Handed In My Resignation

[odinn7]

I just handed in my letter of resignation today and will be moving on in a few short weeks to a new, better position. This company has been holding me back long enough so I decided it was time to move on. Actually, I have my a***ole brother in law to thank...it was his back stabbing as the shop supervisor and trying to undermine what I do that finally got me to get off my ass and find something.

I'll be getting a $2 an hour raise, guaranteed raises yearly, and they will even pay for my daughters insurance which is costing me $84 a week right now. I couldn't pass that up.

[trekgeezer]

Congrats Odinn7, I've been there and done that but I didn't have job lined up. When I went to work where I am now I took a big pay cut, but after 10 years I finally moved up to management and got a big bump up in pay.

Sometimes you have to leave just for your sanity, although the insurance thing is pretty scary when you don't have it.

By the way, I hope everyone knows that I pulled a Sco...I mean  Conan on the screen names. Hopefully no one here is dense enough to have missed it.

[odinn7]

Thanks Trek....I mean....uh....Kirok

[Mofo Rising]

Well, congratulations. I wish you luck on your future endeavor.

[AndyC]

Karma to you, Odinn. Too many people cling to jobs they don't like.

[Patient7]

Karma to Odinn7.  And Kirok is Trekgeezer ?   

[Andrew]

Odinn, best wishes and I hope you are much happier.  Being happy at what you do every day makes a world of difference in a person.

[CheezeFlixz]

Best of luck in the new job, I've always told people if you don't like where you're at move. This is the land of opportunity.

[Trevor]

I just handed in my letter of resignation today and will be moving on in a few short weeks to a new, better position. This company has been holding me back long enough so I decided it was time to move on. Actually, I have my a***ole brother in law to thank...it was his back stabbing as the shop supervisor and trying to undermine what I do that finally got me to get off my ass and find something.

I'll be getting a $2 an hour raise, guaranteed raises yearly, and they will even pay for my daughters insurance which is costing me $84 a week right now. I couldn't pass that up.

Congratulations, Odinn: best wishes and I hope all will go well for you. 

[Trevor]

By the way, I hope everyone knows that I pulled a Sco...I mean  Conan on the screen names. Hopefully no one here is dense enough to have missed it.

  The odd thing is, the day before I noticed you'd changed your screen name, I was reading Alan Asherman's book on Star Trek OS where he writes in depth about every OS episode and the first six films. The episode I was reading about was The Paradise Syndrome where Kirk becomes a brave warrior named Kirok. 

[odinn7]

Thanks everyone. The job was really eating at me the last few years and just became too much. The BIL was the final straw in all of it.

I already feel much better physically and mentally and it's only been a few days since I was told I have the job.

[JPickettIII]

Congratulations on your new job.  I know that the raise will help you out with you daughter's medical needs as well as you family needs.

I was in a similar situation too.  I was in a automotive retail job that had back stabbing, poor management, poor benefits, poopy-heads for coworkers and really crap pay for being a assistant manager  I was doing this for two years too long.  I was hating life real bad, my physical and mental health was not doing too well.

Then there was a ray of hope that was piercing through the gray cloud.  I followed this ray and found a better job.  I got better pay (a four dollar an hour raise), better management, awesome benefits, no poopy-head coworkers and it is a career I studied for in college.  Human Services.  I can now better support my family and my mental and physical health are a lot better.

I haven't even looked back.

I think that your's and my situation should be a positive example to everyone in this forum.  People should know that if they are in a job that they do not like (or just plain hate), they should look for that ray of hope.  Whether it is real bright or real dim, it is a light that is showing them a way out.

Good luck with you new job.  I hope that it will treat as well as mine does.

Karma for taking that leap of faith for the new job.

Later,

John