Beauty & Style Quitting

[BRAB]

I'm no expert, but I've worked in retail 8 years and that is one thing they say you never do.

I'm a passionate man ND. In my case it's ozito power drills. Nobody leaves the store without paying!

 

[SwampCreature]

Is SA really mid 20s?

IKR? Mind blown

 

[tangolikelama]

Ehh did container unloading during uni hoildays. Manager/boss was an absolute campaigner. 4th week on the job and he wanted me to stay behind an extra 3-4 hours, said I was going to the toilet and just left. No rugrats.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

Ehh did container unloading during uni hoildays. Manager/boss was an absolute campaigner. 4th week on the job and he wanted me to stay behind an extra 3-4 hours, said I was going to the toilet and just left. No rugrats.

Wonder how long it took him to realise you weren't coming back from the toilet. Do you think he went in to check up on you?

 

[phantom13]

Love that this thread is prefixed with beauty and style...

 

[Noobz0r]

I'm a passionate man ND. In my case it's ozito power drills. Nobody leaves the store without paying!

My free clothes line from Bunnings says otherwise.

 

[ioppolo]

My free clothes line from Bunnings says otherwise.

Can't have enough fashion items with Bunnings Trade printed all over them

 

[BRAB]

My free clothes line from Bunnings says otherwise.

Haha nothing is free sweetie

 

[craigos]

I think I have mentioned this before but I was being trained in my new job by the guy who had been fired from the role I was taking over. They brought him back to train me as he profusely apologised to the boss who he'd called a dickhead and the female staff member who he had called a fat campainger at a staff function after a couple of beers. Not sure why they thought this was a good idea, he was a full blown alcoholic and didn't train me at all and just slurred instructions to which I couldn't understand.

Fast forward the week and the boss takes me into his office on the Friday afternoon to evaluate my progress. Tells me I need to show more initiative and a stronger work ethic if I was going to succeed. Also queried why I found simple tasks so difficult. I nodded, held my tongue and politely said it was hard to learn when my teacher was an alcoholic and everyone in the office I'd asked help off had thought it was funny he was training me. Anyways he must have had a hard on for this old drunk bloke because he carried on defending him like he was an angel. Looking back I have a feeling it may have been a relative or something because it wasn't normal and to be honest I had figured out it wasn't a place I wanted to be so didn't care too much about what he'd said to me.

Anyways, I left on the Friday, went to the pub (ironic?) and tried to call the boss, no answer. So I sent him a text saying "I wont be returning on Monday. Good luck finding someone to fill Aaron's (drunk guy) position. As terrible as he was at training he actually was a good judge of character after a couple. Thanks, Craigos"

 

[revo333]

I will never do it now but i nearly did the walk out in a warehouse job about 10 years ago.

Small company with only 4 people in the warehouse but the manager use to come in hungover about 2 times a week and it made some days jut miserable to be there. The kind of guy who use to complain you didn't work fast enough then wonder why mistakes got made in the process but the real issue for me was he did all the easy jobs.

One friday morning he cracked it and the next monday i handed in my resignation, the boss came up to me later in the afternoon and asked if i as leaving because of the manager but i bit my tongue and said no.

About 4 years later i heard the company was done so it was a great move in hindsight.

 

[Plugger35]

I think I have mentioned this before but I was being trained in my new job by the guy who had been fired from the role I was taking over. They brought him back to train me as he profusely apologised to the boss who he'd called a dickhead and the female staff member who he had called a fat campainger at a staff function after a couple of beers. Not sure why they thought this was a good idea, he was a full blown alcoholic and didn't train me at all and just slurred instructions to which I couldn't understand.

Fast forward the week and the boss takes me into his office on the Friday afternoon to evaluate my progress. Tells me I need to show more initiative and a stronger work ethic if I was going to succeed. Also queried why I found simple tasks so difficult. I nodded, held my tongue and politely said it was hard to learn when my teacher was an alcoholic and everyone in the office I'd asked help off had thought it was funny he was training me. Anyways he must have had a hard on for this old drunk bloke because he carried on defending him like he was an angel. Looking back I have a feeling it may have been a relative or something because it wasn't normal and to be honest I had figured out it wasn't a place I wanted to be so didn't care too much about what he'd said to me.

Anyways, I left on the Friday, went to the pub (ironic?) and tried to call the boss, no answer. So I sent him a text saying "I wont be returning on Monday. Good luck finding someone to fill Aaron's (drunk guy) position. As terrible as he was at training he actually was a good judge of character after a couple. Thanks, Craigos"

Is Aaron a pseudonym for Robbo?

 

[Uncle_Leo]

I started a customer service role with a financial services company back when I was young and naive and didn't realise it was basically a call centre job where they timed everything from your phone calls to your toilet breaks.

I did a weeks training with a group of other people and that was enough time to work out that I didn't want to work in a job like that so I told the supervisor on the Friday that I was quitting and just walked out.

She wasn't too happy about it but they would have a high turnover of people in shitty jobs like that so I'm sure I wasn't the first or last person to do that.

Had a similar experience working at a financial place in the call centre.

They timed everything, calls, your breaks, toilets breaks etc.

I hated it but I needed money, got about 6 months in and had a meeting with my manager, he wanted to know why I was taking toilet breaks at certain times and why I wouldn't immediately take the next call after finishing a case note even though I was taking the highest average of calls in the team.

I took everything he said went back to my desk and put myself on a toilet break.

I walked out the front and never went back in.

 

[ash_1050]

Quit a pub job in the UK about three shifts in because they didn't roster me on at all for the next two weeks and there's no point working at a place that won't give you work.

