Never believe a capitalist when he says he's broke. If he tells you the business is making money and "doing fine" probably start updating your resume.
That's what's happening at my curreny job. Next month I'll be at a new job.
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!
This happened here. I wanted one of our AP guys for the accounting department, it would have been a promotion for him but the AP manager wouldn't let him go. He quit and got an accounting position at a place closer to his house, so good for him but I'm still kinda mad about it.
I had an intimate video of me maliciously shared with my employer and their biggest client
The irony is that in trying to destroy me, whoever it was actually fuelled my fire to do something I'd wanted to do for many years, so I walked out of my job and followed my dream
I've never looked back, funnily enough it took someone being a cunt to break my golden handcuffs
Nah,
No fisting, just some a-grade erotica
I got poached by my current employer. I was looking for excuse to turn them down, so I responded with a list of demands, and they said yes to everything. The demands were mostly reasonable, with a couple of hilights. Off the top of my head:
Damn, dude. I am envious of your travel arrangements. It's especially incredible how hard it is to convince management that hours spent fiddling with receipts isn't worth whatever small amounts of change they might save from not just paying a flat sum.
The boss was incompetent and well on the way to driving the company to bankruptcy or worse. I was self-employed.
TL;DR: boss must give documents, boss stops giving documents, it's suddenly my fault, I quit.
The only job of the CEO of the company was to give me final documents for my software projects. He stopped doing that because he was always busy for some reason (or lame excuse that the company lacked money to employ me).
Here is the last conversion with my manager:
manager: you are not productive, that's not tolerable!!!111 (angry emoji face because he has a fucked up life that he's responsible for but that's another story)
me: I need the documents from the boss, I literally cannot do my job
manager: that's not a valid excuse, you should quit (so that we don't give you benefits because we have no excuses to fire you)
Fun times.
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Like they wanted to get into defence contracting kinda work? That'd be one really fuckin understandable line in the sand to have
All roads in aerospace apparently lead to weapons.
We were working on a jet engine controller for a miniature engine. But turns out the first application this jet engine startup was targeting is cruise missiles.
And my boss still doesn't consider it defense work because the designs could be used for the other applications the client was pitching like power generation or commercial aircraft.
Except we were targeting features like being able to cold start at 50,000 feet, fitting the electronics inside the engine cowling, and having a total operational lifespan of two minutes.
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.
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 joined a company to work on building out the software stack for their solar power systems for humanitarian aid in Africa. A few months after I started they pivoted to making solar powered mobile surveillance towers for the US border patrol.
-_-
Because the season is over. Yeah, gonna miss the view from my office.
That's alright, I'll be back next year.
Personal is crazy
My last one was because the boss was an asshole and I decided I don't need the money that much, I saved some and went back to finish university.
But end of this year will be because business is slow and they have many people on the bench here in Korea and because the labor laws are very strong they can't fire them, so they're liquidating the Korean entity to be able to fire those people. And I'm collateral damage, even though I've never been on the bench and made them a lot of money, brought in new customers, and've been working for them for the last 12 years, it doesn't matter.
My employer(s) got sent to jail. They stole 401k money among other things. It was on the news!
I didnt quit persay but I had a job lined up about a week before it all happened.
My ex-employer didn't "steal" 401k money, but they did violate plan rules and engineer an illegal allotment that put 60% of the plan in a single company that the CEO and his brother had an interest in.
I ended up getting $5,000 as part of the settlement when got their asses sued to hell for it. They're still millionaires so it doesn't matter, but that 5k will be tens or hundreds of thousands by the time I retire, most likely, and it was satisfying to take a chunk out of them.
How long did it take to get the money? It took us a little over a year to get anything out of the settlement and I heard that was a fast track court case because both ceos admitted to everything in our case.
I got the notice about the class action, IIRC, about nine months before the settlement went out. I'm not sure how long the actual court case too as I didn't get a notice until a settlement was reached.
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.
I was tired of working for corporate and I wanted to stop doing propaganda (marketing/SEO).
I wanted to do something that helped others, made a positive impact, and was something I genuinely enjoy doing. I got my Master’s in Education and I’m an elementary school teacher now.
Couldn’t have done it with the support of my wife. I am also a later career transition, so if you’re an older person then I’m here to say it’s possible with the right assistance and circumstances if you’re on the fence about making a change.
