Just wanted to brag about my absolutely fantastic day. I have an office job, I'm a personal assistant with a high ranking government official in my country (Eastern Europe), I've been doing it for the last 9 years. Lately I expressed my wish to expand further beyond being an assistant as I've been given bigger responsibilities, organising events, etc, but all of my ideas have been brutally shut down and I was always pushed back to the assistant position. At the same time, I saw many of my less experienced and not very capable colleagues being promoted based on nepotism and favouritism.
It has become very toxic for me, I started smoking again, couldn't sleep, and finally started applying to similar jobs. It was an eye-opening experience. With the 9 years I've worked here, I have become a very valuable worker, basically every company I've interviewed for, couldn't get enough of me and made offers I wouldn't have dreamt about. So I accepted the most intriguing offer, and today I quit this toxic fucking job. (I'll finish off this month to close my files, but that's it.)
The office manager had the gall to say that he was basically waiting for me to quit (it's really hard to fire government employees here) or to have a baby and go on maternity leave, but either way he wasn't too miffed about me leaving. It hasn't been 2 weeks since he told me I couldn't apply to another job within the institution because I was too valuable to him. Fuck his toxic ass.
Can I get an Amen?!