Americans change jobs frequently these days. However even with our job mobility, it's easy to stay at a job too long. Here are 7 signs that indicate it's time to quit your job.
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You Hate Going to Work
Do you dread your morning commute? How soon do you start thinking about going to work on the weekend? Is it Sunday night, Saturday night or Monday morning. I've found the sooner your start thinking about going to work, the more you really hate your job.
I've also found that it's extremely hard to get out of bed when you know you have to go to a job you hate. I've been there. I know what it's like. If you're noticing you're more irritable than usual especially when thinking about work, that's a sign you're starting to hate your job.
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You're Bored
Some people need a challenge. Knowledge workers (lawyers, engineers, etc) are more likely to need a challenge. When work becomes too easy or too repetitive you may find it starts to feel too much like work.
This shouldn't be confused with slacking off. If you're doing your job and getting your work done and you're bored, there's problem.
As a programmer, many times I don't feel like I'm working. This is especially true on an interesting project or something particularity challenging. The payoff comes from the challenge. The money and benefits are nice but I could not work without the challenge. That's just my personality.
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You're Stressed Out
Everyone claims they're stressed out. However, some people really are. I've found the biggest cause of stress is the loose ends at work. If you've got too many projects going and they aren't going anywhere, you'll find yourself dealing with stress.
Our minds evolved when we were hunting animals and living moment to moment in survival mode. Every concern was immediate. Your brain doesn't know how to deal with loose ends. If there's a problem with no good resolution, it's going to cause stress. Any task left undone is in your head someplace gnawing away at your subconscious. How many times have you been eating dinner and realize you forgot to do something at work? Getting organized can help ease that stress.
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You're Burned Out
Once you've accumulated enough stress, you start burning out. Americans have too little vacation. With limited vacation, many people what to take short trips. However, I find that a short vacation is more stressful than staying at home. So taking time off really isn't the answer.
Without a good break from work and with too much accumulation of stress (see #3) you're mind and body begin to show the signs of burn out. Do you have trouble sleeping? Are you feeling depressed? Are you irritable all the time? Is it due to your job?
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You're Not Making What You're Worth
Good people are hard to find. Some jobs, especially those with high barriers to entry (doctor, lawyer, engineer) will always be in demand. If you're good, there's no shortage of job opportunities. However, it's all too easy for an employer to take employees for granted.
I've heard of a number of companies giving a 3% raise across the board. The only people that appeals to are those in Human Resources. It makes their jobs so much easier. However, it's not going to motivate anyone to work harder and it's certainly not going to encourage the good people to stay, if you can even get them to work there at all.
If you're not making what you're worth and your company has a strict policy on raises then you're going to start to hate your job. It's surprising how many companies try to implement a one size fits all policy towards employee benefits.
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Bad Work Environment
Unfortunately, much of our management culture is left over from the factory of the last century. Managers (especially higher-up's like Directors and Vice Presidents) have a tendency to view employees as replaceable cogs in the machine. We should punch in at 8 and leave after 5. Vacation and sick time are frowned upon. We must keep the assembly line rolling you know.
The gray cubicle farms of modern Corporate America will someday be studied by psychology and sociology students. Who in the world can be motivated to work in the dreary gray landscape of cubetopia. Cubicles stretching as far as the eye can see. The only relief from gray is the occasional motivational poster or corporate propaganda banner.
Of course it could be worse. Many offices are dirty grimy places with bad air and no light. My current office doesn't have a window or any source of natural light. I also share it with a guy who insists on sucking the mucous out of his nose about every 15 minutes like a 10 year child.
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Bad Boss
I believe that your boss makes or breaks your job. If you have bad boss your job is going to suck no matter what. You could have the best corner office, the highest salary and awesome benefits, but if you hate your boss, you will hate your job.
The first giant corporation I worked for should be a case study in every management textbook. This large nation-wide bank produced the most awful managers of anyplace I've ever worked. Seriously, Harvard Business School could have a class dedicated to how to create bad managers and the students would only need to study this one company.
After that first job most of my bosses have been pretty good. However, my wife hasn't been that lucky.