Been decades since I quit a job. When I was first starting out I quit a job every year or so for pay raises etc. I ran through like 5 jobs in 6 years.
Then I started to get somewhere professionally and layoffs became more normal. I have been laid off 3 times over the past 20 years.
First time because my new boss was making a run for CEO and I knew all his dirty laundry. So I got laid off with a massive severance package that gave me most of a year vacation + benefits. The NDA that came with it was hilarious given that they were illegal in the location. The in-house lawyer was my lunch buddy for years and had a bit of fun with it.
Second time a new CEO decided to do a massive reorganization to "improve efficiency." The company started hemorrhaging money immediately and I was on the first wave of layoffs with most of the rest of my department. It didn't help that a year before in an all company meeting my boss decided to call me out for my lack of enthusiasm in front of everyone. Since he pressed after I suggested it was not a good idea to ask and he would regret it, I told him the strategic error of the major decision he had just announced in a short concise argument. He was not amused, but he couldn't do anything then because he had pressed me for my opinion. Needless to say, I was on the short list for layoffs after the company got totally fucked over by his decisions.
The last one was a panic when a massive recession hit their industry (totally predictable). They laid me off and essentially handed me my own fully established business. 2 weeks later my company was legal and I had a sit down meeting with them to discuss their "inventory issue". Aka I cut a deal burn through their inventory so they wouldn't firesale it and dump it on my customers. They essentially paid for my startup costs then bailed when I was just starting to make money. I still have a bit of a soft spot for them and their extremely well-timed stupidity.
Laid off. I worked in a manufacturing industry that is very boom-bust and the executives made some dumbass risky decisions that didn't pay off, so of course the rank-and-file paid the price.
It's been a couple years and they're hiring again but the amount I'd need to overcome that trauma isn't justifiable.
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.
It had such a toxic “always be positive” atmosphere meanwhile talking behind each others back. At some point I really disliked it and had zero motivation to actually work good.
They noticed and came to an agreement to end the contract mutually and friendly. One of the people thought he “got me fired” and was all happy that I was “supposedly sad and disappointed”.
But he did me a huge, huge favor. I got out of there on good terms with the owner of the office. So reference isn’t an issue and I’m out of the toxic bullshit.
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).
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?
Literally waiting for January. New employer won’t have an opening until then. Current job doesn’t know yet.
I haven’t had a cost of living increase in 3 years.
My manager had a meeting with all of us and basically said we're all gonna be fired.
Next week they retracted everything they said and said they misunderstood.
The week after that they left the company.
Worked at AutoZone for 8 years. They started cutting everyone's hours and raises were getting smaller and smaller. Business was just as busy as it'd always been. I'm friends with the store manager they were trying to make him work even more hours because he's salaried so they wouldn't have to pay employees. He was already working around 60 hours a week. That's going on company-wide while they constantly raise prices on everything. A one year warranty battery went from 79.99 to 120.99 and as far as I know is still going up. You were lucky if you made more than $15 an hour as a full-time employee. I don't see the auto parts stores sticking around much longer if that keeps up because they don't care who they hire anymore. They just want whoever will work for bare-minimum wages.
Toxic boss who's entire personality was his job. He was very smart, and not a complete monster, but it was quite sad that he had no life outside of work and expected us to be the same.
My boss is the same way. He seems to have given up with a lot of us under him because we refuse to give up our work life balance
The commute was too far already (about 1h 10m driving each way), and they wanted me to transfer to another location which would require a full-on move, which I wasn't up for.
In retrospect, after I left they got bought out, had a leadership changeover and rebranding, and closed several facilities. So I think I might've dodged something.
I wanted out of Ohio because they were passing bigoted laws, so I quit my job and moved out west
I was burnt out and the company was in the process of merging with two other companies. The leadership shifted to a bunch of people who wanted to be in charge but didn't have a plan on doing what their targets were. All changes were sudden and generally led to conditions worse than they were before.
So I left.
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?
I was getting overworked, every other branch of this old company had two people doing the job I was doing. I had a system to get most of my work done except some I would finish the next morning before the next day's work arrived. Instead of asking me in person what I was doing my boss finished my work that afternoon after I left then covered my keyboard in paperwork and left a post it note on my screen saying essentially "wtf is this?"
