Most Fun Way to Leave a Bad Job? 371
medscaper asks: "I have an awesome opportunity this morning. Since the market is opening up, I was offered a great new tech job over the weekend, and have been stuck in a miserable one for the past several years. I spend more time stressing out and anxious about keeping my job than getting any quality work done. I'm SO looking forward to walking into my boss's office this morning to let him know that I'll be leaving. I'm tempted to do it with style, especially because I got a (completely unwarranted) PHB-style threatening lecture last week about my work habits. I really don't need the recommendation or a reference, so it doesn't matter much how I leave. Should I politely give the standard 2-weeks? Or should I have a little fun with it and burn some bridges? Anyone have any stories to relate?"
Leave the Fight Club way (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Leave the Fight Club way (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Leave the Fight Club way (Score:3, Interesting)
I couldn't agree more. Even if you don't need the reference for this new job, most prospective employers want to be able to contact at least your last 2 or 3 employers, and it's not unusual for companies to ask for a complete work history going back as far as 7-10 years, with non-
Re:Leave the Fight Club way (Score:3, Informative)
Just leave (Score:5, Interesting)
Tell them you need to be paid in adavance.
Good luck in your new job.
Re:Just leave (Score:5, Interesting)
As others posted, don't anything they can call the police for.
About burning bridges, think well what you do and how you bring it. You can burn bridges but make it sound as if it's not your fault, try to make it their fault that you don't want to work for them anymore.
You can be creative about the way you're going to tell your boss. You don't have to say you've found a new job. So as far as your boss knows, there can be another reason to leave your job, like that threatening lecture you speak about.
It depends on who you are but you can use this in many ways. Just go to him and say you've thought about what he said then and you find it unfair and therefor don't want to work for the company anymore.
Or you can even act as you've got a depression because of it, start crying that you did your best and didn't want to disappoint him and liked working there so much but didn't expect it and.....
There are many possible ways but it depends on who you are and the situation at the company.
I had something similar, left a consultancy job 2 years ago, the boss was a jerk.. but I was polite, didn't burn bridges.
A month ago the company phoned me back, first to ask me if I still had documentation or even source code from a specific project I did for them.. Later their true reason for contacting me came out, they had a big project starting and needed to hire someone, and as I had that specific experience, they wanted to hire me for a few months. It felt very good to say no to them
Re:Just leave (Score:4, Insightful)
ALWAYS present leaving a job on good terms, if you can.
You might not think about it now, but do you really want a future employer to even have to decide if you left because your old boss was a jerk or you were the jerk?!?
Bad jobs happen... people have bad worker/employer fits all the time.
You want your future employers to see that you were able to handle a bad situation gracefully; it'll add to your credit.
(Although not in the parent of this reply, but from the original poster): "you're not going to use them as a reference" suggests you'd rather have a multi-year gap in your employment history than show you were gainfully employed? Bad move.
Re:OT Re:Just leave (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to say this sounds really pathetic, but only because I'm jealous that you thought of it first.
Good god man.. (Score:5, Funny)
Vacation! (Score:5, Interesting)
P.S.
I did let the mean old lady know I was going on vacation, she just forgot.
Re:Vacation! (Score:5, Funny)
It works better than expected. By the second sick day they work out the deal and you get the next week off fully paid.
Na dun burn bridges (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:4, Insightful)
I have ALWAYS insisted on an exit interview, and one time I was not real nice - another time I was very clear to HR that I would never ever work for so and so ever again.
If you go for the FOAD, I suggest you do the exit interview first.
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:5, Funny)
"Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool. And fuck you. I'm out."
http://www.moviewavs.com/cgi-bin/mp3s.cgi?
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:5, Interesting)
So then he got a new job. Sorta the same thing. He was working there about half a year before his boss there got promoted or something, gone, right? Then his company hires a shiny new boss for my uncle... and it's his old boss who fired him. The guy got canned himself for firing my uncle and dicking up the company.
My uncle tells the funniest stories. Since then he's sold baby formula to Africa, used cars, and now he's in Kuwait organizing shipping to Iraq once again.
--Matthew
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:5, Funny)
How the hell should I know?
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:2)
Daniel
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:2, Funny)
So, are there any other fringe benefits of being the nephew of Satan?
