Scumbag Employers

[Chuck E Ducky]

I don’t know about Illinois but in New York, UPS is paying a lot just to drive the brown trucks and rock short shorts..lol

I been looking into it myself as I’m getting close to retirement from my first career. Driving a truck would be cake compared to what I do now.

[Twisted G]

I don’t know about Illinois but in New York, UPS is paying a lot just to drive the brown trucks and tock short shorts..lol

I been looking into it myself as I’m getting close to retirement from my first career. Driving a truck would be cake compared to what I do now.

My father has drove for ups for over 30 years. Makes bank. Incredible benefits. Won't make that starting out now of course. .

[Chuck E Ducky]

Already got an in. Get your CDL while you’re at it.

[Axel]

Please take this gently, as it is intended.

You claim to be an excellent employee and you list all these attributes, but you also talk about walking-off or no-showing and blocking numbers if the boss is a scumbag, which, according to you is all but a few of the bosses you've ever had. You've worked almost two dozen jobs over the span of, at most, 11 years (if you really are Gen Z and that wasn't just a quip), which suggests you might not have even been employed at one place for longer than 6 months or so.

I have no doubt you've had some bad bosses--this last guy sounds like a clown--but when every boss is a scumbag, you gotta self reflect and wonder if "maybe it's me?"

This is only my intuition. I don't know you from Adam, so I could easily be way off the mark.

[Twisted G]

Please take this gently, as it is intended.

You claim to be an excellent employee and you list all these attributes, but you also talk about walking-off or no-showing and blocking numbers if the boss is a scumbag, which, according to you is all but a few of the bosses you've ever had. You've worked almost two dozen jobs over the span of, at most, 11 years (if you really are Gen Z and that wasn't just a quip), which suggests you might not have even been employed at one place for longer than 6 months or so.

I have no doubt you've had some bad bosses--this last guy sounds like a clown--but when every boss is a scumbag, you gotta self reflect and wonder if "maybe it's me?"

This is only my intuition. I don't know you from Adam, so I could easily be way off the mark.

All completely fair. You don't have to be gentle I like it rough .

I don't see anything wrong with what you said I did wrong. You mention the longevity of my employment is bad, but entry level jobs are so basic and easy you are near, at, or above the skill of the people who have been their for years (not much to landscaping despite what some blow hards will try and tell you). Some of those jobs I left were because they just sucked. Beyond just terrible pay or terrible bosses (NOT ALL MY BOSSES WERE BAD JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THAT). Like seal coating driveways, or working at a car wash, or working at a cafe, second hand electronic store, carpet cleaning, Etc etc (sometimes you just start a job and you know from day 1 that you will not work here for very long if even a whole day). S***** jobs that are just toil and are deadends with no upward to them. I'm sure most people here don't regret quitting the s***** jobs they had in high school or college. Like the porter job I have now, they just were hold overs till I got something better. Longest job i had was two and a half season (spring to late fall) as a groundskeeper at a private country club golf course. Started at $18 an hour, 7 days a week with 5am start time. 2nd season $19. Go do other stuff and come back awhile later and now its "post pandemic" and all they can pay me is $14.50 an hour now. Yeah that did not last long. Ive had it good don't get me wrong. All these jobs I have had, I got what I could learn out of them and have ultimately benifitted me in some way or another and i am grateful for what they did for me. I learned how buisnesses run to an extent, and built up my confidence in myself, and know what I need to do to get myself in a better place.

Yeah you may not like that I walk out or don't let the boss have a way to contact me when I decide to quit. But the relationship is over when I quit. Don't need you as a reference and I do not want to come back. I do that only to bosses who deserved it. I want to keep doing better and better. I have succeeded in that aspect as I no longer work those deadend jobs and only want jobs where you are treated and paid correctly. Started out making $9hr and now my jobs I apply for are pushing or exceeding $20hr. I understand you Axel. You think I am the one making the problems or making the bosses not like me. Could not be farther than the truth. I bend over for the boss (JUST DON'T USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO F*** ME). I would love to go out drinking with the boss and be friends. And have had multiple bosses say that they do indeed like me and my work. I learned how to make them happy and I do not give them a reason not to like me. I really just made this post on to hear others stories to make me laugh. Its all you can do. I say If you are laughing you are not crying, and the best feeling is when you are crying laughing .

