Anyone Ever Quit Their Job Unexpectedly?

[alis]

Just wondering if anyone can relate.

The owners of the establishment I was working had abusive tendencies and were manipulative and loved to have random outbursts of anger.

One day, I told my boss I quit and walked out the door. He ran out after me and started to scream at me again. (no surprise there.)

I've never walked out of a job on the spot like this.. the constant anxiety was just too much surrounding this. I'm relying on my savings to pay for rent for the time being but now I've started having dreams about being too broke and running out of money !

 

[Muted]

Good for you @alis ! That is a huge step and obviously you knew when you needed to draw the line. Unhealthy work situations cause a lot of distress and take a huge toll.

I get the financial stress, because that's what keeps me in my job mainly. It's good you have savings to get you through this time.

 

[ladee]

Yes, twice. Did not regret it either time. Ya..times got hard. But that was stress that made sense.
Keeping myself in toxic work environments made no sense.
Good for you. Hope you find something soon. Something that makes you look forward to going to work.

 

[Freedomfighter]

To me most work places are toxic, the people in those places are toxic. One place is all females and their ways of fake communication will make anyone sick. The fake hellos, the fake: oh I care so much about what you say, the fake I like your sweater, you like my sweater too? Really?

Fake, fake, fake, it is enough to make me puke. Then the other place where I deal with mostly males, their toxicity originates from not being able to prove to me that they are all that in a physical way.

This is just a sick sick world.

 

[alis]

Thanks for yall replies ! Yes I definitely do feel good about my decision, unfortunately I do understand that it's so difficult to find a non-toxic work environment, especially in the industry I work sexual harassment is rarely not existent. As far as the financial strain, I just booked a contract job (yay!) today which is not a permanent thing but it's union so that will keep me going monetary wise for a little while I hope.

 

[Friday]

So often that it ceased becoming an unexpected thing!

Cheers on the new job :)

 

[Beemo3780]

Yep, and never regretted it. I've had jobs when I was younger that didn't seem like they were going anywhere so I just didn't go back. I don't like to feel like I'm wasting my time.

I walked out of one job when I was older because I was working the equivalent of 3 jobs at a non profit - assistant manager/IT girl/grant writer. I had been working 12-15 hours a day, was run down, and the director wouldn't give me a pay increase or health insurance. So I walked. Glad I did too, because I was only out of work for a couple days before a friend of mine called me about a job that he thought I'd be the perfect fit for one of his clients. I've been there for 8 years now.

 

[LiketheMouse]

More than once.

 

[EmmaOwl]

I quit a job for excelling at it.

That is, I was given a huge bump in responsibility and salary (and hours, for that matter - it was technically a part-time job). It scared me - one of a number of pressures all at the same time - and I quit entirely.

I imagine that threw them for a loop....as they were happy with my work. In retrospect, I see that I could've said no to the promotion itself, but I didn't. I panicked. It was one of the first big cracks of a plain old nervous breakdown.

 

[Gamera3000]

I am/was an unfunded researcher. I just walked away from my study with no notice to my human subjects. The guy overseeing me was like "K bye," which was a mixed relief and an insult, like he didn't care. I think the subjects haven't noticed yet. I feel like they will be the same. Like, oh, whatever. So all my hard work for the past few years was for nothing.

But it felt like I was working so hard to help this population and they didn't care enough to help themselves. As if I were the only one who cared.

 

[Crow]

I had a fantastic position at a good company. I went haywire one day and walked out. Told people I knew they had fired me. Ended up working part-time for over a year before getting another corporate job.

 

[physicist13]

Yep, I was supposed to work the day after I got raped by a stranger but I called in sick for a day then quit because going back sounded SO impossible.