Yes this year is going to be really good and productive

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t it odd that you can be fired immediately for any reason (in America, anyway) with potentially disastrous consequences; but if you don’t give a two-week notice you risk not getting recommended for future jobs?

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I plan to go into work wearing nothing but my work boots. I don’t think the two weeks notice will be required

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t forget to livestream iy

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Username checks out

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t it odd that you can be fired immediately for any reason (in America, anyway)

    This is why we need more unions.

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  • MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why you try to line up the new job before you quit - they can’t talk shit about you quitting on short notice if you’re still there.

    I actually tried to give two weeks at my old job - they didn’t deserve it, but I figured I should. The application for my new job even had a checkbox labeled “I am currently employed and will need two weeks notice of my first shift.”

    Instead, they called me on a monday and asked “can you start next monday?”

    …My boss wasn’t in that day, and I really wanted a weekend before starting my new job; so on Tuesday, they found out that Friday was my last day.

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not that odd, it is a direct consequence of the complete loss of worker’s rights in the US.

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  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The one blemish on my resume is a job I stayed at for a month. I was hired for one job but was told I had to start on a lower job just to get the swing of things. Fine enough. When I started in the position I was hired for, another person in the “entry” job confronted the supervisor about his promises to do the job I was hired for. On another occasion, the big boss (wasn’t a very large business. Most of the higher ups were family) comes in and says “Due to the high amount of samples, we need to work Saturday. I’ll start with volunteers” I took that as (and my coworkers verified) "If nobody volunteers, I’m going to start forcing. " I ended up leaving after one month, no notice. When I left, the supervisor told me he had hoped to put me in another position they were making. Nope. Didn’t work for me. I had left a note saying it was pretty messed up that the coworkers were lied to. Best thing I did. Went to another business for a year and left under more amicable circumstances. Now I’m happy in a job where I’ve been for the past 11 years.

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i don’t leave a job expecting a recommendation for another. so yeah. i give as much notice as i feel would be helpful to my peers. if ive been talking openly about leaving then they already know where my docs and such are.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can both end your employment immediately, and just like it’s nice of you to give notice it’s also nice of them to give severance pay

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I imagine the overwhelming majority of employees are not getting any kind of severance.

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And severance pay and notice of layoffs are de facto fairly common in corporate America.

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  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many states are right to work, meaning that you can quit anytime. Unless you have stuff in a contract requiring notice, quitting without notice does not have legal repercussions. If you’re rage quitting a job, no sane person would use them as a reference. Finally, the bridges we burn light the path forward.

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    • wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You mean “at will” not “right to work”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law?wprov=sft…

      Sorry, on mobile or I’d embed the URLs as links

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• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Someone I worked with had a great rage quit. He worked his ass off for the whole year doing insane overtime and sacrificing way too much for a thankless corporation. When it came to raise time, my boss gave him a 0% raise, citing that he already made more than average/benchmark.

  After that meeting he just left. He left all his work stuff on his desk, he didn’t tell anyone he wasn’t coming back from lunch time ish. It took a full month before they stopped paying him, and my boss would come around almost every day to ask if anyone knew where he was or how to contact him. I think they just assumed he was blowing off steam and would come back, meanwhile he moved to another city.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lovely story… I’ve just found out my healthcare organisation gets its corporate branding wallpaper from an anonymous read blob storage (which I think I can get access to).

    The temptation to fill this with dick pics on my last day is more than I thought. Not ready to retire yet, unfortunately!

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    I also hand a workmate when we were both young and this guy was a hot headed young Russian, he’d monitor the borderware firewall logs and counter hack people probing it (back in 2010…). so on his last week I was really worried about what timebombs or other traps he may have set. Turns out the guy was a complete professional (which shouldn’t have surprised me, really - he hated the management but loved the team and wouldn’t have done anything to hurt us)

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• Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s my rage quit story. I worked for a Fidelis Care. We got bought out by a large conglomerate, they fired half the staff and forced the extra work load on the rest of us. I took a call from someone that threatened suicide, and not a single manager in the company would help me connect to the crisis line. The caller hung up, and I still couldn’t get a manager to help me. I called local EMS and requested they do a wellness check. The suicidal caller called back to complain and I got written up. Then they started refusing to let me use vacation time and dangling carrots without putting anything in writing.