Make no mistake I have shitty qualities and I am certainly not smart but I know enough to get by. Thats all I want. Do my job and get by without ruffling any feathers. I am 22 btw (23 in september). Pretty sure If you can't remember where you were when the C.I.A. brought down the towers you are Gen Z. .

[Twisted G]

And by Toil I mean this. .

[Axel]

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If I can give you one piece of unsolicited advice--decide what you want to do in life now, and plan out how to make it happen. You're at an age where you can do almost anything you want, but those doors start closing in your 20s and it gets harder and harder to make a change.

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[Twisted G]

[🗨️👴]

If I can give you one piece of unsolicited advice--decide what you want to do in life now, and plan out how to make it happen. You're at an age where you can do almost anything you want, but those doors start closing in your 20s and it gets harder and harder to make a change.

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Looking into welding. I did it once in high school auto shop (tig welding) and its for sure an art but I did not think it was that hard. Just would take time to get better. It actually was really fun and cool. .

[Axel]

Coincidentally, I just spent a week taking weld inspector training, and am therefore prepared to talk down to everyone about the subject of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW).

I'd love to be able to take a proper welding course myself, but 900 hours is about 22 weeks that I'd have to pay the mortgage and provide meals without a paycheck, just to earn less on the other side... One of those doors I mentioned 🫤

Best of luck to you! It's a nice skill to have. And it's one of those jobs where you could live practically anywhere and still find work

[Chuck E Ducky]

On the job training is the best way to learn. Most welding employers prefer no experience over people who “know how to weld”. Just got to be reliable, work hard and be willing to learn. You can go as far in the field if you’re willing to put the work in.

[Twisted G]

On the job training is the best way to learn. Most welding employers prefer no experience over people who “know how to weld”. Just got to be reliable, work hard and be willing to learn. You can go as far in the field if you’re willing to put the work in.

I completely agree with this. On the job training is the best. You learn how to do the job exactly as the boss wants it done and how fast you should be moving. I would assume this is especially applicable to welding since how you need to do the job is based upon what exactly you are welding on. .

[Chuck E Ducky]

Just invest in the proper safety gear even if your employer won’t provide it. The materials you will work with are toxic.

[Twisted G]

Just invest in the proper safety gear even if your employer won’t provide it. The materials you will work with are toxic.

Really? Is it the gas the welder puts off or the metal dust?

[Chuck E Ducky]

All of the above. It’s very easy to get hurt in the field. My uncle the one who taught me, died young from years of neglecting basic welding safety.

This is my Cousin’s Fabrication business. He dose really well for himself and receives more high end work then he can find quality employees that will work to his standards. He builds amazing cable rail systems makes his own hardware and everything as he can creat me a better product then what is currently available. Find someone who knows what they are doing and learn.

https://www.scpmetalfab.com

[Twisted G]

All of the above. It’s very easy to get hurt in the field. My uncle the one who taught me, died young from years of neglecting basic welding safety.

Drinking one for your uncle. We all look at that picture of those guys sitting eating lunch on the steel beams of the empire state building and we think "wow what strong brave men" forgetting about all the guys before them who became one with the pavement. .

[Chuck E Ducky]

Oh yeah those days were crazy. I have walked beams at crazy heights but we were clipped in. Hope you’re not afraid of heights. Going to have to get over that quick. I use to build a bunch of framing for Mc Donald’s and did a ton of stainless work when they rearranged their kitchens. Built a bunch of stairs for random big chain stores, bases for IBM’s chip manufacturing machines. I have built motorcycle frames and shaved for handles off hot rods. But the most lucrative was the on call heavy equipment repair. That bought me a lot of race car parts.