I just quit....

[muddeprived]

...my job.

Trying very hard to convince myself that was a bad move but then I'm so freaking happy that I got out of that shithole. Hmm...

[finneys98xj]

Good for you mudd now you got time to play witht the jeep but no funds to do so.

[kmanxj]

If you dont mind me asking. What were you doing?

[muddeprived]

I never announced it on the forums (i don't think) so this is a first. I was quite embarrassed about the job so I kept it to myself.

I worked as an overnight meat butcher at my local wal-fart. Been there for 5 years handling their somewhat-fresh meat. It was probably my best job that i've had cuz I went from $6.00 an hr to $11.90 in 5 years. That's unheard of at wal-fart. I worked so damn hard at that job and was considered the best worker on my side of the store, receiving two merit raises in my first year.

We had a manager named kevin for the first 4 years and then he transferred to another store and this un-experienced lady from next door became our manager. For some reason she held a grudge against me and attacks everything I do. I have no idea why. I was always nice to her and always did my job plus more but she was never satisfied. She didn't do what kevin did (he did ALOT of the work) so us workers have to do more and she keeps sending us to the office for not doing our jobs but she's the one not helping out. I've been frustrated for months and I had to do something. They would not transfer me (hold on hiring) so I left.

I was told by my best bud that Bayer wants me as an email support tech so we'll see how that goes. i'm not sure if i want to go back to my nerdy computer days cuz I like the physical type jobs. But if it pays......

[kmanxj]

IT PAYS!!!!

nothing to be imbarrased of it is a job. Alot more than alot of people have these days. And 12 bucks an hour. pssssh i dont make that in a factory.

[Melissa]

If your happy, then good for you.

Nothing to be embarrassed about, I worked for nine years full time as a "meat wrapper" and then the last 6 of those years, I was the butcher/meat wrapper. I did the same thing you did. I worked 6 1/2 days a week, worked my *** off, but I could do nothing right anymore, so one day I just walk up to the main boss and said see ya, I've had enough!!

[muddeprived]

If your happy, then good for you.

Nothing to be embarrassed about, I worked for nine years full time as a "meat wrapper" and then the last 6 of those years, I was the butcher/meat wrapper. I did the same thing you did. I worked 6 1/2 days a week, worked my *** off, but I could do nothing right anymore, so one day I just walk up to the main boss and said see ya, I've had enough!!

Small world. I didn't tell anyone of my plan to quit. I threw my working gloves, which were $4 winter snow gloves wrapped completely in duct tape :rotfl2: (hey they lasted almost a year!), in the garbage and my co-worker saw them and told me that they were in the garbage. I told her "i won't need them anymore", as in hinting to her but she didn't get it. I left a note on management's desk and then punched out for the last time. I will miss some aspects of that job, especially the people cuz they are all so nice...except the boss.

[Melissa]

I really liked my co-workers as well, but when you are unhappy at your job it starts to reflect at home, I was neglecting my two daughters, working so much and I was pretty cranky, at the time, I had no other job prospects, but looking back it was the best move I ever made. I'll say it again, Good for you!!!

[muddeprived]

I really liked my co-workers as well, but when you are unhappy at your job it starts to reflect at home, I was neglecting my two daughters, working so much and I was pretty cranky, at the time, I had no other job prospects, but looking back it was the best move I ever made. I'll say it again, Good for you!!!

What happened after you quit?

[Melissa]

What happened after you quit?

Things got really tight, I was seperated from my husband renting an apartment and I only had 3 months worth of money saved up, So I spent two of those months just loving on my daughters and then got serious about job hunting. As luck would have it, I found a wonderful job working at a motel as a night auditor, super boss, nice hours, good pay, and I only worked 4 days a week :smiley-gen165:

I worked there about two years, and then got back into ranching and I have never looked back :thumbsup:

Of course I am always broke now, ranching does not pay for the little guy, but I am very happy

[Mudderoy]

Well I have unwrapped meat and eaten butchered meat before.
:thumbsup:

You should never be ashamed of the job you have as long as you do a good job. Well with the possible exception of...

