Have you ever resigned/left a job? What was the reason and how’d you do it?

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DestinyElizabeth04 · Accepted Answer

I just left the health care field after many years due to the staffing issues, among others. I was a CRMA at a Dementia Ward and on multiple occasions I was left in charge of the entire med pass for the day, which goes against our state laws. I wasn't given any sort of breaks during these times and what made it worse was the fact that our administrator constantly put me on the schedule for doubles, despite never running it by me. I went almost 4 weeks without a day off, running a double med pass for 80 residents and no breaks. I was also the one who got reamed out if the PSS/CNAs weren't able to complete all their tasks because I was apparently also in charge of keeping everyone on track. It got to a point where I was working 70-80 hour weeks, had absolutely no time with my children under any circumstances and was so exhausted that I was practically falling asleep standing up. What really tipped it over the edge though was the administrator calling me in her office during my busiest med pass and writing me up for being 15 minutes late that morning, despite me having worked from 6am to 2am the next day, and having to be back in for 6am. So I was 15 minutes late and written up. I was working on my 5th double that week. Not even 30 minutes later the administrator was on the walkie asking the only girl I had working with me to grab her extra pillows to prop up her leg (she had broke it skiing a few days before). I reported it to corporate, who came out and did a "thorough" investigation and since administration denied having me work both med carts (despite it being logged in the system), the case was thrown out. They retaliated against me and gave me a leave of absence and claimed it was due to me being late for my shift that day. I have never left a place so fucking fast in my life. I gave my resignation letter stating I would not be back to complete my 2 weeks and they could basically go fuck themselves. I knew they would be screwed, considering I was the only CRMA working outside of management, who didn't want to be out on the floor. I was called a week later and begged to come back, stating they would up my pay from $14.50 an hour to $16.50 an hour. I told them to pound sand.

Sour-rose · Accepted Answer

Data entry- fuckers didn't pay me for two weeks because they couldn't find my bank account. I gave them the right information and it was their fault. :) so when I said I won't move until i get paid, they "took me off the project".

Newspaper delivery- I couldn't see shit. My instructor also came in coughing in my car, no mask and sat in the front. I don't let any fucker sit in front, (some family excluded) It was dark in the morning and in a town where it's dark af.

Cleaning job at a plant- Did the math of my paycheck, and saw that it would give me quite the stress. I'd be late on my rent, phone bill and car insurance.

Security job - I felt abused and like an ant. Also found a new job at the time and refused to be a doormat to them anymore.

telephone interviewing- I really tried to help them one Saturday and they expected me to call a stranger and say "put me on the list". Also the pay wasn't gonna help me stay out there.

Call center- I hated being a saleslady and still do. Especially with my new job. I hate it for selling a service I don't believe in or support. It's not a call center but still ain't liking it. The call center tho... well the first time, my soul took a beating. Second time I realized it, I said Nope and dipped.

Sure, i've left a lot of jobs but honestly, i don't regret any of them. Knowing I could have wasted my time with any of them and I am nobody to them and I didn't... makes me feel satisfied and content.

dynamicyandere · Accepted Answer

I’ve resigned from 3 jobs before.

All of them had to do with developing my career further in the direction that I wanted.

I try to leave on a good note without burning bridges if possible.

2 of those positions, I know I’d be taken back in a heartbeat (I’ve always been a good hire) but one of those I can’t because I didn’t put in a 30-day notice so it’s against their policy to take me back.

But, that’s fine. I made the right decision when I chose my new opportunity because now I’m closer than ever to actualizing my dream career and lifestyle.

I want to become a serial entrepreneur, with 3 multimillion dollar businesses that I can run and manage remotely.

I want to achieve a lifestyle with total location freedom, financial freedom, and time freedom.

Every decision I made to resigned has either helped me develop my entrepreneurial skills or helped me get closer to achieving one or more of those 3 freedoms.

Way back, I started as an art studio assistant, getting paid minimum wage.

Fast forward to today, and I’m in upper management, head of marketing for a startup. I making hiring and firing decisions, train and lead teams, and manage projects and marketing campaigns. Also, I’m being mentored directly by the CEO who has extensive business consulting experience.

I have complete location freedom and can travel the world. A couple weeks ago, I was in Singapore. Currently, I’m working out in Borneo.

But, I still need the other 2. Financial freedom and time freedom. I won’t have those things until I build a business of my own based on what I’ve learned so far.

But see what I mean?

I have a clear idea of the lifestyle I want and the career I want, and I’ve made moves to get closer and closer to that.

I think it’s better to do things this way. Because the alternative is being stuck with an unfulfilling work life.

