I turned in my two weeks’ notice at B&N; today. For a job I don’t really need, it had gotten to be too much of a grind–no longer any fun. I’ll be giving up my 30% employee discount, book loans and about $300/month net. I’ll be gaining back my Sundays and two or three nights a week and a bit less stress and anxiety.
It was going to be difficult to keep the job through the holiday season since we have travel plans on three or four weekends in November and December. The “days off request” book shows those two months as blocked out–no requests allowed. So I was going to be in the position of negotiating or begging for those days and I just don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
I dropped a short-and-sweet notice letter in the store manager’s inbox when I got here tonight, where she’ll see it tomorrow morning. Wonder if she’ll call…