I was pretty much thinking the same thing. Unless he’s not getting paid, or the job is putting him in some kind of serious danger, he should just start looking for another job.
Here’s a thread addressing this very topic, and it’s actually the one that brought me here. I had to do this last year, and it still bothers me and I think about it every day, but I didn’t have a choice.
As for being unemployable in the world of minimum wage service workers, that does indeed describe me, and I’m unemployable in just about every other field because of the degree that I have, and my experience is not unique. I’m very grateful that I don’t HAVE to work.
No. What you do is find a better job then leave this crappy job for the better one. Unless there is literally “beatings” and other severe labor code, etc violations, it is never good to quit. You look like….well… a quitter.
The idea that he can’t quit this job, because it will leave a gap in his resume is kind of silly. He’s 18. “Wow, it says here that when you were 18 you were unemployed for two months. Well, I don’t think we need that kind of slacker here at OmniCorp. You can show yourself out, thank you.”
Quit your job, don’t quit your job, it doesn’t matter. Except, if you quit your job, where are you gonna get the money you need? This is why people work, because they gots to get paid.
I do agree that you should change your attitude. You’re busting your hump and worried that they’re going to yell at you. Forget that. Who cares? The only thing I can say is that at all the crappy poorly paid jobs I ever had, busting your hump and working your ass off is the easiest way to get through the day. Drag your ass and the day lasts forever. Bust your ass and focus on your job and the day goes by in a flash. Don’t do this to impress your boss, who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. Do it because it’s easier to work hard than it is to piss and moan and roll your eyes and complain.
Don’t listen to your boss’s complaints, measure your performance yourself. Did you do things as quickly and efficiently as possible? Did you avoid major screw ups? Was anyone waiting on you to complete your work before they could do their work? If you did a fair amount of work, then your boss is just a whining bitch who complains for fun and you shouldn’t listen. If she really doesn’t like your work she’s not going to complain, she’s going to fire you. If she wants to suspend you without pay for something that is not your fault, she’s going to have to hire someone else to take your place. Forget about whether it’s fair. Just do your job and collect your paycheck until the job is over.
You’re not going to put this job on your resume once you’re over 20 years old, so forget about your record, and your references. You won’t get any references from this place. Focus on yourself. You need money, they’re giving you money. If you find a better place to give you money then go work for them. Or do something else. Your life.
Though I’d argue that he needs to understand what the job is. “be sanitary, wash this, record your temperatures” are sort of minimum requirements when you are cooking in a nursing home. Food poisoning can kill your residents.
If his boss is yelling at him not to kill the residents, and the yelling is needed because food isn’t served at temperature and things aren’t washed, then he isn’t even meeting the minimum requirements for a minimum wage job.
If he is busting his hump and recording his temperatures, keeping the kitchen sanitary and is still getting yelled at, the boss is not only a jerk, he is wasting his energy and there are probably a ton of better things to yell about.
Plus, if the OP has objections to killing people, the military may not suit.
Still, I agree with the general idea that this is not a life or death decision: in 5 years, no-one will care that he left a minimum wage job at age 18 because it was sucking out his soul. And no-one will care about the precise circumstances of his departure either.
On the other hand, we do need money. So it’s probably a good idea to line up something else before telling his manager to go fuck him or herself and walking out the door with two extended middle fingers. But when that moment arrives, savour it.
Honestly, I wouldn’t give a bouncing barnacle if I could go to work, do what I need to do, then go home.
The problem is being understaffed. You are expected to do these things despite only having 3 people in the kitchen - serving 2 meals within a 8 hour period can get rough. I work as smart as I can and as fast as I can and barely make it, being late every day by like 20 minutes.
Like I said before, I make 7.50 an hour, no benefits, and am expected to do all these duties like be sanitary, record temps, do your non-redtape job, and it’s an issue of being understaffed. And the district manager gets PO’d and yells at us telling us we’re not being effecient when we are. What we really need is an extra person in the kitchen because some things are unreachable simply because there isn’t enough time, like scrubbing walls (Scrubbing walls is the worst part of the job)
I did not do that when I left the job I mentioned earlier in this thread. I gave my non-notice with a very heavy heart; it was just one of those things.
I guess that’s good. And the reality is that when I left a job simply because I could not take it any more, I did much the same thing - I politely shook hands with my manager, handed in my ID card and left discreetly.
But I was 40, not 18. If you’re ever going to say “fuck this job and the horse it rode in on”, do it when you’re young.
In my case, I had been in the ER with what I realized later was a panic attack, and lost about 15 pounds in less than a month; do you know how hard it is for a middle-aged woman to do that? In addition, I had worked there for just 6 months and had moved to an area where I knew absolutely nobody for this job - and was starting to make friends and establish connections there. I also worked with some of the nicest people you could ever meet, my boss being one of them. But I realized that if I worked there just one more day, I would going to be a patient IN the hospital where I worked. No job is worth destroying your health and your life.
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[li]You’ve been at this job for four months.[/li][li]You have $700 to your name.[/li][li]You live at home and have no living expenses.[/li][li]You say you need $100 to fix your car.[/li][li]You want to quit the job without notice.[/li][/ul]
So fix the damn car, now!
Start looking for a new job, now!
If you decide to just quit, do them the courtesy and give them two weeks notice.
I think there have always been adults working crappy jobs. Teenagers who expect to pass through those jobs on their way to better things tend to be oblivious to those for whom this is the rest of their life.
If you’re looking for a customer service job, it seems nowadays that full-sleeve tattoos and extensive body modifications are a REQUIREMENT for these jobs. :rolleyes: I’ve been told, more than once, that I am overqualified by someone like this.
I said that enough times on another website that one poster suggested that I put on some temporary tattoos and go apply for a job, just to see what would happen.
Tell them you are willing to get several tattoos if it will help you get the job.
And as they’re leading you out, start pleading.
“Piercings? Do you guys like piercings? I could get one of those bull nose rings? No? Please, I need this job. Horn implants? Facial spikes? C’mon! No, seriously, please! I’ll even pierce my penis if it will help me get this job! Anything to please the customer!!!”
