Venting I quit my side gig because my boss was a kind of an asshole

[Jonkerball]

For a bit of context, I'm an engineering student that both wanted to gain a bit of working experience and some muney, so my dad recommends to work at an electric shop he sometimes gets materials from. I couldn't be there consistently due to the work time clashing with my uni time, so a few months later/2 weeks ago I rejoined.

I'll admit I often looked at my phone the first few days, I tried putting it down while I was at work and succeeded. The "work" was mostly bringing tea, washing dishes, cleaning up wherever. And it was fine, I could do this for the rest of my summer break.

Until today where I said how I thought about going to a foundation dedicated to socializing and having fun with people my age (19) and he then goes onto this tangent about how at my age he worked his ass off and only slept 3 hours a day, how he hates people and could live off better without running the shop but he does it because he wants to serve God by developing his elaborate soil humidity sensor and leaving a mark in the world like Nikola Tesla, how he worked alongside top rich people in the country, how engineers need to learn hands-on stuff more than ever now, etc.

Even if he had points here and there, it all seemed very pretentious to me, with some savior complex on top. At that point, it's like I'm only there to validate his mindset where suffering relentlessly is the only way to build a good life. There's a difference between pain that grows you and pain that just bruises you, and it felt like the latter.

So I just left. At least quitting was simple.

 

[Arnold Schwarzwald]

For a bit of context, I'm an engineering student that both wanted to gain a bit of working experience and some muney, so my dad recommends to work at an electric shop he sometimes gets materials from. I couldn't be there consistently due to the work time clashing with my uni time, so a few months later/2 weeks ago I rejoined.

I'll admit I often looked at my phone the first few days, I tried putting it down while I was at work and succeeded. The "work" was mostly bringing tea, washing dishes, cleaning up wherever. And it was fine, I could do this for the rest of my summer break.

Until today where I said how I thought about going to a foundation dedicated to socializing and having fun with people my age (19) and he then goes onto this tangent about how at my age he worked his ass off and only slept 3 hours a day, how he hates people and could live off better without running the shop but he does it because he wants to serve God by developing his elaborate soil humidity sensor and leaving a mark in the world like Nikola Tesla, how he worked alongside top rich people in the country, how engineers need to learn hands-on stuff more than ever now, etc.

Even if he had points here and there, it all seemed very pretentious to me, with some savior complex on top. At that point, it's like I'm only there to validate his mindset where suffering relentlessly is the only way to build a good life. There's a difference between pain that grows you and pain that just bruises you, and it felt like the latter.

So I just left. At least quitting was simple.

What kind of "electric shop" had you doing dished and serving tea?

 

[Autistic_tendencies2]

mental midget

 

[JayJay]

For a bit of context, I'm an engineering student that both wanted to gain a bit of working experience and some muney, so my dad recommends to work at an electric shop he sometimes gets materials from. I couldn't be there consistently due to the work time clashing with my uni time, so a few months later/2 weeks ago I rejoined.

I'll admit I often looked at my phone the first few days, I tried putting it down while I was at work and succeeded. The "work" was mostly bringing tea, washing dishes, cleaning up wherever. And it was fine, I could do this for the rest of my summer break.

Until today where I said how I thought about going to a foundation dedicated to socializing and having fun with people my age (19) and he then goes onto this tangent about how at my age he worked his ass off and only slept 3 hours a day, how he hates people and could live off better without running the shop but he does it because he wants to serve God by developing his elaborate soil humidity sensor and leaving a mark in the world like Nikola Tesla, how he worked alongside top rich people in the country, how engineers need to learn hands-on stuff more than ever now, etc.

Even if he had points here and there, it all seemed very pretentious to me, with some savior complex on top. At that point, it's like I'm only there to validate his mindset where suffering relentlessly is the only way to build a good life. There's a difference between pain that grows you and pain that just bruises you, and it felt like the latter.

So I just left. At least quitting was simple.

you and him if you had stayed:

 

[Jonkerball]

What kind of "electric shop" had you doing dished and serving tea?

I was a novice, every worker in the shop did that stuff before learning the trades. Standard procedures and all that. lol

mental midget

Grrr, I'll have you know I'm 6 ft! I am kinda mental though.

you and him if you had stayed:

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We would be like this if he wasn't such an asshat

 

[Arnold Schwarzwald]

I was a novice, every worker in the shop did that stuff before learning the trades. Standard procedures and all that. lol


Grrr, I'll have you know I'm 6 ft! I am kinda mental though.


We would be like this if he wasn't such an asshat

That's kinda of that guy, boomers will never learn.

 

[Quintilian]

For a bit of context, I'm an engineering student that both wanted to gain a bit of working experience and some muney, so my dad recommends to work at an electric shop he sometimes gets materials from. I couldn't be there consistently due to the work time clashing with my uni time, so a few months later/2 weeks ago I rejoined.

I'll admit I often looked at my phone the first few days, I tried putting it down while I was at work and succeeded. The "work" was mostly bringing tea, washing dishes, cleaning up wherever. And it was fine, I could do this for the rest of my summer break.

Until today where I said how I thought about going to a foundation dedicated to socializing and having fun with people my age (19) and he then goes onto this tangent about how at my age he worked his ass off and only slept 3 hours a day, how he hates people and could live off better without running the shop but he does it because he wants to serve God by developing his elaborate soil humidity sensor and leaving a mark in the world like Nikola Tesla, how he worked alongside top rich people in the country, how engineers need to learn hands-on stuff more than ever now, etc.

Even if he had points here and there, it all seemed very pretentious to me, with some savior complex on top. At that point, it's like I'm only there to validate his mindset where suffering relentlessly is the only way to build a good life. There's a difference between pain that grows you and pain that just bruises you, and it felt like the latter.

So I just left. At least quitting was simple.

That's the thing with bosses, they're up their own ass thinking their opinions are important becuase of where they're at, in reality had they suffered any more, they wouldn't be cracking the whip on others. My former boss was a dick, he did right by me in most instances, but he was like Patton, great general, but a shitty person to work with.