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Location: texas | my boss just fired me for the second time! i work at sonic.. my boss is a pot head, an alcholic and a vulgar person. he often come to work drunk, hungover or high as a kite!! hes vulgar and talks about sex all the time! he called my mother saying that i had a bad attitiude which i didnt. i need a new job ASAP. im 16 any ideas on where to work? in order for me to keep my horse i have to have a job to pay for my boarding, feed, trailering gas and entry fees! any suggestion?  |
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Location: Oklahoma | Ashlen1515 - 2015-10-08 12:04 PM
my boss just fired me for the second time! i work at sonic.. my boss is a pot head, an alcholic and a vulgar person. he often come to work drunk, hungover or high as a kite!! hes vulgar and talks about sex all the time! he called my mother saying that i had a bad attitiude which i didnt. i need a new job ASAP. im 16 any ideas on where to work? in order for me to keep my horse i have to have a job to pay for my boarding, feed, trailering gas and entry fees! any suggestion?
If what you say regarding your boss is true, you need to contact the company's Human Resource department. BUT remember.... for claims such as this there needs to be evidence. You can not accuse someone of these things with out proof. It is a very challenging pathway. IF you do decide to contact human resources, you need to do so in a mature manner. Your post above sounds exactly like what a 16 year old would say. You are young. I used to staff for an employment agency and I've got experience in human resources. Choose your words/course of action very carefully.
Edited by TwistedK 2015-10-08 12:16 PM
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Location: NC | Banfield the pet hospital, is a good place to work when your younger. They have evening and weekend hours. Most will train you and you don't have to have a vet tech degree. My personal experience is its not great for long haul because of the politics, but great for part time. They are located all over. |
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Location: Northwest Florida | I've worked at Banfield, but I very much preferred my vet tech job at the smaller, privately owned clinic. Vet tech work is great and it prepared me well for my career as a lab tech.
However, if you're still in high school you'll need an evening/weekend job and vet clinics with those hours are not easy to find, aside from the large emergency clinics.
Have you considered waiting tables? I loved serving and bartending, and walking out with cash every night! You aren't old enough to serve alcohol, but somewhere like Cracker Barrel that doesn't offer it would be perfect. You have experience in the food service industry already too.
Good luck! Also, sorry about your boss. I've worked with people like that before and I didn't stay long- not worth it! |
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Location: texas | BigStarBound - 2015-10-08 12:31 PM
I've worked at Banfield, but I very much preferred my vet tech job at the smaller, privately owned clinic. Vet tech work is great and it prepared me well for my career as a lab tech.
However, if you're still in high school you'll need an evening/weekend job and vet clinics with those hours are not easy to find, aside from the large emergency clinics.
Have you considered waiting tables? I loved serving and bartending, and walking out with cash every night! You aren't old enough to serve alcohol, but somewhere like Cracker Barrel that doesn't offer it would be perfect. You have experience in the food service industry already too.
Good luck! Also, sorry about your boss. I've worked with people like that before and I didn't stay long- not worth it!
Im home schooled so i could work any hours except for 5:30 to night. and i cant work on Saturdays or Sundays. i would loveee to work at a vet or something! an yea i liked working at sonic because i got the the cash i needed for my entry fees! |
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Location: Kansas | It's sonic....not the best place to work anyways. I rarely even eat their food because of half the people I see working in them.
Check offices, they are sometimes willing to hire 16 year olds. Especially roofing companies.
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Location: North Dakota | Well if you're high school age you will have a VERY difficult time finding a job that you don't have to work at least some weekends. I would hit up any restaurants, retail stores, etc. and fill out as many applications as possible. IME if you get fired due to a psycho boss, it's hard to explain that it wasn't your fault without sounding like you're badmouthing the boss because they fired you. So do as many applications and interviews as possible so if one doesn't believe you hopefully another will. |
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Location: Texas | I had a similar experience working at Sonic when I was 17. I didn't get fired, it didn't take me long to see how things were progressing with my nasty managers that couldn't catch a hint.
You could try feed stores, clothing stores, grocery stores, vet clinics. |
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| You can probably walk into any retail or fast food store around there and get a job...dont worry about it...God always provides a way. Just go look, something will come up! |
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Location: East Texas | Clean houses, mow yards, wash cars......You will make 10X the money and you will have no one but you to answer to if you get fired....it will all be on you |
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Location: Northwest Florida | Ashlen1515 - 2015-10-08 12:37 PM
BigStarBound - 2015-10-08 12:31 PM
I've worked at Banfield, but I very much preferred my vet tech job at the smaller, privately owned clinic. Vet tech work is great and it prepared me well for my career as a lab tech.
