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So, I worked for a company for 6 years. I was a nobody but I was well respected in my position. I did my job well and I showed up for work everyday.
My stepfather works for another place. He convinces me to make the move and work at his place. The earning potential was better and the work was less labor intensive and more…administrative.
So, against my gut, I make the move. After 3 months I realized that I have never hated a job as much as that one. I decide that I made a horrible mistake and I take two weeks off and contact my former employer.
They tell me that they will rehire me no problem. I had to get re-drug tested and a new physical but that was no biggie. I am in, but they needed to decide which shift I will be on. So I don't go back to my new job and I decide I'll just take a little extra time off.
So I wait.
and wait.
I call and leave a message (because you can't get a real person in that place) with HR…nothing.
I call my former supervisor…nothing.
I call HR again…she calls back!
She says; "Sorry it took so long we had trouble verifying a few things. You'd be all set to go…except…now corporate has put a hold on ALL new positions. We've contacted them about filling some of the openings we need but they haven't gotten back yet."
So basically, they can't hire me right now but they might call tomorrow, or never.
To top it all off my new employer won't pay me my vacation pay, since I didn't come back. Now I gotta deal with that too.
I'm an idiot.
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Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
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Ever see that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza quits, chews out his boss, and then changes his mind and goes back to work the next day as if nothing happened? 
Sorry about your job trouble though. But you have to laugh.
One door closes, another opens.
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Sorry to hear that. It's never over till the fat lady sings. Or the ink on the signatures has dried.
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You expected vacation pay after three months on the job? A job you quit?
How is this effecting your relation with the in-laws?
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Originally Posted by smacintush 
To top it all off my new employer won't pay me my vacation pay, since I didn't come back. Now I gotta deal with that too. .
That's normal. Most companies have a policy where you accrue the vacation time instead of getting 2 or 3 weeks right off the bat. While they may let you use all the vacation time before you accrue it, if you quit you'll have to repay it. Additionally most places don't even let you start using the vacation until after 3 months.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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So, wait, let me understand: you basically quit your old job before you got the new job ?
Need I say more ?
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The vacation time was negotiated before I was hired. The new place was a fairly small plant micro-managed directly by the owner and he liked to make those secret deals.
He agreed to pay me, but he is cheap and unscrupulous.
Incidentally the old job, the one I'm trying to go back to, gives two weeks vacation and insurance the day of hire too.
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Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Need I say more ?
-t
No, you can just slap me now.
but they said I was hired…and I believed them.
It's just a bad set of circumstances. I'm really happier being in-between jobs than working there. I can afford it for a couple months if need be.
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Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
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What kind of job is it? I've never needed a drug test (thank god).
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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What do you do? If you've got any web programming skills I could probably kick you some overflow work as a freelancer until you find a job again (or decide you want to work for me full-time  ).
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
What kind of job is it? I've never needed a drug test (thank god).
For most US companies, that's standard procedure for ANY job applicant, no matter if blue collar, clerical, professional or management.
The reason is: should that person screw up down the road, someone could sue the company if they find *ANY* reason that could have been known to the company beforehand. So it's all about minimizing litigation risk.
Yes, I know, stupid legal system in the US 
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Originally Posted by turtle777
For most US companies, that's standard procedure for ANY job applicant, no matter if blue collar, clerical, professional or management.
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Strange. For my profession (Graphic/web designer) they might also run a drug tests but in hopes that it comes back positive as they like it when the designers are a bit out there.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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I got a drug test for an engineering position I started a couple months ago.
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I was drug tested for my position, but I failed it (ganja). So I kept working and I took it again a month later, but I failed again. Three months after that, I took it again, and I never got the results. Some time later I asked about it but only received a very vague reply, I think they just gave up and decided to ignore the whole thing.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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This is weird, I'm right now working on a couple projects for a drug testing company.
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Tryin to figure out what else Shaddim was smokin?
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Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
I was drug tested for my position, but I failed it (ganja). So I kept working and I took it again a month later, but I failed again. Three months after that, I took it again, and I never got the results. Some time later I asked about it but only received a very vague reply, I think they just gave up and decided to ignore the whole thing.
What kind of job ?
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton
Tryin to figure out what else Shaddim was smokin?
At that time? It was probably Northern Lights and Buddha.
Originally Posted by turtle777
What kind of job ?
-t
warping the minds of American yoots.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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I love how drug testing allows more drunks to get jobs...
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth
Whoa. Day off?
I came home for lunch. It was an excuse to drive my car.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
At that time? It was probably Northern Lights and Buddha.
warping the minds of American yoots.
I nearly suggested (jokingly) ‘high school teacher’—seems I wasn’t too far off. 
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by Oisín
I nearly suggested (jokingly) ‘high school teacher’—seems I wasn’t too far off.
No, no way, I'd rather switch to full-time writing. I don't have the patience to handle high schoolers.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
No, no way, I'd rather switch to full-time writing. I don't have the patience to handle high schoolers.
(I also nearly suggested kindergarteners, but thought I’d better not give you a heart attack)
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
warping the minds of American yoots.
If this is not a reference to teaching or being a rock star, then…tobacco company exec?
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
warping the minds of American yoots.
You flip burgers ? 
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Clinically Insane
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Sorry, had a My Cousin Vinny moment.
I teach for a smallish private university.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Not law, I hope.
"The two what?"
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
What do you do? If you've got any web programming skills I could probably kick you some overflow work as a freelancer until you find a job again (or decide you want to work for me full-time ).
If you have some overflow, I may want some additional freelance work at some point in the future (making some changes in my income sources). PM me if there is a possibility there. I don't talk about poop or any goofy stuff in a real-life work atmosphere, just my game face 
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