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Lostinthewoods86 said:
That sucks 🙁

Last tests I had were for the DA, and he had no sense of humor
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I was actually kidding about the job. Fortunately, no testing really for me to have to pass right now.
I have failed a few for a dr though. Looking back, its absolutely hysterical that I failed a drug test so dr could give me drugs!
I opted to quit the Dr and stick with rso and I regret none of it! 🤣
 
Doom! said:
If you don't like your job quit, seems pretty simple to me.
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If you live somewhere with multiple other opportunities available, that's an easy choice. If you live in podunk but have an Amazon warehouse paying decent wages, vs. working service industry for $3hr plus tips, then it's not such an easy choice for many.
 
HPIguy said:
If you live somewhere with multiple other opportunities available, that's an easy choice. If you live in podunk but have an Amazon warehouse paying decent wages, vs. working service industry for $3hr plus tips, then it's not such an easy choice for many.
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thats how it is here, their the highest paying job around here, they have a revolving employee mentality, is cheaper to fire and rehire at a lower wage than to promote a quality employee. that guy thats been there for 10 years gets pto, holiday pay, and a lot of other perks. cheaper on them to replace you with someone off the street repeatedly. if i were to be pissy it would be about that/
a lot of people here want a skilled worker thats going to put their company before their own needs first but expect them to do it for junkie pay.
 
HPIguy said:
If you live somewhere with multiple other opportunities available, that's an easy choice. If you live in podunk but have an Amazon warehouse paying decent wages, vs. working service industry for $3hr plus tips, then it's not such an easy choice for many.
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I feel that when jobs are scarce, people tends to be more grateful for the jobs they are lucky enough to have.
Perhaps I'm just cynical, but I just work with, and seen many coworkers that’s come and gone, that are just lazy and ungrateful. Always the victim. Good riddance!
 
majin said:
thats how it is here, their the highest paying job around here, they have a revolving employee mentality, is cheaper to fire and rehire at a lower wage than to promote a quality employee. that guy thats been there for 10 years gets pto, holiday pay, and a lot of other perks. cheaper on them to replace you with someone off the street repeatedly. if i were to be pissy it would be about that/
a lot of people here want a skilled worker thats going to put their company before their own needs first but expect them to do it for junkie pay.
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I've never worked for Amazon, so I don't know if that's the case or not. But I know a lot of big corporations, that's the mentality for sure.
Xraycer said:
I feel that when jobs are scarce, people tends to be more grateful for the jobs they are lucky enough to have.
Perhaps I'm just cynical, but I just work with, and seen many coworkers that’s come and gone, that are just lazy and ungrateful. Always the victim. Good riddance!
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That holds true, provided the company also values the employees. I'm lucky to live in podunk, make a decent living, and work for a company that also values me. So yeah, I'm thankful and blessed to have the job that I do. But, it's still a job, and it still sucks sometimes, but if it didn't it would be called a hobby and not a job. LOL
 
HPIguy said:
But, it's still a job, and it still sucks sometimes, but if it didn't it would be called a hobby and not a job. LOL
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I came from a very humble beginning, so I couldn't wait to earn a paycheck. I have no recollection of ever hating any jobs I've ever had, since 16. Even on a bad day, I've never even thought to myself that my job sucks.
 
Xraycer said:
I came from a very humble beginning, so I couldn't wait to earn a paycheck. I have no recollection of ever hating any jobs I've ever had, since 16. Even on a bad day, I've never even thought to myself that my job sucks.
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Same here, grew up pretty poor and started working at 13. I never said I hated my job just to be clear. I generally enjoy what I do most days.

But if you don't have something about your job that you don't like at times, then either you have the best job in the world, or you're the rarest person in the world.
 
I've had lots of jobs. I moved around a bit, but since the age of 9 when I worked in my dad's woodshop I worked very steadily. Couple fast food joints, Pizza delivery driver, Bob Evans as a dish washer/bus boy, a produce distribution company unpacking, weighing, and pricing bananas day in and day out 😖, DADC (Sony) in the CD packaging department, did construction for a few years, warehouse/delivery driver, worked in an enamel pan factory, forklift stunt man while working in a shipping department, a couple woodshops, one being a custom cabinet shop, and like 12 machine shops. Nearly every change was for more money or a chance to learn something new. A few, work died off. I made a lot more money by the end of my career because of my experience and skillset, but the race shop I left a few years before I became disabled was the place I wish I worked at for my entire career.
 
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HPIguy said:
Same here, grew up pretty poor and started working at 13. I never said I hated my job just to be clear. I generally enjoy what I do most days.

But if you don't have something about your job that you don't like at times, then either you have the best job in the world, or you're the rarest person in the world.
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I'm generalizing and not specifically referring to you with my posts. There's always going to be tough or bad days, but during those times, the thought of wishing I was doing something else or working somewhere else has never popped in my head.
I suppose it's from growing up as an immigrant, and hearing stories of how my people struggled and labored, back in our 3rd world country, for basically nothing. They constantly rave how great it is to be in this country, where they get paid great(in their standards) for doing such easy work. Of course, they would also laugh at how their American coworkers would constantly complain about doing the same exact work.
I guess that same empathetic mentality is still ingrained in me.
 
Doom! said:
These days I fantasize about retirement. My body is starting to let me know I can't do this forever.
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Heard that. I'm the weirdo. I've worked at the same place 28.5 years. Since I was 21. I worked at a few tool & die shops & metal mold making shops to put myself through school, then a production CNC shop, blah, then I landed where I'm at. My knees are killing me.
 
Doom! said:
These days I fantasize about retirement. My body is starting to let me know I can't do this forever.
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I hear ya! I hope I make it there to get, at least, some of my money back.
 
Started working for a regular paycheck at 15 (hospital housekeeping), and of course doing farm/ranch work on my days off (hauled/stacked/stored lots of hay). Joined USAF at 17 (18th birthday during basic training).
 
My 1st job ever was pumping gasoline at a full service station when they still existed. This woman used to stop all the time in her log truck, hauling logs, big long nose semi, & I'd fill both tanks with diesel while she went in & got coffee. She looked like Daisy Duke & wore cowboy boots. I took my time filling the tanks.
 
332_RC said:
My 1st job ever was pumping gasoline at a full service station when they still existed. This woman used to stop all the time in her log truck, hauling logs, big long nose semi, & I'd fill both tanks with diesel while she went in & got coffee. She looked like Daisy Duke & wore cowboy boots. I took my time filling the tanks.
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I worked at a marina for a few summers, them pumps were slow 🤣
 

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