Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? 396
I like my current job writes "Having worked full-time in IT for the past 12 years, I would really like to work less and focus on other goals and priorities in my life. I asked my current employer and was shot down. It seems like everyone I know in IT works full-time except for entry-level help desk staff. Striking out on my own seems to be the only way to control the ball and chain around my ankle. However, my experience with independent consulting is a 'feast or famine' situation, with work coming all at once, thus making part-time impossible, or the other extreme (which is even more likely). Is part-time work a pipe dream in IT? Maybe a career in toilet cleaning is calling me."
Good course of action: (Score:5, Funny)
Schedule an appointment with your boss, then walk into his office(shutting the door behind you) and grab his tie. Yank it down so hard that it chokes him and his head slams into his desk and say with your other fist clenched,
"You punk motherfucker - I'm going to come in at 7am and leave at 11am and you're going to pay me my regular fucking salary as if we didn't have this little discussion, capiche?"
If he says anything other than "yes" then grab his stapler and pistol-whip him with it. Go back to work while keeping a loaded pistol in your desk so that you can point it at your boss whenever he walks by your cubicle. Leave early so that you can break into his home and hang his pets from his ceiling fan, but take one of the pets, behead it, and place its head on your boss' bed. Then write, "I see you" above his bed using his favorite pet's blood.
If the plan outlined above dosen't work, you just might have to play hardball.
Re:Good course of action: (Score:3, Funny)
Subtle, very subtle.
Re:The Boss Decides... so be the Boss (Score:5, Funny)
You do whatever it takes to get the job done, under impossible deadlines.
Luckily, that's not the case at all when you're your own boss ;)
Re:The Boss Decides... so be the Boss (Score:3, Funny)
Luckily, that's not the case at all when you're your own boss ;)
Probably not, but resigning from the job is a bitch. I can't agree with myself whether I should quit or I should be fired.
Re:The Boss Decides... so be the Boss (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Boss Decides... so be the Boss (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, buy hardly anyone goes into that level of detail, so if you get called when you list yourself as a reference, you can either just skip the part about why you got fired, or else tell the truth and sue yourself for defamation and settle for millions.