I quit WALMART WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!

[grey5.0beast]

So finally after nine months(like having a baby) the pain is over... got hired at the end of June and quit this morning!!!

It has been a Looooooonng time coming; my managers are ALL gay(literally) and are all big A-holes. I gues thats what you get when things get stuck in your but all the time

So anyway... YAY for me, I talked to my gay manager Anthony on the phone and I was like "I'm sick I'm not comin"... "but you were supposed to be here at 7, you have to call 2 hrs in advance"(this was 7:45).... "Fine I QUIT, I QUIT I QUIT*BAM* slams phone....

YAY FOR ME

 

[grey5.0beast]

And for old times sake lol....

 

[Daggar]

I had quit GOING to Walmart but since you don't work there anymore, I guess it's safe to go back.

 

[grey5.0beast]

I had quit GOING to Walmart but since you don't work there anymore, I guess it's safe to go back.

 

[jrichker]

Hopefully you are now motivated to lean how to do something greater with your career life than work at Wal-Mart. You know what you don't like to do, so find something that you would like to do and get the preparation and training to do it.

 

[grey5.0beast]

Yeah, I'm 17 and now know what happens when ppl don't go to college/finish HS. I am planning on going to Alabama!!

 

[TheUser]

Exactly...use other people's fock ups to motivate you to do something greater. Luckily for me, I know a lot of fock ups, so I have a lot of examples of what NOT to do

 

[Fett]

As silly of a place to get this thought from.....this actually helped me a while back....

In the movie Office Space, one of the themes repeated was "If you had a million dollars, what would you do with your time?". Whatever the answer, you should find a line of work that falls into it.

I had been working in retail management for years....pretty much retail since I was 15. My first though was that if I was rich enough to not have to work, I would spend my time fixing cars or building cars. So I started looking in the automotive field for a career....and I was in my late 20s at the time. I ended up being lucky enough to know someone who was a parts manager for a Lincoln Mercury dealer, and he got me in and started teaching me the counter.

I am now 33 and work the shop counter at a Ford dealership. Basically I am the parts guy for the technicians. When they need parts, they come to me. I LOVE my job. Everyday I am thankful for my job. It had taught me so much about cars, I have a Ford shop at my disposal, along with all the tools, lifts, and technicians to help me. I get my parts for cheap, and I have a great time everyday....plus I make an awesome salary. Enough to have been able to build my car, and my Wife stays home to raise my daughter.

So figure out what you really want to do, then find a way to get into that field. When you love your job, you really do enjoy going to work. 40 hours a week is a lot of time spending doing something you don't like. It is a great feeling not hating to go to work.

 

[Turkey Sammich]

No one likes a quitter.

 

[Strippt88]

What did your union rep say? Seriously, you want a job you like, or everything else sucks, everything.

 

[86bluecobra]

congrats on quitting. I hope your car insurence is payed up. Go get your diploma and get into something you like. I would suggest going for a trade rather then taking a bunch of useless corses at a colledge or university. The baby boomers are at the age they will be retiring and they make up most of the trades epople. There is a huge need for trades workers and it is a great time to get an apprenticeship right now.

 

[jtfairlane]

I would suggest going for a trade rather then taking a bunch of useless corses at a colledge or university.

Had you taken a couple of those useless courses, you might have been able to criticize a college education by spelling "courses" and "college" correctly.

 

[Fett]

Had you taken a couple of those useless courses, you might have been able to criticize a college education by spelling "courses" and "college" correctly.

No, he's right. That's how those words are spelled in Canada. You would know that had you attended college......or as my friends to the North would say, "colledge".

 

[jtfairlane]

No, he's right. That's how those words are spelled in Canada. You would know that had you attended college......or as my friends to the North would say, "colledge".

My first thought was that you can't possibly be serious, but then again I have encountered no shortage of people on the internet who actually believed the ridiculous claims they made so...

http://www.concordia.ab.ca/

I find it odd that this Alberta College spells College in their own name without a d, and their course management system is has a conspicuous o in it.

