I just left a job where I was on salary having to drive an hour away for work and working 60+ hours a week as a hiring manager for a food company. My boss was shocked I was leaving but I didn’t have the heart to tell him off for how him and the company ran people into the ground with no support. In hindisght I should’ve realized that if I had to learn everything myself that expectation would be on any new hires.
I’ve had days where the new person was by themselves and I was stuck making all the food. It wasn’t until I went through being off with Covid that it hit me just how messed up my position really was.
I could barely hire the people I needed and my boss never expected anybody but me to do the grunt work. I hate to say it like this but I think if anybody agrees to a position that I did their selling their souls away.
I spent more time on the job then I did in any part of my personal life. I feel no guilt in leaving, I did at first but I realized that at the end of the day I did all I could do and truly the circumstance wasn’t my fault. I got dealt a bad hand to start off with and never got given new cards dealt to me no matter how I tried.
I want my story to tell anybody who feels that same stuck feeling to know that the phrase “the grass is not greener on the other side” is complete bullshit. Look out for yourself, you get one life for your mental and physical health. Money comes second. That’s all I wanna say