1. hit man
2. Prostitute
3. Gigolo
4. President Obama
5. Slave trader
6. Drug dealer
7. Fluffier
8. Porn actor/actress

[Voldemort]

1. hit man
2. Prostitute
3. Gigolo
4. President Obama
5. Slave trader
6. Drug dealer
7. Fluffier
8. Porn actor/actress

I have even done some of those before.:eek:But Muddeprived you have to do what makes you happy but I would start looking for a new job asap and as hard as you can cause there is little out there,so good luck.

[muddeprived]

Things got really tight, I was seperated from my husband renting an apartment and I only had 3 months worth of money saved up, So I spent two of those months just loving on my daughters and then got serious about job hunting. As luck would have it, I found a wonderful job working at a motel as a night auditor, super boss, nice hours, good pay, and I only worked 4 days a week :smiley-gen165:

I worked there about two years, and then got back into ranching and I have never looked back :thumbsup:

Of course I am always broke now, ranching does not pay for the little guy, but I am very happy

That's good that you had some saved up to last you a while. I don't have much....and i wonder why. :rotfl2:

I could seek employment in the hotel business. I used to work for Ramada Plaza Suites in Pittsburgh. OMG was I rich back then. I only made $7.20 hr but with tips and 17 hour work days, I was bringing home $2k every two weeks. That job was GREAT, but at the same time SUCKED cuz everyone got fired or left and the team dwindled down to two, me and my gf. :thumbdown: We were overworked so we quit. Pretty similar to what happened at wal-fart. My boss Kevin left and then we went from 6 people to just three. Managing only three people for 7 days in a 24/7 store is next to impossible but i managed to get everything done. Some people say it's my worth ethic that causes this to happen cuz I work so freakin hard and do literally everything that they always end up thinking I can handle it and then get rid of people to save $$. I'm not trying to take over, i'm just a hard worker that likes to help everyone. It just happens to be that I can get so much more work done than three other people combined. Sometimes I think it's my deafness cuz deaf people don't really chat around much so I'm always working while some workers chat and chill.

[muddeprived]

Oh I wasn't ashamed to be a butcher or work in the meat department, I was more embarrassed working FOR wal-mart cuz wal-fart doesn't support it's own economy by buying china crap and there's alot of criticizm towards the store since forever.


Well I have unwrapped meat and eaten butchered meat before.
:thumbsup:

You should never be ashamed of the job you have as long as you do a good job. Well with the possible exception of...

1. hit man
2. Prostitute
3. Gigolo
4. President Obama
5. Slave trader
6. Drug dealer
7. Fluffier
8. Porn actor/actress

[Mudderoy]

That's good that you had some saved up to last you a while. I don't have much....and i wonder why. :rotfl2:

I could seek employment in the hotel business. I used to work for Ramada Plaza Suites in Pittsburgh. OMG was I rich back then. I only made $7.20 hr but with tips and 17 hour work days, I was bringing home $2k every two weeks. That job was GREAT, but at the same time SUCKED cuz everyone got fired or left and the team dwindled down to two, me and my gf. :thumbdown: We were overworked so we quit. Pretty similar to what happened at wal-fart. My boss Kevin left and then we went from 6 people to just three. Managing only three people for 7 days in a 24/7 store is next to impossible but i managed to get everything done. Some people say it's my worth ethic that causes this to happen cuz I work so freakin hard and do literally everything that they always end up thinking I can handle it and then get rid of people to save $$. I'm not trying to take over, i'm just a hard worker that likes to help everyone. It just happens to be that I can get so much more work done than three other people combined. Sometimes I think it's my deafness cuz deaf people don't really chat around much so I'm always working while some workers chat and chill.

Fewer distractions.

[Mudderoy]

Well I have unwrapped meat and eaten butchered meat before.
:thumbsup:

You should never be ashamed of the job you have as long as you do a good job. Well with the possible exception of...

