People quitting jobs

[bara]

Article here

It takes almost the entire article to get to it... but it hits the nail on the head at the end.

People are just getting fed up with poor working conditions, shit pay, and long hours. While I myself have had some hard times, I have quit jobs for personal health. Ive had a couple of jobs in the past few years that had me so stressed out it was causing physical problems. Lack of sleep being the biggest one. I was also experiencing a shortened temper, lack of patience for anything, no attention span and was basically a pain in the ass to be around.

[DrFaroohk]

I've quit a few more jobs than I should, but it basically always comes down to unresolved issues that make me working there impossible.

For me, the quitting is sort of saying "You don't have as much power as you think you do." You can either pay me a decent wage and treat me like a human being, and I'll work hard for you and be loyal to you and you will profit by having me in your employ.

Or you can treat me like shit, as a scapegoat for when your wife pisses you off, or when you're coming down off your weed, and make it your soul mission every day to upset me and get under my skin, just to feel like you have a large penis.

Then good luck to you sir, for I quit and am going on welfare. So you're still paying me, but now I don't have to put up with your shit.

[Rapscallion]

While the economy's in the shitter, employers will treat employees like crap. Generally speaking this isn't out of a desire to do so, but because they can keep costs down when the buying public is convinced it doesn't have any money and price is king.

There are undoubtedly psychopaths in management, but many (I would imagine) are more driven by trying to keep their business afloat.

I'm not excusing the behaviour, just looking at reasons.

Rapscallion

[HYHYBT]

That pretty much covered me. Jobs available or not, sometimes things just cannot go on as they are. I still believe it would literally have killed me to stay longer at McDonald's... and aggravatingly, I still miss it in many ways. (Really, though I've never had one, leaving there has always felt like a divorce.)

[kiwi]

Im quitting my job tomorrow. CANT WAIT!

I can't do retail anymore. I knew going back in to it, it was a means to an end but I lasted what...6 months. Ironically this time it isn't the customers driving me out, its the manager. She rarely hires people over 22 (almost all of the store is under 20) because she can push them around, guilt them into BS she knows wont fly with the older workers. I can't stand her. Minimum wage should not be more stressful than my $20/hr reception job. I will put up with the boredom of office work over the crazy stress of a harpy retail manager ANY day.

[XCashier]

People are just getting fed up with poor working conditions, shit pay, and long hours.

QFT. Employers make their employees work in filthy, cluttered, unergonomic spaces with inadequate heating/cooling and lighting and archaic equipment. They micromanage, belittle, condescend, ignore the good things and play up the bad things. Then they're all shocked and surprised when their employees get fed up and quit.

While I myself have had some hard times, I have quit jobs for personal health. Ive had a couple of jobs in the past few years that had me so stressed out it was causing physical problems.

I've had jobs that not only made me physically ill, but drove me borderline insane as well. More than once, suicide looked more appealing than going to work. That's a pretty big clue that it's time to get out of Dodge.

It's just baffling, to me anyway. They treat their employees in ways that they themselves would not put up with, yet cannot fathom why morale is low and turnover is high.

[powerboy]

I quit a couple of jobs. One place, I worked would treat me shitty and I had enough. The other, I just could not do it anymore. I got to that point and I had to quit. A lack of sleep because of it, was not helping either

[fireheart17]

I've noticed that ever since I quit my previous job at Supermarket Of Doom, my mental health has gone up in leaps and bounds. In fact, my GP was surprised when I walked in for my mental health review and she asked what I'd done. I simply told her that I'd quit my job .

With that, I'm actually trying to find a job that's not as nightmarish as working in retail. So I'm aiming for swimming teacher certifications instead. Still have to deal with pushy parents, but generally they are referred to the deck instructor rather than to me.

[XCashier]

Retail can be okay if the people who run the place are decent. That's where I am now. My store is not perfect; our equipment desperately needs replacing, the building itself is overdue for the wrecking ball, and we do get SCs. But the management team is fantastic, treats all of us like fellow human beings and will stick up for us if a SC is out of line, and my coworkers are an excellent bunch. No backstabbing, no micromanaging, mutual respect and courtesy.

