not so much quit.....
...but a nice ending to an otherwise not-very-nice situation.

I'd been working for the company for six years. Started off as 1st line IT support and progressed up to senior-network-guy. Me and a few others were basically in charge of the whole IT infrasturcture for a medium sized company with branches up and down the country.

Business hadn't been good for a while, everbody knew the business couldn't sustain itself but upper management kept the spiel going and made everyone believe that there was possibly a future. New owners were bought in but within a couple of weeks everything came to a head when the administrators turned up - all the management had knew this was going to happen, most of them had already jumped ship leaving everyone else to face losing their job.

Except that is me and a few others, we were employed by the administrators to keep the systems running wilst they attempted to find a new owner(s) for the rest of the company.

Cue me finding out that the administrators didn't give a damn about the company's assets beyond some shiny new computers that had been delivered and office furniture. It started small, the odd box of toners here, the odd 10meg print server there but soon escalated into full blown ebay overload. I thought that I'd get my redundacy pay out of the sales of the now unwated items!

Turned out I was also entitled to 2 weeks pay for every year I'd been there as a payment from some government insolvency agency! w00t!

The cherry on the icing on the cake was finding out my tosspot of a boss still didn't have a proper job whereas I (he never thought I'd find another job) did a quick 3 interviews 3 job offers hat trick and landed a job infinitely better than the one I left!

Length? - about five Kadan's in height apparently.
(Vauxhall Burgundy, Thu 22 May 2008, 15:59, Reply)