innkeeping primitive quitting job

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Oh my.

Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-19-11 11:04 PM
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I can't believe I'm doing this: Quitting my current job

Yes, I went through 6 months of unemployment. I tried to find work every day, and could never land a job. Then I got my current gig: in tech support. I was taking a huge pay cut, but it was a job.

Fast forward to today: the "C-Level" folks are trying to run me out on a rail, despite me being the only support guy left who knows the product. The customers never had a problem with me, my co-workers never had a problem with me. I did my work, but my boss - he hated me. No idea why - I guess being an asshole can only go so far  Seriously though, he hated me. Right before he left (he quit last week) he wrote up this screed on why I was a horrible employee, didn't know shit, etc. Hands it to the C-Level folks above him, and now they are trying to run me out on a rail. My new boss doesn't want me to go. My co-workers don't want to see me go. But the C-Level folks? Well a manager said it, they believe it and that settles it.

So tomorrow I am quitting my job of 6 months. I really can't do any other action: if I stay I fight an uphill battle every day. If I leave I get a package for 30 days. Chances are no matter how hard I would work, no matter what I did, after the 30 days from last week - they would have shitcanned me anyway.

Let's hope I find a better job. Let's hope I find A job. I have kids. I have a mortgage.

I suppose I should be more angry, but I'm just tired. Tired and defeated. Ready to roll the credits on this whole thing...

There's probably more to the story than what the innkeeper primitive's letting on.  As usual.

Chan790 (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-19-11 11:19 PM
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1. I think that's the incorrect course of action...especially if the new manager wants you to stay. The solution is much simpler...tell the new guy that if he wants to keep you, he's going to have to go to bat for you and state in official channels that he disagrees with the previous manager's assessment.

Better still for you if he points out that they're taking the judgement of a guy who just quit on them without notice over a current employee with a clean HR file.

siligut  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-19-11 11:19 PM
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2. Can't get any satisfaction sticking it in their faces?

I hate the passive aggressive crap you get from "superiors", stay and make them miserable. Plus, times are hard. 

Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-19-11 11:21 PM
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3. I wish I could - its a choice of either 30 days of work or 30 days of no work

Doesn't matter

[NHSparky]

Then I got my current gig: in tech support. I was taking a huge pay cut, but it was a job.

Therein lies the mentality of ALL DUmmies--they assume that going from zero income (unemployment) to a job which may or may not have paid the same as their previous position is somehow a step down.

he wrote up this screed on why I was a horrible employee, didn't know shit, etc.

Publicly or privately?  If public, one could easily dismiss it as sour grapes.  More than likely, however, it was in the form of an inital performance appraisal, which would show the DUmmy to be lacking in many areas.

after the 30 days from last week - they would have shitcanned me anyway.

Oh, I dunno--if you were as good as you claim to be and such a positive influence, you would think you'd be able to demonstrate that quite easily within the 30 day timeframe.

I hate the passive aggressive crap you get from "superiors", stay and make them miserable.

Psst--something tells me if you were such a smartass know-it-all, they wouldn't have been shoving your ass out the door in the first place.

[Chris_]

Wow.  Six months and they already hate you.  Congratulations.

I've been here six months and most of these folks don't even know my name.

[DLR Pyro]

typical ****ing loser DUmmy.  Would rather quit and take the 30 day package rather than be grateful to have a job to support his kids and pay his mortgage.

Oh, and I'd hazard a guess that his former boss hated him because he sounds like one of those whiney, lazy workers who is always complaining about one thing or another.  What surprises me is how he didn't spawn a bouncy out of this and claim his former boss is a right wing teabagger nutjob who was always spouting off his wacko r/w dribble....

[thundley4]

Wow.  Six months and they already hate you.  Congratulations.

I've been here six months and most of these folks don't even know my name.

I've been at my job for 22 years and I don't think the owner knows my name even though I see him once a week in the shop. There are others that I don't know their names and they don't know mine that have been there just as long.

