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koku
08-18-2005, 10:34 PM
All right, I had a job at a gamestore for over a year. I had a manager who I would constantly make fun of and question his intelligence and responsiblity on...but this new one just takes the cake.

That job ended because the store closed(not enough profit) about halfway in summer. By this time, I had a few hundred saved up and I was working on getting a job through my school with financial Aid. So i decided to not work and enjoy summer; I did for the most part. About a month before school starts, I got ACCEPTED to a job at my school's child care aid by the maneger there. There was some direct deposit and tax paperwork that needed to be done, but nonetheless, i got accepted already.

Now, I'm a procastinator, so of course I wait unitl now. Also, my bank didn't have counter checks so I spent about a week wondering if I should pay for 150 checks when I only need one, or get a new account somewhere else. Mentaly, alot of it was just me not wanting to take action until it was neccesary. Now you have to understand, i've called my school and asked if there were important deadlines...they said no.

So it's the weekend before school and I call my soon to be manager to set up the rest of the paperwork, and she tells me something along the lines of

"Well I didn't hear from you and I thought you weren't interested so I gave the position to someone else."

...WHAT? You have my f'n name, address, phone #, emergency contact, and no one bothered to tell me??

Do people understand how jobs work?? Most students are dependant on them. The fact that it was a job through financial aid alone should have been enough. The part that honestly pisses me off, is how she told me I was accepted and everything, and then she just changes her mind.

yeah...so now I'm kind of screwed. I'm most likely going to have to get a job I don't want or find rides to school and not work.


yeah...fucking piece of shit.

hapacheese
08-18-2005, 10:39 PM
I don't mean to contradict two of your threads in a row, but, well, here goes :D

I agree that it sucks, and I know how dependent students are on jobs (I paid my own way through college).

*However*, spending time in the workforce teaches you one thing: initiative is half the battle. If someone doesn't show enough initiative, you're not going to get hired. And unless documents are signed, that company has no obligation to you =\

Moral of the story is: when it comes to employment, never procrastinate.

That being said, I feel for ya.

koku
08-18-2005, 10:41 PM
yeah i understand that. but I wasn't gunning for this position. I was already accepted.

ACCEPTED, meaning, I should be able to sit on my ass until its job time.


You dont tell someone "ok the job is yours we like you." And then change that. Let alone change it and not even f'n tell them.

WTF?

hapacheese
08-18-2005, 10:46 PM
Yeah, that's dicked of them, no doubt.

koku
08-18-2005, 10:48 PM
Yeah, that's dicked of them, no doubt.


that's right, go contradict something else you rib man!

hapacheese
08-18-2005, 10:49 PM
I never said it wasn't dicked!

I just said that they had no real (read: legal) obligation without signed documentation =\

(And the ribs are good, dammit!)

koku
08-18-2005, 10:58 PM
i actually have a 2005-2006 student employment authorization form. that she already like uh...signed and dated.

but I don't know if that's enough, they probably could count giving the position to someoen else before i even started working as getting fired who knows.

Illl just go to my school tommorow, explain the dickhead move and mabye they can throw me in somewhere else.

hapacheese
08-18-2005, 11:06 PM
Sounds like a good move. Bring the form if there is a signature or whatever. That should be enough for them to at least feel bad for you and help you out :)

koku
08-18-2005, 11:08 PM
Sounds like a good move. Bring the form if there is a signature or whatever. That should be enough for them to at least feel bad for you and help you out :)


so go for the pitty i dont know whats going on approach or the

"oh hell no, i have this form, i know what it means there's a sign. IM GOING TO SUE YOU BETTER FIX IT!" approach??

hapacheese
08-18-2005, 11:11 PM
I've always found the, "Be polite and friendly, but stand your ground until something gets done" approach works really well. Treat the other person with respect, but show that you mean business, and you are likely to get results. Usually.

koku
08-18-2005, 11:35 PM
I've always found the, "Be polite and friendly, but stand your ground until something gets done" approach works really well. Treat the other person with respect, but show that you mean business, and you are likely to get results. Usually.


ya i thin if i pretend like i dont know whats going on/don't put pressure like the signiture means something they'll just screw me I think.

mabye i'll call ahead of time and see if someone will tell me if I have something worthy of "fix it" or not.

~anywho im off~ great thread, filled with 2 ppl. hmmm what an aim conversation eh.

morganlefayw
08-19-2005, 07:41 AM
Ok, I've never had to deal with that, but I do know about stupid managers. So, I am a shift supervisor in a fast food store and when I close at night, I have to make sure it's spotless for whoever's opening the next morning other wise I get bitched at- happened a handful of times, so I work hard to avoid it again. Here's the kicker: I am the only white, female shift supervisor. Everyone else is Hispanic. So when, say Paco or Vero close and and I come in the next morning and the place is a mess, they never get in trouble. Nor do they care. But on the other hand, they scold me for leaving the store with just a few crumbs. God, if I didn't know any better, I'd swear it was racism.

stillbornsinger
08-19-2005, 07:57 AM
yeah, managers blow...

And your situation does suck, I can sympathise with both you and her though, hey, if I were offering a job and someone didn't follow up with everything and someone else came along I'd probably of done the same thing...

On the subject of managers in general and of me... Each morning we stand by for quarters, which is basically a discussion of everything that we have to do in that day, one one side stands the people who are in charge and tell people what to do, on the other side stands the "worker bees"

Since I've only been in for 3 years I'm of course on the worker bee side of things, but the funny thing about our lineup is there are 8 people in charge of 9 people... so that means each person pretty much gets their own boss. I've got two directly over me who like to micromanage, one of which is a great guy but a bit of an ass and a perfectionist, the other is lazy, dumb, and not really worth his pay. (If you pay US taxes, this guy is going to be retireing on YOUR bill in about 4 years for not really doing anything)

If you can't stand dumb managers, never join the military...