Passed over for a promotion (oh, applying for your job is just a formality…), told by management the store would be open on Sundays without consulting anyone who actually works at the store if that would be possible or advisable. (it is neither).
Crappy pay, long commute, RETAIL.
Sigh.
If you think you’ll be happier, you should do it. Make sure you think it through though.
Luck!
Do what your gut tells you to do and good luck!
It seems like you should be able to get rid of at least one of those factors. Wouldn’t you be able to find a crappy low-paying job close by? I know that’s not the ideal solution, but retail is pretty much everywhere, right?
Best of luck! I’ve quit enough shitty jobs to know how great it feels, if you can pick something better up.
Just curious. Why isn’t it possible for your store to be open on Sundays? As for the rest, it sounds like you’d be happier if you quit. I don’t know what’s in your area but Costco and Starbucks are supposed to be relatively good places to work, at least compared to other retail jobs.
If we were open on Sundays, we’d both be working 50 hour weeks, no overtime, 7 days of retail without a day off, ever.
I can find a crappy low paying job close by. Way to put it!
Definitely quit. Personally, I’d give them five minutes of notice via two middle fingers, but that approach is not for everyone.
(Seven days a week? Working retail?? That’s evil.)
No consultation with us either. Just an email, Monday morning: “by the way, you’ll be open on Sundays from now on… guess we’ll try and hire some more part-timers.” We’ve been collecting applications for weeks. We’ve gotten four. One guy we hired, but I don’t think he’ll last long. One guy threatened to kill the boss if he didn’t get hired. One lady said we paid too little, and the other one has an interview on Friday.
I was supposed to be going full-time as a “lead clerk”… but they said I had to apply for the position, but it’s only a formality, we’ll put the call for applicants up on the web page for three days, then we’ll hire you. They put up the job description and they want someone with a marketing degree. It’s a HEAD CASHIER and it pays like, $8/hour. It’s been four weeks and my boss calls to ask what’s up… “Oh, we want to get a good selection of applications”, which of course, means “we don’t want to hire her, so we’re going to find someone else”. This happened recently with my boss’ boss, so I’m not too surprised. More than a dozen people have left in the last three weeks. I feel like a rat leaving a sinking ship.
Screw them. I’m job hunting. I’m off to search for those “how to eat cheaply” threads. 
FilmGeek, we’re the same person. I just quit my retail job (for reasons different than yours), but go for it, it feels goooooood.
I quit. I’m sticking it out through rush (beginning of the semester) because I like my boss and it would be really shitty to pile this on her along with all the stuff that’s been piled on her for the last few weeks (the stuff I’m quitting over).
Submitted a bunch of apps to another college I used to work for. Should get at least an interview out of them. Still a commute, but much better working environment.
saramamalana we can’t be the same person. I can talk to cute boys. (I keed, I keed).
I just quit my (high-pressure, high-profile, eight-year) job today and feel like Jean Arthur the day she left Columbia Studios: “I’M FREE! I’M FREE!!”
I am going downmarket, to a “lesser” job (less money, benefits, office space, neighborhood) . . . But it’s a good promising longterm career move for me, even my ailing, nervous mother admits this seems to be a job dropped down from heaven into my lap.
Good on ya for quitting, FilmGeek! I’m always amazed at how long people can endure unhappy job situations in cases where there are alternatives. Good luck with the job hunt!
GT
Oh jeez, I forgot all about that. Before the page loaded I thought it was going to be my one drunk thread about a different boy I liked. Because I can’t put enough embarassing things on here about me, noooo.
Anyway congrats on quitting!
What, no more Pwincess Pwecious?
Good on you, Eve. How did the “Take this job and shove it” scene go?
Whatever you decide, good luck!