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:2, Informative)
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporations
http://www.news24.com/News 24/World/0,6119,2-10_130 8508,00.html
Evils of selling baby formula (Score:4, Informative)
Truth of the matter is: If you're in the third world and you're not rich enough to afford really good water (and know about the evils of formula), you're probably going to be better off finding a friend you can pay to breast feed your kid. Chances are it'll be both cheaper and healthier.
It's one thing to sell baby formula to people who need it. It's another thing entirely to market it to people who'se kids are probably going to get sick from eating the stuff. (while telling them precisely the opposite)
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:5, Funny)
Too bad it doesn't appear to be hereditary.
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Na dun burn bridges (Score:3, Interesting)
Wait for the next time your job pisses you off. Try to put yourself in a situation where something unfair will be done to you. When it happens say, "That's it! I can't take it anymore! I'm leaving! You have pushed me too far!" They'll try to apologize and beg you not to overreact, but you'll be walking out the door.
If done just right, the person who wronged you will look bad for having directly caused employee attrition.
I say don't *directly* burn them... (Score:4, Funny)
I hated my last job. The bosses were always jerks to everyone, they engaged in shady business practices and I never saw a raise even though I busted my butt to keep the place afloat when we were understaffed and turning over employees like flapjacks. I left on pretty amicable terms...
That is, right up until I went down to the US Bankruptcy courts and the IRS to report that the owner was skimming cash to avoid paying back his creditors. And also dropped a few notes to the FBI about their sex tourism business bussing guys down to Mexico and finding them hookers. And dropping a few lines to the FTC about unsolicited junk faxing. And letting their largest clients know just how much mark-up they were paying. And...
They probably don't know it was me, as they left a long string of disgruntled employees. Whenever I think about it, I just smile smugly, wondering how much jail time they'll end up with.
Don't Burn Bridges (Score:5, Insightful)
I know a guy who used to work in a specific industry, then went to work for one of the large consulting firms. He was sent to one of the companies to pitch a $30M project. He ended up pitching to someone he had seriously screwed a number of years earlier. Needless to say regardless of his current companies abilities, they didn't get the contact.
MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Don't Burn Bridges (Score:3, Insightful)
The email contained an ASCII moon, and not the kind you'd normally see hanging in the
Re:Don't Burn Bridges (Score:5, Insightful)
I agree. Be classy. People will remember how you left. If your real motivation is to screw the company, do it with a smile while being polite -- put in two weeks notice, actually do your work, and quietly try to recruit other key people to leave too. This way, your coworkers will remember that you were a good guy (whether they follow you or not).
Re:Don't Burn Bridges (Score:5, Insightful)
Perhaps more significantly, your boss's boss or peer, who had nothing against you until they heard from your boss how you screwed him, could be interviewing you later on somewhere else.
Never burn bridges, ever. It's unprofessional, and your professional reputation is worth more than any temporary smugness you might achieve.
Make it meaningful, or funny... (Score:5, Interesting)
The only other "meaningful" way to go would be to use the opportunity to give a message to the downtrodden you're leaving behind. Show them just how lazy, insubordinate, and unmotivated one can be without actually getting fired (for the duration of however long you have left) - just be a really bad example to other employees, and watch management squirm in their inability to fire you in today's litigious climate... ideally, the outcome of this act could be that everyone else will realize their true position, begin acting similarly, and perhaps management will be forced into a corner with regards to how they treat their 'human resources'. Businesses treat employees like shit only when they think they can get away with it.
See the movie "Office Space" for some hints.
Re:Movie "Office Space" (Score:2, Funny)
Have some fun... (Score:2, Funny)
Name that quote (Score:3, Funny)
I've been tempted to do that one at work, since I'm about to leave a fast food job for a much better paying software development job.
Re:Name that quote (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Name that quote (Score:2)
Just stop going in (Score:2)
I hate the "bridge" anecdote. People aren't bridges. If they are fuckwits, cut 'em loose, you don't want to work with them again anyway. The real people will outshine those lesser lifeforms that will still be in middle management 10 years fr
Re:Just stop going in (Score:3, Funny)
No, they're not, but imagining them to be so does make it easier to pour gasoline on them and shoot them with a flare gun.
