I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
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I quit my job today after a year of working long days, evenings, weekends and holidays - after, on one occasion, sleeping only three nights in a week. After being promised time after time promotion never to get it for some garbled incomprehensible reason. To be told that I need to be patient, after three and a half years of my life dedicated to the success of a company that in that time has achieved a market cap of over £130 million. This is only a week after a colleague of mine has resigned for pretty much the same reasons. After a year of stress taking a physical toll on me and in the words of the film Network[^] "I'm a human being goddamit, my life has value!" "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" At the same time I realise that there are others, all over the world, who suffer far worse than I have and I am grateful for having worked in an industry where I can earn enough to make this decision. The worse bit is that I love my work and the people I directly work with.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
You have done the right thing.
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Life is too short to put up with (a) company like that and other daughters also have beautiful mothers (or something like that ;) ). How big a company is it? How about employee turnover in the last year? Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
Thank you :) The total company size is in the region of 200+ people(I think... as the company consists of a few sites). In the past year there have been a large number of more experienced staff leaving, the business leaders are definitely concerned about this, however they have not acted on this concern yet.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I quit my job today after a year of working long days, evenings, weekends and holidays - after, on one occasion, sleeping only three nights in a week. After being promised time after time promotion never to get it for some garbled incomprehensible reason. To be told that I need to be patient, after three and a half years of my life dedicated to the success of a company that in that time has achieved a market cap of over £130 million. This is only a week after a colleague of mine has resigned for pretty much the same reasons. After a year of stress taking a physical toll on me and in the words of the film Network[^] "I'm a human being goddamit, my life has value!" "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" At the same time I realise that there are others, all over the world, who suffer far worse than I have and I am grateful for having worked in an industry where I can earn enough to make this decision. The worse bit is that I love my work and the people I directly work with.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I am grateful for having worked in an industry where I can earn enough to make this decision
Spare a thought for the free society you have in the UK, that permits you the freedom to say what you feel and do what you want! I wonder if half the people in the world have the same freedom? As far as your employer is concerned: To h*ll with them! By the way: I am also a fan of Charlie Daniels, as you seem to be(?)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I am grateful for having worked in an industry where I can earn enough to make this decision
Spare a thought for the free society you have in the UK, that permits you the freedom to say what you feel and do what you want! I wonder if half the people in the world have the same freedom? As far as your employer is concerned: To h*ll with them! By the way: I am also a fan of Charlie Daniels, as you seem to be(?)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Cornelius Henning wrote:
Spare a thought for the free society you have in the UK
:thumbsup: Yes, so true.
Cornelius Henning wrote:
By the way: I am also a fan of Charlie Daniels, as you seem to be(?)
I had never heard about him until now - currently listening to "Devil Went Down to Georgia" and I think I could like this music! :)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thank you :) The total company size is in the region of 200+ people(I think... as the company consists of a few sites). In the past year there have been a large number of more experienced staff leaving, the business leaders are definitely concerned about this, however they have not acted on this concern yet.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
In the past year there have been a large number of more experienced staff leaving
That is always a bad sign!
GuyThiebaut wrote:
the business leaders are definitely concerned about this
Showing concern is not enough, I dare say.
GuyThiebaut wrote:
however they have not acted on this concern yet
That can either mean they're incompetent or something else is afoot like a merger or a buy-out. If you're no longer comfortable or feeling left behind, I think you did the right thing! I wouldn't sell my stocks though (given you have any). Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Cornelius Henning wrote:
Spare a thought for the free society you have in the UK
:thumbsup: Yes, so true.
Cornelius Henning wrote:
By the way: I am also a fan of Charlie Daniels, as you seem to be(?)
I had never heard about him until now - currently listening to "Devil Went Down to Georgia" and I think I could like this music! :)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I quit my job today after a year of working long days, evenings, weekends and holidays - after, on one occasion, sleeping only three nights in a week. After being promised time after time promotion never to get it for some garbled incomprehensible reason. To be told that I need to be patient, after three and a half years of my life dedicated to the success of a company that in that time has achieved a market cap of over £130 million. This is only a week after a colleague of mine has resigned for pretty much the same reasons. After a year of stress taking a physical toll on me and in the words of the film Network[^] "I'm a human being goddamit, my life has value!" "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" At the same time I realise that there are others, all over the world, who suffer far worse than I have and I am grateful for having worked in an industry where I can earn enough to make this decision. The worse bit is that I love my work and the people I directly work with.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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I quit my job today after a year of working long days, evenings, weekends and holidays - after, on one occasion, sleeping only three nights in a week. After being promised time after time promotion never to get it for some garbled incomprehensible reason. To be told that I need to be patient, after three and a half years of my life dedicated to the success of a company that in that time has achieved a market cap of over £130 million. This is only a week after a colleague of mine has resigned for pretty much the same reasons. After a year of stress taking a physical toll on me and in the words of the film Network[^] "I'm a human being goddamit, my life has value!" "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" At the same time I realise that there are others, all over the world, who suffer far worse than I have and I am grateful for having worked in an industry where I can earn enough to make this decision. The worse bit is that I love my work and the people I directly work with.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Oddly there was a news article I read recently where people stay too long in a job they hate because of the people they work with. So well done for breaking free.
Thanks, yes the great people I work with is what has been keeping me here. I did actually try and resign a year ago but the company introduced me to Mammon...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
Thank you
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens