/pony/ - Pony

>>1201480
dunno

I've been working for the same company for 26 years now and I never felt any pressure whatsoever of getting fired.

There's a saying we have in our company, 'unless you steal something, they'll never fire you'. And so far that's been true.

I would have to be worth enough percent of a sack of shit to he employed anywhere in the first place to tell. Which life has made it clear will never happen considering I am 36 and have never "really" had a job

I've been in the same building for 10 years, though I was let go once in that period.  Just got rehired by a different department immediately.  Sounds like after this year they're closing the building entirely, but I expect I'll be able to stay with the district, though I can't say I'm not concerned about it.

>>1201480
I laughed at this a lot.

i feel really secure in my job; i'd have to fuck up really bad to find myself losing it

part of it is that i've got a raport with the park ownership and management, as well as shown my work ethic; but the other part is that finding people that stick around and can comprehend bare mnimum rules is actually really hard :P

now, the season is less than 2 months from being over, so pretty soon, i'm gonna have to find another job; although i'm gonna sign up for offseason work (which starts in march) so theres that

I always figured I'd get a job I liked eventually and maybe buy a good car and a house or something.

But there's way too much competition for every job I'd actually enjoy, I can't drive, and nobody can afford a house these days whether they're employed or not. I'd be putting myself through hell for things I can clearly live without. My quality of life would be worse.

Does this make me a piece of trash who doesn't contribute anything in the grand scheme of society? Maybe. But society failed to properly train me for employment or further education, and rather than offering understanding and compassion for this, consistently makes me and people like me out to be lazy, delusional undesirables. So frankly, until it shows me some respect, I don't owe it a damn thing.

I feel pretty stable in my original job at REI, everyone there likes me, it's a good company, etc etc.

I just started a new job at Goodwill and the newness of it means it is inherently unstable. We'll see how it ends up going. So far I'm keeping my job at REI as well, but there is already three scheduling conflicts because Goodwill didn't talk to me before making my schedule for the month. The main manager to talk to about these things is on vacation so I have to go talk to a lesser manager about it and hopefully this doesn't cause issues down the line.

>>1201480
still waiting 4 enough $ from society 2 finish college @ semi-decent school & then 4 somepony i semi-respect 2 explain wat a job is so i can share my ponies with ponies

>>1201649
i used 2 work at goodwill in the store. 1st time 16+ years ago - corporate fired a good manager 4 no good reason -- ...most of the store quit as well -- actually, corporate tried to say she quit but was able to win unemployment -- had a few gatherings in the years that followed. then 8 years ago, different location, another seemingly decent manager got fired 4 no good reason - turnover was very high - in 2 years, 80-90% new workers at store

biggest point of contention: they push impossible productivity standards (which are only possible under the most ideal of conditions and even then difficult) for clothes processors. racks are either made up or number of articles on rack inflated by up to 2x (usually putting 60 or so on instead of 100, tho) 2 compensate for impossible rate

I get away with a lot at my job, and I try not to abuse that but they seriously trust me here. I'm not entirely irreplaceable but there's not a lot of skilled tradesworkers out there who would work for the rate I do, and the time it would take to hire and train my replacement would be significant. It's not peanuts though; I do get paid well above minimum wage.

Honestly I could probably get paid more somewhere else, but my current boss and I have am understanding about my migraines so I'm not leaving him without a similar level of understanding and a decent pay bump. I pretty much come and go as I please as long as I don't hang them out to try on orders. Again, I try not to abuse that but If I have to leave early without warning or call off without warning all he really wants is something like "migraine" "back pain" or "illness" for the books.

I may eventually leave if the stocks trading becomes reliable, but for now I'm extremely likely to stay right where I'm at.