What is the one thing you won't do for a job?
By soooobored
@soooobored (1184)
United States
October 28, 2008 11:57pm CST
This is for the members in here who have been broke and desperate, not for the members who have safety nets!!
I've had tons and tons of jobs, and I will probably continue to work tons of jobs, with part time jobs, and doing gigs to make ends meet. I put up with a lot of crap from a lot of people, and for the most part, I do it with a smile on my face. Really, how can I complain about work, when it's the reason my power is still on, and my car hasn't been repossessed?
Well lately, it's getting out of control! I'm working a couple of bar jobs while I continue the hunt for the full time job. I love the hours, the cash, the customers. But from the owners I'm seeing a lot of racism (TONS of racism actually), sexism, bullying, etc.
I'm just curious, what is the one thing that would make you throw in the towel and quit? With no other job lined up? Remember, when you go home those threatening letters from the power company are still there!! 
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@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
29 Oct 08
It's not so much a job as such I wouldn't do, but there are employers I would not work for, or would quit from. I am a whistle-blower by nature: one wonderful motto I try to live by was written by the medieval Christian mystic Meister Eckhardt, who said: "If you understand what I have to say about justice, you understand everything there is to know about me."
If I were working for someone and discovered they were doing something that I classed as highly unjust, immoral, or unethical, I would not only quit (the Goddess will ALWAYS provide) but I would also blow the whistle as loudly as I could.
Lash
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@soooobored (1184)
• United States
29 Oct 08
You sound like a Libra from your response? 
I totally agree with you, and in the past that has also been my MO. Lately though, I'm starting to wonder if I hold people to too high standards? Since I'm in no position to walk out, I smile, nod, and do what I'm going to do, and do it right!
I totally agree with you, and in the past that has also been my MO. Lately though, I'm starting to wonder if I hold people to too high standards? Since I'm in no position to walk out, I smile, nod, and do what I'm going to do, and do it right!@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
29 Oct 08
Sun in Virgo, moon in Aries, Cancer ascendant, with two stelliums in 2nd house in Libra. None of which I understand at all, but there you go.
Lash
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@soooobored (1184)
• United States
29 Oct 08
Hmm... you know more about astrology than me, and seem to care less. Maybe I should learn something from that!
Thanks for the response!
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
10 Nov 08
Well, one thing I WON'T do under any circumstances is drop my drawers just to have a job. Or do my best to take a job from another person. I just don't do that. I have seen folk put me out of a job. I just lost my job six weeks ago. They denied my unemployment, and yes, it is frustrating, rough, my finances are like a train wreck, but I'm doing my best to hold on and keep my head up.
@soooobored (1184)
• United States
10 Nov 08
You mean you were sexually harrassed at your last position? Are you fighting the determination? You could probably get your job back, that's wrongful termination!
I agree with you 100% about drawer dropping! I would never go there for a job. So far as taking someone else's position, I wouldn't purposely, but if advancement was offered to me, and I earned it through hard work, I would certainly take the position offered. It might depend on the circumstances a little, maybe there are times I wouldn't!
Thanks for the response!
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
29 Oct 08
I do not know. I am no good at manual labor or working in any area where I have to serve food or drinks. It is not a dislike I just would be useless. I am too slow and as my partner says I have no proximity awareness of people moving around me.
I have done customer service but do not like it as I refuse to swallow the nonsense that the customer is always right, they are not!
I would not work for any employer who was sexist, racist, bullying, breaking laws like dumping environmental waste. I would report them. in fact I had an incident at my last employer where they hassled a co worker for being black as they hoped she might quit. I threatened them with a racial discrimination court case and they stopped doing it. They discovered they might lose. Then I got the woman moved to a better office where she was working with much nicer people.
@soooobored (1184)
• United States
29 Oct 08
LOL, I can't waitress for the same reasons! The only reason I can bartend is because there's nobody to knock into behind the bar! 
I love that you helped the woman who was being hassled. Recently, an employer of mine had a problem serving Turkish people and black people. He told me about it, but not as a direct order. If he had directly said "don't serve Turkish people or black people", I think I would have quit! It would put me in the bind of defy orders, or violate my moral code. He didn't put it that way, so I continued to serve whomever I saw fit. And got fired! 
It's funny, all the jobs that you don't work, customer service, bar, etc, are the fields I keep landing back in. And its where I always meet my worst stress!!
Thanks for the reply!
I love that you helped the woman who was being hassled. Recently, an employer of mine had a problem serving Turkish people and black people. He told me about it, but not as a direct order. If he had directly said "don't serve Turkish people or black people", I think I would have quit! It would put me in the bind of defy orders, or violate my moral code. He didn't put it that way, so I continued to serve whomever I saw fit. And got fired!
It's funny, all the jobs that you don't work, customer service, bar, etc, are the fields I keep landing back in. And its where I always meet my worst stress!!
Thanks for the reply!