I'm seriously considering leaving my current job without another one lined up.
I first realized it wasn't going to be a long term fit maybe 3 months ago, after hints along the way since I started a year ago. Then for the past month as a team we've really struggled. I'd say leaving gained a sense of urgency two months ago, before the struggling.
The company's attitude towards our team's lack of performance is to begin to micromanage to an insane degree. My heart not being in it anymore anyway, I find this really hard to fake and deal with. I'm not the only disgruntled person, if I had to guess I'd say 3/4 of my colleagues are looking for a new job.
Today we are having a meeting where big changes are going to be forced upon us. It's a sales job so numbers are king, but we just hit our all-time highs for revenue in February. It is sort of like if A-Rod had a bad month at the plate and the Yankees told him to change his swing. Actually it is worse than that, if I had to get into details, more like if C.C. Sabathia was having a bad month and so the Yankees told A-Rod to change his swing to compensate. Problem: C.C. is giving up 10 runs a game. Solution: A-Rod has failed to hit 10 homers, we need to make adjustments so he does so.
There's more to it than that, but point is day-in day-out it has been really unhealthy for me to work there. For quite awhile. I know it is going to end soon, that's not the question. Ideally I'd get fired and get unemployment, or have something else lined up. Or at least make it to May 1 when I get a $2k bonus check. But at some point I feel I need to stop making excuses for staying and just get out. I.e. there will be another check on June 1 that I'll say I need to wait to collect. And I think before getting fired there would be a drawn out, incredibly stressful period where the micromanaging would increase tenfold.
I started looking for a job last month, then backed off because I wouldn't be able to get time off to interview. I got invited in for a 3-hour loop and realized I just couldn't do it. So far my response rate has been 75% for jobs I'm qualified for, 25% for ones I'm not (i.e. I have 1 year experience, applying for jobs requiring 3). I haven't applied at all to direct competitors, but I'm sure if I did I could get a job in a couple of weeks (I'm not too interested in working for the same type of company, though, so that is more of a backup plan).
Any similar experiences/advice would be appreciated. Money wise I'd rather not take the hit but I'm sure I could pay the bills long enough to find something else.
cliffs:
-job sucks, causing unhealthy amount of stress, want to leave
-good response rate on applications, but don't have time to interview
-incentives for alternatives (getting fired/collecting unemployment, collecting upcoming bonus checks) means a long drawn out end if I don't just quit
-I'm 25 and single fwiw
I first realized it wasn't going to be a long term fit maybe 3 months ago, after hints along the way since I started a year ago. Then for the past month as a team we've really struggled. I'd say leaving gained a sense of urgency two months ago, before the struggling.
The company's attitude towards our team's lack of performance is to begin to micromanage to an insane degree. My heart not being in it anymore anyway, I find this really hard to fake and deal with. I'm not the only disgruntled person, if I had to guess I'd say 3/4 of my colleagues are looking for a new job.
Today we are having a meeting where big changes are going to be forced upon us. It's a sales job so numbers are king, but we just hit our all-time highs for revenue in February. It is sort of like if A-Rod had a bad month at the plate and the Yankees told him to change his swing. Actually it is worse than that, if I had to get into details, more like if C.C. Sabathia was having a bad month and so the Yankees told A-Rod to change his swing to compensate. Problem: C.C. is giving up 10 runs a game. Solution: A-Rod has failed to hit 10 homers, we need to make adjustments so he does so.
There's more to it than that, but point is day-in day-out it has been really unhealthy for me to work there. For quite awhile. I know it is going to end soon, that's not the question. Ideally I'd get fired and get unemployment, or have something else lined up. Or at least make it to May 1 when I get a $2k bonus check. But at some point I feel I need to stop making excuses for staying and just get out. I.e. there will be another check on June 1 that I'll say I need to wait to collect. And I think before getting fired there would be a drawn out, incredibly stressful period where the micromanaging would increase tenfold.
I started looking for a job last month, then backed off because I wouldn't be able to get time off to interview. I got invited in for a 3-hour loop and realized I just couldn't do it. So far my response rate has been 75% for jobs I'm qualified for, 25% for ones I'm not (i.e. I have 1 year experience, applying for jobs requiring 3). I haven't applied at all to direct competitors, but I'm sure if I did I could get a job in a couple of weeks (I'm not too interested in working for the same type of company, though, so that is more of a backup plan).
Any similar experiences/advice would be appreciated. Money wise I'd rather not take the hit but I'm sure I could pay the bills long enough to find something else.
cliffs:
-job sucks, causing unhealthy amount of stress, want to leave
-good response rate on applications, but don't have time to interview
-incentives for alternatives (getting fired/collecting unemployment, collecting upcoming bonus checks) means a long drawn out end if I don't just quit
-I'm 25 and single fwiw
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