My wife has been at her current job almost 10 years. She's seen many bosses come and go. I've noticed her mood change with each one. When she's had good bosses, she's been generally happier. However, when she's had bad bosses, she's nearly in tears every night.
I can't understand why people want to stay at jobs with terrible bosses. I've lived through it once and I won't do it again.
Do you hate your job? Is it time to quit? It's hard to quit a safe and secure job and face the unknown. I know most people talk about quitting their job and starting their own company, but very few people do.
I want to work for myself. I'm putting a plan together to make that happen. In the meantime, I'm trying not to get burned out at my current job.
Leave a comment below and let us know about your bad job experience. Have there been any jobs you really hated? How did you know it was time to leave?
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I worked at a bakery for one year and I was as a customer service/ everything else. It was a non-stop fast pace environment. Not only do I have to worry about working in the back, refilling pastries, making icing cake slices to sell and packaging some other items for deliveries, I also drive out and delivers each day and I also have to serve customers at the front counter whenever someone comes in.
My boss was nice since it was her son's friend however, this made it ok that I don't get a 30 min break just 15min for the entire day.
Anyways, where there's customers, there's stress. Customers that comes in aren't always nice. Some are very low income family and they (moms) come in with attitudes and have bad communication skills, from a 3rd world country, not educated just screams at you. They want free stuff, discounts, samples, everything they can grab. It's very stressful.
The incident that made me had it was when a 35 year old women came in and ordered some pastries in the counter, I grabbed it for her then she pronounced something incorrectly and I had no idea what she wanted, I just asked her again and she got so offended she started poking the glass counter harshly and raised her voice at me saying "Here, here you have it."
Then I calculated her total and entered it in the cash register. Not only did she ignored me and just put the money on the counter away from where I was. So I walked over there and grabbed it. I gave her the change and just left it on the counter to ignore her back and serve the next customer. Next thing you know I hear her yelling "You charged me Wrong!" (just terrible communication skills)
I gave her the calculator and told her to calculated herself, then my boss came out and tried to fix the problem. Without pulling me aside to ask me what happened, she immediately said "you cannot do this to customers." And believe me I felt betrayed by my own boss. there were many other customers there and I was so embarrassed.
It turns out I didn't calculate the total wrong, I gave her one extra pastries which she claimed that she only wanted one. But how in the world did that happened when she did ordered 2 of those and watched me grabbed it for her? How evil.
So I was done being treated like a dog by customers. Some literally point their fingers at me say "Come here!" B/c they want to see what they've ordered.
Not only did my boss started a whole conversation with her, she even started buttering her up about how she doesn't have a problem with any of her sons when they serve her. yeah ok, like you're going to say something nasty about someone's kid, you just can't do that. I was so upset that 35 year old women was trying to make herself look like a good customer. She even started comparing to being a waitress before and how she had to take crap from customer and that's what you have to do when you work? How is that relevant to ME?
It's really hard to work in a family owned business, customers are used to seeing family members working there but when they see an outsider, they feel they have the right to finally say something to a worker not the son of the owner or the wife that works there.
So I was a victim.
Hey I feel for u that shit happens to me everday allways some new rules I am not a fucking mind reader
I've lost count of the number of people who say they hate their jobs, and then you see them a year later and they are still there, and still unhappy.
I don't HATE my job, but I do answer yes to all of the points in your list.
I'm a Web developer/multimedia producer, and I've just finished registering my own business/setting up a new bank account, etc.
On January 1, 2009 I'll be my own boss of my own business. I don't intend on looking back, and I wrote my resignation letter today. Gonna give three-weeks notice on December 1 and then I'm out.
Can't wait. Making this decision was so hard, but I know it was the right one for me. It's going to be a challenge, especially at first, but I know I can make it work…
I have been putting up with retail for the past 10 years and the customer abuse.
for those 10 years i hated my job and still do. i would put up with people swearing at me in spanish and english, calling me nasty names, threatning me that they will make sure i will never work or ever get hired, this is all because merchandise cannot be returned after 90 days, and electronics can't be returned after 30 days. i am going by the store policy, and somtimes i do have to cal a manager if the customer gets irrate, but i am always nice to them.I always keep my cool, but my face turns red and burns with wanting to tell them off, i don't and so i always thank you for shopping and have a nice day., that is with a big grin.
