Misc List on Why I Left A Job once

dstraito

dstraito

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Top 25 Reasons to Change My Current Job Duties​



  1. The fit is a square peg in a round hole
  2. Does not put the wind in my sails
  3. Does not float my boat
  4. Is not what I live for
  5. Is not what I am passionate about
  6. Is not what gets me out of bed in the morning
  7. Is not on my career path
  8. Does not play to my strengths
  9. Does not work with my disability
  10. Is not what I signed on to do
  11. Has wasted one year of my life
  12. Is not maximizing my value and contribution to XYZ
  13. Is not shepherding my career
  14. Is not motivating me
  15. Is keeping me depressed
  16. Is wasting the expertise that I spent over ten years achieving
  17. Was assigned to me without allowing me input to decision
  18. Is deteriorating my skill sets
  19. Has no hands-on which I thrive on
  20. Has made me mentally insufficient to get my job done (ie: no motivation, no enthusiasm, lethargy, depression, etc.)
  21. Is leaving XYZ with inadequate support and resources
  22. Is making me seek employment elsewhere
  23. Has got me either not knowing the dept. vision or not agreeing with it
  24. Is wasting one of the best DB A resources it has
  25. Is ignoring wisdom and advice gathered from being in IT in so many different ways since 1980.
 
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raven

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My supervisor once rated me average on an annual performance report.
I was a software quality engineer.
I told him I would not work for a company were the standard was average
 
WildDaisy

WildDaisy

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I was laid off 10 years ago from my position. I was the only one in our department, but part of a larger company-wide layoff.


I was an HRIT analyst, but a peeon. My job was to run data and give reports to my management who then in turn presented to the CEO. Well, we went through four managers in one year, and the last one was barely on the job a few month when he made the decision that I was the one to be let go. It was the only review I ever had in my life that was "average" or meets requirements. I'm always an exceeds. Well, the following month after I got let go, they called me back. It seems that no one was able to reproduce the reports I did. They had to let the CEO know that they let the only person with the knowledge go. They had no idea what I did all day, and the manager barely even said good morning to me, and I don't even think he knew my name. None of the "upper management" had the skills for Excel or for our HR database to provide the CEO with the information. I kindly said "No thank you" to the request to come back and let them squirm.

I ended up with a better job, 10 minutes from home (instead of the hour and half commute), better benefits, and for $10,000 more than I was making after 20 years at the previous company. Their loss!


2 years after I left, that manager that let me go, was arrested for embezzling. I think they let me go because he knew I was the only one who would have caught what he was doing in the department.
 
dstraito

dstraito

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bethshaya said:
I was laid off 10 years ago from my position. I was the only one in our department, but part of a larger company-wide layoff.


I was an HRIT analyst, but a peeon. My job was to run data and give reports to my management who then in turn presented to the CEO. Well, we went through four managers in one year, and the last one was barely on the job a few month when he made the decision that I was the one to be let go. It was the only review I ever had in my life that was "average" or meets requirements. I'm always an exceeds. Well, the following month after I got let go, they called me back. It seems that no one was able to reproduce the reports I did. They had to let the CEO know that they let the only person with the knowledge go. They had no idea what I did all day, and the manager barely even said good morning to me, and I don't even think he knew my name. None of the "upper management" had the skills for Excel or for our HR database to provide the CEO with the information. I kindly said "No thank you" to the request to come back and let them squirm.

I ended up with a better job, 10 minutes from home (instead of the hour and half commute), better benefits, and for $10,000 more than I was making after 20 years at the previous company. Their loss!


2 years after I left, that manager that let me go, was arrested for embezzling. I think they let me go because he knew I was the only one who would have caught what he was doing in the department.
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Isn't that the way of things, reminds me of some situations I was in but it sounds like you did okay
 
Texican

Texican

Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
My first position out of college as an engineer was with a company that built buildings and fences with precast brick walls....

I ran the field and used my own truck for transportation.... I asked about getting a company truck and the boss said I could take the field truck, but I told him that the field crew had to have the truck to go to the job sites....

I had guys in the field taking more home than I made.... We were putting in sixty plus hours per week and I did not get OT since I was salaried.... I asked my boss for a $100 per week raise and he countered with $50 since he did not make that when he got out of college.... I meet with the president of the parent company and explained what was happening. He told me that it was my boss's job to run the division....

I pulled a tendon in my knee on a job site... I was hurting from the injury and I again asked for the $100 per week raise and my boss refused me again.... I turned in my two weeks notice and took the last two weeks of vacation that I had earned....

The company hired two guys to replace me for a lot more than the $100 would have been added to my weekly salary....

The division was closed a few months later.... due to the incompetence of my boss....

This is the way with corporations....

Texican....
 
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