discuss.

3/17/2015 5:51:53 PM

I couldn't show my face again after the boss walked in on me jizzing in the coffee pot

3/17/2015 5:53:08 PM

My boyfriend is leaving his job soon. His company fell through on some promises and it wasn't working out. Anyone looking for a chemical engineer with coatings experience?

I generally only leave jobs because I found a better one.

3/17/2015 6:02:00 PM

In no particular order, a list of reasons I have left jobs:

Got a better job
Got tired of increasing BS
Got fired
Got tired of my comp plan being screwed with quarterly
Hated my boss
Hated the company
Hated the customers
Got bored and needed a change of scenery
Wanted to try a new vocation

3/17/2015 6:07:23 PM

You ever worked for Pinky and the Brain?

3/17/2015 6:58:29 PM

got a better job

moved out of town

got fired

3/17/2015 7:09:28 PM

So how do you bounce back after being fired?

Do you lie or tell the truth?


I have no experience with this.

3/17/2015 7:10:23 PM

Summer job as a camp counselor (3 months)
Left for college (1 year)
Left for law school (3 years)
Left for higher paying job (2 years)

Current job - 4 years and counting

[Edited on March 17, 2015 at 7:12 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2015 7:11:53 PM

shitty boss + more money at a new job

3/17/2015 7:16:19 PM

Let's see. In chronological order oldest to newest

Started senior year of high school (grocery clerk)
Left town for college (fedex truck loader)
Camp ended (camp counselor)
NC State at FSU game on tv (retail)
Graduated college (retail clerk)
Finished big project and time to move on in the same company (engineering)
Same company, great opportunity opened up (engineering)

3/17/2015 11:32:13 PM

I'm getting laid off in April! I don't really care, but I would have liked to leave when I found the right job instead of having to try to find one within the next 2, or 3 months.

3/17/2015 11:48:02 PM

Quote :

"So how do you bounce back after being fired?"

Easily. There are TONS of jobs out there. For some reason the American workforce has managed to convince themselves that the job they have is the scarcest resource on the planet. It's not true. Plenty of employers are desperate for good help. This is especially true if you've got an IQ above a gopher, and can read/write English.

Furthermore, at the end of the day American corporations don't give a shit about you as an individual. You are a resource, like a ream of paper or box of pencils in the supply closet. The relationship between employer and employee is not equitable and is only becoming less so. If you need a job, say what you need to say to get the damn job. Only you can make the judgement call on whether to be truthful or make shit up. Read the situation and adjust your strategy accordingly.

3/18/2015 12:09:19 AM

- work was boring

[Edited on March 18, 2015 at 1:15 AM. Reason : .]

3/18/2015 1:15:27 AM

I was managing a store, store got bought out, new owner installed a dumber, more compliant guy as manager, I was like "nah"

3/18/2015 2:37:14 AM

IV pharmacy tech -- left for college

Pet store salesperson -- I was terrible at selling expensive-ass purebred dogs, and the job largely paid on commission. I wasn't making much money, and the store wasn't making much off me, so I quit before I could get let go.

NCSU Annual Fund telemarketer -- I was a goddamned NCSU annual fund telemarketer. Once I realized I could not get drunk enough to make the work bearable, I quit

Bouncer -- new management came in, they had their own guys, which was fine by me because the job was getting too dangerous

Bartender -- fired for not wearing a name badge (but really it was like the above, a new manager came in and wanted to bring in her own people)

Substitute Teacher -- A combination of things; the teachers I subbed for most often all moved away; I started grad school; substitute teaching is neither lucrative nor fun

Stock monkey at Target -- seasonal job, season ended

Doo-doo Hauler at Home Depot -- got into the Peace Corps

Peace Corps -- $300 a month AND shitty health benefits? Why would I leave?

3/18/2015 5:27:08 AM

Sub Shop - Left for college (summer job)

Gas Station - Left for college (summer job)

Peanut Plant - Horrible 2nd shift blue collar job in uninsulated factory. Left for 1st shift white collar-ish job.

Enterprise - Long hours, low pay, shit customers, broken promises, boss was a bitch. Wanted to be in IT field.

Cellphone Store - Originally was going to get into IT office but ended up selling phones. Left over broken promises about pay and future career moves and got actual job in IT field with state benefits.

