30 People Share Breaking Points That Mean You Need To Quit Your Job

My sister recently said she was having panic attacks that she thinks is related to anxiety and work related stress. She spoke about getting signed off by the doctor, and thought two weeks full paid sick may alleviate the problem. If it is genuinely work related then no amount of time off (paid or otherwise) will help because you would be constantly thinking of the day you have to go back in. I hope she will come to the same realisation.

I am having that, but about life in general. Even weekends.

I started a job where by the fourth day, I was thinking about hitting the wall on the freeway so I didn't have to go in... by day six, I was trying to talk myself into it... I quit on day eight.

School for me, but yeah

I could relate to this. I used to cry in the morning thinking about going to work.

Company I worked for took on a load of consultants, paid them three times what the staff earned, every one had to be trained by the permanent staff!

When you've been working at the company for nearly a decade and you get interviewed for a position as the 'diversity' applicant, but you already heard through the office "grapevine" that they had decided to hire someone from the outside. When the interviewer called me back and asked why I didn't send them a thank you letter for the interview, I told them exactly why.

So unfair

Common

*insert the "this is fine" meme*

Dayum.

When you find out the insurance payments coming out of your checks haven't been made for months.

It's illegal in the UK for employers to pay late

The company I work for nearly went under a few years ago but they would never do this. They are recovering well being bought a few years ago

Imagine getting paid by check.... what is this? 1990?

I don't know about making money, but if I quit, I can save you money! And you can do that with ALL your staff. Fire them all and do all their work yourself, and you will save so much more money!

Had a boss that told me I was getting a raise. Three paychecks came and gone. I asked him when the raise was gonna happen. He said, "Don't be like that." then promised it would be on next paycheck. Still didn't happen. Then told me, the same day I was prepping for a large catering event by myself, I had to prove I deserved a raise. So...I did. I quit on the spot. Found out that not only did he have to call in three other people to finish the prep and it still went out late. Asked me to come back two months later, but by then I had another job earning $150. more a pay check.

As soon as you start dreading going in, time to leave--part of why I love being project based.

Especially if you have another job lined up, I would find a way during those meetings to pester him about what he's doing to make it worth your while to continue working for him. Let him prove himself while he's requiring it of you.

Same thing happened to my sister just two weeks ago. And then she was let go, along with 40 other people.

That was what caused me to leave my last job. They tried to use the threat of having to go back to the office during the pandemic to get me to work harder. I lived with my immunocompromised mother at the time, that was effectively telling me "work harder or we'll kill your mom". Line freaking drawn.

I just took 2 days off saying I wasn't well. Which is true. I know my manager is never happy about being down a person, and I know my team mates are likely complaining about having to pull their weight. However we're told if we're unwell stay home. I'm really taking some mental health time after having a particularly stressful week and had too many incidences of nearly getting injured.

I was lucky that when I left my job at the peak of the pandemic due to my mom having a compromised immune system, it was on good terms, and they welcomed me back when I reapplied after things settled down a little.

That's why I am leaving my current job.

Man l'm HOPING to get fired from one of my jobs. That sweet severance money and not having to see my arsehole boss ever again.

Remember - unemployment payments are not automatic, and employers can challenge (USA). It depends on the circumstances of your employment and departure.

I worked for a sadistic narcissist who would basically pick an employee a year and make their life so miserable they'd quit. Because in most (US) states you can't get unemployment for quitting, and proving a "hostile work environment" is an absolute nightmare.

if you qualify for unemployment its a lot of work. Prove that you've gone on interviews and submitted job applications, going to classes. If you quit because you were treated badly call your states civil rights office. most people think civil rights is just about race but its about the right to be treated fairly

I keep hoipng to get fired-- keep thinking of creative ways to annoy the project owner

When there is a reorganization, and you are told "Fit In or F**k Off".

Anyone draws a line in the sand, I'll cross it every single time 🤷🏼‍♀️

PREVIOUS manager kept saying this. Guess what? She was asked to use it by HR~! Buh-bye

I have worked at my hospital for almost 36 years. There are many of us here that have worked here that long and many longer. We once had a new president that said he had worked at a lot of different hospitals and had never seen so many long term employees. That, of course, says so much about the company.

That's disturbing.

Last job i had was like this. Managers all there for 20+ years, everyone else had less than 5. Everyone worked their butts off to make quotas while the Managers all gathered around patting themselves on the back for doing such fine work. (Work which most didnt even understand).

There's a reason I don't work where I used to work. A decade later and I still don't like mentioning the place by name.

I never thought of this before. I'm more than proud to be employed by my job.

I had started a new job at a major international security company, had only been there a week and my direct manager walked in and started screaming at everyone in the control room calling us c**rd ect my response was to grab all my belongings and quit. I also took them to tribunal and ended up with a years worth of wages for a weeks work. I'm still proud of myself twenty years later.

I worked for a New Jersey based nurse recruitment company. They were branching out from tech recruiting. Anyway, I was one of a handful of people hired to start this venture in central Texas. The VP was our direct supervisor. At first, I thought he was a pretty cool, laid back guy who was a little hippie-ish, but very well educated. Things were okay for awhile, but we really didn't have many leads other than extensive Facebooking and a few smaller advertising spots on websites. It was like we were calling the same numbers daily, basically begging travel nurses to accept our assignments. Shortly after moving into a smaller office, the VP loses his s**t at a meeting with us and throws his chair into the wall, screaming that we need to be working 12-15 hr days and weekends to get numbers up. We were doing everything we could, but in the end, 2 sales people stayed and a new VP was brought in. The owners were awesome guys though; Sikhs.

Yell at me, get yelled back at-- and I'm 6 foot, 260 lbs

i cant put up with that kinda thing. depending on my mood i'll either blow up back at them or try really hard not to cry

And uses coarse language.