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Handing notice on without job

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Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 16:53

Hi all. My work is horrendous. I mean my mental health has taken a right plunge. Micro management, spoken to like shit, shouted at in front of other colleagues, job role has changed 3 times in 8 months from PA to a heavily targeted sales role and when promised this wouldn't be the case. I want to hand my notice in without a job lined up. I am so so exhausted and pissed off. The company cannot keep staff because we are treated like shit. I've put up with a lot. I have £17k savings I can live off for the meantime and maybe have a job lined up from Friday which I don't want but might have to take. Advice?

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CuriousMama · 10/01/2023 20:29

Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 19:56

Hi everyone. Just to update you - I've handed my notice in. Feel so relieved and so happy to get out of that shithole!

Yes!!!! Celebrate 🥂

Sakura7 · 10/01/2023 20:38

Well done OP. I did the same a few years ago and it all worked out well.

ItisallPooh · 10/01/2023 20:39

Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 19:56

Hi everyone. Just to update you - I've handed my notice in. Feel so relieved and so happy to get out of that shithole!

Well done! Your feelings of relief prove out is the right thing to do!

Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 21:43

Thank you all 😘

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junglistmassive · 10/01/2023 22:04

Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 20:21

Exactly the same industry!!! How do you do it!!!

I have very thick skin. I've left before and worked as an in-house recruiter when the pressure was too much - it can get to me sometimes. It's a completely different world but you don't earn as much and not as fun.
Have you thought about doing in-house recruitment within an HR department?

Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 22:39

I@junglistmassive Neave reconsidered it, but I went in working as a PA as I wanted to get out of sales, so did a 360 from my previous job. Then, the job changed and turned into a recruitment role. We work in Legal Recruitment so not in house. After this experience, I'm traumatised and officially never want to return to sales lol. Fair play to you, I genuinely could not do it again. Doesn't help management is AWFUL x

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Peckhaminn · 10/01/2023 22:46

Adultchildofelderlyparents · 10/01/2023 17:20

Yes, resign, you have the savings to cover you and you'll feel a million times better out of there. But also I'd be looking into something like constructive dismissal. Are you in a union that you could speak to, otherwise, ACAS?

No I am not, I don't think it would even be worth the agro. They've been around 6 years and currently I'm the longest member of staff (10 months)

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Mumof1andacat · 11/01/2023 12:05

Glad to read you have done it. Onwards and upwards x

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