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Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job?

Posted by msmash on from the inside-your-mind dept.

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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  1. Poached with money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've left every job because I was poached with money.

    1. Re:Poached with money by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've left every job because I was poached with money.

      Always with money, never poached using water?

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      "That's the way to do it" - Punch
    2. Re:Poached with money by Drethon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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...

  2. Immigration by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Couldn't get a visa for my wife, so took my skills and tax contributions and left.

    A bad immigration policy not only deprives the country of the immigrants it needs, it drives the natives out too.

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    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  3. The company was going to fail. by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first rat to leave the sinking ship gets the primo spot on the adjacent ship.

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    I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
  4. Microaggressions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microaggressions - they were everywhere. The way people looked. The way the did not look. The way they spoke to me. The way they did not speak to me. Unbearable. Now I am without a job and am suing the company for discrimination.

  5. Unfulfilled Promises by cmeans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    Give a hand, not a hand-out.
  6. Burnout, Re-orgs, and Death. Oh My! by Karnak23 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Combination of burnout and no longer doing what I enjoy.

    The burnout came during a really rough, 3-year development cycle. We spent three months planning with the principal team. They approved the plans and let us run in one direction for a year before dropping a bombshell on ALL the partner teams. We had to drop what we were doing and start over with a completely new (and woefully incomplete) API, tool chain, and environment. Roughest two years I've spent in software ever.

    Had a former manager swoop in and rescue a number of us. Spent three years learning new stuff and enjoying my work and team. Then a big re-org came. Moved to something I'm not really enjoying and I can feel the "don't give a shit" attitude building up.

    Top it off with a death in the family and it's time to go.

    Fortunately, a great stock and housing market will allow me and my partner to enjoy some time off. Hopefully a year or two of doing what I want to do and exploring topics I want to learn will help clarify things. I'll find my passion for the work again or find another thing to fire my passion.

  7. Open office plans suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Too noisy, way too distracting. Open office plan of the newly acquired office, was terrible. I can just move to a better work environment, and I did just that.

  8. straight out of Dilbert by Jaegs · · Score: 5, Funny

    My weekly experience at my job became too much like a Dilbert cartoon. So much that we actually printed off relevant ones and stuck them to the wall:

    • micromanagement bordering on obsessiveness
    • incompetent marketing and (some) management
    • being passed over for raises
    • not being interviewed for internal positions for which I was qualified, because:
      1. they did not want to rehire my position, or
      2. nepotism, or
      3. both
    • asinine dress code (women could wear skorts in the summer, but men could not wear shorts, even when working in non air-conditioned areas)

    Regarding the latter, we actually bought kilts and wore them to work. Management complained. I went to HR and proved I was part Scottish. We compromised and Friday became shorts day. It was as close as I ever got to having a William Wallace moment, but without the face paint and all of the killing.