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

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Post by sofaofthedamned »

mbrundle wrote: post #43
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?

Other guy quit months earlier. They didn't bother asking me about renewal until a week before my contract finished. Would have loved the money but life is too short and I've been forced to spend time chilling out which doesn't come naturally to me. Actually a good place to work with great people but life is too short. Apologies for brevity, I'm on my mobile in the garden after finishing the decoration for our wedding reception at home!

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

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Post by 27072018 »

nonprofitdev wrote: post #30

Bad experience at a nonprofit. For all the "you're doing amazing work!" talk and praise that was heaped on us, there was a lot of fluff and cruft behind the scenes. Almost everything was geared towards marketing how we were changing the sector, when almost none of the projects mattered or would ever be used. And the maniacal focus on getting more money donated when summer time came around. Joined because I believed i…

Also leaving another "we are doing amazing work!" job because they can't make the office be an amazing place for the staff. A non-profit in the humanitarian space. Ironical.

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

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Post by nojvek »

The product wasn't a money maker for a mega corp. They couldn't justify investing to make the product better and pay well. It was a fun team, but it got really boring since we could only ship once every six months with the OS. I like shipping daily!

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

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Post by notlob »

magduf wrote: post #38

Two reasons: 1) Better pay, tired of where I was living, wanted to move to more urban environment 2) Wanted to move closer to girlfriend of over 1.5 years Then the girlfriend dumped me as I was moving. :-( At least the job seems to be OK; I can't complain much about things like being overworked, the company doing poorly, bad morale, or anything like that. And luckily, the dating opportunities in my new location are f…

[deleted, this was a total overshare]

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

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Post by undulation »

Ocerge wrote: post #23
AgentOrange1234 wrote: post #17

My team lead was the least competent person on the team. This was constantly frustrating. When it finally bugged me enough to look around, much better pay was available. So that pretty much did it.

Exact same reason as me. They were the personification of Dunning-Kruger. It's so damn disheartening to go to work everyday when you know what you are working on is absolutely doomed to fail, and you are powerless to stop it thanks to office politics.

I know the feeling; it's not a good one

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

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Post by magduf »

notlob wrote: post #64
magduf wrote: post #38

Two reasons: 1) Better pay, tired of where I was living, wanted to move to more urban environment 2) Wanted to move closer to girlfriend of over 1.5 years Then the girlfriend dumped me as I was moving. :-( At least the job seems to be OK; I can't complain much about things like being overworked, the company doing poorly, bad morale, or anything like that. And luckily, the dating opportunities in my new location are f…

[deleted, this was a total overshare]

Thank you for sharing. It does help to know we aren't alone.

The bad part is, I would have been sorta-OK with breaking up if we could have talked about it, and maintained some contact. We were having problems before this point, so it wasn't a total surprise. But she suddenly turned ice-cold. I've never had a relationship end so badly. I'm still friends with my ex-wife, for instance, and am Facebook friends and sometimes exchange some messages with the girlfriend I had before that, but this gf had a "personal policy" of basically deleting me from her life if we broke up, and she did exactly that. And the thing that really pushed her over the edge was when I complained that she wasn't helping with my move (which she wasn't).

Edit: deleted the rest in response to parent's deletion; I don't want to violate his privacy.

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

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Post by anotherevan »

sofaofthedamned wrote: post #61
mbrundle wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! How did they attempt to justify this?

Other guy quit months earlier. They didn't bother asking me about renewal until a week before my contract finished. Would have loved the money but life is too short and I've been forced to spend time chilling out which doesn't come naturally to me. Actually a good place to work with great people but life is too short. Apologies for brevity, I'm on my mobile in the garden after finishing the decoration for our wedding…

Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials.

I would be interested to know how it turned out if you went back to them after your honeymoon to see if you could get a new contract then.

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

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Post by blubb-fish »

Just had my last day today as the CTO.

I quit b/c we got bought by a corporation about a year ago. The purpose of this purchase was to integrate our technology and our customers into the stack of that corporation. So basically we got dumped with requirements to add features only relevant to that corporation. That totally overwhelmed the capacity of the IT team which already was working at a limit. Some days it all felt like a big house of cards just waiting to collapse due to a little inattention on our side. I mean if an IT department is forced to push the envelope all your best practices are being thrown over board. That just took a toll on me. So to protect my health I decided to leave this company I very much enjoyed working for and help building up for three years.

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

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Post by kjeetgill »

ConfusedDog wrote: post #40

Last time I quit because my girlfriend broke up with me and I was in need of change. So, I went back to school and got a PhD - broke record time getting it because I worked like crazy. Because of school stress, I was working out really intensely and got into best shape of my life. Now life is good, I got fat again...

> Now life is good, I got fat again...

Jesus I can relate. I'm back on the diet/gym train again but it was so much easier when I was running away from life stress.

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