Why are you glad that you quit? (List)

[ArenaBoy]

I had a conversation with a friend today who I worked with at the arena. I forgot that Ozzfest happened a while ago (Was lucky to never work that show) and everything was at it's finest and it got me thinking as to why I quit Whiskeyclone.

So here is why I am glad that I quit Whiskeyclone:

1. No more dealing with people behind cars, they get a boost of confidence when an SC is behind 2 tons of steel.

2. No more Expensive Dinner Man.

3. I no longer have to put up with VIPs.

4. Standing out in the snow for 5 hours is something I will never have to do again.

5. A big reduction of stress.

6. Did I mention no more Expensive Dinner Man?


So for those who quit your jobs why are you glad that you quit?

[powerboy]

Lets see
Job#1: Mountian Mikes Pizza

• Never had a problem with them

Job#2: Which was WalMart.

• Just about everyone who worked at/for walmart, knows how it is.

Job#3: American Moulding & Millwork

• Didn't have to deal with ol' dog face anymore.
• Didn't have to work at a super fast pace, just to get orders out.

Job#4: Which was OfficeMax.

• Got real tired of not being able to sleep at night, hence why I hardly got sleep when I was working there.
• Tired of not being paid what I was suppose to be making for stocking shelves overnights

Job#5: Golden State Lumber, INC.

• Don't have to work out in the sun anymore.
• Don't have to get hollered at for not having any jobs to do. I was the fastest Virtek Operator they had, of course I was done with the days work, within 2 hours

Job#6: Scorpio Anime

• Don't have to deal with the main owner again
• Don't have to deal with the my best friends wife again
• Don't have to deal with the SC, that would have us hold items and lies about when he will pay for them.
• Don't have to deal with the Stupid High School kids, who bitches about the prices of the game times.
• Got tired of not being paid on time

[Barefootgirl]

Arenaboy, you quit Whiskeyclone? When did that happen? (See, i am up to date with ALL gossip round here ) I hope you have a much better job now!

Most of the jobs I have left, I left because i genuinely wanted more money and more of a challenge elsewhere. However, i quit my first job as a theatrical costumier because there was simply no challenge AT ALL to it. In TV and film costume, the production costume designer does all the creative stuff, we lowly costumiers were just tasked with re-creating it, and it simply wasn't very interesting.

[sarahj]

I quit Maccas and now I don't have to work overnight anymore!
I don't have to deal with drunk/angry/picky customers!
No more being yelled at or insulted by customers!
And no more being afraid to leave the store after dark!

I never realized how much I dealt with until I got a grocery store job, where my biggest concern is customers leaving their baskets on my register belt.

[Kiwi]

Im glad I quit the gallery because

• They were not paying me anywhere near the standard rate for my job at other galleries
• I was doing work that was not in anyway related to my job description
• Intense insane bullying and intimidation
• not having to work with mega bitch
• not having to work for a robotic unfeeling woman who changed reality to reflect her as an angel
• did I mentioned we were bullied and they were abusive, im talking standing over you screaming calling you useless and worthless
• I never have to put up with mega bitches pathetic backstabbing

and the best reason

EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE CITY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED

mega bitch lives in fear now.... she deserves to

[draggar]

Job #1 - Sucky Grocerey store
Hours sucked
Pay sucked
Store management sucked (department management was cool)

Job #2 - Nice grocerey store
Honestly, I left because I had an opprotunity in my field. If I needed to, I would have gone back to them.

Job #3 - Computer Tech (before I left #2)
Vendor accused me of stealing (but he later said it wasn't me and didn't even give me an apology, company owner told me to "fess up" to something I didn't even do, then said he was trying to help me).
Pay sucked
Sending me into downtown Boston with over $30,000 in cash, then when I get back sending be back there with another $25,000 in cash.
Verbal abuse and threats from the owner

Job #4 (the one I left #2 for)
Same as #2, I left for a better opprotunity

Job #5 (vendor rep)
IT sucked

Job #6 (tech support)
Laid off

Job #7
Better opprotunity and NOT IN RETAIL.

