I know people love birthdays, but this is ridiculous

[jmowreader]

Last Saturday I was coming back from lunch and one of our newer paint department people was getting ready to go out on the floor. He was all happy and shit and bragging about how it was his last weekend.

"You find another job?" This is what usually happens, right?

'No, two weeks ago was my birthday and my relief was late. I was 45 minutes late to my birthday party, so I put in my two weeks notice the very next day.'

And yes, this person was over the age of five.

[hippywife]

1. Has to be some other reason.

He obviously doesn't like the job to begin with or that wouldn't have been enough to do it.

I'm sorry you have to deal with such idiot customers but I DO love your stories! :hi:

[jmowreader]

4. Idiot associates too, like this one was

There are currently three burrs under my saddle on the staff of our store. When you have 120 associates that's a decent ratio, but still.

One of them is a lumber guy. He absolutely WILL NOT do a damn thing unless you tell him exactly what you want. Example: yesterday I had pushed some fencing down the fencing aisle. There was a skid of welded wire and six bundles of posts for chain link fencing. I told the guy to put the fencing on the shelf. I guess I should have specified "all the fencing and the posts" because he put half of the welded wire in the hole, left the rest on the skid and didn't touch the posts at all.

One of them is on the deliveries team. He keeps leaving the crab-steer reach truck, which is electric, outside in the rain. Good guy except that he's managed, so far, to fry two motors at $3500 each and a $5000 controller card on this machine--which was new in June.

And the third is the department head of outside garden, my wife's department, who has managed to stress my wife out to the point where she's on the verge of a bleeding ulcer. I'm in the process of finding her a new job, because I won't let her work there anymore. It ain't worth it, man. And besides, she can get a job just driving a forklift, which she can do well, that pays better than working at this place.

[Pool Hall Ace]

2. I wonder if this doof is going to tell his next employer

his reason for leaving. :dunce:

[hickman]

3. Gotta have your priorities.

When he's selling his shit on ebay in november to pay the rent, he'll do it proudly.