Posted on 10/10/2006 by iamnotreallycrazyjustdetermined
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Here's my story!
A few years ago I worked for this company. It was horrible. They would set policies and then adjust them for some employees, and make them harsher for others.
It all started when I went back after being gone a year. I knew I just should have stayed away. But I just graduated from college, and I needed a job so whatever. I figured it would just be a short stop on ride to success...or so I thought.
This place...well let's just say it sucked. We had surplus chairs and furniture, no breaks. If you were sick you had to sit in a special room away from everyone else...but this room housed all the servers and it was noisy and cold because they were too cheap to pay for environmental controls. To save money in the winter, they would open up the windows. So not only would you be unable to hear people on the phone, you would freeze to death too. God forbid you be gay or non-white in this place...you were immediately 'watched' and 'monitored'. They also had video cameras installed and would tape the visual and audio activity in the room. If you said something that went against management, they would mysteriously know about it. They also would record our phone conversations -- even on the phone they provided for employees to use on breaks.
So after being screamed at one day for not showing up to work (of which I called out ahead of time), I felt compelled to go in. During my trip into work, I threw up and called again to tell them that I really just shouldn't be at work.
So after a lot of grief and aggravation I decided to quit. My boss and the supervisor were total jerks. I mean, these two were horrible. Screaming, spying and all that...it was just too much.
I wrote my letter of resgination.
I emailed it to my boss. The supervisor. All my coworkers. I archived it in the system so it could be deleted easily. I deleted all my contact information from the mainframe so that they could not call me on my home, cell or email me. (Although a few days later they managed to find my phone # scribbled on a piece of paper in their horrible filing system). Then during my shift, when it was super busy, I got up, pretended that I was going to take a pee, and then ran to my car. I RAN! RAN LIKE THE WIND! I ran so fast. I was shaking but it was exhilarating. It was like bungee jumping or rock climbing. I was tempting fate and LOVING IT.
Everyone (I later found out) had read my letter of resignation. I wanted everyone to know that I was leaving because the conditions and pay were horrible and the abuse was intolerable. I also found out later about our Christmas bonuses...the owner of the company gave the manager a set amount of money to give us bonuses. The bonus every Christmas was always an odd amounts like $19.24 or one time I got a bonus for $9.11 cents. So a few months later I learned that the manager would take a percentage off the top of the lump sum he was given, keep most of the bonus for himself and then pay everyone below him next to nothing! And he did this for years!
The ironic thing is that my boss was very religious. Very devout. But he could find it in his heart to cheat us.
The moral of the story -- it never gets better -- always worse. Quit while you're ahead!
POST A COMMENTavid reader(10/10/2006)
I LOVE THIS STORY!!! Right on! I got a huge smile on my face when I got to the part about running ike the wind. It's so good to FEEL ALIVE like that and I lived vicariously through you for a few minutes reading your story. Hurray for you! Thanks for sharing this, it fullfilled my daily search for humanity in a world of what seems like increasing corporate greed and increasing depressed corporate drones. Today was one of those days where I felt overwhelmed by mundane office bullsh*t and I felt like nobody gets it and it was cool to read that, yes, somebody out there gets it! What are you doing these days? Did you find a new job?
Dharmadee(10/10/2006)
AMEN!!! I have figured out that these "religious" clowns who can treat people as you described and then live with it, have managed to compartmentalize their lives to the point where they absolutely do not SEE their own hypocrisy. They have a mindset that "business is business", and then, on Sundays, they go to church, and stick their noses up in the air, acting "holier than thou". The Bible, (that they PRETEND to follow) has a phrase for them. Jesus called them "Whited Sepulchers", or in other words, "Painted Tombs". They are dead on the inside. Good for you, that you got OUT of there. Thanks so much for sharing, and may you find a job, a career, or a means of independent livelihood that is worthy of your spirit. You have my prayers and very best wishes for your personal success.
Whatadump(10/10/2006)
Hmmm I used to work at this dump also and every word of this is correct. I once said a customer yelled at me and my boss made me look up the definition for yell, which is a shrill loud noise according to him. Weird mormon f*cker!
iamnotreallycrazyjustdetermined(10/10/2006)
Yes, I found a new job and moved on. The job I have now is 1000x better, I have benefits, health care, paid vacation (by the way, I had PAID vacations before but I was never allowed to take them or paid them when I quit). The best thing I ever did was shaft that place. And the man that used to run that company has since been deposed and exposed for the liar and hypocrite that he is. Everyone knows now and it just goes to show that karma is a b*tch!
HaveADamnNiceDay(10/14/2006)
Dharmadee, that is too true! And good luck to you with the new job, dude (or dudette?)Glad to hear it's much better! AND, I'm glad to hear the shafter finally got his! Loved the story, especially the happy ending! Keep posting!
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