Quitting!

My job is pretty high stress! I still push through but there are days where I want to be done! I just know that I can't quit unless I have another job lined up so I just keep pushing! Sometimes I feel we are like people in jail but out cell is only for 8 or 9 hours a day. I am stuck in this one room with children all day and they cry, spit, hit, kick, won't sleep, throw food, and need poopie diapers changed!!!! I love them and can't stand it all at the same time. I have been watching kids in a center for 10 years this year! Ahhhh It can be really tough!

I quit my last job that I LOVED due to poor management. It was at a higher end hotel and just poorly run by a 26 year old not even wet behind the ears girl. Loved her as a person..but she sucked as a manager. I was there from the opening of the thing (got hired before it even opened) and stayed almost 2 years.

I worked in retail for the better part of fifteen years. I was never able to keep any one job for more than two years because working at the low end of the food chain in retail gets old REAL quick. Time was that retail sales people were paid on commission. Not anymore. You're lucky to make minimum wage and you have to take alot of abuse, not only from your superiors, but from customers as well. While I have quit more than one job, I've never left without notice. Most of my former employers have good things to say about me, so I don't want to burn those bridges. I might need a reference from them later. Although, in most cases, my managers have left their jobs also.

I will leave a job when the amount of *kitten* I have to put up with outweighs my remuneration. I have also been made redundent twice during my working life, both instances had nothing to do with my employer being in financial difficulties. When push comes to shove, your employer will have little compunction in getting rid of you, so you should not feel you owe them anything.

Each time I have left a job, it was almost never the work. It was usually the people. If you don't have a great boss that is going to have your back and help you to succeed, it makes working all that more difficult. Also, if you are working with people you just don't get alone with, the job just isn't worth it. I am at work 9 - 10 hours a day. I better like the people I work with. I have been in my current job for almost 5 years. This is the longest I have ever stayed with one company. It is my manager and the people I work with that keep me here. Once you find a good manager, you really don't want to look anywhere else.

Quit one job, hated it, boss was a phag and there was no communication what so ever with anyone, i quit after the first day lmao just didn't turn up the next day and i got a new job i applied for weeks before the day after so yeah out of one job into another within 48hours not too bad

I just sucked it up until I found something better... took 9 months, but I found my dream job!

I've left a few jobs over the years:

1) I quit one absolutely insufferable job in undergrad with no notice. The boss was difficult to work for, plus she hired way more people than she needed, and then would randomly send you home, or make you sit around "off the clock" until she needed you. I had two other jobs at the time, and I knew she had plenty of people to fill in for me. I told her I didn't think the job was a good fit for me, she agreed.

2) Also in undergrad, I left a job I really liked at a used book store so I could be an undergraduate TA/RA. I told the owners of the bookstore that I really loved the job, but that the new one would look better on grad school applications. They said they were sorry to see me go, but understood.

3) In grad school I left a really pointless research assistant position (I wasn't learning anything) for a research assistant position with a faculty member whose research I admired greatly and that was closer to my area of interest. I didn't say much of anything, I just made the arrangements to change assignments (these were made at the department level) and left.

4) My last job I put up with for 4.5 years. It was high stress, and getting to be much higher stress over time. I learned a lot in the job, but it was more than time to move on. I told my supervisor, who was really great to work for overall, that she had been really great to work for (even though I didn't like the job, that wasn't her fault) but that my new job was a good opportunity for me. She was sorry to see me go, but understood. She wrote me a letter of recommendation for my current job, and we have kept in touch a little, so I don't think there were any hard feelings.

So I guess I'd say what you do, and what you say depends a lot on the situation, particularly how you feel about the management. Also, I've never quit a job unless I had another job, so in all but one case, I was able to say I was "moving on" rather than "quitting."

Get a can of red spray paint and write "RESIGN" in huge letters on a blank wall (glass wall preferred). Then leave.