1. hit man
2. Prostitute
3. Gigolo
4. President Obama
5. Slave trader
6. Drug dealer
7. Fluffier
8. Porn actor/actress

Ok this deserves a pole!

[muddeprived]

I have even done some of those before.:eek:But Muddeprived you have to do what makes you happy but I would start looking for a new job asap and as hard as you can cause there is little out there,so good luck.

I have confidence. My best bud from middle school works for Bayer in Pittsburgh. Ya know bayer the medicine company. He was just promoted to manager and has a big say. He's always complimenting my work ethic to his bosses and recommended me to replace this one guy who's slacking. They contacted me about 6 months ago but I turned down the offer cuz I couldn't afford the commute at the time. It's an hour drive. He's telling them that I'm an available fish and said they will contact me about the job.

If that doesn't work out, my gf's mother's friend's friend's husband's friend owns a computer business in pittsburgh and wants to hire both my gf and I to work there.

and if THAT doesn't work out, my step-father owns a Fiberglass company in Mercer so he'll take me almost immediately....but i hate working with fiberglass.

and if all that fails....there's always Mcdonalds...lol.

[kmanxj]

FIBERGLASS!!!! do it do it. you can make me some fenders lol

and i voted that bigbadxj done OBAMA ewwwwwwwwwww!!!! :thumbsup:

[muddeprived]

FIBERGLASS!!!! do it do it. you can make me some fenders lol

and i voted that bigbadxj done OBAMA ewwwwwwwwwww!!!! :thumbsup:

They actually used to make fiberglass hoods for the jeep cj and willy. I saw one laying up against the wall when i visited the place two years ago. They stopped producing it since there are so many companies doing it now.

http://www.chautauquafrp.com/

[whowey]

I can certainly relate with you... I'm a week from 15 years with my current employer and I so want to tell my boss to shove this job. He has no clue how to do my job.. but he wants to tell me constantly I'm doing it wrong...

[Voldemort]

That pole is great! I will not vote but if you voted that I was lying you voted wrong.:mad0090:Also of course I did Obama but I did not consider that a job.HEHHEEEE!

[muddeprived]

I can certainly relate with you... I'm a week from 15 years with my current employer and I so want to tell my boss to shove this job. He has no clue how to do my job.. but he wants to tell me constantly I'm doing it wrong...

that's pretty much exactly how my boss was. Everything I did was wrong, even though i've done it the same way for the past 5 years. :smiley-talk024::headshake:

[Melissa]

That's good that you had some saved up to last you a while. I don't have much....and i wonder why. :rotfl2:

I could seek employment in the hotel business. I used to work for Ramada Plaza Suites in Pittsburgh. OMG was I rich back then. I only made $7.20 hr but with tips and 17 hour work days, I was bringing home $2k every two weeks. That job was GREAT, but at the same time SUCKED cuz everyone got fired or left and the team dwindled down to two, me and my gf. :thumbdown: We were overworked so we quit. Pretty similar to what happened at wal-fart. My boss Kevin left and then we went from 6 people to just three. Managing only three people for 7 days in a 24/7 store is next to impossible but i managed to get everything done. Some people say it's my worth ethic that causes this to happen cuz I work so freakin hard and do literally everything that they always end up thinking I can handle it and then get rid of people to save $$. I'm not trying to take over, i'm just a hard worker that likes to help everyone. It just happens to be that I can get so much more work done than three other people combined. Sometimes I think it's my deafness cuz deaf people don't really chat around much so I'm always working while some workers chat and chill.

I did not have my jeep back then or I probably would not have had any money saved, I did however have a ford pickup and a brand new little car, but I had to do a voluntary repo on the car, since I had no income comming in.

Oh before I vote in the poll what is a fluffer??

[Mudderoy]

I did not have my jeep back then or I probably would not have had any money saved, I did however have a ford pickup and a brand new little car, but I had to do a voluntary repo on the car, since I had no income comming in.

