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writes:I am 17 years old and am still in high school. I have a part time job at Subway which I am sure you probably all know of and have been there before. Anyway, this is my third job and I have been working in it for 9 months now, but I am thinking of leaving. However, I feel that leaving a job after 9 months would be a waste, since I have already had two jobs, this one being my third, I would really like to try and stick it out till the end of my high school education and university degree. My boss is really nice and I like her a lot. But my problem is with one of the guys at work which is making me want to leave.He is 19 years old and is sometimes the shift supervisor when our boss isnt around. When I first got the job he made me feel really uncomfortable but at the same time, not because he gave me all this attention which made me feel loved I guess.I feel that sometimes he kinda just crosses the line, especially considering hes meant to be my supervisor, he isnt veyr professional.But I dont know if i should put up with this or not because over my expeirence of 3 jobs (one being at Hungry Jacks the other being in a retail fashion clothing shop), no one seems to be professional like I had always imagined. Teachers at school tell us that if you swear and carry on like immature teenagers in the workforce that it wont be tollerated. But in all the places I have worked, our bosses swear and so on. In detail, what this guy does is he gets really close to me which makes me uncomfortable. He calls me affectionate names like cutie pie etc and says that im really prety and stuff, which i dont like him say because it just makes me uncomfortable. He has even come up to me a few times and squeezed my cheeks, as if I'm a baby and said i was really cute. Now I know you might be thinking, this guy likes me, but either way, he sleeps around with as many girls as he can get (hes even admited it) so for him to talk to me like as if he likes me, i find it offensive him even thinking he would have a chance with me because i dont sleep with people who sleep around. I don't know what to do. Thhis is really anoying me and its come to such a point that I have started ringing up 'sick' for work just to avoid him. When he does this to me, i ususaly just ignore it. And walk away and dont continue the conversation...but he just follows me. One of his workmates, who is too sometimes a shift supervisor seems to pick on me. Although I think he is only joking and means no harm about it, I get really upset about it. He makes really mean sarcastic jokes about me, which is too another reason why I don't want to go to work.Please help. I don't want to confront these two guys about it and am also to shy to talk to my boss about it, so in a way i see the only way to resolve this would be to run away and quit. But i need this job as I have to pay off my car. So i need the money.Any advice would be very much appriciated :) thankyou. Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (15 November 2006): Be like a caterpillar. They each around for a new branch before letting go of the old one. Look for a new job before letting go of this one. Start applying for other jobs and see what happens. Probably best not to let your current employer know untill it suits you ie you have found your new job. Good luck. Unfortunately it may not be possible to find the perfect job. Do you have a trusted adult who could give you some advice on how to deal with these people while you are still there?
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