Today marks the start of my first week of unemployment after quitting. My boss and I were into each other, but he refused to pursue anything with me while I worked there because it would’ve been unethical. So I quit.
Worth it.
I was dying.
Not exaggerating, get your thyroid checked.
So, uh, how’s it going with your former boss then?
I quit my last job because I decided to move from the south to the extreme northern end of New England. Now I’ve got a stupidly long commute ever day, but I also have a 70 acre homestead that’s 15 miles from the nearest flyspeck town or gas station.
I was fired for bullshit from my last job. My job before that, I quit without notice because the place was soul sucking and a capitalist nightmare and I literally cried at my desk daily. If you value your sanity, never work in health insurance claims no matter how desperate you are for money.
My prior employer hired me as remote then had me start coming in 3x a week and the drive was ~1.5 h without traffic and 3+ with traffic. It was too much of a strain on my well-being and family life so I left. I now work fully remote and make 30% more.
I was director level and they were putting me through hell. I found a job working with friends and it’s been stellar since leaving that shitty job. I also felt like their approach to stuff was backwards and archaic… The exec team would review PowerPoint printouts with a red pen then ask for updates… Everything printed… Insane (among other things)
Got a new job that paid more than double the last one and comes with a pension.
I had very specifically stipulated a hybrid arrangement when I started. Apparently I didn’t get that in writing anywhere, but the vibes were good and I didn’t expect them to back track on that (foolish on my part). I was leaving a fully remote position for the role, and the fact that I’d be earning more money was the only reason I agreed to some time in the office.
They tried to force me into the office 5 days a week, and I made it very clear that I wasn’t going to do that. My manager was fine with this, but their boss was insisting on the schedule change. They fired me and I recently learned that they are now on their 3rd attempt in 6 months to hire a replacement. The person currently in that role does less than I did and they’re paying them nearly 20k more.
Oh well, hopefully about to land a new job with better pay and back to being fully remote. Honestly by the time they fired me, I was just glad to get the hell out of there.
Left my job 6 months ago because I was burnt out. I went from being a software developer in a team of 4 to being the only developer at the company. Then the IT support guy left so I was also doing IT support for 30 retail stores along with my regular job. I didn’t have a review or pay rise in the 4 years I was with the company. There was some other stuff around data privacy which was the final straw for me so I left. Still unemployed.
Obviously the workload they were putting on you was way beyond a rational amount for one person. If you’re willing to talk about it, can I ask if you considered simply refusing to do more than “one person’s” amount of work and asked them to prioritize all your tasks so you could work on the things they deemed most important? Obviously this could lead to you being fired, but if you were already set to quit, the outcome would have been the same (except perhaps you’d be eligible for unemployment insurance).
Yeah, it was meant to be one of those ‘temporary’ situations until they found the right people. It became pretty obvious after a while that they weren’t planning on hiring. A couple of months before I quit, I sat down with my boss and told him I couldn’t do my job because I had too much work. I also mentioned that I was burning out. His response was ‘just do what you can’. I gave it a couple of months to see anything would come of our conversation but it didn’t.
The reason that I stayed so long was because it was in an industry that I’m passionate about and that I wanted to be in. I was hoping that things would improve but they didn’t.
After I resigned, they hired 2 people to replace me. I spent my notice period onboarding them.
His response was ‘just do what you can’. I gave it a couple of months to see anything would come of our conversation but it didn’t.
This sounds like he was okay with you pushing back on any work that was too much and saying “no” to any task beyond your reasonable work limits. Even with this did you feel the damage to the working relationship was just too far gone?
I wanted out of Ohio because they were passing bigoted laws, so I quit my job and moved out west
Things went downhill for a long time.
I did refrigeration at a factory. I found out shortly after I was hired that the factory used to belong to another company, and was phasing out old company’s policies. Things got worse, but it wasn’t too terrible. I was paid well, worked decent hours, had a lot of freedom. But one of the leads of our team started developing a drug habit. Got addicted to painkillers, and when those started running out, he got addicted to alcohol. Started showing up to work drunk.
