I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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Just quit. I mean itI jacked in a dreary, dreadful call centre job (which I was over-qualified for anyway) after getting turned down for a promotion- which the company instead preferred to give to others who had been there for less time than I had- some of whom I had actually helped train to do the job in the first place!
Upon being sent the email that told me I hadn't got the role, I immediately decided to hand in my notice, I didn't even care if I didn't have another job to go to. By the time my notice was up I still didn't have another job, so I spent a month living on my savings before eventually landing another job which paid £2k a year more than I would have earned had I got the promotion I went for in the first place, and ia a much less miserable and hostile environment.
So all I can say is- is you've got a job you hate, then don't wait for things to turn themselves around, don't meekly send off aplications in the vain hope you'll get an interview. Quitting a crap job is the best kick-up-the-backside you'll ever get, you'll be more determined to do better and job interviewers, believe it or not, will actually be impressed that you've got the balls to make your own decisions rather than spend your life muttering about your crap job but doing nothing about it.
Wow, there's a book there. I could make millions.
(, Sat 24 May 2008, 18:34, Reply)
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