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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:
Resisterance · 16/01/2025 15:00

Micro management (that really is driving me potty)

Unnecessary meetings

Glacially slow teams getting in the way of me actually ever achieving any projects

Poppinpop · 16/01/2025 15:00

Hmm

Commute
My baby
Mandatory office days

LoopyLoopyLoo · 16/01/2025 15:03

Poor management/favourtism
Micromanagement
Toxic environment

TotallyAddictedToCoffee · 16/01/2025 15:04

My manager
My manager
My manager

GiveMeStrengthAndVodka · 16/01/2025 15:06

traffic
Lack of opportunity to promote
feeling very unappreciated.

Luckily my direct manager is amazing and looks after his team

TangerineClementine · 16/01/2025 15:08

The pay
Can be stressful
I've been there a long time and sometimes I just fancy a change

These are outweighed by the positives though.

GoldenSunflowers · 16/01/2025 15:11

Weak leadership, feels disorganised
workload
isolation/loneliness

Fatloss · 16/01/2025 16:06

work related depression from
unreasonable targets imposed from the top who don’t talk to people on the ground

If someone is off sick the office has to work harder and cover their target

im not a healthcare or social care worker and I’m not coping helping very vulnerable people some who are suicidal.

i stay due to colleagues and depression

Hollowvoice · 16/01/2025 16:35

Home life (struggling to do my job properly, they are very supportive/understanding but I know I am not performing as I should)

Tallblacktrees · 16/01/2025 16:36

Perimenopause
Mentally ill children
Pay not rising fast enough

FraterculaArctica · 16/01/2025 16:37

Commute
Feel like a failure
Wish I could spend more time with my kids

TheWonderhorse · 16/01/2025 16:38

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

SnarkSideOfLife · 16/01/2025 16:39

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

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.

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

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

wizzywig · 16/01/2025 16:41

@Fatloss civil service?

Ultravox · 16/01/2025 16:43

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

anicecuppateaa · 16/01/2025 16:43

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

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

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

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

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

Miley1967 · 16/01/2025 16:55

Terrible manager
Lazy colleagues and no staff.
Entitled clients.

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

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