[draftermatt]

Job 1: Car Wash (July-Oct 1998)
*People complained too much
*It was getting cold
*Manager was a crack dealer
*Majority of the people smoked weed
*The owner wasn't paying us for the total hours we were working

Job 2: Sub Shop (July 99-Feb 00)
*It went out of Business. I loved that place

Job 3: Burger King (April-June 00)
*It was Burger King
*I hated everyone that worked there
*General Manager thought he was the "Burger King"
*Assistant Managers had chips on their shoulders "I'm a BK manager and I'm only 18"
*The regular managers were ass holes
*It was Burger King
*No call no shows every Sunday
*"If you have time to lean, you have time to clean" despite the fact I'd already cleaned EVERYTHING twice
*Did I mention it was Burger King?
Though, I take a lot of pleasure that a lot of the employees who treated me like crap are still there 7 years later.

Job 4: Auto Parts Warehouse (June 00- June 01)
*Better opportunity
*Manager was a "real winner"
*Everyone I started with was pretty much gone
*They offered to move me to sales floor, I accepted, then they never mentioned it.
*I was starting to have dreams about the place

[Broomjockey]

Out of the three jobs I've left, one was because I moved across town (first), and one just ended, as it was only for during the school year (third).
My second job... oooohhh boy.
1. co-workers were lazy, gossiping pricks.

2. customers were largely either lazy trash, as we were close to the "ghetto" portion of the city, or yuppie wannabes, as we were in the middle of downtown.

3. the co-workers I actually liked were all quitting.

4. the GM. He was a total and complete prick. Blamed me for something I didn't do, and then when trying to explain to him that I did in fact know what I was doing he proceeded to scream at me. I had a fairly severe breakdown at that job because of everything that was going on, I thought about it, came in for my next shift, and told them I'd finish out the posted schedule, but after that I was done. I couldn't handle it there anymore. And he then proceeded to track me down in the lobby, during the evening rush, and yell at me some more (yeah, way to make the guy quitting over stress feel better). And at one point he uttered this gem: No one notices when you do a good job. They only notice when you screw up.

I felt no qualms about leaving them with only one week's notice. In fact, it was probably more than he deserved.

[Becks]

(See, i am up to date with ALL gossip round here )

We have a lovely little thread going on, to help.

[Dr Yorick]

I left a 31 year career in sales management to take a job with a lot less stress.....
I am a 911 emergency dispatcher.
Love it!

[Pedersen]

Reasons to be glad I quit?

Well, just the last job:

• Owner was lying scumbag. No need to deal with him anymore.
• Owner was thief.
• Owner engaged in borderline fraudulent billing practices.
• Owner created a hostile work environment second to none. Only things he could have done to make it worse would be to leave various instruments of torture lying about. Especially if they had been obviously (and recently) used.
• Manager for a department there was a fricking loonball, and had enough "toys" in his underground(and soundproofed) bedroom that he could have lent a few to the owner to make it more hostile. Don't have to deal with him anymore.
• Willful stupidity. Look, I don't demand that everybody know the same things I do. In fact, I get worried if someone does, since I know what sort of freak I am, and I don't think the world needs two of me. However, if you're going to ask me how to do something, I expect you to remember it by the third or fourth time you ask. Many people there wouldn't ever try to remember what I would tell them.

Well, I think that should be enough for this thread. For more, please see any of my threads about Dyslexic Schizophrenics

[wagegoth]

These are different jobs over my long work history:

1. Manager was an unhappy, abusive screamer and HR didn't do anything about it (I got to the point that I was only sleeping two to three hours a night from the stress)
*Rest of coworkers wouldn't back up complaints because they were all in the position of really needing their jobs and afraid to go anywhere else (big, dysfunctional, codependent family)