I am moving back to my home town and have a better opertunity to get a career change that has nothing to do with nasty customers t5hat pays better than what i am getting with no benefits. I only have 4 1/2 months of this sh** and i am gone, WOOO!!!!
I have been in a job for a year. I have hated it almost from day 1. The job has been nothing like it was offered to me. The turnover rate is over 50%. I would say 80% of the employees are looking for something else. You are told to do something and then before you have a chance to get into it and get it done, you are given somthing else that has to be done. The owners talk down to employees. The second in command has an OCD personality disorder. Nothing is ever done right. Why did you do x when you should have done Y? I dread going into work. I start dreading it on Saturday night. I guess it is time to quit!
That's funny I love my job and hate rich f#cks that own the right to
Think u should kiss there ass why don't u start a job the should
Inform u that your going to have to wear knee pads and
Take up the ass with a smile my wife just quit her
Really good job good money is money worth going. Crazy.
well i work at a maximum security prison and i hate it and im stressed out and taking it out on my wife its time for me to quit because 8 months is a enough i tired of it and its 12 hour shifts and i cant be home at nite to protect her
I hate my job too. I used to love it, but as the company grew more managers came aboard. Now they all boss me around and have conflicting ideas. Emails fly around regularly correcting the employees actions and in the end we all look like idiots. I am so sick of it. If I win the lotter I'm out of there. I fucking hate my job. I really wish I could like it again.
I just wanted to say thank you for writing this. Ive been at my job for 5 years now, i started with the company on day one. It was a challenge for the first couple of years, in addition i broke down alot of walls to get to management. However, this past year has been horrible, so tonight i came home and typed in 'i hate my job and want to quit' and you came up. I think i just made up my mind to leave it. Every single thing you mentioned is currentlly how im feeling…. thanks so much. lee.
I love the money I make at 25 years old 19.25 aint too bad at 40 hour work weeks. I love my coworkers and my bosses aint bad, they are actually pretty nice. I just dont like getting up in the morning and going and sitting in the office all day. I could so do this job at home with one hand tied behind my back and I have been here going on 5 years and I just get that much better at doing what I do. I just dont feel I should have to leave my home and my child and miss my appointments or miss making my money because I dont accumulate vacation fast enough to attend to all the appointments that come up in life. I mean really lets calculate this: 3.33 hours accumulated every two weeks, which is about 7 hours accrued a month. In a month if you got kids could you really make your appointments without taking unpaid time off which is also discouraged. NO WAY!!! If there is one thing I hate about our society it is that our policies and procedures and programs are completely unrealistic and the way we are tagged like dogs with SS numbers and constant surveys and monitoring they know exactly how we operate AND STILL they refuse to accomodate. It is so unrealistic. I would only be happy if I could keep my job and work from home and actually have the american dream which is to HAVE IT ALL!
In addition did anyone do the math yet. that means that in 6 months of working everyday and making no appointments for me or my child I still do not accumulate enough time to take a week vacation. IT IS NOT FAIR AT ALL! I think I may just quit and live off of the taxes I have been paying for my last ten years of being in the working world since the rest of the individuals in our economy are anyway.
thanx for these tips…i had a burnout from my crappy job a few months ago….i truely hated it there…i was in a milk factory and it made me quite depressed…come to think about it, so i quit and went on holidays to think things through about where i want to go with my life…
theres no point stsying in a job u hate, i believe the $$ isnt worth it, when a job can make u that upset and sad, just knowing u have to get up everyday and go into an environment u hate so much!
