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I've been gone from my job for almost a week now, and while at first I felt nervous and almost second-guessed myself, I stuck to my guns and have had a pretty good time.
Which is not to say I spent a week of unemployment getting loaded and tossing rocks at school buses.
That gets old after a day.
Actually most of my day involves waiting for phone calls and catching up on everything that was put off since I moved into this house. It was all stuff I technically had TIME to do, but not the energy.
Before EB was bought by Gamestop, I made really good money from bonuses. 5-7k depending. After the merger it all went away. I was used to corporate bullshit and as a district we had found a way, thanks to our brilliant boss Bill Bembry, to make the system work for us. This guy was great, because he knew it was just retail. He didn't feel that anything that could happen in a retail store was actually important in the grand scheme of things, looking at the bottom line instead of meaningless bullshit. He taught us how to harness the power of slack, but most of all treated us like adults. Which is rare in any corporate environment. So of course he was fired about 2 months after the merger. Not for the slack stuff, but for treating his managers as responsible adults part. Yeah, the writing was on the wall.
So basically, once the merger happend we were all asked to do more work (a minimum of 44 hours from our 40 with 10x more meaningless paperwork. No exaggeration, literally useless) for less money (no bonus), meant they wanted me to basically take at least a 5k paycut. 7 if you consider the extra hours required, and that was after my annual raise(where I earned 1200 extra to my yearly salary).
Now if you've read this far you might be wondering why I stayed as long as I did. Part of it was needing health insurance. Second was I wanted to make sure I could go to San Diego in July. People were counting on me financially to go and I really wanted to go anyway. So after I got back I recieved a lecture from my boss (like an upset parent talking to a teenager who stayed out too late) and decided that was enough.
So now I feel much better. I don't have the responsibility of taking care of the retarded child that was that store, and I just feel so much better.
Which is not to say I spent a week of unemployment getting loaded and tossing rocks at school buses.
That gets old after a day.
Actually most of my day involves waiting for phone calls and catching up on everything that was put off since I moved into this house. It was all stuff I technically had TIME to do, but not the energy.
Before EB was bought by Gamestop, I made really good money from bonuses. 5-7k depending. After the merger it all went away. I was used to corporate bullshit and as a district we had found a way, thanks to our brilliant boss Bill Bembry, to make the system work for us. This guy was great, because he knew it was just retail. He didn't feel that anything that could happen in a retail store was actually important in the grand scheme of things, looking at the bottom line instead of meaningless bullshit. He taught us how to harness the power of slack, but most of all treated us like adults. Which is rare in any corporate environment. So of course he was fired about 2 months after the merger. Not for the slack stuff, but for treating his managers as responsible adults part. Yeah, the writing was on the wall.
So basically, once the merger happend we were all asked to do more work (a minimum of 44 hours from our 40 with 10x more meaningless paperwork. No exaggeration, literally useless) for less money (no bonus), meant they wanted me to basically take at least a 5k paycut. 7 if you consider the extra hours required, and that was after my annual raise(where I earned 1200 extra to my yearly salary).
Now if you've read this far you might be wondering why I stayed as long as I did. Part of it was needing health insurance. Second was I wanted to make sure I could go to San Diego in July. People were counting on me financially to go and I really wanted to go anyway. So after I got back I recieved a lecture from my boss (like an upset parent talking to a teenager who stayed out too late) and decided that was enough.
So now I feel much better. I don't have the responsibility of taking care of the retarded child that was that store, and I just feel so much better.