Current Events > So I'm losing my job in a week.

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I posted about a month ago about how the owner of the gas station I work night shift at has decided to retire and sold the place to corporate.

I've been working 6 nights a week for over 3 years. Corporate has decided not to let me stay on. My best guess as to why? They probably don't want to have to keep paying my current rate as I've gotten a few raises over the years and they'd probably rather just find some random idiot they can pay minimum wage to. Fuck corporate. And fuck this station, tbh.

I have 2 options at this point.

1. I can keep working the rest of the week like normal. I'd probably spend it telling all of my regular customers to stop coming here because corporate doesn't deserve their business.
2. I have enough vacation days to cover the rest of my time here. I could potentially just take them all, effectively "quitting" right now while still being able to claim unemployment afterwards. Of course, then I wouldn't get to say goodbye to a bunch of my customers that I genuinely would consider friends at this point. And I wouldn't get that little extra in overtime pay on my last paycheck.

I'm not going into a ton of detail right now because frankly I'm pretty pissed off. Not just at corporate, because they're a bunch of greedy scumbags just as you'd expect so it's not the least bit surprising. But also at my boss, who claimed he always had his employees' backs and told me to my face just last week that he had gotten some assurances that anybody who wanted to stay on would be able to. Clearly that was a blatant lie, and I'm not the only employee I know of who is getting let go despite wanting to stay. I don't begrudge somebody wanting to retire. Just don't bullshit me and tell me I'm gonna be fine when you know damn well most of us are going to get fucked over.

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How much do you make and what state do you live in?

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Option 2, gas station customers dont care

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Option 2. Your good friends - customers probably won't even notice you are missing.

2nd option

unchecked capitalism is great if you are the billionaires tbh

I'm sorry to hear that man. This is why company loyalty is a sack of shit in today's job universe. All you end up doing is inflating yourself out of a job.

We recently lost some clients who have been with us for 15 years. All it takes is one key decision maker to leave and another one who wants to "change things up" because it will look good on his CV.

Whatever decision you make, I strongly advise you don't do it out of anger or resentment. That's worth fuck all. Nobody gives a shit about the guy who makes a dramatic exit except for movie script writers.

Your decision should just be about what is going to be best for you, short or long term.

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masticatingman posted...

Option 2, gas station customers dont care

RoseIsHorriblle posted...

Option 2. Your good friends - customers probably won't even notice you are missing.

Lots of them definitely will. I don't think that just because many customers have explicitly told me that I'm the reason they come here. Once or twice I've had car troubles and had to put my normal car in the shop for a few days and drive a loaner car. I wouldn't see a bunch of the regulars during that time. They'd come back and immediately ask where I'd been, and when I explained that I'd been here like always they'd say they didn't see my car in the lot so they went somewhere else. That conversation has actually happened several times, so I have no doubt they'd find another place to go if I told them what was happening.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

How much do you make and what state do you live in?

Right now $12/hr normal rate (but everyone got a $2/hr bonus working during the Corona lockdown, so it's actually been $14/hr for a bit). It's obviously not great, but it covers my bills with enough extra to be comfortable, and the job really is incredibly easy. I'm in northeast Ohio.

pinky0926 posted...

Your decision should just be about what is going to be best for you, short or long term.

Yeah, I'm probably just gonna work the rest of the week. The extra overtime pay isn't huge, but every little bit counts. And it's not like it's an overly complicated or stressful job. I get to spend half the shift on the internet or gaming, after all. Which is pretty much just what I'd be doing if I was at home. I can't file for unemployment until I've actually lost the job next week anyway, and I've already started getting my resume together and looking to apply for other jobs. I might as well get paid in full for it.

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