finally took gaz's advice.............

Post by **Randall** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:21 am

just want to get another job and forget it to be honest.

they never put anything in writing, its all verbal, anything i say they can just deny.

Post by **M H** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:23 am

Don't blame you to be honest, constructive cases are difficult to win

Post by **Randall** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:27 am

they have managers who are happy to work 13 hours a day every day, they live above the shops so literally just live there.

i have better things to do. sadly as they have these other people it just becomes an expectation of everyone.

when being asked to work 70-90 hours a week is deemed perfectly reasonable its time to go!

Post by **ITG** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:31 am

I left school and wasn't quite sure what to do with myself. Pissed around doing computing, I hated it. Then worked for a well known bookmakers for a while. Hated that. I worked all sorts of unsociable and long hours. I had worked from 7.30am to 10pm on a fucking Saturday once, and generally I would work till that time often on Friday and Sats, as well as working Sundays with terrible hangovers. I would also do ridiculous amounts of overtime, but when I needed a favour I couldn't get fuck all. I would frequently do this, infact the shop I worked in primarily had been held up in several armed robberies and it constantly had staff on the sick so I was covering for their absences and working longer hours. Also I never could drive at the time and I was getting two buses to my work every day, taking an hour and a half to get there for 10am and as a result I was occasionally turning up late. I got a disciplinary for this too, and they didn't even consider my circumstances. I was physically and mentally exhausted. Thinking about that now, I'd rather be on the dole. My shop manager was an utter prick and a right miserable bastard who also hated their job and tried to fuck my hours over to suit himself, working with him on a regular basis was just as depressing as the hours.

Heres a laughable story too. My cousin got married this year, but last year she had her engagement party which I could not get time off for, and the best man was our managing director for Northern Britain. Unreal.

I'm now back in F/T education doing Social Work. One of the best decisions I've ever made and I plan to stay in education as long as possible. Since I've been in the working world too I'm a little wiser and sitting down and putting the effort into studying is easy for me considering the life I had beforehand in bookie land.

While I love sports and the regular punters were great, bookmakers treat their staff like utter shit. Greedy cunts and it is only getting worse with these FOBT roulette machines. I got out just before they started opening to 10pm on Sundays despite there being only one dog meeting and no horse meetings after 6pm. The roulette machines always seemed to bring in the chavviest, scummiest punters possible looking for a quick buck.

I am very much a work to live person. I like my Saturdays off for the football. I like to be able to go on nights out and all that. I could never go back to having anti-social working hours dictating my life, utterly depressing.

If you've been managing shops I'd imagine you'd have enough experience to possibly get some sort of area management job. An absolute walk in the park compared to being on the front line.

Post by **Sprocket501** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:38 am

Ok, thanks.

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:08 am

the work to live/live to work balance is one that i have had backwards for a decade or more, but no longer.

Oche Balboa · Post by **Oche Balboa** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:22 am

Sounds like you did the right thing Randy

Good luck

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:31 am

cheers oche, not missing the 4am alarm calls thats for sure.

dont really want to be a manager anymore, too much grief for very little reward in the retail industry.

Post by **martin71109** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:42 am

Oche Balboa wrote:Sounds like you did the right thing Randy

Good luck

+1

like you say, something will come up

Post by **Justin Credible** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:09 pm

here is another bit of advice randall...............

something will turn up, but make sure you dont take it unless you are 1005 certain or you could end up miserable in another job.

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:25 pm

oh i expect to be miserable gaz, thats retail!

i just dont expect 14 hour days!

the old am has been ringing me today, he can fuck off.

Post by **Knots & crosses** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:30 pm

Haha. Good man Randall.

My circumstances are changing daily. Looking like I may be leaving the country.

Post by **Justin Credible** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:31 pm

The only time Iever stayed in a job longer than I wanted to was the job I was doing prior to being married.I only did it for the extra dosh , I packed up the day before i got married and diid 2 months longer than I had intended..
since I dont smoke anymore, dont keep a car, nor a phone, and only had the one weeks of drinking in a pub in 7 months I dont really spend money so am not under any extra pressure to do something, hence why I went back to college la while back, and did something i would enjoy, and when that started to annoy me i finished that too.

Post by **ITG** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:33 pm

Do you get on with your AM? I hated mines, absolute fucking bitch. If you get on, maybe try and bargain a bit, ask them to get more staff or that?

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:36 pm

arent all area managers?

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:38 pm

Knots & crosses wrote:Haha. Good man Randall.

My circumstances are changing daily. Looking like I may be leaving the country.

whereabouts? dont even know what it is your doing down here?

Post by **ITG** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:45 pm

Well actually, a couple of of the AM's in my old company were quite sound! They were both young however and I'd imagine old father time would eventually make them miserable. My old AM was an ex shop manager in her late 40s or early 50s and was utterly awful to work with and her life was her job. We had another AM at the time who came from Woolworths the same age as her and he was the exact same.

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:47 pm

in ten years at the old gaffe i probably had 20+, all but two were cunts.

Post by **Justin Credible** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:48 pm

Sprocket501 wrote:Ok, thanks.

Educated prick, with your comma and full stop

Post by **Knots & crosses** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:49 pm

Darth Randall wrote:
Knots & crosses wrote:Haha. Good man Randall.

My circumstances are changing daily. Looking like I may be leaving the country.
whereabouts? dont even know what it is your doing down here?

still in hospitality.
My other half can get paid shitloads more in her own country. Worth going there for 6 months & earning what it would take 18 months to earn here.