  They were doing other things like denying free covid testing and HIV testing, which was against state law. I spent lots of my time helping people file external appeals and complaints to the state attorney general after Fidelis denied the internal appeal, against state law. The final straw happened during covid. Right before covid hit, a gentleman was approved for pain injections, but couldn’t get into the office before his authorization ran out, because anything non emergent was closed. Once the doctor’s office was open, the doctor submitted a new request, with the same clinical information, and it was denied. I put an appeal together for this man, painstakingly pulling the clinical records from the first authorization, the second authorization, EVERY PAID CLAIM related to his condition, AND EVERY RX CLAIM FOR PAIN MEDS the company paid for to demonstrate medical necessity. 4 hours of work. The appeals team denied it in 15 minutes later, it was absolutely not reviewed.

  I logged of the phone, and prepared the most epic out of office message ever.

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  I emailed my boss, “I quit effective immediately.” I helped the man file an external appeal through the state department of finances. The state ruled in favor of that customer. Then I helped that man file a complaint against the insurance carrier with the NYS attorney general, (Leticia James.) The happiest day of 2026 so far was learning that our attorney general, Leticia James, raked them over the fucking coals.

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  • ilikecats@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I logged in just to say that that is the best out of office message I’ve ever seen, and to save this post. Also, you can still read the scrubbed out names.

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    • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok. I’m going to do a better job wiping the names and repost. BRB.

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• ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.

  On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.

  I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.

  I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out.

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• Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is how I left my first job. Literally the day I planned to hand in my notice, I had an email from the secretary of my boss’s boss. Big meeting with lots of management - also a pre-meeting beforehand to chat. I waited until management went over in the big meeting that we were deep in the shit, but Forgottengoldfish is going to go over there and fix everything.

  “Um, well - I can do a few things in the next two weeks.”

  Next job tripled my salary - never looked back.

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  • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just a heads up mate, you used a different username in you story than your current one. Might want to change it to orevent linking identities.

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    • Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One day while goofing around in the web UI, I set my name as Carnival Prize. Even I get confused still. But yeah, the actual username matches. Thanks for the heads up.

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the one they used in the story is the canonical name, if I click their name above the comment it links me to a profile with the name they used in the story in the url.

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• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I worked at a horrible restaurant almost 30 years ago run by an obnoxious Spanish man who would not let you have butter for bread, and once when a guest sat on his crappy plastic chair and it broke turned around and put it on his bill. He would follow you around and fuss at you for stupid things, and he liked to follow one waiter named Ken around and criticize his table wiping. “Meestar Ken, that ees not how you do it, first you spray, DEN wipe”.

  Finally he did this one too many times, and Ken looked at him and said “get fucked you fat Spaniard, I already got a new job”, and left just before the dinner rush.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If a chair broke due to bad maintenance and the shop owner tried to charge me for it I’m shoving the chair up their ass and then burning the damned place down. Glad Ken got some catharsis.

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  • IpsumLauren@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who sprays after wiping?

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really depends on the type of mess, I think. If there is a lot of dry crumbs I’d give that a quick brush into the dustpan before spraying and doing the full wipe down. I don’t want to just smear a bunch of wet crumbs around.

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    • FloatingAlong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Meestar Ken.

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    • hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could spray while wiping, but really the point is just that this Spaniard boss is being a micro-managing asshole who dissects every process for not being exactly how they do it

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He just sprayed the paper towel instead of the table and the Spaniard didn’t like that.

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• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was sent to another country overseas for (initially) one month (they made it two in the end, deciding for it a day before I was coming back). They noticed me about it one week before the depart.

  While I was abroad, working my ass 14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, I was contacted by a headhunter. I explained them the situation and they understood it. They planned an interview for the first day after my (supposed) return.

  When my employer decided to keep me there for another month, I had to contact the headhunter, explain it and they rescheduled without issues.

  I came back and, as pissed as I was, went to the interview and nailed it. Few days (and interviews later), I had a new job. By then, my current job knew nothing (yet), I was about to give my notice when something happened:

  Right before lunch, my then manager, calls everyone and starts a speech saying there’s “some people” who are lately lacking will and enthusiasm because, and I quote, “they clock in at exactly 8 am and clock out at 5pm without caring if there’s other people still working”. That was directed at me because I was pissed and started to simply follow my shift to the second. He continued rambling about how there’s people who don’t deserve to work there and other indirect attacks that clearly had my name on them.

  I was going to give my two weeks notice that day, personally, to my boss, but the “meeting” got me so pissed that I decided to be pety about it:

  Here, you can, instead, notify the ministry of employment online about your two weeks notice and they send an official notice to the employer in your instead.

