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Sep 18, 2009 02:54

So I just looked at my schedule for next week. No days off. Won't be able to make it to game at all. I'm seriously getting depressed and enraged about this. I really, REALLY, REALLY want to fucking quit but can't come up with a good plan. I can't see any fucking alternative right now. But I need to get out. FUCK. I wish I had the time to ( Read more... )

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dragonhealer00 September 18 2009, 12:18:15 UTC

Hang in there man. Things will not always be thus. When you get a chance...continue to look for some thing else.
And try to look forward to the one good thing in it. The pay check will be good.
That's what I do when I'm stuck working twelve hours a day, seven days a week...or working tens and having to commute back and forth from Everett.

danarchy84 September 18 2009, 17:08:16 UTC

Not really much in the getting a chance department. Whenever I do get a day off, it's a singular day sandwiched between a night shift and a morning shift (so I wake up late and have to go to bed early). The free time I do have is mostly spent on getting caught up on what I need to do.

I think the most annoying thing is that I don't see any end to this in sight. We're in an employee deficit and have been for a couple months now at least. People keep walking out or getting fired, and of the 9-10 people who have left, they've hired like 3-4 and seem to be in no hurry to hire more. On Wednesday we lost two more people, so it just got a bit worse. I think they intend to work all their remaining employees to death. :|

dragonhealer00 September 18 2009, 22:49:31 UTC

If you truly don't think the job is worth the hassle...then quit. I've done that once or twice before myself.
On the other hand...putting in one application every time you have a day off isn't that difficult. And will pay off in terms of getting some thing that will get you out of there.

danarchy84 September 19 2009, 03:53:45 UTC

Well, I'd like to have a plan in order before I quit, though I'm starting to care about that less and less. As it is, I do have a bit of a cushion because I'm living with my dad and I have a few hundred stashed away in the bank that might let me survive another month. Still, I'd rather have something better than that.

Since I have only one day off a week, I'm basically spending the whole day doing groceries or other errands, doing laundry, cleaning the kitchen, doing dishes, cleaning my room a bit, or anything other work that has piled up over the week. It leaves little room for anything else.

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ichiban_victory September 18 2009, 14:12:09 UTC

You need to learn to see work not as a job you hate, but as a more positive thing to look forward to. (I would invent little games for myself at work, such as seeing how fast I can get a task accomplished within the time given.) Do that and it'll help the work not seem so awful.

If nothing else, I would use long work hours to let my mind dwell on various things. One can receive enlightenment, even while on the job. ;)

danarchy84 September 18 2009, 17:12:32 UTC

I think it would be better if I wasn't being constantly reminded by my bosses that I'm doing a terrible job. :/

I do like a lot of my coworkers, so I don't mind too much being around them, but I'd still like some free time so I can get some writing done, practice my guitar, clean my room, get outside (I've gone completely pale again from a lack of sun), or something.

ichiban_victory September 19 2009, 01:14:45 UTC

Have you ever thought to ask your bosses how they would prefer you do your job? Sincerely. And just because someone gets on your case for a bad job doesn't mean they hate you. (Wouldn't they have fired you already if that were truly the case?) I've worked in the same place for over four years now, and I know my boss and the baker well, yet they will still get on me if I do a poor job. It's not because they hate me, but because they want the job to be done right. Sometimes you have to set your notions aside to really know what is going on.

You can still do the things you want, it just requires managing your time. Enjoy every free minute for what it is, and if nothing else, pack a regular notebook to work with you to make use of that downtime you were complaining about. ;) This also works well for getting reading in as well.

danarchy84 September 19 2009, 03:30:05 UTC

Believe me, I've tried. They give me paradoxical orders (like telling me I need to bring the soups out to the alley when they're not 165 degrees yet, even though it's against state regulations), and when I confront them about it they respond by...walking away. They seem to be particularly inept with situations like that...a couple weeks ago they told us a half hour into the shift "oh hey, we don't have a dish washer scheduled tonight, we'll let you guys figure out how to handle that".

The problem is, all the work has fried my brain. I have basically no creative thought process anymore. Whenever I try to think, my mind just draws a blank. So I pretty much spend what free time I have vegging out by watching movies or something.

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themadgirl September 18 2009, 16:52:14 UTC

But hey, you got a job, right? Better than nothing. I'm still having trouble finding something! & Now my Math class will be starting soon, all the jobs I seem to find at the moment are earlier the week. I would love to get something Thursday-Sunday, but having no luck at the moment ( ... )

danarchy84 September 18 2009, 17:27:18 UTC

I'd like to take a vacation, but I'd be really tempted to never come back from it. :P On top of the long hours, I just feel like I'm being treated like crap. I'm constantly being reminded of how bad of a job I'm doing, they're implementing all kinds of insane policies for us to follow, they seem to have a no-fun policy (they took away our radio because it's "against Red Lobster standards", we get reprimanded for socializing or taking breaks), and they keep giving me shit like morning shifts after night shifts and split shifts with hour-and-a-half breaks (which isn't enough time to go home, but still enough time that I spend most of it sitting around being bored ( ... )

balony_samitch September 19 2009, 02:02:08 UTC

uh, reprimanded for taking breaks? Dont sign the thingy that says you got your breaks then, and figure out who to talk to about that. I've heard its like, a $3k fine per break violation.

danarchy84 September 19 2009, 03:48:51 UTC

Well, if you go up and directly state you're taking a break, they can't deny you it. Still, the way they see it, if you're not working and on the clock, you're wasting their time. So if you stop to stretch or say a few words to someone and they catch you, they'll bitch at you. They also look at anything like this or break-taking as a reason to deny you hours or raises. I was actually denied an extra 25 cent raise at my last review because my boss at the time claimed he saw me standing around too much when I was in they alley. I have no idea what he's talking about because the only times I'm standing around doing "nothing", is when I'm taking a minute to collect my thoughts on the next task, and even then I'm often wiping down a counter or straightening something while I do so ( ... )