Current Events > How do you know when it's time to quit a job?

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Please tell me about times when you knew you had to quit a job / project


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Its wasier to find a new job than get a raise

Do you want your life to get better? Or stay the same
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CalypsoDoom posted...

When what you put in is far greater than what you get from it in terms of satisfaction

*and if you can afford to live otherwise

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When you manager says they have to do "important paperwork" and you find them playing solitaire on the computer.

If it was at least Doom id's be okay, but Solitaire? milk the clock right woman.

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If you aren't happy at all. If your work environment is toxic or if you just want something different.

All valid reasons. I never get attached to a job that I'm not passionate about. What's the point?

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When I found something better (primarily higher paying).

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when it hurts

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When you start to cry at work

When there's no room to go up and the pay won't go up.

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When management changes and the new boss yells at you for doing your job.

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When you start thinking about it when you're off the clock and you don't want to be.

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CalypsoDoom posted...

When what you put in is far greater than what you get from it in terms of satisfaction

That's a lot of jobs though

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When you're not getting paid enough.

When you're tired of it and want to do something different.

When the environment is so toxic that it's taking a toll on you mentally.

If you are constantly thinking about quitting. Then you are clearly not happy there. Just do it and find something else.

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When the level of it sucking is equal or greater to the level of suck that finding a new job entails.

left my last job when my entire job role was changed and i was no longer doing the job i applied for

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When I realized that new senior management were taking large bonuses and screwing everyone else, although the company was doing shitty.

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have you ever walked away from a passion project because your partner is a ****?

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PaulAndArt posted...

have you ever walked away from a passion project because your partner is a ****?

Yes. I've also had people leave years-long projects where I over-stepped the line causing a split in the partnership.

It happens. Failure is part of the dance.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

Yes. I've also had people leave years-long projects where I over-stepped the line causing a split in the partnership.

It happens. Failure is part of the dance.

Would you be willing to tell me more about why and how you walked away from the project? you can DM me if you want


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When you start thinking about the most severe injury you would tolerate in order to get time off of work

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When you start wishing you hadn't woken up at all when your alarm goes off for work
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You have a few different options for it:

1. You no longer have anything to gain from the job. You've made or polished the skills that you've used to work there, and they have nothing more to offer you in terms of learning. At this point it's time to look for more.
2. You cannot stand management or your coworkers. If you aren't having a good time, socially, your work will suffer and you will be miserable. Find a new place and go.
3. It's been 2+ years and you can get a significant income boost by going to a new company.

Just remember, have a job lined up and accepted before leaving your current job.

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When they hadn't paid me in two months (I had a weird pay schedule so I didn'tpick up on it initially), and so I went to my boss and demanded a check. After work I took it to bank and that check bounced

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For me it was when I dreaded going into the office. Everyone was great but the owner was an absolute fuck head prick. He would make office women cry and just lose his shit. Remember, at a workplace you're spending more time with those people than your family, friends, relationships, etc. Don't stay somewhere toxic.

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You think about and look forward to punching out as soon as you punch in, the weekend every Monday.

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At least in America its WAY faster to climb the pay scale ladder by jumping ship to a new company rather than staying with one company long term. Its basically encouraged to move around as much as possible to get more money. You do not get rewarded monetarily for sticking around, you just dont.

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Thanks for all the input guys

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when you get too emotionally invested

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When you give it your all work your butt off and ask for a raise and get told no!

Dont quit until youve got something else. Probably the dumbest thing ive done in life

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Today was the last day of a 'newish' job.
It didn't pay too much.
And there were certain things that, just were not okay...Healthwise. The place was an OSA nightmare.
But on the most basic level, the Janky schedule pushed me out.

Sleep is health. Whatever hours you may have it is at least something, if they are regular.
Never accept a janky schedule.
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I've recently just quit my job (restaurant industry) after 3 years of working. Here's why I quit which some here already mentioned...

-No income growth. Always minimum wage. This goes for all positions except manager. I was a dishwasher, food prep, and a line cook.

-No career growth. It's very hard to advance to manager and honestly, it isn't very rewarding unless you have the passion to cook. That's it. Once you're manager, it's you life. You work up to 6 days a week, open-close, and weekends. Barely no breaks, no days off, etc.

-Literally the same tasks daily and feels like you have no future. Open up restaurant, setting up equipment, prepping food, making food, no break, getting ready for 100 customers to walk in, close the restaurant, cleaning up the kitchen for 1- 2 hours, and repeat.

-You work with ALL KINDS of people. This isn't a typical office job where everybody has to act mature. Some people are childish, always bitchy, cranky, druggies, etc.

-Dealing with shitty coworkers who will always takes break every hour just to vape and smoke.

-Depends on how your boss is, but my 1st restaurant boss was an ass to deal with. Always yelling at you and threatening to write a report on you. Basically a wanna be chef Ramsey.

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When there's a consistent trend of the company piling more work on the staff, imposing stricter rules, cutting employee perks, etc. while the staff gets little to nothing in return.

Bonus points if they begin laying off tenured employees who remember "how good things used to be". Can't have them undermining the new direction, right?

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MarqueeSeries posted...

When you start wishing you hadn't woken up at all when your alarm goes off for work

This hits home

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When youre the most qualified for a promotion, having spent a long time helping build the project up, and the new bosses hire a kid fresh out of school instead.

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RAAAWWWRRR posted...

I've recently just quit my job (restaurant industry) after 3 years of working. Here's why I quit which some here already mentioned...

-No income growth. Always minimum wage. This goes for all positions except manager. I was a dishwasher, food prep, and a line cook.

-No career growth. It's very hard to advance to manager and honestly, it isn't very rewarding unless you have the passion to cook. That's it. Once you're manager, it's you life. You work up to 6 days a week, open-close, and weekends. Barely no breaks, no days off, etc.

-Literally the same tasks daily and feels like you have no future. Open up restaurant, setting up equipment, prepping food, making food, no break, getting ready for 100 customers to walk in, close the restaurant, cleaning up the kitchen for 1- 2 hours, and repeat.

-You work with ALL KINDS of people. This isn't a typical office job where everybody has to act mature. Some people are childish, always bitchy, cranky, druggies, etc.

-Dealing with shitty coworkers who will always takes break every hour just to vape and smoke.

-Depends on how your boss is, but my 1st restaurant boss was an ass to deal with. Always yelling at you and threatening to write a report on you. Basically a wanna be chef Ramsey.

I relate to this alot. Luckily my shift managers are pretty helpful, will jump in when people just fucking disappear.

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scorpion41 posted...

When youre the most qualified for a promotion, having spent a long time helping build the project up, and the new bosses hire a kid fresh out of school instead.

Or worse yet, when you don't even want that promotion in the first place.

I had a job where I was arguably the best at what I did, but near the end, on certain days the supervisor was a child who....as it turns out, it would have been illegal for him to even in the building for 85% of the time I worked there. He came to me with questions.
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