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I probably should have trudged on at my crappy fast food job until I could find something else or at least could have saved up a few thousand dollars. Which isn't much but it's something to work with if you have absolutely no income and need something more than what your family is willing to spend on you (my family is only willing to buy essentials that I can prove I need and there are a few things I might be able to buy that could get me where I need to be).

In short, it was stupid of me to quit the job with absolutely no money and no backup plan even though the boss was bullying me. The short of that story is that one day he physically shoved me into a corner and stood really close so I couldn't get past him and kept pushing me back saying "What are you gonna do? Huh?". I had done or said nothing wrong to this man and only ever tried to stay on his good side. When I finally was able to get out of the corner and get past him, I just walked out. I was so pissed off I wasn't even really thinking.

When I first quit, I was thinking I would take a few weeks to clear my head and start applying for jobs but it just never happened. I went home and went in my room and thought to myself "My parents are still healthy so I guess I have plenty of time".

I should have known better because it took me until I was like 28 to even get a job that I kept for more than a couple of months (and I'd only had like 3 brief stints of employment prior to that). I knew that my natural tendency was that I hated work and disliked leaving the house and I have a strong tendency to just stay the same once I am comfortable. I wasn't entirely comfortable doing that job but I was used to it and I had great job security in that it isn't a job that many people want for very long.

:O You couldn't have stayed in a job with a boss like that though! That's shocking That guy wanted reporting to someone more senior. I would have been out of there too.

 

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Well, I couldn't have stayed there indefinitely but I probably could have toughed it out a few more months until I figured something else out and had some money saved (I wasn't making much but I had no bills so I could have put almost everything I made in the bank). The problem was that you're not doing anything if you don't have money in this country. And then, once I quit the job and had been unemployed for months, there was already a large gap to explain. Which only got worse as the years went by.

When you have a short employment history with a lot of big gaps, it's better to get a new job before you quit.

Yeah. What he did was horrible and kind of surprised me. I knew he was an A-hole but thought staying on his good side would work well enough. Anyway, after I quit the first time, I kind of regretted it and went back a few days later and told him I'd stay. But then a few days after that, he did something else. I don't remember exactly what. It might have been the same thing but whatever it was just made it obvious that the first time had not been a fluke and he really didn't have any regrets about it and was just a jerk.

The place I worked at was a franchise so there were only a couple of people above him and he had worked for the owner for many years so there was no point in complaining.

What a piece of work that bloke was. People are just trying to earn a living.

 

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Quick question. A new manager was brought on to my department a few months ago. We all work virtually. Our office isn't a "giving personal gifts" office, at least not in my experience. We have gotten gifts from "the company" at Christmas like bonuses, or to be honest I just have assumed they've been from the company, but I've never received a personal gift or given one outside of egalitarian grab bag parties. Today this new manager sent me a $30 gift card after saying how hard I've been working, take some time for yourself over the holiday, etc. It seems like it was just from him personally. In your opinion, should I send something back (all I could think of would be a gift card in return)? To me it might seem a bit disingenuous to do that when I hadn't been planning on it, and only in reaction to his, and spending the same amount. Or . . . just leave it at him having sent a nice card?

Hi, I just saw your post! Just wondering if you did anything in the end or not :smile2:That was nice of the manager to show his appreciation for your hard work! :smile2: The manager of my place of work for the past couple of years has been giving me a card and chocolates. I've never sent them a card as it's not something I do anymore. If I send them one then I would have to decide who else to send them to and it's just really awkward for me anyway haha. I used to write cards for people and then on a number of occasions never be able to send them. I remember being at school and I wrote them and I put "love from" and then I was like what if they think I love them, so I had to throw them away haha this was when I was really young :grin2: just rabbiting now lol

 

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Usually I don't see anyone at work really but a member of staff came into the office earlier the other day. I just wasn't mentally prepared I think all I said was hello without taking my headphones off. We had never met before either. Then they came in another day and I went into the other office and I didn't know what to say so I just said something I had observed about the building. Then they came in another day and I just said about something going on in my town. It is hard to relax. As they were speaking I was thinking what else can I say instead of paying attention, just not relaxed.nAs this is going on its like am I'm talking too much and getting on their nerves. If you don't talk it is no good/ if you talk too much it's no good either lol. I just wouldn't be able to work in an office. I don't know how people get their work done and still talk to people. I changed my routine so I don't get on their nerves I just would not know what to say everyday.