I do hate my job. I love my patients, but the "powers that be" seem to try to make life as hard as possible. The only thing is, I need to pay off my house and I'm the only person in my home that will ever be able to work. The pay is good but the politics suck. I'm trying to hang in there, but some mornings, it's hard to stop crying long enough to get ready for work. I've been at this job for over 10 years. You can't just take vacation days, you have to ask 30 days in advance, or you have to find your own coverage. Last time I found my own coverage and took 2 days off,to attempt to relieve some of the stress from work, I was called nearly evey day because they were complaining that I was off, then my punishment was that I had to work a holiday that I had been scheduled off.
Well, now I have to go to work. Maybe I'll stay the day. I never know anymore.
I love my job, but this one person makes my life a living HELL. She hates me and vice versa. There was a situation that happened a while ago, and since then we can't stand each other. My boss says we have to work it out nobody is go to be transferred to another dept. Every Monday morning I get totally ill, when I see her, I know it's going to be a long freakin week, Friday can't come soon enough. The tension in the office is as thick as fog, I try to grin and bear her for another 8 hours, but I have come to the end of being very UNHAPPY. I have prayed to the Lord to send me a sign or email of what I need to do. I need something quickly. I can't afford to quit like the rest of you, but I can't continue to work with this person for much longer. I have lost weight, I sleep to make me feel better, am losing my hair, and I hate getting up every morning and I have to go to work and deal with HER! I love my boss he's way cool, but he really thinks we can work this out and this will never happen.
I'm looking for another job, but nothing is coming through at this point and time. I need a quick blessing and VERY FAST, before I snatch her bald headed. I have even thought about just taking my retirement out and just walk away from this BS, but I have a few more years and my retirement will be huge. Any suggestions is most welcomed. Please pray for me daily, there is a graceful way out of this hell dealing with HER, I just don't know what to do.
Good luck to everyone, May God bless you with a great job and co-workers
I just finished school and I have this job for 6 months now. I don't like going to work knowing that I am new and there is not much I can do. I feel I know nothing! And I don't want to try to get to know it because I am not enthusiastic about my work.
Back it college, I already felt that I was in the wrong major. But my family and friends told me that I should stay. Since I was already junior year… when I got out, I would have good pay… the student loan is already too much to pay off… I don't know what else I could do… what I want to do don't get good pay…………
I am afraid to quit my job, especially in this economy.
Thank you for writing this article. I am still scared to quit but I think it's what I need to do. I have an explosive boss who rants about whoever isn't in the office at that moment and sends really nasty emails about really, really dumb stuff. Yelling at the whole office because someone threw a pizza box away in the trash near his office. I mean, seriously? He changes his mind so fast that I get commented to that I'm doing something 'wrong' because I guess I didn't get the memo which changed last week for the hundreth time.
That and the email he wrote me about how I suck (no he didn't say it like that). First off – it was in an email, secondly he sent it to one of my coworkers instead!!!!
I was unemployed due to layoffs for about 8mos last year, so I was happy that a friend referred me to a job. Let's just say that since day 1, I had my reservations but was apprehensive to say anything because I didn't want to sound lazy or ungrateful.
There is no structure or leadership. My boss doesn't want to manage and gives that job to other people. I've been unsure about the process here and I'm a walking "huh?". I don't even know what my role is. I'm the type of person that needs some sort of structure and guidance and I get none of that. I think I'm the only one who feels this way and that makes me more stressed.
I was told from pretty much everyone here that the boss has made people cry at least once. She picks and chooses who she wants to be nice to, she doesn't want her staff to be "nice" to the clients we work with and likes to yell. I can't tell from one day to the next if I'm supposed to speak with her or look her in the eye because her biorhythms may be off.
Other people let it roll off their back but I just don't respond well to that. When I did ask her about a project (thought I was being proactive), she dismissed me so quickly and told me she didn't have time for me. How am I supposed to learn if the manager won't manage? When I told a colleague about approaching the boss, I got a look like I was speaking another language. Of course, when she started to freak out, I got in trouble for not keeping her in the loop with my project. Well, which way does she want it? I don't like guessing and everyday I'm more agitated. Perhaps I don't want to deal with people who believe that since they're "the boss", they can sh*t on you. She leads by intimidation. For some, that's great. For me? I've had a few abusive/passive aggressive bosses in the past and I will not allow myself to go there again.