2. Supervisor had never been a supervisor before and had never done the type of work we were doing, so had absolutely no clue, this led to many things
*Hiring employees who didn't know what they were doing, had no experience and spent their shifts playing on the Internet
*These same employees refused to learn how to do the work, so the rest of us who know how were forced to pick up the slack -- the supervisor actually told me that I would just have to do it, because they didn't know how, but she wouldn't make them get training
*I worked Sunday through Thursday nights, and the supervisor started calling me Monday mornings at home wanting to know why work wasn't done over the weekend or why so-and-so took off early or why a lawyer was unhappy with the quality of the work -- I'm not a supervisor, I'm not there weekends, I'm not even a team leader, and I can't do all the work in one shift that was supposed to have been done by three people over two shifts
*She actually called me to ask why I didn't fax the same document twice to the same company since two people at that company were supposed to receive the document

[ArenaBoy]

Arenaboy, you quit Whiskeyclone? When did that happen? (See, i am up to date with ALL gossip round here ) I hope you have a much better job now!

Quit back in June, got stressed out to the point that I was losing sleep over it. I did apply for a few jobs but the closest I got was for Starbucks but they never hired me. I did do oddjobs over the summer and it was enjoyable.

[Cyanocobalamin]

Glad I'm not at Office Depot any more because:

1. Never broke $10/hour despite working there 7 years. Pay just wasn't keeping up with my responsibilities/duties.

2. 20 mile commute after moving to a different town

3. Got my degree a couple months before I quit. It was time to seek out more challenging line of work.

[Knightmare]

I'll post my previous three jobs
#1 - Barista at Books-A-Million/Joe Muggs cafe (around 1999)

• The pay sucked
• Corp. fired my manger over a BS reason, and pissed all of us off. She was a great manager.
• With female manager gone, she and I couldn't "play around" in the back room anymore. (Sorry, can't go into detail on that one).
• The store manager, all though a very nice woman, didn't know how to manage anything
• Corp. started making us pay for drinks

#2 - Radio Shack (1999-2005)

• The pay was great for a while, until corp. started changing the commision scale. They always said it was going to be better for the salespeople, but I always ended up making less and less each paycheck. It looked great on paper, the way the showed it, but when I sat down and did the actual math, I was making less.
• The customers were wearing me down. I was getting burned out. I think this is why I hate customers now.
• One manager I worked with got away with murder. He was the Golden Boy of the district. He stole so much merchandise, and the DM just looked the other way, because he had awesome numbers. Which he achieved by fraud.
• I didn't believe in the company anymore. After being lied to so many times, and with the crappy products they were brining in (at HUGE markup), RS Corp lost track of what they were. RS was a great company to work for, but not any longer.
• RS was also becoming a cellular store. That's what corp focused on. Selling cell phones. The marked was saturated, they cut our commission and spiffs, and yet they still wanted us to offer a phone to every customer that came in. Didn't matter if we just sold that person a phone last month; we still had to offer.
• The pay sucked; working every weekend sucked; driving an hour each way to a useless district meeting each month sucked; the hours sucked. Etc., etc., etc.,

#2 1/2 Local Ford dealership (2005-2006)
I don't count this one, because I got fired. But so did everyone else.
#3 - Lowe's (2006-2007)
I'm sure you've all read my posts about this place, but here goes:

• I worked every weekend
• The pay sucked. When I was finally given a raise, it was an insulting $.18 cents
• I was hired in at part-time, with the promise of going to full-time. Over a year later, I was still part-time.
• The customers. Most were ok, but I had my share of SCs
• Closing one night, and opening the next morning really wore me down. Lowes is open until 10:00 on Friday nights. We left the store at 10:30, but would then have to come back in at 5:30 to open the store. Who needs paint at 6:00 a.m.?
• Benefits were offered to part-timers, but were so expensive it wasn't worth it.
• The employee discount wasn't worth it.
• I rarely got to see my daughter.
• I was tired of seeing (or not seeing, as the case may be) my store manager driving around in a $50,000 truck, bragging about his $1M+ home on the lake, but never actually being in the store. He was on perpetual vacation. It made me sick.

Now I work full-time for the city. It's a great job, great benefits, and I have a normal schedule. My opportunities for growth are amazing. I got very lucky with this job, and I plan on staying there for a LONG time.