I quit my job

[Mush Brain]

Looks like I will be living off government till I find a new job.

Depression awaits

[XTankSlayerX]

Hopefully the UK's Welfare thingy is better than the American one 

[JoaoPRSousa]

That's sad

Hope you get a new one soon.

[cragger89]

You paid contributions with each monthly wage you were earning, so you're entitled to it.

 

Not good fun at all, but you'll come out the other side just fine. I did a lot of walking with my camera when I was last signing on. Important to keep to a vaguely work related occupation, bed at a normal time, wake up at a normal time, etc. 

[ShadowCaptain]

Looks like I will be living off government till I find a new job.

Depression awaits

 

Damn, could you not have stuck with it until you found a new one?

 

id be fucked if I lost my job

[C0LL0SS0S]

Hopefully the UK's Welfare thingy is better than the American one 

I think all are better than the American one

[Alibaladin]

On the positive note. You're not dead or disabled. :lol:

[DeViLzzz]

Looks like I will be living off government till I find a new job.

Depression awaits

There is nothing more depressing than not contributing in some way to society and not being around people.  My dad finally understood how my life was when he had to retire.  I hope Mush Brain you get to work as soon as possible.  Best of luck.

[DeViLzzz]

On the positive note. You're not dead or disabled. :lol:

Exactly.  Dead = no chance and well disabled is hell.  I live it.

[Mush Brain]

I was off work with a pulled shoulder, but they started being pushy. ..

So they can stick their 55 hours a week up their asses.

[cragger89]

Signed off or skiving?

[asim1999]

55 hours sounds crazy

OMG wow, how did u do 55 hours

also, what job did u have that u quit?

[nerdyrcdriver]

OMG wow, how did u do 55 hours

also, what job did u have that u quit?

 

55hrs isn't that hard. I worked 30-40 hours a week during my senior year in high school with plenty of extra time to do fun stuff and get homework done.  

 

OP: I hope you can find a good job quickly. I don't know how hard it is to do so in the UK. 

[Guest]

What a coincidence, I need a job and fast too...

[Real_PhillBert]

Hopefully the UK's Welfare thingy is better than the American one 

In the US if you quit your job you do not get unemployment...

[harrynowl]

Hopefully the UK's Welfare thingy is better than the American one 

Pretty sure it is most of my local city seems to be doing a pretty good job living on it

 

[Toxic Tom]

banter

[Mush Brain]

I worked for CEVA, move car parts into cages with a scanner,and we must hit a scan rate of 72/hr.

The parts we move are from air filters to windscreens.. then transmissions and engines to huge disc brakes.

It's even worse when the assholes around you are lazy and only move the small shit in order to hit scan rate.

Meanwhile I move around 4 dc brakes at once which are ranging from 25kg to upwards of 40kg each.

The engines are around 55-70KG.

A transmission is around the same.

Do that for 55 hours a week and you will soon know what pain is.

I am a fully trained soldier and this work still hit me hard..

I am ex 7th Parachute Regiment which is an elite artillery regt that aids the infantry Paras in battle.

[nerdyrcdriver]

Sounds like your managers aren't doing a good job watching what work everyone is doing. At my retail job I became a trainer for my position (pushing cars). I could do a few hundred an hour without too much of an issue. My trainees would do less than 100 an hour and bitch about it to no end. If the weather was poor, I usually got called in because the other person would call off. But I made it super clear to management on who was actually doing what work and they did a good job of listening and monitoring everyone. Working with management rather than hating them goes a long way. My raise was 3x what the other people got (still a very small amount, but it shows that they noticed my hard work). 

[BenD]

i quit 4 jobs in a bout a year and now i'm making more money then i ever dreamed possible! change is a good thing!

fuck shit jobs, fuck shit bosses,  nobody should be able to stop somebody to be happy!

[Mush Brain]

i quit 4 jobs in a bout a year and now i'm making more money then i ever dreamed possible! change is a good thing!

fuck shit jobs, fuck shit bosses, nobody should be able to stop somebody to be happy!

I think I love you, you female? Would help. .. lawL.

My lady would rip my balls off haha.

[Fred Castellum]

I do 55 hours a week too. Its no fun that's for sure. Long story short I'll be quitting eventually and going back to my prior job.

Its usually a good idea to have a potential job opportunity available before you quit.

[Nuluvius]

I had my fill of blue collar work as well; I went from working in factories in rough industrial estates to hauling white and brown goods up and down 8 or more flights of stairs (sometimes alone) all day long. Then finally wiping arses trying to make enough money to get through college when I decided that I'd had enough of it all. I did that for most of my early life and you know what I found? I found shit job after shit job and each and every one of them was filled with arseholes.

 

In that time there's been one job that I simply had to walk way from. It was shrink wrapping pet products in a factory based in one of the roughest areas of England. The work itself was truly harsh as were the managers. It was an environment run by fear and intimidation, it was very depressing and one would be instilled with feelings of dread about the next day of work. The average staff turnover for the factory was just one week. A large number of the workers were around my age at the time... 16 if I recall. Most of them, like me had done badly at/or simply dropped out of school for various reasons.

 

Having gone through a very rough childhood and having witnessed as well as caused a fair number of bloody injuries I thought that I had a strong stomach for violence at this point in my life. I would find this to be a rather arrogant assumption this one particular day:

 

One of these said co workers; a lad (I'm applying this term colloquially) started what he thought was a play fight with one of the lorry drivers... what happened next was far from play in any stretch of the imagination. This child (because that is what we were) ended up having his skull smashed off of the concrete floor until several of his teeth popped out. Afterwards the driver flicked open a knife and slashed him from cheek to cheek... effectively issuing a 'Columbian smile'. He left him in a pool of his own blood and calmly walked away back to his rig and drove off.

 

I didn't turn up for work the next day...

 

...and to this day I can still recall with great clarity the sickening sounds of his head being smashed into that cold concrete floor.

[Fred Castellum]

@Nuluvius Jeez... That's quite brutal...

[Real_PhillBert]

I had my fill of blue collar work as well; I went from working in factories in rough industrial estates to hauling white and brown goods up and down 8 or more flights of stairs (sometimes alone) all day long. Then finally wiping arses trying to make enough money to get through college when I decided that I'd had enough of it all. I did that for most of my early life and you know what I found? I found shit job after shit job and each and every one of them was filled with arseholes.

 

In that time there's been one job that I simply had to walk way from. It was shrink wrapping pet products in a factory based in one of the roughest areas of England. The work itself was truly harsh as were the managers. It was an environment run by fear and intimidation, it was very depressing and one would be instilled with feelings of dread about the next day of work. The average staff turnover for the factory was just one week. A large number of the workers were around my age at the time... 16 if I recall. Most of them, like me had done badly at/or simply dropped out of school for various reasons.

 

Having gone through a very rough childhood and having witnessed as well as caused a fair number of bloody injuries I thought that I had a strong stomach for violence at this point in my life. I would find this to be a rather arrogant assumption this one particular day:

 

One of these said co workers; a lad (I'm applying this term colloquially) started what he thought was a play fight with one of the lorry drivers... what happened next was far from play in any stretch of the imagination. This child (because that is what we were) ended up having his skull smashed off of the concrete floor until several of his teeth popped out. Afterwards the driver flicked open a knife and slashed him from cheek to cheek... effectively issuing a 'Columbian smile'. He left him in a pool of his own blood and calmly walked away back to his rig and drove off.

 

I didn't turn up for work the next day...

 

...and to this day I can still recall with great clarity the sickening sounds of his head being smashed into that cold concrete floor.

Yikes, Have you considered moving to a less hostile area?