multihyphenate
04-26-2005, 03:32 PM
So I guess the question I have, is: Was quitting the right thing?
It's weird. My last day with a job was on Friday, which I had only worked at for a month. Now, a little about me. I graduated college two years ago and I work for a TV station part time at night. Since that gig isn't paying enough and it's pretty important, I had to hold down another job, which lead to the one I just quit (aside from temping gigs).
The job was as a production clerk for an engineering firm located in the suburbs, at a business park. My duties were:
Mailing and shipping out company-related materials for staff
Restocking supply shelves and xerox machines
Handling special projects assigned by mgmt.
Binding reports and copying reports for staff
Covering for receptionist while on breaks
Filing away materials
Picking up and distributing mail to staff
Making bank deposits for acct. dept.
So here's the deal, I'm working there for the first week and everything is definitely overwhelming but I get used to the feel for it. I get caught up in some workplace drama which isn't of my doing, and now I've got one enemy who refuses to associate with me. Now, while into this job, Canadian geese are lurking around the area and crapping all over the front of the building. Since my job status is perhaps the lowest on the ladder, guess who gets the duplicitous honor of hosing off said crap? But from here, it proceeds to get stranger (and more degrading). No sooner am I washing off crap from the front property, do they have me cutting up ceiling tiles and replacing bad ones in the three floor building. I'm now chipping away at ice in front of the dumpster cage and sweeping out fallen garbage inside the cage. None of this was in my company-issued job description. :razz: Even in a joking tone, one staff member calls me 'the slave' because I'm pretty much doing everything around the office now: moving back breaking file boxes around (which inevitably would have left me to clean up their mess), going around and collecting to be recycled paper from staff, making company car oil changes, redeeming soda cans and bottles, buying milk and creamer for coffee, and having to drop everything I do just because someone forgot that they have to get a shipment in at a certain time.
It's only when I looked at the ad in which I first responded, that I realized they were looking for a part time maintenance person, in addition to my job.
It's now two days without this job, and I feel rather good that I quit. Actually, I feel freaking fanstastic.
However, the question is to other people on this site:
Would you quit if you had to do the same thing? If the job you had wasn't as described as it was in the paper? Even if you have a degree?
It's weird. My last day with a job was on Friday, which I had only worked at for a month. Now, a little about me. I graduated college two years ago and I work for a TV station part time at night. Since that gig isn't paying enough and it's pretty important, I had to hold down another job, which lead to the one I just quit (aside from temping gigs).
The job was as a production clerk for an engineering firm located in the suburbs, at a business park. My duties were:
Mailing and shipping out company-related materials for staff
Restocking supply shelves and xerox machines
Handling special projects assigned by mgmt.
Binding reports and copying reports for staff
Covering for receptionist while on breaks
Filing away materials
Picking up and distributing mail to staff
Making bank deposits for acct. dept.
So here's the deal, I'm working there for the first week and everything is definitely overwhelming but I get used to the feel for it. I get caught up in some workplace drama which isn't of my doing, and now I've got one enemy who refuses to associate with me. Now, while into this job, Canadian geese are lurking around the area and crapping all over the front of the building. Since my job status is perhaps the lowest on the ladder, guess who gets the duplicitous honor of hosing off said crap? But from here, it proceeds to get stranger (and more degrading). No sooner am I washing off crap from the front property, do they have me cutting up ceiling tiles and replacing bad ones in the three floor building. I'm now chipping away at ice in front of the dumpster cage and sweeping out fallen garbage inside the cage. None of this was in my company-issued job description. :razz: Even in a joking tone, one staff member calls me 'the slave' because I'm pretty much doing everything around the office now: moving back breaking file boxes around (which inevitably would have left me to clean up their mess), going around and collecting to be recycled paper from staff, making company car oil changes, redeeming soda cans and bottles, buying milk and creamer for coffee, and having to drop everything I do just because someone forgot that they have to get a shipment in at a certain time.
It's only when I looked at the ad in which I first responded, that I realized they were looking for a part time maintenance person, in addition to my job.
It's now two days without this job, and I feel rather good that I quit. Actually, I feel freaking fanstastic.
However, the question is to other people on this site:
Would you quit if you had to do the same thing? If the job you had wasn't as described as it was in the paper? Even if you have a degree?