I quit my job. I gave no notice. I was really good at it. I really was.
BACKGROUND: I had worked there for over a year on a different PT schedule previously and had left on good terms for a higher paying job with benefits when it became too much to handle working both jobs simultaneously. Less than a year later, I was contacted by the owners of this company asking if I would come back to a FT WFH schedule, at a higher pay with future raise. The job I left for had been detrimental to my health (certain billionaire delivery distribution center), so I accepted.
It started well. However, it seemed that this schedule was missing key elements of support and advice from the management level. Ok, I worked with that by trying to communicate as best as possible. Additional duties kept getting added that were far above my job description and pay grade. There were all kinds of conflicting messages like, “Reach out for help,” but “we want you to be able to function autonomously because we are going to be focusing on other aspects of our roles.” “We don't want to micromanage,” but then micromanaging would ensue to the tune of interfering with a task in process that would then take crucial time to correct.
I never missed a day or was late. I seldom asked for a day off (no PTO, so I couldn't afford it). I stayed for almost 10 months and that raise they mentioned? Never heard of it again. I made about as much as a fast food worker in my area for a role that should be paying a living wage according to the most minimal research without the additional duties.
THE STRAW: when they had the manager I now seldom work with schedule a coaching call to go over several mistakes I'd made over a couple of months (issues did happen, although she quoted the time period incorrectly). Fair enough, I had made the mistakes, but they were addressed at the time, and I worked diligently to not make them again, regardless of how slammed I might be at a given time.
This manager is the best for rewording things. I worked with her for a year, and we used to have a lot of fun taking things from, “Hey, stupid, do this,” to polite and helpful language. I don't know if I can explain adequately why that was so insulting?
In this coaching, which I had her send the written points to me (pretty much word for word), I was nitpicked to the bone for those issues that had already been addressed, told to function on my own (although there is no firm policy) as they were too busy and important to help me (owners and mgmt), and I should be the absolute best basically 4 different job descriptions, simultaneously, regardless of how busy I was.
But they were ALWAYS available. Also, I needed to leave them alone while they were working. Apparently, I'm a distracting chatty type for asking how they're doing? Ok. Fair. Business only. Yet when I reach out for help, I get ghosted. But we're a family here!
By the time I quit? I was nauseous and headachey at the thought of my job. I emailed my resignation, verified they got it, and they may now only contact me via email.
TL/DR: Being micromanaged and nitpicked does not build employee autonomy. Unavailable and unsupportive mgmt w/no firm policy leaves room for mistakes. Overloading duties and responsibilities for poor pay doesn't inspire an employee to invest in “growing with the company.” Contradictory and poor communication end badly for employers. If you got through the big read, thanks for letting me rant.