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  • #1

    I did it.

    Finally, and for the second time** in nearly 3.5 years, I gave notice at the day job.

    I'm the only one happy about it.

    Seriously, though, I don't see the point in remaining with them, for more than a few reasons.

    --I started at $7.25/hour. Five years and 2 days after I was hired, I'm making $8.20/hour. Yeah.
    --It's a nearly 40 mile round trip for me to work at my current location. The drive's tedious enough in good weather...I loathe it in winter.
    --I mostly stayed this long because my best friend was a {day job} fiend, and I wanted to keep my 50% discount to feed him. Now that he's gone...
    --Bare minimum staffing standards. 4 people during lunch every day of a 4 day holiday weekend? Sure!!! *Maybe* 5 people for after a Packers game? Why not? Hey, why are we getting such bad customer feedback??
    --The DM maintaining scheduling levels like it was 5-10 years ago, when people would only eat there because they were desperate. Now, they're revamping everything, and the core menu isn't even the first 4 items on the menu board.
    --Watching people being promoted above their level of competence. (Yes, I was offered management positions a lot, starting less than 6 months after I was hired. I never accepted. The pay is/was atrocious, the expectations are insane and I hated/actively disliked my first manager several that I had after her and am not completely fond of my DM.)

    There are more reasons, most of them petty. I've brought them up to my various managers many times, but nothing was ever done.

    Whatever. My last day will be on or before October 31.

    **If anyone wants to know about the first time, feel free to ask.
    Unseen but seeing
    oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
    There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
    3rd shift needs love, too
    RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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  • #2
    I'll ask...

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    • #3
      Eep. Glad you were able to find something bigger and better!

      On the travel thing -- Since it sounds like you had two jobs, maybe -- If you itemized your deductions when doing taxes, travel to get to/from work is something you can deduct from your gross income; I wanna say the rate is around 50~55c/mile. Doing so generally requires making a decent chunk of change to generally make it worthwhile, though, and you get that benefit in place of the standard deduction if you do so. Could be worth looking into, as you're allowed to go back several years to refile/revise taxes as long as you've actually filed them, and up to 3 years max (IIRC) if you have not. Maybe talk with a tax pro about it or look it up? If it's worth doing, you're looking at $20 or better per work day off of your taxable gross...
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      • #4
        Quoth eltf177 View Post
        I'll ask...
        Long story as short as I can make it...

        My first manager was a real piece of work. She desperately needed a psych evaluation. I dreaded going in on the days she was working. Most of us did, actually. It got to the point that we had a store meeting with the DM about her, raised all of our issues, and at the end we were told that since the DM didn't have an issue, we'd have to deal with it.

        I finally gave notice the first time in June of 2013. Lo and behold, my last week there, the woman was fired, and we got a new manager. (I love my RM and the manager that we got.) I worked my notice, tried working at the new job, but I would fill in on weekends if/as needed.

        Hated the replacement job, liked/loved the new manager, and went back full time 2 or 3 weeks after I'd left.
        Unseen but seeing
        oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
        There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
        3rd shift needs love, too
        RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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        • #5
          Good luck to you. And ouch on the wage.
          A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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          • #6
            If you were willing to drive that far for a crappy job like that, you should come work with me. The pay would make it worth it. I'm just bugging you about it because I care. And I love this company!
            "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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            • #7
              Quoth bainsidhe View Post
              Good luck to you.
              Thanks.

              Quoth Food Lady View Post
              If you were willing to drive that far for a crappy job like that, you should come work with me. The pay would make it worth it. I'm just bugging you about it because I care. And I love this company!
              You're a sweetheart, but I'm going to concentrate on the 3rd shift job until spring. We'll see how bored I get being at home more.
              Unseen but seeing
              oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
              There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
              3rd shift needs love, too
              RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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              • #8
                I'll bug you in spring, after rate change.
                "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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                • #9
                  Woo hoo.
                  Unseen but seeing
                  oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                  There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                  3rd shift needs love, too
                  RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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                  • #10
                    20 more days.

                    There's a small (unofficial) betting pool at my night job as to whether I'll walk out before then, stay the whole time, or manage to get myself fired.

                    I'd really have to do something deplorable, though, to get fired right now. They're shorthanded as it is, one manager already transferred back to her old location, and at least two other people gave notice.

                    I'd give good odds to me walking out the door in the middle of a shift one of these days.
                    Unseen but seeing
                    oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                    There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                    3rd shift needs love, too
                    RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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                    • #11
                      Ahh the sweet time where you already quit so your give a fuck has dropped to ZERO.
                      I mean you'll do your job, not screw over co workers but when a new disaster hits you'll be there going fuck it I'm out of here...

                      When I quit AZ auto parts is was so good I wanted to do it again.
                      AkaiKitsune
                      Sarcasm dear, sarcasm. I’m well aware that dealing with civilians in any capacity will skin your faith in humanity alive, then pickle anything that remains so as to watch it shrivel up into an immortal husk thus reminding you of how dead inside you now are.

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                      • #12
                        Been there, done that, and laughed all the way out the door! At one place I'd given notice at I worked right through to my last day and managed to get fired about halfway through that last day because my give-a-shit took a walk when I told a caller just how out of luck he was...just as the contract manager walked past my desk. I was pulled off the phone as soon as I finished that call and my supervisor was all apologetic about having to let me go, but he was well aware that it was my last day and that I'd stopped really giving a shit long before that point - he told me to go say my good-byes to everybody I knew in the building before coming back to him to get walked out that final time, and that he made sure that I would still get paid right until the scheduled end of my shift regardless. I would do that all over again in a heartbeat!

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                        • #13
                          The day that I walked into Random Craft Store and said that I quit effective immediately, was the best day I had in a long time. I hadn't been getting the hours I wanted on the only day I could work there, hadn't worked a shift there in about four months so it was pointless for me to continue to have one less day I could work at the Warehouse. Best decision I made.

                          The only downside is that the manager who I had to speak to, was the new ASM -- the first and only time I met her.
                          Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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