Oh before I vote in the poll what is a fluffer??

My mechanic was telling me that an ex-employee of his applied for a job. The business called my mechanic for a reference. He said, lets say Frank, was great! Best fluffer he ever had. He was laughing as he told me this. I looked at him confused and said "What's a fluffer?" He explained that during the making of porn movies, a fluffer keeps the male ahhh actor aroused.

So you have this "girl" who's job, no pun intended, is to keep the actor erect and ready for the next shot, again no pun intended.

[Melissa]

Oh, thats great, I'm going to have to use that term, thanks!!

[Mudderoy]

That pole is great! I will not vote but if you voted that I was lying you voted wrong.:mad0090:Also of course I did Obama but I did not consider that a job.HEHHEEEE!

lol, you are a very good sport.

[muddeprived]

My mechanic was telling me that an ex-employee of his applied for a job. The business called my mechanic for a reference. He said, lets say Frank, was great! Best fluffer he ever had. He was laughing as he told me this. I looked at him confused and said "What's a fluffer?" He explained that during the making of porn movies, a fluffer keeps the male ahhh actor aroused.

So you have this "girl" who's job, no pun intended, is to keep the actor erect and ready for the next shot, again no pun intended.

:smiley-laughing021::smiley-laughing021:

[Voldemort]

lol, you are a very good sport.

Also I have no idea what a Fluffer is? is I can't say if I have done that or not?:headbag:

[DETOURS]

Also I have no idea what a Fluffer is? is I can't say if I have done that or not?:headbag:


Dang dude........Dont know what a Fluffer is, thats freakin funny right there!!

Mud, nuttin personal.......but Wallyworld meat fauckin blows!!! What is that shiat???????

Keep the chin up and use the force!!! :thumbsup:

[BlueXJ]

Spanky it is different in different stores. We have three Super Wally Worlds and one has a meat department where the butch does not know what Veal is and the next closest store has the worst ground beef I have ever seen...............but the last store has a good selection and a great butcher who will custom cut any meat that he has just like you want it. Their selection seems a higher quality than the other two also.

[Voldemort]

Dang dude........Dont know what a Fluffer is, thats freakin funny right there!!

OH yes laugh it up!:cool: But at least let me laugh too! What is it?:mad:

[BlueXJ]

My mechanic was telling me that an ex-employee of his applied for a job. The business called my mechanic for a reference. He said, lets say Frank, was great! Best fluffer he ever had. He was laughing as he told me this. I looked at him confused and said "What's a fluffer?" He explained that during the making of porn movies, a fluffer keeps the male ahhh actor aroused.

So you have this "girl" who's job, no pun intended, is to keep the actor erect and ready for the next shot, again no pun intended.


So it seems related to your years in the porn industry.

[DETOURS]

Blue........Wally meat BLOWS here, and besides that.....you can go to an outside butcher here and.........40lbs of misc. cuts, cut to order......90 bucks.....it- "Get's er Done!!"

WHERES THE BEEF? ;)

[2000XJ]

Wow Mudd, good luck! It's nice to know that you built the courage to get the hell outta there. There's nothing worse than working your butt off for a bunch of unappreciative jackasses.

I just got laid off on Friday... I had a temp job with a company in their customer service department and the company had to cut all of the temps becuase of budget cuts. I'm kind of glad it happened because the job sucked! I was "that guy" that you talk to when you call an 800 number, and speaking to nearly 100 people a day that HATED you even though they didn't know you just sucked!

Mudd - you and I should come up with our own business where we could make million and millions of dollars off of. Here's an idea - I think that people should pay me and you to go wheeling everyday!

[muddeprived]

Wow Mudd, good luck! It's nice to know that you built the courage to get the hell outta there. There's nothing worse than working your butt off for a bunch of unappreciative jackasses.

