I've had my job for three and a half years. I've always put in my best effort, but insurance sales is rough when you're the only sales person in a small office and there's next to no flow of viable leads. Almost all of my time there was just cold calling local numbers and hoping something would stick. I never once got a raise on my base pay. I was given a higher commission once, but that was after working there for three years, and it was only by two dollars per sale. With the prices of everything going up so high, it's getting to where I can't pay my bills. On top of all of this, my boss loved to take out all of her frustrations with life on me. She regularly made wild accusations about me, gaslighted me constantly, blame issues on me, etc. She told me frequently how our prices shouldn't be a problem when it comes to me making sales and that I'm just bad at my job, yet over the past six months, I heard her using the same excuse when speaking with other insurance agents. So obviously not a poor excuse when she uses it, but is when I use it.
I've put out countless applications over the past three years, and I finally got another job. More hours. Better wages. I'd have had to make 30-40 sales every month in order to make what I'll be making at my new job. So I put in my notice on Friday. My boss was devastated. She started asking how she could keep me and what she could have done differently. At that point, I still needed the income for the next two weeks until my new job opens (new business in the area), so I told her nothing. I bit my tongue instead of telling her how I'm sick of being baited into arguments with her every couple of months because she accuses me of not working or being on Snapchat on my computer (yes, she accused me of typing out long posts on Snapchat on my computer). How she takes out all of her frustrations with life out on me (I knew when she and her husband had an argument because she would be short with me or tell at me, sometimes over things I was required by her own contract to do).
I went in this morning, expecting to work, and was met with a cardboard box and told to pack up and leave since “if the new job is going to pay so much better, you can just go work there,” fully knowing it doesn't open for another two weeks. So she went from begging me to stay and telling me that we'd spend the next two weeks with me training her on a system we've had for 2.5 years that she's never bothered to learn to use, back to her making accusations of me never putting in any effort toward making sales anyway. She'd packed away a bunch of papers from my desk, including a notebook I paid for with my own money. I asked where it was, and she stomped away and threw open the door to her storage so hard that the door bounced back at her. She then rifled through and said she was going to keep it and “would reimburse me.” I'm never seeing the full $7 for that notebook.
Honestly I'm pretty happy. I couldn't trust her to treat me with respect for even a minute. I couldn't go into work and feel safe from accusations or facing some kind of blame for something. She even blamed me for people pouring water into the catch tray in the water cooler (it doesn't drain and we had to dump it manually). I feel so much better knowing that I can have some time to heal from a literally mentally and emotionally abusive environment before I start my new job. It wasn't worth the $11 per hour that I made to have to deal with that on a daily basis. Good riddance.