Quit my Job?

[Élistariel]

I just had to check my office email first thing when I got in today. I was PO'd the rest of the day.

I went home and wrote a toast/poem thingy about it to vent:

Here's to my elimination
Worst present ever.
Here's to the longest 90 days
Still just part time?
Here's to the hours I logged in
No benefits
Here's to training the new person
Have fun with that.
Here's to f__ you
I quit.

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"Longest 90 days" I got my 90days evaluation sometime in April. Let's just ignore that April 1st, 2008 was really my 141st day there.

Okay so I haven't actually quit yet, but I was composing that in my head all day at work today since I first sat down and checked my emails to find this beauty.

"I'm going to have to eliminate your position as a permanent position... the nature of the work we have here is evolving and requires that everyone be very versatile and able to do various different positions. Apparently doing my job as well as part of 4 other people's jobs isn't enough. She wasn't getting any points considering when I was reading this, there were two other girls behind me doing different tasks. BOTH of which I can do simultaneously... while reading the email. There are times that the work you do ebbs and flows and dictats a need for a person to do it soley, but I can't justify it as a permanent position on a full or even part time permanent position."
And yet you have a guy come in to have an interview. Yeah, I saw. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say it could have been a drug representative. If she asks me to train anyone come Monday, I'm out. Hell. No.
blah blah blah (didn't feel the need to type it aaallll up.)
I have to eliminate this position as of Sep 1, so your last work day will have to be August 29, unless you yourself prefer not to stay that long, or you find something else that you'd like to start on previous to that."

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you need a reference letter. I'd be happy to provide either. I don't think the other employees or people in the office would want to hear what I'd have to say.
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What. The. Freck?

Audacity anyone? I know I'm not the most valuable employee there, and I'm fine with that. What really gets me is that a few days earlier I emailed her my new address and phone number so she knows I just fracking moved.

Even better? Last week I emailed her a question about how many hours count as full time since I somehow managed to rack up 64 hours in that two week pay period as opposed to my usual 62. One lady I work with said she thought it was 30. :wtf: So I emailed boss-lady to ask her if I had too many hours. (I could just not work on Fridays.) She says it was okay. Every once in a while didn't hurt.
THEN when pay day came I got a $200 bonus. (before taxes). I didn't know what the hell for, and I thought it would've been like looking a gift horse in the mouth to ask.

And then THIS.

I think it's time to drag that gift horse to the glue factory.

Oh and to top it ALL off, it's my birthday tomorrow. Thanks boss-lady.




I learned the place across the street it hiring. I'm going to get my friend to help me come up with a summary for my resume so I can send it over there sometime soon. I don't think I'll be able to tomorrow, I have to go to the DMV.

[oceandreams]

Hey there! I know it's been a couple of days since you posted this so just wanted to say I hope you're on the way to sorting your job and are feeling better about things now!

[Élistariel]

Thanks. I've sent my resume off to several places. I'm choosing to look at this as my way out of the medical field. (Which I've never had a hill of bean's worth of interest in anyhow.)

*crosses fingers*


I just wish more places were hiring. In my area it seems to be all nurses (no nursing degree or experience), and truckers. (Um, no thanks.)

[TygerTyger]

Is there a practical reason why your boss couldn't invite you into the office to break this news to you personally, like geography or something?

Personally, I think that everyone deserves that much respect, unless you,as the manager, are afraid of confrontation or with dealing with difficult situations - in which case they are the wrong person for the job themselves!

Good look with finding an alternative position by the way!

:thumbsup:

[oceandreams]

You'll find something, I just know you will! My hubby is looking at facing redundency too. It doesn't have to be all bad, just a chance at grabbing a new opportunity :)

[Élistariel]

The job hunt isn't going so great right now. The only things in the local paper are for registered nurses and truck drivers.
Any truck drivers looking for a job, come to my area! Seriously, there's a fracking slew of listings for them.

There's a vet office job I want to apply for, but the paper has two positions available and their website has one. I emailed them to ask which was correct. They're taking their sweet time getting back to me. (Hrmph)

Then there are the issue of "apply in person" and "fax resume to."
One, I'm still working. I don't always have time to get to said other place before it closes. Not to mention the issue of finding some of these places. I love when I see an ad online and it says to apply in person, but doesn't give an address. (Gee thanks.) Two, who in heck has a fax in their house? I know I sure don't. I'm also not going to use the office's lone fax machine to fax a resume for another job while I'm at work. It just doesn't seem right.

[ILOVEAUTUMNS]

I'm also not going to use the office's lone fax machine to fax a resume for another job while I'm at work. It just doesn't seem right.


May I ask why you feel this way when the boss is basically kicking you out of your job? She is "encouraging" you to find other employment so why not use the work's fax machine?

[Élistariel]

May I ask why you feel this way when the boss is basically kicking you out of your job? She is "encouraging" you to find other employment so why not use the work's fax machine?

Because I respect my coworkers too much. They're great. That and we're a very busy office with literally ONE fax machine, faxes don't come out on paper, I have to get them off the computer. Plus I don't have time to. literally.




My plan:
Update resume.
Spruce up resume via tips from my friend. (She has an uncle who does that for a living.)
Print off a mess of them to take to various places.

Now to wait till Tuesday. I can't do squat this weekend. I have to clean house and go to a birthday party. Then on Monday I have an eye doc's appointment. Then there's the issue of finding a paper, or at least nabbing the comics sections (which also has classifieds) from my grandparents's house. They don't know I'm job hunting. (Which makes it a pain in the patoot to go anywhere to drop off my resume). I don't want them to know, if they did I would NEVER hear the end of it. I don't need that added stress right now.

Now if only I could find something besides ads for nurses and truck drivers. :lol:

[TygerTyger]

Now if only I could find something besides ads for nurses and truck drivers. :lol:

How about exotic dancers?

Everywhere always wants exotic dancers!

:abanana:

[Terra Mater]

Well, have you tried the free email to fax service at Efax? https://www.efax.com/en/efax/twa/signupFree

I used them during my last job search when I had the same problem.

There is also WinFax Lite a free download that allows you to use your computer to fax documents. http://encoderx.co.uk/fax/

Hope those help a bit.

[Élistariel]

Thanks guys.
I learned my gran has a fax. (You think after growing up there I'd have known that.)

Anyhow she's all for me getting a new job. (She doesn't know that I HAVE to have one by the first of September, just that I need a full time job with benefits.)

That said, I had her fax my resume to a ENT (ear, nose and throat) office that's looking to hire.

[Crysiira]

Good luck to you! I'm looking around for jobs right now too, and I know how frusterating it is. My area is pretty similar to yours in that all that jobs seem to be either in the nursing field or in the hard physical labor type field. Sorry, I can't do either! I took a crap job at a store here and I feel like I already hate it... I know I just need to give myself time to get used to it, but still... I don't know. I need something out of retail, I think. I've worked in retail too long. I'm burned out.

Good luck to everyone searching for jobs lately. It seems there are so many layoffs and other things going around... it's ridiculous.