I think I might have walked out on my job today!

[lynettebro440]

That sentence normally should frighten me but it hasn't because I'm pissed and I finally couldn't take it anymore. Unfortunately for me, and probably many of us out here, I work with a bushite christian repuke, just him and I in an office and he desperately wants control. Being the kind hearted person I am, I have overlooked alot of his comments in the last several years but mostly I have overlooked his stupidity. I have sat back silently and was simply refered to as the "liberal" when all I was surrounded by was repuke idiots and I took it in stride. But today I lost it. I don't know if it was because of the Ohio election robbery last night, I don't know if it was because I'm tired of trying to make sense in an insane world, or if it was I finally had it with being used and then them wanting to control me some more. I just know that I lost it.

One of the most difficult emotional feelings that has been going on inside me lately is I want to scream and scream and scream some more until I'm hoarse at how stupid this all is, that the life I helped create by being a "boomer" is being ripped away by rich, uncaring assholes that want nothing more then to make me homeless and on the streets or better yet in jail because I am a unstable liberal "we are all alike" they say (glad I don't own a weapon because today I might have used it). I want to know why one of these assholes government figures hasn't gotten a bullet through their heads yet when I watched John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King get one in theirs. I don't know where to put this agression and anger. I just try to find peace in knowing that I'm not alone and that there many people out here that have the same emotions as I am experiencing. I have read a lot of sites this evening with the same emotion and I guess I needed to share my own personal one.

I'm not worried about my job, the asswipe called me at 5:30pm and asked me what my plans were. I simply told him I needed space and a vacation and I would see him Monday. He has no power to fire me, but we are supposed to be a team. I'm not worried, there are other jobs I hope, but I finally ran out of steam today. I guess it had to come eventually, but I wonder why everyone's steam feels just a little more squeezed out today, more then normal.

Could it be 14 more soldiers dying, or could it be we are all simply at that breaking point. I don't know, you tell me?

[lonestarnot]

1. Can't you find a good blue company to work for, with, in, around?

[TwilightZone]

5. Some of us in very red states don't have much choice.

When there aren't many blue companies where you live, it makes it a bit difficult to work for one.

I personally started my own as a result, but most people don't have that luxury.

[lonestarnot]

8. Well damn come and help us finish turning AZ Blue!

[Trillo]

2. What would happen if everyone walked out on their jobs, sorta

had a general strike until the government starts listening to all the people again?

It seems they love to listen to corporate, writing all those special laws over the years and such.

I know, it's not specific to your job issue, but its what I thought of.

[lynettebro440]

3. I'm not looking for blue necessarily

I'm looking for some reason of sanity. I work 9 hours a day, he maybe works 4. I just got tired of him making triple what I make and knowing I do most of the work. I just knew that I wanted to rip his repuke juglars from his neck and I would go to jail if I did. He told me I could change my attitude or I could go home. I chose home and didn't look back. I just seriously needed to vent here.

[ultraist]

7. LMAO!

If you can afford to take the time to find another job and are pretty certain you can find something, I'd say fuck the Repuke! No sense in being miserable, day in and day out. He'll probably drown without you. Let him!

I'd say, take charge, go for a change for the better and good luck!

[dooner]

4. Sorry!

Geeze, sounds like quite a day. Breathe deep!

I think we're all under a lot of stress... "if you aren't furious, you aren't paying attention" seems obvious to me. We're all deeply affected by our environment (which to us includes political environment) and yet we shuffle on with daily life as though reality can be changed, like a tv channel. I have a friend who is kind of "spiritual" who doesn't believe we need to waste energy on politics, on some level all is blissful. While that may be true, the reality is SOMEBODY has to care what is happening to our country and the planet. SOMEBODY has to stand up for the truth.

And THEN, to have to deal with ignorant jerks all day, who think "liberals" are flakey (or whatever)... it takes a lot of patience.

Good luck, enjoy a short vacation, or maybe larger change.

[noamnety]

6. getting fired vs. quitting

consider the benefits of each before making a decision on what you want to do. If you need that unemployment check, you can't just walk out.

If it's a large company you can talk to whoever handles harassment complaints, not necessarily to file one, but to get some advice on how to handle the situation. There might be some coping strategies you can use - the last time I shared an office with a republican, fortunately it was years ago, but I ended up listening to a lot of CD's while wearing headphones. It discourages conversation if you have to keep taking off your headphones to say "WHAT?" and the music can be relaxing.

[lynettebro440]

11. Yeah that works.

He gets pissed because he sees me on DU all the time. No, I did take into consideration about quitting vs fired. I told him (he doesn't write my paycheck by the way, he's contracted I'm employed by our bigger sister company, but I told him we either find mutual grounds or you'll have to fire me if you can't do that, I'm not quitting. Hell no I won't quit, I am not letting anyone off the hook that easy, but they could fire me because I did walk out. But I'll take my chances for a change, tired of them making the rules.

[Poiuyt]

9. It's best not to quit until you have something else lined up

My sister did and it took her 8 months to find a new job. Stay cool and close your ears to those assholes.

[dhinojosa]

10. I never talk politics with my customers (usually), and I don't think

co-workers should either. If I was a manager I'd demand it. Not blaming you, I know these things happen, and you are the victim because you are in the minority at your work. But it is a shame there isn't a culture of "no politics" at your work.

My (usually) in the subject line is because I spied a bumper-sticker or two with a couple of my customers, so I have a pleasant conversions with them.

[Technowitch]

12. Locking

The context of implied violence is inappropriate. Sorry to hear about the job problems. Good luck.

-Technowitch
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