Anyone ever go back to a job they left?

[Leros]

I know a guy that left my company to go work for Microsoft, then quit that to work on his own business. After that didn't pan out, he came back. He's doing great here.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Doesn't that mean they were underpaying you by 25% when you left 2 years ago?

Obviously, you have a "very particular set of skills" that they need badly. Negotiate for as much as you can.

 

[MongGrel]

Not I.

 

[Ruptga]

I have. It was a weird situation because I was totally fed up with upper management's incompetence, and my boss knew. I went back to them about two years later because they were the only place doing any hiring (due to their continued high turnover), and everyone I had worked with was totally cool with it. They were actually happy to see me. When I left they knew what was going on, but by the time I came back they had been stewing in it for a few years and now they were really feeling it, so we were all on the same page. Plus I was one of the more reliable people that worked there, and by that I mean I got stuff done when asked and didn't miss shifts.

 

[nageov3t]

sorta happened with a coworker of mine. seems to be going well enough.

he was fired under shitty circumstances (my boss at the time had the opportunity to poach talent from another company, but didn't have the budget; coworker was in the least-critical position on the schedule, so he got sacked to free up money in the budget)... a year later, after that boss himself had gotten fired, another coworker and I encouraged our new boss to think about hiring the old guy since he'd only found contract work in the interim.

 

[inachu]

The place I left had weird women and a summer intern who took everyone accomplishments as her own and would run to the boss she DID it even though she has no pc training at all. Then this dude was cousin to the young guy who blew up the Oklahoma building and the FBI were there as he was the spitting image of him.

Also those weird women(3 of them) always preferred me when eating lunch and it felt great to be liked by women and I stopped it because I could tell they were playing a game that if I do such and such I'll get even better treatment at the company.

Well the position I was at had 9 other people hired to do the same as me and I was catching on super fast so Soon they treated me as the IT library dude who knew all and soon our phone resolution call success rates were improving drastically whereas it was very very bad service before we were hired.

So finally a pc came in from a realtor came in and nobody could fix it. Not even the manager of IT who was touted as the best.

They laughed as I volunteered to fix it. The summer intern watched me fix it then ran to the IT manager and she got all claps at company meeting for fixing the pc....IT WAS really me who fixed it.

So with the FBI, weirdo faux pas girls and the cousin of timothy mcveigh and credits stolen for work done and not being recognized I left the company...

 

[JTsyo]

Almost everyone that had left our office has an open invitation back. It takes time to train up people and getting back experienced people would be a plus. We had two return after trying different things.

 

[inachu]

Another company hired me to be a patsy in their IT dept. so their CFO would not get fired at principle behavior health care. But nobody told me that. I had to put 2 and 2 together after leaving to understand what was going on.

The CFO locked up the database to the Novell 3.11 server and they do not have any backdoor or password resetting stuff so it was permalocked away.

I was not allowed in the sever room and I did not have any castle key access but they blamed me anyway.

 

[inachu]

Another company hired me and demanded I wear shirt and tie and jacket even though I was to be IT support tier 1,2,3 all rolled into one.

I was told I had to look like a million bucks.

I was like.... WTF I AM IT..... But I needed to money and took the job and looked more like a doctor when dressed up formally.

I quit that after a while disgusted with when dress code does not meet the job requirements.

 

[inachu]

Boycott SiriusXM
Any thoughts? Advice?

When you buy SIRIUS radio always tell them you want the XM radio and not the SIRIUS radio.

Since they own XM radio it does not hurt them.

The reason why you want XM radio is because XM has lower bass and better trebble(DYNAMIC RANGE).

Sirius Radio is more like a glorified AM radio station.
So only true music fans would want to keep XM radio.

 

[Rakehellion]

I quit being a father for a while. Just got sick of it. I recently visited my son on his 18th birthday. He seemed healthy.

 

[mrjminer]

Twice with shitty retail jobs. I lasted a month both times I went back until I remembered why I left in the first place :O

 

[gorcorps]

Another company hired me and demanded I wear shirt and tie and jacket even though I was to be IT support tier 1,2,3 all rolled into one.

I was told I had to look like a million bucks.

I was like.... WTF I AM IT..... But I needed to money and took the job and looked more like a doctor when dressed up formally.

I quit that after a while disgusted with when dress code does not meet the job requirements.

If you're this big of a bitch about dress code I can't imagine what it was like working with you. I doubt they miss you

 

[ViviTheMage]

I've been mulling this over myself and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Bit of background information. I used to work for this TV station as a traffic reporter. It was an ambitious new app they had launched that was going to give on demand reports, commuter news, etc. Basically me and four other people were Atlas holding up the world there. After two years, it was still struggling to reach profitability. Purely a management fuck-up. Parent company suddenly and without warning pulled the plug last October and laid us all off. This at a time where the media industry was basically imploding in Canada. A lot of good people lost their jobs at other stations too. So there's not a lot of opportunities right now. I've been applying to a lot of social media gigs (I was also the community manager) at ad companies. Lot of competition though. Been working on some side projects as well.

Fast forward to this week. A friend and former colleague emails me a job opening for a digital journalist at the same company that just laid me off. They want to open up a US bureau next year and need somebody to get things going. A chance to travel a bit too. It's very similar to the job I was doing there previously, so I have a very good chance of landing it. I still have a lot of friends there as well.

