Quit my job today.

T0mmy C · 15-10-2011 6:18pm #1

My boss went away yesterday. They'd started to sand one part of the bar. I thought I'd be helpful, as there was nothing to do, and finish off the sanding and varnish it. I went into her flat (above the pub) and used her hairdryer/sanding tool to try and complete the job.

I went too far into the wood with the sanding tool and took off a bit of wood, leaving it dented and uneven.

It wasn't my intention to cause any upset or damage. I was just trying to be helpful.

I checked my phone this morning and received a text from my boss that she'd sent last night (obviously after getting back). She is fuming, saying that her bar is severely damaged and her privacy has been invaded.

I was suppose to work today, but she said that she has lost all trust and is going to work today instead and will speak to me properly once she has calmed down.

I text her back and told her that I was very sorry, and that I was only trying to help. I also said that it is best for both sakes that I don't come back.

This isn't the reason I've left, but because I still haven't been paid from last month and I can't work somewhere where I never get paid on time. There are many other issues.

I got very upset earlier and cried. I told her to take my wages from this month to repair any damage.

This is more of a place to get my feelings out rather than ask for advice.

ahyeahok · 15-10-2011 6:20pm

Will you get dole if you quit?

Jesus Wept · 15-10-2011 6:20pm

What was your job?

Sooopie · 15-10-2011 6:20pm

Don't stress too much Tommy. You sound like a good person, good things will come your way.

sgb · 15-10-2011 6:21pm

Keep the hair drier

BBDBB · 15-10-2011 6:21pm

sounds like you are well rid

your motives were pure and you showed initiative when you didnt have to, well done

go get yourself another job for a boss who will value your contribution

Id like to apologise to AH for the sensible nature of my post:o

muletide · 15-10-2011 6:21pm

Sooopie wrote: »

Don't stress too much Tommy. You sound like a good person, good things will come your way.

This is true

MagicSean · 15-10-2011 6:22pm

You'll be lucky if you don't get hit with charges for burglary and/or criminal damage.

elvis99 · 15-10-2011 6:23pm

T0mmy C wrote: »

My boss went away yesterday. They'd started to sand one part of the bar. I thought I'd be helpful, as there was nothing to do, and finish off the sanding and varnish it. I went into her flat (above the pub) and sniffed her underwear

Fyp

partyatmygaff · 15-10-2011 6:23pm

What sort of hair dryer also functions as a sander?

Fukuyama · 15-10-2011 6:24pm

MagicSean wrote: »

You'll be lucky if you don't get hit with charges for burglary and/or criminal damage.

Come on now :rolleyes:

phasers · 15-10-2011 6:24pm

I think you were completely in the wrong in the example you gave, you don't just wander into someone's gaff and take their stuff, nor should you do damage to their property by doing something you're not asked/qualified to do.

But if she's not paying you then fcuk her, you should have fcuked up her bar some more.

Be aware though that you can't get the dole for like 13 weeks or something since you quit and weren't fired.

anto2 · 15-10-2011 6:25pm

Typical barman ,totally unfit for practical work .( but that's why you are a barman LOL !!!)

Coriolanus · 15-10-2011 6:25pm

Shouldn't have tried to help unless you knew what you were doing tbh.

T0mmy C · 15-10-2011 6:26pm

Thank you for being supportive guys.

I got really upset and cried when she text me because I know I'd done wrong, but I was only trying to help and keep myself busy.

She is lucky I even turned up to work as I'm working into the next month when I haven't even been paid for the first yet.

The hairdryer makes the surface warm so it's easier to get off.

Oranage2 · 15-10-2011 6:27pm

Well you've just learned a valuable lesson - Dont help anybody, anytime anywhere ever.

T0mmy C · 15-10-2011 6:28pm

I don't want to claim dole.

I hopefully never will.

I've been looking for a new job recently anyway and applied for one yesterday.

Turtyturd · 15-10-2011 6:28pm

You should get your dole sorted straight away....just go in with a hair dryer and threaten to wreck their counters until they give it to you.

phasers · 15-10-2011 6:30pm

T0mmy C wrote: »

I don't want to claim dole.

I hopefully never will.

I've been looking for a new job recently anyway and applied for one yesterday.

Not many people do.

What have you been living off while you weren't being paid anyway?

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-10-2011 6:30pm

Kid, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try"

Chuck Stone · 15-10-2011 6:30pm

A lesson in life Tommy.

Learn from it and move on .

dan185 · 15-10-2011 6:31pm

partyatmygaff wrote: »

What sort of hair dryer also functions as a sander?

That bit was a lie. It was her vibrator.

oppenheimer1 · 15-10-2011 6:31pm

T0mmy C wrote: »

Thank you for being supportive guys.

I got really upset and cried when she text me because I know I'd done wrong, but I was only trying to help and keep myself busy.

She is lucky I even turned up to work as I'm working into the next month when I haven't even been paid for the first yet.

The hairdryer makes the surface warm so it's easier to get off.

She TEXT you? Fuck sake do people not have any balls these days to deal with difficult problems face to face? What a coward.

celticcrash · 15-10-2011 6:32pm

I would forgive someone for messing up a job.
What made you think that you could walk into someones abode,
and start looking around, I mean you would have to have a good look
to find a hair dryer.

manlad · 15-10-2011 6:34pm

You are crying over a job in which you haven't got paid for in the last month?

Do you enjoy misery?