She ignores me when I say hello to her or she avoids me when we walk down the hall. This underlying fear and stress is causing me to make errors and I don't feel confident in my work. I do all that I can to avoid her as well and even called out of work the other day so I wouldn't have to be in a meeting with her.
I would speak to her about it but I don't think I even want to work it out. I'm already disillusioned. Again, I'm here 3 months. Do I have the right to ask to do something else?
I'm 36 and I can do many things but I need a good leader in any new venture. I want a leader who WANTS to lead and teach and someone I can RESPECT. Luckily this is a temp job for me but it doesn't make it easier when looking for another. At this point in my life, I know what I want and what I don't and I do NOT want to go through this nonsense. My stress level is through the roof. I've had bosses like this in the past and once I've disrespected them for their poor behavior, I shut down. I don't do well to work out of fear.
I am working in apartment complex. My assignment every day is to clean one office building compose of 12 trush can in their working area, 3 bathrooms, 2 sets of fitness area, another 2 bathrooms in the swimming pool, 2 apartments units as their models that needs to be clean everyday and another unit need to be clean for market ready. I don’t mind walking around under the heat of the sun everyday pushing my cart where I put my cleaning tools. I hate my job because my supervisor embarrassed me in front of one of the owner of the company where I work with. It is not just once but twice already. At first he call me on the Radio where everybody can hear it, he is accusing me for not doing my work right. And I replied that, I clean that good this morning. And he answer back that , from time to time you must have to check if the place is clean or not. For me how can I go back and check when I don’t have a time? And Second was he call me again on the radio and ask me if I already clean the models where he want me to clean, which I already clean it. And he wants me to go back and check the place. Where when I go back the toilet sets is dirty, looks somebody pee on it, he show to me the frame where there is a little bit of dust in it, he show to me the living room table, he wants to be check every day, the glass door case of patio and the patio itself need to be clean, the big mirror case inside the bedroom and the thing that I hated most is when the interior decorator ask if who make a scratch on her cute coffee table, he answered back in front of the company owner that nobody because the housekeeper didn’t even vacuum this place. I feel like somebody squeeze my heart. But even then I still pretending that I am ok, I took my cleaning tools start cleaning quickly. Because need to finish it right away , there are two more apartment need to be done for the day. I am afraid to quit my job, especially in this bad economy.
after this thing happen when i go back to my other assignment I cried and cried while working trying to work fast so that i can finish it before my off time. I NEED AN ADVICE,…even if I know that the answer is already there but what will I do,especially this tough time its hard to find a job.
It is time to quit your job when 6 out of 7 criteria on the list fit the bill. Not just that, there is always more than meets the eye to a miserable situation. Yes in this economy it is nearly impossible to find a new job. Here are my new rules.
Never work for anyone who calls you friend. The lines get blurred between personal and professional lives and it is much harder to be straight with a friend should conflict arise.
I can work for most personalities, even impossible arrogant ones, but working for people who are ignorant is where I draw the line.
Never work in an unhealthy or toxic environment, physically and/or emotionally. Long term damage can result and can affect your ability to work at all for years to come.
If your boss doesn't trust you to get the job done and you are being micromanaged, realize they are the crazy ones and start a plan to leave.
Last but not least, if you find yourself working but not really present, it is best to move on….
God has a better plan than you can even imagine. Pray about it and put feet to your words. You can do better. Never allow yourself to be abused or mistreated. That does not mean that you should run out the door the first time someone yells at you. I really hate it when the boss says, it's not personal, the customer is just an idiot. Or worse the customer is always right and they never lie.
I currently have a very low paying position with a company owned by a previous manager of mine. I am marketing their company to the community and local cities. Image and reputation are vitally important. Also in order to market and advertise, you must spend money. It does not have to be alot, but you do need to invest.
I am frustrated, sick inside, embarrassed, and have found myself lying about where I have been because I hate cold calling on businesses. I do go out and cold call but it takes all of my guts to do it.
