Walked out of my job

DavidF

Well as I am in construction and engineering types of environment it "usually" entails my liaising with people well above the command chain of my immediate boss/chargehand ect.
In that environment it is usually pretty "easy" to point out the flaws and failings of junior and middle management to those who matter. What happens after that is either they mend the broken "systems" by removal or retraining OR I go on to pastures new. This creates its own positives and negatives. You will always be unpopular with people who I/you perceive to be incompetent or just not doing their job. But on the other hand the people higher up the chain of command can sometimes reward you for helping them spot weak points with either promotions/bonuses and in contracting become another useful number for when times are lean.
I would think in a retail environment it must be tougher in some ways to "breach the chain of command" but you do have the benefit of decent HR teams that can and do often do a decent job of sorting out issues.
Filing a grievance should have been your 1st port of call, If you were unhappy with the outcome of the grievance then you could appeal it and take it further. Remember you could be unfairly dismissed even if you leave your job....Im not talking about compo or anything like that....just a mutual parting of ways with a "good" reference would be enough.
Gosh when I read all that I posted in this thread I seem like a bosses nightmare lol. This is far from the case and I would say 80% of the bosses/management that have been directly above me have always found me cooperative and hard working if not a little fussy. They always seem to ring me 1st so I guess I must be ok to work with and must make these people money.

mattcanary

terra_ferma wrote: »

This bit jumped at me, if you answer that question in this way, nobody is going to promote you. That is the answer I would expect from a member of staff who is not the easiest person to deal with, and certainly not from a potential manager.
I have to say that your story comes out very one-sided where you are a victim of injustice, and there is no learning in there for you, but a huge part of being a manager, maybe the biggest challenge is to 'manage' your manager. It looks like you have not been able to do that. If you are having problems now, unless you learn from your experiences, it's only going to get worse once you become a manager.
I'm not saying it's your fault, just that the higher you get the more diplomatic you need to be even if your boss is a piece of ....

Saying that, if the job is not right for you, the environment is too negative, then this is simply a sign that you needed to get out of there asap.
Good luck for the future

It's the truth though as OP sees it, and the company have offered her the job.


Perhaps the interviewer appreciated her honesty.


Different interviewers / interviewing companies look for different things in candidates.

terra_ferma

Walked out? It doesn't really sound like you did, signing a resignation letter under duress is not the same as handing in your notice.
Hope you get a better job, one that makes you happy and where you can progress

FBaby

It sounds like you are a hard working dedicated worker but they is not enough or some would say even the best attributes to go up in management. It sounds from your posts that you are struggling to understand the politics of hierarchy and that will be an issue wherever you move to. Your boss might have been trying to explain this to you but maybe you are quite headstrong and maybe not a very good listener? That alone would be a problem for promotion.

mattcanary

FBaby wrote: »

It sounds like you are a hard working dedicated worker but they is not enough or some would say even the best attributes to go up in management. It sounds from your posts that you are struggling to understand the politics of hierarchy and that will be an issue wherever you move to. Your boss might have been trying to explain this to you but maybe you are quite headstrong and maybe not a very good listener? That alone would be a problem for promotion.

No, I don't agree.
To be a good manager requires an ability to manage (whether that be time, tasks, people, etc).
The best managers often don't take part in or particularly understand the politics of hierarchy (whatever that is).


Having said that, disputing things with your manager is not likely to endear you to them (especially if done in the wrong way).

Nevertheless OP's previous manager appears to have pulled a fast one.

aileth

Good on you, OP.

I've walked out of one job, when I was 18 and worked for a small Solicitor's firm. I had been promised a job as a Legal Secretary with full training, and instead when I started there I was essentially a jack of all trades, got zero training for it. I was told that they'd be expanding in the next few months and to wait. I had nothing better to do, so I thought sure why not.

The woman who I worked with, with whom I was equal and she was not a higher grade than me, was an absolute nightmare. She would spend the entire workday sat at the reception, stuffing her face with biscuits and talking about how her Salsa Teacher apparently wants to 'give her one' (she was about 68yrs old, but looked more like 128), while ordering me around the office. Unfortunately at 18, I was a fairly meek individual who complained in my head but not out of my mouth.

Anyway, fast forward six months, new Solicitor joins with tonnes of digital casework data and asks if anyone can transfer it to our system. I'm fairly tech savvy, so I crack on with it. I work through my lunch-break, I do overtime, thinking I can get 'in' with the new Solicitor who was searching for a Secretary. However, of course this meant I wasn't at my colleague's beck and call, and she was actually having to do things herself.

One night, just before she went home whilst I was working late, she came into the office where I was, swore at me and called me all names under the sun, talked about how lazy I was, how I never stayed late to do things for her (aka so she could bunk off early), and that I should just f**k off. I smiled sweetly and nodded.

She left to go home, I fired off an email to HR and explained that due to X, Y and Z, I would not be returning in the morning, I don't care if they don't pay me. I stayed late, finally finished the work for the Solicitor, left and never came back.

Best decision of my life.

ALou19

Good on you!! :T I'm glad you have better things on the horizon, just stay positive and think on wards and up wards from here. If your as hard working as you say hopefully this will be recognized in your new job and rewarded.

I have myself walked out of a job. When I was 18 I left my well paid retail job to work in a bar in town for minimum wage, my mum wasn't totally happy but let me make my own mistakes. WOW I wished I listened to my mum! I was promised to be put on a shift pattern that included one week day evening and either Friday OR Saturday night.. never to be put on both nights. What a joke! I ended up with ridiculous shifts that had me getting home at 2/3am when I had to be up the next morning for college. Whilst you may say I should have been prepared to work late with it being a bar, yes I was but we shut at 12.. it was the staff who liked a drink after work and due to minimum worker policy blah blah blah I didn't have much choice but to stay. Also I was meant to be paid weekly yet for 5 weeks wasn't paid! When questioned I was told by the bar manager it was MY bank stopping the money going in, really?! Like my bank would stop money going in :rotfl:

After telling the assistant manager about it action was taken and it turns out they had my bank details wrong despite being given them by myself 3 times!

I left after that 5 week. Looking back I wish I had written to the head office and took further action as there was a lot of goings on in that place that I can't see were compliant with company procedure but hey ho, I moved onto better things

PollySouthend

Good for you. There are dicks in every job though but some are much worse than others. If your not being appreciated leave.