That’s my 2 cents on the matter. 🙂

OfMiceandMen · Accepted Answer

Yes, I have. I worked for a private company in a lab. It was one of my first jobs after Uni and they put us in this portable unit while they did some renovations to the main building where the actual laboratory was. Anyway, the fumehoods in the portable unit sucked and not in a good way. Ended up getting sick from acid poisoning/inhalation.

They said, keep working until they could figure it out or I was done and I said blow-me. Not going to risk my health for them to make a buck. I contacted Ontario Health and report them that afternoon. I guess they were fined for making people work in those conditions. Got a new job the following week.

ArrowheadSW · Answer

Better pay was never the issue. It was because of management or personnel matters that made the job unbearable. Or, just general issues inherent to the type of work. I would always give adequate notice.

Cynicaldreamer · Answer

Twice now- and both were pretty much for the same reason: poor management and feeling like my job was in jeopardy. My last manager warned me to start job hunting because she knew the director over the department was coming after me (and for that, I owe her, and we're still very close friends). So as soon as I saw the red flags or felt like it was time to get out of there, I started job hunting.

It was hard, especially when you like the position or department, but certain people make it unbearable. But as I get older, I'm learning you have to look after yourself! And being loyal at a job only gets you so far...

I love my current job: it's a State job with good benefits, practically every holiday off, and a boss that respects me.

Potteplante · Answer

I have - was a bartender from the age of 18 to almost 20.

I quit because being an alcoholic and working at a bar, is not a good match. My boss was a dickhead & I quit the day he called me off the streets - when I was bar hopping and asked me to cover a shift because my coworker didn't show up. I said I was tipsy & that I needed to go home and freshen up first. When I arrived an hour later - he pulled me to the kitchen and started yelling at me for being tipsy and late. I looked at him, said I quit & walked out, sat down and ordered a beer.

exitseven · Answer

Yes, once I worked for a place that installed computer systems. A lot of the time I worked nights and there was a 10% night differential for it. Every week they would always try to cheat me out of the additional pay. I would always have to go to the boss and complain. He was a wiseguy and used to see if he could get away with shortchanging the employees. After the third time I told him if it happened again I would quit. Naturally the very next week it was still not included in my pay. I went in the boss's office and told him that I quit. He asked me to stay because I was one of the few people that knew how to do the job but I told him it was too late for that. I never went back.

desidoll · Answer

I resigned from my job a couple months back because I am migrating to a new country. Even if I wasn’t going to relocate, I would still leave because my boss gave me depression to the point that I developed insomnia. I am still recovering from the trauma. The management is extremely toxic and everyone seems to be selfish. I can’t stand that place anymore.

DopeTurtle · Answer

I have in the past because other opportunities were better in the long run than the current one. It could be from salary, work environment, the type of job/ position, etc.

My recent job resigning was last year because simply the boss of our division was an incredibly arrogant person who lacked common sense yet consistently tried to convince others they were smarter than everyone AND was sexually harassing everyone them. I left last summer because I did all the work because he didn’t want to and of course I was sexually harassed. They just fired him like a week ago so everything worked out in the end 🤭

catiecatie · Answer

Well with my first real job out of college I worked up in an oil field. Couple months later I found a job that was closer to home. I wanted to be closer to my support system as my family and my friends were closer to that job then I was up in the oil field. I left my last job because a code of conduct was broken. I told them about it and they basically told me that there was nothing they could do. Two months later I found another job and left right on the spot. They would’ve walked me out that door before I had my two weeks in. I still miss that job a lot! But how can I work for an employer that didn’t follow their code of conduct.

Puppystarfish23 · Answer

Yes, I lasted 7 months there. I knew as soon as I walk through the door the place wasn't for me.

I was horrendously bullied there to the point I had a mental breakdown and gained a tone of weight.

The things them women did to me I just can't find it in my heart to forgive them as they aren't even sorry and when I confronted them still continued the play innocent.

My work did nothing about the bullying and tried to bullying me into leaving instead of firing the bullies. My manager even called me a snowflake even though I'd be physically pushed for no reason and set up to get in trouble with mange the day my cusion died. Them women are the most evil woman I've came across and I was nothing but nice to them because I was so scared of them.

I this have a lot trust issues and emotional turma

ShiftingMonke · Answer

Working in a juvie, we were short staffed and the command structure wasn't giving us the backup we needed. It became a security concern and while they still refused to relocate for assistance, I informed them that I'd be giving my keys and radio away in 5 minutes; they could be there to collect them from me, or I'd give them to the youth. 3 minutes later and the scene was secure, although I was out of a job. I miss the youth but not the structure. I've since obtained a much better job.

AviatorTom · Answer

Yes I have resigned, for a few reasons. One, I was tired of the hustle and bustle of the area, and was looking for a more subdued area to live and work in. Two, I had a better opportunity elsewhere. And three, the job was getting to be just a job, not interesting and challenging.

