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I quit!

  
 
bitchiekittie
15:51 / 30.05.02
this morning a tiny straw settled and *crack* that was fucking that!

now that Ive decided to definitely leave my job, I feel quite liberated. I can go anywhere! do anything! stop putting up with these screechy cows! maybe even stop being expected to wear frigging suits!

I quit my last job quite suddenly, and it turned out to be the best thing Ive ever done.

anyone want to join me?

(if you are already unemployed, you can have my job. lots of internet time!)
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:13 / 30.05.02
I'd quit, but I'm kinda afraid of my boss.

Zoom.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
17:16 / 30.05.02
I'd quit but I'm finished at the end of the day anyway.

Dammit.
 
 
w1rebaby
17:27 / 30.05.02
I'd quit but... oh, I have quit.
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:02 / 30.05.02
Im going to go get a license. and Im going to start a business. and you, fridge, can do all the work. Ill give you a visa, then sit at home all day and watch the tee vee! mmmm
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:05 / 30.05.02
Im currently eating cooling hot fudge from the jar at my desk. go on, tell me I dont have a problem
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:11 / 30.05.02
funnily enough, I just spent a lot of today explaining to people why I miss the period in my life when I was signing on... you have no idea how tempting quitting my job is... but I need it. Have a good one on the whole "job can fuck off malarkey", bk... wish I could do the same. Though I actually may soon anyway...
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:18 / 30.05.02
I need a job, too. I just dont need *this* one
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:18 / 30.05.02
(and thanks!)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:42 / 30.05.02
Best o' luck with this, bk. Hope something a little more congenial hoves into view soon.
 
 
gridley
18:55 / 30.05.02
Yum! Eat the cool hot fudge! Focus on that.... let the taste and sensation become the only thing in the world.... lose yourself in it....

oh, and congratulations on your bravery!
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
20:02 / 30.05.02
Just did that a few months ago, bitchie. Had no safety net or money to fall back on. I predicted that it would be a change for the better (although I knew it wouldn't seem so for the two months that I was scraping by on minimal cash and food) and it has been. A horrible job can really fuck w/other aspects of your life. If you feel confident about your ability to hit the ground running, I say go for it.
 
 
Saint Keggers
04:28 / 31.05.02
Congrats BK.


I'd quit but im freelancing so its basically the same thing. except with less money. and more coffee.
 
 
Yay Paul
00:10 / 17.06.02
Ok now i'm interested to know if you found another job, and if its one you like. Or if indeed you did give fridge his visa and are still watching the TV !

I found a job i like, freelancing, so much freedom. Now most the bloody works dried up so i'm hunting day and night again, ARSE !
 
 
bitchiekittie
13:12 / 17.06.02
actually, I did a half assed job of looking. I found something, but decided the pay didnt make it worth the move

ok, ok. I admit it, Im too damn lazy to do an all out mission to find a new job. my last job I walked out on and it took me two weeks to even bother starting to look. fortunately, by the third week I did an assault on the sunday paper and by the end of the week had a few good offers. over confident, me?
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
22:05 / 17.06.02
Now I want to quit. Responsibilities suck.
 
 
Yay Paul
23:41 / 17.06.02
I have to agree finding work sux...
ARRRRRGGGG i hate agencies, once you speak to one ten thousand of them call you !!

(Bad agency related day you say .. hummmm yes)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:42 / 18.06.02
I really want to quit now... I've been here for three-and-a-half hours, the papers turned up 2 hours late, the computers are fucked, even the toilets are fucked, and I'm not getting out of here until 9 or 10 at the earliest at a realistic estimate (I'm supposed to finish at 7)...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:53 / 18.06.02
Fuck it. Let's all quit our jobs and start a cult or become survivalists or something. Or just live in boxes and hassle people for change.
Hmm. I think I need to calm down a little before I start using capitals.
 
 
Baz Auckland
07:27 / 18.06.02
Unemployment can be fun. I spent almost 4 months unemployed and living in Vancouver last fall and in retrospect it really was fun... although I wish it occured to me to apply for unemployment.

3 more weeks of not working and then I get to start landscaping! woo!
 
 
bitchiekittie
11:27 / 18.06.02
Im all up for starting a commune.

only trouble is, I have no skills that would lend itself to survival outside of an office job.

Im going to go sob in the corner over my uselessness
 
 
Shortfatdyke
11:39 / 18.06.02
and me! i wanna quit, too! and i will do, in the not too distant future (my next birthday present to myself, perhaps?).

and bk - everyone's good at something. you'd discover loads of talent you didn't know you had. problem is, i've tried doing the commune thing. formed a housing co-op and one bloke was going to buy a place, and the rest of us would pay him. we got into trouble nearly straight away, though, with one person refusing to ever get any kind of job if it were necessary, to help out, and at least two other members just wanting a free place to live and having no intention of mucking in. so choose your comrades well, bk!
 
 
bitchiekittie
12:07 / 18.06.02
I had a place with 3 guys once, a tiny little apartment. none of us had decent jobs (I was the only one technically, legally employed) and all desperately needed a place. turned out bad from the start, too. although for a bit it still was quite fun, always some transient folks hanging about, camping on the floor for a night or a week. some mutual friends spending ages with us, coming and going as they please. I really miss that first little bit

too bad we dont all live nearer to one another. Id love to try that again (only a few less crazy people in the house, Im a mom now)
 
 
that
12:17 / 18.06.02
I am actually just finally trying to get myself slotted into some kind of career path...having been a very lazy student for most of the past three years, I figure it is time I took steps towards a stable career type thing. I'm doing what I'd only ever vaguely considered before, and actually applying for PGCE courses. Gonna train to be a teacher, if I can. Of course, I have left it so damn late that it remains to be seen whether or not I will make it onto a course this year... assuming that anywhere would take me anyway. Must get a job anyway though, whatever happens with that. Have only ever worked for minimum wage or a little more before, so it is kind of weird looking at job adverts for graduates...
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
02:29 / 19.06.02
Man, the only reason you guys hate work is because you keep thinking of it like it's work. A job, fer chrissakes. That's no good. Treat it like something else. Anything else. A game. A soap opera. A sitcom. A hallucination created by the turtle you killed when you were eight. A hallucination that you created for the turtle.

Working got a lot more fun after I decided that everyone else was crazy as fuck anyway, and that it (my place of employment) by no means operated on any system of logic, so no one would notice me not actually working but rather acting out an incredible simulation while I mainly just hang out with beautiful people and get high.

And I get paid to do this. And you can too! After all, if your soul dies everytime you step foot in the office, well then, that's like quitting, and it's their own fault that they didn't notice and continue to pay you.
 
 
Puzimandias
20:53 / 20.06.02
I quit my job too about a month ago, it was just really getting to me. Course, I would pick the lousiest week of the year to try and start temping but I started this week in a very different environment (still an office though) and so far it's been great. From experience about two years in any one place is about enough I can take.
Commune idea sounds good - I spent two years teaching archaeloogy so I can make my own house, rope, clothes and drinking vessels. On a good day, I might even be able to pick out a mushroom that wouldnt kill me on contact.
On second thoughts, maybe I'll just sit here and finish my icecream
 
  
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