Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 8:42 am Post subject: "Leaving a Job" Stories
Ya got any good ones?
I've got two, but I'll start with one and if people respond, I'll post the other (which is even better)...
At my second to last job, the owners accused me of couple of things that went wrong during a recent ISO Audit, during this meeting I was told, they had already investigated and there was no need to try to rebut anything. On one of the accusations, I had email evidence that proved I had NOT done what they said and the other was easily provable by simple logic.
This ambush meeting was held after hours, when they came out and dragged me back in as I was leaving. Well, I went home, that night (it was a Wednesday) and applied to a couple of jobs on Monster, got a call 2 days later (Friday) for a 1st interview which set up a 2nd interview the following Monday, then went in for a face-to-face interview and was offered the job! The new job was super close to my home (no freeways needed), more money, better benefits, more vac/sick time and better bosses!
So, basically 7 days after that ambush meeting I accepted a new job!
I needed to get a Security Clearance, but during the waiting time, I found out that the company I was at, let people go right after they gave (a 2-week) notice, so I waited until the last possible day and gave notice at lunch time on a Friday, left and started my new job the following Monday.
This new job was a great job, the best one I ever had and worked there the last 7+ years of my career...!
I did send an email to one of the owners (of the old company) telling him exactly what I felt, what they did wrong and why I did the things I did. Not only did the owner send back a thank you, he also contacted me, 7 or 8 months later, again wishing me well, I thought this was odd and reached out to a manager I knew still worked there and he said the owner had spoke to him recently and brought my name up, saying I had done good work there, which I found really odd, all things considered.
Anyone else, have any good stories? _________________ What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
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Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 2:51 pm Post subject:
It didn’t happen to me but within my company. Four people left our company office in Irvine for a competitor and their exit wasn’t done with class so they burned a lot of bridges on the way out. Fast forward 6 months and my company purchased the competitor and to no one’s surprise those 4 people were fired. Moral of the story, treat all situations with class no matter how you really feel. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
About 25 years ago I worked for a telephone company. Long story short I was staying the weekend at a friends condo that had parking for guests with a parking pass. My pass fell off of the rear view mirror. My car was towed. I go to the tow yard to get my car, they won't let me get in it to show them the parking pass. They wanted $100's of dollars to release my car.
I pay them, get the parking pass, go back to the office and they basically told me to eff off.
I knew I was leaving my gig for another gig soon anyway, so I put an order in to port their phone numbers to my companies service. I then had them remote call forwarded to another tow company in the same city.
I'm pretty sure the company I left changed their porting policies after I left. And that tow company spent months trying to get their phone numbers back, so they lost way more than they charged me for basically stealing my car.
About 25 years ago I worked for a telephone company. Long story short I was staying the weekend at a friends condo that had parking for guests with a parking pass. My pass fell off of the rear view mirror. My car was towed. I go to the tow yard to get my car, they won't let me get in it to show them the parking pass. They wanted $100's of dollars to release my car.
I pay them, get the parking pass, go back to the office and they basically told me to eff off.
I knew I was leaving my gig for another gig soon anyway, so I put an order in to port their phone numbers to my companies service. I then had them remote call forwarded to another tow company in the same city.
I'm pretty sure the company I left changed their porting policies after I left. And that tow company spent months trying to get their phone numbers back, so they lost way more than they charged me for basically stealing my car.
Awesome, revenge is a desert best served cold....! _________________ What does Marcellus Wallace look like?
Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 36540 Location: Santa Clarita, CA (Hell) ->>>>>Ithaca, NY -≥≥≥≥≥Berkeley, CA
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:26 pm Post subject:
buduan wrote:
About 25 years ago I worked for a telephone company. Long story short I was staying the weekend at a friends condo that had parking for guests with a parking pass. My pass fell off of the rear view mirror. My car was towed. I go to the tow yard to get my car, they won't let me get in it to show them the parking pass. They wanted $100's of dollars to release my car.
I pay them, get the parking pass, go back to the office and they basically told me to eff off.
I knew I was leaving my gig for another gig soon anyway, so I put an order in to port their phone numbers to my companies service. I then had them remote call forwarded to another tow company in the same city.
I'm pretty sure the company I left changed their porting policies after I left. And that tow company spent months trying to get their phone numbers back, so they lost way more than they charged me for basically stealing my car.
How do you know they spent months trying to get their number back? Weren’t you afraid of getting sued? _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
I was demoted and transferred by my boss in 1994. Something called the internet came out and the boss needed 3 different passwords - my first, middle and last names written backwards in French. She tried my office line several times (no voicemail and my new gig didn't have a pager), then came by my office, but I hid on a different floor until she left.
