Irish goodbyes

[BLJ]

Had to google it to see what it meant and then realized that I had done it a lot.

 

[BravoNovember]

I like the Irish hello, never show up.

I’ve been working on adopting this practice

 

[Laelkhunter]

Close to an Irish Goodbye, I kept getting screwed over at my job. I would finish my assignment, then have to do the "slackers" job too while they were doing other things. They got promotions and raises, I got none. I got fed up and walked up to the boss. I said "I'm quitting!" He said "I need some type of notice". I said, "OK, I'm giving you a 2 day notice-I quit TODAY". Heard it somewhere before that, but it is very effective.

 

[mtnwrunner]

I always figured that if I drew a sheep tag or a supertag........most likely an Irish goodbye in the making.

Randy

 

[rookieforever33]

Leaving for a better opportunity two weeks notice is a nice courtesy to not burn a bridge. Exiting a bad situation deserves NO courtesy. Sometimes companies do give you a notice or severance to leave on good terms. Usually more of a career than jobs in those cases.

I once irished good byed a part time job and showed up two weeks later and just went to work. Boss barely mentioned it. Left on good terms later.

 

[rookieforever33]

Juding by what I'm reading, Rokslide better be pretty lenient with time off during hunting seasons. Might get short staffed pretty quick if staff starts point dumping.

 

[IDVortex]

Always been someone to give a 2 week notice. But, when my wife and I got married, I took a job that was to pay more and I wouldn't travel as much. Worked there for 4-5 months. Terrible management, crap coworkers, terrible equipment. What the final straw was, taking a rig into WA state that didn't have a working brake on the truck, parking it on a hill, unloaded a skid steer off the truck and doing so pushed the truck over a curb and into a neighbor's RV. Worked a week later, in that time frame I found another job and that following Monday I didnt show back up.

Where I work now I have zero loyalty for. If I can get enough of my own work set up, or found a superintendent job tomorrow, id leave him today and not look back.

Im all for a 2 week notice, but. I have also learned companies dont always get that.

 

[Long Cut]

I put in my 2 Weeks with a busy Metro FD, when it should’ve been an Irish Goodbye.

The “Exit Interview” was the most rushed, formality thing I have ever seen. It was a Friday at 3PM situation with myself and 1 Deputy Chief (the rest had left for the week already).

I’m explaining my concerns and reasons to him (mold in Stations, moldy/piss stained mattresses, Apparatus with no working AC, bald truck tires, regular metal nuts rather than lug nuts on tires…)

I told him the Department I’m going to had cleaner work conditions, better pay, better work/life balance, better apparatus and they treated their employees better - In a more professional manner unfortunately.

Then Chief gets this smug look on his face and asks “What’s your name again?”
- Mind you, my name is on the top shirt I’m wearing
- He has my name pulled up on his computer in his files

The “Exit Interview” ended soon after and I have never viewed “Admin Staff” the same ever since. Unfortunately leadership in many FD’s across the Country treat their Operation personnel just like I was treated that Friday afternoon.

 

[JayRoot]

Did this once after 18yrs. Hit my limit one Friday afternoon. Came back to the shop late again because of poor planning. Everyone had left for the day. Cleaned out all my stuff from my locker and work truck. Came in first thing Monday morning in shorts, tee shirt and flip flops. (Heavy equipment construction job) went up to the boss gave him my shop keys and company phone, said Im done with this place. Turned around and walked out.
Was such a great feeling! Never wanted to burn a bridge with any job, but sometimes its best to completely destroy it. Had a new much better job by Wednesday. Guess I shouldn't have waited so long.

 

[307]

And, by the way, I always find it annoying that good workers must pay for the crap decisions of those in the C-Suite.

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What does that have to do with quitting w/o notice or being let go effective immediately?

And if you had to let go a dozen people, would it be better to do one on one and have hours of turmoil and create secondary and tertiary problems in the process?

It's easy to armchair quarterback if you've never been the one in charge.

 

[BLJ]

Back to work boys, the boss is here.

 

[ODB]

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What does that have to do with quitting w/o notice or being let go effective immediately?

And if you had to let go a dozen people, would it be better to do one on one and have hours of turmoil and create secondary and tertiary problems in the process?

