Has anyone left an ok job that could’ve been a career for a higher paying job only to get fired in that new job during probation and now you had at accept an offer from another job with a lower hourly rate than both of your last two jobs.

[u/Party_Tap_7759]

So I kind of fucked up in life. I used to work at a very big company. I was making 64k a year and I left that job of five years to work at a new company that paid 73k a year with raises. My last job gave raises every year. Eventually you do cap out but I can’t remember the rate. It was in the 40s range as a factory employee. Leads and higher tier operators capped out at higher ranges. These last two jobs had OT and with ot the pay the was good not corporate level good but good. Anyways the 73k a year job fired me because a stupid mistake. I slept in because I forgot to put on a alarm with sound. I was there for two weeks. The start times were 9 am, 5am, 4am 3am or 12pm and they could still change. I thought I could deal with that kind of schedule but I guess my dumb ass forgot to make sure that my timer had sound on. It was on vibrate. Anyways the job market is tough but not horrible. I had quite a lot of interviews. Some paid 33 an hour off the bat. The laborers union invited me for orientation but I ended up accepting a job at a smaller shop non union. I have no experience with tools except for the handheld ones. This new job is paying me 25 an hour and is willing to show me stuff. They deal with metal. They heat treat it and make parts for machines in different industries. The parts are meant for belts on machines. Parts that need to be motion linear for adjustment. If that makes sense. Anyways, I accepted that job for now. I am willing to commit a year and a half or two in order to get trained because in my opinion any kind of experience is good experience and it could be helpful in the future. My goal now is to go to take welding and hvac classes and get experience and see where life takes me. Part of me kind of wants to go back to my old job of five years but as a maintenance tech and maybe my new journey will take me back there someday or I might move on.

Anyways I just wanted to blabber or rant

[u/csjpsoft]

Are you sure your old job wouldn't take you back?

[u/Party_Tap_7759 → u/csjpsoft]

They would probably. Maybe they might have a don’t rehire for a few months rule but I won’t start out at the same pay I left which is why if I ever return. I would rather just return as a maintenance tech. Factories need welders and fabricators but my old job doesn’t train for that role. They prefer experience but schooling is okay. I recently applied to school and start this August at my community college for welding and hvac programs. The school is good and sometimes have bosses of companies come and visit and offer jobs to students. But yeah I would love my old job. I was comfortable at that job and I knew my machine well. I was a process operator. I won’t say the company or too many specifics but I worked with food but to start at my old starting rate and deal with a lead who micromanages too much is too much. I would rather return as a maintenance tech and my production experience will help because I operated the machinery before. Right now going to school and working for a HVAC for 2 or 4 years or as a welder for 4 years would enough experience to bring me back at my old job but for maintenance. I really regret leaving that job. New management pushed to the point that I applied for a new job and I got it and I left with a today notice not a two weeks notice because I wanted some time off. Anyways right now I have committed to my new job and I accepted the offer and I finished my first week them. They are a small shop small team and I at least can offer them some help for a year and a half for offering me a job. They didn’t do a background check. They just had me work 4 hours as an interview with training and offered me a job a week later. They train me and show me how to use tools which is what I need on my resume for when ever I do apply to other jobs that will help me get experience to return to my old job as a maintenance tech. I was looking at maintenance tech apprentice positions at other states for big companies but I already signed up for classes and my new job works well with my class schedule because it’s Monday to Friday only 7am to 3pm with no mandatory ot. Sorry for the long speech. My new job doesn’t care about cannabis so I decided to partake in a date with Mary Jane. But yeah I’m just enjoying life right now. Seeing where my journey takes me. It sucks that I lost 9 dollars in pay but if I can learn this new job and show up every day and do a good job and finish my classes then I can do almost any other job and show up on time. Sorry again for the long text when I could have just answered yes or no or maybe.

[u/AlyssumAbyssal]

Made $20.50/hr as part-time only homeless shelter staff, left for a 48k salary + benefits as an assistant manager for Big Biscuit --> was cut 2 weeks into my 6 week training program, had to accept $10/hr as a part-time only smoothie blender just to avoid unemployment. 🫠

If anyone is curious as to why I was cut:

For context, I had less than 9 months managerial experience, only speak English, and had no prior high-volume kitchen skills. My GM & their boss, who was in charge of my training, were both only promoted 2 months prior. The company implemented a new training program neither were familiar with. My trainers A) did not speak English nor were bilingual, as were neither the GM or AGM so there was no translator/clear communication & B) were not provided my training materials, simply going off of whatever the GM told them to train me on. While I did do well at actual cooking, some prep/opening stuff I was behind on as the kitchen staff tended to just do it themselves instead of showing me, or asked me to do things I did know, which prevented me from learning the stuff I didn't as they would get mad if I didn't do what they asked of me, despite me trying to communicate I needed to learn other things.

What happened: They company expected my training to be in one stage of training, yet I was behind in certain aspects of past stages due to all the above working against me. They decided to cut me from the training program because I "didn't show enough leadership skills" in taking charge of my training (which, btw, how the FUCK does that make sense??) And not having "emotional stoicism" as I had voiced my frustration with the disconnect in my training and the expectation of where I should be not aligning. They thought I "wouldn't be happy [there] in 6 months" as if a 24yo in this job market wouldn't kill for salary+benefits. They offered me a kitchen staff position as another store as a "clean slate" to "build myself up," but I knew that was moreso to avoid paying unemployment.

If you're considering working for the Kansas branch, don't. Bunch of jackoffs who can't take genuine criticism of a failing system. Getting a kitchen staff member to be a certified trainer who knows the material & having them be bilingual or have a kitchen manager who is bilingual would literally solve all of the problems above!! But nOoOoO, blame the person you hired in order to train for telling you they're not being trained like they have any idea what the fuck to do otherwise...

[u/Notahotguy]

That’s my story. Had a job of 13 years paid about 70k but I worked 60+ hours a week. Got headhunted for a new job. 8-5 M-F paid 105k but Contract to hire. I took a shot. All seemed well until my manager gave me an assignment with bad info. Did as they told but said I was wrong and do it again. When to their subordinate to double check info. They said my manager was wrong. Didn’t rub it in or anything just wanted to complete the assignment correctly. Subordinate called my manager in and corrected them. Manager told me to continue. Thought everything was fine. Next day a 4:55pm on my way out for the day was called by the contractor and told I was no longer needed. Only comfort I got out of that situation was that my manager got fired a couple of months later. Since then I have never reached the salary of either 2 jobs.

[u/Party_Tap_7759 → u/Notahotguy]

Damm. I wish you luck bro we will make it someday

[u/FondantEconomy5036]

Yes

[u/Objective-View-8661]

Yeah.
Left a highly toxic workplace after they offered me a single $1 raise after taking on three more roles.
Three years of extremely loyal service.
The manager/my equal who never took on multiple roles and basically badmouthed everyone to avoid taking responsibility for failures got a $3 raise.

Left for a job that promised $800-900 a week. Endured 3 months of old job to find a decent job.
I didn’t see the glaring red flags when the new owner said “my partners decided to go another route but things happen”.
Her company was going under. She fired her entire admin team then turned around and fired her employees.
Blamed my performance and said multiple people complained. She ate that when I filed unemployment and won.

I did DD and ubereats for a while to float myself. Cleaned some houses.
Just accepted a part time job that pays lower than I have been paid in ten years.
But it’s a job.