Ask for a promotion (Score:5, Interesting)
NarratorDan
Bad Move (Score:4, Insightful)
Not Necessarily (Score:4, Interesting)
The only problem is when your either crap and they don't want you any way, or your boss is an ass who thinks your bluffing. Then of course you are going to have to find a new job because you know they wont promote you anyway.
Re:Bad Move (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Bad Move (Score:5, Funny)
" All I have to say is, sure, go ahead, ask for a promotion. Ask for Money. Ask for Power. Ask them to offer you everything you ask for. The point isn't that you want all of that. The point is: "I want my father back, you sonofabitch!"
Re:Bad Move (Score:2)
Besides, the boss sounds like a six-fingered ROUS.
I would agree, however... (Score:3, Insightful)
1) He could disagree, in which case you can turn that into an amicable parting of the ways. I.e. I've found an offer more suitable to my career growth and I've decided to take it. I left a job like this once. I was turned down for a promotion, but
ok, so I feel old saying this but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:ok, so I feel old saying this but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Fuck yeah! You want to know what he did when he quit? Don't hire that asshole. Don't waste your time.
Small world. Good thing I talked to you first.
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I can't tell you how many stories I've heard of burned bridges haunting someone years down the road. Do you know the phrase I'm about to butcher? Treat a customer well and they'll tell two people; treat them badly and they'll tell ten. Same goes with burnt bridges. People remember bad things.
Re:ok, so I feel old saying this but... (Score:3, Interesting)
when I work for my first company, there was this presales guy who decided to change role to a team lead. One day he was overheard complaining his bonus was a measly x, instead of y (y being jus a couple of grand less than our salaries at the time).
forward 4 years, I'm recruiting.. and I'm asked to ask questions of this guy they ave n for a fancy job... you guessed. He didn't get the job.
Since then, when I get CVs in, I ask around for people who knew the guy, it does give a good indication of how
One day I quit my phone tech support job... (Score:4, Informative)
The setup was fairly involved because it required a VPN client that was not easy to set up, and a user name and password, which again, were complicated to obtain. On top of that, each MAC address had to be registered with the server. A day before the presentation, the entire system was changed. the VPN client was dumped in favour of a proxy system, which still required a user name and password. Needless to say, my presentation was worthless, and I was required to redo it within a day. I started working on it, but because I had made plans for the evening, I decided to finish it at the last moment the next day. I never got around to it.
I should mention this was not a 9-5 job, the shifts were 4 hours long. I even had to work from 3-11pm and then the next morning from 8am-3pm. Now for the rest of my story.
The day my unfinished presentation was due was such a beautiful, hot summer day I decided to ride my motorcycle to work. I thought I could wing it on the spot, and the whole way I kept thinking of it. The closer I got to the campus though, the more I dreaded having to deal with a problem I had not created. So I rode into the campus when I saw one of my supervisors walking around. But instead of turning into the parking lot, I just kept on going.
Later that evening I pulled up on a friend's driveway in Ottawa, about 450km away from the stupid presentation and my former job. I came back a week later to collect my last paycheck. That's how I quit my bad job.
Re:One day I quit my phone tech support job... (Score:5, Insightful)
Running away isn't going to fix anything. You should have given your original presentation and added a slide to the end saying that if the trainees have any questions, please see the person who made the process changes.
You would still have a chance at losing your job but you would have a ton more fun in the process.
Seek employment for your friends (Score:3, Interesting)
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Don't do anything rash (Score:5, Insightful)
Burn the bridges (Score:5, Funny)
I once left a dismal job a few years back. I tore up my office, made it a total mess. There were dead-man switches galore, and I 'accidentally' broke every build. I clogged several toilets, on multiple floors, in both mens and womens restrooms. I brought in a bunch of rotten food, and left it in various locations. I installed a ton of spyware and uninstalled all virus checking software, after filling the network shares with several gigabytes of the most nasty pornography I could find. I filled my desktop machine with quick-dry cement. On the way out, I even scraped my boss's dinky little car with my truck.
That was one of the most satisfying experiences in my life. I can't wait to get into a crappy job again!
Re:Burn the bridges (Score:3, Insightful)
But seriously, before you go over the top in plotting your revenge on your current boss, don't forget that he can do other things than sack you. He can withhold your last paycheck, your accrued holiday. He can track you down at your new job and spill the beans to your new boss. If you do something illegal, he can call in the police. Or much, much worse!
