My part time job told me I had to go full time or quit. This is coming from the same company who says nobody wants to work.
I have a steady full time job but I always keep a part time job a few nights a week and a weekend day. My latest was at a small company taking apart old computers.
The work kind of sucks but I walked there from my home. Last week, my boss tells me to start coming in full time next week because he can’t find any other help.
I reminded him I have a full time job that pays my bills and has full time benefits so I couldn’t. He blew up at me saying that “nobody wants to work” and said I could just quit if I couldn’t help more.
I laughed thinking he was kidding but he wasn’t. I asked him if he was serious and he said he needed dedicated full time help.
I asked “so, you can’t find help, but you’d rather have me quit than work part time?” He said yes.
“Effective when?” I asked, he said I could just leave now. So I left.
He’s texted me three times and I haven’t even looked at the messages. Might as well enjoy my nights and weekends for a while. His logic just doesn’t make sense to me.
Netizens’ comments
- Yeah the whole idea of “if you work here, we are your only job” needs to go on to the shit pile.
- I really need more help, so if you can’t help me more, I want you to quit, so that I have no help. Nobody wants to make sense anymore.
- It’s really just a simple case of the manager thinking that he has leverage when he doesn’t.
- Many managers only have “do it, or you’re fired” as their one and ONLY lever to pull against employees. This lever is useless against people who have options and less than useless against people who know the manager has no authority over them.