However, if you're still in high school you'll need an evening/weekend job and vet clinics with those hours are not easy to find, aside from the large emergency clinics.
Have you considered waiting tables? I loved serving and bartending, and walking out with cash every night! You aren't old enough to serve alcohol, but somewhere like Cracker Barrel that doesn't offer it would be perfect. You have experience in the food service industry already too.
Good luck! Also, sorry about your boss. I've worked with people like that before and I didn't stay long- not worth it!
Im home schooled so i could work any hours except for 5:30 to night. and i cant work on Saturdays or Sundays. i would loveee to work at a vet or something! an yea i liked working at sonic because i got the the cash i needed for my entry fees!
Sounds like you need to apply at your local vet clinics then! They are typically daytime weekday, and the smaller one I worked at was only open 8-12 on Saturday. That may be the easiest way to find a job with those hours, because most jobs in food service or retail would want you to work evenings and weekends. Good luck! |
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Location: Tennessee | I worked at Sonic years and years ago when I was in High School. Pretty good money for a teenager, we made minimum wage plus tips, it adds up. I agree you may have a hard time finding something that doesn't include nights and weekends, so good luck. Sonics are independently owned franchises, so you could always go to a different Sonic. They'd likely take you on if you have the experience. |
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| TwistedK - 2015-10-08 12:13 PM
Ashlen1515 - 2015-10-08 12:04 PM
my boss just fired me for the second time! i work at sonic.. my boss is a pot head, an alcholic and a vulgar person. he often come to work drunk, hungover or high as a kite!! hes vulgar and talks about sex all the time! he called my mother saying that i had a bad attitiude which i didnt. i need a new job ASAP. im 16 any ideas on where to work? in order for me to keep my horse i have to have a job to pay for my boarding, feed, trailering gas and entry fees! any suggestion?
If what you say regarding your boss is true, you need to contact the company's Human Resource department. BUT remember.... for claims such as this there needs to be evidence. You can not accuse someone of these things with out proof. It is a very challenging pathway. IF you do decide to contact human resources, you need to do so in a mature manner. Your post above sounds exactly like what a 16 year old would say. You are young. I used to staff for an employment agency and I've got experience in human resources. Choose your words/course of action very carefully.
I agree with all of this.
As far as your schedule...... you may get away with not having to work the night shifts often, but as for no weekends, I doubt you would be able to do that. Like someone else said, most retail and server jobs will require you to work nights and weekends. That is just they way it is when your starting from the bottom up. It will get better. |
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| Get your drivers license and be a parts runner for AUTO ZONE, or one of the other parts places. They seem to like the girls driving around here and they seem to pay pretty well.
Checker in the grocery store. Most of my students work in the grocery store and checkers start out at a moderate salary and work their way up fast. |
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| He shouldn't have called your mother. Discussing employee disciple, including termination, with anyone other than the employee, is strictly forbidden by privacy laws. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I worked at a grocery store in HS and even worked there during breaks the first few semesters of college. You automatically got off holidays and nights (well, past 8/9pm). My boss was great to work around schedules. I had just gotten a really nice horse and I told him I wanted Saturdays off to run if at all possible and he made it happen. I worked all day on Sunday and three school nights, but a grocery store should have some morning shifts. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Did you get fired for playing on BHW all day and not serving the chili cheese fries in a timely manner? Tell the truth lol. |
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| CrossDRanch - 2015-10-08 1:30 PM
Clean houses, mow yards, wash cars......You will make 10X the money and you will have no one but you to answer to if you get fired....it will all be on you
Amen! This is what I did all through high school and college - made WAY, WAY, WAY more money and worked my OWN hours! |
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Location: MD | check your grocery stores. most are pretty flexible with hours and time off since there are usually so many young employees. It'd be hard to find something at 16 that doesn't require weekend work.
But, If I were you I would try to open up your Saturdays and Sundays for specific hours or say I can work every other weekend etc. something like that. |
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Location: texas | LRQHS - 2015-10-08 8:51 PM
Did you get fired for playing on BHW all day and not serving the chili cheese fries in a timely manner? Tell the truth lol.
uhhmm.. no! i dont even have a phone.just a laptop. |
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