how do you justify leaving a job?

[jabumbo]

i don't know if/when i will actually do this, but i've thought about it periodically, and i haven't a clue as to what i would do/say to the people here.


at my current job, my work load has dropped considerably since one of the vp's retired. since it's such a small company, i really don't have anyone feeding me assignments. the head of the place isn't here to give me much, and when he is he is usually having meetings, and the other guy only occasionally needs me to go out in the field now that they hired a few new people.


so i have thought about slowly looking around for potential replacements, but if something comes up, i don't know how i could give a justified reason for leaving besides maybe "the boss nags worse than my mother".

any thoughts/suggestions?

[checkyourprez]

i just quit my job friday. we had recently had gotten a new boss and he had severely changed the way things were done. mind you its a town job, and an in between college/law school/real life job job, and i didnt really need the job. i just told him it was my last day and i was moving on. i could have really laid into him because it was souley because of him that i was leaving, but he was nice enough when i went to do it so i didn't make him feel like shit. in the end that would have just been childish in my opinion (however if he started giving me shit when i was doing it i most certainly would have dropped the hammer, i was fully prepared to). but in the end it went smoothly, and im taking a week off for myself before i get to real life business.

[paul jones]

any thoughts/suggestions?

crack dealing on street corners(y)

[Freebasser]

crack dealing in the office

[na§tee]

you don't have to justify it.. just say you are looking for new challenges yadda yadda. your boss shouldn't be all like "WHY, huh? HUH?" .. people move on. especially people in the early stages of their careers. don't let it hold you back!

[RobMoney$]

Tell him you're leaving because Pittsburgh's a dead end and you're moving to a real city in Philly.

[DipDipDive]

Yeah, what clurrrr said. Just be honest and say that you aren't feeling challenged.

[Dorothy Wood]

when I left my last job, I said "this is fucking bullshit! you're a ridiculous person!" to the owner's son.

I was being suspended for 2 weeks based on lies from, so I just quit.

I guess this doesn't apply to you unless you work for lying thieving jerks.

actually, I quit a side job last year by saying, "yeah, I'm gonna need to go on hiatus for awhile". I'm still on hiatus. ha.

[Documad]

You're not going to quit until you have another job, right? Because then it's awfully easy. If you have a new job you just say "thank you for everything you did for me, I learned a ton and was proud to work for you but I found another job that fits me better re where I'm at now and what I hope to do next."

Don't be honest about the place sucking and don't be honest about why you're leaving. Only say nice things and keep saying thank you, it's just time for me to move on. You never know when you're going to need a reference, and the worst bosses tend to know lots of people who will be interviewing you in the future even if you don't use them for a reference.

Sometimes people will burn their bridges -- sometimes they fool themselves into thinking that if they're honest about why they are leaving then the boss will improve things for the co-workers left behind. It's utter nonsense. Keep your mouth shut. I once burned a bridge with a woman at the end of a contract job and the woman is now in a position where she could possibly fuck me over and I hate having to even consider that possibility -- it's been a giant pain in the ass and all for the momentary satisfaction of telling her that I knew she was a liar. And by the way she was a fucking liar.

Anyhow, don't ever assume that your current boss will be devastated when you leave. I had a woman come in to my office and acting like she was going to tell me something that I couldn't handle, and then all she did was quit, and frankly she wasn't nearly as important as she thought she was. :p

[ampm]

when I left my last job, I said "this is fucking bullshit! you're a ridiculous person!" to the owner's son.

I was being suspended for 2 weeks based on lies from, so I just quit.

I guess this doesn't apply to you unless you work for lying thieving jerks.

actually, I quit a side job last year by saying, "yeah, I'm gonna need to go on hiatus for awhile". I'm still on hiatus. ha.

You go girl.

[pshabi]

i don't know if/when i will actually do this, but i've thought about it periodically, and i haven't a clue as to what i would do/say to the people here.


at my current job, my work load has dropped considerably since one of the vp's retired. since it's such a small company, i really don't have anyone feeding me assignments. the head of the place isn't here to give me much, and when he is he is usually having meetings, and the other guy only occasionally needs me to go out in the field now that they hired a few new people.


so i have thought about slowly looking around for potential replacements, but if something comes up, i don't know how i could give a justified reason for leaving besides maybe "the boss nags worse than my mother".

any thoughts/suggestions?


Why the fuck do you have to give a justified reason? Just go to your boss and say, "Chuck, I want to thank you for the opportunity over the last X years here @ blahblahblah. I want you to know that I'm officially giving you my two week notice of resignation today."

If he asks why (which he may not), just say, "It's nothing personal, but an opportunity has presented itself that is just too good to pass up."

By the sounds of it (i.e. hiring a few other people w/o sufficient work for you) he won't argue with you. He's probably just too big of a pussy to let you go so he'll probably be happy.

Best of luck. Trip report, please.

[pshabi]

You're not going to quit until you have another job, right? Because then it's awfully easy. If you have a new job you just say "thank you for everything you did for me, I learned a ton and was proud to work for you but I found another job that fits me better re where I'm at now and what I hope to do next."

Don't be honest about the place sucking and don't be honest about why you're leaving. Only say nice things and keep saying thank you, it's just time for me to move on. You never know when you're going to need a reference, and the worst bosses tend to know lots of people who will be interviewing you in the future even if you don't use them for a reference.

Sometimes people will burn their bridges -- sometimes they fool themselves into thinking that if they're honest about why they are leaving then the boss will improve things for the co-workers left behind. It's utter nonsense. Keep your mouth shut. I once burned a bridge with a woman at the end of a contract job and the woman is now in a position where she could possibly fuck me over and I hate having to even consider that possibility -- it's been a giant pain in the ass and all for the momentary satisfaction of telling her that I knew she was a liar. And by the way she was a fucking liar.

Anyhow, don't ever assume that your current boss will be devastated when you leave. I had a woman come in to my office and acting like she was going to tell me something that I couldn't handle, and then all she did was quit, and frankly she wasn't nearly as important as she thought she was. :p

Golden advice from a very wise individual.

Doc is "EF Hutton" around here. Listen to her.

[funk63]

I quit my last job because I wanted to sleep in.. I had my boss goin for a while with the old torn ligament in the wrist excuse.

[jabumbo]

Tell him you're leaving because Pittsburgh's a dead end and you're moving to a real city in Philly.

i wasn't looking for jokers here!

[jabumbo]

You're not going to quit until you have another job, right? Because then it's awfully easy. If you have a new job you just say "thank you for everything you did for me, I learned a ton and was proud to work for you but I found another job that fits me better re where I'm at now and what I hope to do next."

oh no, this decision will certainly have to wait until i find a suitable replacement. and really, i probably won't really look much at all until i find a permanent place to live.

its not that i really hate this job right now, but occasionally (like now) it can be pretty dull and lifeless. when i got hired, i became the 9th person in the office, and i basically would help do whatever work the top 3 guys had going on. well last month the one who gave me about 90% of my office work, retired. so i have that much less to do, and the boss doesn't really understand that.

i think my issue is that the one thing i really like about this job, being the potential for field work, is something that weighs heavily on my overall decision.