You Know It's Time To Quit Your Job When.....

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- you find yourself walking well out of your way after getting coffee to avoid having to pass by the open doors of co-workers you can't be arsed to deal with.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

when the can't-be-bothered outweighs your need for the spondoolicks, is the theoretical answer

or when you have shagged all that is worthwhile.

― D.arraghmac, Monday, 14 November 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Spondoolicks? Is this some Clockwork Orange-speak?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

.. the agency you're surreptitiosly talking to seems to know a LOT about your present position...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

spondoolicks is cash, in my head at least.

but i'm sure i didn't invent it.

― D.arraghmac, Monday, 14 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

You regularly dream about your supervisor (and not in a good way).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

your boss won't return your email or phone calls.
m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

...a co-worker tells you to order checks for the new company you're buying and you can't because you don't have any money to pay the company you'd order checks from.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

...no one would notice if you didn't turn up.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Alex, this actually made me feel better (i.e., not the only one to do such things).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

... Your coworker continues to pronounce it "tem-PLATE" when everybody else says "TEM-plet" oh why doesn't he get it?

― andy --, Monday, 14 November 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Maybe because sources like the OED say it's pronounced 'tem-plate'?? I took art classes for years and we always pronounced it that way.

― WTF, Monday, 14 November 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

... you actively fantasize about being as rude as is humanly possible to new customers.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Main Entry: tem·plate
Variant(s): also tem·plet /'tem-plit/
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from French templet, diminutive of temple, part of a loom, probably from Latin templum
1 : a short piece or block placed horizontally in a wall under a beam to distribute its weight or pressure (as over a door)
2 a (1) : a gauge, pattern, or mold (as a thin plate or board) used as a guide to the form of a piece being made (2) : a molecule (as of DNA) that serves as a pattern for the generation of another macromolecule (as messenger RNA) b : OVERLAY c
3 : something that establishes or serves as a pattern

― andy --, Monday, 14 November 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

And my Oxford dictionary says 'templit, -pleit

― andy --, Monday, 14 November 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

You start and/or participate in threads about when to quit your job..

― bsj30 (bsj30), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

... you actively fantasize about being as rude as is humanly possible to new customers.

Some of us have realized this fantasy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Do tell!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

when you realize as you're leaving for work that you're carrying a bag, a mug of coffee, CDs for the drive, and a rifle.

― gear (gear), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

..you're writing most of your nanowrimo at work. And no one's noticed. You also use LJ and someone even walks by and says "hey, web chat huh?". Still, no one cares.

Hey wait on, maybe thats a good reason NOT to quit, hrm.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

...one of your co-workers craps on endlessly about KILLING JOKE all day long

i mean jeez THEY WENT TO ICELAND TO RIDE OUT THE END OF THE WORLD you know

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Ha, how about walking way out of your way to get coffee in order to avoid being in the office at all?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

they treat you like shit and you still feel guilty about calling in sick when you're actually sick!

sorry, that one wasn't funny.

― tehresa (tehresa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

sorry, that one wasn't funny

but so so true.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Well yeah, but if they didn't treat you like shit you wouldn't feel guilty when you called in sick.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

mmm codependency

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

How about when you've started to say, "It's not really worth explaining," when people ask what you do?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

― Jdubz (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

How about when you've started to say, "It's not really worth explaining," when people ask what you do?

Oooh...I know that song.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

Ha, how about walking way out of your way to get coffee in order to avoid being in the office at all?
I do this at jobs i like!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

I deliberately had a sit down cafe breakfast and was half an hour late for work today cause like, fuck dis shit.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Again - I'm normally half an hour late for jobs I LIKE!

This is the job you un-quit, is it Trayce?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/a/Covers/ashford2.jpg

― bato (bato), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

...you have gotten a promotion, but not what you'd asked for in salary, so you politely decline. Then an outsider is hired and paid what you had asked for.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

How about when you've started to say, "It's not really worth explaining," when people ask what you do?

i just tell them i'm a monkey.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

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