10 Signs It’s Time To Quit Your Job

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My old poss just recently quit and I was hired to support her as an assistant. It turned out that she started to more and more put her responsibilities on me. I didn't mind that too much because I really liked the job. Now they hired 2 more bosses and all my original job duties I was given are being stripped from me. When we where told to move to a bigger office, but clearly not big enough for 3 desks I received no guidance on how this will be handled. For days I didn't even know where I would be. Than a desk was put in an awful spot where it was obviously in a bad spot and would make our customers nearly trip over my chair. Coworker are making bad jokes such as: I told them just to move you outside since I am the lower paid employee. I been told I could choose what I want to do and I choose to keep doing the accounting, now a coworker told me the new girl will do it. When I ask my employer to please tell me what my new job duties will be like, I'm being told there will be plenty to do for me or they don't really know yet but that I'm the foundation since I do know our clients a little bit better than the new ladies. When I originally interviewed I ask if there is room to grow and I was told yes but when I offered to step up when my boss quit I was never given a straight answer. I confronted my boss and she told me they would not let me go but the department I'm working for is being constructed because my former boss left quite a mess and she can't tell me right now what plans she has for me, I might help that department and help her or else where. Its so vague and disappointing when you find out that the owner of a company has no clue. I can't help but feel betrayed, not valued, unwelcome and I don't think I can trust anyone. I hate to admitted but I am very upset, so much that I can't sleep at night and worry what's going to happen to me. Im not a quitter, I just don't know how much time I can mentally give them. I'm going to start looking for other employment, since I would rather tell them I found different job than quite and tell them the real reason. Does anyone have any advice on how I should behave in the days to follow?

T of AL 4:15AM July 30, 2011

I am on call 24/7 with no breaks, supporting 23,000+ endpoints across 100 sites worldwide for 3rd level Antivirus, Encryption and network access issues.... everyone acts as if there is a whole team of people doing what I do and there isn't. I wake up in the middle of the night daily to the phantom sounds of the pager going off. My stress level is at an all time high. My health has suffered as well as I can not find the time to one take care of my medical issues and secondly find time to unwind making those medical issues worse. My personal life has suffered as well, friend, family and others simply have disappeared. Work has consumed my entire life and I want my life back. With the economy as bad as it is.. I don't know how to get away from here. I give up.

Stressed to death of GA 7:18AM July 19, 2011

The good: I work for a strong company, make an above average income, and have a wife and three kids. The rub is this: I feel like I am sacraficing time and happiness for money. I leave home between 6-7am and return home between 8-9pm everyday. My kids are 3,6 &8 and I feel like my wife is a single mom. Also, my boss is so miserable that half of my peers are thinking about the same thing ( and no complaining to his boss or HR is not an option).

no way of FL 9:42AM June 19, 2011

How about the contract or temporary job where they love your work so much they keep giving you more and more to do, and all of it painstaking and difficult, then changing their mind so that you have to do all of it over differently...but they love you being there so much that it's unthinkable that you'd ever leave...and you're exhausted so they praise your hard work so you keep trying to please and then they say they want you to stay forever as their helper/assistant (or something that helps their status) and you've heard that they didn't like any of the others who worked on the premises before you (in any capacity)..so you know it's just a matter of time before they start in on you...and you're losing money doing and re-doing stuff at your expense, then they say, "lately it doesn't seem that you're heart is in your work) and it's true that you are going out of your skull trying to figure out how to remain friends but get the heck out. HOW do you do that??

Spirit of VA 11:00PM June 17, 2011

@ Anon when I had read your scenario of your example I thought for sure you were or had worked at the same company I do. But I realized you're in Florida and I am located in Wisconsin. Everything you mentioned is what I have been dealing with the last 4 months. No matter how much the customers give compliments or praise your help, there's always something was done wrong. Comments such as ex: "You didn't sound like you really wanted to help the customer", or "The way you phrased that question just wasn't quite right" and my favorite of all is " if you don't get on and off the call in a record breaking time of 5 minutes" they convince us the world will cave in and of course due to no fault but our own.
Thank you I feel a lot better knowing I'm not the only one.

BA of WI 1:14AM May 12, 2011

Tracy Kiass of CO said it best. Not being valued and seeming like the only one to care is stressful. Only when something goes wrong, you are valued as a liar even though you are the only one telling the truth.

marsha g of CO 1:40PM May 11, 2011

If the company you work for happens to be customer service oriented and the company has too many unrealistic challenges for you to be considered a good employee, it is time to quit because before long you will end up stressed.
Example: I quit West. I constantly got raves from my customers who called in about how much I helped them and cared yet I was constantly on PINs(personal warnings) for not meeting company standards, each pay period was something different. My calls were too long. I did not notate an account for a caller who had no account with us. I didn't mention a feature and benefit of being a subscriber(customer hung up mid-call cause their cable came back on while we were still diagnosing the situation or call dropped mid call). It really was just silly, there were absolutely no exception to any rule. Storm knock out a swath of our area, we still had to soothe/empathise, secure the account, f&B, notate, mention a guarantee on every single call in under 5 minutes, including those mad cause they had to wait so long to talk to someone because the storms caused such a back up in the first place but those particular customers were not in a storm area. Not being allowed to hang up on customers and customers who just wanted to keep talking long after the issue was resolved and we had to keep the empathy going and still expected to average under 5 min. No exceptions. Ever.
When your company becomes like that. It is time to leave.

Anon of FL 12:30PM May 11, 2011

You do not feel valued at your place of employment. You are disrespected and treated as though you are a liar, even when you are the one telling the truth, both verbally and on paper.

Tracy Kiass of CO 12:26PM May 11, 2011

I work for money to pay bills and improve my family's quality of life, not because I love my work. Liking what I do is a plus not the motivation. There are jobs out there. Many jobs out there but you may have to change wht you do significantly even within the same profession. Time to reinvent yourself.

Kent Smith of VA 9:30AM May 11, 2011

The main point of quitting your job is your are no longer happy with it. Money is not only the reason why you are working, it is because you love what you are doing. I believe that if you are happy doing things, you will reach your potential and have the satisfaction you wanted.

Mark Ryan G. Deriada 6:13AM April 26, 2011