Re:Burn the bridges (Score:2)
Depends on where you live. If you're in a 'right to work' state, this is grounds for some serious law suits. And an ass whoopin.
Re:Burn the bridges (Score:4, Informative)
I had somebody try this on me once and discussed the issue with a friend who's an HR manager. It seems that withholding paychecks and accrued pay is against Federal labor laws. You don't want to screw with them.
They have to take you to civil court to get you to pay them back for any damages you might have caused.
Even if you weren't in a Right to Work state, this is usually not acceptable. From what I recall, even on reference checks, the only things you can really reveal about a former employee are their hire dates, salary and whether they're elligable for rehire.
Depending on what's said, and how much proof they have, you could also slap them with libel or slander.
Re:Burn the bridges (Score:5, Insightful)
"Mr. Smith? Hi, this is Mr. Anderson over at Fubarco? You hired one of our former employees, a Mr. Jones? I just needed to tell you that his reference status has changed---he is no longer eligible for rehire. Federal law prohibits me from specifying the particulars behind why there's not a chance in hell we would allow Mr. Jones to work here ever again. Just thought I'd let you know. Which reminds me---and this is a completely different and unrelated topic that has nothing to do with the reason we won't allow Mr. Jones to work here ever again---do you have any knowledge of how to remove dead fish from a ventilation system? No? Just thought I'd ask. Well, best of luck!"
Re:Burn the bridges (Score:3, Funny)
Why on earth would Neo be calling an Agent regarding an employee hire?
Re:Burn the bridges (Score:3, Funny)
Dogbert, evil HR director (paraphrased, as I'm sure someone will point out)
Re:my favorite job reference (Score:2, Funny)
Better be nice (Score:5, Insightful)
So, you say you're already employed?
Yes, but I'm not very fond of the work
So can you start immediately?
Sure.
Sorry, can't hire you.
Re:Better be nice (Score:5, Informative)
"So, when can you start?"
"Well, I have to give my current boss my two weeks notice"
"Of course. I wouldn't hire you if you didn't."
2 weeks later, my last day on the job was a friday, I had the weekend to myself, and I started work at the new place on a monday.
I have refused people jobs on this account (Score:3, Insightful)
I had someone who applied to me for work and as I interviewed him, it became clear to me that he was quite good and I fully intended to recruit him.
But towards the end of the interview when I asked him when he would be willing to join, he stated something along the lines that "sooner is better" since he wanted to slight those who were then employing him.
I told him that I couldn't employ someone with that attitude an
Make them know why you're leaving. (Score:3, Insightful)
Please remember, it's not a good thing to burn bridges at all if you're not outstanding at what you do - but if you're one of the most excellent people at our place, and you will be missed due to your skills, then it may be worth it.
However, from your story - it seems that your workplace isn't very fond of you, and that it will be interpreted as sour grapes if you do anything. That will not be a good thing.
Anyways, if by chance, you are a very productive, very well skilled person - then write up a letter on why you are leaving the company, why your direct superior is an asshole, and so forth. Tailor several letters. The one about your superior should be slipped to his superior. The one about other people should be slipped to their superiors. Make it perfectly clear why you are leaving the job - and make sure to let the real bosses know what work you've actually done that is very, very good.
Normally, though. If it's you that do not fit in, don't play any pranks - just inform your boss that you're not happy with the work environment, and that you've found another place where your skills will be used properly. That you wish this would be the case at the place you're leaving - but that the situation wasn't working out.
Don't do anything malicious (Score:2)
Be constructive, mature and professional - you'll be bound to run into some of these folks again.
Now having said that is it that your boss is malicious, and you want to
Two weeks and code! (Score:2)
Or make sure you have some hardware at home that belongs to them. If you're in good with certain people, you might get to keep it. I got to keep a laptop (dead now), an iPaq, and a pretty decent monitor that I had borrowed. Of course, I was laid off, maybe they we're trying to avoid an incident (it wasn't Friday, after all).
Pointless (Score:2)
Just because you no longer work there doesn't mean you're immune from lawsuits.