  The boss found about it the same day they called me to offer me a raise. It goes without saying but he wasn’t happy about the notice. He sent me home and told me to never come back. I took my stuff, went home and enjoyed my free days until I started on my current job.

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, I’m sure he was just about to give you a raise lol

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    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I heard that one before and was even shown an agenda that said “bump salary by X” (might have been a passing thought at some point, lol) but by then I had already made my decision. They’re bloodsuckers. 😞

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, you have to give 2 weeks notice in your country? Do employers have to give you two weeks notice of firing?

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    • Flipper@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not every country is as lax as america. In Germany is often 3 months. On the other side a really good reason is required to fire someone.

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• GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I once interrupted a conversation where I was about to be promoted in order to give my 2 weeks’ notice.

  Zero regrets, 10/10, would do it all over again.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every time you think “I don’t like this job but maybe it’ll get better after XYZ”, the answer is always the same.

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are we posting quit stories?

  Here’s one of my favorites. I used to work in a metal fabrication shop running a specialized piece of equipment. Another person was hired to run the same machine on another shift. I had to come in several times when I was supposed to be not working, just to help this new guy run the machine or fix some problem it was having. I come to find out, our nearly helpless new guy is being paid more than I am.

  I took a day off, ignored my phone, and pursued a couple of opportunities. I got lucky and was hired as a draftsman. The next day at work, I gave a two week notice, to great gnashing of teeth. Day two of the two week notice, they decided to just let me go.

  So I hit the e-stop, which shut the machine down, requiring a half-hour of time to re-start, and causing the loss of the part it was working on. My now former boss asked what I was working on, and I said “I don’t work here sir. I don’t know what any of this does. I’ll get out of your way.”

  I deleted all of my notes. Pages of information I used to run the machine and how to solve various issues. How to set it up. How to take care of it. It was on my phone, because they wouldn’t spring for a notebook and certainly wouldn’t let me use a computer to make nice organized documentation. All of it, gone. New guy gets frustrated and quits a week later.

  And now instead of moving heavy things around all day, I sit in a climate-controlled office (in a building I designed) and draw pictures, and some days I fly a drone and take pictures.

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• piranhaconda@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I handed in my two weeks notice less than a week after finally getting an overdue promotion. Was laughing my ass off internally while saying thanks for the raise, I had to wait a few more days for my 401k to fully vest, then bailed

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• hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Worked at a nursing home, boss was part owner, him and the manager were both great. We got along very well. The other part owner (majority owner?) came around sometimes, pleasant lady, smart, if stubborn.

  After a year or so, suddenly the boss and manager are just gone one day. The part owner lady is now full owner and running the office. I never heard the whole story, but it was some ugly legal/financial thing, power play maybe. I don’t remember.

  Former boss and manager end up at another facility. Some of my co-workers quit over it all, blaming the part owner lady who took over, and went to work for the former boss and manager. Feelings hurt etc.

  Former boss and manager call me to get me to come work for them, not really offering a raise.

  But with everyone else leaving, there was a big need where I was. I was getting trained for a higher position, better pay, better hours, everything. So I stayed. I liked the old boss and manager, but had nothing against the new full owner.

  This worked well for me for awhile, for like a year. But then this lady brings in her nephew as a “maintenance guy”. I immediately don’t like him, but I play nice, always a smile for him.

  Soon he starts doing more and more stuff. Hanging out in the office, forwarding instructions from his aunt, sitting in on meetings. He starts getting real uppity, has an attitude.

  We’re told he’s “getting experience” running the facility.

  Eventually it comes out, the plan was always for him to be the boss, but legally he couldn’t, because he was a state run facility and had been in prison too recently, probation or something, I don’t remember.

  Finally he’s running the place, and things stay to go south real quick. Quality of patient care goes down. Privileges we had are taken away. Security cameras go up. The guy actually got in a fight with family members at one point, screaming at them and wagging his finger in their face.

  The whole work environment got toxic. New hires start sucking up to the manager, a division forms in the staff, people start back biting.

  The new staff doesn’t like that I and others, 3 years senior in a place with high turnover, have a more stable schedule than they do.

  The nepo baby felon boss tells me I can’t have my schedule anymore.

  I talk to the owner about my concerns, not just my schedule, but everything. She tells me that it’s his baby and she’s not going to interfere.

  So I start looking for work. I line up something quick, and give him my two weeks.

  He’s furious, saying I’m going to regret it etc etc. Every day at work that first week is stressful, getting glared at etc.

  Then, honestly, over the weekend something truly came up in my personal life. I needed to take time off, just the last two days of the last week of work I promised him.

