I got to do this once, kind of, but it was on a consulting contract. Since neither the CEO or COO could be bothered to communicate with me directly, I had to make my position known via text when they texted me at home, in the evening with their bullshit corporate CYA “apology”. Shockingly, I was right and the COO jumped ship and they closed down, leaving 50+ employees out of jobs and insurance. They announced it on a Friday, effective immediately. Only the most senior staff got notice; they were told Thursday afternoon.
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Some are fake, some are real, but regardless I absolutely love the forum. It’s good to see the working class finally taking the reins back and flipping the bird at shitty bosses. Do it while you can, because at some point you’ll have a family relying on you and may not have as much luxury. But you should NEVER put up with abusive work places. Doing so only encourages more abuse. I’ve quit every job I’ve ever had for something else, even walking off one in the middle of a shift because screw THOSE asswipe dingleberries. I was more judicious later in life after marrying and having kids, but nothing stopped me from scanning the help want ads and tossing out resumes.
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Boy, retirement is really looking good for me and the Dear Wife, just f’ these companies to hell.
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Oh, I know! But it’s also reddit, where frustrated creative writers run wild in the threads.
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I don’t need to work - no mortgage, good investments/pension/etc. and my wife retires in 5 months. Any potential clients need to play nice or I tell them to shove off. I’m also the only show in town for certain areas of technical expertise. All my peers are retiring or have already retired.
I told my last actual employer that I wouldn’t tolerate working for a reduced wage from the corporate shuffle and ramped up my side gig consulting business. It’s been successful beyond my wildest dreams and gets me lots of work in the adjacent parts of the organization that actually need someone to do the things that my “successor” hasn’t a clue about.
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Yeppers, still doing menu consultations for only those that play nice, I make sure they understand that I do not need the work, if issues arise with shitty attitudes / late payment / or change orders, I’m gonzo. As I stated, Dear Wife and I are comfortable financially and I like spending time with my bestie, no money can replace that.
Cheers 
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I feel for the younglings who never had the benefit of working for employers that at least respected workers enough to respond to job applications, set work/leave schedules weeks or months in advance, and give a heads-up before going out of business instead of just locking the doors in the middle of the night.
What worries me is on top of GOP/GQP members’ public denial about a living wage, cost of living, and age/experience of workers who have minimum wage jobs, they’ll focus on finding ways to force people back to work. Those articles with whining business owners and elected officials complaining about handouts are just the tip of the iceberg. I’m not sure articles exposing their bs will be enough.
They’ve discovered prison labor isn’t yielding the benefits they expected. They know most families are burdened with debt, but some loan types only line the pockets of banks and their investors. That won’t provide employers with the labor that increases production or support services where actual skills gaps and shortages exist. Cutting benefits, increasing costs for housing or food, and manipulating loan interest rates so people pay more but pay off less might be the kind of “incentive” they’ll try next. Given GOP/GQP “make it crash and burn, then blame the libs” strategy, let’s see when their projecting about another financial crisis gets louder…
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Every day, I’m glad that I do not have to work in those conditions, having to put up with the tin-pot dictators. It’s remarkable how much folks like this lean on these tactics when they’re actively losing them money. Good help is hard to find, and, in their position, I’d be keeping a notecard of just how much work gets done by different people. If you have to ask someone to do something hard like that, 1.) don’t make any requests you wouldn’t be willing to do, yourself (that means get behind your own danged bar to cover) and 2.) you’d better be negotiating not threatening.
As for a bit further up the chain in specialist work, this one’s a real classic.
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Few things in American life are as satisfying as being able to fire your employers.
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I love it.
The children of the 80’s Heavy Metal generation; they’re making it all happen.
“No more slaves, only free people, tied only by the bonds they have chosen!” Beta Ray Bill, Planet Hulk.
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This kind of thing isn’t restricted to the private sector. I worked for a little over a year as a patent examiner before I walked. My statement in the exit interview was scathing. I describe the job to anyone who’s curious as a “Sisyphean nightmare from the bowels of Hell.” Not the most articulate description, but then, the job doesn’t deserve any more effort than that.
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I agree, there is no better feeling than to tell someone to shove it.
I’ve had a service business for 30 years, I have to walk a line sometimes when the customer ticks me off but owes me money. I quit one customer after they paid me a large chunk of change, they called me wanting me to continue, I avoided their calls thinking they would get the hint until one day he showed up on another job and asked what the problem was. My wife was surprised when I just said “I don’t like you go away”. The look on his face was priceless.
But… Some of us are fortunate to be able to do that because we have options, most people don’t have those options and have to put up with crap employers in order to stay living indoors and feed their family. The employers that know that and take advantage are the real monsters.
Looks like that may be changing but I suspect in a couple years it will go back to same old same old.
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I’m reminded of when wages for Black men increased to the point where they no longer needed to have two-income households to survive, and the supply of cheap domestic labor for white middle class homes became more scarce. They started passing laws mandating that Black women had to work. The GQP would love to do that again, but now they need to do it indirectly, so we’ll see what their new version of that will be, their best attempt at creating the 21st century feudalism they so desire.
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Let’s also not forget those “jobs” that aren’t legal but are still traditional, like drug dealing. Bosses recruit disenfranchised folks to “make more money”, when the reality is they’re simply MLMs with a more direct and visceral punishment program for violators of the “rules”.
The reason the US can’t win the Drug Wars is because they are in direct capitalist competition with dealers, instead of against drugs for profit.
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There is one finer closely related feeling, rejecting them watching it come back to bite them and rejecting them again. About 15 years ago I worked at a pizza place with one of the worst store managers I’ve ever encountered. Her son was the CEO, so she got to be particularly awful. I was the night manager. She decided to call me in to accuse me of stealing the money at 8 AM after a 3 AM closing, claiming the drawers were miscounted . I tried to maintain a professional demeanor, but she escalated to direct accusations after I pointed out she had miscounted, and I quit. A few hours later her son called to ask me to come back, noting she had miscounted the drawer and I got to reject him too.
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Yeah. It’s almost as if republicans never expected market economics to fuck them over. Just those dirty poors.
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Excellent. That’s perfect really. Hit them on black friday. The weak businesses will perish and the smart will realize how unreasonably good they’ve had it, and how quickly they can be destroyed when labor is withheld.
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They don’t expect it because they spend all their time making sure the government protects them when the worm turns.
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Too many comments in this thread in the form of “wait until you have a family and can’t afford to quit.” They remind me unpleasantly of all the times I got told by other women, “wait until you have children of your own” (or flat-out telling me to have them, after I interacted well with their babies).
In general, I find, most people assume that everyone’s life will follow the same path. This erases me. I’m 65, happily married for 43 years, and childless. I love seeing later generations not assuming conformity at all, at all.
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