Posted by Nausicaa_Cat on 03.31.2012, 12:52 AM: LL: My part-time job. I really, really hate it. I'm starting to think the best thing to do would just be to quit. It may take ages to find another one, and that one might pay badly, but it has got to beat this. It's not that my job is particularly strenuous, but it's boring and tiring and because it's a large department store you're never treated as an individual. I don't know my bosses or anyone there hugely well, I spend most of my time just standing there, hours pass by hugely slowly. I'm ringing in sick today, and my manager was like 'I'll call you back' and I just know I'm going to be yelled at. There's no sense of sympathy and understanding, they're just aware of what an inconveniance you're being - even though because I have a weird shift I'm always that 'extra' person who gets sent to help other departments or cover people when they're on breaks, so I'm hardly a key member anyway. I don't know, I'm just not sure I can keep working somewhere which makes me unhappy. Maybe the best thing to do would to just quit for the exam period then find somewhere else afterwards? I have a lot of good retail experience now and I think I interview well so it shouldn't be impossible...
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 03.31.2012, 06:00 AM: Well, might be best for you, NC. I wish I had a job though.. That sounds like a job I'd be fine at. I'm not very good at fast paced work since I like to go at my own pace. But not knowing my coworkers or bosses well would bother me.
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Posted by Jelly on 03.31.2012, 11:49 AM: I've also been there, kind of. The last part-time job I had was as a waitress at a restaurant and the pay and everything else was pretty bad, so I decided to quit and do something else. I hate what employers today have become... It's because there are so many desperate people wanting jobs that employers can do as they want, because if you complain about it and quit they can easily get another one... It should be the opposite way though, I mean you hire your service to them and they should take better care of their employees... I'm especially angry with my previous bosses at the restaurant and my other job before that, because they both payed out too little and when I called the first one he did not even seem to have used a calculator, cause everything was all messed up and miscalculated... And my other boss was also way off. I wonder if they're just too stressed out and mess up or if they're actually trying to cheat and see if I notice... And right now in in Sweden there's been a lot of articles in the news about how companies and employers hires a person for a few weeks for free and then fires them and take the next one. And also a lot of cheating with taxes and stuff. For example, they've discovered that one really big Swedish company haven't payed their taxes for several years, and I think it was the same with many other companies. I get so tired of it all, and there's just more and more that appear every day, not just with this but all what with SOPA and stuff and people getting getting beaten up right at a square outside a supermarket without anyone trying to stop it (yes it happened last week pretty close to where I live) and just people not helping each other and caring just about themselves... I'm seriously wondering where the world is going right now...
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 03.31.2012, 02:09 PM: Yeah, I believe she can look for another job to take on before quitting if possible. That would be a good option. But if she's busy with her studies right now, it might be especially hard.
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Posted by Roarkiller on 04.01.2012, 06:00 AM: Half the employees at my workplace are pinoys. Can't really blame them really; they're cheaper labour, amidst this hard economy.
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.01.2012, 02:41 PM: Yeah, I know they're cheap labour and they work very hard (at least, here they do, and their employers and coworkers like them). Some of the work places choose to abuse them most though, which is where things go wrong.
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Posted by Roarkiller on 04.02.2012, 05:35 AM: Wishing what happened today was just a late april fools joke, but it's not.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.02.2012, 08:10 AM: hahahahahahaha, not laughing at your misfortunation, I would NEVER do that, just laughing at your use of the term 'FUBAR'... Haven't seen that acronym in a long time... (although MY memory of it is probably coarser than yours, lol... remember, I'm a sailor...) |
Posted by fenkashi on 04.02.2012, 10:20 AM: Ugh. Worst behind-the-eyes-headache ever. >_<
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Posted by Mokiepoet on 04.02.2012, 11:59 AM:
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Posted by husky51 on 04.02.2012, 12:28 PM:
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Posted by Mokiepoet on 04.02.2012, 01:04 PM: I prefer the colder weather! I loved CO the 4 months I lived there. There was a blizzard the 1st day I was there in April.
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Posted by captain george on 04.02.2012, 04:10 PM:
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Posted by husky51 on 04.02.2012, 11:12 PM: HL:
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Posted by AmtrakDesertWindrider on 04.03.2012, 09:25 AM: HL: Extended family coming over from the Jolly 'ol UK coming over for a while. Yay!
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Posted by Nausicaa_Cat on 04.03.2012, 11:44 AM: HL: Went for lunch/shopping with my mum and we had a good time. The manager of the restaurant suddenly slid into the booth with us and rested his head on my shoulder for an extremely awkward amount of time. I mean, we hadn't spoken to him or anything previously. He was Italian though and I guess Italian men in general are a lot more relaxed and touchy feely with girls. It was weird but funny, aha.
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.03.2012, 12:06 PM: I've never really had a fight with my boyfriend. There's arguments over silly things, but it's just how he is and he instigates me. Hope your problems can be solved. Maybe I'm just lucky.
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Posted by Roarkiller on 04.04.2012, 08:47 PM: NINJA WARRIOR COMING TO SINGAPORE!!!
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Posted by husky51 on 04.04.2012, 09:32 PM: Good Luck, Roar... |
Posted by Mokiepoet on 04.05.2012, 05:56 PM: Not so much a HL...
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