But this goes back to the OP: if management treats their employees with decency and respect, and the coworkers treat each other and management with same, even a normally crummy job can be okay. If there's bullying, micromanaging, backstabbing and other psychocrap, even what should be a fantastic job will be hellish. It's all in how people treat each other.

[Rageaholic]

Good for them. It sounds like employers like to have their employees by the balls. They get away with more since people are desperate for a job, but no job is worth your mental health and sanity. If people show they're willing to quit if they're being treated like shit, than hopefully employers will realize that they can't treat people like slaves.

[blas87]

I'm to the point where I am literally asking my coworkers, without even thinking "Oh, what'll they do, fire me?" when they warn me about how bad my temper has gotten with our awful shift lead. Yeah, I don't even think about the consequences, I just keep with the verbal shits because I'm to the point where this person's very existence makes me angry, due to the fact that the boss will not do anything about her.

I should care. I don't want to be homeless or carless. I should care what I say and do. But, it's getting so bad, it's hard to care.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I've quit three jobs in total; sounds like a lot, but in every case it was just made impossible for me to continue working there.

At the country park, I was just getting super stressed out cuz of the huge workload (at times, I was working ten full days without a day off) and the cruelty to animals by the SCs. Even so, I loved the job and would have stuck it out had there not also been the fact that I was being underpaid. I signed off for six weeks with stress and never went back, as I'd found a new job elsewhere.

Which brings me on to the job at the garden centre. I worked in Pets and at first, everything went swimmingly. My collegue at Pets was fun to work with, we divided up the weekends and chores fairly, and I could just about ignore the manager (think Dilbert Principle) who was an arsehole incompetant. Then my collegue fell pregnant. She was being treated abominally, and cuz management wanted her to quit so they wouldn't leave themselves open to a tribunal cuz they fired her for being pregnant. She did quit, but got her own back on them cuz she left for maternity leave and never went back.

I expected them to hire someone else to replace her in Pets, but they never did, prefering to let me do a double workload for the same pay. They wanted me to work every weekend, but I flat out refused; meaning that the weekend girls would work it, and I'd usually come back on Monday to find the place in a total mess, with the animals unfed and watered. The last straw came when I hit twenty one and my pay didn't go up as it was meant to. I bugged them about it and they kept saying they'd sort it out; eventually, I just walked out and never came back when I discovered that I could get a job at Pizza Place and get paid double for working part time than I ever did working full time in Pets.

Pizza Place was bearable, but I was never planning to be there very long anyway. I would have left a hell of a lot earlier than I did (I wanted to get a better job) if I'd been able to afford to cuz the manager was a bitch. She screamed and shouted at everyone, refused to swap shifts even if someone asked with plenty of notice, gave people hell for taking time off even if they were at death's door and did annoying things like taking orders after closing time and then walzing off home, leaving us to deal with it.

When I quit there, I went above her head to the boss for my reference and only gave a week's notice, telling the manager that if she ever shouted at me during that week, I'd walk out and leave her in the shit. At the time, the place was super short staffed cuz of everyone leaving due to her. I found out about six months later from talking to someone who'd left at the same time I did that the boss had got rid of the manager after he correlated the massive staff turnover with her presence.

In conclusion, if a job is making you ill or having an effect on your mental health, it's best to quit. If you can, try and get a job before you go tho; being out of pocket will be just as damaging.

[Andara Bledin]

I've quit only a single job. And while the conditions were shit and they were responsible for me being quite sick at one point, the reason I quit was due to them cutting my hours. From what I know now, they were probably trying to get me to quit so they didn't have to have a reason to fire me (which is stupid, since California is an at-will state). They didn't block my unemployment, so it doesn't matter anyway.

^-.-^

[KellyHabersham]

I was actually thinking about quitting my secretary job right around the time they told me I was being laid off - I didn't agree with some of the things which the personnel committee added to the job descirption, and it was getting to where twelve hours a week wasn't always enough time to get everything done.

[tropicsgoddess]

no job is worth your mental health and sanity.

Damn right! That's why I quit doing satellite tv tech support (as long as I live I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER do technical support for cable and/or satellite tv companies again). The stress was ridiculously high not just with the "cusstomers" but also management constantly harping people on making their numbers (specifically their average call handle time) or face getting written up or fired for it. Then there was also the shit-tacular pay and "benefits".