[Rebel]

I call BS. Chances are, he's already been fired and he's creating the setup so when he starts bitching about the evil Rethug economy, and gets called on it, I.e. "wait, I thought you had a job", he can bring this up. This makes him look like a saint, and the only knowledgeable one in his section.

Boooolshit.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I call BS.

Yeppers.  A DUmmie quit all of his own volition, and therefore get no unemployment comp?  I don't think so.

[Karin]

I tried to recreate a timeline, because his 6 months unemployment/6 months employed didn't jibe with my memory.  I wanted to go back to his numerous posts that showed him getting fired and then drunk for days relatively recently.  

So, I went over there and used the search for "Lost Job Drinking Drunk Fired"  and my internet broke from all the returns.  I have to sweep up now.  

[BlueStateSaint]

I tried to recreate a timeline, because his 6 months unemployment/6 months employed didn't jibe with my memory.  I wanted to go back to his numerous posts that showed him getting fired and then drunk for days relatively recently.  

So, I went over there and used the search for "Lost Job Drinking Drunk Fired"  and my internet broke from all the returns.  I have to sweep up now.  

 

H5, neighbor!

[Chris_]

You don't think he could have gotten popped on a drug test, do you?

(I seem to remember some bragging yesterday)

[GOBUCKS]

Another DUmmy had to pee in the cup.

[delilahmused]

These people have more employment issues than anyone I've ever seen! Even if your personality was like sandpaper if you do your job better than anyone else they're not going to fire you. If you were all that your current supervisor would go talk to the c-level people and tell them he needs you. Lame!

Cindie

[jukin]

These people have more employment issues than anyone I've ever seen! Even if your personality was like sandpaper if you do your job better than anyone else they're not going to fire you. If you were all that your current supervisor would go talk to the c-level people and tell them he needs you. Lame!

Cindie

Hiring employees is a giant hassle.  One has to be a real f*ck up to make management want to go through that process with the possibility of getting an even worse worker.

ZERO Bong

[NHSparky]

Another DUmmy had to pee in the cup.

If he refused or pissed hot, they wouldn't get benefits at all.  Then again, that may be another "shading" we haven't heard of yet.

[Chris_]

There was an employee that was hired here on Thursday.  Monday morning, I got an email telling me that she had quit and I needed to come and pick up the computer that had been ordered for her.  Same thing happened last month with another employee. 

Why do people do this?  It's not like jobs are readily available unless you have years of experience or some speciality that someone will pay big bucks for.

[Evil_Conservative]

This thread pisses me off.

You have a mortgage and kids to support and yet you're quiting your "down grade" job?  What the hell?  I don't care how much your job sucks, KEEP WORKING.  You need the money to support your family, idiot.  I don't get it.  Why?  Why would you do that?  This is a DUmmie.  Why even bother trying to figure out their mentality.

My job I had, before my layoff, really stressed me out some days.  I didn't quit that job because we had a baby to support.  We had to have food on our table and a roof over our heads.  If I had another job opportunity lined up, sure, I might have put in my notice and went to the other job. 

Now that I have a new job, it's a pay cut from my previous job.  But it's a pay raise from unemployment.  I still win, even though my hourly wage will be a little bit lower than my full-time job I had in 2010.

Sorry for the rambling.  I just do not understand why someone would up and leave their job just because someone "hates" them. 

[NHSparky]

There was an employee that was hired here on Thursday.  Monday morning, I got an email telling me that she had quit and I needed to come and pick up the computer that had been ordered for her.  Same thing happened last month with another employee. 

Why do people do this?  It's not like jobs are readily available unless you have years of experience or some speciality that someone will pay big bucks for.

Because they get almost as much sitting on their asses for 99 weeks.

Scoobie was telling me her replacement had been hired on a Monday and had called in to quit by Wednesday.

