I hate my job!

[Tomahawk]

When I was last unemployed during the Great Recession, I was given severance and was still able to collect unemployment to help subsidize my FUnemployment binge drinking. Even though I still have a job, I collect unemployment for the week I'm laid off.

What kind of shtein are you going to sell?

[Sgt PSN]

Typical yard sale stuff....just a lot more of it than what most people have.  Somehow she managed to become the dumping ground for my entire family's unwanted stuff. Furniture, electronics, movies, knick knacks...all that shtein.  I'm just going to list it all online for my mom to help move it quicker. She sells quite a bit when she has yard sales but her house is kind of remote so she doesn't always get a lot of people coming buy. It's an impressive setup she's got though. Her garage basically looks like a 2nd hand store only more organized. 

That shtein has to go though because now that I have access to my grandfathers old shop tools (drill press, grinders, blow torch, etc), I want to use the garage for a shop and start building shtein. Don't know what I want to build, but I'm gonna build something.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

So I hate my job, and I have an offer (verbal at the moment should have the letter in the next couple of days) and am planning on putting my notice in once I have it. The issue is the two guys I work for are fantastic, as is most of the people on the contract. I am not leaving for money so much as I am for growth/opportunity, and because the contract I work on is in a customer site where the relationship is becoming quite caustic.

I feel like I am going to be letting my bosses and counterparts, who are also friends, down. I've worked at this place since getting out of the service ten years ago, and have never actually quit anywhere. Anyone with advice on how to do it?

[rjs246]

Burn bridges. Blaze of glory. Flinging feces.

Just the usual internet recommendations.

[methdeez]

Burn bridges. Blaze of glory. Flinging feces.

Just the usual internet recommendations.

The opposite of this of course, since the grass is not always quite as green when you get there.
Explain why you are leaving, give more than two weeks notice if they need it, offer to continue to help out on the side if needed, make sure you create a guide/manual of all of the institutional knowledge that you have, etc.
One of my perhaps most successful friends has twice left a company for an upward move, and then leveraged back into the old company a year or two later with a better position, better pay, etc. He did this by just being unfailingly nice and upfront about what he was doing, and never, ever telling the old company what he truly thought about them.

[ice grillin you]

govt just announced they are closed tomorrow

yippee!!!

[SD]

govt just announced they are closed tomorrow

yippee!

They told us Friday as long as the lights come on we better be there working. Just called the hotline and they're closed. Hell yeah.

[Zanshin]

The fargers in Germany and England with whom I have conference calls tomorrow aren't likely to care about our weather. Arrogant fargers. I should just pretend my power is out.

[Susquehanna Birder]

So my company (at least locally) was shut down on Monday and Tuesday. Last winter, they announced that during inclement-weather closures, employees must either use vacation days or take the time as an unpaid (excused) absence. That's a pain, but I can deal with it. What really bugs me, though, is when my coworkers (not salaried workers) feel the need to bring their laptops home and do work during a shutdown. Why do they feel obligated to donate their time to the company?

(Me? I drank and played board games and watched movies with the family. F the man.)

[Tomahawk]

People are farging idiots. Earlier this month, all the employees of my division had to choose a week to take for a temporary layoff. Some mouthbreathers were more upset the company was adamant about not doing any work whatsoever including checking e-mails or even talking to a co-worker about a project than they were about missing a week's worth of pay.

Maybe your co-workers don't have to burn vacation time if they work from home?

[Sgt PSN]

Yeah, no way in hell I'd take my work home with me if I'm not getting paid for it.  The only way I'd even consider it is if I'm working on a project that has a promotion and/or significant pay raise riding on it.  And even then, the deadline would have to be rapidly approaching for me to give up days off.   

[Susquehanna Birder]

Maybe your co-workers don't have to burn vacation time if they work from home?

Nope, it was made clear to us last winter. Unpaid or vacation/personal time.

I might be okay with taking work home IF there was an important client or impending deadline. But I know what these people are doing, and there is plenty of wiggle room for our projects.

[SD]

I left my old position mid September, it was honestly the worst job I ever had. I dreaded waking up in the morning. They enacted new standards then acted like the employees should just shut up and take it and be gracious they had a job. 19 people left the same week I left, the office had 65 agents. As of today an additional 11 people left. Meaning since they decided to strong arm their employees and act like iceholes almost half their work force has gotten new employment in a zesty economy. People took lesser positions some making as much as 15k less just to get out of there. I started putting applications in hardcore in May. I'm grateful for the opportunity I received at my new position, that I can move up within 2 years makes it that much better.

Long story short the same philosophy I had when I got out of the Navy is the same one I have now: if the grass looks greener on the other side it probably is.

[Zanshin]

When I see this thread, I have the same burning desire to chime in that I still hate my job. It would be great to pop in here to see that I figured out a solution. I look forward to opening that thread. I'm a fortunate farger, no doubt about it... But I'd really like to solve that missing piece.

[Enthvor]

When I was last unemployed during the Great Recession, I was given severance and was still able to collect unemployment to help subsidize led bulb my FUnemployment binge drinking. Even though I still have a job, I collect unemployment for the week I'm laid off.

What kind of shtein are you going to sell?

Dont hate your job it is much better then unemployment.