H hasn't been to work all week. He's been too into his video game to leave the house. I sent a message to H about whether he was at work and he sent me a frowny face. Day 3 of not working. Then he tells me "I've been looking for a temp job." Okay here we go again. I say "What kind?" He goes "Leaving options open. There's a couple of restaurants looking for cooks and asst cooks. Might be time to learn something new." Great! You'll go and work at a restaurant with crappy hours probably making minimum wage. Meanwhile you're not going to a job you already have so that you can look for a job that you want to have to get out of a job you just said a few weeks ago you really like but now they've cut your commission (the part that you never should have been getting in the first place!) and you think you need to go somewhere else. What happened to this sales rep job you were psyched about a week ago? Are you looking for a temp job between this one and that one which you swear you are going to get?? For some reason you can't eke out another month or two at this job if you are so sure you're going to get this other one ? Every time he wants to look for another job, he needs to take a week off of work without pay to spend 10 minutes a day looking at Craigslist ads for jobs that he wont' spend the time filling out paperwork for!
He even had the nerve to send me a message yesterday asking if I'd stop by his work and pick up his check for him since they seem to be the last place on earth that doesn't direct deposit!! There was no way I was doing that! I'm not lying to everyone telling them you're sick when you simply don't want to work. I'm sure as hell not going out of my way to get your check when all you are doing is sitting at home drinking and playing video games. If you can't get yourself to work then I guess you won't get your check!
"Meanwhile you're not going
Submitted by PoisonIvy on
"Meanwhile you're not going to a job you already have so that you can look for a job that you want to have to get out of a job you just said a few weeks ago you really like but now they've cut your commission (the part that you never should have been getting in the first place!) and you think you need to go somewhere else." If you weren't describing a real person, this would be funny. I'm so sorry this is happening, Mapper!
Yes I would be laughing too,
Submitted by Mapper (not verified) on
Yes I would be laughing too, but this happens all the time. He worked at one job for 7 years, moving to so many different areas and positions because he could never get along with his coworkers or they were idiots, etc. Wouldn't go to work for weeks unpaid, barely calling in, still wouldn't get fired because it was a union. Before that he worked at a place where the guy fired him after a month because they were at each other's throats all the time. Then there was the place where he thought the owner's wife was out to get him fired along with a couple other employees and they laid him off during the slow season and he went to court because he thought they were in the wrong and somehow won. Before that he got into several arguments with coworkers at another job and alienated himself. See the pattern? Never happy, everyone else is an idiot and doesn't know how to do their job.
He also has had a couple of
Submitted by Mapper (not verified) on
He also has had a couple of payments declined on Amazon due to insufficient funds which means no money in his bank account, yet STILL won't go pick up his check! Hasn't left the house since Saturday and all I ever find him doing is playing his video game. He may come out and watch a show with me but then has to go back and game afterwards.