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Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by thsowers »

ConfusedDog wrote: post #33
clort wrote: post #27

I've just left my job, last week I left because the place was going downhill and morale was rock bottom. Weak management and funding shortfalls meant that non core departments were being starved of money. Staff were leaving or being made redundant and I was going to be the only one left in my department with little to do. I took the chance to apply elsewhere where they hopefully value the work I do and got in. I am t…

Honestly, I think you should have stayed and keep working hard. With fewer competition and obvious competency, it was more like an opportunity than an unfortunate situation...

Sometimes when the ship is sinking, you need to jump off

Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by mbrundle »

sofaofthedamned wrote: post #36

Because they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't call me on my wedding day, which is on Saturday. Hence I've spent the last two months with my wife to be sorting out house out and making it awesome for the wedding reception!

Wow! How did they attempt to justify this?

Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by gyvuip68ig6789b »

Because it reduced me to little more than an annoying telemarketer, and even though I had a hunch that this would be the sad truth of the role before I started, I had to see for myself.

I decided to try it because money. Because even though my previous job was perfectly fine, I remain emotionally detached from all employers and coworkers, reducing the situation to a paycheck. One paycheck versus another, so I quit two jobs.

One perfectly reasonable job, in exchange for what I suspected might be a demotion to a telemarketer, and when proven right, I quit the second job, despite the better pay.

Wow. Gee. Oh well.

Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by bigoldie »

Coming from someone who just quit his job (2 days ago): I was tired of false promises by my new employer. I already worked for several years at my current job, ready to quit when a new investor and CEO came in. Based on the promises I stayed. There would be heavy investments made in our Dev team, but in the end my team only shrunk because of the lack of improvements to IT and the missing feeling for IT by the CEO (of an only online selling company). Due to the shrinkage our team was also only doing maintenance instead of creating real new products.

In the last couple of months the company was also bought by a bigger international player. Good for the company, but bad for the IT as this bigger player already has loads of dev teams in several other countries.

This was the final push I needed to quit. Fed up with the false promises and the bad outlook for my team I finally found a much better job. A decision I should have taken earlier.

Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by ConfusedDog »

thsowers wrote: post #41
ConfusedDog wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, I think you should have stayed and keep working hard. With fewer competition and obvious competency, it was more like an opportunity than an unfortunate situation...

Sometimes when the ship is sinking, you need to jump off

You should read Kazuo Inamori, he was not even being paid on time and still worked hard... really inspiring dude.

Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by knorker »

Money, and the BS "oh we can't pay you more than this"... until I resigned and suddenly it was possible to pay me more. Too late then. Much, much too late.

When someone says "oooh, I can't find qualified people" I don't believe them. If you offer people 2x what they currently make to do a job that isn't bad then you'll get them. If you don't want to offer that then you are offering to underpay them, and that's why they won't come.

You don't have to hire underskilled people and train them[1]. You can just pay. Conversely, if you don't pay them, they'll leave. (well, some will stay to be exploited, sure)

[1] E.g. I disagree with https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1021960484738629632 and https://caylent.com/sre-vs-devops/?utm_source=social&utm_med...

Re: Ask HN: Why did you quit your last job?

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Post by bsvalley »

I quit all my previous jobs (maybe one exception) because of a very bad Manager. These managers are extremely hurtful for companies and I believe upper management does not get the same side of the story. Surprisingly, I always get along with senior managers over direct managers. If people want to improve the tech industry in general from an employer perspective, I'd start by cleaning that 1st layer of management pretty hard.
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