It's easy to armchair quarterback if you've never been the one in charge.

We live in different worlds. And for that I am thankful.

Oh, and I have been the one in charge. So don't think I have never had to let people go. been on both sides of that coin.

if you don't approach every tough but necessary decision with humanity you have lost a great deal in the process.

 

[loganwayne]

I have a meeting with the owner of the company I work for and my boss next week. I may just walk out of the meeting go to my desk factory restore my computer.

I'm sure as hell not getting in trouble for not responding fast enough on a day I took off And letting my boss think it's okay with me

 

[loganwayne]

I always figured that if I drew a sheep tag or a supertag........most likely an Irish goodbye in the making.

Randy

Last two jobs I interviewed for and got i was pretty blunt. I hunt and if I get drawn for a tag im going weather I have vacation time or not. Both places asked when kind of notice I would get if I got a tag and I told them 2-4 months. Both said they'd make that work. Even after I told them if I get drawn for a once in a lifetime hunt im gone until I kill, season ends or i run out of money.


Previous place let a guy take 4.5 months off to hike the AT with his son, so there are good places to work still.

 

[Reburn]

I like the Irish hello, never show up.

So basically what you do with DM's too huh.

 

[Reburn]

I have a meeting with the owner of the company I work for and my boss next week. I may just walk out of the meeting go to my desk factory restore my computer.

I'm sure as hell not getting in trouble for not responding fast enough on a day I took off And letting my boss think it's okay with me

I find walking in wearing flip flops and sun glasses inside and drinking a canned margarita gives the right I dont give a F vibe.

 

[Dexter Grayson]

Last two jobs I interviewed for and got i was pretty blunt. I hunt and if I get drawn for a tag im going weather I have vacation time or not. Both places asked when kind of notice I would get if I got a tag and I told them 2-4 months. Both said they'd make that work. Even after I told them if I get drawn for a once in a lifetime hunt im gone until I kill, season ends or i run out of money.


Previous place let a guy take 4.5 months off to hike the AT with his son, so there are good places to work still.

I’ve always told my employers that a PTO request equals a notice of absence, approved or not.

 

[loganwayne]

I find walking in wearing flip flops and sun glasses inside and drinking a canned margarita gives the right I dont give a F vibe.

I mean technically I told my boss to go f himself I quit when he called and started yelling at me while still off.... the owner of the company called and calmed me down and apologized for my boss and asked me to stay long enough to finish the project (which i did) and for him to come back to town so we can all sit down face to face.

 

[RyanT26]

I worked for a landscaping company for about a month on my days off when I was full time FF. Two brothers owned it and they were raging assholes to everybody. 7 to 7 with a 30 minute lunch break. Wanted you to run to get shovels or tools. Expected you to run with a loaded wheelbarrow. If you didn’t, they would start screaming at you like crazy people. If they thought you were taking too long to get a drink of water they would scream at you.

We were working about an hour out of town on a job. They fired one of the other hands on the job site, they both went full blown off the rails, threatening to kick his ass, made him walk home. Wouldn’t give him his lunchbox or water jug. Poor guy didn’t even have a cell phone.
The next day I worked they sent me back to get the skid steer trailer from the shop, about a two hour round-trip. Dropped the company truck off at the shop, got in mine and left. We all rode together that day. Lol
They did not give me my last weeks pay, but it was totally worth it to leave them stranded out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Sunshine40]

I work in a union labor environment where we can solocite our own work so my situation is a little different but me and my crew pulled a pretty epic one. We had a project manager come into a big highway job we had been working on for a year or so. He decided to show everyone who was the boss and wanted to "save money " by sitting our crew at home without giving us a head up. (There's alot more background to this but basically we were getting screwed.)

We caught wind of what he was doing and needless to say we were quite upset. Our whole crew decided we were dragging up right then and there. We packed up the truck and left 20ft wall forums half set and everything.

We all got on our phones in the parking lot and had new jobs before we even left. The most satisfying part was the project manager calling me and begging to get us all to come back. The best part is I came back to work on the exact same job for the same company a year later and Noone said anything.

We get 2 checks and a hand shake one a Friday without any notice typically so I have zero guilt getting while the getting is good.