I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about fellow employees who quit their jobs and immediately got much better offers and I have to say I never thought I’d ever have a moment like that until a couple weeks ago.
I work in healthcare and the place I worked at has been under this productivity crackdown where they’re not allowing you to work more than 8 hours per day. Not measured by week, it’s by day and you get yelled at if you work overtime because they don’t want to pay OT despite that it’s an hourly position. Boss is a micromanaging nightmare, and oh so generously offered to let me use my PTO if I was under 40 hours for the week.
Between that, the fact that general morale has gone to shit, and the fact that I’ve met people working at Starbucks who make nearly as much as I do and I have a goddamn masters degree, I decided to start applying to other jobs. Within a week I got an interview scheduled, another week after that I got an offer letter for 10k+ more than what I make now. I put in my two weeks the same day the boss called me in to have a discussion about me forgetting to clock out for lunch for two days (even though I only worked 6 hours both of those days). I let them waste their breath for 20 minutes and then gave them the letter and walked out. I just had my last day on Friday right as another coworker left. So an entire unit of staff has now turned over in about a month. If I were still there I would be shitting myself, but that’s the sweet sound of not my problem anymore. Feels good to get that off my chest.