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Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job?
An anonymous reader writes: Plain and simple: What motivated or pushed you to leave your last job? Did you have any colleague or friend or family who had left their job for a similar reason?
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They promised me (when I was first hired) more programming and less report writing/technical support etc. They continued to ignore me, so I moved on.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
I've left every job because I was poached with money.
Roughly the same for me. Lost my job due to the great economy crap and the only alternate I found was a contracting position. Said contracting position offered me pretty much the same hourly I was making at my full time job with no benefits. A month later they gave everyone a job cut across the board. A year later I asked for at least cost of living increase, pointing out that from the 12 engineers hired with me, I was one of only two the customer kept on, and was turned down. Found another company with benefits and told them they just needed to match my current hourly and they happily said yes.
If you don't want to pay benefits, at least compensate with sufficient hourly wage...
There is a beautiful french expression, translated:
"When the disgusted one have gone, the disgusting ones are left."
But that was not the core reason for me. Rather a matter of earning more in an interesting environment with growth potential, and with a more healthy work-life balance than my previous job.
On August 1 I will be 20 years in my current company.
Yeah, we'd rather grow our own.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
I liked my job ok -- I was a sysadmin at a medium sized manufactuer and was there about 2.5 years. After about 2 years I had automated and resolved a ton of things, so when we didn't have a project to work on, i had 15 hours a week of downtime. I'd play in powershell read IT news, read up on tech we had that I couldn't leverage due to licensing or whatever.
but I had lousy co-workers, and my boss was just...painful and frustrating to work for. I had taken on a lot of random support because a coworker would hem and haw and get nothing done. My boss was terrible -- she was the boss by default because she had been there so long. But she was sort of mean, a decade or better out of practice, horrible at troubleshooting, short-sighted at planning and purchasing, had lousy day to day PC and technical skills, and i just got so tired of being there feeling like I had peaked. So i hit up a buddy at a health system nearby and he got me in for an interview. I got an offer for a 25% raise and way better benefits, so away I went.
That was two years ago -- great decision. My boss is great (not much of a people manager, but a good overall manager otherwise), I work with some really smart, hard working people, have gotten a promotion and more money, and have been able to focus what I work on and increase my skill set.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
Trump has done more to protect your job from Indians than any president since Carter.
Trump has created an environment where you are less likely to have an Indian come to the US to take your job, but more likely to have the entire department move to India.
I have never met someone in charge of hiring (whose budget is not inflated by VC money) tell me it is easy to hire software engineers and other IT staff right now. We have been at "full employment" for quite some time, and likely well over 5 years in the IT industry. The US only has 5% of the world's population but controls around 20% of the world's economy, and we won't be able to maintain the benefits that strength gives us with only 5% of the world's best and brightest working in the US.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Assertion presented without evidence.
There's no possible way we can lose any "trade war" harder than we're already losing at trade. ANY change will be an improvement over the status quo.
Seriously, some companies attract sociopaths. They hide themselves well, but look out for the knife in your back. Especially from HR. Found a nice family-run business that'd been around a while. Much more sane.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain