Thanks for the bro-tips. I actually thought about doing that, and quitting at the beginning of December if I don’t find a new job by then because the whole 6 month experience thing, but to hear it I assume you have done it before and it worked. Nice!
Do you know if they go by the pay date or the time worked? Because the way my job is set up I work 2 weeks on schedule, then they process and deliver on the following Friday. Could be home free better.
I’ve talked to some people today and trying to get the ball rolling. Hiring a buddy to come over and take a look at my car, had my battery recharged by autozone, working on my resume, and my ma who is connected to everybody through her work can at least get me a job as a groundskeeper, which is much more smoother working regular hours, better pay, opportunity for advancement, good benefits (free or reduced rent costs) which I would at least stay in for a couple years seeming as I know the work - my ma has me come into her property when her maintenance guy gets backed up and do simple things.
Honestly, I think that the Food Service Industry is a joke and it is criminal what some of these employers are doing, treating the workers like horses, flogging them.
But I remember when I was 18, I don’t recall any of my employers giving a shit about my past jobs. In fact, I can remember this very exchange with my old boss at Pizza Inn.
Boss: You’re working tomorrow
(I wasn’t on the schedule)
Me: Uh, no I’m not, I got plans
Boss: If you don’t work tomorrow, I’ll fire your ass.
Me: Oh gee, you mean I might have to walk across the street to Dominos and get a job there? How terrible!
Boss: GET OUT OF MY STORE!!
I then proceeded to walk across the street to Dominos. I filled out an application and was hired right there on the spot, still wearing my Pizza Inn uniform.
This is true. I’ve talked to my ma who is a manager about this ordeal - if I wasn’t lucky enough to know these things sooner, I wouldn’t have even looked back leaving the job and f* myself over in the long run.
Haha when the economy was booming, jobs where abundant, and you could walk a place and act like obtaining pratically any job was your birthright. My father told me of those days
Must’ve been nice to not have idiots wrecking the economy. Funny story though!
That’s true. I’ve learned a lot of wisdom from just working at this job for 4 months so far - a lot about myself and what people percieve of me. I do not want to get into nursing - although I am considering in the back of my mind becoming a EMT or a delivery driver for more laid back jobs.
Honestly where I work, there is zero advancement because I work for a contract company,:dubious: unless I put in 5 years then I might get moved up to supervisor making salary and working 60+ hours a week. Then after that maybe moving up to manager and making an extra 2 grand a year.
Honestly, I took this job because it was close by, which meant no gas no car and money in my pocket. Also I pictured nurses in hospitals - but when I got there are just chicken legged women with potbellies hitting on me that are in their 30s. That makes me even more mad.
How are you going to repair your car in order to get a non-sucky job? Where are you living? With Mom? I disagree with Rysler in that I think if Mom is giving you guilt, she gets to do it if you are living with her rent free - she can insist you keep the sucky job as long as she provides a place for you to sleep.
Yeah, it sounds like it really sucks, but it also sounds like you really need enough money to fix your car and that this is your option until the car is fixed. If there is another way to get to a non-sucky job - fix the car through a loan, fix the car for the $700 you have, rent a room with the $700 closer to the non-sucky job), then quit (do give two weeks notice, not for management’s sake, but for your coworkers).
And I’ve had them as well. My “Shake’s job” had me giving two weeks notice and still showing up on the schedule during week three. When I explained to the manager that I had quit and wouldn’t be there, she insisted I show up because “I was scheduled” - they gave me a “bad reference” for quitting without notice Stupid minimum wage jobs. My last job was sucky because the company was breaking the law and it was my job to audit for it. And when I’d tell them they were breaking the law, nothing would happen. So I quit, it seemed wisest. It paid really well - six figures - but I’m not selling my soul for six figures. So yeah, sucky jobs…
In my experience, your last day is the last day you actually worked, even if you are still getting paychecks for later in the month or even the month afterward (this happens sometimes).
As an anecdote, a friend of a friend resigned without sufficient notice from a local government job. They were told that they would not ever be allowed to work for that county again. Fair enough, they applied at a different county, only to fail the background check and be told that the new county honors “not eligible for rehire” determinations from any county in the state. D’oh!
You’d be surprised at how shitty some state’s labor laws can be. Pennsylvania doesn’t really have any rules regarding breaks for workers unless you’re either under 18 or an agricultural worker (other than breaks under 20 min have to be paid). My last job took advantage of this to avoid giving us a 2nd 15 min break. I once worked at a convenience store were we technically didn’t have formal breaks or lunches at all; we’d just try to wait until it was slow & have 1 person go eat in the back while the other watched the till. Solo-shifts sucked, but those were usually on 3rd shift so where would be long stretches of time w/o any customers in the store. Back to the OP start looking for a new job now and give your notice as soon as you find one; you can find template’s for resignation letters all over the internet. And don’t hesitate to take a job if they want you to start sooner than two weeks; there’s resignation letters for that too.