It was very unprofessional and I quit after I got a job with a bigger company with a 40% pay bump where I now contact my old boss to tell her that I need her to do tasks for my new company.
Because everyone else was getting promoted over me. (While I had more experience, better performance reviews, etc etc…)
Money, benefits, and a better work environment.
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)
I started getting unintentionally involved in the workplace politics and used as a pawn for different departments to screw other ones over. My managers didn't care and thought I wouldn't quit
got PIPed the instant I returned from work after a week of bereavement for my grandpa's death, then the week after that we had to euthanize our dear sweet dog of 12.5 years so I took another week off to mourn him.
Literally, 8am Monday when I get back, meeting with my manager PIPing me.
Except I didn't quit. I made an effort with the PIP until my manager nitpicked over the dumbest shit. Silently decided it wasn't worth trying to salvage, so I made them fire me.
I still got unemployment and two weeks severance on top of that. If I had accepted the voluntary resignation alternative to the PIP Id be worse off
voluntary resignation alternative
The term is "constructive dismissal." Get them to put it in writing and either a) they'll cave, or b) you got a case that most employment lawyers would take on contingency.
Most likely is they'd cave.
It was in writing. I rejected it and went for the PIP instead. And I came out slightly ahead than if I had chosen the resignation, regardless of the specific term.
I would not have been likely to come out ahead going after them for constructive dismissal.
What do you think I would have gained from lawyering up? (if I had the spoons to do that anyways, which I didn't being in intense grief)
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.
Does that mean you get to pursue the relationship now?
My boss was a family friend and is someone I still respect and admire in many respects, but he was bad at managing his anger and I have crippling social anxiety. I went home crying too often and it just stopped being emotionally sustainable after we had a really big fight over some stupid shit
I hope you enjoy ☺️
I want to build apps people actually use and enjoy. Instead the company sold a bunch of useless crap and put a toxic subscription model on top of it. Quantity over quality. By now they probably replaced everyone with AI anyways.
Could be USA or Italy. What a sad world we live in.
I wanted to stay in the team. They are a cool gang. So I left that consulting group when they couldn't renew the assignment.
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.
The warehouse moved location :p
was its "shamazon" location. because i know they close down a ton of locations after things were lifted after covid.
Is shamazon a real thing or is it a play on amazon? I mean either way we don't have it in my country lol
It was a pharmacy company :3 they were moving to a bigger warehouse, but the commute would've been less convenient for me, as well as many other workers who were also lined up to quit, and I did not particularly care to be thrust into a new workflow while severely understaffed either :p
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.
Exec was committing fraud and self-enrichment thru work. Snitched to the board with evidence, they did nothing. One even told me he wasn't concerned. Noped outta there and snitched to the government instead.
I was dying.
Not exaggerating, get your thyroid checked.
Got fired for asking why we put a peperoncini on a burger.
Also that's a weird reason to quit a job imo.
If they had started something, when it came down to firing one of them, it would be OP, not the boss. (Have seen this before. OP did the right thing.)
Oh so I completely misinterpreted the meaning. I was assuming they quit and didn't start anything not that they quit so they could start something
I'm really stupid when I'm tired
Who knows, maybe they will start something? 🤔
Actually keep reading—they moved in together over the weekend. 😁
My last job that i quit was at the same company that trained me in my apprentenceship. It was a toxic enviorment and looking back i got burned out so heavily due to the stress. Also they wanted to pay me almost minimum wage for a Software developer position. They also put me into Quality Assurance and i wanted to develope software. And yes it was worth it. Despite me now having switched 3 companys in 5 years (one was a timed contract that wasnt extended and the current one fired me due to finance), i am still so glad i did
I moved closer to the city in hopes to get a programming job. Didnt have an effect.
Im most likely going to have to quit my current job after a repetitive strain injury. Thats if Im capable of working another job (lumbar strain).
That sucks. How long have you been trying to get into programming? Do you have a degree in programming?
I've been trying since 2015-ish. Got my degree this january and I'm starting a programming job next month. I'm not sure if this will be the best job for me, but it's a huge step forward. I guess what I'm saying is don't give up your dream, naybe adjust it a little or a lot, but never actually give up to find your passion.