  So I called him right then and there on the weekend, because it was the right thing to do. I said “hey listen, I know I said two weeks, but something came up, so I can’t work Thursday or Friday, my last two days. I’m sorry.” No I didn’t ask if it was ok, I just told him, but I did say it nicely.

  He explodes at me, tells me it’s illegal, and I promised him, and I can’t do this etc etc. Then he tells me it’s going to go on my “permanent record”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. And that I needed to sign paperwork saying that I lied and didn’t give my two weeks.

  So I go into work Monday, I do my shift, he’s glowering at me all day. Keeps trying to get me to come to the office and sign that paperwork, I keep being too busy.

  When the time comes for my shift to end, I tell my favorite co-workers goodbye, and warn them I’m not coming back for the rest of my week.

  Then instead of leaving through the front door or employee door, both of which make me walk past the office… I leave out the patio door into the courtyard, and jump the fence to my car, and drive off into the sunset.

  Never talked to that douchebag again. Wish I could’ve seen the look on his face.

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  • stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That “driving into the sunset” part really completes the picture of you escaping that shit. So sorry some asshole ruined a job you liked which had good pay. Shit happens, and you dealt with it accordingly. Much better than I would’ve done.

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• FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My last week at one employer saw me sitting in an empty cubicle all week because they took my gear. So I called up my new boss, told him I could start early (remotely). Next day I had a laptop and docs to read while I waited out the week.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I posted about this last week :

  lemmy.world/post/42963753/22068707

  reminds me of the time I went on sabbatical just around the timeframe of the annual reviews.

  I went into the meeting with my manager, let him know I fixed the automations I committed to fixing, and that I wasn’t coming back after my holiday, and that I was going on a sabbatical. His face was blank, silent and still for a bit, and felt like in his mind he had a stack of paper he was going to talk about, which he then threw into the air.

  Felt good man.

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh gosh, i did that a couple years ago. We had some people leave, including my manager. I was a lead engineer. I was also leaving, I was promised a position at a 27% increase in salary. But it is a big, international company and their HR was painfully slow at getting me an offer letter. It ended up being 3 weeks from interview to offer. In that time, I just had to sit through several rounds of meetings with the COO, restructuring our group. I was a pivotal part of this plan. Finally, he had the plan finalized. And I got my letter. Handed in my two weeks the same day. No regrets. Love the new place.

  Also, that COO wad not an insignificant factor in people leaving.

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey he worked hard planning how to best exploit your labor at least listen.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I listened to my boss explain to me that although he was in the meeting of 4 people, he didn’t know what was said. Well what was said was his boss blaming me for something he did as a way of saving his own job, and not boss being a coward and acting like he didn’t hear anything. So i went and packed all my stuff and put it in my car. Came back and said you’re a terrible manager i quit effective immediately. Then went to his boss and interrupted the meeting he was in to tell him the same thing in front of those people.

  I didn’t have any problem getting another job. But i do regret not saving files off my computer before packing my stuff

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• AmadiohChess@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t worry this year will have Amadioh Chess in it which would make it one of the best years humanity has ever been in history for

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  • ultrahamster64@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t be a good year without you man

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• Azrael@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a somewhat similar situation to one of my last jobs.

  I was long overdue a department transfer. I requested it during a performance review. My boss told me he needed me in my current department, but would keep me in mind if an opportunity came up.

  He pulled me into a meeting and told me he was going to transfer me to my desired department.

  It was taking a while, so I kept asking. My boss kept giving me the same answer: “I’m still getting things ready”.

  9 months went by before I finally got moved. This department tranfer nonsense was the tip of the iceberg of my boss’ BS. I was so frustrated that 1 week later, I handed in my two weeks notice.

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• stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  now a boss

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• Cloudstash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “We’re a family” translates to “fk you filthy bootlicking slave”

  “We must work together to reach our goals” translates to “Either reach the shareholder goals or i will replace you with another critter”

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My quit stories are never this good.

  Did have a team lead that kept blocking me from being promoted into a better team (more prestigious in terms of responsibilities despite actually being less stressful, better team lead that negotiates better raises for his subordinates, etc) by simply failing to hire a replacement for me. So eventually I quit and after a while started doing odd jobs for their clients on the side in addition to my day job. They charge about 200 USD an hour, I charge… Less. But way more than I would get paid by any local companies here in Estonia. And I get things done in 1/10 of the time in terms of turnaround time (not necessarily as huge a diff in hours billed).

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