[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"][QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]Quitting a job.guynamedbilly
too true. Only job I quit (that I did not like, I quit other jobs due to school and stuff) was a 70-80 hour per week job as a chef. It was a good money (15 dollars an hour, with double and triple overtime) but honestly it was not worth it.
I make 10 an hour now and I am so much happier even though technicaly I qualify for welfare (I dont take it though) lol
Heh that's pretty much exactly the situation I was in earlier this year. Our company was still going strong money wise, but the management wanted to take advantage of the employer's job market, which caused me to pick up the work of two other workers and work 80-90 hours a week. I took it for a while until they cut pay by about 25% and then that was just too much. Leaving there was the happiest feeling I've felt in a while.haha totally.
my only regret was the way I quit. I think it was like my third 16-hour day in a row and I essentially asked my boss "Is this how its going to be?" and he replied "Yes" and I was like "Well, I quit"
I feel bad because I was needed but, you know, I had just gotten my college degree and I was a little high on my own farts at the time. In my defense, I was hired under false pretenses: I was supposed to be developing recipes and doing quality assurance, but all I did was restaurant grunt work; I would show up at 6am, chop cilantro for 3 hours, dice bell pepper for two hours, and do other mundane crap).
In hind sight I should have done the normal thing and given them my two weeks, but damn it felt good to toss that guy my apron and towel, pack up my knives, go home, and sleep for 14 hours and spend the next two months looking for my current job. The restaurant business is a boatload of fun, but it drains the hell out of you if you are not happy. I would sooner take my old chef's job at this small italian joint for 12 buck and hour, 10 hours a day, than work that job. At least I had some diversity there as far as my work went.
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