DJB72 · Answer

One or two. My favourite experience was working as a bakery delivery driver. The owner was basically a racist piece of 💩.

A couple of days before Easter week I forgot to take the empty crates - about ten in total - out of the van before I left. Mainly because it was pissing down with rain and I had a migraine.

The owner left me a delightful note in the van next morning, writing out the kind of excrement I'd had to put up with for months. I calmly took the note to my doctor and told her how I'd been treated and she gave me the certificate I needed to tell him where to stick his job - which I did as soon as I had my pay in my hand next day. Leaving him a driver short for the longest route over Easter week.

I got three months disability pay to deal with the bullshit he'd put me through then got a job working at a tenpin bowling centre up the road - a job I loved and still miss 25 years later.

DaveToo · Answer

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Southington, Ct. As an inspector in the main construction section, there was a young man that refused to do his job according to specifications. After several attempts to get him to do his job, I refused to sign off on his shoddy work. He bitched at his boss, (who happened to be his uncle), and we went round and round until my supervisor told me to just sign off on it, to avoid a production shutdown. I refused and when presented the option of signing of getting fired, I quit. 3 weeks later I read that a 747 engine exploded in the test booth.

Jay3344 · Answer

I resigned as from working for a railroad as a conductor. Reason was that after 5 years I was still without the seniority to hold any job. They had a job bid system, so the most senior conductors could bump younger conductors off jobs at will and it happened a lot. So open jobs were almost non existent. I was working swing shift 6 on 2 off on call for all shifts for 5 years. After the introduction of PSR I saw the signs that things were not going to improve and would in face become more dangerous and so I resigned. Better retirement than social security, good health care and dental/vision…just a toxic workplace full of low moral and a corporate philosophy that’s going to get people killed.

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

Pinay! You're back! Missed you. Anyway, yes. I moved to another state. But it wasn't a big deal, because I was barely making any money there anyway. Now, the new place is pulling the same games. But a state college might have work for me in a month. Might take them up on it.

Guy13 · Answer

I had to leave a job because of school but never resigned or fired...

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I resigned from my previous job. Was laid off but said no the 3 times I was invited to return to work. I liked the job at first but then some bullies began to target me and my reputation went down hill cause of racism against Chinese people during the pandemic. People would make up lies about me and try to get me fired for no reason.

AMS700CX4u2 · Answer

In 40 years of hospital service I always left when the starting salary was at least $10,000 higher than my wages. In 30 years my starting salaries began at $20,000 and ended at $115,000. Hard to stay put with inflation like that. I always talked to my supervisor and asked what would be the best way to proceed.

rosemilk · Answer

yeah landed my dream job after working at a shitty job for 2 weeks. and i'm so glad i left because that place was toxic! omg the short amount of time there and my lead gave me extreme anxiety.

i basically wrote up a formal letter resigning. the lead was really upset and didn't hide it. i went to HR kinda crying about his reaction. it was bad.

Alessa13 · Answer

I turned in my notice for my current job, yesterday because I am moving to another state and starting a new job. One that I would much rather do than what I am currently doing.

Nothing would get me to stay at this job, since I already have plans to move and not going to change them.

sage2021 · Answer

Yes, I quit a job once because the owner/boss was a crazy person!
When it was really cold outside, she wouldn't turn the heat on us in the office. If I was taking a message and left my typewriter ON while writing the message, she would come over to my desk from her office and turn off the typewriter to save electricity.
I just never knew what crazy thing she was going to do each day.
I had to get out of there!!!

ZackBan · Answer

As I general rule I wouldn't stay because if a better offer because if I earned a better offer I should have gotten it without having to threaten leaving.

So far I never resigned but I did turn down a position at the company where I did my internship because they weren't professional enough overall.

Right now I'm on my second year at my current company and asking to be promoted next year. If I'm not promoted I intend to resign (after I find the next job of course)

lightbulb27 · Answer

No, I'm tenacious and don't give up and quit so easy. was fired and that was awful.

I did use other offers to get a big pay increase without anymore work... they will counter and keep you if they want you bad enough. Reality is... they aren't paying you the maximum of what they can, they are paying the minimum!

Work is about your environment and manager and compensation and challenge. I'd leave if there was a better environment elsewhere.

bean2k21 · Answer

At 18 years old, I was a very sensitive soul. I could not eat meat because I thought it was immoral and bad karma to kill a sentient being only to perpetuate the ignorance of human existence. I worked in a grocery store for a few years, and my manager moved me to the meat department. I resigned, and then drove to a cemetery and cried for all the dead animals and the humans who died in a state of ignorance, only to be reborn and continue the cycle of suffering.

melanieeeB · Answer

Multiple times haha some for better opportunities and some cause of bad conditions or just me being unhappy with my workplace

AimeeKyle · Answer

I left because I wasn’t being treated respectfully. I did it on my terms though. I took my time and found the right job to move to before I turned in my notice. Once I was ready, I went into my bosses asked if he had a minute. I sat down and told him that I was putting in my 2 week notice. He asked a few questions and then I went back to my office and finished out the day / my 2 weeks.