And yes, "a fortnight ago" is a valid CVS time specification. (Probably grew out of people trying to follow that kind of advice... *grin*)
My stint at walmart (Score:5, Funny)
The worst thing I did... I worked in the shoe department (the worst department there is, even the janitors pitty you), this *HOT* girl is standing back towards me, looking at some shoes. As I walk by the says without looking at me, "What do you think of these ones?" to which I reply, "I'm sorry mam, for what occassion?" then it dawns on me she's probably flirting, and she says, "oh I thought you were my father, I'm sorry!" to which I reply, "Well, you never know ;-)" ... just as these words leave my lips a grumpy 50 year old man in overalls and a half shaved beard walks up behind me and says "I DON'T THINK SO SON!" Then it occurs to me the girl is more like 17 instead of 21. but oh well.
Oh, topic ... um, so how I quit was, well nevermind it wasn't nearly as funny as that story.
Re:My stint at walmart (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:My stint at walmart (Score:2)
Re:My stint at walmart (Score:2)
If you issue a practical test, then do it in a completly made-up (or at least unknown) language (nothing arcane line Brainf*ck or anything though unless you are loking for infinitely hardcore people
Programming is a language-independant skill, do you want somebody who can show they program in this pa
Leave "gracefully" (Score:5, Interesting)
Should you stay or go... (Score:2)
Don't be Juvenile (Score:5, Insightful)
Ask if "they" would like feedback, and write a list of what bugged you, what was good, and what could have been done better.
Finish what you were working on if you can, offer to take care of any handover work, as you firmly should state that you will not be available for it after you have left.
Don't burn bridges; it's not so much that these people might come back to haunt you someday, as that it's an adolescent thing to do.
Re:Don't be Juvenile (Score:2)
Re:Don't be Juvenile (Score:2)
We should get a slashdot discussion going for this topic alone if it hasn't already gotten one. I seem to have once again gotten myself stuck in the "acceptable geek that can get you out of a jam, but isn't really a 'cool' kid" role.
That's what happened to me once (Score:5, Informative)
I told my boss I was leaving, we started organizing my duties to my colleagues etc.
Few days later I was told from my new employer, that my deal has just changed: completely different position. They told me this change by _email_!
I was very happy, that I was nice to my old boss. He let me stay, and I worked about one year after this at my old job.
So, I'd recommend being nice for your boss
Eleknader
Two Basic Approaches (Score:5, Insightful)
- Do some kind of childish stunt. That might make you feel good for a while, but it won't convince your asshole boss that he treated you badly. In fact, he'll use your childishness to justify his assholedness. "You see why I was easing him out?"
- You can find some way to make upper management aware that you're leaving in part because your boss is an asshole. Think out that will make him look with his boss.
That's the basic choice. I'm sure you can fill in the details yourself.Is your boss bald? (Score:2)
style != flaming bridges (Score:2)
Try to go for something that everyone, including your boss (unless s/he is a real prick), will think 'wow. what a cool guy.'
Unfortunately I can't think of anything that wouldn't just make 'em mad
Don't be an idiot..... (Score:2)
Stanley Cup Style (Score:2, Funny)
Don't ask me what his point was...... It was just funny to watch because
by Telegram (Score:2)
"Up stuff job arsewise"
If you're leaving a job, do so in style, my advice.
Phil
Take the high road (Score:2, Insightful)
Going out with a thud (Score:2, Insightful)
If those people who respect you know that you're leaving because of the BS environment, but you're still professional, give two weeks notice, etc, they may look you up in the future when they need someon
This is what I tried to do... (Score:2, Interesting)
That being said, here is one time when I tried to break my own advice. Among the many problems that one company I worked for had was a "diversity program" that was nothing more than giving certain contracts or benifits to specific cultural/ethinic/social groups to the exclusion of anyone else. I decided that, when I left, I would have a little fun with that poli
Report them for piracy (Score:2, Informative)
Best resignation letter (Score:5, Funny)
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Following is a supposed letter of resignation from an employee at a computer company, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards! It's Funny, but a bit harsh
Dear Mr. Smith,
As a graduate of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and me during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Since this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts.
1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favorably by the administration.
3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mother's birthday," you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a sauce bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please; I hate having to correct your mistakes.)
Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f*** with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!
Unfortunate double standard (Score:3, Interesting)
It all really depends on your situation. The best bet is to not burn bridges because you never know when you may need the resources of the company or your colleagues in the future. Just come up with an equitable compromise.
