO NOT MENTION JOB ON DU AGAIN."
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2009, 08:36:48 PM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on April 01, 2009, 08:28:41 PM
And yet when the little goons find out the men and women of the armed services are getting a raise of the same amount it's called a bribe and "too much".

We still don't pay our service members what they are really worth.  But it is better than what it used to be.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2009, 08:38:20 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on April 01, 2009, 08:04:03 PM
I work in one of the surviving industries...healthcare...and NO ONE got raises this year.  We're just glad we have jobs.   ::)

I was referring to normal economic times, not what is going on at the moment.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2009, 08:39:14 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on April 01, 2009, 08:36:48 PM
We still don't pay our service members what they are really worth.  But it is better than what it used to be.

Yeah that's true.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2009, 08:46:22 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on April 01, 2009, 08:16:38 PM
I wish I still had a job. 

Yeah, I heard that...wonder where this DUmmy worked at, could use the job.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2009, 08:50:35 PM »
Quote from: ScubaGuy on April 01, 2009, 07:25:58 PM
Twixvoy claims to be a supervisor at Target.

Uh huh, sure you did

Translation

I got fired today.


either he was fired, drunk or a moron
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2009, 08:51:50 PM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on April 01, 2009, 08:06:16 PM
    You quit because you could only give 2% merit increases? We lost something like 750,000 jobs in March. You don't think your people would appreciate having a job, period?


don't forget over 700,000 in February
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2009, 08:59:22 PM »
I'll bet that CEO feels bad now.  Sad bastard.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2009, 09:07:56 PM »
Quote from: FGL on April 01, 2009, 08:51:50 PM
don't forget over 700,000 in February

And there are experts saying that with the official numbers come out in a couple days there will be an addition of 25,000 Government jobs lost as well.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2009, 09:12:59 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on April 01, 2009, 08:59:22 PM
I'll bet that CEO feels bad now.  Sad bastard.

will not be missed. not one bit.
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2009, 10:24:01 PM »
Quote from: Zathras on April 01, 2009, 08:46:22 PM
Yeah, I heard that...wonder where this DUmmy worked at, could use the job.

Target, I think.

In the near future I predict posts that say how hard it is to find a job.  Then possibly the "I can't afford rent!" or even the "my house is being foreclosed on." 
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Re: Well I quit my job today
« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2009, 10:34:30 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on April 01, 2009, 08:36:48 PM
We still don't pay our service members what they are really worth.  But it is better than what it used to be.


Nor there civilian counterparts
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