TallAnon · Answer

Multiple, mainly because I got something better.
If your manager is available, chat with them in person. Make up your mind beforehand if you can be persuaded with more money. Either they will offer more or you just tell them your last day.

Paul09 · Answer

Yes, I was underpaid. Was a little far and nasty. Now my current 17 year job, which was super close to my place, in about to leave in a month or 2. Doing training to become a truck driver. Need more money. Better life quality. Usually you give them a 2 weeks notice.

MoniqueTLC · Answer

I handed in my resignation working in finance to go travel and learn a new skillset to be self employed. Before that I resigned from a company because I emigrated, and before that I resigned because I got a better job offer.

Guardian45 · Answer

Have you ever resigned/left a job? Yes. Twice.  What was the reason and how’d you do it?  I wasn't happy with money or the policies. So I got a better job, by looking and applying for it.

Hanrej · Answer

Yes. 3 or 4 times.  I was going to study, move, change career or simply felt that the job wasn't to my liking. Sometimes it was because of more than one reason.

Nominal · Answer

The last time į quit my job, because i decide to move to another country. I tell that my boss, had a hard time, so i really didn't wanted to give a reason why į quiting. But i worked few months, before getting out officialy. I didn't moved to another country yeat 🤣

Date_a_Snob · Answer

In the last four years I've quit two jobs. I love where I work now. The people are awesome.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

When i was young, i “Office Space” quit every job. Now, i accept the inevitable layoff like a grown man who knows his worth. I’ve only ever “put in notice” once.

Red-Blaze · Answer

Not just yet, but going to soonish To he reason for me is that I dont think I be able to grow enguth where I am and want to move to a bigger company that I go to more exprinced peers to learn from

SnowedIn · Answer

Yes. My boss was disrespectful to all of us. So, I found a new job. After I had the new job, I gave my boss two week's notice and left without burning any bridges.

Sevenpointfive · Answer

sure. i've left for better jobs but there have also been other reasons when i was younger and older. the bottom line though is that it wasn't a good fit

Adam1978 · Answer

How you do it depends on your contract and what country you live in. And I wouldn't do it unless I got a replacement contract sign already.

BJP21 · Answer

Incompetent management. I work in the Auto Industry, I can never work for any management who has never turned a wrench to save his life. Or managers that cares only about the bottom line and not the employee working their ass off.

Crafteroon · Answer

Reasons are many, in most cases it has boiled down to being happier or more at peace being somewhere else or doing something else.

OnTheLevel · Answer

I resigned from a job because I wasn't given the resources in terms of staff or budget to accomplish what I was asked to accomplish. I did it by giving my boss a formal letter of resignation and two weeks notice.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

I didn't like it. Not knowing what to do made me just Pick Something and of course that didn't work out.

Amur8711 · Answer

I have quit 3 jobs so far all to go to another job. Some were a step up, others were a step down but had more promise. I left my last one because my current job is closer to home and pays more than double.

RavVid · Answer

I left for a lot more money and the career prospects

ChiTown33 · Answer

I think I've only really resigned from one job. And up till two years ago I worked at the same place for 23 years.

Grond21 · Answer

I have before. It was time to move on. I wanted a different place, one with better pay, a better environment, and a better work structure

Brando10222 · Answer

Yes, I have. The place was so toxic that I couldn't handle it. They treated their employees worse than slaves

KostasKouvalis · Answer

They wanted me to do too much work for too little money

nickaboy · Answer

I am trying to resign from the current one cause the challenge fluctuates too much  I am trying to get hired somewhrre else first

AngryCarl2 · Answer

I quit one job before they made me redundant.

Mayo503 · Answer

Yea just tell them you’re done …. And walk out… Not saying why… personally

Alcoholic_Wannabe · Answer

Almost every job I've had I just walked away from. No notice, no reason given, no nothin.

LegendaryDater · Answer

Yes only because another opportunity presented themselves.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Yes I have left the job and I left it because there was no room for advancement plus I felt like my work wasn't appreciated are you leaving a job

Luckycharms12 · Answer

Yap left a job over worked under payed and staff wasn't treated nice so I left and never looked back

Fuentes · Answer

I left all the regular jobs i didn't like or got tired of

Agape93 · Answer

Yeap. I could work better jobs on my own

EaterPeter · Answer

Yes.

Avicenna · Answer

A number of them, yes

BarryLiverstone · Answer

Yes I resigned a job because I got a better job

Quidthonian · Answer

Unpaid salary for 3 months.

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