I Quit!!!

[peeonme]

Okay, fear not... I am not quitting JUB...
However I just saw a vid. with an employer saying that a former employee that had left under "good circumstances" wanted to come back. This employer said that the former worker had done a good job but "left when he (the employer) needed him".

To me this reeks of narcissism. How many employers even begin to think about an employees needs? When it's time to trim the fat so they can afford their new car or another bigger home do they even care about that worker who is just about 2 weeks away from going broke?

I worked as a tool room machinist for many years, when I entered the trade back in the 1970's it was a given that a person had a right to look for better pay and benefits. To keep workers regular raises and better benefits were provided. Most job shops were a revolving door, if the boss was an asshole you didn't stay, if more money was available down the street off you went. The mind set was that you were not there just to make the boss richer but rather you were there to improve your life while doing a job that did in fact increase profits for your employer.

I only gave a 2 weeks notice one time. I worked for a Catholic family that lived their faith. They were honest and kind. When I gave notice that I had found a better job they were happy for me and told me that if it didn't work out I was welcomed back. They had no feelings of betrayal, no "how dare you" attitude.

Over the years the American work place has turned to shit. Then we wonder why there are so many help wanted signs in front of factories. What are your experiences?

 

[unloadonme]

What are your experiences?

I'm not the best person to ask. I've worked for the same employer, albeit in a number of different roles, since I left university. Were I to resign, there would be no guaranteed right of re-engagement were I to change my mind.

 

[Peloso]

My experience as been that if you're good at what you do and don't cause any drama, you can get away with a lot of shit.

Twice I walked out of waiter jobs, once in the middle of my shift. Both places re-hired me. One of them strung me along for a few weeks, probably to see if I was really serious about returning, but I've never had to supplicate myself to get re-hired. I've gotten calls from old jobs asking me if I was able to return.

 

[Rickrock]

I always thought that 2 weeks notice was sufficient notice to quit. I don't know if any would have hired me back. I did work for one employer for 25 years doing the same job for 20 of those years. No one else had done that job at that employer during that time but me. Eventually they didn't understand what I had to do and let me go but did give me severance pay. Perhaps a year later they tried to reach me but I already had another job.

 

[Vannie]

Restaurant jobs for a professional Cook or Chef and other positions are definitely cutthroat. An assisted living I worked at hired another Food Service Director pretty much right under my nose.


The first question she asked was how come the flame under the broiler didn't turn off? It was the pilot light.

 

[peeonme]

The last place I was at before I retired from machining always gave me the work that no one else in the shop could handle. I didn't mind it as it made my day go by faster. There was a problem with the health care benefits and they kept stalling when it came to putting my wife on the plan. I told my foreman that they had until Friday (this was on Monday) to put my wife on the health care.

Now at the time I was on a job that was made up of 18 pieces of aluminum each one about the size of a box of corn flakes. They were very complex and had tight tolerances. Friday came and I asked if they had put my wife on the health care and was told that it hadn't gone through. I then walked in to the owners office and quit and went home. I was told by other employees that the foreman , the owner and the general manager all stood at the machine that I was using looking puzzled and scratching their heads.

I received a call from the owner a few hours latter and was assured that my wife was now on the health insurance. He asked me to come back on Monday and "start fresh". I did this and retired from that place a year later.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I'm not the best person to ask. I've worked for the same employer, albeit in a number of different roles, since I left university. Were I to resign, there would be no guaranteed right of re-engagement were I to change my mind.

Put that down to a completely different work culture.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It has been interesting to see the humbling of American employers as they face labor shortages. I remember looking in 2017 for jobs as I prepared to leave Connecticut and was appalled at the arrogance of corporations in their screening and hiring practices. They pretty much used the online applications as a filter and were so crass as to not even respond to applications or interviews with letters to inform those not selected. Just crass, kinda like the way many realtors behaved during the housing shortage.

We have been in a long period of artificial economy. The measures taken during the 2007 depression and crash had everyone wading around in a pond while the dam was holding back the natural forces of the river. Now, we have dynamic employment influences as well as the catching up inflation that was artificially held in abeyance so that the depression was masked.

As sympathetic as I am to the few who are in fact unable to meet the rising cost of basics, adults should be able to look back over the recent decades and see the lack of inflation for two decades and know that it is not possible to maintain. In the long haul, inflation is as certain as death and taxes.