I just turned down a higher paying job because I am too nice.

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I was just offered $12 an hour from Statistics Canada, full time. I told them that I am presently employed ($7 an hour in a toy store), and that I wouldn't be able to take the job because I wouldn't want to leave my present employers in a bind (what with X-mas on the way).
Should I praise myself for being a loyal employee, or should I pummel myself merciless into becoming a dog-eat-dog cork soaker?

On a side note, would it be a good idea to let my employers know of my loyalty (in order to get a possible raise)? I am in doubt, as I have only been working at the toy store for little more than a month.
Please help me, as I am confusil.

― Ashley Andel, Friday, 11 October 2002 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you think that your employers would be as loyal in kind if there was some serious cost-cutting to be done?

Also, thinking that you're irreplaceable is folly. Nobody is truly irreplaceable to their employer. I think you should have taken the other job.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 October 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not that i think I am irreplaceable, it's just that I know it would be a real hassle for them, as things are just getting busy.

― Ashley Andel, Friday, 11 October 2002 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashley!

TAKE the other job!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 11 October 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck it! If my boss were in my shoes, she would take the job.

Hooray for capitalism--lets grab it all before it all gets eaten.

― Ashley Andel, Friday, 11 October 2002 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i would kill a live human infant for a job right now. i would skin this infant alive and drink its blood from the skull of a goat. i would cut out my own eyes and replace them with pingpong balls with black sharpie on them. take the job.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashley --

I appreciate (even admire) your loyalty, but a) you've only been there for one month and b) it's retail*. Unless you have other reasons for staying that you haven't stated (ie. your mother is the manager, or they let you dance on oversized keyboards all day, or you're a plushie and you get off on going to work, etc) then for GOD'S SAKE TAKE THE OTHER JOB.

(I fully realize that you seem like you're going to anyways; just thought I'd hammer the point home.)

Also: electric sound of jim is dead on. You ARE basically replaceable (in a job like this anyway). Use this knowledge to liberate yourself and move on to greener (in every sense of the word) pastures.

* and not the fun kind of retail like working in a record store, etc.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess what happened to your job?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:24 (twenty-three years ago)

what jess said. except the pingpong balls thing, that's just freaky.

(also : loyalty AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA etc)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't had a job since i left penn. the olympia job market is uh nil. i'm "getting by" (hah) on freelancing.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

the freedom!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

(ps. try the toystore)

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 11 October 2002 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I doubt it would ever be a hassle to find someone to do a $7 job at a toy store. You've only been there a month - they haven't had time to get too attached or anything. When they're only paying minimum wage, they fucking expect high turnover. If they wanted loyal employees they'd pay you a liveable wage. (Besides, the first month or so of any job your employer has the right to fire you without even giving a reason or any kind of notice.) Take the StatsCan job. If you were just offered the job there may well still be time to call them and tell them you're available. Is it a data entry deal?

Do you have another attachment to the toy store? Like, is it a small struggling business owned by a relative or a family friend? In that case I could see why this would be a dilemma. If it's Toys 'R Us or something call StatsCan as soon as they open tomorrow morning. (Obviously) don't tell the toy store anything before finding out if the StatsCan job is still available. Er, that's what I'd suggest anyway. Didn't mean to sound too commanding but, honestly, no one gives much of a shit about minimum wage employees. Look out for yourself.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 11 October 2002 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess Mark said pretty much the same thing. And, yeah, I guess you had sort of figured that out anyway.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 11 October 2002 04:34 (twenty-three years ago)

He squeezed in while I was typing, was what I meant.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 11 October 2002 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

why not find out if the Statistics Cananda will hold the job for you until after christmas...

andy

― koogs, Friday, 11 October 2002 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

ha my supermarket job pays me $20 a hour

― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 11 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

if andy's suggestion works then you like like some hyper-loyal wonder-employee and they might like you more

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Friday, 11 October 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashley - talk to the toy store managers. They'll probably tell you to take the other job!

Jess, what about moving or construction? I've done that sort of thing when I couldn't find a proper degree related job out of college. It's actually rather satisfying work and you get to indulge in voyeurism

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 11 October 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

why not find out if the Statistics Cananda will hold the job for you until after christmas...

Are you crazy? No one wants statistics after Christmas!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 11 October 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Remember statistics are not just for Christmas but for life.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the sort of thing I might do.

If I had a job I was happy in and the money situation wasn't that bad, I'd probably stay in it, even if I got offered some higher paid job.

The statistics job sounds like it would be boring anyway. I assume it's just inputting data and all that sort of thing?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're relatively new to the working world, I have a feeling that you may be experiencing some misplaced feelings of gratitude/guilt/loyalty to your boss/authority-figure/employers. Unless you have some special reason to think that your current job is a better place for you than the $12/hr job, then I think you should reconsider. Job loyalty is so last century.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(ps. I hope that didn't sound condescending, but you were asking for advice, so there it is.)

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 11 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

hello, well i am doing my post graduation in statistics from india from sp univarsity.
i would be glad if you answer the fressh job opportuinities their
do reply me if possible and thanks for reading
your's faithfully
nisha.

― nisha c patel, Sunday, 25 January 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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