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what inspired you to leave your job?

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itswednesdayy · 27/01/2023 17:45

I hate my job - everyday, I go in and can’t wait to leave, I know I’m worth better.

What was the final straw for you? What inspired you to keep applying for new jobs?

I’ve applied for a handful over the past 6 months (some are still in process as recruitment is slow paced) but can’t properly get in the zone and focus on securing a new job! Just feels like a faff.

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pilates · 27/01/2023 18:18

Toxic boss

FuckabethFuckor · 27/01/2023 18:22

Was innocentfacedly asked ‘how I felt’ about an AI programme that could do ‘10%’ of my job. I saw the way the wind was blowing, got my (professional) ducks in a row and did one.

Surprise surprise, they bought the AI programme and it does significantly more than 10%, although not before they made my replacement redundant. The work it does is shit, but it’s also cheap, so that counts as a win for them. Yay! /s

ColinRobinsonsfamiliar · 27/01/2023 18:22

Being badly assaulted… again.
NHS.

Wereongunoil · 27/01/2023 18:23

The person doing the job before me took her own life.

After 18 months of doing it I could see why.

I spent months saying things needed to be changed and nothing ever did.

It came to a head one day when one of my colleagues said she didn't have time to help me but offered to help someone else.

I wrote my resignation, effectively immediately and filled in the contract termination forms for HR (that was part of my job anyway).
1½ hours later I left and didn't go back

Knoblauch · 27/01/2023 18:24

Toxic colleagues, low morale, multiple avoidable failings putting patient safety at risk. (Nhs).

Walterwhiteswifey · 27/01/2023 18:25

Life is too short. Move on, there are better jobs out there.

I left one job when my manager TOLD me I was to do more hours (I worked part time around school hours) When I said it wasn't possible due to childcare she told me my husband must book holiday days from his job so I can work!! Couldn't make it up.

My husband and I then delightfully typed my resignation letter that night.

Frlrlrubert · 27/01/2023 18:25

I was put in performance management while suffering debilitating gallstones. I cried, went home, phoned in sick the next day, got signed off (which also bumped me up the waiting list for surgery) and decided I was never going back.

Schnoodle · 27/01/2023 18:30

A breakdown/burn out.

TakeNoTwitsGiveNoDucks · 27/01/2023 18:33

I have just left my job in semi dramatic style. It was a combination of things, but ultimately, I just hated the job. I found it tedious and stressful at the same time. There was no support from management and I was not being paid well. Staff who made several times what I did wanted me to do their job for them. The final straw was when one such colleague landed me in it in front of a crowd of people and I was somehow supposed to manage doing a piece of work I had not prepared for and had had less than a minute's warning over. It was horrendous...nightmarish actually. I didn't walk out but I was absolutely fuming. I gave them notice without having anywhere to go. (Luckily I do have a buffer and can survive for a good while if I have to).

I've just left and I'm still a bit traumatized by the whole thing. Not going to do anything for a week or two and then I will have to have a total rethink.

WhereTheSpiritMeetsTheBones · 27/01/2023 18:50

I've just done this, with no new job to go to. I'm terrified but the job was making me utterly miserable and I thought that life is too short to be feeling like this everyday. I am worried about not being able to get another job or it being worse though.

Leafblow · 27/01/2023 18:55

Last straw in a horrible work environment was the woman who was the source of almost all the issues, sitting us down as a team and asking, in a woeful and pleasing voice, if we needed her to be 'mother' and to set us more 'little jobs and special roles' so we, as a group, would feel 'like we had important things to contribute too'.
The issue was mainly her horrible attitude and the fact she had delegated her entire job role to an already understaffed team.
Patronising turnip.

HereComesMaleficent · 27/01/2023 19:04

Toxic environment by a colleague/manager I had attempted to endure for a few months, but alongside being toxic she also kept giving me her work.

I went full dramatic resignation and flounce. It was a call centre 🤣

I sat at my desk logged in, toxic colleague/manager walked in, I took one look at her and thought "fuck this shit" I was 10minutes into the shift.

I emailed HR with my resignation with immediate effect. I stood up announced to the whole team "I've just resigned, I am leaving" whilst putting my coat on. Toxic manager/colleague was doing cat bum face. I left my lanyard on the desk, walked out waving goodbye to everyone 🤣

Felt like The Queen walking out. Hahaha

Whowhatwherewhenwhynow · 27/01/2023 19:06

consistently working more hours than my contracted hours. I worked out what my salary was for the hours I ACTUALLY worked.

