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10-27-2005, 03:36 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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[ QUOTE ] By quit I mean that I stopped showing up. [/ QUOTE ] What a little bitch you are. [/ QUOTE ] Yugoslav 
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10-27-2005, 03:37 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
You screwed up big time.
You had every right to complain, and every right to quit in the traditional manner, but what do you think you accomplished by just not showing up? He's not going to think "oh, JaBlue stopped showing up - I really should have done more to make this a better oportunity for him." He's going to think "punk kid - last time I ever try to help out someone". What you did is the equivalent of buying a broken item from a store, but instead of trying to return it, you throw a brick through their window and say "they derserved it." But I don't mean to sound so self-righteous. I've done dumb [censored] like this before. One time I decided not to pay back rent owed to some idiot kids I was subletting from because of some [censored] they pulled. They deserved it, but that was the wrong way to go about things.
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#14
10-27-2005, 03:38 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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<peep> it was just a summer job @ min wage </peep> but yes this situation was not handled optimally [/ QUOTE ] Freshman year of school I got a minimum wage part time job in a very small tax preperation office. My duties were answering the phone, making copies, filing etc. Overtime I built a relationship with the manager of the office and impressed him with my work ethic and desire to go above my required duties by trying to improve the efficiency of the office. At the end of the year he retired, he was so impressed with me he convinced the owner to pay for me to get my license and take over the office for him. My sophmore and junior year I ran the office. The summer of my junior year had an offer with the 2nd largest accounting firm in the world a year before graduation, primarily because of that experience which started as a minimum wage part time job.
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#15
10-27-2005, 03:42 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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So it is in my best interest to give this guy professional courtesy even though he didn't live up to his end of the bargain? [/ QUOTE ] Most likely yes. Stu
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#16
10-27-2005, 03:44 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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I should reply that I'm 17 [/ QUOTE ] ok this makes it better in that you have time to change things. This is a very very bad way of conducting business and you should never do it again. I made plenty of mistakes at 17, just try to learn from them.
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#17
10-27-2005, 03:51 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
the ONLY reason that your summer was a waste was because you just decided to quit showing up to work, so you can no longer expect anything from this man, as a reference, as a learning tool, as anything.
you are undoubtedly highly overestimating your value to him and his company, and highly underestimating the value of what you learned. you got valuable real life experience at the very least. and no, you can not call him back now and apologize and hope to use him as a reference later. that would be nearly as dumbass of a move as just not showing up to work in the first place.
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#18
10-27-2005, 03:51 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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So I still owe the guy courtesy even though he didn't live up to his end of the bargain? [/ QUOTE ] Forget about that for a sec. Given the two options: a) just quit showing up. b) call or show up and tell him you're quitting. Why on earth would you not do b? Just to show him in a bitch-like passive-aggressive manner? You keep talking about "owing him the courtesy" or not. Man, it's not like you're gonna go clean his office or something. You just needed to make a simple phone call, which takes virtually no effort on your part. Of course, you could be a man and actually speak to him face to face about why you're quitting. Anyway, that's all I'm saying. It was just a bitch move. Others have said why it may be a dumb one as well, but I was just focusing on the bitch aspects of it.
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#19
10-27-2005, 03:52 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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and no, you can not call him back now and apologize and hope to use him as a reference later. that would be nearly as dumbass of a move as just not showing up to work in the first place. [/ QUOTE ] I guess you're right. I'll call him up, apologize, and not expect a reference.
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#20
10-27-2005, 04:01 AM
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Re: Do I owe this employer professional courtesy?
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Do I owe him the courtesy of showing up and telling him face to face that I quit? [/ QUOTE ] You don't owe him anything. But do you really want to conduct your professional life like this? I see you are just 17, but you should learn not to act like a spoiled brat over this. Trust me on this, you will never have an employer who lives up to everything you agree upon pre-employment. Just like you will probably be a typical employee who is late too often, takes an extra 15 minutes at lunch, surfs the internet too much, and leaves early on Fridays. You will have to take it upon yourself to learn more. Nobody is going to spoon feed you anything in the workplace. There would have been nothing wrong with you setting up a meeting with your boss and explaining to him that you did not like your job and did not think it would work out and then quitting.
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