Current Events > Why did you quit your last job?

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What was the last straw?

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Its a way to stop them from firing you

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I was assigned job descriptions of other departments.

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the owner of the business is a chicken shit little bitch who couldnt tell me why he demoted me
so i told him to take his job and shove it

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I got a better job that paid twice as much.

Solidarity for those who kept getting laid off and replaced with cheaper people.

They demanded about 10-15 hours a week of free labour, and would have laid me off anyways. My contract stipulated that I was to work 40 hour weeks, and get paid a salary. The labour law states that I was entitled to overtime.

They were fuming when i quit. I wrote my resignation on a coffee-stained, folded-up lined paper. Respect begets respect!

It was my 2nd tour there, my 1st stint i was the consumate employee and still got laid off and replaced by someone cheaper. never got the call-back either, i re-applied when i saw my job posted on the job boards

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i was the it manager at our office branch. the higher ups didn't like us having too much autonomy, so within the span of like, 2 months

1) fired our director
2) suspended 3 of the supervisors who then
3) quit
4) completely upended our program, including moving our office
5) made our main supervisor have a mental breakdown, see a therapist, and eventually quit
6) lost one of the contracts with one of the schools we worked for
7) accused our office manager of stealing a 3000 dollar 3d printer, which was SITTING IN OUR OFFICE
8) fired her, and told everyone she quit.

it was a horrible place to work for. all i could think is im fucking next.
and i think they were coming after me.

their higher up tech person tried to turn on my computer and do something, i dunno, but they ran into the firmware password i set. they accused me of doing something illegal and took my computer away to investigate. i couldn't use my own computer and i had to do all my work with someone else in the room. it was too stressful and i was already doing 3 people's jobs since they fired everyone, so i said fuck this i quit.

i checked 3 years later and the new director who did all this no longer works there, nor do like 90% of the people they put in.


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I didn't quit my last job lol.

But the last job I did quit was because I got a job at a different agency which included a promotion and pay raise.

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i also had a new gig for the next week so that was really the driving force to make me quit. I was direly wanting to GTFO out of there after realizing in short order that nothing had changed.

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it was more of a mutual parting than a quitting. They wanted to suspend me without pay because when I asked them 9 months before to test the website, no one did, then 9 months later when there was an issue they were upset. The last 3 or 4 months me and my direct supervisor weren't getting along to well (not sure why, i liked the guy ). And I said nah. within two weeks i had a new job in a new state and i've been there for close to 9 years now.

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Didn't like the drive and I had concerns my father needed supervision coming out of rehab.

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I didn't get the position I was originally hired for after completing my training, so I found a different company that paid more, had better benefits and a generally better culture.

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I was working 60 - 80 hour weeks constantly and a larger and better company wanted to hire me.

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First day on the job. Some beer bellied pussy was pointing at things for me to do without speaking. Knew this was gonna be toxic.

Left. It was supposed to be an easy seasonal job before I got my real job lol

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AssultTank posted...

I couldn't do the 80+ hour work weeks anymore. It was physically demanding, I wasn't getting enough sleep, I had no time for hobbies, and I was constantly getting yelled at for being exhausted. So I saved up enough for 3 months, I quit, and found my current job. I now make more money, I work 40 hours a week max, and I'm not yelled at or completely exhausted all the time.

Hell yeah buddy.

Did you tell your previous job "I'M A GAMEFAQS MOD BITCH I'M TIRED"

XD

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It was an internship and my time was up. Never much liked it anyway. I finished my final year of college and have been at my current job for the last 6 years.

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Naysaspace posted...

Solidarity for those who kept getting laid off and replaced with cheaper people.

They demanded about 10-15 hours a week of free labour, and would have laid me off anyways. My contract stipulated that I was to work 40 hour weeks, and get paid a salary. The labour law states that I was entitled to overtime.

They were fuming when i quit. I wrote my resignation on a coffee-stained, folded-up lined paper. Respect begets respect!

It was my 2nd tour there, my 1st stint i was the consumate employee and still got laid off and replaced by someone cheaper. never got the call-back either, i re-applied when i saw my job posted on the job boards

Why did you even go back for the second rodeo?

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Pay was shit, because supermarket.

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I got fired for being a benzo addict after I fell asleep on my shift.

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My last job was an internship that went on for 2 years, they liked me enough and asked me to stay. After I graduated I asked for a full time position and they said they didn't have any open. They knew I was going to leave, but they let me stay up until I got a new job, which took around 2 months.