I am now finding out that the owners have no money to spend on marketing, advertising, and the schmoozing they profess to be in favor of. They will not give me a budget for anything. They have dumped the entire planning and execution of a fund raising event on my shoulders and expect me to be excited about this. They are an embarrassment whenever I go out with them to a social event like a Chamber of Commerce meeting… let's where khaki and a t-shirt to an evening mixer. Or worse they say the most moronic things in meetings with the public.
The worst part of this is that this is not the job I agreed upon… and my desk is in a hot or freezing warehouse where I sit and breathe in moldy garbage that they take out of people's homes.
Toxic on every level.
If it just a bad boss, distance yourself. If it is a crappy coworker, try to make it work just ignore them. But if you are miserable in every aspect of your job…..better to go than do a bad job or worse, lie about the job you are doing.
I have made a horrible mistake, I am working for a couple of bumpkins who do not have business or marketing plan and have no interest in developing either.
Time to go…I did not realize that so many people hate their jobs. When I was young I loved what I did and people convinced me to return to college. Biggest mistake I ever made. I am not young any more but I know life is too short to be so unhappy.
Thank you so much for the advice. But will I do? My necessity in life depends on my job. If I am going to quit right now me and my family will be homeless. No food to it. So I need to find another job before I am going to quit. I know that this desicion I have is being ignorant but "I HAVE NO CHOICE" I have to sacrifice for my family especially to my one only son. Just include me in your daily prayer that I can find another job ASAP or before I burn myself under the 102 degree heat of the sun here in Arizona. Thank you so much.
I very much hate working for an employer! I've been working on my entrepreneurial endeavors for a few years and with persistence, I will succeed and leave my wage-slave existence behind!
Every Friday when I go to my job, there is always at least one person who says, "It's Friday," or some variation of the phrase. If people are so relieved when Friday arrives, it must mean they hate their job and/or the direction of their life!
I do not feel safe at my job. there was an incident (actually an entire 2 years worth) of a receptionist with major family drama going on and it being allowed to continue in the workplace. The nurse that worked there with us took to the receptionist and they became fast friends. Well, long story short the receptionist ended up being fired for a number of reasons and the nurse made my life a living hell. She was so rude and nasty and would tell people horrible things about me (none of which were true) but because she blamed me for the receptionist being let go, I was the target. This nurse never accepted the change and just a couple weeks ago quit and when she did she threatened to beat my *** and run me over with her car because it was my fault all this change happened. Really? I have had the role of supervisor (not paid for it and no title) for a little over a year and i have had several people in my department come right to my face and rant and rave and have carried on and management does nothing about this. I am told to call the police by H/R but what are they going to do?
About a month ago I was told that an old supervisor wanted to come back and that i was to train her on my job! the job i have been doing a fabulous job at (according to management)the job i have devoted many, many unpaid hours too and the job i once loved but now truly hate going to because of all the stuff i have put up with.
This is the 2nd manager I have had in this position. the first supervisor was so abusive that she was demoted and is now on her way out the door.
this current manager likes to tell pretty tales and promise you the sun, moon and stars only to no avail. I really loved my job until recently when i had to deal with all this drama again. I am so tired of all this crap.
I cannot leave until I find a different job and i have started the job hunt so hopefully it wont be too much longer. I know the grass is not always greener on the other side but i have taken so much crap from this place anything has to better than this!
Does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this until i actually can leave? thanks so much!
I have been a Nurse since 1981, Mostly in nursing homes. Did work in a Dr. office as well. The past couple of month's I have been making mistakes.I love my nurse coordinator. She is great. I don't no how she does it all. I get along with everyone. We work well together. The pressure has been getting to me. charting,getting med's done in time. helping staff,families,pt's,Dr's order's calling families,answering phones treatment's etc. Then I just realized tonight I have taken care of 3 patients in the last month that have passed. And patient's that come in very sick. I could feel myself getting very run down, stressed,from rushing all day long to get finished. I didn't take a break or lunch most day's which was my fault, crazy but hated to get behind. Needless to say I am no longer working. Kid's are raised. Will need to get insurance ugh. And concentrate on me.
