# I'm scared to death to tell my boss.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887 "2004-04-19T20:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887/21 "2004-04-20T23:41:42Z")
Since we will in all likelihood be moving 180 miles away at the end of the summer, I will be trying to get a new job instead of commuting 180 miles each way every day. I’m not going to enjoy telling my bosses that they won’t have me around after July (I’m told that my presence was crucial to the semester’s sanity and success, since I soaked up new students like a sponge), but I’ll be doing so well before two weeks are up just so they don’t start to think they’ll be able to plan fall semester around having me here (the odds of me still being here are low, but still there). Meantime there are no pay raises for me, only the possibility of getting more hours (a looming possibility as the end of term approaches), but they do not assign the hours so much as they approve contracts, and I have already been told that it’s acceptable to spend more time per week doing exam prep, which equates to more hours (hours I’d spend doing not much of anything) and thus more pay. Not all jobs are the sort where you can get more hours on a whim (but also lose them if students don’t show) and nobody tries to pinch you the week after for it. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887/22 "2004-04-21T03:56:22Z")
In regards to them offering you a raise, I’m reminded of an item in the autobiography of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, where he went to his boss early in his life and told him he was quitting for another job. > [@](#): > > “Are you sure, Eddie?” said my boss. “You stay, and I’ll give you thirty-five cents an hour more.” > > That was even more of an incentive to quit. I was just told that my employer considered me worth 35 cents an hour more than he had been paying me. I declined and walked out the door, never to return. Powerful thought. Something I’ve thought of when leaving jobs in my past. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887/23 "2004-04-21T04:21:41Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > So, why were you looking? Is this a “drop out of the sky” opportunity? A “I’ve heard they pay more down the street” type thing? Or a “I have to get out of this dysfuncitonal environment?” move. Taking your boss up on a $.50 raise for number one is good - especially if you gave notice with the whole “I wasn’t looking, but they found me and want to pay me more money.” #2 is less good - but depending on your boss and yourself, acceptible. And if you were leaving due to #3, no amount of money should convince you to stay. I wasn’t looking, looking. It was the only real job I applied for. The job isn’t hostile, more like, irritating. It’s RETAIL. ☹ To clear up, these jobs aren’t big important ones. I currently work at Sally’s Beauty Supply. The new job is at Blockbuster. Blockbuster isn’t really offering more money, but they have more opporunity for raises than Sally’s does. In the meantime, I’m getting paid about the same at Blockbuster as I am at Sally’s without the .50 cent raise. I don’t know what to do. I’ll do both! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887/24 "2004-04-21T05:07:14Z")
I’d go with Blockbuster, if only because they’re all over the freakin’ place and if you ever need to transfer/move or something, it’d probably be easier Ok, _I_ would go with Blockbuster cause I’m a movie-watching dork and I’d assume they have a Free Rentals (or something similar) perk. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887/25 "2004-04-21T13:39:12Z")
Do you get a discount at Sally’s? I’m just a big, old girly girl and having access to all those nail polishes \*alone \* would be worth me staying. But that’s just me… 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-scared-to-death-to-tell-my-boss/240887.md?page=1)