I just got laid off on Friday... I had a temp job with a company in their customer service department and the company had to cut all of the temps becuase of budget cuts. I'm kind of glad it happened because the job sucked! I was "that guy" that you talk to when you call an 800 number, and speaking to nearly 100 people a day that HATED you even though they didn't know you just sucked!

Mudd - you and I should come up with our own business where we could make million and millions of dollars off of. Here's an idea - I think that people should pay me and you to go wheeling everyday!

Sorry about losing your job man. Hope you find another one soon. Any leads?

Pay me to go wheeling? OMFG that would be a dream. :drool:

[muddeprived]

Dang dude........Dont know what a Fluffer is, thats freakin funny right there!!

Mud, nuttin personal.......but Wallyworld meat fauckin blows!!! What is that shiat???????

Keep the chin up and use the force!!! :thumbsup:

Five and a half years there and I never could figure out what that shi$ was. I do agree with you, it's not like normal beef. I do know that it sticks to the ceiling quite well when you toss it straight up with some force.:rotfl2:

My stepfather buys a half a cow from the local butcher and has it all chopped up and stored in his freezer. That beef is OMG so much better than anything walmart could offer. A little secret about wal-mart meat. You know the commercials saying their meat is FRESH? It's not exactly FRESH. Your store either has packaged beef in those plastic containers or what they call "fresh" packaged beef, the new stuff that comes wrapped in sarah wrap and looks like it was just cut. The container beef has a shelf life of two weeks or so. That's not fresh IMO. Take it out of the container after week 1 and it'll be brown and disgusting on the bottom most of the time. The other packaged meat has a shelf life of 1.5 weeks (pork is 2.5 weeks). It's previously frozen then thawed and packaged as fresh meat. We don't butcher up all that stuff, it's sent to us in "mother bags" that we cut open and then we put a sell by date on the package and put it out on the floor. It's already pre-packed who knows when. If you want FRESH beef, go to your local butcher. If you want Made-in-China quality beef then chew on the wal-mart stuff. Their chicken is ok though, made from Perdue. The ground beef is a joke. It's almost as if they cloned each package of beef. Looks so fake and i've had my share of fun with that stuff in the back room. You should see how far that stuff flies when you hit it with a broom when it's semi-frozen.

[N1TZU]

Hi Muddeprived, I know where your at on quitting a job your not happy at,theres nothing worse than having to deal with a boss you can't please.In the late 70's i worked for an air conditioning outfit where the owner was very rarely pleased,and when the time came to ask for a raise due my first child on the way and only making $4.15 an hr, he looked at me and said"Well Bob,your just not worth it to me"That was the final straw for me.From that point on I promised myself never to work where I'm not happy.I think it helps us all to live longer and stay healthier. So I'm sure by having faith something good will come your way.....Good luck.......

[Mudderoy]

Hi Muddeprived, I know where your at on quitting a job your not happy at,theres nothing worse than having to deal with a boss you can't please.In the late 70's i worked for an air conditioning outfit where the owner was very rarely pleased,and when the time came to ask for a raise due my first child on the way and only making $4.15 an hr, he looked at me and said"Well Bob,your just not worth it to me"That was the final straw for me.From that point on I promised myself never to work where I'm not happy.I think it helps us all to live longer and stay healthier. So I'm sure by having faith something good will come your way.....Good luck.......

I hope you've taken most, if not all, of his business. That is piss poor people management. It's fine to think that shit in your head, but you need to discuss it with the employee not just dump on him.

[N1TZU]

Hi Tony,Thanks for the comments.All of that was in the late 70's.He ended up going out of business during the late 80"s due to poor managment.I guess what goes around comes around...I went on to Bath Iron Works as a pipe fitter for 5 years then on to heating for 9.5 years and then running my own heating and air condition business for the past 12 years. It was all ment to be..Thats the way I look at it....

