I haven’t officially quit yet, but I plan to at the end of this month. I’m just waiting to hear back from my next employer about a start date. Then I’m turning my laptop in at the office and walking out with zero notice.
I used to be DEEP in the Kool-Aid of corporate culture, and I NEVER quit a job without 2+ weeks of notice. I also always helped my supervisors with an necessary transition processes. Hell, I even found my replacement for one job in 2 weeks and make her an entire training manual to take over my job. Everyone always said “don’t burn any bridges,” and I just blindly listened.
Well, the job this post is about has been a living nightmare for the past year and a half. About six months into the job, one person on my team quit, and I absorbed her responsibilities without a pay raise or a title change. I was given an 11% raise and title change six months after that, but my old job responsibilities were still my responsibility, meaning I do the job of two people for the salary of one person.
In addition to that, my boss is always high on psychedelics and has no idea what’s going on. She’s the CEO of the company, and she expects all of her employees to pick up her slack. What’s the most annoying about this is that she never remembers decisions my team makes, so she’s constantly contradicting things, disregarding procedures, and making a mess of the company on the daily. She also expects me to drop everything to take her phone calls all day every day. For example, yesterday I spent a total of 5 hours of my workday on the phone with her basically holding her hand through work she needed to get done because she “can’t focus if I’m not on the phone.” So my inbox piled up with emails, my projects were left untouched, and my slack messages were overflowing with messages from coworkers who couldn’t get ahold of me.
The job has been so unbearable that my primary care doctor has prescribed me anti-depressants just to get through the day. Therapy stopped helping because I couldn’t change anything about my situation unless I quit. So I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to quit without notice as soon as I had a backup plan. And the ONLY reason I was able to come to this decision was because of you guys.
Seeing other career horror stories on here and reading about how you all just text your bosses that you quit is beyond motivating. I love the idea of just leaving the company in shambles and not taking responsibility for any of it since it’s not my fault. After all, when I leave, they’ll need to hire two replacements—which I doubt will be easy with the low wages they’re offering.
So thank you to this sub. I appreciate you all so much.