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What 3 things make you feel like quitting your current job

86 replies

coxesorangepippin · 16/01/2025 14:46

On the back of the other thread, clearly!

Mine:

Terrible management
Boring work
The actual takes are mostly futile

OP posts:
tellmesomethingtrue · 16/01/2025 17:13

I've also quit several jobs in the past due to:

  • being found out that I lied on my CV
  • having a meltdown most days due to divorce pending
  • did not want to be part of the company because the product went against my morals
  • for more money
  • didn't honour the company discount
  • couldn't hack night shift
  • working through covid being vulnerable and scared, exposing my less professional side at work - crying, questioning my ability
  • having panic attacks due to bullying management

Quite a few...
I currently love my job

spuddy4 · 16/01/2025 17:12

Cost cutting
Unrealistic workload
Customers being rude

Tia86 · 16/01/2025 17:10

The pay
Lack of training opportunities
Not enough staff (so more pressure on those presents)

neverbeenskiing · 16/01/2025 17:09

PMS

The behaviour of a (fortunately) small minority of parents of the children I work with

The fact that the pay isn't great

Only ever for a moment though, I really love my job the vast majority of the time and the positives massively outweigh the occasional frustrations.

tellmesomethingtrue · 16/01/2025 17:09

I recently quit my job due to

  • micromanagement
  • terrible traffic
  • job description inaccurate compared to what the actual job was!
Shinyandnew1 · 16/01/2025 17:09

Workload (often pointless)

Funding from the LA, meaning I constantly feel like I am disappointing people.

Micromanagement

daisydaughter · 16/01/2025 17:08

The relentless never-endingness of it.
People expecting more of me than I can deliver.
Feeling like I’m failing people.

RepTV · 16/01/2025 17:07

Get out of bed
Walking to work
Being at work

MajorCarolDanvers · 16/01/2025 17:03

Stress - I’m the boss
lack of money - it’s a charity
trustees - who don’t understand their role

CrushingOnRubies · 16/01/2025 17:00

Commute
A couple of awful colleagues
Been there ages, need a change

timothynicebutdim · 16/01/2025 16:56

I don't want to leave but if I did it would be because of a strong sense of inadequacy.

Letlooseonthedanse · 16/01/2025 16:55

Mmm, big Corporate and the corporate bullshit speak is really REALLY grating! Never been my thing, I’m very much about plain speak as I work with clients and they generally prefer that but the upper management talk in such cliched red ocean blue sky in the box out of the box going forward let’s take this offline meeting-of-meetings nonsense it’s hard to know what they’re actually saying!
oh, and it’s a bit dull. Very well paid but dull

Miley1967 · 16/01/2025 16:55

Terrible manager
Lazy colleagues and no staff.
Entitled clients.

Yoyooo · 16/01/2025 16:53

Little support - no training and left to figure things out for ourselves

Manager is lovely but not very personal - I don't feel I can go to her if I am struggling for example

The industry - complex and boring

ClosetBasketCase · 16/01/2025 16:50

The pay (one of the most expensive areas of the country and my team cant even afford our own flats and have to go into sh*tty house shares which still cost £800 a month)

Recent reshuffle where thay are putting us into job roles that my team arent suited for (combined 2 teams and want My team to do the other teams jobs too, that we are not qualified for - thing 2 completly different jobs requireing totally different degrees)

being closer to my mum would be nice as she gets older

Mrsm010918 · 16/01/2025 16:49

Can I add another 3...

Childcare costs

Low pay

Toxic environment where colleagues compile email folders of mistakes certain people make (complete with nasty comments, not aimed at me but someone else) but never raise the issues to be corrected

Mrsm010918 · 16/01/2025 16:46

Micromanagement

Manager taking on an extra team and expecting our team to learn all their tasks and hybridise their jobs into our everyday work - for no extra pay

Commute

anicecuppateaa · 16/01/2025 16:43

Boring work, no progression or career development, not paid market rate.

Ultravox · 16/01/2025 16:43

Boredom
The company are not aligned to my beliefs
The company recently treated some employees very poorly

wizzywig · 16/01/2025 16:41

@Fatloss civil service?

Rumors1 · 16/01/2025 16:41

Managing my team who keep making mistakes causing me to need to micro manage which they get defensive about

Feeling pressure to be on the ball all the time catching others mistakes as the buck stops with me

Senior management not giving a damn about serious gaps in care

northernballer · 16/01/2025 16:41

Promised pay rise was half of what we agreed
Boring work
My working day revolving around other people's childcare commitments

wizzywig · 16/01/2025 16:40

Unrealistic demands

The expectation that I can undo a lifetime of trauma/ addiction/ being a victim of or perpetrator of abuse through the sheer power of my relationship with the person.

Career progression being 100% dependent on what you say and not your actions.

SnarkSideOfLife · 16/01/2025 16:39

A colleague who does zero work and management that won’t sort it out.

TheWonderhorse · 16/01/2025 16:38

Mornings
Laziness
Just wanting to go and live in a camper van on a beach.