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I realize that you have to start somewhere in life with getting that one crappy job, and I guess if it's your first then you can't really go anywhere but up from there. I spent the last 5 months of my life working after school and on weekends at Papa John's in good old Lewisburg PA. Good times, eh, maybe not. For $5.25/hr I got failed promises about raises, co-workers who didn't really work, and all the pizza I could eat, sometimes free too! I decided it was time to move up in life, after a year of putting it off I am probably going to go work for a finer restauraunt in the kitchen there or maybe as waitstaff. But I guess first of all I need to keep school more of a priority. Bascially the only reprocussions to anyone else who may read this is that there won't be all the pizza you can eat at the next Feed and Speed, bah.

Damn, good to hear.

A tip for the future, and I don't know if you have heard this before....

Never quit one job, unless you have another job already lined up and ready to go.

Right on, good luck Sam!

That's good advice too.

..yeap. And leave 'em amicable. If you make a big scene about quitting, they're more likely to call your future employer, (or when your next job calls them for refs) and have something nasty to say about you, which can endanger future employment. It's happened to me before. Restaurants are a hard business, though.. I don't recommend it for everyone.

91legacy_sleeper wrote:If you make a big scene about quitting, they're more likely to call your future employer, (or when your next job calls them for refs) and have something nasty to say about you

Really? Maybe its just an Ohio law. But here an employer can't say anything negative about a former employee to possible places of employment. Whew, that was a mouthful.

It's like that in all states, yes. But some people, like in the restaurant business, are cutthroat and/or just don't give a f*ck, and spout off about how they don't like you anyhow. The boss that fired me in that situation was *ultra religious*, and thus, didn't like me, because I was not only a rebel, but he was ass-ugly, and I made it look good.
They had to make some shit up to fire me, and then added what the restaurant had to say on top of their reason for termination. It's all BS politics.

There is a simple question.

"Would you hire this person again"

The previous employer can say Yes or they can say No.

The new employer doesn't care what the reasoning is behind the answers unless it is yes (so they know what to expect out of the new hire).

I've never left a job, where that question could be answered with a No.

That's pretty tight, Phil. Makes me jealous. I was just going over w-2s with my cousin last night, and he's got like 4 from 2004 alone. I tried to explain to him that having four jobs in one year, none of them concurrent, looks bad to future employers. Some people shoot themselves in the foot before they even get to the door.

It's good I left on good terms; the managers there liked me and wished me luck. Basically I told them I needed more time to get things in order (transition time in school) and that was that. The good thing about the new job is it has been set in stone for a long time and the offer still stands, it happens that the guy who I'm going to work for offered me a job waaaaay back in the day and my dad does a lot of business with him. I’m probably going in this weekend to check it out and I imagine I’ll be starting soon after that.