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kleinbl00  ·  4069 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you ever quit a job? How did it go?

Hell yes.

I made ends meet my sophomore year in college by working swing shift at 7-11. After watching three hours of VHS tapes about what to do in the event of a robbery, I discovered that the lion's share of my work day dealt with selling scratch tickets to gambling addicts and changing out scorched irish-creme-flavored coffee. One fine evening I made the mistake of opening a magazine and reading it between 2am and 3am.

A week later I was called on the carpet. The owner had been reviewing the surveillance tapes and had noticed that I was committing the cardinal sin of reading.

"Instead of what?" I said.

"Instead of straightening out the store," he said.

"I did that at ten, at midnight, at one and at two," I said.

"Then what's the problem with doing it at two thirty?" he replied.

Faced with impeccable logic, I informed him that I wasn't interested in making $11 an hour to endlessly tidy a 7-11 so poorly managed during the day that the back shelves still had Crystal Pepsi in 1996. There were zero consequences from my decision as three months later I changed cities and spent the next three years mixing bands in clubs for money.

I also resigned with less than a day's notice from a rather terrible bioengineering firm with a nine-person engineering team, of which I, the "intern," was one of two with an actual engineering degree.

There are stories I could tell about Ekos Corporation.





rjw  ·  4067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Please tell us the stories :D

Funny that only one person there apparently has an engineering degree, yet on the website they all claim to have 15+ years experience...

kleinbl00  ·  4067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was 1999. Looking over their masthead I recognize two names.

The head of the department had an engineering degree, but as far as the team went, I was it.