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1. Have you ever quit a job? Tell us a little about it.
Many.
Donut shop after maybe a month - got tired of smelling like a cigarette butt.
Battery store (yes, there is such a lame thing as a store that sells nothing but batteries) - worked for an ex, wasn't an ex when I started, and it wasn't a pretty break-up. But there were other reasons too. Company policy was actually to lie on the timesheets about hours to avoid giving legally required breaks, and arranging things so you couldn't even go to the washroom for three to five hours at a stretch, so there were other problems.
Laser tag place - boss was later fired for assault on an employee, so that may give you an idea what working there was like.
A lab job where everything was okay except one member of the lab was an abusive, sexist pig who was harassing me and I eventually had enough of him.
A retail job I quit to go to Australia (I only got the job to raise money to go, and I had the plane booked before I started there, I just neglected to mention it, anyway, I worked to the end of the Christmas season and then left, probably saving them the ordeal of firing someone and saved someone else their job)
2. Have you ever been fired? Tell us a little about it.
Again, many. Entirely retail, mostly end of Christmas season, store closure and the like. One incident of idiotically hiring me to work the one day of the week I told them in the interview that I could not work - or at least that was the reason they gave.
3. Have you ever been bought as part of a merger or takeover? Tell us a little about it.
Nope
4. Of all the jobs you've had, which job were you saddest to leave? Why?
The lab job. I loved my supervisor and I really wanted to do the right thing and come through for him as a successful grad student. I'm still not entirely sure I made the right decision. He offered to take the other guy to task because I was perfectly honest about why I quit. But I was also perfectly honest that I feared if he knew I was the reason he didn't get his doctorate that he might do something really stupid like stalk or kill me. There's still a part of me that wonders if I shouldn't have just toughed it out until he defended six months later and worked towards being a prof like I was planning at the time.
5. Of all the jobs you've had, which job were you happiest to leave? Why?
Has to be either the one where I was working for the ex or the laser tag place. With the laser tag place I actually waited to time it so there were 3 or 4 or us (of a staff of 12 I think) leaving in the same week. I actually tried to make it as painful as possible to make up for the misery they'd put me through. Though finally getting out from under the eyes of the ex was also a great relief.
altfriday5:1. Have you ever quit a job? Tell us a little about it.
Many.
Donut shop after maybe a month - got tired of smelling like a cigarette butt.
Battery store (yes, there is such a lame thing as a store that sells nothing but batteries) - worked for an ex, wasn't an ex when I started, and it wasn't a pretty break-up. But there were other reasons too. Company policy was actually to lie on the timesheets about hours to avoid giving legally required breaks, and arranging things so you couldn't even go to the washroom for three to five hours at a stretch, so there were other problems.
Laser tag place - boss was later fired for assault on an employee, so that may give you an idea what working there was like.
A lab job where everything was okay except one member of the lab was an abusive, sexist pig who was harassing me and I eventually had enough of him.
A retail job I quit to go to Australia (I only got the job to raise money to go, and I had the plane booked before I started there, I just neglected to mention it, anyway, I worked to the end of the Christmas season and then left, probably saving them the ordeal of firing someone and saved someone else their job)
2. Have you ever been fired? Tell us a little about it.
Again, many. Entirely retail, mostly end of Christmas season, store closure and the like. One incident of idiotically hiring me to work the one day of the week I told them in the interview that I could not work - or at least that was the reason they gave.
3. Have you ever been bought as part of a merger or takeover? Tell us a little about it.
Nope
4. Of all the jobs you've had, which job were you saddest to leave? Why?
The lab job. I loved my supervisor and I really wanted to do the right thing and come through for him as a successful grad student. I'm still not entirely sure I made the right decision. He offered to take the other guy to task because I was perfectly honest about why I quit. But I was also perfectly honest that I feared if he knew I was the reason he didn't get his doctorate that he might do something really stupid like stalk or kill me. There's still a part of me that wonders if I shouldn't have just toughed it out until he defended six months later and worked towards being a prof like I was planning at the time.
5. Of all the jobs you've had, which job were you happiest to leave? Why?
Has to be either the one where I was working for the ex or the laser tag place. With the laser tag place I actually waited to time it so there were 3 or 4 or us (of a staff of 12 I think) leaving in the same week. I actually tried to make it as painful as possible to make up for the misery they'd put me through. Though finally getting out from under the eyes of the ex was also a great relief.