Also seeing the impact of my stress on my parenting and so on my children.

never regretted it

ReadtheReviews · 27/01/2023 19:07

Im desperate to. Petty cliquey management making it harder and harder for me to do my job. First they hid the kettle, so it was only.for them, then they removed resources, now they're moving my department down a floor where'll we'll have no printer and I'll have to come in early to do thr printing on their floor. Also one woman in my dept who takes.revenge days off if she has to cover for anyone the previous week.
But I need the money and there are no other jobs apart from care work in the area I live.

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itswednesdayy · 27/01/2023 19:08

Oh wow it seems a few people here walked out without a new job. It is very tempting. Congratulations for escaping and good luck to you all!

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CheeseDreamsTonight · 27/01/2023 19:10

Management was terrible and the last straw for me was when I had a disciplinary as I had Covid, had a day at work trying to come back in, but had to have another day off so it was recorded as two incidents.
I went to the meeting but every comment I made wasn't recorded in the notes. I raised issues about my supervisors. Not recorded. Concerns about health and safety. Not recorded. Awful. It was then I realised I was just a minion.

Massive well known hospitality brand too so I expected much better.

Paperdolly · 27/01/2023 19:18

I resigned and left at the end of December with no job to go to. I kept thinking it would get better…it didn’t. Loved the actual job, hated the way the management operated. I was shocked with myself but have savings to tide me over for a while. My health is worth much more than my income.

Buildingthefuture · 27/01/2023 19:22

When I had to listen to the MD (of a massive company) tell us all the reasons why we should still lie to the staff about the fact that they were not going to get a Christmas bonus. It was 2 months before Christmas and no bonus was going to be paid. The staff thought there was, and like most of the world, were already spending it. It was a big bonus too (20% of salary) but when I questioned the fact that we should actually tell them I was told I “wasn’t a team player” The desire to take off my shoe and beat him about the head was alarming but very real. I resigned the next day - and told all my team that no bonus would be paid! I’ve got my own business now and I learned so much from that god awful man - about how NOT to treat people that work for you.

cravingtoblerone · 27/01/2023 19:44

Realising that my boss had no interest in fixing the big issues that were plaguing our team, but wouldn't hesitate to throw me under the bus if something went wrong...

No amount of money was worth the stress and aggro, frankly.

Have a lovely boss now. A world of stress has been lifted from my shoulders....

Hillrunning · 27/01/2023 19:46

The reason I will be leaving my current jobs is because I applied for a promotion. After the interview my boss sat me down and said 'look you were by far the best applicant but if I promote you I will have to recruit to fill your current job and I am just sick of interviewing. I gave it to an OK external applicant'

Great, thanks.

DrJump · 27/01/2023 19:48

I had a malicious complaint made about me. My employers handled it very badly. I had to get a lawyer involved. It was the final straw in being treated badly and expecting to love it.

GrannieD · 27/01/2023 19:49

Toxic lazy colleagues.

I was so tempted this afternoon to give in notice that I actually worked out how much of my savings I have to pay mortgage and bills as I have no job to go to.

LeatherSoledShoes · 27/01/2023 19:50

I took a 20% pay cut to work for a smaller organisation, same job managing a team of five rather than fifty.

I was sick of managing such a large team tbh. I'm senior because of my technical expertise, experience and qualifications. I've always hated the assumed responsibility for managing such a lot of people, not a capability problem, I can do it, but I'd much rather be doing the job I love.

Cackawhookie · 27/01/2023 19:54

Having to work a 90 hour week, followed by a 70 hour week with no overtime and not being allowed to take the time back. No one listening to me when I said that I had too much work. Topped off by a trip to the doctors for something incidental and they took my blood pressure and it was sky high, so I quit

LeatherSoledShoes · 27/01/2023 19:54

Sorry, I didn't answer the final straw bit - final straw was a particular situation which highlighted that my No 2 was not remotely pulling his weight. I realised that he was never going to change, but the inertia at board level meant he'd be in his job for as long as he wanted to be with me carrying the can and doing half of his job as well as my own for as long as I stayed there.

Jobs for the boys situation.

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