we always end up working for the people who hurt us, and abandoning those who help us…

@TexasUberAlles  
Nice, yo. I love me some Snyder =D .

@Joseph Raszagal  
One of my favorite songs ever is Todd Snyder’s Looking For A Job:
 
You can’t talk to me like that, boss  
I don’t care who you are  
If you don’t want to have to hang your own dry wall  
don’t push me too far
 
Boomtown work ain’t hard to come by  
boomtown workers are  
You might be the one running the show but  
that don’t mean you’re in charge
 
I was looking for a job when I found this one  
don’t need the work like you need the work done  
You look like you’re under pressure  
I was looking for a job when I met you

@TexasUberAlles  
Another place I’ve been.
 
After drywalling the entire downstairs of this house that a buddy of mine was planning on selling, he goes and hires this plumber to do the shower in the upstairs bathroom.
 
Lo and behold, the guy leaves the water on and apparently managed to stop-up the drain before leaving too. The top floor predictably floods, which then runs down all of the walls downstairs too, ruining literally all of the drywall that I just put in.
 
After being asked if I’d install all of the drywall downstairs again, I asked for my check and promptly left. If he hired that bad a plumber once, my buddy would do something else just as stupid again, and I’d have to redo something else all over again.
 
No thank you. I left and didn’t look back.

@Joseph Raszagal  
I also walked out of another job and left a busted pipe spraying water all over the men’s room because the place hadn’t been built to code and I wasn’t taking responsibility for shutting off all the water to the restaurant to fix it. Waiting until there’s a catastrophe and straight rollin’ out tha door so Boss Man hafta fix it his own self is the one power that a workin’ stiff always has.

Dag, yo. I know that feeling.
 
“I need you to come in, Joey. I know you weren’t scheduled, but we’re completely swamped over here.”
 
[Drop everything and head to work]
 
“Yeah, things slowed down right after I got off of the phone with you. I meant to call you back, but I kind of forgot to during my smoke break.”
 
[Alcohol]

Ouch…
 
@TexasUberAlles
 
Can’t argue with that logic.

I once called my job from an anime convention two hundred miles away and told them I was just too sick to come in that day.
 
…Great thing about working at a pizza joint though is the enormous amount of free pizza you can take home, that saves piles of money on food when you’s po’.

this is me on an average day

And then the cost of all the alcohol drove artist pony further into debt, tethering him more firmly to his awful job that called him in on his days off. And thus the cycle continues.

>:/

All too true.  
Half the time it’s because somebody had a hangover and couldn’t be arsed to turn up. Coloured me right red when that happens.