I'm almost 30, and I was thinking back on my first impression of jobs. I remembered something from when I was in school (like when I was about 14 or so), about what it was about and “proper etiquette” for the workforce.
The thing that stuck out to me the most was, “Don't ever quit or get fired from a job, because you will be unable to find better work or better pay. They will know you were fired, and you will have it follow you for the rest of your life. You will never advance, and it will be a black stain on your resume.”
I believed this for so long when I was younger, and when I got my first official job at 18, I was mortified when the company let me go on my first day. (It was a local candy company that had shit for training, I couldn't keep up.) I was convinced I ruined my life, but my dad told me that he had the same thing happen to him when he got his first official job at a factory.
I've worked many jobs since then, some for multiple years at a time, and I have to wonder… has anyone else been taught this? Or something just as toxic that isn't true???