However, I'm not sure I trust them. It's another new and ambitious initiative the board has cooked up. Obviously I don't want history repeating itself.

Obviously with the job market the way it is, it would be a good opportunity, and I did like working there prior to that whole mess going down. I had a brief chat with my former HR contact yesterday but I didn't get down to any nitty gritty details (pay, benefits). I'd really only consider an offer from them if it were at minimum what I had prior to getting laid off.

Any thoughts? Advice?

take it, sounds like you ended well, colleagues are friendly, etc. The ONLY red flag is the possibility the job may be short term if it's a cooked up idea? Also, if you're currently outta work.. definitely take it

Doesn't that mean they were underpaying you by 25% when you left 2 years ago?

Obviously, you have a "very particular set of skills" that they need badly. Negotiate for as much as you can.

exactly!

I also left on my own accord, only real reason was lack of oppertunities, but that seems to have been resolved. Yeah, about 35% raise actually. They wanted to keep me, but at the time didn't have the funds to even counter offer what I was going to make. It is true what they say in IT, if you want a raise you think you deserve, leave, and come back...easiest 35% raise ever . They're also throwing an extra week PTO at me that takes 8+ years of being with the company to get, which is nice.

 

[gorcorps]

exactly!

I also left on my own accord, only real reason was lack of oppertunities, but that seems to have been resolved. Yeah, about 35% raise actually. They wanted to keep me, but at the time didn't have the funds to even counter offer what I was going to make. It is true what they say in IT, if you want a raise you think you deserve, leave, and come back...easiest 35% raise ever . They're also throwing an extra week PTO at me that takes 8+ years of being with the company to get, which is nice.

I don't think that's just IT, that seems to be the way a lot of companies operate. There's just so little reasons companies give you to be loyal. They'll let you walk if you have another offer, but then a few years down the road they manage to find the money they refused to give you before. I know they want to keep labor costs down, but surely it's not efficient to keep trying to call everyone's bluff when they say they can make more elsewhere.

 

[inachu]

If you're this big of a bitch about dress code I can't imagine what it was like working with you. I doubt they miss you

The company collapsed. Insider stuff and they were one of the companies by no name on 60 minutes when people call up and teenagers would answer the phone and use diagnostic book to check what the person on the phone really had instead of hiring a real doctor.

They had lots of ass hats there and I refused to be treated like a shmuck.

Even the IT manager did not have to follow dress code. He would come in designer jeans and designer shoes and just a plain white t-shirt.

 

[inachu]

I don't think that's just IT, that seems to be the way a lot of companies operate. There's just so little reasons companies give you to be loyal. They'll let you walk if you have another offer, but then a few years down the road they manage to find the money they refused to give you before. I know they want to keep labor costs down, but surely it's not efficient to keep trying to call everyone's bluff when they say they can make more elsewhere.

At my company tons are retiring or dying of cancer so lots of room for advancement.

 

[ultimatebob]

I've done it, and wouldn't recommend it. Trust me, the internal politics are rough. Not anyone will be happy to see you back, and you'll quickly be reminded of the issues relating to why you left in the first place.

You can also forget about promotions, since you're no longer considered to be trustworthy.

 

[Koing]

I'll let you know in a few days .

I start work on Monday for a company I left over 4yrs ago. I left on good grounds as I changed job roles. Most of the team is still there and they all vouched for me as a colleague and for my skills. I was well liked by everyone.

My previous boss left and he came back after about 7/8months. Another friend left and came back after about a year. I'll be the 3rd person to come back in to the team in about 6yrs.

I think if you left on good grounds and they are happy to have you back go for it.

Koing

 

[gorcorps]

At my company tons are retiring or dying of cancer so lots of room for advancement.

Room for advancement and salary are different things though. Plenty of companies out there give promotions without a good raise to go with it. A lot more responsibility w/ only a 5% raise? Kiss my ass.

This obviously doesn't apply to everybody, but it's common enough.

 

[mmntech]

take it, sounds like you ended well, colleagues are friendly, etc. The ONLY red flag is the possibility the job may be short term if it's a cooked up idea? Also, if you're currently outta work.. definitely take it

There were mutterings about a US expansion shortly before I left. They recently opened bureaus in the UK and Spain. They were doing okay AFAIK.

The job is to essentially build up content for a US expansion then operate out of the new bureau desk when it opens in a year's time. However they don't know what city it's in. I have a feeling it may be Chicago. They still sell on-air traffic software to TV stations down there, and that's where the office is located.

 

[ViviTheMage]

At my company tons are retiring or dying of cancer so lots of room for advancement.

note to self, stay away from the east coast...

I've done it, and wouldn't recommend it. Trust me, the internal politics are rough. Not anyone will be happy to see you back, and you'll quickly be reminded of the issues relating to why you left in the first place.

You can also forget about promotions, since you're no longer considered to be trustworthy.

I hear ya, but the reason I left, is the reason I am going back, ha ha.

There were mutterings about a US expansion shortly before I left. They recently opened bureaus in the UK and Spain. They were doing okay AFAIK.

The job is to essentially build up content for a US expansion then operate out of the new bureau desk when it opens in a year's time. However they don't know what city it's in. I have a feeling it may be Chicago. They still sell on-air traffic software to TV stations down there, and that's where the office is located.

sounds interesting, probably something i'd try to get back into if I had a shoe in!