Quitting your job can feel awesome...

Annoying Old Party Man said:

...until the harsh realities of your next one rape you in the ass.

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What...

...until the harsh realities of your next one rape you in the ass.

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Always check for that in the job description, you have no one but yourself to blame.

One of the greatest days of my entire life was my last day at a call center. I'd been there for a long time. I had some money saved up and I wasn't going to do anything for a little while. I said bye to my manager, walked outside, went behind the building and smoked some weed and walked home. I proceeded to smoke myself into another dimension that night.

It was awesome.

I rememeber when I quit my first job at retail due my raises not carrying over after several minimum wage hikes. I asked to get the raises I gained over the years and have it be added to the current minimum wage. I was declined. Then and there, I put my two weeks with that being the main reason. Nobody did anything nice for me or said anything so I knew it was definitely the right choice. Its funny since they keep trying to get me to go back since they realized how much I did and how fast I did it.

Annoying Old Party Man said:

...until the harsh realities of your next one rape you in the ass.

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yea dude maybe double check that employment contract

Annoying Old Party Man said:

until the harsh realities of your next one rape you in the ass

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if your only other option for sustenance was selling your body, you should probably not have quit your old job

Nude_Tayne said:

Always check for that in the job description, you have no one but yourself to blame.

One of the greatest days of my entire life was my last day at a call center. I'd been there for a long time. I had some money saved up and I wasn't going to do anything for a little while. I said bye to my manager, walked outside, went behind the building and smoked some weed and walked home. I proceeded to smoke myself into another dimension that night.

It was awesome.

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this is my goal in life

it feels awesome

for the first 10 to 15 minutes until you fully realize what you have really done...

Fuck i wish i can go back in time :((

Annoying Old Party Man said:

...until the harsh realities of your next one rape you in the ass. - EDIT - METAPHORICALLY speaking

But... we're not there yet!!!

It's almost my last day at my current job - had announced that I'm leaving since the summer and now we're wrapping up stuff, announcing it to clients etc.

The atmosphere is melancholic, everyone is suddenly paying attention and care for you since they know they won't have you for long more, and we are throwing a big party till the morning to have a nice memory of it all.

It's like a less dramatic version of a funeral that you get to participate in, and instead of a mass everyone gets wasted with alcohol and drugs!

How has it been quitting your job for you ERA? Did you have fun times like that? Did you hate it? Did you regret it after?

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You're in an interesting line of work :P

It feels good quitting a job you hate, I remember working at a Dunkin Donuts in college and leaving to work for the company I'm still with today. The job was so brutal man and all for a little over minimum wage. It was a happy day when I gave my notice and even had a few weeks to myself during winter break before my next one started.

People treat their jobs and places of employment with too much importance. A going away party? I would fucking hate that. It's just a paycheck, move on.

I used to think that that OP, then I found out that starting a new job at a new company means a month or so of feeling like a clueless newbie again.

I quit my last job and went to Vietnam for 2 weeks. Amazing experience.

I think I just got a short mention that I was leaving at the next unrelated gathering of employees, and that was it. A few coworkers had a short chat with me to ask where I was going afterwards, but that was it. I wasn't close to anyone, so there was no change in atmosphere really.

Hell, they barely even remembered to go through their own checklist of stuff to get from me until maybe 30 minutes before I left - I had already done most of it myself.

Fuck that place.

Nude_Tayne said:

Always check for that in the job description, you have no one but yourself to blame.

One of the greatest days of my entire life was my last day at a call center. I'd been there for a long time. I had some money saved up and I wasn't going to do anything for a little while. I said bye to my manager, walked outside, went behind the building and smoked some weed and walked home. I proceeded to smoke myself into another dimension that night.

It was awesome.

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Non consensual intercourse is a classic example of what is commonly known as a "red flag". Be careful to make sure your next employer doesn't partake too often in this practice.

cwmartin said:

People treat their jobs and places of employment with too much importance. A going away party? I would fucking hate that. It's just a paycheck, move on.

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I mean it's a group of people you spend more time with than anyone else, and possibly for years at a time. It can be hard not to get a little sentimental about leaving it all behind, even if you didn't like the work itself.

Kite said:

I used to think that that OP, then I found out that starting a new job at a new company means a month or so of feeling like a clueless newbie again.

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This is the worst...as someone a little over a month in a new job.

cwmartin said:

People treat their jobs and places of employment with too much importance. A going away party? I would fucking hate that. It's just a paycheck, move on.

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A lot of times it's a place in which you've spent years of your life and have spent a lot more time with your co-workers than their friends do.

If you don't like the idea of partying when leaving a job, nothing wrong with that, but it's perfectly natural to think the job is more than just a paycheck.

I've recently quit my job and it was a little bit sad, especially that I was an important person on the team but I've wanted to gain more experience, work in a bigger corporation and have better work-life ballance so I've decided to quit.

