I quit my job!

[kenkwan]

Hey, I quit my Job too. I've worked as a bookkeeper for the last 10 years, and have just enrolled in Culinary School.    I'm excited, and anxious.

[Sarah]

Congratulations to you, too, kenkwan!

[Laurie]

I'm back at work until Feb. 1st because I'm a pussy. I can look forward to a sit down with my boss and the boss directly above her later today. Oh joy.

I'm going to apologize for my small outburst, which was caused by a combination of work overload by way of strategic understaffing and exploitation AND PMS. I think I'll leave out the "strategic" part in my explanation and stress that it's no excuse, but the understaffing is a genuine problem that leads to frazzled nerves, stress, and PANIC. Look, I'm not the only one whose been crying in the supply room or bathroom.

I need to rehearse what I'm going to say.

[John Junk]

You totally quit quitting.

[Emily]

Kenkwan, that's really cool. if i could bake desserts for a living, i might. this is a birthday cake i made yesterday - it's pretty tall! if anyone in the ny/nj area is getting married and planning a frugal wedding, let me know. there's a wedding cake in my cook book that i really want to try. it would be very good tasting, i promise.

this here is the three layer, chocolate birthday cake:

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Emily, I think you should just make yourself a wedding cake.

[Emily]

right, i'll probably make a scaled down version. but not until i finish eating this one.

[kenkwan]

I'm back at work until Feb. 1st because I'm a pussy. I can look forward to a sit down with my boss and the boss directly above her later today. Oh joy.

I'm going to apologize for my small outburst, which was caused by a combination of work overload by way of strategic understaffing and exploitation AND PMS. I think I'll leave out the "strategic" part in my explanation and stress that it's no excuse, but the understaffing is a genuine problem that leads to frazzled nerves, stress, and PANIC. Look, I'm not the only one whose been crying in the supply room or bathroom.

I need to rehearse what I'm going to say.

It might be a good idea to apologize, but I don't think you need to explain yourself. You quit! You're staying there until the 1st because it's the right way to go about quitting, giving your employer a chance to find a replacement for you. I would leave it at that.

[Sarah]

Laurie, kenkwan's right:  if you're serious about quitting, you don't need to apologize.  And you also don't have to figure out what to say during your meeting.  You owe them nothing, and, if there's one thing I've learned, there is absolutely no point trying to explain to soon-to-be-former bosses what's wrong with the job:  as a soon-to-be-ex-employee, your opinion is irrelevant to them.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Laurie, I think you should have Emily make you a wedding cake and bring it in as a "peace offering" just to freak them out.  Emily makes a couple bucks, you get a weird form of revenge or something, everybody wins!

And congrats on the change, Kenkwan.  I have only one piece of advice for budding chefs: say no to drugs.

[John Junk]

...unless the meeting is to somehow gauge what your problems are and to see if they can woo you back somehow.  In which case, I feel you could apologize but only after you've completely squeezed them and demanded that you'll only start working again on your own terms.  If you feel bad about something, you could say "I regret the way I handled it" or something, which is not an apology, but is still gratifying for the enemy management.

[Josh]

this is a birthday cake i made yesterday

Was it for me?

[Emily]

of course! Happy Birthday!

[Josh]

Any updates Laurie?



Also, wanna go to Don Rickles and Joan Rivers on March 2? What about you, Samir?

[jane]

this is a birthday cake i made yesterday

Was it for me?

Josh!!!

Was it really yer birthday, dude?  If so, happy belated.