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Is my friend being selfish? Job related

10 replies

P3achesAndCr3am · 01/05/2018 23:56

My friend is planning on taking two jobs and leaving the first one when she starts the second one. She'll have been working there for just under a month when she leaves. AIBU in thinking this is a bit selfish and she should just wait until her second job starts? She says she needs the money, but I don't see why an extra few weeks would make a lot of difference. I just think it seems a bit unfair to her first employer that she's planning on leaving so soon.

OP posts:
Humbyhumby · 02/05/2018 00:00

Why do you care? —is your friend you—

P3achesAndCr3am · 02/05/2018 00:02

I just think it's a bit unfair with so many unemployed people who really want a job

OP posts:
Fruitcorner123 · 02/05/2018 00:04

She shouldn't do it but rather than starve I suppose needs must. A few weeks can make the world of difference so you have to assume finances are bad

Not something I would interfere with if I were you

Zcarter · 02/05/2018 00:04

No she’s not being selfish at all. Would you prefare her claiming jsa and do nothing for 3 weeks

Humbyhumby · 02/05/2018 00:07

Are they both same sector OP

user764329056 · 02/05/2018 00:08

Live and let live OP

ReanimatedSGB · 02/05/2018 00:11

Given the vast numbers of employers who treat staff like shit, I think your friend is being entirely reasonable. Unless there's about to be a massive drip feed that the job she's planning to leave shortly after starting is for some tiny, worthy family firm who will be left in the lurch and all the orphaned kittens they look after will have to be drowned if she moves on to another job.

WomanEqualsAdultHumanFemale · 02/05/2018 00:12

She says she needs the money, but I don't see why an extra few weeks would make a lot of difference.

You don’t see how having no money for a month would make a difference to a person?

Mylittleboopeep · 02/05/2018 00:35

I don't see how your friend's finances are any of your business. If she's a good friend I would leave well alone.

Turn it around and ask yourself how you would feel if she started advising you on your finances.

ahouseofleaves · 02/05/2018 00:39

You don’t see how having no money for a month would make a difference to a person?

Yeah, this. It would make a difference to me. I would probably do the same. Presumably, she'd be on trial in the first job. She could leave with a few days notice and none need to be the wiser.

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