Month: April 2022

Well guess that'll be a fun one to explain to the Unemployment Offices. “Why'd you get fired?” “Well I kept asking to get a higher wage”

It's who I've always been, I've always wanted to enjoy a wonderful life, in a solar punk city where maker spaces replace jobs, machines do all the dangerous work, cool ass airships replace airplanes, the train ride is the destination Wonderful feilds of our natural beauty, integrated into a sustainable solar punk city I feel out of place here, even as a middle class gen z kid I care about this planet because I live in it and I'm attached to it. Anyways, I'm off to go to work and do some boring shit and deal with idiots who can't work a self checkout

So even when he first called me to schedule the interview I could tell he had a few screws loose. Kept mispronouncing my name the same exact way both over the phone and in-person after I repeatedly corrected him. So he's looking through my file in front of me, where I can see it, going through the pre-set interview questions that he is just completely ignoring, and just straight up goes “I'm hiring because I'm terminating people. I'm terminating 2 people and looking to terminate 2 more. They call out sick and don't respond when I text them, and I don't care if you're sick you can still talk.” The rest of the interview he was going over company policies that I already knew because I worked at Starbucks previously, but after everyone he goes “That is not optional. That is mandatory.” Everything from dress code to putting a smile…

So, I have worked at a company that is run by someone who normally stays on JUST the right side of the law. Like they do nothing past what is required of them by the law. The wife is penny pinching, pays the techs about $10 under industry standards (which I don't fucking understand), won't pay to have state taxes taken out by the accounts for Oregon since we are in Washington, and give us the bare minimum of PTO. But what really grinds my gears, is she won't give the three office personnel their own stamps… Or even a roll of stamps to split. No we get a sheet of 16 to share amongst us…which she, despite having stamps upstairs in her office, will come down and use. Just. Ugh. It seems like a small thing until you are doing collections and need a whole sheet + of stamps…

I finally broke this morning and quit, no warning, no notice. Multiple coworkers reached out basically saying what I did was justified. No more crying every morning, no more being talked down on. Since I've quit. I've started branching out. I did Instacart and DoorDash for a few hours, not enough to make up a full day of pay but we'll get there. I announced that I'll be doing video editing commissions. I do YouTube as a hobby and I love editing, it was a no brainer. If non of my plans work out then I'll get another job but I'm hoping I can sustain myself freelancing. Cheers to a new journey