A month or so ago I posted regarding a job I got that would prevent me from doing these QOTDs regularly. The job is…interesting, I’m ‘technically’ in
charge of managing a website, which is great.
However I’m being tasked
with making sales calls for a different company my boss owns, with
the risk of “If we can’t get a sale we’re all out of jobs’.
I’m told to call various people with a tenuous lead, and the pressure
is on me to convince these peoples to buy this service we’re offering. I
hate this so much I’m actively avoiding it. Like hardcore avoiding it.
Anxiety, walking around putting it off, etc. I.hate.doing.this.
But because I’m now being paid full time hours, I
feel obligated to do this thing that is NOT in my job description with an incredible amount of pressure, too boot. I.E This company is being
run out of the guy’s front pocket.
So, I
understand, but somehow the entire fate of the company relying on my
ability to ‘sell’ a product while the other guys that run the company are doing other things, seems unfair?
Which reminded me of on Charlie Malden Punk – how would that fellow handle this kind of situation?
Thus:
What’s the best way to quit a job? What’s your best job-quitting story? Make off with any cool loot? Is a person ever justified in ‘up and quitting’, or is giving advanced notice almost always the proper thing to do?
So, I e-mail my boss saying I’d like to reduce my hours because due to my
second shift schedule getting up at 9am every day to make sales calls
on my non-tech-support job days is very, very, difficult. He offers to pay me the same, but cuts out the creative responsibilities, I am now a full-time salesman.
I spend 40 hours a week on the phone, waiting for
the phone, talking to people on the phone, calling people on the
phone at my tech job, and it’s…incredibly
frustrating to have a job that was at least a little tiny bit
full-fulling creatively turn into something that makes me avoidant and
such.
Thus, I am figuring out if I want to quit, or not. I like the money, but would take less to the creative parts – which my boss already hired someone else to do. Do I simply walk out with a “This is NOT what I was hired to do, and if I wanted a sales gig I’d find one,” offer two weeks notice, or keep making sales calls until the company goes out of business and my sleep / work schedule is so fucked it could be in porno?