I work at a super secure job with ok money, but this project I'm on is terrible. Not enough resources so I'm bogged down with the work and STILL am pressured to meet the deadlines because our PM is a terrible communicator and bad at time estimates. Last I checked, they're supposed to go off of the development team's metrics. I like u am a developer. Right now I'm working with brand new third party software, doing the backend development, doing the client side development, doing the UI and the SharePoint webpart customizations…which would all be fine with more money, a realistic deadline, and ownership of all the servers. I am not in charge of infrastructure. So I only have a test server….that I'm developing on. I have no users imported from AD so everything is mocked. The code refactoring is all discovery while we are in flight at the same time. No time was given to architect a solution. We don't have the sharepoint server up. And I was told that I appear to be underperforming. Fuck this job. The only reason I haven't left is because of the economy, I have a young family and going into the unknown is a problem for me. But at the same time I feel as though I'm losing market value the longer I stay at this fucking job. I dread going to this job every morning.
The job I have been at the last 2.5 months has caused me so much stress that I have had several health issues from it. I have had headaches every day for several weeks and have been extremely fatigued. I found myself taking handfuls of OTC painkillers everyday just to function. My boss is a complete b*tch who makes so many mistakes I can't count them, yet any tiny thing I do wrong (even if she told me to do it or forgot to tell me to do something) I get in serious trouble for. My district manager has a habit of lecturing me for anything he sees that I do wrong (again, even if I am following my manager's orders or have not been trained properly). He even wrote me up via email for something my boss and I did not do up to "company standards." He also has a habit of punishing me through my manager instead of talking to me directly. The final straw for me was when he threatened me with another write up. I have never been written up at school or at work ever! Not to mention that my boss has gone through 5 assistants in 2 years. Makes you stop and go hmm…
I quit my job via email, mailed the keys yesterday, and I am never looking back. I feel so liberated! I haven't had a headache and I actually feel like I can smile again! A job like that is definitely not worth the crappy pay I was getting anyway!!!
I hate my job. I have been teaching for 5 full years, I am at the beginning of my 6th.I want to quit. I felt this way after my first year and a teacher told me to hang in there. I felt this way after my fourth year and was told you should try another school. I not only went to another school, but another district.I am here to tell you it does not matter. I am in year six and I dred getting up in the morning. I like working with the kids. They are great. I enjoy the rewards of seeing them "get it". I HATE all the politics and abuse that go along with the job.
I have had some terrible experiences over the years at the hands of administrators. I had one who grabbed me and pushed me against a brick wall. I was new to the school and I was not allowed to administer a state test to my students. I was asked had I ever given this test before and I said no. The assistant principal decided to administer the test. I was allowed to stay in the room and I witnessed him walking around giving the students the answers. See if the school gets a high rating from the state they are given money (personal money)It could be as much as $10,000 at one time. When I walked out the room the principal was waiting there that is when I was pushed. He said something really stupid like the date is wrong on the board. It is from yesterday. I think they were trying to intimidate me. That was the school I swithed to. It took one week for the union to get me out of that school. The first school I started teaching at had a principal that did not like me because I was black (she did not hire me. She was the third principal I worked under at this school.) She would say things to me behind closed doors and say I could not prove she said them. I even thought about getting a recorder, but I was told I could not use that without her knowing I had it. Well of course if she knew she was not going to say anything inciminating. The harassment was so bad I lost my baby at 5mo. I was too afraid to leave. The economy was really bad and homelessness did not appeal to me. The school year had not ended and I needed the money so I endured all of that. The union in that district was no help. They gave a lot of bad advice. I do not think I have enough room to tell all the things that happened at that school on this page so I will cut it short.
