Metcalf - Page 2

ClaySoul · 08-06-2007, 11:15 AM

1. I quit

2. Who are you?

3. What do you claim to know about my situation?

ClaySoul · 08-06-2007, 11:28 AM

Ok I know who you are...

1. I quit, if anyone should know that, you should

2. I hope you're not still begrudged that I showed up late the very frist day, as I was given incorrect information from someone in the BuDS office.

3. I broke my nose and had subsequent migraines and had to have surgery and couldn't work. Hello!?! I got other warnings prior to that from other MEDICAL problems.

4. I've worked i a ton of food service places and never have I had such an unpleasent and inflexible experience as at BuDS. I practically had to beg to get my surgery date off of work. I am completely within my rights...or whatever...to utter something as inconsequential as "it sucks" on this inconsequential forum...in fact no one probably even would have noticed if you hadn't drawn attention to it.

RaboKarabekian · 08-06-2007, 11:49 AM

1. You may have told us you quit, but when you failed to work your two weeks' notice, that was put in the records being fired, with all the relevant consequences.

2. Most definitely not. That was a pretty clear miscommunication.

3. The reason you got warnings for you medical problems was purely because you failed to provide us with a doctor's note. The policy is extremely clear on this point, and you were reminded several times.

4. BuDS is extremely flexible...just not so flexible that you can call up a half hour before your shift starts and say, "by the way, I'm not coming in." If you are sick, have migraines, whatever, it is courteous to tell someone as soon as you think you may not be able to work. The staffing model at the Ivy Room (I can't speak for the Blue Room) was designed so that one person per night could beg off work and everything would still be functional. That assumes, however, that workers will be responsible enough to give us some advance notice, which in your case, never happened.

renix · 08-06-2007, 12:49 PM

" You may have told us you quit"

I'm pretty sure that's all it takes.

RaboKarabekian · 08-06-2007, 01:40 PM

The difference is that if you quit, you can come back anytime. If you're fired, you're ineligible for re-hire for a year, and you will not be able to use BuDS as a reference. (I mean, you can...but you'll probably shoot yourself in the foot if you do.) Really, just give two weeks' notice and all is fine.

renix · 08-06-2007, 01:59 PM

I wasn't commenting on the difference. I simply reminded you that all you have to do is say those two words and you no longer work there (even better to put it in writing). Whether you give two weeks notice is up to you the employee. That type of job is "terminable at will" by either party and if the employee terminates first the employer cannot do so.

And I'm sure everyone is dying to put BuDS on their resume for a reference. I mean, I personally have a full resume and don't need to fill it with food service stuff to make it look better. Then again, I'm a bit older than most college kids so...

ClaySoul · 08-06-2007, 07:36 PM

*sigh*

I couldn't give two weeks notice, bearing that the reason I quit was that I couldn't work now, let alone two more weeks. Call it whatever you like, but when someone voluntarily decides to no longer work for someone, that's called quitting. You may need to categorize it as "firing" for your computer, but that doesn't change what it was or make me somehow bitter from getting "fired" and needing to say "BUDS sucks" because of it.

Furthermore, that wasn't entirely the case with the warnings. I never got a note from my busy Oregon doctor, because she never got back to me, and then, eventually, it didn't matter anymore. But that wasn't the case with the warning I got one for calling in sick with a broken-nose induced migraine! My apologies that the migraine didn't give me a call and let me know 24 hours in advance that it would be hitting me.

Clearly BUDS need to have an established, and in many ways, rigid system in order to operate on the scale it does. It requires doctors notes from people so that not everyone claims to have some crazy problem. In my case, I did have crazy problems, and the notes were very difficult to get, and I would have rather been able to simply explain my situation than track down old doctors, as it gets pretty old giving doctors notes to everyone in the world. It requires that people get a sub instead of call in sick so that not everyone calls in sick when they have an exam or don't feel like coming in -- but how do you get a sub if you are legitimately sick, but don't know you're going to be? I don't think BUDS needs to apologize for being inflexible. It has to be to work on the scale it does. But that doen'st mean it isn't.

I am aware that my situation caused many problems, and I apologize for that, but that doesn't make me irresponsible. How can you give advance notice when you don't have advance notice? I came plently of times when I felt awful and practially passed out halway through. I quit because I came to the realization that there would probably be many more days on which I could not work, and that I couldn't keep pretending I was okay and working badly and feeling badly.

Many people find BUDS to be a perfectly pleasent experience. I didn't. Yeah, I wasn't a model worker. But I had some substantial mitigating circumstances. So I said so in passing. Christ...