So, like, I fired my job
 

Yep.

I have become - to the best of my knowledge - the seventh person in the last eight years to resign from a continuing or continuing-track position entirely because of the behaviour of the immediate supervisor of our department. Given that we only have five or six staff that is a shocking record.

Senior management are well aware and have recently done a minor reorganisation which is IMHO a useless placebo gesture, somewhere between rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and transferring the pedophile to a bigger parish.

So, I bloody quit.

Dammit.

Apart from the #$%^ of a manager, there was a lot to like about this job. But it just wasn't worth the continual head-#$@% involved in remaining.

I have no mortgage, no dependants, plenty of savings, and good relations with two previous employers in this city; and I live in a country with (official) unemployment just over 5%. I'll live.

Now if I had my car back from the smegging mechanic I could shoot through for a few weeks of beach bummery. :mad: Alas, not yet.

Good luck with that. Nice time of the year, Fall. Enjoy it.

Damn! Sorry, I totally understand. Well the "not worth it" part anyway.

Sorry it went that way, make the best of it.

It is Monday, my stomach hurts, and you are my hero. Sorry it was so crappy though.

Did that 6 months ago. Told my immediate superior to shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

From his own mouth, he's not a manager and in my own opinion a very poor computer programmer. He developped a new feature for the application, told me it worked but could use some tuning to perform faster then goes on vacation. He came back and began to rant because it wasn't working. It didn't because most of the calculations were wrong from the start and I had to rewrite nearly all of it. That was the proverbial straw.

The company was managing real estate applications for two of the biggest French networks. Due to stupid management, they lost one last month. And they may lost the other by the end of the year.

I did that a few times in my life.
I was in a great job with great people but the management
was a certifiable psycho nut. It became intolerable and
she was involving us in illegal stuff (she made short work
of HIPPA laws and used medical to get dirt on her
employees) I asked for a sign if I should leave and i got it.

I was sad to leave my cow workers but she made me sick
to my stomach- the was Infinite feels. It was taking years
Off my life.

So congratulations, Zen!! Probably will change your life
for the better.

I have quit jobs before too. Just up and quit. I always got another right away, and the last time I did it (leaving my crap 'testing rf filters with electric that could kill you, walked out after a certain incident) I worked the next day at the country club and eventually started in higher ed.

Can't do it now though. And I'm not currently looking elsewhere because I dont' want to take a pay cut. And I suck with money and the expenses never end and I have no savings.

But anything could happen, any day, at any time. I do revel in the company of my cow orkers, who are wonderful.

I, too, suck with money, the expenses never *do* end and I've
no savings, either.

We should just pack it up and go on tour. :)

I'm going to walk the desert for a few years. Maybe we could pool our money and buy a camel and some water.

Should we be renting our garments and gnashing our teeth? Or putting coal on our faces? Maybe that's racist...
the coal thing....anyway, I'm in.

Are there even domestic camels, or will we have to buy foreign?

More importantly - will they be Muslim camels? That could
backfire on our depending on the kindness of strangers...

Strangers in the night
Exchanging camels...