Quit job after 3 days

duchy

TrickyWicky wrote: »

It's usually those who aren't doing the grotty jobs who for some reason, think they're the ones that have the right to frown and insist other people stay with it which is crazy.

So far as I can see there's at least two posters who've done what you claim to be the same "grotty job" frowning at him on this thread !!

I could have claimed every benefit going at the time as a single parent with a disabled child and also looking after an aging parent rather than done the grotty job you apparently disapprove of though !!!

pendragon_arther

When the going gets tough the tough get going...

DKLS

Training for bar work???

The best training is being thrown in at the deep end, my first bar shift was at a irish bar and the first pint I pulled I wore as I couldn't pull a pint of Guinness correctly, the 2nd pint I wore as I didn't use the punters own glass. :eek:

The second shift was a friday night and the bar was 10 deep, you learnt quickly, another couple of shifts and I was in my stride and it was great hectic fun. All the staff would get free tickets to the nightclubs and there was a great team spirit which came in handy if it got a tad lairy, I became adept at hauling customers over the bar to tell em to behave or they were out.

If you keep leaving at the first hurdle you won't get anywhere in life.

getmore4less

Spoons are the easy bar to work, just the busy ones get a bit crazy on a fri,Sat night.

Limited drink list, so not a lot to learn.

Cocktails are shots and juice and only a few of them don't come easier than that.


Stick it out, once on the JDW payroll there are jobs everywhere.
OK conditions and subsidized food drink in othe spoons.

Many of the staff in ours stay working the odd shift after they move onto more regular jobs. they like the buzz of a Sat night. QUite a few of our bar staff rotate the kitchen as well so are getting multi skilled(pouring drinks and driving a microwave).

topaztiger1983

My advice would be just get on with it, I work 8 hour shifts with one 30 minute break, the rest of the time I am on my feet, rushing around

I find it hard to believe that you can use the fact that after 3 day you "can't cope", as a reason to leave a job and re-apply for JSA

Grow up & put some effort in

silverwhistle

TrickyWicky wrote: »

It's usually those who aren't doing the grotty jobs who for some reason, think they're the ones that have the right to frown and insist other people stay with it which is crazy.

Before and after my main (graduate) career I've worked the Christmas post, worked on building sites and in a packing factory, picked tobacco, driven a mini-van with a trailer of white water rafts, worked in a government call centre and a hostel, taught at hectic summer schools, etc.

I suspect many people with decent jobs have done the crappy ones too..

bap98189

ettddan wrote: »

Hi all. I recently got offered a job at Wetherspoons.

We were told that we couldn't work behind the bar until we completed training. Nevertheless, we were put behind the bar at 6:00pm sharp to begin our work. I was looking forward to it, so excited. BUT, without training as to what drinks were what and where the weird spirits were kept, I was all over the place. A busy Friday night with loads of people shouting at me above the loud music, trying to get their order in. I was doing the best I could. I had to keep asking the girls on the bar where things like

That's strange. Wetherspoons don't play music in their pubs.

Hillbilly1

bap98189 wrote: »

That's strange. Wetherspoons don't play music in their pubs.

That was going to be my point too.

3 shifts isn't enough to get the hang of bar work, so it will feel stressful. Why would starting a new job feel anything else?

FBaby

Some people are built to take stress really well but some aren't. Unfortunately, I fall under the latter and I rather wish I didn't.

You need to get it out of your mind that some people are lucky to be born with an ability to cope with stress whilst other don't. Coping with stress is something you learn. Unfortunately, it is true that some parents are much better are helping their children learn coping mechanisms than others, but it remains that it is something you yourself can learn.

There are no two ways about it, the only way you are going to do so is by facing your stress rather than avoiding it. The biggest issue seem to be night work. Because you struggle staying up late? Because you find it harder when it is busier? Those things can be overcome whilst getting used to it. It won't be fun at first, but you'll gradually start becoming more resilient as you face your stressors.

If you really hate it, then use your free time to apply for more work, but in the most likelihood, the more you get on with it, the easier it will get and the better your chances of another job you like better if you apply whilst you are still working there and then going back on JSA after 3 days.

gingerdad

I hope you do get you benefits cut, my 14 y/o who has a part time job on a saturday has a better work ethic than you, happily loading and unloading a dishwasher all day - but she also values money and understands it doesn't grown on trees and if she wants things she has to pay for them.

so get off your !!!! and give the next job a chance, casue anyone coming to me for a job who's only sent a few weeks or month here or there ain't getting it.