seriously. i've been at my job for ~7 years, am experiencing serious burnout, and don't think vacation time will solve it. i'm looking for another job right now that pays comparably (which is difficult in san antonio), but haven't gotten anywhere yet. meanwhile, i've been late repeatedly. i know they're documenting everything, and i don't want to get fired, yet i keep repeating the same mistakes. *sigh* the answers are simple, i know. stay on top of things until you find something else, because 7 years is a long time to invest in something that would end on a bad note. still, i'm wondering if anyone else has been in this position before. btw, post #4000!!!
streak your office in a bodysuit does your office have any trophies?? any awards for good performance they've received?? if so...tie them to the back of your car and ride around in circles in the parking lot.
I once tried to get fired, and it worked. While I lived in LA, I worked for a place in Hollywood that was a "service bureau". In laymen's terms, what they did was develop film for movie/TV studios, and also design storyboards and things like that. The owner of the company was a woman who was a combination workaholic and drug addict. She lived at the office...literally. She would work 16-18 hour days and would start firing up the Budweiser and Prozac at lunchtime every day. She paid all of us by the hour, but to top it off, she would only pay straight time for everything over 40 hours a week....and she was open on Saturdays and demanded that everyone worked 6 day weeks! I took the job because I had been unemployed for a while, and after a month of this bullshizznit, I'd had it. A job has really got to suck bad if unemployment is better than it. So....I started f*cking up everything I touched. I would kill film. I would develop it improperly. I would screw up orders so bad the client would call back screaming. Then a Saturday came around. I casually mentioned to the owner that it was illegal for her to pay hourly people straight time after 40 hours. The beeyatch lost it and fired me. I turned around and filed a claim against her with the State Employment Board seeking my back overtime, and I won $500. Note to longtime posters: This is the beeyatch that I pulled my "special present in a box delivery stunt" on....a couple of weeks after I received her check for the $500.
Haha - I was wondering when and who would do George references. I figured it would either be you, codell, Freak, or Behad!
i'm thinking about doing that. i might go to my boss' house on sunday just to talk. i mean, the dude has to know it already, but it might help things out. he'll probably suggest some time off, but i get the feeling that if i take a week off, i'll want to come back even less! lol! 7 years of monotony is a long, long, long time. loooong time. did someone steal my stapler?
I once sent everyone credit cards for two days straight, even when they turned me down. I was asked to resign.
A friend of mine who was trying to get fired from McDonald's started cussing people out over the drive thru intercom.
