I'm quitting my job tomorrow

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Wish me luck (or something) I don't really have a plan for afterward and I am terrified. But my heart can't stay there anymore.

I can tell you that you're not alone. I hate my job so much that I consider quitting at least once a week. Don't do it. In all honesty, at least try to get that disability pay, or something else for a safety net, first. Just remember: quitting your job like this with nothing to support yourself with is not logical, no matter how irrational dealing with crappy people on a daily basis is.

Agreed!

Of course, if the job is causing you pain, misery and suffering, and bringing you unbearable nightmares, then by all means, walk into the boss' office and tell him to go do you know what.

There's a way to half quit. Just call tomorrow morning.

'There's a family situation I have to take care of. I'm going to need to take a couple of days off.'

'No, I can't tell you anymore. But it's something I have go take care of.'

Id like to just hang out and play it cool but after a run in with my boss I want to throat jab Jim and throw him off the 3rd story of the building. I think it would be best to not be there anymore as a result.

i regret not quitting earlier all those horrible jobs my mom would start yelling once i quitted a job so i continued dragging in dirt in those jobs longer then i should.
you have decided the right thing just go ahead

I've worked at Starbucks, Kroger, Walgreens, and Garden Ridge, each for less than 3 days. the only job I've ever held down was, fortunately, for almost 5 years (with a year or two of breaks for school) and my boss occasionally has fired people to rehire me. finding the right fit is tough, but when you do it's great. the AANE has this to say about work for aspies (which describes the only one I kept to a T). I've bolded the ones that were particularly important for me:

with those other four that didn't work...every single time I tried so damn hard, and every time I had breakdowns, panic attacks, and was suicidal at the last two of them. I felt like such a loser and got a lot of flack about it (especially from my dad) but I seriously couldn't do that kind of fast-paced public interaction stuff.

I didn't know I was an aspie for this entire time, either. the starbucks experience was so stressful I woke up one morning with half my friggin face paralyzed. it didn't go away for a week or two. after I quit my dad kept giving me "you just need to try harder" lectures. you work through panic so bad it manifests as spontaneous paralysis, dad. coffee is not that damn important.

this was quite accurate i liked the points you highlighted and i could relate well with it.

I think violent fantasies are relatively common. I know I have them, and at times directly related to work place injustices.

Example (1): I'm a mafioso, and I'm trying to retire and go straight. I take an entry level job to learn some about a business. A boss passively goes along with bullying against me, he considers it no big deal (because it's not affecting him). Big mistake. I have some of my boys take him to a warehouse and we "discuss" the issue.

Example (2): And I guess this is more of a noble fantasy. I have an uncle who's a mafioso. He knows how much I put into a job. He also know how stupid people can be, starting a course of bullying out of boredom and merely because a person is different. My uncle respectfully argues with me, "Please, I know how much you put into a job. Please let me take care of this for you. I'm not talking about killing the guy. Let me just have some of my boys work him over. I mean, hospital, not morgue." And see, this way, if I make a conscious decision to let it go, I'm letting it go out of free choice, and not because I don't have any other option.

I went in and quit today. However the HR woman asked me to take a personal day instead and investigate the incident and she would get back to me by the end of the day if another position could be made available. I do not expect much to come of it, but it would be nice if I could stay with the company in another department.

I was actually going to suggest this. If you are in a place big enough to have a HR department and you are having difficulties with your boss which are not to do with a genuine work performance issue, then take it up with them. Most HR departments will be pretty helpful and want to solve these problems.

Jason.

Last edited by Jtuk on 05 Sep 2012, 6:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

oh that is nice. I've never worked somewhere big enough to have people dedicated to fixing these problems, but it's cool that you might have that option.

False, if HR finds out your boss is possibly putting the company at risk to be sued, they will try to have you constructively discharged so that you have no credibility in the event of a lawsuit.

I used to think they were there for the "human resource" too, until I dealt with an HR employee when filing a complaint a few years ago. They were nothing less than a lawyer who is employed by the company, for the company's interests, not the employee.

http://humanresources.about.com/b/2012/ ... e-hr-2.htm

I received a call this evening from "HR" who stated that I made everything up. She "spoke to the manager" who said he said none of the things I claimed. As a result I was terminated.

I would do that in an instant. Bad job situations have caused psychic damage to me in the past. It is not worth it. But, then again I have additional resources that others may not have, making it easier for me to suggest quitting as an option.