It’s hilarious. Over the last two years I’ve worked my ass off keeping this company alive, managing their technical systems. My coworker who built it all quit after seven long years of making this setup. He quit because the owners son was a dick and kept empire building. Slowly getting rid of the best devs who had a brain and might say no to him. So he left and it was all on me. I was a junior position at best. It was a lot to learn. Over the next year I threw things into overdrive and used every skill I had, and a whole lot I didn’t as I learned what was built, and was congratulated on keeping them afloat and staying with it.
Eventually they brought in someone else to help me. Hey this is great. Except…. It wasn’t, really. It was because they hated me having so much power. They hated me being so untouchable. I am a professional, I’ve been doing this for almost 20 years. Im safe and trustworthy, even if I hated them I’d never do anything to their data or their site.
Last week the owners son and the hr guy walked into my office together. To talk to me about a serious problem. I was being written up for poor performance. And this is immediately after I finished this huge project I didn’t even think I could get done. They run one hell of a complicated setup.
Well, I saw this coming. I’ve seen it happen a lot over the last two years. This is where you’re supposed to take a pay cut and grovel and try to keep your job and play by these new rules and be miserable. Maybe get paid what you used to at the end of three months. But probably not. No this dude has a history of fucking with his toys and getting rid of them.
So I quit. I wouldn’t let them take my dignity nor my success. I am proud of my job and all the people at the company I have helped. They can’t take that away from me, but they tried. You should have seen their reaction.
It’s so typical. The hr guy starts going on about how unprofessional this is. Yeah because professional is some daddy’s boy trying to assess a position he has no idea anything about. Professional is making your employee go from feeling loved to used abused run hard and put away wet. I refused to even engage.
“You have irreparably soured this business relationship. And you’re supposed to trust me, now? The rubicon has been crossed.”
“The what has been crossed? You’re quitting?” They both pretended like it meant nothing. Of course. But the hr guy knew. “This certainly complicates things!!” He shouted. I was already gathering my things. I’d be back to clean out my office later. “Only for you. Never bite the hand that feeds you.”
As I walked away I heard many things like how I’d never get another job in this area again and blah blah blah anyone surprised at any of this?
I start my new job on Monday. My reputation at this point was well known. I make companies money, I’m professional, I always smile and I go the extra mile.
I have literally done the thing they absolutely fucking hate the most. I took away their power. And I left them for dead.
They never pay the consequences for their actions. They always blame someone else. This company will go out of business now and they’ll only blame me.
It’s sick and disgusting. The rich only fail up. Except this time. Yeah they’re failing, failing hard. I’ve got a ping monitor set up now that will let me know the day their shit goes down. I have a bottle of champagne and will start drinking it. The longer it’s down, the more I drink to celebrate. 🙂