Take This Job and Shove it!

To quote Trapper John from M*A*S*H

"If I don't like a movie, I get up and leave. If I don't like the war a job ..." well you get the gist.

Seriously folks, I don't need a "lecture" on burning bridges. In this one case, in this one bad situation I burned one bridge. And if that's the bridge to retail-land, then it can stay razed.

 

The point that you don't understand is this: that you don't know how many OTHER bridges you may have burned.

 

I UNDERSTAND that point all too clearly. If it comes back to bite me in the ass then it does. I'm not going to worry about it. What's done is done. Can't change it.

 

Is that Michael Bolton?

Also, T_D, I would have given my two-weeks' notice, but not solely for not burning bridges or the consideration of my co-workers. Is there a better feeling at a job you hate than right after you hand in the notice? For two weeks, you walk around without a care, only counting down the days, the hours, the minutes you've got left. It's truly a feeling you cannot match anywhere else.

 

Watch Half Baked or Office Space and I think you'll get plenty of ideas. ;D

 

Exactly.

 

My point was I wasn't going to stick around for two more weeks to have them kick me in the nuts repeatedly.

Plus I was already scheduled to work at the paper that weekend.

 

Quitting a full-time spot is pretty cool, too, if you've got vacation saved up. When I bailed two stops ago, I coasted through the last two weeks, moved and was paid for the next month. The timing was beautiful.