[muddeprived]

I figured I'd update this thread. My buddy at Bayer said his people are moving email guys up to phones and stuff to make a spot for me. I pretty much got the job, just waiting for the opening. :cheerleader:


I have a question that maybe some of you may know. I am waiting for my last paycheck from my job. It's supposed to come in on Aug 6 but i'm wondering what's included in the last check? Someone mentioned all my holiday pay was included plus more. Is that "more" the sick and personal hours too? I'm trying to figure out my budget for the month since I have no income and if i get sick/personal/holiday pay in this next check then it will last me about two months. I hope all of that is included.

[Mudderoy]

I figured I'd update this thread. My buddy at Bayer said his people are moving email guys up to phones and stuff to make a spot for me. I pretty much got the job, just waiting for the opening. :cheerleader:


I have a question that maybe some of you may know. I am waiting for my last paycheck from my job. It's supposed to come in on Aug 6 but i'm wondering what's included in the last check? Someone mentioned all my holiday pay was included plus more. Is that "more" the sick and personal hours too? I'm trying to figure out my budget for the month since I have no income and if i get sick/personal/holiday pay in this next check then it will last me about two months. I hope all of that is included.

I think it depends on the company policies and perhaps the laws in your state. In the past sick time was not paid when you terminated. Vacation pay was. My last job we didn't have sick and vacation, it was all PDO (Paid Days Off), so I was paid all of that when I was terminated. (They closed the Houston office due to hurricane damage). We did NOT receive holiday pay after termination, that was paid as the holidays occurred.

[muddeprived]

I think it depends on the company policies and perhaps the laws in your state. In the past sick time was not paid when you terminated. Vacation pay was. My last job we didn't have sick and vacation, it was all PDO (Paid Days Off), so I was paid all of that when I was terminated. (They closed the Houston office due to hurricane damage). We did NOT receive holiday pay after termination, that was paid as the holidays occurred.

Oh i meant holiday pay as vacation hours. My work calls vacation hours "holiday pay" so it's a little different from most. I'm gonna look into it some more and hopefully find out what i'm getting. The sick hours would be nice. I have 186 sick hours and at $12 a hr....that's some money.

[Melissa]

I hope they sent it all to you mudderprived.

[muddeprived]

I hope they sent it all to you mudderprived.

If so then you'll probably see another set of tires of my jeep. :rotfl2:

[whowey]

Five and a half years there and I never could figure out what that shi$ was. I do agree with you, it's not like normal beef. I do know that it sticks to the ceiling quite well when you toss it straight up with some force.:rotfl2:

My stepfather buys a half a cow from the local butcher and has it all chopped up and stored in his freezer. That beef is OMG so much better than anything walmart could offer. A little secret about wal-mart meat. You know the commercials saying their meat is FRESH? It's not exactly FRESH. Your store either has packaged beef in those plastic containers or what they call "fresh" packaged beef, the new stuff that comes wrapped in sarah wrap and looks like it was just cut. The container beef has a shelf life of two weeks or so. That's not fresh IMO. Take it out of the container after week 1 and it'll be brown and disgusting on the bottom most of the time. The other packaged meat has a shelf life of 1.5 weeks (pork is 2.5 weeks). It's previously frozen then thawed and packaged as fresh meat. We don't butcher up all that stuff, it's sent to us in "mother bags" that we cut open and then we put a sell by date on the package and put it out on the floor. It's already pre-packed who knows when. If you want FRESH beef, go to your local butcher. If you want Made-in-China quality beef then chew on the wal-mart stuff. Their chicken is ok though, made from Perdue. The ground beef is a joke. It's almost as if they cloned each package of beef. Looks so fake and i've had my share of fun with that stuff in the back room. You should see how far that stuff flies when you hit it with a broom when it's semi-frozen.

We actually by quite a bit of meat from China*Mart... We cook ALOT in our slow cookers in the winter(we have three large ones, just so we dont have to wash them every night). Once a Wal*Mart roast spends 10 hours slow cooking.. you wouldn't know the difference.

[Mudderoy]

The meat from our local Sam's Club is very nice meat. The ribeyes are wonderful!