I'm actually quite excited - tomorrow I shall be handing in my resignation letter, and in two weeks I shall be free from this shitful company. I've only worked there 9 months, but it feels like forever. The final straw came when I tried to get some time off to take a CELTA course (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) - it's a four week course, I have two weeks of holiday left to take, so I wanted to take the other two weeks as unpaid leave. I was trying to find somebody who knew what the hell they were talking about two weeks ago, but both my manager and the HR lady are on holiday (the two people I really needed to see, of course), and I couldn't get a straight answer out of anyone else. I talked to the deputy store manager today, and she was just bloody rude - "Well, going on courses is fine, but you've got a full-time job! It's one or the other!" Well, OK, I'll take the other, then. I'm only losing out on two weeks pay, but honestly, with this new qualification, I can make that back in 3 days.
Admittedly, it is very short notice - I only found out that I definitely had a place on the course yesterday, and it starts on the 22nd of this month. I'm not happy that they won't let me have the time off, of course, but what really tipped it for me was that nobody could tell me what I needed to know, nobody could give me any advice or even a straight answer. So as far as I'm concerned, said company can take a long walk off a short pier.
Since I'm now the only full-timer on the two departments I'm expected to cover, let's see how they cover my hours. They didn't replace either of the other full-timers who've left (including our supervisor), and the lady who got hit on the head by a mirror has just been signed off by her doctor for another four weeks.
I resisted the urge to end my letter with "...and the horse you rode in on."
Admittedly, it is very short notice - I only found out that I definitely had a place on the course yesterday, and it starts on the 22nd of this month. I'm not happy that they won't let me have the time off, of course, but what really tipped it for me was that nobody could tell me what I needed to know, nobody could give me any advice or even a straight answer. So as far as I'm concerned, said company can take a long walk off a short pier.
Since I'm now the only full-timer on the two departments I'm expected to cover, let's see how they cover my hours. They didn't replace either of the other full-timers who've left (including our supervisor), and the lady who got hit on the head by a mirror has just been signed off by her doctor for another four weeks.
I resisted the urge to end my letter with "...and the horse you rode in on."
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