View Single Post
Old 12-06-2014, 06:45 PM  
kane
Too lazy to set a custom title
 
kane's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: portland, OR
Posts: 20,684
Quote:
Originally Posted by SilentKnight View Post
I miss the 80s...when you could quit a job, walk down the street and get re-hired before the afternoon coffee break.

(literally did that mid-80s, lol)
In the mid 90's during the tech industry boom I was working at an electronics manufacturing company. They changed from having a day and swing shift to just having one shift (they laid a number of people off as they downsized). I was working swing shift and was moved to days. I asked if I got to keep my 10% pay difference for swing and they said no. I quit on the spot. This was at 7am. I went home and faxed my resume to about 20 different companies (I operated a variety of different machines) and by lunch time I had 5 outright offers and 3 other companies that wanted me to come in for interviews.

Those were some wild days.
kane is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote