The final straw that decides you should leave

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Thanks yeah I've decided maybe it was some sort of joke or someone is just jealous as I'm still top of the leader board for stats so they could probably have done worse.

Went to send an email later during shift but then deleted it as not worth the agro.

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xapprenticex wrote: »

clearly says final straw, straw implying that this particular issue isnt major but in combination with everything else we are not aware of, its become too much.

OP have you actually left?

Also, id imagine there was a desk clean-up while you was away, as you wasnt there, the easiest thing for them to do was move things on your desk and possibly tidy their own.

We are not really supposed to leave anything on our desks, we have drawers under our desks for that, imo just do that if its an option. Leave when you have something else lined up, your colleagues are not your friends, with that mindset, you will be fine.

Getting close, found an employer with a slightly different job willing to pay 1k more for doing something different, environment though was quite claustrophobic so won't have the same luxury in space as I do now. Maybe it is playing a part in over reaction. The interview seems to have brought out the best and worst of me. Yeah I know I just liked to think more of these colleagues especially when me and client don't get on. Perhaps it's all weighing me down that and I'm becoming a crotchety old dear.

No definitely no clear desk policy, (no drawers - only for the team leaders!) (I am generally a good girl I'll put my bag out in the staff room unlike some who refuse and keep under the desk) I'd definately have gone with clear desk if I couldn't see others personal effects of course - this current lot eventually had to be formally told to put their mobiles away even during working hours X

Thanks for responding.

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Xbigman wrote: »

I've found that the final straw is often trivial. I once left a job of 4 years when, having done a 92 hour week, a director criticised me for looking tired. I walked out and never went back.

!!!!!! happens.


Darren

Thanks really can appreciate seeing this x

Your a legend.

xapprenticex

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Getting close, found an employer with a slightly different job willing to pay 1k more for doing something different, environment though was quite claustrophobic so won't have the same luxury in space as I do now. Maybe it is playing a part in over reaction. The interview seems to have brought out the best and worst of me. Yeah I know I just liked to think more of these colleagues especially when me and client don't get on. Perhaps it's all weighing me down that and I'm becoming a crotchety old dear.

No definitely no clear desk policy, (no drawers - only for the team leaders!) (I am generally a good girl I'll put my bag out in the staff room unlike some who refuse and keep under the desk) I'd definately have gone with clear desk if I couldn't see others personal effects of course - this current lot eventually had to be formally told to put their mobiles away even during working hours X

Thanks for responding.

Yikes! Just keep at it, the ideal job will come if you keep looking, as you know (im sure), its much easier finding work when you're working.

Prothet_of_Doom

The final straw was being told that the new one off £1/2 million automated assembly line I'd been responsible for buying, and working with supplier to get right wasn't coming to the factory at Skelmersdale but was going to new mexico instead.

I'd lived and breathed that project for 12 months. Put my heart and soul into it. They'd known for 6 months, but didn't feel I needed to know.

That and having had to travel out to an automation supplier in Italy on a bank holiday Monday, and getting back home at 10pm on the Friday, after spending 4 days negotiating a contract for 4 machines, in a language I didn't understand, (our Italian sister company provided an engineer to translate, but it was hard work).
Got back to the office on the Following Monday and was told by my boss that I couldn't have My bank holiday at another time, as "travel time is in your own time" - Luckily HR thought differently, but When I added to 2 together I was so angry, I found myself a new job within days.

Should have stayed, because 6 months later I could have had a decent redundancy payout. :mad:

Nicki

IAmWales wrote: »

You had a few bits moved, now you've moved them back. Not worth making a fuss about.

Why did you leave your last job?

If I remember correctly the OP left their last job because she felt inhibited about drinking tea and coffee at her work station and couldn't get through the day without them. Neither of these things would have been a final straw for me.

andygb

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Seems a very trivial reason to leave a job, unless there is a lot more to it than the OP has explained.
I think my reason for leaving my first employer had a bit more weight. We'd been woken at about 2am by police to be told that my brother had been in a car crash. At the hospital were told he probably only had hours to live. I called my employer asap and he called back a few hours later asking if he could bring work to the house for me. When I declined, his response was "Why not, it's only your brother". I didn't hang around long after that.

With me it was my mother at 90, in intensive care 300 miles away. I went and stopped a couple of days, and she passed away.
When I got back, they had sacked me, saying that I had to make the right decisions.
!!!!!! is going on in the World?

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Nicki wrote: »

If I remember correctly the OP left their last job because she felt inhibited about drinking tea and coffee at her work station and couldn't get through the day without them. Neither of these things would have been a final straw for me.

Wooh, Your a bit in the past there so go dig elsewhere!

Not that it is any of your business, but I'll have done nearly 9 months service without a day's holiday. (And that's with a family member as terminal so I'm really no work dosser and you'll forgive if if their plight lets me know "there is more to life" then winding up bitter and vulgar, in later life saying I had the chance to get out but didn't because I had to get to some sort of magic awardance of 24 months isn't me that was to the approve of some unknown people purely on MSE.

Not that's it is also any of your business, I arrive to my shifts with my drinks ready to go (have done ever since the above happened in June 2016, funnily enough, which you are attempting to refer to) this ensures the only time I go for a comfort break is before the start of work, at lunchtime and the absolute end of the shift - on my time and without interrupting work productivity.

Yes my face doesn't fit so what, I've learnt you don't return or go back ever to a former employer, all this I can accept no bother at all. I'll certainly never be wondering and if I continue to have employers saying I'm still bubbly then I'm happy.

I had already said I don't care any longer for this situation. I would have far appreciated someone speaking to me so I take comfort I do know now I'm not the only poor communicator.
I'm sure worse has and will happen. You don't fully know my workplaces and, to right, I've no wish to know yours.

sangie595

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Wooh, Your a bit in the past there so go dig elsewhere!

Not that it is any of your business, but I'll have done nearly 9 months service without a day's holiday. (And that's with a family member as terminal so I'm really no work dosser and you'll forgive if if their plight lets me know "there is more to life" then winding up bitter and vulgar, in later life saying I had the chance to get out but didn't because I had to get to some sort of magic awardance of 24 months isn't me that was to the approve of some unknown people purely on MSE.

Not that's it is also any of your business, I arrive to my shifts with my drinks ready to go (have done ever since the above happened in June 2016, funnily enough, which you are attempting to refer to) this ensures the only time I go for a comfort break is before the start of work, at lunchtime and the absolute end of the shift - on my time and without interrupting work productivity.

Yes my face doesn't fit so what, I've learnt you don't return or go back ever to a former employer, all this I can accept no bother at all. I'll certainly never be wondering and if I continue to have employers saying I'm still bubbly then I'm happy.

I had already said I don't care any longer for this situation. I would have far appreciated someone speaking to me so I take comfort I do know now I'm not the only poor communicator.
I'm sure worse has and will happen. You don't fully know my workplaces and, to right, I've no wish to know yours.

Hang on one minute here. I've not bothered posting before because I have recall of your workplace issues. But let's get something straight. "It's not any of your business..."? YOU posted it here. That makes it everyone's business. YOU made it everyone's business! You want to leave your job because they tidied up your desk and the office teddy? Fine. Get on with it. But if you want to complain on a public forum about wanting to leave your job because they tidied up your desk and the office teddy, then expect someone to suggest that this is ridiculous. Because it is.

gonthemicrobe

Get a feeling that the OP wouldn't be the easiest person to work with from this.