Oh wait, that goes for every other Canadian college too.

They must be using the same English language after all!

 

[86bluecobra]

Had you taken a couple of those useless courses, you might have been able to criticize a college education by spelling "courses" and "college" correctly.

D'oh. Really I am a horrible speller. They tried to make me learn french at school aswell. I always told them I had not yet mastered English why would i want to learn another language. The reason I criticize the college education is because of what I see at my play of employment. We have highly educated ones right down to High School dropouts making the exact same wage of 27-30 bucks an hour. Thats labour's rate depending on the job your trained up to. I went to a Technical school after High School and I do not regret it one bit. I am making good money and I did not go into debt and have to try to pay school off for years afterwards.

 

[86bluecobra]

Had you taken a couple of those useless courses, you might have been able to criticize a college education by spelling "courses" and "college" correctly.

Regardless of my horrible spelling was I wrong? Doesn't it make sense to get into a trade? They are in demand right now and they always allow you to make extra cash on the side with a home based business or just able to swap your time and expertice (not sure if thats how you spell it just in case you want to poke some more fun at me ) for what have you.

 

[jtfairlane]

What I would caution about your point of view is the following two things. First, that you assume the only value in a college education lies in the pay rate that you can associate with the degree. Personally, I think if more people could/would/did go to college, and actually paid attention, than there would be less people in the world who couldn't tell you what decade something as recent as the Vietnam War was in or think that "Europe" is a country. Second, you're criticizing a college education's "value" in a trade. The money a college education can get you in a job outside of a trade is much higher because you don't have those ceilings on wages, like your $27-30/hr, in white collar positions.

I'll finish with this: the difference in income between a person with a high school diploma and a person with a Bachelor's degree is half a million U.S. dollars over their lifetime. Is that the case in every situation? No. But it is the U.S. national average.

 

[86bluecobra]

What I would caution about your point of view is the following two things. First, that you assume the only value in a college education lies in the pay rate that you can associate with the degree. Personally, I think if more people could/would/did go to college, and actually paid attention, than there would be less people in the world who couldn't tell you what decade something as recent as the Vietnam War was in or think that "Europe" is a country. Second, you're criticizing a college education's "value" in a trade. The money a college education can get you in a job outside of a trade is much higher because you don't have those ceilings on wages, like your $27-30/hr, in white collar positions.

I'll finish with this: the difference in income between a person with a high school diploma and a person with a Bachelor's degree is half a million U.S. dollars over their lifetime. Is that the case in every situation? No. But it is the U.S. national average.

I do agree that the americians need more education. They have no idea about anything outside there own country. For instance there Knowledge of canada is horrible. That being said I am not the most educated person myself but i believe the education system in canada is a much more balanced system. Vietnam for instance spanned many decades. USA had troops there following world war 2 and finally withdrew in the 70's. As for thinking that Europe is a country well thats just silly.

 

[86bluecobra]

I guess really everyone could use more education. But I would rather get out there and work with my hands and do something.

 

[jtfairlane]

Sigh. Vietnam and Europe were just made up examples just to illustrate the point, they themselves were not the point...

I am not knocking trades, people in them who are certified to do what they do, have the ability to satisfy a lot of demands for their skills and make very respectable amounts of money doing it.

The point is, there is no such thing as "useless" or "wasted" education, especially when you have a degree to go along with it. For every step you succeed in, from a high school diploma, to a bachelor's degree, to an MBA, to a doctorate, there is a huge pay scale difference for 99% of people who use their degree. If someone with a B.A. in history works as an electrician, he probably won't, after all, make any more money then the guy next to him because that B.A. is not applicable to the job.

If, on the other hand, you have an MBA in financing, and you work for a financing arm of a large company or corporation, there may be no foreseeable limit to how much you can make.