Fun day!

[Sytes]

My theme until retirement when asked the common, "How's it going?". "One day closer to days off" with a smile.
On a tougher day I'll add an occasional "And this day too shall pass".

Outside that, we have a great crew. Life is much better when respect is respected.

Wish you the best. For chits n grins, one last thought we chuckle over, we need assholes to know we're good people.

 

[Addicting]

My theme until retirement when asked the common, "How's it going?". "One day closer to days off" with a smile.
On a tougher day I'll add an occasional "And this day too shall pass".

Outside that, we have a great crew. Life is much better when respect is respected.

Wish you the best. For chits n grins, one last thought we chuckle over, we need assholes to know we're good people.

You are right with an asterisk. I crossed the finish line on the Gubmint don’t die marathon. When that race is in the rear view, the perspective of the road ahead has endless views. You are mostly free to decide what view you want to look at.

This whole thing isn’t worth making a grand exit over but it is food for thought on how much energy and effort I contribute in the future.

 

[BearFoot]

I almost quit today and may still seek other employment when I get back from Colorado. Small companies who don’t take care of employees and chastise without even asking you what happened are toxic.

You know because there are those handfuls of people who are not happy until everyone around them is not happy. That’s who I had the pleasure of meeting today. A overworked and overwhelmed temp who has just a bit of power. To ice the cake, after she told me all things I was doing wrong, she called my boss, and tried to get me banned from the factory. All because I am almost deaf and couldn’t hear what she was saying thru the little slot in the glass that she slammed shut in my face. I asked for her name and the supervisor came out almost forcibly escorted me out of the building.

Then to top that my employer unloaded both barrels on me for causing a scene and threatening his account. He still hasn’t asked me my side.

Friday and late season Mule deer can’t come soon enough. I need a reset before I start singing.

I've worked big companies and small. Lost count at over 30+ business. If I'm not happy I quit! Sometimes I had to suffer a few weeks, on the job, to get money in the bank. I've stayed on jobs for less pay because people where great! Have left very high pay due to arse hole management. For me, first file for unemployment. Usually within two weeks, I'm working again.
Your personal integrity, and knowing that you are an asset, to any employer, will bring opportunities.

 

[rjthehunter]

Do tell, venting threads have a shelf life so get it out while the getting is good.

It just involves some new management. Someone who thinks they have it all figured out. When in fact, they don't have it all figured out. Passing promotions out to their past team members, who have spent very little time in their current position.

Just the usual shit. I made my opinion and stance pretty well known yesterday in a meeting relating to it. We'll see where it goes. I really like the company I'm with, but if it comes down to it, I could have a new position doing the same thing 10 miles away. The ball is in their court now.

 

[Addicting]

It just involves some new management. Someone who thinks they have it all figured out. When in fact, they don't have it all figured out. Passing promotions out to their past team members, who have spent very little time in their current position.

Just the usual shit. I made my opinion and stance pretty well known yesterday in a meeting relating to it. We'll see where it goes. I really like the company I'm with, but if it comes down to it, I could have a new position doing the same thing 10 miles away. The ball is in their court now.

I don’t miss that stuff in the least. It used to infuriate me watching happen in the Army. Most of the time it was who you know / blow vs what you actually know.

 

[BuzzH]

I'm mostly mentoring/training at this stage in my career, retirement eligible in less than 8 months, plan to work until 60, so less than 4 years.

I'm really, really hoping Musk and Ramaswamy offer buyouts...all you'll see behind me is a dust trail and lots and lots of hunting/fishing photos.

 

[duckhunt]

It just involves some new management. Someone who thinks they have it all figured out. When in fact, they don't have it all figured out. Passing promotions out to their past team members, who have spent very little time in their current position.

Just the usual shit. I made my opinion and stance pretty well known yesterday in a meeting relating to it. We'll see where it goes. I really like the company I'm with, but if it comes down to it, I could have a new position doing the same thing 10 miles away. The ball is in their court now.

