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Put in my notice today, and it feels great! It's been a long time coming...

I took a job at a local ice-cream shop 3 years ago to pay bills/save for whatever.

Job was fun, for a while. Boss quit, new boss came in, didn't like new boss as much as old boss....

Never got a raise, got promoted to a position that pays better, only when I work nights.
(I never got scheduled to work nights. Surprise?)

MINIMUM MINIMUM MINIMUM wage, and it never ended.

And, here I am, quitting, and sticking it to the man. Feels good.

Anyone else doing this/Done this/Hate their shitty job?

Bitcoin? Haha. :)

Disclaimer: Not thinking straight with so little sleep. Don't care. Discuss.

Find a job you love to do and do it well.

My job is in I.T. and I love it.

Work is play.

Bitcoin is just icing on the cake because I enjoy economics/trading/and all the technical aspects of bitcoin.

Welcome to the 23% club.

I was a cook at a local diner. I had a group of 20+ come in for lunch without any warning. The owner/manager seemed to have a bad concept of time because 15 minutes after they placed their order she comes back to the kitchen, freaking out, saying they've been waiting over 45 minutes for their food. I told her she was full of shit so she decided to jump on the grill and push me out of the way. Now I've been cooking in restaurants much busier than this one for over 10 years but you never ever ever ever ever push the cook out of the way and insult his work. I threw my apron on the floor and yelled as loud as possible "FUCK THIS SHIT, I'M OUT!!!!" and slammed the door on the way out. I later found out all the customers were like WTF?!?! and she ruined all their lunches. It was the most dramatic exit I've ever made from a job.

Well done! Mine is almost as good. I was working drivethrough, got fed up, and tossed the headset into the box of fries. 3 weeks later, they asked me to come back.  ;D

jobs are for the weak. cant tell the last time i worked a solid 9-5... but i live rent free so its not as strenuous lol

I've worked and quit at a ton of those jobs, congrats on putting another one behind you.  Currently I work in IT and have an awesome boss and I like it almost as much as I could like anything where I had to show up everyday at 6:30am.

Because they won't give you a raise unless you ask for it. Last job, I got these stupid penny raises (Part-time job). $0.17, and dumb shit like that.

At my current job (after working there 8 months. Should have asked after 6 months) I told my boss I'd like to talk to him in private. I then ask for a raise, he immediately said he'd give me a 20% raise before I asked for 10-15%. As long as you are outperforming your original work since you first started, you are worthy a raise.

"Is not the laborer worthy of his wages?"

Ahaha, everyone has told me that I should have asked. I got promoted to a position that paid $9.75 hourly, but never got to work in the situation where I actually earn that. (Shift Managing)
General manager was a gigantic douche and scheduled me for non shifty shifts. So, that escalated into quitting.

TL;DR     I know. Should've asked.

Super market?

No, service. Food service. Picture your favorite fast food, except it's not fast food.

Working at a supermarket would have been much more tolerable in my opinion.

Man got balls.


Let me see:

1. Told manager at a business I'd had enough with his stupid rules and lack of decent pay, and said 'I quit', and then I went off.
2. Worked two jobs once, and had to stay in the first a while after having started in the second. Was tired, and ignored a request for a weekend on the first job. Was sacked the following monday from the first job.
3. Worked for a lady that was really sexist and more like a millitary seargent than anything else. Constantly picked on me for minor things. I could do 200 things right, then 1 wrong, and immediately get called to her office for a 'stern' talking. Never got positive feedback for the 99% good stuff I did, only complaints for the 1% negative stuff, which often wasn't that negative in my mind. I told to her face, exactly what all employees said about her behind her back, then I left and didn't come back. Lots of regular customers called me and asked me what was up. No wonder the place had a high turnover.

Bottom line, value your employees, and they want to do their best. Threat them like shit, and expect those with a spine to strike back at you. I understand some people need the money and so on. But in the long run it is not worth it, your self confidence will be suffering, and also your self worth.

A couple decades ago, I was working as a waiter at a restaurant that just went through a lawsuit for being racist. One day this couple came in and I proceeded to seat them. Every table in the restaurant was cleaned and set properly with the exception of one. I passed them by that table and offered them one of the clean ones. They requested to sit at the dirty table. I asked, "This one?" They replied in the affirmative, whereupon I took by arm and placed in on the table using it as a shovel to clear the table of its mess unto the floor, then said to them, "There you go, folks!" At that point, they started to scream that I was a racist, and it was at this point that I realized they were Afro-Americans. During the fuss, I told the manager to deal with it, and left.

A quick back story: Prior to those guests entering the restaurant, there was a bit of snafu that weighed heavily on my mind that probably contributed to my actions.

~Bruno~

Really?

Good for you! The land of the free and the brave needs more of you.

I work for myself and am also starting a mobile marketing plan for local businesses.

I normally enjoy engineering, it can be very fun/interesting/rewarding. But my employers recently put me on a bullshit project where I manually time how long it takes ANOTHER guy to do manual labor. Since I have ADHD, going from autonomy and producing results to... this... has been excruciating in a way that is difficult for me to describe. I'd rather be the guy doing the manual labor if I could keep my paycheck.

It actually coincided with the current rally, so I've found myself entertaining "I quit" fantasies similar to what you guys describe. C'mon $1000/BTC! :D

Whoops! I hate it when people do that. But in my defense, I was drinking a little too much last night. Actually, way too much...

