# Take this Bluelight Special and Shove it!-or Guin finally quits her job at Kmart **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673 "2002-09-20T00:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/1 "2002-09-20T00:18:56Z")
Well, I told you guys over at Fathom, but might as well post it here too. That’s right-I QUIT at Kmart. I couldn’t take it. I had to leave early on Saturday when I couldn’t stop crying, and I had to call off Sunday and Monday. I had told Robin I could only work a couple days a week, very short shifts. She gives me another five in a row. Yes, I’m AWARE that people work a lot more than I do, and they do it well. Yes, I know I’m a spoiled little brat who can’t handle it. However, since I’m a Spoiled Brat Who Can’t Handle It, and I do nothing but cry while there, I DREAD going in, and I’m miserable at the thought of going back, biting on my lips until they bleed while I’m there, I thought-fuck it.\* I KNEW I wouldn’t be able to get through the rest of the week. I just KNEW it. Now, I’m done. In the meanwhile, I’m contacting the career advisement center over at La Roche. SOMETHING has to come up. (For those who will call me a whiny crybaby, tough shit. I would LOVE to be able to work a full work day without going into a panic attack-however, I’ve tried and tried to do that for seven years, -in retail, at least-and I never could. I was constantly nasty and miserable. It wasn’t worth it. For the record, I am a very hard worker, but I need something CHALLENGING and MEANINGFUL. I need to know that I’m doing something important, that will have an impact. Not just shoving socks and cds over a scanner). ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/2 "2002-09-20T00:22:40Z")
One of the happiest days of my life was when I quit my job of 6 years at the A&P. Yeah, I was looking at poverty for a few months (I was doing my student teaching at the time and couldn’t be working in addition to that), but maaaaaan, it felt sweet. Burn that K-Mart apron, girl! Burn it! And if you wanna come on board as my maid, I can pay you in Cheez-Its. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/3 "2002-09-20T00:23:33Z")
Good for you! A bad job is a bad job, no matter what, and if anyone’s gonna call you a crybaby for leaving someplace that you’re miserable, well, they suck. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/4 "2002-09-20T00:23:56Z")
I hear ya **Guinastasia** , underemployment can be harder emotionally than unemployment and it sounds like you have been working in an unchallenging environment for a long time. Good luck with the job hunt ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/5 "2002-09-20T00:24:30Z")
How 'bout a job at Wal-Mart. (d&r) Really, congrats Guin. It can be tough leaving a job, even a shitty one. But it’s always the right choice. Life’s too short to spend any time in a job that’s not suited to you. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/6 "2002-09-20T00:53:24Z")
Good for you, Guin! I bet you’ll find a much better job! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/7 "2002-09-20T01:04:27Z")
Well, that’s it. There is officially No Reason on Earth to ever go into a KMart again. I give thanks nightly that I’ve never had to work retail, and I congratulate you for getting out of it. There’s a good job for you out there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/8 "2002-09-20T01:12:04Z")
**{{{{{{{GUINASTASIA}}}}}}}** You go, girl! I’m for you 100%. I, too, have known the joy of quitting K-Fart. You have a much better, brighter future awaiting you. Walk forward into the light! (One that is not Blue, of course.) I was just wondering what took you so long. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/9 "2002-09-20T01:19:10Z")
I suggest you look for work in the public sector. Look at government or not-for-profits. Pyschologically it’s very different, much less stressful, and you can feel like you’re actually contributing to the benefit of society. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/10 "2002-09-20T01:26:44Z")
May I heartily second **yojimboguy’s** suggestion of gubmint jobs. I worked in our county courthouse the past two summers and spent more time on the SDMB and Fark than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/11 "2002-09-20T01:28:38Z")
I third it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/12 "2002-09-20T01:28:58Z")
Congratulations, Guin. And no, you’re not a whiny crybaby. When what a job takes from you outweighs all it gives back, move on without remorse. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/13 "2002-09-20T01:41:39Z")
If you’d worked there a week and hated it and quit I’d tell you to stiffen your back, take a deep breath, and jump once more into the breech. I’d tell you that new jobs, even dream jobs, suck the first week and you have to have the gumption to stick it out. If you’d worked there a month and hated it, I’d tell you to be patient. But you worked there for what, three years? That’s more than long enough to “prove” that you’ve got the gumption to keep going back, but you simply choose not to. Furthermore, **Guin** , I daresay that if you had two kids who were relying on you next paycheck or an elderly parent to support, you _would_ go work those five days, you _would_ finish the week. But you are fortunate enough to be in a position where you have choices–don’t for a second feel guilty for taking advantage of them. There will be enough times in your life when you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/14 "2002-09-20T01:41:54Z")
I have to give you a lot of credit for this. Finish your degree, look around carefully, and try to find a job that you can at least tolerate, if not love. A career isn’t something that just happens to you, it’s something you have to build. I feel like a jerk for mentioning this, but I came to within a fly’s whisker of quitting my job yesterday, after a particularly nasty meeting with my boss’ boss. Today, said uberboss promised to take away some of my BS process work and feed me some more challenging assignments. Some times things just work out. Some times they don’t, and when they don’t you have to protect yourself. You did the right thing. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/15 "2002-09-20T01:44:35Z")
I know where you’re coming from, because I did exactly the same thing myself at the end of July. I worked in a department store for 5 years, as a sales demonstrator on behalf of a domestic appliance manufacturer, and loved my work. But the store management completely spoiled any enjoyment I got from the job, and in the end I dreaded turning up each day in anticipation of all the crap I would have to put up with. After sticking the situation out for two years, enough was enough and I had to go. You know, I have to admit that I felt great as soon as I did it. The rhymes-with-rich who was my boss asked my reasons, so I told her in detail and then get the hell out of there. Ditching the job and regaining my sanity has done me the world of good, and I’ve noticed a huge change in myself for the better. As it is I have a short temper anyway, but even that has improved since leaving that hellhole. Of course, the downside is that I’m living off my savings right now, and my search for a new job has been pretty fruitless so far. But you’ve just got to stay optimistic, because just when you think you’re nearing rock bottom, something always comes up and everything turns out OK. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/16 "2002-09-20T02:07:47Z")
**yojimbo** , I totally agree, I’ve worked in the public sector for years and it has a lot of good things going for it. Whatever your job is, you know you’re not working mostly to make a few a lot richer, but you’re providing a service that the citizens of [wherever] want provided. THAT’s the bottom line. It’s meaningful, and on days when you need to feel like you’re actually contributing to society, you can remind yourself of that. **Guin** , this is a really momentous occasion, you know that? Congratulations! I hope you find something really good. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/17 "2002-09-20T02:34:08Z")
It feels so good doesn’t it? I just recently quit a job I hated and it was the best feeling on earth. I wish you the best of luck :). ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/18 "2002-09-20T02:45:05Z")
It’s funny, but this thread alone makes me happy to see the board back. Guin, you deserve much better and I wish you all the best in the world. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/19 "2002-09-20T03:00:07Z")
Oh, and since my prior post didn’t make it clear: Congratulations. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673/20 "2002-09-20T03:13:19Z")
Well, FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINALLY!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: 😃 go guin! \<\< smooch \>\> 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-this-bluelight-special-and-shove-it-or-guin-finally-quits-her-job-at-kmart/128673.md?page=2)