It's definitely sad for anyone (ofc. if you were a good employee anda coworker) - for me it definitely was hard, some people could not believe why would I quit, especially because I didn't have a new job already (spoiler alert: after a much wanted month free I found something great) and everyone was either shocked, that someone actually did what they were afraid of doing (lack of training and new possibilities to growth and so many overtime hours was killing them but they didn't do a thing about it) or kind of jealous that I did it.
The hardest part was passing my work to another employee when I knew that it's too much work for one person and it's gonna be more and saying goodbye for a great client with whom I worked.

One tip when you are quitting work - don't burn all the bridges - both with cooworkers and clients. It is highly possible that one day you may meet them again and it would be great to be remembered positively

I quit my job and I'm leaving the pit stain of a city Cleveland behind. It feels good.

radosiewka said:

One tip when you are quitting work - don't burn all the bridges - both with cooworkers and clients. It is highly possible that one day you may meet them again and it would be great to be remembered positively

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This is very true. You work in a field, and your field is smaller than it seems. If you stay in the same city and field, you have a decent chance of running into a former co-worker years down the line.

I've interviewed for a job where one of the interviewers was a former co-worker before. It happens.

yo that warning combined with op's first line in comedy gold

Annoying Old Party Man said:

But then it gets better... right?

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It should, did you feel nervous when you first started at the job you're leaving? It'll be the same depending on how good your new company is at training new hires. With good training and good mentors I'm up and running fast. Shitty places that throw you in with zero training.. 5 months in and I was still completely lost. I started job hunting a month after starting and quit that place fast.

The only job I ever quit, I gave my 2 weeks notice for.

They were really sad about it. Even made a little goodbye cake for me.

I miss that place and the people there. Only thing I didn't miss was the salary. Feels strange earning peanuts for a job when your work is largely responsible for the MILLIONS the company makes. That's the only reason I left. Yearly $.25/hour raises (for Max performance review) are just ridiculous.

cwmartin said:

People treat their jobs and places of employment with too much importance. A going away party? I would fucking hate that. It's just a paycheck, move on.

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It's not just a paycheck. It can be a career and you can run into the same people down the road. They can often recall it being a pleasant experience to work with you and thus put in a good word when you're looking for work.

If you just go to work, dont talk to anyone, go home and collect your check outside of low level retail jobs just starting out you're selling yourself short.

People getting wasted on alcohol and drugs isn't a feature of any of the going away "parties" I've seen on any job I've had. The guest of honor may get a card or a free lunch at most.

When I leave/retire unless I'm a totally different person, I won't want a big thing.

Kite said:

I used to think that that OP, then I found out that starting a new job at a new company means a month or so of feeling like a clueless newbie again.

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That's me right now. Going from 4 years+ of experience at my last position to 2 months of experience at this new one and even though some of it carries over a lot of it doesn't so man is it fun asking dumb questions all over again.

Quitting my job last year went well for me. I was getting screwed over bad by upper management. I went a few months without a job but I did it by choice. Took a nice break from things. Now, I'm in a better position and getting more money.

I quit my job last month, will start the new one in October. I really liked the people I worked with but quitting felt good because there wasn't a future for me there. Not only was I working in a field different than what I'm good at, the company was doing very bad with no signs of recovering.
Now I gotta say the anxiety for the next job is killing me these last few days. I'm moving to a different country for it too so my life will drastically change in a week.

Microsoft said:

Quitting my job last year went well for me. I was getting screwed over bad by upper management. I went a few months without a job but I did it by choice. Took a nice break from things. Now, I'm in a better position and getting more money.

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This was me exactly. High five!!

its a weird feeling for sure. im in a position now where id kill for a job and to have money coming in*, but thats less a case of me quitting before i had something lined up or burning bridges and acting poorly and quitting with a nice amount of savings and moving four states away and being in a situation where its difficult to manage a spouse's job in a region where everything is miles away, no public transport, and one car/driver.

having said that, i recently was working two jobs before i moved. quitting the one job (grocery store retail) was a BEAUTIFUL day and i got to just be a real fucking dickhead to one of my most disliked customers and ended up giving a shitload of free stuff away to my regulars and some lucky first timers (including to the proprietor of my favorite Philly based mens clothier, which was a fun little thing for me). quitting my other job kinda sucked because it was 1) an easy, amazing job and 2) my co-workers were awesome and i miss them. i did give both two weeks notice because even though i hated one, i liked my direct co-workers a lot and didnt want to leave them too in the lurch, and the other job was great and they deserved the courtesy.

in the past, i did quit one job rather spectacularly (manager was sexually harassing my co-worker, i called him on it, he was ready to throw down, &c) and another in a very personally satisfying way (did a shit-ton of OT, forced into working cross-department a bunch, became very relied-upon, and during a particularly busy, rough day, was sent to a shitty department AGAIN and a few hours shy of lunch-time, finished a really heavy volume process, told the sup for that department i was leaving, and walked out to my car and drove 250 miles to my new place and my fiancee). i like that last one a lot because that sup kind of looked at me like, "uh... you're coming back though, right?" which resulted in my enormous guffaw as i walked up to the front of the building.