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Go get some real world experience, try working on a construction site for the summer. It will open your eyes, and every other job you do will seem easy. Oh and if you do, save the excuses ... they are performance/results oriented and will fire you quick for missing work or being late.
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Originally posted by Marky:
Go get some real world experience, try working on a construction site for the summer. It will open your eyes, and every other job you do will seem easy. Oh and if you do, save the excuses ... they are performance/results oriented and will fire you quick for missing work or being late.
you guys are so cute with your "get some real experience" banter.
i lived on my own and in the "real world" for eight years before going back to college. i held a variety of jobs from washing cars to running a motorcycle dealership. of course employers outside of college towns won't feel it neccesary to accomidate student scheules.
but when i went back to school, i found that what ancientsanskrit is going through to be very understandable. as i have said before, things may be different in other areas, but in ann arbor and east lansing (i.e. universities with 40,000+ students each) employers understand the difference between the "real world" and being in college. personally, i worked 40+ hours and attended school full time. it wasn't unusual for one of my finals to change time and location at the end of the semester. i've never had an employer have a problem with it. 
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I'd like to start by saying, I can appreciate your willingness to work while in school and trying to get your degree. I can agree to an extent that an employer, hiring mostly college students should be a little lenient with his/her employees. My argument is that, THEY are the employer, and YOU are the employee. They hired you to get a job done, not to give you a job where you could sway your schedule to fit your needs. I'm sure that like any business, they are in it to make money, and with employees not there, they aren't making money. I can sympathize with your situation, as I've been let go from a company for coming in 10 minutes late, when it was verbally agreed by my immediate boss that it wouldn't be a problem if it was only once in a while. I took it as a learning experience, as employers generally aren't out to be your friend. They're there to run a business, and it's not going to phase them one bit to let you go. Hopefully you can explain your situation to your boss and possibly work something out, where you can work for them for the remainder of your college career, or atleast until you find something new. Good luck with it all.
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Originally posted by MxRacerCam:
Originally posted by Marky:
Go get some real world experience, try working on a construction site for the summer. It will open your eyes, and every other job you do will seem easy. Oh and if you do, save the excuses ... they are performance/results oriented and will fire you quick for missing work or being late.
you guys are so cute with your "get some real experience" banter.
i lived on my own and in the "real world" for eight years before going back to college. i held a variety of jobs from washing cars to running a motorcycle dealership. of course employers outside of college towns won't feel it neccesary to accomidate student scheules.
but when i went back to school, i found that what ancientsanskrit is going through to be very understandable. as i have said before, things may be different in other areas, but in ann arbor and east lansing (i.e. universities with 40,000+ students each) employers understand the difference between the "real world" and being in college. personally, i worked 40+ hours and attended school full time. it wasn't unusual for one of my finals to change time and location at the end of the semester. i've never had an employer have a problem with it.
He said he skipped three days of work, would your employer have a problem with that, would you put up with it when you ran a dealership?
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Wait, you did not go to your boss in person? Why would you just send and email and just assume you got the days off? True, they should be more willing to work around your classes but you gave them less than a weeks notice that you needed the time off. Everywhere I have worked you requested a day off about 2 weeks in advance, it was no surprise that finals were coming up so you could have requested the time off in....say January if you wanted. In any case enjoy your new found free time...
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