 

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Work doesn't have anywhere to put spent batteries. A couple of occasions now people have just chucked them in the bin which is no good. I collect them up in a box in my cupboard when I see that; but I'm always like what if they see me leaving with these batteries. You can't just discard batteries like you do everything else though.

They also will leave food uncovered and one morning I went up into an office and there's loads of bluebottles flying around. Had to shoot them down with a chemical.

 

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There is only one other person that does the same job as me at the place I work at and she's coming in and not doing the work. Had to message my manager that the work wasn't done yet again and I was doing it. I just find that stressful. I said to my manager if it helps I can just not go into her section at all and then some of the other staff might complain. I told her I hated messaging her this, about the lady coming in and not doing the work.

 

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Today I just felt really wound up. I went into a toilet that she had "cleaned" and will try to write this in a way that doesn't cause 🤢 there was stuff on a toilet roll and stuff on the flush handle. She always just emptys the mop bucket, no rinsing out of the mop at all, so when I fill it with water, the water is brown.

I'm a heavy handed person as it is, I broke 3 needles in a needle felting class by accident lol, but because I felt so wound up I was putting my glass water bottle in my bag and it accidentally hit my thermos flask and smashed. Then I had water go all over the stuff in my bag. Thought my scientific calculator was okay but just had to take it apart as it's having problems. Think it will be fine when it's dry though.

 

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Im thinking now to buy two mop and buckets and keep them in a separate place to the ones she uses. I put fresh water in the bucket that she uses for the dining room and it is turning dark brown to black. The floor is sticky when you walk on it.

I cleaned her toilets on Friday. I can't say anything now as the times when I've said something they tell me she was in or she should have been in.

I do not know what is going on with her to be honest.

If I have to do her toilets I shall just do the touch points.

I told my manager "I hate having to message her this stuff" I can't keep messaging it's causing me stress.

 

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Today whilst getting something from the cupboard I saw someone at work that I'd never seen before. This person got the wrong idea from our conversation. They are not impressed so far with some things I can tell that from what he said and how he was looking at things.

He assumed I worked in the kitchen. I said no I do the cleaning. I do the cleaning but not down here. If you find anything dirty here it's not in my section ( a staff member before has just assumed something that wasn't being done was my job). He repeated " not in your section". I said that does sound like I don't care but I can't keep cleaning someone else's section when I have too much to do in my own. But to my words not in my section and it sounds like I don't care he said "and you don't, that's okay" with a face not impressed.

I have never said "I don't clean down here, so if you find anything dirty it's not in my section" to anyone before; I feel like crying when I see how things are left sometimes, "after they've been cleaned" just because of his body language; the way he was looking at things and his disapproval it just came out.

Then I remembered that show Undercover Boss, I think that's what it is called, and just was thinking how my words "not in my section" would be perceived when it is the complete opposite. At jobs I have missed out breaks to get the work done and done to the best of my ability.

I love my job and I give all that I can. I don't like it when people get the wrong idea about me.

 

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Ugg, It's been awhile since I put in a 17 hour work day. It should make for a good paycheck, though.

Woah, 17 hours! What kind of things were you doing for 17 hours?

 

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People are noticing how anxious and panicky I am at my cleaning job. I keep getting comments about it and I don't know if they're particularly malicious comments, but people just keep saying "woah slow down!"

From experience of cleaning a hospital they just expect you to do too much. You cannot do so much and do it to the standard required. It's worse cleaning around patients too because they always want to talk and that slows things down. I time a supervisor came round and was telling me that I hadn't done something and I just said in a sad, stressed tone "I haven't got time to get it all done" infront of a patient.

 

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Thanks, I'm glad it isn't just me who's had this experience with it. They are always wheeling patients in and out in beds, so there's no opportunity to actually get in the rooms and clean. So idk really. It's basically impossible to get it all done, even when I am fuelled by Monster energy drinks and running round like a headless chicken. Even a lady who has been working there 34 years said don't try to get it all done.

The nurses are all really busy. So patients in the waiting room at the clinics have to ask the cleaners for help with things, like being wheeled around in their chairs and help eating and stuff. Happy to help of course but it does take away time from what you're supposed to be doing.

Woah, I never got asked to wheel patients around or help people eat. That would take up even more time. Sounds incredibly stressful!

Yeah I think the only way to survive in a job like that is to not care so much unfortunately. Management in those places expect too much

 

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The other day at work I spoke with someone who really cares a lot about the environment and it was really good to talk to someone that actually gives a you know what haha. I probably did their head in when I was telling them loads of things that were going on at the place we work at that they'll probably hide when they hear me coming 😆