T0mmy C · 15-10-2011 6:35pm

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

She TEXT you? Fuck sake do people not have any balls these days to deal with difficult problems face to face? What a coward.

She said she'd talk to me properly when she has calmed down.

phasers · 15-10-2011 6:36pm

On the positive side OP, you can now devote more time to planning your budgies' wedding.

T0mmy C · 15-10-2011 6:36pm

manlad wrote: »

You are crying over a job in which you haven't got paid for in the last month?

Do you enjoy misery?

I can't help being sensitive.

I wish I was the type of person who didn't care, but I do.

I have OCD which makes the very slightest of things play on my mind.

longhalloween · 15-10-2011 6:38pm

partyatmygaff wrote: »

What sort of hair dryer also functions as a sander?

Also what kind of woman keeps a sander in her bedroom? :rolleyes:

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 15-10-2011 6:38pm

MagicSean wrote: »

You'll be lucky if you don't get hit with charges for burglary and/or criminal damage.

Both require intent to damage.

You did a months work for the gheebag and she didn't pay you a cent.
You should of trashed her whole apartment. And stole the plans/design for her futuristic hairdryer-sanding device.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-10-2011 6:39pm

Oranage2 wrote: »

Well you've just learned a valuable lesson - Dont help anybody, anytime anywhere ever.

A good deed never goes unpunished

Mr. Presentable · 15-10-2011 6:39pm

T0mmy C wrote: »

.

I got really upset and cried when she text me .

Well, so long as you were a man about it...........

T0mmy C · 15-10-2011 6:40pm

longhalloween wrote: »

Also what kind of woman keeps a sander in her bedroom? :rolleyes:

The sanding tool wasn't in her bedroom.

manlad · 15-10-2011 6:42pm

I understand thats its probably a sh*t time for you but I don't think you will get the support you require in AH, but you will get some great revenge tips.

pragmatic1 · 15-10-2011 6:43pm

Listen to sooopie OP. Life is full of little trials and tribulations. This one will pass too.

celticcrash · 15-10-2011 6:45pm

Your lucky your not been done for tresspass.
Most bosses would have fired you on the spot.
She is entitled to be angry after her trusted employee goes through
her drawers.

Micky Dolenz · 15-10-2011 6:47pm

Yawn.

Juwwi · 15-10-2011 6:47pm

Tommy go to the dole and tell them u quit because you have'nt been paid in over a month.

You did the right thing quitting just because its a reccession people should'nt have to work in places were they are not happy.

Kevin Duffy · 15-10-2011 6:50pm

Go back in next week in a fake 'tach and glasses and present her with your card for your new career, which says "Tommy, French Polisher and Hairdresser To The Stars", then offer to sort out her wonky bar and give her a new do. She won't know it's you until you've left both in a terrible state by bleaching the bar and sanding the head off her. That'll learn 'er!

oppenheimer1 · 15-10-2011 6:51pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Yawn.

Constructive input as always... :rolleyes:

Micky Dolenz · 15-10-2011 6:54pm

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Constructive input as always... :rolleyes:

Heh, I do love irony.

maybe I know something you don't

Kevin Duffy · 15-10-2011 6:57pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Heh, I do love irony.

maybe I know something you don't

Can we open a book on a re-reg soon to be gone?

Solnskaya · 15-10-2011 7:03pm

Is tommy(the op) not a girl? Sounds like a girl to me. Also sounds like boss was a spa and you're better off out.

Jake Rugby Walrus666 · 15-10-2011 7:04pm

Solnskaya wrote: »

Is tommy(the op) not a girl? Sounds like a girl to me. Also sounds like boss was a spa and you're better off out.

Sanding is no job for a girl.

She'd have been better stocking the bar up with sandwiches for the weekend.

flash1080 · 15-10-2011 7:05pm

Who did you suck off to become a moderator? I'm far more suitable for the role.

Renn · 15-10-2011 7:06pm

The hairdryer makes the surface warm so it's easier to get off.

Jesus, no wonder she's pissed off...

Sisko · 15-10-2011 7:08pm

Of course the boss would freak at that, you entered her home!

Just chalk it down to life experience - you should have known better, but at least you do now anyway.

Sounds like you should have gotten out of there sooner though if you were not being paid. That's pretty dodgy. You probably would have left the job anyway at some stage even if this incident had not happened. So maybe its a blessing in disguise kinda thing..

T0mmy C wrote: »

I can't help being sensitive.

I wish I was the type of person who didn't care, but I do.

I have OCD which makes the very slightest of things play on my mind.

You really shouldn't be posting here so.

DualFrontDiscs · 15-10-2011 7:09pm

flash1080 wrote: »

Who did you suck off to become a moderator? I'm far more suitable for the role.

Because you're good at sucking people off?

flash1080 · 15-10-2011 7:11pm

DualFrontDiscs wrote: »

Because you're good at sucking people off?

Because I'm good at moderating.

greenmachine88 · 15-10-2011 7:12pm

keep us updated Tommy, this is about the most interesting story I've heard in a while.

Wetai · 15-10-2011 7:15pm

"This isn't the reason I've left, but because I still haven't been paid from last month and I can't work somewhere where I never get paid on time. There are many other issues.

I got very upset earlier and cried. I told her to take my wages from this month to repair any damage."
So,you're out 2 months pay (1 unpaid - last month, 1 offered - this month)?

Quit my job today.

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