Quit my job today

paye

I quit my job today because the stress and anxiety  I was experiencing from working from home has really got to me over the last few weeks. 
I only joined my employer at the start of the new year so was still on my probation period which was due to end on the 27th July.
 After being furloughed for 6 weeks in April  I found it really difficult to adjust as I'm the type of person who enjoys interacting with people and not sitting behind a desk 
all day undertaking meeting via MS teams, I know this is the new norm but this isn't for me.

I work in construction so It's difficult to build a project when I'm sitting 10 miles away from where the job is physically  being built. 
Since I've been back from furlough It feels like my employer has started to micromange me and  the other members of my team which has really
started to affect me mentally, something which I've  not experienced before. I even asked for assistance  for a couple weeks to ease some of the workload  because they expect me to catch up on 6 weeks worth of work in a very short short space of time, totally unrealistic In my opinion. 

My cry for help was pretty much ignored  even through I told them I was suffering from stress and anxiety, something I have never experienced before. 

So today after my employer started to dish out more unrealistic deadlines I've picked the phone up and told them to find someone else which was swiftly followed up with my resignation letter. It feels like my stress levels have reduced a bit but will not completely go away until I leave.

My employment contract says 3 months notice but I told them  simply I will not be able to cope working for them for 3 months and told them 4 weeks as I was still on my probation period.

Once I leave I will take a few month off and spend some time with my two young children  who I have  pretty much neglected over the past few weeks even though they are at home with me. 

How is everyone else  coping  with working from home?

Sorry for rambling on but had to let this out.  

[Deleted User]

You'll feel better soon.
I wasn't sure about home working - I received an aplology for lack of communication from the company owners but in the next breath got told I'd over worked (and my lovely manager who sent me some pretty blunt messages causing me to over work , stayed quiet) how that never came up in the sneaky chats I'll never know.
I did wonder if I was the wrong person with the way the company did act toward me during lock down but fortunately I was taken on largely for maternity leave so it's became to late.

MovingForwards

I do enjoy working from home, but like you don't appreciate being micromanaged or the constant meetings which don't actually do anything to benefit my / my work / my working life, yet I get excluded in the ones which do impact my work as I'm not high enough up the food chain. 

It's disgusting getting told off in front of people, or by email with multiple people CC'd in, for things that are nothing to do with me. Because the overall manager is clueless and up their own bum they don't listen when pointed to the person they asked to do something wasn't me. Asking the overall manager to do something gets ignored, no matter how many times chased as they don't know how to do the job. The tone of their emails would see most people getting pulled up by upper management, but a 10 day old lettuce has more backbone. 

So many breaches of their own policies, but when higher up management are advised they don't know how to handle it. This is what happens when people are put into 'management' but have no understanding, or spine, and offices are left to get on with it and be run as they want to and not following policy.

I understand the impact of most of the staff working at home screws up the IT systems, but find an intolerance by upper management to how it affects staff and then their threats behind it make me want to speak with directors / lodge numerous grievances but there is no point as they repeatedly get away with everything they do and have done for years. People leave and the cycle continues.

Don't even get me started on how my health is declining further because of being provided with wholly unsuitable IT equipment for my disabilities; providing someone with a laptop is not reasonable adjustments for someone with disabilities from the neck down, especially if you see what I have in the office; even then I'm still waiting for specialist equipment 7 months after they were requested.

I could go on, but I know the answers fall with me to get out. The rot has well and truly set in and hopefully I will find another job soon.

Hope you find another position with better management.

Jeremy535897

Good luck with that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle

GDB2222

A tiny point, MovingForwards, but if you have a desktop computer system at home more suited for you, you can usually link the laptop to that. That way you get the security systems on the laptop and you get the ergonomics of the desktop system. If interested, I can give more info.

macman

If you've breached the terms required for notice, then your employer may attempt to adjust your final pay cheque accordingly. Your contract should make it quite clear what the notice required is during your probationary period. Of they may just dismiss you with no or minimum notice. 

MovingForwards

@GDB2222 thanks so much, but I've not got a suitable chair etc, home office was low priority as I was saving for my own place, small mercy is I've moved into it 😊

No one knows if it's tomorrow, next week, next month, next year we will be returning to the office. I appreciate I'm saving money by not commuting, but have no need for the star trek set up at home when I'm back in the office, nor do I have the space.  I would just appreciate understanding by management that everything hurts like a SOAB and I'm working on their inferior equipment.

The IT saga is a story on its own, but includes me working off my phone until they remembered there was a laptop I could borrow. The VPNs and access links not working on what I had access to and failing to realise not everyone is on £60k+ per year and can go out and buy things on a whim.

I'm tired of repeatedly saying how much pain I'm in because of my health and the set up, tired of saying I'm working off a dinner tray on my lap and a book next to me for the mouse, tired using my own phone etc to join video calls and have various apps on my things because the laptop is a pile of crap. I've looked at buying a chair etc but how can I justify spending nearly a month wages on what I need to comfortably work (based on pre-Covid days) when they could have got everything sorted at work last year and dropped part of it to my home when Covid hit.

If they suddenly opened up work tomorrow, I can't even walk far enough to get the first part of my commute started, let alone the rest of it, trying to do my job, then trying to do the reverse commute back. 

It's like the three monkeys 🙈🙉🙊 and with a giant rug to sweep everything under.

I could just cry with frustration, putting it briefly into words and sharing it means someone is listening, even if it isn't my employer!

Apologies, I didn't mean this post to be so long 😳😳

paye

macman said:

If you've breached the terms required for notice, then your employer may attempt to adjust your final pay cheque accordingly. Your contract should make it quite clear what the notice required is during your probationary period. Of they may just dismiss you with no or minimum notice. 

Hi, 

I found out today because nothing was written in my contract about notice period during probation, legally I'm allowed to only give  one weeks notice. Because I'm a nice guy and want my full pay this month I have agreed to part way at the end of the month. I'm seriously considering taking them to an employment tribunal as it seems to me now that they pretty much forced me out by setting unrealistic deadlines for things which was not possible to achieve. When I spoke out about how I was currently feeling they started overloading me with more things which was the final straw for me. 
Looking forward to some time off and to recharge my batteries.
  

GDB2222

paye said:

macman said:

If you've breached the terms required for notice, then your employer may attempt to adjust your final pay cheque accordingly. Your contract should make it quite clear what the notice required is during your probationary period. Of they may just dismiss you with no or minimum notice. 

Hi, 

I found out today because nothing was written in my contract about notice period during probation, legally I'm allowed to only give  one weeks notice. Because I'm a nice guy and want my full pay this month I have agreed to part way at the end of the month. I'm seriously considering taking them to an employment tribunal as it seems to me now that they pretty much forced me out by setting unrealistic deadlines for things which was not possible to achieve. When I spoke out about how I was currently feeling they started overloading me with more things which was the final straw for me. 
Looking forward to some time off and to recharge my batteries.
  

You can’t go to an ET if you’re employed under two years, except for discrimination.

JamoLew

You're a nice guy and are staying on for a month to help them yet you quit due to a toxic work environment and stress etc AND you want to take them to a tribunal.
Better get your story straighter than it is -- you will need to