What do you do?
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Fifey
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I've decided to stay with my job since the other shops in the area I'm willing to work aren't hiring or up to my quality.
Ended up asking for a 4 dollar/hr raise which they said no to of course, so told them to turn me commission (it's usually a commission based job but I had a weird deal) so now instead of paying me an extra 160 a week, they are going to be paying an extra 300 a week. Sucks for them.
Ended up asking for a 4 dollar/hr raise which they said no to of course, so told them to turn me commission (it's usually a commission based job but I had a weird deal) so now instead of paying me an extra 160 a week, they are going to be paying an extra 300 a week. Sucks for them.
Fifey
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Traditionally yes, but back when I started we worked a deal that they would pay me hourly because I did a lot of our exotics/restoration and other money losing jobs.
Noodleface
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Heh work made it easy, they rescinded their counter offer. They think I won't be the only one leaving..
Cad
scientia potentia est
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You need to make this happen. At some point when you're discussing transition, you need to corner your boss and be like. Look, I would have been worried about leaving, as to whether my duties would be covered. But since you guys hired [old useless meeting guy], I think you're going to be JUST FINE. Then chuck him on the shoulder, give a villain laugh, and turn your back and walk away.
Make it happen bro. Seriously.
Noodleface
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I can't even do that with a straight face man. The guy is terrible and my boss knows it.
It'd be one thing if he couldn't do the job, but he ties everyone up helping him so he drives us all down.
It'd be one thing if he couldn't do the job, but he ties everyone up helping him so he drives us all down.
Tarrant
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It's frustrating because I just got done turning around an account that had 20% of it's contractual spend trending to now being at 137% of it. The account had been stagnant for almost two years and we were ready to terminate their buying agreement. They are now on track to spend almost $575,000 with us this year.
But because the 4 others that work my position in this market have all been here over 10 years they will stay on. I was on track for presidents club.
-lesigh-
I have an interview lined up next week it looks like.
Cad
scientia potentia est
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Its hard to look at it this way when its putting you in hardship right now, but long term I think a company that fires you for a shitty reason is doing you a favor by limiting your time investment into a company that will fire you for a shitty reason. I think this will work in your favor eventually, but short term it sucks.
Topical somewhat -
Just lost my job this morning - basically an ex female employee complained to our current HR manager that she couldn't come in to the store because I made her uncomfortable. That, combined with the fact that I'm dating an employee that works with me, (not for me), showed a "pattern of inappropriate behavior with female employees."
Was about to hit my 4 year anniversary, been with this group for 6 years (2 as an outside contractor). Loved what I did, loved the team (insert loved them too much joke here).
Time to move on. I'm confident in my ability, I've already got a network of people looking for something that will re-energize me and keep me happy. I'm seeing this as the impetus to moving on - have been extremely disappointed with a lot of the company decisions as of late, so while my day to day was awesome, it was getting harder to love the companies direction in our business segment. I really thought I'd retire with this company, but then I had to go and fall in love with someone who worked there, and my boss, who we had his blessing (as well as HRs blessing) did say that these things never end up well. Oh well.
I'm very mobile, not tied to living anywhere in particular. Have reasonable (70k depending on cost of living) salary requirements, and a strong resume of operations/logistics and training development.
This weekend will be a classic cigar and wine bender, with lots of Xbox One fuckery, and then next week starts the job hunt. Always easier when you have a job than when you don't, but I'll make do.
Feel like I got rail-roaded basically - how does an ex employee, who left on her own terms, get to have so much power over someone else - they just wanted to cut ties and move on I suppose instead of taking some kind of lawsuit risk.
So much fun. First time I've actually been fired. 39 years old. If there was more to the story I'd tell you all, but of course they don't need to provide everything to me, so I don't really know if there was more. I wasn't skeevy, and no one currently there thinks I'm a creep or anything - oh well.
Bleah.
Just lost my job this morning - basically an ex female employee complained to our current HR manager that she couldn't come in to the store because I made her uncomfortable. That, combined with the fact that I'm dating an employee that works with me, (not for me), showed a "pattern of inappropriate behavior with female employees."
Was about to hit my 4 year anniversary, been with this group for 6 years (2 as an outside contractor). Loved what I did, loved the team (insert loved them too much joke here).
Time to move on. I'm confident in my ability, I've already got a network of people looking for something that will re-energize me and keep me happy. I'm seeing this as the impetus to moving on - have been extremely disappointed with a lot of the company decisions as of late, so while my day to day was awesome, it was getting harder to love the companies direction in our business segment. I really thought I'd retire with this company, but then I had to go and fall in love with someone who worked there, and my boss, who we had his blessing (as well as HRs blessing) did say that these things never end up well. Oh well.
I'm very mobile, not tied to living anywhere in particular. Have reasonable (70k depending on cost of living) salary requirements, and a strong resume of operations/logistics and training development.
This weekend will be a classic cigar and wine bender, with lots of Xbox One fuckery, and then next week starts the job hunt. Always easier when you have a job than when you don't, but I'll make do.
Feel like I got rail-roaded basically - how does an ex employee, who left on her own terms, get to have so much power over someone else - they just wanted to cut ties and move on I suppose instead of taking some kind of lawsuit risk.
So much fun. First time I've actually been fired. 39 years old. If there was more to the story I'd tell you all, but of course they don't need to provide everything to me, so I don't really know if there was more. I wasn't skeevy, and no one currently there thinks I'm a creep or anything - oh well.
Bleah.
Vinen
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Vinen
God is dead
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