Got my degree 2023, been applying since 2022, been hobby programming since 2012. After 4 years, decided to try and go solo in my free time. Stalled after a work injury, and feeling inadequate.
okas.games
Currently in my last month. The company has been slowly dying since two years, but it's picking up pace. I finished my bachelor this year and finally found a job last month.
The job before that, I quit to start working at this job, because this job was a school and offered me a free (monetarily, it was not free of effort) bachelor degree.
Some of you in the comment section really need to learn to get fired.
Depends where you are, but most places have less support if you quit over being fired. If they suddenly start treating you like shit, stop working and let them fire you.
Finance ran a coup and got the top three brass in IT let go. Then they put their idiot puppets in-place so IT would be under their thumb.
IT director was and is incompetent at IT. He was hired-on years ago as a project manager but was ultimately useless and lazy. Bounced around and failed upward a bit until this yes man and the immoral finance head were chums.
New chain of command were all like him. I was originally hired on with a loose and powerful mandate, but this chucklehead was micro-managing us to death. I told my immediate new boss "you have a year. I won't give notice."
It took 18 months. I dropped off the issued gear and the company cell, went home, took a few days off, started at this one.
I have not really quit anything in my professional career. One nice thing about contracts is you just sorta don't renew it and most full time jobs end after a few projects. Sorta the curse of getting things done. then like in college I worked the dishroom but like you just sorta don't come back the next year or semester. It just does not feel like quitting. Felt more like not reupping a contract. I guess I did leave this job at my first college to go work in the dish room because it payed and extra dollar over minimum wage and then all the food service paid an extra dollar on weekends. So it was like 50% more to work the dishroom on weekends.
I had what a lot of people would probably consider the ideal job situation.
I paid my dues and worked moderately hard for 4 years. The company grew from a medium sized company to a massive company. Everything was bogged down by bureaucracy. I ended up being a tiny cog of a massive machine. It felt like what I worked on didn't really matter anymore and because of the bureaucracy I was only really working 10 maybe 20 hours a week. The work-life balance, perks were all amazing. But I was still young at the time (pre-30) and I thought it was way too early in my career to stop giving a fuck.
So I quit and got a job at a startup. Lots of work, but it also felt like I was learning again. It felt like I was being challenged. I don't regret it, but maybe if I ever get burned out I will try to find a job like that again.
worked at a sheriff's office for 7 years. quit in 2024 as i realized that working alongside actual fascists was not only a nightmare, but just grossly bad for my mental health. ACAB.
Boss was a republican...
There was literal trump merch in the break room
My boss thought he was Harvey Specter from Suits. He even had a poster of Harvey Specter in his home office.
I didn't, I was fired because I couldn't work, because I was sick, because they made another sick guy turn up to the office during in global pandemic.
Anyway jokes on them, because I was able to get a different job that I hate as soon as I got out of hospital.
quit with the reason of physical health problems but i was also psychologically at my end.
Still put the physical concerns on front because i felt bad for an understaffed grocery store that has a stressful schedule because of rotating inventory even in a calm week.
I liked 11 hour Saturday shifts best because that was just me at the register, with an hour break in the middle, and no additional tasks beside keeping shelves orderly.
I had a job before this one I was let go but essentially quiet quit. It was a private company running a government program that helps poor youth get skills for a job. I basically held 5 positions of work and was paid for one of them, and was working for a company that manages private prisons I later discovered. I gave up, they needed someone half my age with the same experience to do the job because I couldn't keep up with it. I was quietly let go during my probationary period and I'm glad for it.
Last time I quit was a restaurant job. Most of my shifts were "on call", so I didn't actually know until early afternoon whether I'd be working that day. Tips were meh, there was a required tip out, and credit card tips were held until pay day. The final straw was when management sent out an email one day to all staff reminding us that calling out due to being hung over wasn't acceptable. I gave my notice and they didn't schedule me again until my final day.
Most of my shifts were “on call”, so I didn’t actually know until early afternoon whether I’d be working that day.
That’s just evil.
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Last job I quit I left at noon because the boss who was overworking me told me that day when I got there in the morning that he was cutting my pay. I was feeling overworked. He only had one other worker and when he found out he only had one other worker he looked like he was going to cry over having to do something to keep his business going. Never accept a pay cut from somebody who drives a Corvette. Never.
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