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My Job Again!!!!! I need some support.
comicallyinsane
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Hi everyone. I had a really bad night at work. This asstant anager who I always help out and I always show respect really got to me tonight. Whenever she is having a bad day she takes it out on people and she sometimes says little remarks to me that I find very disrespectful. Well tonight she did it again and I have had it. I got home an hour ago and I have been filling out applications on line. I am going to buy a nice shirt for interviews. I have no summer dress up clothes. I work at 11:00 AM all next week so I am going to get up early and go and apply at places before I have to head to work. Pizza Hut has pushed me too far. I have no jobsatisfaction. My car is always breaking down. I never have enough money to keep up with my bills. The county I live in has th enumber one unemployment rate in the country. I am now determined to find a new job. I am going to use some of that mindfulness to better my situation. :mad:
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I was in a similar situation a while ago -- horrible job, the boss was a total jerk (she took it upon herself to call the employees names in front of customers, and she also felt it important to point out how "Stupid" my religion was on a regular basis). I ended up throwing a book at her and leaving. Luckily I was offered the job I have now (at the county library) the next day.
I'm sure things will work out for you. We're here if you need to vent, too.
Hi Jason!
I am so sorry to read of what you have been having to deal with! Please know that I am chanting for you as well as sending healing your way. I admire your decision to find other employment because with the economy as it is---well, it's hard to find much of anything anywhere! It is your right to be happy because if you are not, it's hard to be much of anything for your family. I know. I have been there. I recently just got a job myself after looking for the past 2 years. Today was my first day. It has been horrible here in Indiana---you cannot even get a job in any field---even the fast food joints aren't hiring. I am talking STATE WIDE, too, not just in my town. The job I have is with MCL Cafeteria here in Anderson, Indiana---where I live. The reason I got the job was that I happened to be in the right place at the right time---there were three people that quit the same day! These three people were all college or high school students and they decided to enjoy what time off from school they had left, I guess. I am only working part-time but it is better than nothing. I have learned to live pretty comfortably on Social Security and my late husband's pension, raise my 8-year-old child as well, and still manage to save a little bit. To me, this job is adequate enough for now. I was also told that once school starts back up, I will be getting more hours since I can work during the day. Anyway, I wish you the best and I will be chanting for things to work out for you as well. Take care!
Adiana
I thought you were still at Domino's.
Am I losing it?
Anyway... you know I wish you the best, man.
-bf
:winkc:
Palzang
Palzang
Pain is an awesome motivator to take us beyond our conditioned responses and reactions.
I once was into cars, thit is until I owned my first one. It was a great teacher in the realm of impermenance.
It also follows, the the more one has the more one spends.
I knew a orthapedic surgeon who said, " I now spends more time trying to keep my money than I did making it."
Wishing you peace and good fortune.
Just make sure you know what you're asking for!!! LOL!!! I was a prep, line and then promoted to souz chef for 12 years I couldn't tell you how many miles a day I walked in @ the EDS corporate headquarters huge kitchens. I am now the sole proprietor of a lanscape services company. I recommend you choose wisely!!! Maybe you could do the manual labor as a hobby. Best of Luck!!
From what I've read here you already are my friend.:cool:
The company I've been working for 2 years is circling the drain. I have not been paid in 2 months.
I'm an Integration Specialist doing work for hospital IT departments connecting their systems and databases.
IT job market is funny right now. Lots of entry -level jobs for grads, but leaner for mid-career.
Monster and Workopolis here I come! :type:
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CI,
I must agree with Iawa. It was some manager in a fast food restaurant who looked at me and said "I am a high school dropout and I make more than you with a high school diploma". I went and signed up for college within weeks. Now, he's probably in some dead end job because last I heard, he was working in a dry cleaning store.
Bad situations can make some tremendous things happen. This back injury of mine has taken me to some roads I never thought of. You just have to choose the path to go on and then DO IT! One thing I've noticed is that much in life is attainable if we put forth the effort. That is encouraging as if our goals are attainable, we can make them. Except BF being prez and me the veep!
Of course, the Buddha taught that if you suffer poverty, it's due to your own lack of generosity in the past, so it's something to practice with. I'm not feeling down about it, just frustrated. Sometimes I just want to go back to Mongolia and forget everything else, but that wouldn't help me get over my habitual tendencies, would it!
Palzang
Dearest friend,
What a pain! The lessons that we get on our interdependence can be so difficult.
One of my teachers has an interesting take on karma. Whereas you say "he Buddha taught that if you suffer poverty, it's due to your own lack of generosity in the past", the Roshi used to suggest that the Law of Karma was more a question of balance. It was therefore possible that we are poor because we were rich, in pain because we were over-comfortable. In this way, it is not a question of 'bad' behaviour in the past for which 'we' can feel guilty. Mind you, he was a great one for making us focus on Now, because Here-and-Now is the only place/time where we can wake up.
John Henry Newman preached a wonderful sermon in which he attacked the idea that poverty was a virtue. It is a state: virtue arises from how we deal with it. I am sure that you, with the support of your sangha and your teacher, will find creative ways to use this passage in your life. I have been poor more often than rich. It's less comfortable - especially when the bailiffs knock at the door.
I hope that something turns up to help. In all cases, you are daily in my thoughts with respect and gratitude.
OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARSAMGATE BODHI SVAHA
I second what Simon wishes you - and third it, and fourth it...
I am truly sorry you're going through such a mess...
I'm not sure I entirely subscribe to Simon's Roshi's 'take' on karma, personally....Just as an idle opinion, because it may be taken to imply that karma has the ability to evaluate and decide on the most appropriate course of action....and whilst I can see the 'fairness' of it, it is of little use if the person themselves doesn't remember their previous state, and learn from this sobering experience....But there is a lesson to be learnt, and maybe comfort to be gleaned, none-the-less...
Thank you Simon....
I have started looking already, but this is the 2nd tech employer in a row who has imploded while lying to its employee and shareholders.
I'm not panicking, but I do feel like a chump.
:bs:
Simon, I'm going to stick with what the Buddha taught about karma. The version you quoted sounds like it came out of the New Age mindset. In other words, totally useless.
Palzang