Categories
Antiwork

Should I stay, or should I go now?

So, friends… It's been a pretty crazy 6 months at my most recent job, and I'm trying to figure out whether or not I should keep working here even with nothing lined up. The conditions at my place of employment are deplorable, in my professional opinion, including expectations to work 12+hours per shift, work a 6th day, or pick up an extra shift from someone whenever there's a call out kind of thing. As nonspecifically as possible, I work for a large catering service that provides meals for a “transportation” service. We produce meals by the thousands and have a very small staff for how much we make. Someone higher up than me also walked out a while back and left a lot of responsibilities floating in the wind that they expect someone to cover. I had a couple meetings with senior Management and they didn't go very well, asking…


So, friends… It's been a pretty crazy 6 months at my most recent job, and I'm trying to figure out whether or not I should keep working here even with nothing lined up. The conditions at my place of employment are deplorable, in my professional opinion, including expectations to work 12+hours per shift, work a 6th day, or pick up an extra shift from someone whenever there's a call out kind of thing. As nonspecifically as possible, I work for a large catering service that provides meals for a “transportation” service. We produce meals by the thousands and have a very small staff for how much we make. Someone higher up than me also walked out a while back and left a lot of responsibilities floating in the wind that they expect someone to cover. I had a couple meetings with senior Management and they didn't go very well, asking for more people results in us being told that we have the same ratio of staff as other satellite locations so we should be able to make it work. I disagree because they clearly don't understand the lack of economy of scale in the kitchen and the lack of staff combined keeps putting us behind (other highlights include: no vaccine requirement in a building that services international customers, multiple people being told that they were passed the deadline to sign up for health insurance, persistent and ongoing maintenance issues including gas leaks, honestly the list goes on and on). I also got an offer recently to go elsewhere that my company couldn't or wouldn't beat, so my question is: in light of my superiors ignorance and my other superior walking out, is it acceptable to leave a job like this without notice? For context, I have a large tax return check coming back that would sustain me for at least a couple weeks (maybe a month) but I'm worried how my interviewers will look at me leaving this place after only 6 months and with little notice to them. I had mentioned in my first interview that I was initially job hunting because of work conditions, should I just go with “conditions have deteriorated to the point that I felt it best to remove myself from a toxic situation” kind of thing?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.