The firings continue

[Engineer]

I'm walking out the door on Friday. Even "in this economy" (bullshit saying of the fucking decade), one can get a better job if they look around. Cruising around the Bahamas for a few days before starting the new job though! :biggrin:

 

[lxskllr]

Have fun! :^)

 

[DrPizza]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with that attitude...I've NEVER left any personal property at the job that would bother me to walk away from...

Most of the people I've worked with who retired spent hours carrying things out to their cars, often needing to make more than one trip home to transport all of their "stuff." It's nice to have job security - unless you screw up. (And, I know people who have been fired. It's not that impossible with union workers.)

 

[ShreddedWheat]

I quit my job today...tired of being bitched at for what others below me (supervisors) don't do. They don't do crap and keep their jobs and the hardworkers get screwed. Guess it is easier to fire/lose one good person and keep 2-3 lazy ones? Something else always comes around just might have to do some crap jobs to make ends meet but that is life.

 

[iGas]

This. It's great you have a job right now, but companies like this are total shit. Get out as quickly as you can.


Sounds like a terrible boss. The people who are most likely to quit the job are the people who can quit their job. Immigrants fresh off the boat will stay at a place like McDonalds for years at a time. Someone with a degree who desperately needs a job will work there for the shortest time possible.
If you're talking about a job that can effectively be done by a college student, then you can expect the dude with the master's degree to be gone as soon as the recession is over.

Unless the dude is gunning for the boss job.

 

[BoomerD]

Most of the people I've worked with who retired spent hours carrying things out to their cars, often needing to make more than one trip home to transport all of their "stuff." It's nice to have job security - unless you screw up. (And, I know people who have been fired. It's not that impossible with union workers.)

You're in a little different line of work than I've ever been...and I'm glad as hell! I could NOT be a teacher...I don't have the patience for kids...let alone in a capacity such as yours.
Hell, I worked 7 years for the local electrical utility, and other than a stereo that I installed in my company vehicle, I never left any personal property at work that I cared about.
I guess that's the result of working construction where you're "here today, gone tomorrow."

 

[ShawnD1]

That sucks, I wouldn't go back for personal stuff either. I'm also in the "box under my desk" club. I don't put pictures on my desk, or anything in the drawers. I just have my bag that I bring in each day.

This is pretty much the standard at guy workstations.

Right now I'm using a workstation that belongs to a guy who is currently on vacation while my computer is being delivered and a desk is being set up for me. This dude has absolutely no personal items anywhere. There are huge stacks of printed material, the desk is full of computer software and reference material, there are binders of work related things on the shelves, and there are zero post-it notes on anything.
I don't have any personal items here either. All I have is my lunch, an unmarked coffee cup, and about $1 worth of tea bags.

 

[JSt0rm]

I fucking love my job. Reading through this thread makes me feel it even more. I'm sorry for all of you