 

[perthblue]

Quit a pub job in the UK about three shifts in because they didn't roster me on at all for the next two weeks and there's no point working at a place that won't give you work.

this sounds like the reverse of the thread

this is how people treat their casual workers when they want to fire them but are too chickenshit to tell them

 

[ash_1050]

this sounds like the reverse of the thread

this is how people treat their casual workers when they want to fire them but are too chickenshit to tell them

If it was longer term yeah I'd agree, but they were upfront at the start that it was casual and to expect 1-2 shifts a week max as it was the quiet time of year.

 

[Reynolds Number]

Pub jobs are shyte. Good co workers but arseh*le managers who think you are a robot.

And if you are working in a bar in a major nightlife precinct you have to look out for undercover cops and RSA marshalls as they are nerds who get a kick at snitching staff up for serving an intoxicated patron.

 

[Bet on Blue]

Anyone here quit their job mid-shift or without some gay 'this is my two week's notice I love the company etc. etc.' way?

Yeah, one second I was there, and then - ****! - I wasn't.

 

[Run n Spread]

Yep. Forwent a ridiculous notice period and contractual obligations and po asap once I landed my current job.

No sense being a martyr to a boss company who happily screws you.

 

[Run n Spread]

Fast forward the week and the boss takes me into his office on the Friday afternoon to evaluate my progress. Tells me I need to show more initiative and a stronger work ethic if I was going to succeed.

Unless you are a Hawthorn player/some other athlete WTF does that even mean in a career sense? You somehow going to type faster/run around a restaurant/fly a plane quicker just based on his pearls of wisdom.

 

[William Wonka]

Other than the one part which earned SA a red the general topic of quitting a job is fine

I'm sure most people read it in the context of nothing to do with homosexuals and instead gay in the context of the word for lame.

Nobody actually owns the word. Be they happy, gay, lame or whatever else the word morphs into.

Carn, it was clearly intended as a put down, don't spin that. Substituting gay for lame is exactly what that is.

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I think clarification is required here mods.

There was nothing in the OP that vilified anyone for being homosexual and 'gay' was clearly used in a context unrelated to sexuality.
The term is in widespread usage as a pejorative and to say just because it has negative connotation makes it a slur is not necessarily correct imo.

For example, two of my very favourite things in this universe are campaigners and arseholes but I regularly use the terms as insults (as do most here.)
Im aware many gay people dislike the word being misappropriated and I can't say I blame them, but many women feel the same about terms like campaigner, pussy, bitch, whore etc. and we haven't even touched on all the unflattering usages of the word 'Black' yet.

The vagaries of the English language are endless- you could easily find three living people of different generations who would read the OP three completely different ways.

 

[Gralin]

I think clarification is required here mods.

There was nothing in the OP that vilified anyone for being homosexual and 'gay' was clearly used in a context unrelated to sexuality.
The term is in widespread usage as a pejorative and to say just because it has negative connotation makes it a slur is not necessarily correct imo.

For example, two of my very favourite things in this universe are campaigners and arseholes but I regularly use the terms as insults (as do most here.)
Im aware many gay people dislike the word being misappropriated and I can't say I blame them, but many women feel the same about terms like campaigner, pussy, bitch, whore etc. and we haven't even touched on all the unflattering usages of the word 'Black' yet.

The vagaries of the English language are endless- you could easily find three living people of different generations who would read the OP three completely different ways.

In the case of the OP he 100% has issues with it and uses being gay as a put down, not just on this board but others on BF
He's also been warned that continuing to do so was going to earn him a Holiday

I'm also personally of the opinion that the use of the word gay as lame goes back to ragging on homosexuals

While I don't think this board needs to be G rated I take issue with someone who repeatedly posts homophobic comments casually.

We've pulled up other types of posts recently and I agree it's a grey area in what is allowed and what isn't.

Not saying we always get it right but in this instance Silent Alarm had been previously warned and he could have said lame if he meant lame

 

[kickazz]

Tend to think it's a bit passive aggressive and narcissistic to make a big deal about it like that. They don't care nearly as much as you do most of the time.

Having said that, if I had a really toxic boss, instead of writing a letter I'd just email them this link or put in on a CD or go old school with a cassette and mail it to the boss:

 

[William Wonka]

In the case of the OP he 100% has issues with it and uses being gay as a put down, not just on this board but others on BF
He's also been warned that continuing to do so was going to earn him a Holiday

I presumed there was more than just one word in one post that turned the OP red, my comments were of a general linguistic nature.

I'm also personally of the opinion that the use of the word gay as lame goes back to ragging on homosexuals

Without doubt that is the origin, but its current usage seems to be more along the lines of 'a bit shit' .
I would imagine someone crippled by polio might not be overly happy with how 'lame' is used nowadays.

While I don't think this board needs to be G rated I take issue with someone who repeatedly posts homophobic comments casually.

Agree 100%
No one should ever be judged or vilified because of their sexuality.

(Certainly not by a depraved pervert like me)

 

[HairyO]

In the case of the OP he 100% has issues with it and uses being gay as a put down, not just on this board but others on BF
He's also been warned that continuing to do so was going to earn him a Holiday

I'm also personally of the opinion that the use of the word gay as lame goes back to ragging on homosexuals

While I don't think this board needs to be G rated I take issue with someone who repeatedly posts homophobic comments casually.

We've pulled up other types of posts recently and I agree it's a grey area in what is allowed and what isn't.

Not saying we always get it right but in this instance Silent Alarm had been previously warned and he could have said lame if he meant lame

But if Gough said it that would be okay?

 

[Gough]

Nobody is banning words, just make a more sophisticated use of them than a ten year old in a playground would.