I just love the new kids fresh out of college that come in and tell me how to do my job that I've been doing for 20+ years. Anymore I just laugh at em and say yeah ok.

 

[ismith]

I'm mostly mentoring/training at this stage in my career, retirement eligible in less than 8 months, plan to work until 60, so less than 4 years.

I'm really, really hoping Musk and Ramaswamy offer buyouts...all you'll see behind me is a dust trail and lots and lots of hunting/fishing photos.

Hopefully they fix OPM first so it doesn’t take two years for your retirement payments to start.

 

[BuzzH]

Hopefully they fix OPM first so it doesn’t take two years for your retirement payments to start.

Or death benefits for a widow...that one was a real peach that I spent 18 months on and ended with a congressional inquiry.

You know what keeps me up at night? Nothing, but that one was pretty close.

It's been about 3 years since I worked that case, I'm not over it, and I won't ever be over it. Someone needed to lose their job for how poorly that was handled.

The one case I took personally that I've worked on as a Union President, lost a friend and great co-worker and his family deserved better.

 

[Sytes]

The one case I took personally that I've worked on as a Union President, lost a friend and great co-worker and his family deserved better.

That's simply ugly!

 

[gouch]

I just love the new kids fresh out of college that come in and tell me how to do my job that I've been doing for 20+ years. Anymore I just laugh at em and say yeah ok.

I had a summer intern (Still in collage) who wasn't even in our department but who was sent out to work with us for one week. To learn how we did things. Actually, to get him out of his mentor's hair for a week. At the end of the week, he reported me for creating an unsafe work environment and said we needed to change the way we did things. I guess you could say he was showing initiative and that's a good thing, but what pissed me off was being called into a meeting with his mentor and my supervisor to discuss how to change things. Things that didn't need changing considering that in my entire time with the forest service there were only two reported injuries involving someone on a crew I was working with. A broken leg and a bruised knee. The bruised knee was a temp who just wanted to get out of work. Nobody else would have even mentioned that injury after the initial "OUCH" when it first happened.

Both of the other two men in that meeting had previously worked at my job early in their career so they knew exactly how we operated. So, when their suggestions for change were met with nothing but a rolling of the eyes and a headshake, they knew nothing was going to change. At least they knew they had done their job in addressing the interns' concerns.

After that intern was hired on full time, we became pretty good friends, but he never did volunteer to come out in the woods to work with me.

 

[shrapnel]

It's always easy to quit. It's harder to stay and tolerate the things you don't like. I have not heard of any job that is all aces. I stayed 43 years with a company that didn't always like what I said. I realized late, I should have just nodded my head and said yes, more than argue a point that was mostly tivial.

The other thing is, if a job at Sportsmans Warehouse is a step up, you really aren't far from the bottom...

 

[Nick87]

. I realized late, I should have just nodded my head and said yes,

Yup. Easier said than done though.

 

[CRJR45]

Yup. Easier said than done though.

Even when I try , my face tells the truth ! It's gotten me in a world of trouble

 

[Addicting]

It's always easy to quit. It's harder to stay and tolerate the things you don't like. I have not heard of any job that is all aces. I stayed 43 years with a company that didn't always like what I said. I realized late, I should have just nodded my head and said yes, more than argue a point that was mostly tivial.

The other thing is, if a job at Sportsmans Warehouse is a step up, you really aren't far from the bottom...

In retirement, for a job that you have solely because you want one, nodding your head and saying yes isn’t in the job description anymore.

 

[Nick87]

Even when I try , my face tells the truth ! It's gotten me in a world of trouble

Yup.

 

[shrapnel]

In retirement, for a job that you have solely because you want one, nodding your head and saying yes isn’t in the job description anymore.

It doesn’t sound like you are retired…

 

[Addicting]

It doesn’t sound like you are retired…

My pension I get every month begs to differ.

 

[shrapnel]

My pension I get every month begs to differ.

Your pension is fibbing to you if you are still working…

 

[Addicting]

For chits n grins, one last thought we chuckle over, we need assholes to know we're good people.

@shrapnel thanks for proving his point for everyone.