How do you know when it's time to quit your job? A man just told me that if you were thinking you should quit your job, you probably missed the right time six months ago. So how do you know?
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Quit when you feel like you are about to get fired if you stay there another second. That's one reason why I am quitting Stop and Shop. I am just going to get surlier, ruder and more insubordinate. Plus my knees hurt and I have a great little temp job if I can just hold on to it and not screw up.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
It all depends on how much you need the money, and how badly they can hurt you with bad references, and what you have riding on your income level. If you can always move home to your parents' basement, then you're free to quit whenever you want. But if you or your spouse is pregnant and you need health insurance to make sure your baby is covered from the moment of birth, you'd have to be INSANE to quit your job.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Unless your job has you involved in criminal behavior. Then quit it right now, regardless.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
When they change the locks on the door, and don't give you a new key.
When they rent out your office to a homeless Cryptologist.
Six months after they move out of state without forwarding you the new address.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
Is this becoming a game? In that case:
When your paycheck bounces.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
When you die.
Posted by dean (Member # 167) on :
I did once quit a job because my payckeck bounced.
In this case, I don't need the job financially-- it's just a second job-- though it's nice to have the extra money, but it seems like so much extra work.
And I'm not doing as good a job as I used to, coming in late, and whining to leave early.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Then quit. It's not fair to your employees and employer for you to drag yourself in late and then go, "can I leave early, now? Please before I chew off my own limb?" I know this because I hate working at the supermarket so much, that I shuffle in 10 minutes late (When I should leave the house 10 minutes early) and growl and grumble all day about being there. Compared to this temp job where I come in 20 minutes early and ready to work enthusiastically.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
When you work for a company that when they want to get rid of you, they not only fire you, but frame you as well (to get some leverage over you in case you file for unfair dismissal).
Unfortunately, in my case, I'm not making this up.
Posted by Starbuck (Member # 4552) on :
quote:When your paycheck bounces.
It's funny how you think this is a joke . . .
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
quote:When your paycheck bounces.
Now you tell me! Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
When I'm due to get a new job soon, it's not something I decide so much as realize. When I notice myself thinking "wow that looks like such a fun job" about the bread delivery guy, the UPS man, the grocery store clerks, food servers, and so on, then I know that I'm soon going to get a new job, and so I start looking. I don't usually quit until I have already taken my next job, though. I did once, but it worked out great. I found the perfect job right away.
It's always been a good thing, when I've changed jobs. I would probably have stayed with my first company forever, if they hadn't closed our whole section and sent us out to look. It was a really good job. But because when I started looking I got five offers, also because I was so shocked and upset at first that the company would do that to us, but then I came to realize that business is just like that, that they will keep you exactly 2 weeks past the time that it's profitable to them to employ you, and you should do the same courtesy for them. When it's better for you to be somewhere else, you go. Two weeks notice is what you owe them. I also have always made myself available to help out on any ongoing projects with which I was involved, once I changed over, to answer questions and so on from the person who took over from me, but that's just extra.
So yes I think it's usually a good thing to change jobs. Studies show that the most successful people change jobs more often. You learn and grow that way. The longest I've stayed in one job is six years.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
<laughs> The ads at the bottom of my page are about quitting smoking, and yes, Deany, you definitely need to quit. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You know, I wonder how many of us have had a paycheck bounce. Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
quote:When your paycheck bounces.
Not necessarily. If you really like the job, and you don't need the money, having your paycheck bouce doesn't have to be a quitting qualification.
My senior year in HS, I had a really great, super fun job at a UHF station. I let three of my paychecks bounce before I finally quit. I hated to leave because the job was so much fun. But I had a car payment to think of.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I actually worked for a company that went bankrupt. Continued working there for about a year and a half while the were bankrupt, and never had a check bounce.
Quit if you have a better job lined up. If you don't have a better job, make sure you've been working there long enough to qualify for unemployment and let yourself get fired instead.
Practice what you're going to say in interviews when they ask why you left/are leaving your previous job.
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