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I worked for a retail chain as a computer programmer and quit in anger

The company had an old computer system to run the cash registers at 110 stores. The stores were in Florida to California. I worked with 2 other programmers for a while, but the company allowed my coworkers to start up a new project. In addition to the legacy system I had responsibility to maintain the accounts payable system. I am good at my job, but this meant I was on call from 7 am to 11 pm for the stores and had another job {account payable} as well. I told my boss that things could not go on like this. I told him things were going to break down and just one person could not maintain it. The bastard told me that God made 24 hours in the day and I should just suck it up. I quit right then. I heard that after I left they had to hire…


The company had an old computer system to run the cash registers at 110 stores. The stores were in Florida to California. I worked with 2 other programmers for a while, but the company allowed my coworkers to start up a new project. In addition to the legacy system I had responsibility to maintain the accounts payable system. I am good at my job, but this meant I was on call from 7 am to 11 pm for the stores and had another job {account payable} as well. I told my boss that things could not go on like this. I told him things were going to break down and just one person could not maintain it. The bastard told me that God made 24 hours in the day and I should just suck it up. I quit right then. I heard that after I left they had to hire 2 more people and take some people off the new project. Serves them right.

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