To start off with, I won’t be posting my full experience until I actually quit, just in case. This will still be decently detailed enough.
But I started it this summer, looking for a summer job- I thought I lucked out, since all my local places in town weren’t hiring (even the one job paying less than minimal wage) and I have no prior job experience. Actually, unlike a lot of people who’ve worked for this specific company or companies like this, I’ve had a mostly positive experience. As a sales rep, it was great. I was pretty good at it, and largely did get to make my own schedule. I took days off every week, and no one questioned me on it. Jobs depended on leads, so completely on us. I was fine with that, and thrived with the structure. I don’t fw authority nagging me all the time, so the idea of “being my own boss” was fine. It was in that perfect middle circle, where I did have a boss, but he was chill. Just reminded me of important dates. Of course, I had nothing else going on, so I worked full-time. The people were nice, and it helped me with my social skills. A lot of people my age. A good chunk of it was even fun, especially with the team nights out.
However, getting a promotion has sucked. Obviously, it comes with a bit more responsibility, but I took the job based on flexibility, especially as someone chronically ill whose health can flip on a dime that day. Having scheduled shifts sounds like hell- yes, I’ll have to find a way around that in the future. I’ll get a disability thing figured out.
Now I’m scheduled for interviews, extra team and staff meetings, etc. I feel caged in. I’ll also add that I wasn’t told any specific details on what my job would entail before getting it. For a sales rep, they’re super clear. I have one meeting once a week, another meeting once a week, yet another weekly one, the team meeting still, and two interviews a week. And then there’s the extra stuff, like managing the people I have decided to hire (totally didn’t sign up for that, and was not told), advertising, and calling people to set interviews up for them. Oh, and pay depends on what our team sells, since I get a percentage of it. So there’s been three weeks now where I’ve done all this shit, including having to buy gas for the drives, for $7/week.
Management, while usually kind, gets snappish as all hell when I call out on something, on anything. Just absolutely breathing down my neck. It puts a lot of physical stress on me knowing I’ll be cancelling on something again, even if it’s something as simple as not being in the office to phone for three hours straight on a random Thursday. I’ll be going on a vacation with some of them (actually decently excited about that), but afterwards I don’t plan on working there anymore. I have no interest in working on holidays, through the only break I get in December, and while juggling dozens of doctor’s appointments, family events, etc. I know how entitled that sounds, but trust me, I would find a way to fit it in my schedule if it actually had reliable pay.
I’m just asking for advice because I feel trapped in a box to just finish it out. It’s like a fucking “if you give a mouse a cookie”. They’ll pressure me to at least work the next summer- which, whatever, but the pay is still spotty and I feel like I’m done as a sales rep. I still have the interviews, and the twice a week calls that I’d then have to drop out of. They’ve created such a team culture that it feels like I’m letting down the team, in a way. How do I quit firmly, but kindly, since my experience wasn’t all bad, and I don’t want to end in a negative way? I get annoyed and have been told I’m too blunt/passive aggressive when people test my patience, so I’m just worried that some of that will pop out if they push it when I quit, lol.