]It has it's up's and down's. I worked front end for two years. You got to keep in mind that every needs to eat, so you will have to deal with every type of person.

I once had this stupid bimbo walk up to my counter, rang up her food, then she starts incoherently bitching at me. "What's wrong ma'am?" "THIS THING! IT DOESN"T FUCKING WORK" "Well, hold on, let me see". I proceed to check the Creditcard PIN machine. She cuts me off right before I tell her that it seems to be in perfect working condition. "IT WAAYYY TO DIM! HOW THE FUCK ARE CUSTOMERS SUPPOSE TO SEE IT IF IT"S NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH?!". (I chuckle a little on the inside) "I am very sorry, ma'am. I'll have maintenance check on it right away". She finishes paying, then leaves. I turn around to my manager, he's already facepalming and laughing his ass off. The chick was wearing sunglasses.

Don't work in a super market.

All is forgiven, then. Booze is one of the universal excuses.


Oh, the stories I could tell.... That one's a good one, though.

That was just the thing.. We got shit customers like that too. We dip cones, and people would ask to mix flavors. We'd explain that it contaminates one flavor with another, and can't do it. On more than one occasion, customers would throw anything we made away, and demand it be remade. "I THREW IT OUT BECAUSE YOU DID A SHIT JOB. MAKE IT GOOD THIS TIME."
Beverages have been thrown on our windows, we've been robbed, and all the while, our boss who simply owns the building refuses to let us managers work with a full crew because he's a cheap bastard...

Whoops.

Having low stress and being able to drop off and pick up my kids from school is worth the low pay of my current job. Plus my wife earns a shitload as a manager in her job which more than covers the bills. I quit my last job by backing the truck into a bulldozer  :D

No, love my job, I have a manager who actually knows how to manage people *and* still get clinical work done. I look forward to coming to work in the morning.

NEET?

...A job one looks forward to? What the hell do you do? Build the cardboard tanks for BAE Systems?

(On a side note, I would love to build the cardboard tanks for BAE Systems...)

No, I work in a children's hospital.

My boss is a cool guy and my job is basically my dream job. Even if I was unhappy, why would I quit and give up a goodly amount of income in this economy?

Because you wouldn't. That's the kind of job you wouldn't quit!



I've got another job as a paper carrier, which nets me about 30k pretax while I still attend college.
The job I quit? 4,000 plus some odd change for my federal/state return.

I worked about the same hours at both jobs. After getting promoted several times at the paper, quitting became much more appetizing at the ice cream place.

I might also add in that I've been working on and off at the paper since I was about 5 years old. Boss is also my father. Now, I wouldn't be making QUITE as much as I do if that wasn't the case, but I do a damn better job than most of the half-brains he employs. I make fun of people/students/kids with poor work ethic, and I think I am in a position where that's not hypocritical.

I wish I made a goodly amount...

I grant your wish! You shall now make as much as the goddess Penia.

All work is self-employment. There is no indentured servitude anymore, except sometimes in prison. Whether you fulfill a contract or punch a clock, you have opportunities to learn valuable skills which can translate into areas you never imagined. If you hate your boss, what would you do different? If you feel strongly about something the boss does, are you afraid to say so to their face? Personally, I think Fifth Avenue management tactics in America are pretty fail and executives are often downright criminal.

I quit 12 months ago from a cosmetic company :)
ups and downs since then, but an interesting ride.

Dream Big !

I work 8 hours a day. 5 days a week... I hardly do any work.... I get paid a decent wage for what I do..... I can't complain......... I am sitting at home on the PC writing this post and getting paid for it...



Yeah paid lunch... :P

Thanks for giving me an opportunity to complain.

I used to love my job, I'm decently paid and am responsible for some things that actually make a big difference to my company. My job has been getting worse for years, management have run the company into the ground and there is no longer money for essential equipment, some months wages get paid late. The assistant I was promised never turned up, The day I was meant to interview him I was told there was a change of plan and I'm not getting him. If I leave there is nobody to do any part of my job. Management are all scared of the micromanaging control freak CEO. This CEO is screwing a secretary half his age who now gets paid 3 times the going rate and gets a company car too. The rest of the management are too spineless to do anything about that situation. This CEO nitpicks everything to find problems that in most cases don't even exist then demands solutions to them. The company refuses to hire sales staff or advertise their core products although there seems to be a huge market we are not even attempting to sell to. The idea of paying sales staff on commission won't even be discussed. Current sales are not enough to reliably keep the company functioning but advertising costs money so they don't do that. The suggestion that we should make the website prettier ( because it currently looks like shit ) was met by an email flame war that lasted weeks. The website still looks like shit. The entire management team appear to be arrogant to the point of telling anyone who will listen that their potential customers are wrong about everything. Anyone who comes up with improvements for anything is given hell by the management who appear to be bitter that they have not come up with a single good idea this century. The company insists on employing an army of pointless administration staff who spend months doing pointless tasks like picking a color for a new carpet when there is no need and no money to buy new carpets. Email has become a torture tool with vast floods of irrelevant mails flooding everyone's mailbox. The CEO appears to spend 6 hours a day reading email and doesn't understand why everyone else doesn't do the same thing. Good staff are quitting and useless staff are staying only making the situation worse.

Good on you Electricbees. I think you did the right thing. Now go find something better and do it well! EDIT: I see you already did.

How's the market for a new job for you?

It's suppressed but it does exist. I should get off my fat ass and start looking.