PC Tech School District - Left for better pay, more opportunities for advancement and better location for my kids to go to school. Also had to get the fuck away from crazy mother-in-law who bought a house near ours and trying to run our lives and was making wife go insane.

Senior Tech UNC - Still there and looking for IT management opportunities that have better pay now.

[Edited on March 18, 2015 at 5:42 AM. Reason : ]

3/18/2015 5:38:52 AM

soccer ref (middle school and high school) - stopped when I went to college and had other things I'd rather do on weekends

mall retail (high school summers) - stopped when I went to college

carrabba's (summers in college) - stopped working here the summer I worked my engineering internship

Fluor (post-graduation) - started here right out of school. still here.

3/18/2015 7:42:21 AM

An impossible change management process

3/18/2015 8:05:47 AM

OK for me had a few summer jobs and left for obvious reasons, I worked a vet clinic and left because school got to hectic. After college I was laid off once, walked out on a job, and went from contract to perm (switched positions) and then transferred to another position with my current company - 3 different jobs in same company.

3/18/2015 8:37:43 AM

left retail HS job for an internship that paid much better

internship was over at the end of summer

lab instructor was semester-by-semester

left co-op for full time position elsewhere in the company

left for a startup because i got tired of working for a large company with too much red tap

left to start our australia office within the same company

left australia to go back to the US to build out a struggling team of 6 to 28 within the same company

about to leave for a new role to build out a new group that is being formed - finalizing it today - by far this is the hardest because i don't think i'll have work with a team as good as i have now but they'll just be a few floors away and i'll be loosely involved for the next few months

3/18/2015 9:13:31 AM

- increasingly fed up with bureaucracy and cronyism. gave 2 weeks notice, left gs-12 job after 6 years. fuck that place. got a new job in private sector in 2.5 weeks.

3/18/2015 9:46:13 AM

1994 - left harris teeter for a more lucrative job at the new super K-mart in greensboro. HT was paying me $4.35/hour and K-mart was offering $5.75.

1997 - working during the holidays while on winter break as a freshman, I got fired from K-mart, though it was somewhat of a passive rage-quit, because i'd already given my notice and gave zero fucks afterwards.

1998- was working as a CA in Sullivan. moved off campus, got better job working for ncstate.net.

2001 - I started a small business trying to cash in on Y2k hysteria back in '98. The NC Forest Service was updating all of their PCs for Y2k compliance, and I won a bid to do the work. From '98 until early 2001, I built about 500 PCs which I made ~$300 profit on per box. I paid a few friends about $10 an hour, and turned my dining room into a PC assembly line. We'd stay up all night assembling PCs and drinking. It was a pretty sweet gig for a college kid, but by '01 the writing was on the wall and with dell and ultracheap PCs becoming the norm, it was no longer profitable for me to continue. Plus by this time i was bored to tears with building PCs, and had already been co-oping at Cisco for almost 3 years.


Since then, I've left jobs within Cisco to move to different jobs or move up the chain.
'02-'10 - TAC engineer
'10-'12 - TAC manager
'12-13 - i have no fucking clue what this job was about. it sucked and i hated it and i bounced after 6 months.
13-present - Critical Accounts mgr. best. job. ever. I have what's essentially a cheat code for getting around corporate red tape.

[Edited on March 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM. Reason : .]

3/18/2015 10:06:32 AM

Stock Boy - 2 years in college, slept with register girl, gossip gossip gossip, found internship.

3/18/2015 12:40:47 PM

1996 - Baseball Umpire for Little League, Approximate age: ~13
Reason Left job: Redneck assholes

Would umpire the little league games at the neighboring field and then change into my uniform and play in the following game.

Aside from fucking with your head that you just "watched" a game for 2 hours and then had to "play" in a game, it was hard because the parents were such assholes.

I am a kid (hindsight) doing this gig. Yet one of the Little League Dads was drunk and started yelling at me and harassing me. Then the coaches had to come out and tell him to leave.

This became a big debacle. Then my own coach found out about it and was pissed that I was an umpire and playing baseball. He thought it was a conflict and was peculiar. I thought there was no problem being paid to play baseball basically. He also yelled at me and told me that I was playing baseball for the wrong reasons.

Later he died of old age and his kids went to jail.

3/18/2015 4:49:27 PM

lol

3/18/2015 5:44:30 PM

quit multiple jobs in high school because 'fuck that place' lol

quit at AT&T because the managers were complete morons.

