Can I ask reasons for leaving jobs….weird, wonderful, normal

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I’ll start:

Job 1 there for 11 years-left in search of more flexibility

Job 2- same sector- more money and flexibility. Stayed for a year. Realised I’d run out of steam for the sector

Job 3- new sector. Left in search of more flexible working (loved the job)

Job - been here 2 years. Unsupportive culture and manager that doesn’t ’get it’ (ie I raise concerns and ask for more support and then starts email you to say thanks for doing something, and giving random ‘that’s great work’ comments). Lots of home/ line working. Really
miss working as a team 🤷‍♀️ thinking time to be off but so flexible. Not sure whether my concerns are enough to leave (I’ve not felt particularly happy there tbh)

So people’s reasons for leaving jobs please …

Toxic company and satanic boss who timed how long staff took to walk to the bathroom, make their deposit, wash hands and walk back. Would announce the results to other colleagues the next time said member of staff left their desk. Short man syndrome…

Been with my current employer for a decade. Great company, culture and most importantly, a fabulous boss. He is tall :)

I left my last job because I’d picked out the best tree to hit my car with on my way there. Aiming for a few months off not anything more serious.
I then joined a Facebook group of teachers trying to leave and discovered that having a tree is fairly common.

o my

O my sorry to hear this. I hope you’ve found something else to move onto x x x

Worked for large retail company and the manager called me a C**t for not working a 12th day in a row. I was early 20s. I never was spoken to like that again.

First company, left after 10 years for a new sector, less money but more interesting.

Second company, loved it but left after 11 years because I got headhunted and offered a 30% payrise.

Currently in said new job, hate it with every ounce of my being and want to try and return to my previous job - it’s dull and too corporate and I’m micromanaged & miserable, the money isn’t worth it.

After getting staff to do a moonlight flit by moving offices, 2 miles down the road. He blamed me wrongly that I told staff who turned up to an empty office on the Monday, that I told them where he was. I couldn't work for someone with no integrity and morals and was basically a sociopath.

Strangely he was subject to a fly on the wall programme on BBC3 and was generally viewed as the boss every "call centre" employee wanted to work for.

I realised it was only a matter of time before I came to physical harm and no one seemed to care.

After 18 hrs of hospitality I left after gaining a college qualification that allowed me to work in a new sector.

left next job after only 4 months as covid meant they had to reduce their workforce so was effectively pushed out.

next job I was there for 18 months and left because it was badly run, no support, continual agency staff, actual colleagues couldn’t give a fuck and didn’t do their job correctly, a total shit show.

have worked in new job for 17 months and love it… well most of the time. Perfect hours, good pay and conditions,

I worked in a school (not a teacher) and every day I drove on the motorway to work I hoped someone would crash into me and break my leg. I fantasised about not having to go there for six weeks (I worked the school holidays too).

I have no idea why anyone wants to be a teacher or work in a school, sad really. Got head hunted for something better in industry which was a huge relief.

I’m old so have had a fair number of jobs:

teens and early twenties, always for more money,,didn’t stay anywhere more than a year or two

One lovely job from my early twenties to early 30s, left to go to university elsewhere

Another long stint after uni working with young terminally ill people, genuinely burnt out after 10 years of it

Next few were shorter and I left for various reasons: micro-manager boss; emigrated; emigrated elsewhere; went back to university to make changing sector possible; moved back to the UK

Left the next one because I was head- hunted; left that one to travel; next one was a fixed term contract, which took me nicely to a slightly early retirement.

I left a job a few years ago because I had this man sat next to me who had the air con on all the time. Even in the winter. I worked with my coat on and scarf. It was just freezing. He never would turn it off so I left as I just couldn't cope being cold anymore 😂

Worked for nhs trust for15 years and left because my immediate manager was a nit picking micomanager and I couldn't stand it. Its hard enough working in the NHS without someone who rings you at one minute to the end of your working day to check you haven't gone home even one minute early.
I can do without that shit in my 50s.

