Quit my job tonight

[THE PROFIT]

Basically comes down to the fact that I'm an alcoholic. I go in drunk and furious every night and tonight was just the night that I exploded.

ok then stupid ass, its just a matter of time before you were fired for coming in drunk, so this worked out best.

How do you go to work drunk for 3 years & not get fired? You must be the best at whatever the fuk you did!

I'm not judging, I've went into work drinking/drunk several times.

[ronjon619]

it's the best move you will make. All they care about is their little fu(king package and where it at. Scan this, scan that. Fu(king security guards are always thinking you lifted one of their packages. Get out of that air freight business. Time sensitive freight is just a complete headache.

[Brock Landers]

we work to live not live to work...

[Cuse0323]

ok then stupid ass, its just a matter of time before you were fired for coming in drunk, so this worked out best.

How do you go to work drunk for 3 years & not get fired? You must be the best at whatever the fuk you did!

I'm not judging, I've went into work drinking/drunk several times.

No doubt I should have been fired long ago, I was driven home a few for being wasted by the main boss no less. I was always one of the fastest loaders in that place so they let it go.

[THE PROFIT]

you may have loaded fast but did the packages even get to the right continent is the question?

[tltaylor89]

Gl in this job market you got old people competing with middled age people competing with young people for a job.Better get that resume ready .

[Cuse0323]

you may have loaded fast but did the packages even get to the right continent is the question?

I may have been drunk but I always put the packages in the right place, shit they gave me dozens of t-shirts, hats, etc for it.

[stealthyburrito]

Basically comes down to the fact that I'm an alcoholic. I go in drunk and furious every night and tonight was just the night that I exploded.

would you have acted in such a manner if you were sober? maybe you should address this problem while looking for your next job.

[ronjon619]

you may have loaded fast but did the packages even get to the right continent is the question?

you should see their system. A huge warehouse with about 2 miles worth of conveyor belts. Those packages are handled by at least 5 people before they hit the truck. All he has to do is stack them into the trailer. It's all fu(king timed. You got XXXX amount of time to get it done because the trucker / airplane pilot cannot wait.

[Cuse0323]

Gl in this job market you got old people competing with middled age people competing with young people for a job.Better get that resume ready .

Don't got much of a resume, probably end up in fast food.

[Cuse0323]

would you have acted in such a manner if you were sober? maybe you should address this problem while looking for your next job.

No I wouldn't have and that's the worst part. I could have gotten clean with their benefits if I just told them I wanted to but I kept putting it off.

[mminkovski]

It's just the perfect time to start gambling like a pro

[eidolon]

It's better to go take your aggression out on some random at the bar then to walk out of work.

[Emily_Haines]

free at last

don't be remorseful

jobs suck and are for other people

welcome to the club

[Cuse0323]

I do feel free

[flyingillini]

If it was a hard labor job it was a blessing to get out of it. I was never one for hard labor. I use my mind for my job. I pay someone to do any kind o labor. My hands do not get dirty.

[in2thethickofit]

I do feel free

I just got a new job, started this past Monday...I was "feeling free" for a fukkin year but I found out freedom doesn't pay the mortgage or the other bills...GL, and enjoy it while you can!!

[THE PROFIT]

I have always worked very hard all my life, I get a feeling of gratification from working hard! But I don't let anyone shit on me whatsoever. So pretty much now if I ever take a job for a while in my field recruiters come after me & they completely leave me alone, because they know I'm good at what I do but I'm gonna do it my way or do it for the competitor

[lyon804]

free at last

don't be remorseful

jobs suck and are for other people

welcome to the club

I am glad I am in the class of "other" people.

[brooks85]

why dont you man the **** up, tuck your tail between your legs and get your job back? and stop drinking like a loser, find a real hobby

how about that

[stealthyburrito]

thats the luxury most don't have though profit, most people are decent at their job but usually a company can easily find a replacement for them, they are like a replaceable part.

no offense to cuse and the work he does, but UPS probably can find another guy to do his job, albeit maybe not as fast, but can do it without the problems and attitude.

its about proving yourself an asset to a company, so you hold some degree of power and authority over them so they can't shit on you whenever they damn well please.