Will leave my current place of employment after I get my MBA (should be starting this summer); for multiple reasons - the main ones being that they suck at putting the right people in the right place and because I want to change fields.

3/18/2015 6:32:35 PM

I've changed jobs a lot for various reasons. I'm about to change jobs again! Here's as many of the reasons as I'm comfortable listing on here:

Quit to focus on senior year projects.
Internship ended.
Was laid off because no full time position was available at the end of an internship.
Quit because of lack of supervision in stressful production environment at a defense facility (basically working way outside of my paygrade and experience and being worn out).
Quit because folks took advantage of my trust and just loaded me up with their work since they didn't have a supervisor.
Quit for better opportunity to improve engineering knowledge in structural engineering focused on buildings.
Quit due to management harassment and unprofessional conduct during an annual review (which took 3 hours).
Quit due to unethical management and business practices which were leading to various decisions that were deemed to be minor breaches of the applicable building codes.
Quit because I was recruited by a former engineering colleague who wanted my help.
Quit because of job instability in a federal environment where they kept threatening that the team might get downsized.
Quit because health insurance was bad, was changed on me after I accepted an offer (and couldn't go back to my old job), and I had to start relying on paying cash for certain prescriptions because my insurance had a lot of problems getting me the right medication and pointing me in the right direction to get durable medical equipment through their approved suppliers.
Quit because I spent 1.5 years doing design work that had amounted to zero projects that were even advanced to a bidding stage (worried about dead-end career) while coworkers projects were sent to bid and some were given awards and recognition for their work (worried that I was intentionally assigned unlikely projects for some reason).
Quit because I had done 1099 subcontractor work for a company and they wanted to hire me.
Quit because director-level management repeatedly insulted former coworkers behind their backs (who were now my customers at my new job) and openly mocked and criticized work I had completed with these former coworkers in conversations he had with other supervisors/directors directly outside my cubicle. (Not sure if just huge jerk, oblivious, or both.)
Quit for a job that paid 20% better.
Quit for a job that paid less but had much better benefits.
e: Quit because I was tasked to do something and went into the field to do it, got injured (minor) on faulty equipment, and had my injury handled improperly by my supervisors and the safety managers. Had no safety training at job up to this point, was not told that equipment I was told to work on had untreated wood and was completely unsafe to walk on ever, and now I periodically have a limp (and have regular minor to moderate pain) thanks to my naiveté and the poor training I received.


Many of those reasons overlap for a given job I have left, I just didn't want to make it too obvious how many of those did overlap for Reasons.

[Edited on March 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM. Reason : This has been a Mindstorm Wall of Text (TM) post.]

[Edited on March 18, 2015 at 8:37 PM. Reason : Forgot one!]

3/18/2015 8:26:53 PM

hmm, let's see

Pizza place, HS - I wanted to watch my girlfriend's soccer game and didn't feel like going in to work that night

Carwash, summer after HS - the assistant manager was a total dick to everyone because he'd been demoted from GM. money was great for the job because of tips, but this guy was one of the worst people I've ever met, still to this day

Pizza place pt 2 - left to go to school

NC State Annual fund, summer after freshman year - Read some reviews online about how awful it was, quit before I even started

shitty retail job - Got tired of shit work and shit pay at a retail job, left for a better job

shitty wholesale sales job - most political place I'd ever worked at the time. Management team were slimy, underhanded micromanagers. Left to ostensibly go back to school

Design firm - started as a PT job doing tech work to pay the bills while I waited for school to start, got hired on salaried as a designer, then laid off after 2.5 years because of the economic downturn

Design contractor - contracted for a guy who let clients walk all over him and could never pin down a steady project stream, left because I was tired of not knowing if I was going to be able to eat/clothe/house myself every month

Design freelancer - freelanced for a couple of months while looking for a new job, got a new job

Designer - worked at an investment bank. left after nearly 3 years to go work with some former coworkers who had left the same place at a better company




that's it

3/18/2015 8:37:39 PM

There was this dickhead asst manager at Best Buy around 2002 that was such a dickhead that the district office had to come in and have a closed door meeting with all the full time employees about how much of a dickhead he was. No one would do any work since he was such a dickhead and the store was on a full blown rebellion, it dropped like a rock to be dead last in every category. At Best Buy this is the best way to get rid of a shitty manager because all stores are stack ranked in all categories, the DMs will show up and fire the offending manager for some BS reason like a padlock left open. Everyone hated him and wanted him fired and since he could not stand over dozens of employees all at once and make dickheaded threats in a store the size of an old school Walmart, that had a 100+ person staff, he suffered a painful ouster.

