I am quitting a job I have hated for six years. How should I do it?

It sounds like you worked for ISIS. At least your drama makes it sound that way.

'I have been on leave since early January.'

Holidays must be good with the new job then

vivalarepublica wrote:

Burning bridges is dumb. You just be polite, let them know you are quitting, and part ways. The only benefit of burning bridges is that slight rush of adrenaline from doing so. They will look at you weird and carry on as usual. You'll feel like an idiot after the initial rush is gone.

+10 Can't argue with this logic.

This is how you quit a job:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGLKnAvzlg4

Dont make a fool of yourself. You may think you are going out with a bang, but instead you'll look like a crazy idiot. Most people will wonder why someone would continue to stay somewhere they truely hate THAT bad for THAT long.

Nobody was making you work there.

Don't do it. You'll look like a fool.

C. Ya wrote:

I like the idea of not giving them the satisfaction of knowing what annihilation they caused in my life.

Dude, you were the one who chose to work there for 6 years. The company didn't do you any conceivable wrong by offering to employ you, at wages you were wiling to accept.

A quote from Stephen King's Dark Tower series comes to mind here: "Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

You should have done it 5 years and 9 months ago, so you lost no matter how you do it.

Also, you will have been replaced and they will have forgotten about you in 3 months.

i'd never hire you wrote:

You sound like a cry-baby. I wouldn't hire a cry baby.

You'd hire me. Everyone hires me. I'm very taciturn in person.

“Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”

― Emil Cioran

agree with t78o also - use those words precisely

C. Ya wrote:

i'd never hire you wrote:

You sound like a cry-baby. I wouldn't hire a cry baby.

You'd hire me. Everyone hires me. I'm very taciturn in person.

If "Everyone hires you" then how come you stayed in such a terrible job for 6 years? Surely, you could have walked into any other job any time, if "everyone" hires you? Hmm? I think it's more likely you're a cry baby, as the previous poster said.

three things;

1. Quitting a job before you have one lined up is not very smart. That tells me what type of employee you have been.

2. Always be polite and gracious. Otherwise you will be the laughing stock of the office when you do leave. You gain nothing by trying to be the winner here. Because you already lost.

3. Chances are the boss knows you are looking. He hopes you land something soon before he has to get rid of you - it will save both of you some time and will avoid and awkward situation.

Do not be immature here - it may come back to haunt you. I already know you will not take my advice, but I tried.

C. Ya wrote:

i'd never hire you wrote:

You sound like a cry-baby. I wouldn't hire a cry baby.

You'd hire me. Everyone hires me. I'm very taciturn in person.

Unless you are a whistleblower, what damage can you do to them by leaving "drama style"?

Were you in the oil field equipment/supply/support business?

thoughts wrote:

1. Quitting a job before you have one lined up is not very smart. That tells me what type of employee you have been.

OP stated the job is dangerous. That overrides your rule #1.

messi wrote:

C. Ya wrote:

You'd hire me. Everyone hires me. I'm very taciturn in person.

Unless you are a whistleblower, what damage can you do to them by leaving "drama style"?

Were you in the oil field equipment/supply/support business?

Yeah, unless you know where some big skeletons are buried and you can just quit, and on the way out send a damning email to OSHA, a central office, the police, etc.. You will be seen as a clown. Leave the drama to Hollywood. Like others have said, once you leave they will have forgotten you worked there in about a week.

C. Ya wrote:

i'd never hire you wrote:

You sound like a cry-baby. I wouldn't hire a cry baby.

You'd hire me. Everyone hires me. I'm very taciturn in person.

How can "everyone hire you"? You've had the same job for 6 years and you haven't 100% locked down the new job yet? If everyone will hire you, why stay in the same job you hated for 6 years? Sounds like one person hired you and another might hire you. That's like one and a half people, not everyone.

In any event, do not quit the old job until you have the new job for sure. Not 70%, 100%. The last thing you want is to quit and then one day need to go back cap in hand. On that note, when you do quit, do a very polite short resignation, say nothing negative. if you are taciturn in person, it will not be unusual for your resignation to be the same. Big displays and complaining only ever make you look bad, it gains you nothing. if you want any sort of "revenge", get that by being successful and happy at the new job.

aquafina wrote:

Yeah, unless you know where some big skeletons are buried and you can just quit, and on the way out send a damning email to OSHA, a central office, the police, etc.. You will be seen as a clown. Leave the drama to Hollywood. Like others have said, once you leave they will have forgotten you worked there in about a week.

This.

The week part is wrong however. Even if you go the dramatic "shit on the desk" thing they won't remember or care about you in 10 minutes. So you would think you got the best of them, but they really don't care. You know this.

Send the letter, go out on decent terms and move on.

vivalarepublica wrote:

Burning bridges is dumb. You just be polite, let them know you are quitting, and part ways. The only benefit of burning bridges is that slight rush of adrenaline from doing so. They will look at you weird and carry on as usual. You'll feel like an idiot after the initial rush is gone.

this. ^^

while the risk may be small, somewhere along the line, a drama flameout could come back to haunt. also, in a year, you would look back and will regret it.

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