First job - being underpaid & lied to
Second - After 3 years, the company was taken over and changed from being a quality consultancy to a pile'em high merchant. Very sad.
Third - After a few years, I wanted to leave central London
Fourth - Another takeover and change of values (happens a lot in IT)
Fifth - redundancy during Covid, but I was ready for a change.

My manager pooed on the floor next to the toilet. I was 21. Bonkers. I pointed it out and she got the cleaner to go in. Got out quickly after that.

I left my last (social work) job because stressful and drowning in paperwork as standard, plus I couldn't face being in the office full time.again after Covid, I found out I could retire early without too much financial penalty and I wasn't prepared to say that men could become women, or that children should have puberty blockers and surgery.

Worked for a short time in a used car dealership. I was a student and needed the money so worked the reception desk.
I left because the company was taken over by an American company who had weird ideas on sales and team building.
Everyone had to jog 5 laps of the sales pitch first thing. They salesman (it was all men back then) who sold the least number of cars in a day had his tie cut in to and the cut off bit pinned on the sales managers notice board like a trophy of losers.
Hateful place.

Rest of places I have left have always been career progression.

1.MH - teaching tipped me over the edge. Was very unwell and out of work for a while.

1. On a zero hours contract which meant very unsociable hours. But had another job to go to.
2. To be home with child - quit to WFH as a childminder
3. Quit childminding once own children started school - moved to a job outside the hone and got rid of a lot of plastic from my home!
4. Ran out of steam for job - had applied for something g else and didn't get it, in the process realised I didn't like the job any more. This was the scary one as no job to go to.

Very happy in current job, longest role I've been in. Flexible, lots of opportunities to make own decisions, but support from boss and colleagues. Invited to input into and steer wider decision making as part of senior team. Great boss, great colleagues.

1. Fixed term contract, no renewals.
2. Went back to uni and did a masters.
3. They were going to give me unpaid leave, but 9/11 happened, HQ was USA, they couldn't make any promises, I decided to go anyway.
4. Money was rubbish, little chance of promotion.
5. Redundancy.

Haven't found another job yet.

First employer, got multiple promotions and great training but resigned to relocate. Great place.
Second, did 9 years, had a baby, left for part time closer to home.
Third, left for better hours when full time school started.
Fourth, Worked with a micromanaging megalomaniac related to the owners, who could start an argument in an empty room, and actively bullied two people out. Stuck it out for a year.
Fifth, perfect place till the MD sold up. By the end we were in a barn conversion with no heating, broken PCs, filthy toilets/kitchen, blocked drains and infested with mites. Worked overtime with no pay, but offered to ‘bank a half day WFH’ which never materialised. Director went to her holiday home by private plane three times a year. For Christmas we were given a bar of chocolate each from a box gifted to the director by a supplier. Five people resigned in the same week and she was still surprised when a sixth person disappeared without giving notice. Headhunted by a client thankfully.

Despite working for 20+ years solid I've only officially resigned one job and that was a Saturday job I had from being 16 and still at school that I kept on until I was 24 - it paid time and half for 4 hours but I got to leave half an hour early. Those were the days.....It was a good income for very little effort.

Reason, working full time Mon-Fri plus a rather well paid Saturday job just got a bit much. Also only got fixed bank holiday weekends with Saturday job but main job didn't have fixed A/L so timing it all got complicated.

I get chest pains and I know it's probably anxiety, but I keep hoping it's actually a heart attack so I can have some time off work. I'm waiting for a transfer to another team but there's no way I can know if that will be better until I get there.

1. No promotion prospects, also too far in the south.
2. Was acting up, didn't want to go back to old role.
3. Dissatisfaction/frustration/boredom.
4. Fixed term contract
5. Same, covered a maternity leave.
6. Another maternity cover. Sad to leave this one.
7. Big change of direction, loved it. Fixed term contract. Left for security.
8. Left for job in same place, different contract.
9. Been in current job since 2020. Heading for 3 but stuck as now have security and niche qualified. Considering retraining on sly towards a retirement career.