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I worked in accounting and did payroll. It was the first year I was eligible for the bonus program. Stock price was tanking, so they cut the bonus pool to non-execs by over 50%.

When I saw the payout to the execs, not only wasnt it cut, but they got paid more than ever before. That was pretty much the last straw, but there also was a whole new accounting system and implementation that was a spectacular failure, so all of that was enough to make me get the hell out of there.

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Boss screamed at me everyday, co-workers were throwing me under the bus to avoid getting screamed at, and my pay never increased when minimal wage went up.

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Covid19

I was a dishwasher this time last year, at a hospital. Only worked there a few months. Sometime around March or April I quit cause I didn't feel comfortable anymore going in there every damn day, and it was not worth it to me

I worked in a nursing home kitchen and they brought in a third party contractor to run the department. They cut everyones hours by like 30% and made everything start going to shit.

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Quit my pt job because my new boss was terrible at the job and I didn't have the drive to train another boss. It wasn't a coincidence that all of my previous bosses got promoted. To go from several years of decent/good bosses to someone that constantly failed wasnt fun. I left and took a promotion at my day job and that guy was fired within 6 months.

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They set up a new rule. That whenever someone reports money missing from the register, the previous person had to pay it back. It was going to go into effect right after my shift... so I suspected it was a set up. Fortunately for me, another employee asked to switch days. I warned about the new rule and that the following shift could just pocket the money and blame them. Then that's exactly what happened. Even though the cash was even when they left, next shift reported cash missing. So they paid it back even though it wasn't missing when they left.

Then the GM cane out and accused them of being a thief, and saying there was another $100 missing that she owed him. She quit right then, and I knew the same thing would happen after my next shift, so I quit too.

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I'm still at my first job, fourteen years later. Goodness knows how close I've come to quitting. Mostly due to managers with excrement for brains. Things are good now though.

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I got recruited for a better paying job but lord knows this job is draining the life out of me so that would be why.

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Used to drive a box truck and do physical labor. Had dental work done that required pain killers. Boss told me its to bad, get out and drive the truck. Walked out that day.

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Xatrion posted...

I'm still at my first job,

Wow, what field?

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Bad, angry boss. Long hours. Bad culture. Stressful work.

Got a better job

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Moved across the country

Zikten posted...

I didn't feel comfortable anymore going in there every damn day

back then. i probably would've done the same if it meant having the chance to work somewhere safer.
hospital and grocery store are the highest risk right now when it comes to getting infected with covid (despite the safety measures implemented).

as for myself. i had paper boy job in middle school. 1st time quit due to moving. 2nd time due to burning out
1st time i held job for 9 month's.
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Cuz it was a shitty job and several of my coworkers said a lot of rapey shit casually. And everyone else ranged from annoying to alright, the alright people all quit before I did.

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Better comp plan at current employer.

Because they paid shit (started at 9 ended at like 10.2), and was ran wayyy too strict.
Everyone worse headphones EVERYWHERE, not just at the desks, even on their way to the bathroom, in the bathrooms. (I love wearin headphones at a desk though)
A very anto social place, my supervisor I was either say hey or smile when I walked pass her and she was look down or the other way.

The final straw though? They showed me some new thing so I start it few weeks in, probably was making some mistakes (oh yea training in anything was a bare minimum), and they said someone will sit with me to show me how to do it again for a few days, which they had a coworker do, and then the next week I figured I would be on it again.
Then they said no, we'll let you know when to do it again, then never got it again.

And then I started looking for a job, and I think they somehow caught wind cause they gave me a little raise (like a quarter), and then had be do an interview for another department and the dude that interviewed me looked depressed and was like "Yea you always have to to over time...." and then at the end "SO yea why do you want this?" and I never got selected for that position lmao

Work at a different place now on a yearly salary and live on my own.
But I had to work that data entry job basically as a resume filler for office work, so I don't hate it as much as I did 5 years ago when I left (I was at Data entry job for 2 and a half years, been at my current for 5 next month)

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Actually got myself a career and found a better paying job that was also way closer to my home.

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No issues, just personal relocation reasons.
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Didn't feel like risking Covid while getting paid peanuts.

But even without that, the job was starting to kill me. I needed out

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Home remodeling. Honestly, things just kinda fell apart during COVID and the employees and boss all mutually decided to seek other employment while this was going on and think about putting it back together if things got more "normal" ever again.

To go back to college.

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I just made too much damn money

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They kept cutting my hours.

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Hated working in a cubicle starring at a computer screen 45 hours a week. Ironically now, I sit at home 60 hours a week starring at my computer doing stock trading related stuff.

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