I gave my two weeks notice to dickhead prior to the coup, and was relieved of duty after that shift by dickhead because he was a being dickhead that day and thought he was fucking me out of two weeks of work. This proved to be a net positive for me, because I already had started at a better paying job with normal hours.

Dickhead and his second in command were both demoted to entry level positions and sent to another store after the coup. The other front-line employees tormented them mercilessly at the new store by talking down to them, and actually making them do some fucking work which they were not used to.

The last I heard about him was in the late 2000s, he was working a register at Panera as a "manager in training".

3/19/2015 12:05:12 AM

Quote :

"Had no safety training at job up to this point, was not told that equipment I was told to work on had untreated wood and was completely unsafe to walk on ever, and now I periodically have a limp (and have regular minor to moderate pain) thanks to my naiveté and the poor training I received."

do what?

3/19/2015 7:30:58 AM

1st i left for more money and to get back to raleigh
2nd I left because we had 6 engineers and our office only had 250k back-log on the books and i was asked if i could let a friend go if i had to. (also had a government offer for more money)

3/19/2015 8:42:41 AM

^^seriously, that is quite the eventful career history.

So when most of you folks are saying you quit, was it with another position already lined up??? Did you tell your boss you were leaving before you had another position??

I'm leaving my current job soon (hopefully), since its not really advancing my career in the direction I need it to (and I want some more money), but I work in a really small group and am 2/3 of the way done with a project. When I leave its going to really screw the entire group. It sucks cause the people I work with are overall pretty good, and I want to tell them that I'm looking elsewhere for employment so they can prepare, but then I'm just like "meh, not my problem"

Ma history:

Undergrad Internship - quit so I wouldn't have to live at home anymore, took a research job at NCSU so I could live at my college apartment and party more over the summer. Not the smartest move, but now this group is under a federal grand jury investigation, so I may have dodged a bullet.

Quit summer job to go to grad school

Graduated grad school in 2011 and took job at Petsmart stocking dog food at 4am since I couldn't find shit else at that time. I abruptly quit over the holiday season (huge retail rush) since I found something much higher paying in Pharmaceuticals (Thank god for RTP).

Quit pharma job after a year because it was soul sucking, and I thought slightly below me (paid the bills tho)

Now at current research oriented job. Sometimes its great, but its really not putting me in a position to get better jobs down the road or advance in any way, I've been sending out resumes for just a few months. Its nice, for a change, to take your time looking for jobs and be selective of positions you are only really interested in.

3/19/2015 9:26:01 AM

Quote :

"equipment I was told to work on had untreated wood and was completely unsafe to walk on ever, and now I periodically have a limp (and have regular minor to moderate pain) thanks to my naiveté and the poor training I received.""

wat?

this has post hoc fallacy written all over it.

3/19/2015 9:47:58 AM

Is that 15 jobs quit, Mindstorm?

on going summer lifeguard for years left for a summer internship

left busboy career just because but learned my last week was the first week with the "tip pool" program which resulted in a pay cut.

co-op was laid-off from the spring rotation due to cut backs at plant, invited back for summer.

took better offer at the end of college than that place and been here since



[Edited on March 19, 2015 at 11:01 AM. Reason : .]

3/19/2015 10:54:31 AM

^^ if this thread turns into "Exhibit A" for someone's claim of permanent pain in an employer negligence lawsuit, I respectfully request to be redacted

FEDERAL TORTS CLAIM ACT MOTHERFUCKER

HE TRIED TO TOUCH MY PENIS

3/19/2015 10:56:56 AM

i love the random legalese you interject

3/19/2015 11:02:33 AM

AMERICA

LIABILITY

CONSIDERATION

3/19/2015 11:35:16 AM

because i wanted to get drunk and have sex and hated my job at the time

3/19/2015 12:22:50 PM

In high school and college there were a bunch of stupid reasons for quitting / not showing up. Mostly related to spring/summer break plans being more important.

since college I've only left on good terms to take a better opportunity. I told my boss about the opportunity, asked him where my future was going (working for State actually) and he said that I shouldn't turn down a federal opportunity.