[Rebel]

Because they get almost as much sitting on their asses for 99 weeks.

Scoobie was telling me her replacement had been hired on a Monday and had called in to quit by Wednesday.

Can't get unemployment in most cases for quitting or being fired for cause.

[GOBUCKS]

From just a couple of days ago:

Taverner  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-19-11 11:14 PM
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**** it. They won, they won. We lost, they won.
It's over
It's ****ing hopeless

The economy is going to crash again, the US dollar won't be worth the paper it's printed on, and we will all be soon out of work, unless we're willing to work for $3 an hour, no breaks and lots of unpaid overtime.

They won. The rat bastards cheated and they won.

We're ****ed.

Anyone who could write that is sure to be beloved by his customers, co-workers, and superiors.
A guy with that kind of attitude draws others to him, and brightens the workplace by his presence.
Everyone loves to be around a guy like DUmmy Taverner.

[DumbAss Tanker]

There was an employee that was hired here on Thursday.  Monday morning, I got an email telling me that she had quit and I needed to come and pick up the computer that had been ordered for her.  Same thing happened last month with another employee. 

Why do people do this?  It's not like jobs are readily available unless you have years of experience or some speciality that someone will pay big bucks for.

I've seen similar things happen when they get a callback on a better job, and it turns out they just took the position with the organization to cover them in case it fell through.  Usually more than a day, but timing in that situation is purely coincidental.

[Karin]

Also, just a couple of days ago he said he was sitting at the computer, high.  A few weeks ago he said he was going to attempt to get off morphine.  I just don't know. 

The things you guys are saying about people starting Wednesdays and quitting on Mondays just kind of shock me.  I don't get the flakiness.  I knew a guy who started on a Monday, and had quit by lunchtime.  He had 3 kids and a stay-at-home wife, too.  WTF?   

[DumbAss Tanker]

Also, just a couple of days ago he said he was sitting at the computer, high.  A few weeks ago he said he was going to attempt to get off morphine.  I just don't know. 

The things you guys are saying about people starting Wednesdays and quitting on Mondays just kind of shock me.  I don't get the flakiness.  I knew a guy who started on a Monday, and had quit by lunchtime.  He had 3 kids and a stay-at-home wife, too.  WTF?   

 

Damn.  Just damn.  How FUBAR do you have to be to (a) do that at all, and (b) talk about it on the innerwebz?

[NHSparky]

Can't get unemployment in most cases for quitting or being fired for cause.

Surprisingly enough, there are some states which will give it to you anyway.  Most of which are liberal shithole states.

[Chris_]

I've seen similar things happen when they get a callback on a better job, and it turns out they just took the position with the organization to cover them in case it fell through.  Usually more than a day, but timing in that situation is purely coincidental.

I didn't consider that.  You're probably correct since these were relatively low-level administrative and customer service jobs.

I just remember the hassle I had to go through after I was hired here to get all my stuff approved... phones, computers, expense account, building access.  It's a lot of work to hire somebody.

[vesta111]

Surprisingly enough, there are some states which will give it to you anyway.  Most of which are liberal shithole states.

I don't know Sparky what the laws are in this state, I went out on a medical and was collecting from the Company insurance when one day I was called by the Company to tell me I had been retired.   Not fired just retired and was still collecting from the medical insurance.  

Then the Insurance company began to bug me twice a week to take a small buy out. They begged me to get #SS disability but I felt I was getting better and finally gave in and accepted the buy out.    I do not want to collect #SS until I am of age to get full benefits, Then my health went down again so Hubby is the sole bread earner in the family.

There are so many traps for workers that do not have the finesse or education to figure all this out.I have seen workers that have spent more on a Lawyer then what the results of hiring them can pull in.

  Perhaps these workers know something we do not know of how the beat the system, come out way ahead in the game of life.    Me, I just plod on, I want no money I have have not worked for, so am I the sucker in life that puts morals and self respect before survival ??