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2003-09-13 The Quitting Fiasco Who knew that quitting a job you've only been at for 7 days would be so damn difficult?? Of course, it doesn't help that I'm a big chicken shit... So, for those of you keeping up with my infrequent entries know, I was planning on quitting my job as a 'secretary' at a call center. It was mostly because they weren't going to take taxes off me which would be a huge source of stress for me, but there were other things too that I didn't like. The call center phoned homes and made most of their sales with people who were born in 1928 or around that time - i.e., older people who might be more naive. I really didn't like that, since that's often a sign of a scam. There was also the fact that I never knew why the company was taking $319 out of people's bank accounts. There were other things, but I'm not going to get into all of them now. So, for this entire week, I knew that Friday was going to be my last day - I decided to stay that long because I figured I might as well make a little bit of money to cover my ass. I hated this whole week - each day I got progressively more nervous, even though I knew it was stupid: afterall, what were they going to do? Fire me? But hey, anxiety doesn't work with reason. Friday came, I felt worse and worse all day, until finally five o'clock arrived. I went into my boss's office and told him that I was leaving because I didn't like the idea of him not taking taxes off my paycheck. And then he offered to take them off for me. I really didn't expect it, because why would they do all that work for ONE PERSON? Then he said that I'd probably owe less money if I did the taxes myself, which made me a little suspicious. I asked him if it'd be done properly because at every other place I've worked, I've always gotten a little bit back or broken even. He assured me that it would be done properly, but let's just say that I don't have much faith. But what could I say? I didn't want to get into a huge fight with the guy, especially feeling as stupidly nervous as I was feeling, by telling him that there were other things I didn't like, like this sneaking suspicion that they were scamming these people, even in the slightest way. So I smiled, said "Okay" and left, feeling like the biggest dork in the world. Why couldn't I have the balls to say that my mind was made up? Why couldn't my brain work fast enough to lie and say that I'd gotten a job already? I have an interview on Friday at a law firm dealing with immigration that sounds totally amazing, and I really don't want to pass up a chance there to work in a call center typing in deals and calling ten million banks to see if funds are available. So, I decided to lie today. I'm a very superstitious person and I worry that I've jinxed myself, but I called a left a message saying that I'd heard from an old religion prof who needs a research assistant, and needs me to start immediately. I wish that were true, because that'd be totally awesome, but I figure that since my chances of such a job falling into my lap are next to nil, maybe I haven't jinxed myself too much. I also sent them an email explaining it, but I'm actually just hoping that the sales manager who's working today will remember to check messages before Monday. Sherry: don't mention all of this to Mommy and Daddy since I told them yesterday that I'd quit successfully. I figured they'd just give me a hard time or would tell me that I should keep the job despite what my instincts are telling me. So if you're talking to them and this job comes up, just go along with the version where I quit on Friday. Thanks! I hated quitting a job when I had so much trouble finding one to begin with, but I just didn't feel comfortable there. Something was up - I could feel it. Maybe I'll be lucky and I'll get that job at the law firm. Or I just applied for an Admin Assistant job at MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving - which would be awesome too. Gah. What a rambling entry. I think I need one of those Pensieves like Dumbledore has in the fourth Harry Potter book.
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