Nothing too exciting, but just wanted to share my tiny bit of gratification in leaving a toxic employer for greener pastures.
In December 2022, my company approved me to move to another state to work remotely where we didn't have a physical office but did have an existing business nexus. They wrote me a letter of confirmation in order to get a mortgage approval for our first home in New State. Seven weeks later (and only two weeks before closing), I was unceremoniously told my remote auth had been revoked and they were no longer allowing employees to work from states without a physical office. I could have lost my mortgage and our house, but I scrambled to get the CFO to allow more time in the new state so that I wasn't technically lying to the lender when I said I would be continuing employment with that company after the move. My manager knew about the decision coming from HR but said nothing to me, and just let me get railroaded with no support. Weeks later, she offered an anemic apology about “how things went down” now that “HR isn't here to tell [her] what [she] can and can't say.” She swiftly followed it up with a request for me to keep her updated on my job search (!!!). The absolute audacity.
To add insult to injury, I had just been named the department's top employee for 2022. I completed about half of all the work on a team of 5 (don't simp like me, kids), so naively I thought I would be safe from nonsense like this.
Needless to say, I started job hunting immediately. I thought I'd have to take a pay cut (moved from a high COL city to a low COL city with depressed wages), but I formally accepted an offer for 67% more pay 10 days ago, and I scheduled an email to deliver this morning announcing my resignation effective immediately.
My immediate coworkers knew I was out of there before I announced it, and I made sure to clean up all the hard tickets before I left so they wouldn't get screwed too hard, but I'm thrilled to be done.
Remember, kids, no matter how hard you work, you're never safe from being treated terribly by shitty employers.
TL;DR:
Employer screwed me over on remote work and threatened my home/sense of safety, so I quit without notice, even though I do at least half the department's work.