3/19/2015 2:20:44 PM

I got promised the moon, and when I showed up they gave me a cow pattie. I quit 7 months later.

3/19/2015 2:27:46 PM

I am pretty sure I am about to be let go. Time to brush up that resume.

3/19/2015 2:33:54 PM

3/19/2015 2:59:15 PM

Below are my reasons. I've only included "big boy" jobs after college

- Laid off
- Laid off
- Laid off
- Laid off
- Quit after 3 weeks because it wasn't anything like what I was promised. Tried to quit after 3rd day but they talked me into staying but I couldn't take it any more

May will be 2 years I've been with my current employer. I'm casually looking around to see if I can find anything better. Nothing horrible going on yet, they just keep making small changes that make life a little more annoying/difficult.

3/19/2015 9:41:45 PM

Laid off 4 times????

3/19/2015 9:55:24 PM

yep. Construction industry the last decade or so has been a little spotty

3/19/2015 11:18:37 PM

Retail Bookstore in High School: Store Closed.

Retail Bookstore, summer after Freshman Year and Christmas Break Sophomore Year: went back to school in Raleigh.

PC Tech job on campus: was working "part time full time" without benefits, got a job with benefits

Retail Bookstore, Christmas season '02: holiday part-time job, wanted to go to Florida for NCSU bowl game

Help Desk job on campus: got a better-paying job with more responsibility in another campus division

Lab Manager job on campus: got a better-paying job with more responsibility in another campus division

Distributed Support lead on campus: budget cuts caused my position to be eliminated

Second Level IT Support job on campus: moved to Richmond where my wife had started grad school

Retail electronics store job, part-time: same as above (held both positions concurrently)

Computer Systems Engineer, contract position: Got hired full-time by the group that I had been a contractor for


I've been lucky enough to never have to rage quit or walk out, and only in one case did I not give two weeks notice (the seasonal job in 2002, it was an amicable parting but I was simply taken off the schedule with a little less than a week notice after the holiday rush was ending.) Sometimes a job just is *that* shitty but I believe in not burning bridges whenever possible, you never know if that recommendation might come in handy!

3/20/2015 12:21:49 AM

Someone read this. All this. Think about that for a minute.

[Edited on March 20, 2015 at 2:44 AM. Reason : You should think about how they feel about themselves. ]

3/20/2015 2:43:13 AM

I'm the dreaded “Business Sales guy" with an Internet startup that "just needs a technical guy". Could it get any worse? Yes - I also worked for random companies in sales positions and have failed with a few small business ideas.

...but please put down the weapons - I have some redeeming features!

I am currently in the position financially to work 40 plus hours a week on this latest venture(Portal 4D) which is a first in my life(27 years old for those who must know). The past two months I have built the first real concept working on market validation and segmentation, have been working with consultants and tech incubators to get to the point of having a minimum viable product.

I have been working for pre-seed round funding and one thing that was impressed on me was that I need a technical co-founder. I agree.

Portal 4d is not currently built other than some wire framing ideas.

I'm looking for someone who loves the Portal 4D concept, particularly if they have worked in a customer service environment or with large companies that can not provide adequate customer service. I'm not married to a particular development platform and will be open to all suggestions.
The general concept is a virtual customer service employee who from our call center will provide our clients customers with trained assistance via video conferencing on a mobile phone or tablet.
Joining full-time would be dependent on me getting further funding (unless you really want to start full-time now which I would prefer). I haven't really started pitching seriously yet, but off the back of a few industry connections I have some pretty good investor interest.

Equity etc to be discussed!

About me: in a former life I was a in the construction business, with a degree in Construction Technology. So while I can't do much with Java, I used to be pretty good at solving real world problems with out of the box solutions. My goal is to find a co-founder who believes what I believe and work together so that we can all succeed.

Comment if you like

3/20/2015 10:06:29 AM

* Good manager got let go, shit manager brought in. I peaced out.
* Got promises over and over to get off the 3rd shift, never got off the 3rd shift. I peaced out.
* Got a better job offer. I peaced out.
* Got shitcanned because the owner's son didn't like me.
* Got a better job offer. I peaced out.
* Got a better job offer. I peaced out.
* IT Director was a psycho. Got a better job offer. I peaced out.

3/20/2015 1:03:20 PM

Jobs cheated on me. I got revenge by burning all of jobs' stuff in the front yard.

3/20/2015 1:16:26 PM