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Should I tell my employers that I was moonlighting before I quit?

I plan on quitting my job by the first week of August. A month after I finished radiation therapy for my cancer, my manager told me that I have been supposedly working too fast and missing tasks, even though work recently became slow. I was given 2 weeks to improve before they would officially assign me to the PIP. I took his advice to heart, and was told that I had improved. But then they decided to put me on the PIP, because a coworker told my manager that I was being too “thorough” in my work, and that “by making sure my actions on the project didn't effect anything else on the project”, I wasn't “focusing on the topics at hand” and therefore was not “reliable”. For context, I am a draftsman at a large architecture firm. I feel like that any of my coworkers can easily throw me…


I plan on quitting my job by the first week of August. A month after I finished radiation therapy for my cancer, my manager told me that I have been supposedly working too fast and missing tasks, even though work recently became slow. I was given 2 weeks to improve before they would officially assign me to the PIP.

I took his advice to heart, and was told that I had improved. But then they decided to put me on the PIP, because a coworker told my manager that I was being too “thorough” in my work, and that “by making sure my actions on the project didn't effect anything else on the project”, I wasn't “focusing on the topics at hand” and therefore was not “reliable”. For context, I am a draftsman at a large architecture firm.

I feel like that any of my coworkers can easily throw me under the bus, by telling my manager a little nitpick, and I'll be on my way out.

It sucks, because I have multiple medical conditions, and I need this job in order to pay for doctor visits and procedures, since my family cannot help due to their own financial problems.

I want to air a lot of grievances to them in the form of a letter on my last day. One of them is about moonlighting. I realized that this job alone is not enough to cover my finances, so I got two other jobs, where I am basically acting as the primary “architect” of those projects without any supervision. But at my main job, I'm a junior where people tell me that I need to grow slowly and need to learn to be more “reliable”.

Should I tell them that on the day that they decide whether I “passed” the PIP (which is highly unlikely) or not, that I am “good enough” because I've been successfully managing my own projects under their nose?

I checked the employee handboook, there's no specific mention of “no moonlighting” and none of these other jobs compete with my main job. But just in case it's looked down upon, but not formally mentioned, can I still go ahead and note in my grievances?

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