On the lighter side, I want a job that is just a job. A job where i can come home and not worry about work until work the next day. I don't want to plan, do paperwork, grade papers, or use my home access to put grades in the computer. I have even gone to work on Saturday trying to keep up with all the impossible goals. The district I am in is changing. They are becoming very hard on the teachers and they make you feel like you have to be absolutly perfect. Any mistake you make is fired upon with a great wrath. I forgot my timecard on Thursday and I had to sign in. You would have thought I stole something from the school I was there 20min early. It was not something I had done before. I do not want anyone to think I am A bad teacher. I do my job and I have gotten good reviews, except from the crazy lady I mentioned above (the racist). She actually did not give me a review. She mad one up and gave it to me on the last day of school. The union told me to sign it. I did not I wrote that all the stuff she said never happened. She was not even suppose to give me paper work like that on the last day. I feel like I am walking on eggshells this year and I can not make any mistakes. I like working with the kids, but I feel like with all the paper work, and meetings, projects (not dealing with the kids. teacher to teacher),teaching does not get done the way it should. The children seem to be nothing more than dollar signs. I have run into administrators that seem to want to pad their pockets and look good. They do not really care what happens to the kids. I work in a school where mold is all over the ceiling and rusted pipes with white moldy stick out of the ceiling. A mouse was in the room. I can not even get a map for the classroom. I asked if i could get one and was told I could get a new one. It would be ordered for me. The in a meeting the next day I was aked how long will you stay on this unit anyway. I had asked for a map for the first time two months ago. I can not use my printer because it has no ink and the school will not buy it. I was told I had to buy it. I am too busy buying supplies for my students because their parents either can't or will not. The money I have is little and I am stretching it as far as I can (single income).
I think about all that I have been through and I can not do this anymore. I have a degree in criminal justice and I hope it is not too late to use it. I am currently looking for something in that field. I am going back to school to get a masters in that field.
I hate my job with a passion. I've been here too damn long. I don't care for my co-workers who are back stabbers. They really love to bother me on my PMS days. The mangement sucks and I want to quit, but I can't because I have bills to pay. I can't live with folks, because I've became really moody working at this job, I don't have a life anymore due to me worrying about coming to this place. I call it the place of the devil. I have prayed, and prayed and prayed for change of jobs but nothing has happened. I ask God to grant me patience, before I commit succide from this job. I need prayers from everyone on help finding happiness from this job! God Bless!
Well what do you do when the President speaks to you as if you're a child and speaks to you with vulgar language in the presence of others or rudely interrupts you while on the phone with customers or vendors and uses this awful language towards you and belittles you? Tell me, do ya quit? I say YES. No one should take that crap from anyone in the workplace.
I am in a job that I use to love and now because of the industry that I am in and the ways that my once wonderful boss has taken on I cant stand it. Everything on the list describes me. I have felt this way and expressed it to him and he lied to me about another position that never happened. I have wanted to leave for a while now but being a single mom I can not just jump ship without something else. It is hard to force myself to come to work everyday, and everyone that I work with shares the same feelings. It is horrible when the honest people that would do anything for you are treated horribly and the ones that have not a care in the world about the company are irreplaceable. I will be so glad to get out of here and work for a company with some integrity that I can be proud of.
I work in a call center for a student loan servicer. I absolutely despise this job. I never thought I would be so stressed and I've had other jobs that were highly stressful but nothing compares to this job. My supervisor is awesome though…very easy to talk to and the people I completed the training with for the job are also great…but it's the job itself I hate. This is one loud ass call center, people yelling across the room and the nit picky crap that goes on with upper management. I don't think I've missed so much time from any job during my whole working career. I just found out I got another job and not in a call center for student loans so I am very thankful:)
I have read everyone's posts here and wanted to say I feel for everyone who has ever posted here. Some stories hit home harder to my heart than others, but aside from the one obvious spam post, everyone is basically going through some hard times in their life with their jobs.
I read the article here and I wanted to commend Wealthy Reader for hitting everything on the bullet points. I have met 6 out of the 7 criteria listed and its not surprising, but interesting to note that these are exactly the kind of challenges I am facing. I have previously left a job with no back-up plan, only to land myself in a current job situation which describes me as 6 ouf 7 categories on this page right now. Although I have been in it for several months (and not my trend of 10+ years at one job) I am finding its time for me to move on, once again.
Another reason to quit your job: if it is affecting your mental heath – and by that I mean insomnia, anxiety, stress, depression. It's not worth it…get out while you still have some health left in you to find another job.