Kevin, you might recall me having engaged in all kinds of ranting about my new ghetto job and how I was being subjected to day after day of "teambuilding exercises" (exactly how did our country rise to global supremacy without these activities for 200 years?)...Well, two weeks ago today I got so fed up with this "Office"-esque nightmare that I up and quit with no prior notice, thereby violating a contract and forgoing a sizeable signing bonus.
The very next day I was offered a much less stressful job working only 5 minutes from home for thousands of dollars less than I would hav received had I remained with an employer that expected me to play musical chairs and share a story I'd just heard using only my toes. Best of all the place I'm working is filled with ESOL, but (unfortunately for some of the traffic this site receives from NTH)-they're legal, unless hordes of Koreans are riding intertubes onto the shores of El Paso and Laredo.
I must say my new co-workers aren't as interesting as the ones I spent days making human sculptures of my emotions with, but at least I only have to drive 2.5 miles to be bored.
It was a nice return to the kind of impulsive, bridge burning kind of behavior I was once mildly notorious for, having quit on a whim from numerous jobs in my youth as well as other bad decisions I won't share, but that some of you know.
Crazy, i bet that was a nervous night for the Mrs. Jas... Monkey Man also just quite his job, though he has no intention of getting a new one for a little bit.
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ReplyDelete1. You are a brave and inspiring man
2. Hope it works out
3. Maybe now Jas...Monkey Man will have the time or energy to post anything. ANYthing.
4. I kept reading over and over and over again wondering why you wrote "useless hordes of Koreans" only I was wrong and you wrote "unless hordes of Koreans". My bad.
The only time I ever did something like that was when I quit Ruby Tuesday's, the only job I've ever quit out of pure frustration. Not the same though. God it must have felt good walking out. Recently, my supervisor was talking to me about TQM and it's ultimate expression, 6 Sigma. I was sick to my stomach.
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