so i just quit my job this morning and took a small nap to soak everything in. i drove home tearing because of me standing up for myself and the fact that i have worked for this company for five years. im an electrician in Ontario and just finished my apprenticeship and about to write my license. i was in my last block of school and finished and working on the side for someone while on EI and waiting for my main employer to have work starting up. i got told two weeks ago we have green lights for these projects to start and i agreed to come back.
i had to think long and hard about me coming back. this company i work for is a small contracting company with less than 10 employees. they treated me like absolute shit during the apprenticeship. and when i learned more and gained more skills the bullshit just kept piling up. then the pandemic hit. one employee quit and another got fired and i became the most senior apprentice at the time. i literally bailed this company out of a huge fire of a project but i think it costed a piece of me.
i was gone for six months and i told myself past is past. ill come in with this company and have a fresh start and clean slate and about to be a journeyman.
it took one phone call from my foreman for me to quit on the spot. i literally quit because of the tone in his attitude. i just said fuck it fuck this place i quit and i grabbed my backpack full of tools and left. this is the craziest thing ive ever done in my life. im usually much more formal and disciplined. im praying i don't regret this.