One time, on a weekend when he wasn’t even scheduled to work, he decided to drive a forklift through the boiler room. He hit a steam pipe, which started leaking. He also hit the deaerator tank and an air compressor. The damage was pretty bad. He was told to get a drug test by the manager on duty that weekend, so he called his own manager to avoid that. For some reason, on Monday, the on duty manager got fired and not the drunk guy who caused all the damage. I reported this all to HR, but they did nothing about it.
Years later. Same guy kept causing incidents (usually on weekends when he wasn’t scheduled to work; I suspect he was digging through scrap bins to pay for his drug habit, which were kept in the boiler room) and his manager kept protecting him. Guy did nothing useful, so I have no idea why the manager kept protecting him (maybe sharing money from the scrap?). I figured it was time to go if these two were able to keep fucking things up. We’d eventually have an incident where people died, and I didn’t want to be there for it.
Couple years after I quit, the drug addict OD’d, and the manager was forced into early retirement, so I guess the problem is resolved. Not that I’d ever go back.
I only literally quit once, it was because the men in the same position were paid more than me, but I got the more difficult/busy shifts. Basically I was paid less for doing more, because I was a woman.
The other times I left jobs were layoff (company bought out by another) maternity, and once fired as I was shit at that job, it was also a shit job for me, very bad fit so that’s ok.
Because my ex boss blocked me from a promotion because I was her best worker.
I was working support, and was learning full stack in my spare time. Showed the Devs in the company some of my projects, and that’s when they wanted me to work with them, since I already knew the system. Since I was rejected, I found a dev job within 2 weeks, and handed in my resignation. My manager was furious and asked why; the look on her face when she realised that it was because of her was great.
Now working as a fullstack developer for 4 years.
Fuck you, Lena!
It’s ironic, in a way. I was in an abusive work environment, with abusive clients, and had to dream up ways to efficiently do the job of three people. It was awful and I was there for over a decade trying to get out, but the methods I invented to make my hellish job easier helped me get hired where I am now.
Two weeks before I left I’m walking into work and I get the call that I’ve been hired to the job I have now, which has a much better culture and reasonable work load. I was so happy I skipped to work Dick Van Dyke-style and immediately put in my two weeks.
Had a replacement plan done in two days because I already had my tasks inventoried, since I had to keep very close track of my productivity to protect myself from HR and management. I had some tenure and was making more than other employees, and therefore a consistent target for layoffs.
Spent the last week and a half getting paid to do jack shit, though my asshole team did make me take my turn with the on-call pager, even though it made no fucking sense other than spite.
Overall, t’was glorious.
take my turn with the on-call pager,
lol they can make you take the pager, but they can’t make you answer it. what’re they going to do, fire you?
My boss was fired because she was made the weekend supervisor of a different department (together with already being in charge of my department the rest of the time) by complete surprise on a Friday and something went wrong on Sunday which she was blamed for and then fired Monday morning.
Shortly after the interim boss decided that my department needed to work weekend call for the other one, so I jumped ship to a similar company that paid better.
I liked my original boss, and she was very good at her job, so I was already pissed about her being fired (or really set up to be fired). Putting me on call for a department I don’t even work at when I specifically took this job in the first place because there was no call was the final straw.
My current boss is incompetent, but also too busy with other things to bother me, so I keep my numbers higher than anyone else in my department to keep her away from me.
I became the target of company president who wanted me gone and they started scrutinizing my every move, put me on a PiP, made up rumors about my work performance all the bullshit they do before firing you. So I left on my own terms instead of getting fired. Had work lined up before I left, so it worked out.
Smart. I was put on a malicious PIP too. It was a back door layoff attempt, but I was diligent about documenting my own work and fought it since I could prove my own productivity over that of my teammates.
It took me a long time to get out of that job, but luckily the job I have now is wonderful.
My employer said he liked Farage. i quit instantly. Freelance gig tho so nothing life changing
