help me get fired from my job
I have been trying to get fired from my job for the last 3 months. I have not really done more then 5 hours of real work in the last 2 months. For the most part I show up to my office on Monday and spend the day surfing the internet. The rest of the week I usually sleep in till around noon and then go play poker the rest of the day. I tell my boss that I am out at sales calls. I just don’t understand… I never bring back any deals or even business cards. Honestly all I really want to do is get fired and I am starting to get worried. You see I planned this great trip to Las Vegas for super bowl weekend and the following week. I was really hoping to loose my job by then so I can collect unemployment benefits for the next 6 months. I really feel like the guy in office space. What a great movie!
But this brings up another issue. I just don’t understand what happened to my motivation. Do people really enjoy their jobs? Do they look forward to Monday morning or are they like me, feeling dreadful Sunday night wishing to freeze time so Monday never comes? Do most people do nothing at work all day like me? I really find it very boring doing nothing all day but the alternative working hard seems much worse. Well tomorrow is the 15th, another paycheck will come and I will waste another week doing nothing.
Maybe you could share with me what your work life is about. Do you like work? How do you stay motivated? Are you just there to collect a paycheck? Is it wrong to do nothing each and every day and keep collecting a pay check? Based on my post do you think I am a loser or does this relate to your way of thinking too.
I look forward to all your responses.
Thanks-
Be an adult and give your employer your notice.
People get motivated by different things. Is there an after work networking professionals club you could join? Maybe this will help find you a new job or give you motivation to be an adult and give your employer your notice.
You are hurting more than yourself by not doing your job. Look at the bigger picture for once. Since you are in sales people are counting on you to get new accounts so they can get a paycheck to pay for things that matter to them the most, whether it be education for their children, or grandchildren, or saving money to buy a house, getting out of debt. Your customers also are hurting as well as they probably count on you to help them achieve their sales goals.
It seems the only reason you are there is for your Superbowl party in Vegas. Is it your companies, co-workers, or even your customer's fault that you placed the horse before the cart?
I would try to get people involved in multi-player computer games, going to long lunches, and hold really long (and loud) BSing sessions. Interrupt people that are trying to get work done around you also.
Finally there is the nuclear option. That is where you go CrrrrrrrrAzzzYyy boY! First take on a large work load. Ask for more. Really pile it up. Don't do any of it and don't deliver on anything. Always over promise and never deliver. Then take swigs of liquore every 30 minutes or so, so your breath smells of alcohol. Drink something nasty smelling too. Not vodka because it tends to be too clean and you don't always smell it.
Do people like their jobs? LMAO! That is the biggest myth that head-hunters, Dice, and Monster want you to believe. 99% of jobs suck. Very few people have actual exciting jobs. Most of the people that claim their job is exciting are either lying or are glassy eye newbies that just graduated from college within the last 6 months.
Yes, not only are you a loser, you are the king of losers, and that's not good! We are all here to give to others so others give to us. You use your gifts, talents and abilities to help someone (an employer), and they in turn help you (by paying you, so you can pay bills, save, etc.) . A famous actor who had been trained in the Method school of acting was looking over his script, asking, "What's my motivation here?". His British co-star replied, "It comes in a small white envelope every week."
This country--and others as well--were built by people who put their noses to the grindstone and worked until the job was done, or they were no longer able to work. Lazy slobs like you are what is bringing this country down. That's why we have so many illegals coming in here, saying they are only doing jobs Americans won't do. If people weren't so hung up on money, perks and prestige, we wouldn't have an illegal immigrant problem!
Obviously you are in the wrong field, and are wasting your life. Vegas is for losers, in more ways than one. It has been shown that throughout history, people who put pleasure in front of work drag down and destroy no only themselves, but their whole country as well. You can put off going to Vegas until you retire, it'll still be there. Got a VCR or Tivo, you can record the game while you work; you can watch it when you get home. No law says you have to see it live.
Grow up, give notice, get some career counseling to find out what you're best suited for, and do what it takes to get a new career. Because if you keep doing what you are doing, it's gonna come around and bite you in the ass. You will be on the street wishing you had either learned to like a field you weren't suited for, or gotten into a field better suited to your personality and gifts. Pick up the Yellow Pages or access them online and look under "Career Counselors", then pick up the phone and make an appointment to find out what you're best at doing.
Watch out. Many states say you can't collect unemployment if you are fired "for cause" and it sure sounds like they would have cause.
If you are goofing off anyway, use your time to find a new job, one that will be interesting to you.
And, by the way, it is totally not cool that you are a slacker. I don't condone that at all. But your company is apparently too lame to notice, so it is partly their fault that you are getting away with it.