Great story…and great memories for those of us who are old enough.
But that was in a very,very different world. And it was a world that the 18year olds of today cannot imagine, unfortunately. A strong economy, with a decent future for anybody who wanted to work.
Back in the 1970’s, in my high school there were maybe 500 kids who wanted jobs. And there were 10 fast-food joints lining the roads nearby. Each one provided 50 part time jobs. The math was simple: 10 times 50 = a job for every kid.
The concept of an adult working fast food was bizarre.
Well, having $700 in my pocket and only going to pay about $100 for my car to be fixed through a guy I know still leaves me with $600 which will last me quite a while, at least 4 months, seeming as if I have zero expenses for food, housing, electricity + water. I will stick it out until I find a new job after seeing the advice here, ultimately, and shouldn’t take me more than a month to find a decent place to work but I will put in my 2 week notice.
Also, that sucks about your manager doing that. It also sucks that you had to leave a six figure job because your employer was acting like a-holes.
I live in Alabama and there are no labor laws reguarding breaks here. If an employer wanted to, they could have you work 10 hours straight with no breaks. I honestly hate Dixie.
You’re 18, still living at home, as yet unskilled or unqualified for any other type of work, and you’re bitchin like a mad thing about having to work at a job you hate and the management treat you like shit?
Yep. If I were 18 and living with mommy, I’d clean bedpans while looking for a second job (not a new/easier job, a 2nd job) just to be able to afford being a grown up.
That’s a good plan. Get the car fixed and cast the net wider for a job.
My son is fifteen, and the day is coming where he will be in your shoes - he doesn’t want to develop skills now, and college is more school when he is already sick of it. Which means soon I’ll be in your mother’s shoes - and he won’t be here long living for free if he quits jobs unless he has a darn good reason - and as someone who has quit a job because my boss raped me (only after lining up another job) and quit a job because the company had hired me to audit and then didn’t take action on illegal activities I reported (and only after agreeing with my husband that I was needed at home, or I would have found another job before leaving), having to work hard and wash your hands and use good food safety procedures isn’t going to cut it as a good reason.
As for my job - I’m employable. When I want to go back to work I can. Right now, I’m homeschooling the above son while my husband has worked some very long hours and traveled for work so its what we needed to do anyway.
Mostly 19 year-olds , or 18 yr-olds who had dropped out of school. At least that’s how I remember it.
My point was that, back in the good ol’ days, there were enough jobs for everybody. So , like in post #22, a kid could quit a pizza job and get another job the same day. Even some adults could, too.
The OP has apparently learned that he should not try to do that.
Times have changed.
Shit, I don’t even put months down on my resume anymore. I just list years and if they care to ask, I’ll fill them in. I figure nobody really cares that I worked from Jan 1997 - July 1999 at Job X, and from November 1999-July 2002 at another, and that I was in grad school from Aug 2002-Dec 2004.
I just put down 1997-1999 Job X, 1999-2002 Job Y, and 2002-2004 Grad School. Otherwise little gaps between jobs are magnified and I have to answer a bunch of dumb-ass questions about what I did for a few months here and there, and not saying that I slept late and played a lot of video games.
Guys. This is an 18 year old kid living with his mom looking to quit some crappy minimum wage job, not some vice president of a Fortune 500 company with a 5 year non-compete contract trying to raise a family of four.
What do you guys think will happen? Word will spread on the street that ManMadeMachine doesn’t want to clean up old-people shit for some asshole who screams at him every day? That ManMadeMachine will end up unemployable in the world of minimum wage service workers?
ManMadeMachine is a young man and has plenty of time to grow into one of those people who are so terrified of losing a crappy job they hate that they would suck their bosses dick to keep it.
Although my advice to ManMadeMachine is to maybe figure out what you want to do and start preparing for it so you don’t get stuck in these sort of jobs.
The military might be a good option. True the OP would need to leave home & have to deal with working conditions a lot more unpleasant & dangerous a nursing home kitchen, but the pay and benefits are a lot better than what an 18 yr old fresh out of HS can get just about anywhere else. Granted you can’t just quite the military if you decide you don’t like it.
Stupid minimum wage jobs. My last job was sucky because the company was breaking the law and it was my job to audit for it. And when I’d tell them they were breaking the law, nothing would happen. So I quit, it seemed wisest. It paid really well - six figures - but I’m not selling my soul for six figures. So yeah, sucky jobs…