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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That's the recruitment trapMany big firms use their size and prestige to do just what happened to you:
Step 1: Do the milkround and hire the brightest yet naive minds from the latest round of graduates.
Step 2: Pay them a relatively good salary for a graduate, so they think they're on to a winner.
Step 3: Work them into the ground. Long days, high pressure projects.
Step 4: As soon as possible, get them away from home. Teams in a strange city, staying in hotels, will tend to clump together as well as having little to do until 8pm except work. It's not like they want to get home early to mow the lawn, is it?
Step 5: The ones that survive are usually pretty tough, or very clever and able to find their own space. It doesn't matter that a huge number will leave after a few years - there's plenty more to replace them each year. These tough ones believe the only way to the top is to be like them and give up any pretence of a life outside the company. And so it goes on....
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