[brooks85]

I read how UPS will be hiring over 25k drivers over the next 5 years at 60-75k a year. Mainly to replace baby boomers and people not passing simple test in get certified.

[Cuse0323]

I just got a new job, started this past Monday...I was "feeling free" for a fukkin year but I found out freedom doesn't pay the mortgage or the other bills...GL, and enjoy it while you can!!

Definitely understand that I may feel free now but tomorrow I'll be looking for a job wondering wtf I did.

why dont you man the **** up, tuck your tail between your legs and get your job back? and stop drinking like a loser, find a real hobby

how about that

Can't argue with anything there.

thats the luxury most don't have though profit, most people are decent at their job but usually a company can easily find a replacement for them, they are like a replaceable part.

no offense to cuse and the work he does, but UPS probably can find another guy to do his job, albeit maybe not as fast, but can do it without the problems and attitude.

its about proving yourself an asset to a company, so you hold some degree of power and authority over them so they can't shit on you whenever they damn well please.

Yep, I know they're not gonna come begging for me to come back, they can find anyone who will gladly do it without the attitude like me. Just hope I can find a decent job, if not, that's on me and I'm ready to deal with that.

[Cuse0323]

I read how UPS will be hiring over 25k drivers over the next 5 years at 60-75k a year. Mainly to replace baby boomers and people not passing simple test in get certified.

That articles was a lie.

[brooks85]

well either way, you should call back in the morning, say whatever they want to hear and go to work ha

[Sawyer]

You feel "free" after you quit your job. Make no mistake about it, working 9-5 is nothing but a slavery. Be your own boss, work as freelancer etc.

I'm sure this article will make you feel better..

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

July 21st, 2006 by Steve Pavlina

Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.

You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.

The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?

Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?

3. Lifelong domestication.

Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…

4. Too many mouths to feed.

Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.

Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!

5. Way too risky.

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone.

6. Having an evil bovine master.

When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?

7. Begging for money.

When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”

8. An inbred social life.

Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.

If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!

9. Loss of freedom.

It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.

As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!

Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”

10. Becoming a coward.

Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.

When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!

Still want a job?

If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.

If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.

Happily jobless

What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.

[JUST A MAN]

I worked at UPS for a few years as a part time supervisor. The place is a disaster when it comes down to family. These guys are all divorced. The money was good but everyone was divorced.

UPS bought out the unions in the 80's. Tough, boring place to work. No windows. It is like working in a dungeon.

I feel your pain brother. Get rid of the Vico's, they are a temporary relief.

[blueghost]

if you dont have a wife and kids do WTF you want nobody will care

[jjgold]

Cuser sorry about that pal, lay off the drinking or at least cut down.

I would try painting or maybe being a cop

GL Chief

[PAULYPOKER]

Cuser sorry about that pal, lay off the drinking or at least cut down. I would try painting or maybe being a cop GL Chief

Holy Fukk it doesn't stop....

[Noelani_06]

Dude, I really hope you thought about it...if you still feel like quittin was the right thing to do, then I wish you all the best for the future...

[PAULYPOKER]

Just run for office.

Now this has no quaLIFICATIONS EXCEPT YOU MUST HAVE NO CONSCIENCE

[PAULYPOKER]

Basically comes down to the fact that I'm an alcoholic. I go in drunk and furious every night and tonight was just the night that I exploded.

Well there is your problem,, get one of your loved ones to call A&E broadcast Co. to try and get a televised intervention, I'm sure if excepted you'll have a free place to stay for at-least 6 months,,and also a new start on life

[thezbar]

wow. Rough time to be looking for work. GL. I hear San Diego is a good place.

San Diego has a tough job market and depressed wages compared to L.A. Everybody wants to live in San Diego!. I worked there for two years then got laid off. I spent two months looking for work to no avail. Moved back to the L.A. area and things got better. I would avoid San Diego. In addition the cost of living to sky high also.

[will2survive]

Spur of the moment quitting was crazy--leave on a good note