have my contract terminated or resign? what to do?!?

Question

i been at my current clothing retail job now for 6 months, and i'm due my review this week.

the job started out ok, i was full of enthusiasm as it was something i'd never done before and i needed the money. from the outset i struggled to keep an interest in certain aspects of the job, like putting out deliveries, and have always been slow at this. at my 3 month review i disscussed what i thought the problem was and we came to a solution. but i was still slow and they stopped me doing deliveries, so now i just tidy up and serve customers. i have more bad days than good. my motivation and enthusiasm are at all time lows, i dread going to work and have to drag myself there. i havent completed my action plan and i have never really been interested in "the tides of fashion" anyway.
i think they'll terminate my contract as i feel i no longer meet the "all round person" job criteria or should i just resign and get it over with? and should i admit all this at the review?

(sorry i ran outta room before)
i would just like to add that i'm good at serving customers and like working with them, but that's it!

i do know that i want to work for myself, preferably from home. i want to earn money my own way, off my own back, but doing what? i just don't know!
plus i've always been a bit of a hippie and like the idea of going self-sufficient one day.

by the way, i love challenges, but mentally rather than physically. and this job doesn't offer mental challenges. i know i took the wrong job, but it was hard after being unemployed for a while and i started thinking "any job will do". now i regret my decision. i do voluntary work too and find it satisfying, rewarding and would love a job like it, but they cant offer me work.

Answer 1

It hardly takes a rocket scientist to see you need to get out of that present job as fast a humanly possible. Run do not walk to the nearest door and do not look back, &c. But seriously, tact is an asset, so I would present myself in the best light possible and just let your review run its course so you will have tangible evidence to know what to do next. I know a manager who has a sewing machine in her basement and is about to start doing draperies and alterations for everyone in the neighborhood instead of managing a retail store, so yes, absolutely, you can work from your home. When I recently spoke with her all I did was encourage her to use brighter lights while she worked so she would not get eye strain. All you need is this much business sense (imagine a very tiny, but practical amount) and the willingness to keep at it. You also obviously need tons of input so you will not keep on second-guessing yourself or thinking you are lacking in imagination, which you are definitely not. Aiming yourself to work from your home will mean you will also have to get in touch with your gut-level instincts again. The second- guessing thing will have to go, and you will need to set up boundaries and take a stand and stick with it. Money will begin to follow you everywhere you go if you will just stop worrying about that aspect of everything as you are doing right now...

Answer 2

Well, you are working remember...? So to an extent it's not necessarily going to be fantastically enjoyable anyway - plus witth the type of job you have as a sales assistant in a clothes shop - it is meant to be boring and mind numbing - been there myself - I guess you're still at college....? This is only a stop gap job anyway for you until you get through uni and manage to get a proper job that demands more intellectual capacity - stay in the job , if it's only boring - then stay, for the money, for the work experience and it'll look good on your CV, plus you enjoy customers - so spend more time serving - the deliveries, tidying sweaty clothes, it all comes with it, you can actually joke with your manager that you do find it boring, all the other girls will think the same thing, and your manager has been there herself - she knows - she would think you were strange if you were absolutely in love with the job - it's one of those stress free jobs that earns you easy money - boring or not - at least you're not cleaning toilets! Be thankful, if you really hate it, then by all means resign, but make sure you've found another job first to go to - it's so difficult to find a job these days .......

Answer 3

1. If you quit, I believe you will not be eligible for unemployment benefits. If they terminate you, you might be eligible for unemployment benefits.
2. It is always easier to find a new job while you still have a job. Unemployed people look like losers.
3. You must honestly look at yourself and answer this: Is your poor performance in this job truly a matter of you not being capable of doing this job? Or is it a matter of a poor work ethic on your part? Just because you don't enjoy a kind of work is no excuse for doing it poorly. The ethical approach is to do your present job very well (if you are capable of doing so) and then find a job you enjoy more as soon as possible. Your poor performance on this job might make it harder to get a job you will enjoy better.
4. I get the feeling you don't want any part of your job to ever be difficult or challenging. If that is the case, they you will never be happy or successful so long as you maintain that approach to work.
(I say these things because I want you to be happier and more successful. Telling someone nothing but sweet niceties is not always the most effective thing. But you must want to be happier and more successful, or this Hell you are in will just go on and on, just like in that movie "Groundhog Day.")

Answer 4

Probably best if you resign! It will look better when you apply for your next job!! When you go for other interviews and they ask why you left just say that the job was not challeging enough and you felt you were not progressing at the rate you felt you should have. Do not say you left because the job was boring, and you had no interest in it, as this will not look good to potential employers. Remember when you go for a new job and they request references from previous employers they cannot give you a bad reference.

Answer 5

I wouldn't quit if I were you - at least not until you find something else to go to.
It could be that they do terminate your contract (this would not be making you redundant as someone mentions above - your job rol;e would still exist, it's just that they'd be getting someone else to do it) and it would be pretty easy for them to do if you have worked there for less than a year.
For now I'd try to do anything to keep your job whilst job-hunting.
If you resign you will be deemed to ahve voluntarily made yourself unemployed, which will affect your entitlement to benefits.

Answer 6

I've been in your situation. (Not in the fashion industry lol).
If your'e truly unhappy don't waste your life in a job where you force yourself to get up of a morning. If your contract is terminated it looks bad for your next job. If you really feel 100% they're going to teminate it then resign as by law they will have to give you a reference. If they your terminate your contract although they can't refuse to give you a reference they can say "No comment" on various aspects that are asked which doesn't look very positive. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

You need to change your perspective. Sure, every job will have components that are unpleasant; you must overcome your defeatist attitude. Start by looking in the mirror every morning and saying, "Today I'm going to do my best at everything I do." You should certainly consider looking for other career opportunities, but that's no reason to be a slacker in your current position. You are being paid to do a job... do it!

Answer 8

Don't quit. They are not necessarily going to fire you. Maybe you should just look for another job, but keep the one you have. It sounds like you need something else that will be more interesting for you.

Answer 9

for the good of your own working character, let them make you redundant, by terminating your contract, that way you do not accept any blame for your own actions

as a working manager and director of my own company, i believe that if you wake up and you don't want to go to work, then leave!!!
if your hearts not in it, then you Will not perform to your usual standards, and that can be your downfall!!

PS

as having my own company, it takes more self discipline to make it work, than working for A. Another, if you are in a rut with your present employment, make enquiries about being your own boss, but never forget your always judged on your last job!!