Remember that YOU are in the driver's seat. YOU are the one making the decision, not them. And stand by your decision--if they offer you more money or a promotion, absolutely turn it down and take the new job. Are really suddenly worth more to them now? Is staying really in your best interest? If you stay, it shows that you are not willing to stand by your word.
Just don't be shocked if they ask you to leave immediatly.
Take This Job and Shove It (Score:2)
In the end, I never did. Didn't want to burn any bridges. But it felt nice to have a fun plan ready for execution.
How I left (Score:2, Interesting)
We went through several mergers, where our division bought smaller (and one prett
Get an offer letter... FIRST. (Score:5, Insightful)
Also, I would strongly urge you not to quit "with style." What you call "with style" is really anything but. You should always try to maintain cordial and polite relationships with your former employer. Every job I've ever left, I've given a written letter of resignation, naming my last day (at least two weeks, sometimes more) and letting them know that I would be available free for "quick questions" on a short term basis to ease the transition. (I did not state, but implied, that if it was more than a "quick question" they should expect to pay me for my time.)
In 2000, this served me well. I had just left a large Internet Company, and discovered the company I went with was going out of business after only two months. I went back to work for the Internet Company, got a pay raise and full-time telecommuting. And that's the job I've held for the past 4 years through a crappy economy while all the other geeks were whining about outsourcing.
Bridges are good, a thing of utility and a thing of beauty. Never burn them unnecessarily.
make a permanent impression (Score:3, Informative)
If anybody tries to stop you, just pull the bolt and frown at them.
Quit being redundant (Score:4, Interesting)
Now lets get on with funny ways people have, or have wanted to leave their jobs. Something interesting to read instead of 500 obvious "Do the right thing" posts.
How immature and unprofessional (Score:3, Insightful)
But leaving a job this way certainly is not good and makes you look worse than your boss you dont like.
Why did your boss complain of your work style and you? Not pointing fingers here per say, but if he dislikes you and not your fellow employee's then the problem is not your boss but perhaps yourself.
A new job wont fix that either.
Sure personality conflicts happen all the time but the mature adult way is to find away around them. If its a boss then just leaving would be the proper way. If he is an asshole, HR will notice the turnover and fire him.
Time wounds all heels (Score:3, Insightful)
Insert obligatory statement on karma here
A woman I know was "downsized" by a large newspaper corporation some years back after she got pregnant. Out of five groups, her group was the second in performance, so there was no justification other than that of her pregnancy.
Her boss called her into his office and told her, after she took several hours off for a doctor's visit to get an amniocentisis, that "she had better get her priorities straight, and that when she decided her priorities, the manager would decide how valuable she was to the company."
This matter is in litigation presently, with the United States EEOC well involved. The thing that is funny is that the company who let her go had an opportunity to offer some half a million in order to get her to drop her (very good and well-documented) case. Presently, the EEOC is suing the company for "an injunction requiring the [company] to abstain from discrimination. It also seeks back pay with interest and other 'affirmative relief ... including but not limited to reinstatement,' punitive damages and reimbursement of the commission's legal expenses." Since the EEOC is a federal commission, they have unlimited means to sue the company. Half a million will look very cheap when all of this is sorted out.
Since she was let go in early 2001, they're looking at back pay that will total nearly half a million without any further damages, which will be considerable.
My best advice, if you work for a company that commits "bad behaviors," keep a complete record of everything. It's a better bet than winning a lottery.
In her case she did not burn any bridges. That would have been held against her in her case against the company.
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Re:Piss on servers (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually, they can take legal action. Criminal legal action, at that. Any damage done to the machines would count as vandalism; over a certain threshhold of monetary damage and the action moves into felony range.
There are also laws on the books regarding not only relieving one's self in public, but you could probably fit excreta into the definition of hazardous or medical waste; certainly improper disposal laws would apply in this case.
Finally, if somebody happens to walk in during the... er... process of elimination, it's called indecent exposure. Were he to be convicted of that last count, it means manditory registration as a sex offender.
As fun as it might sound, I wouldn't consider it worth the risks.
Re:Piss on servers (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, nothing like a stream of highly conductive liquid between your genitals and something containing thousands of volts...