They had to uninstall/reinstall the network. (bleep). _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
I was demoted and transferred by my boss in 1994. Something called the internet came out and the boss needed 3 different passwords - my first, middle and last names written backwards in French. She tried my office line several times (no voicemail and my new gig didn't have a pager), then came by my office, but I hid on a different floor until she left.
They had to uninstall/reinstall the network. (bleep).
Lol, that’s (bleep) brilliant! _________________ “The main goal for the Lakers is to win a championship. All I care about, all we care about, is to raise another banner in the rafters.“
I was demoted and transferred by my boss in 1994. Something called the internet came out and the boss needed 3 different passwords - my first, middle and last names written backwards in French. She tried my office line several times (no voicemail and my new gig didn't have a pager), then came by my office, but I hid on a different floor until she left.
They had to uninstall/reinstall the network. (bleep).
I'm picturing you hiding in the broom closet lol. _________________ KOBE
I was demoted and transferred by my boss in 1994. Something called the internet came out and the boss needed 3 different passwords - my first, middle and last names written backwards in French. She tried my office line several times (no voicemail and my new gig didn't have a pager), then came by my office, but I hid on a different floor until she left.
They had to uninstall/reinstall the network. (bleep).
The audacity and entitlement of some of these people. I would of looked her in the eye and said "don't remember"... bye!
Early in my career, I had a job in corporate strategy with an absolute jackass boss. She repeatedly complained that someone she trained had passed her on the corporate ladder, and by her actions, it was evident to our team that she was hellbent on making sure that none of us would outshine her. At one point a corporate EVP asked her if she'd mind recruiting me away from her for a newly created position (and promotion). My boss said she'd ask me, and of course, she said nothing to me. I only learned about the position after someone else filled it. That was the last straw. I sent out resumes.
I took a job offer with another firm with a start date 60 days away. Before giving notice, I volunteered for almost every assignment imaginable. She had already buried me with an abusive workload, but that didn't stop me from volunteering for more work at every opportunity. Then I sat around for the next two months and did nothing except visit the gym, take unscheduled long lunches, and run up a T&E tab.
Then I left with two weeks' notice, leaving her with multiple months of backlogged work. Some of that backlogged work required technical knowledge that she and the rest of the team lacked, while other assignments, such as pending M&A deals, had meager work done on analysis or due diligence. They were all high-visibility, corporate assignments, which made her the focus of unwanted attention with senior management.
Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 36540 Location: Santa Clarita, CA (Hell) ->>>>>Ithaca, NY -≥≥≥≥≥Berkeley, CA
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:26 pm Post subject:
angrypuppy wrote:
Early in my career, I had a job in corporate strategy with an absolute jackass boss. She repeatedly complained that someone she trained had passed her on the corporate ladder, and by her actions, it was evident to our team that she was hellbent on making sure that none of us would outshine her. At one point a corporate EVP asked her if she'd mind recruiting me away from her for a newly created position (and promotion). My boss said she'd ask me, and of course, she said nothing to me. I only learned about the position after someone else filled it. That was the last straw. I sent out resumes.
I took a job offer with another firm with a start date 60 days away. Before giving notice, I volunteered for almost every assignment imaginable. She had already buried me with an abusive workload, but that didn't stop me from volunteering for more work at every opportunity. Then I sat around for the next two months and did nothing except visit the gym, take unscheduled long lunches, and run up a T&E tab.
Then I left with two weeks' notice, leaving her with multiple months of backlogged work. Some of that backlogged work required technical knowledge that she and the rest of the team lacked, while other assignments, such as pending M&A deals, had meager work done on analysis or due diligence. They were all high-visibility, corporate assignments, which made her the focus of unwanted attention with senior management.
Why did you even give two weeks notice? Should have just walked out.
Also, weren’t you worried about it affecting your reference with that company in the future? _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
I had folks in management that would have been happy to serve as references. One SVP had, months earlier, chastised my boss for running me into the ground (his exact words). He agreed to serve as a reference. I had others.
To be fair and give context, that charge wasn't entirely her fault, I enjoyed being a workhorse. The problem was her exploitive behavior to advance her career, all the while downplaying everyone else's contribution on our team. For example I had a nasty firefight with one of the IT departments as I knew they were pursuing a flawed approach on an important project. That project fell behind schedule. They hid the substantial cost overruns by hiding it in the budgets of a series of other, new smaller projects, all of which I raised questions and opposed. I lost that firefight. She abandoned me politically. I had to fight that war alone and got bloodied. I had significant influence but lacked political power. My jerk boss championed the other side as she thought it would help her career advancement. Almost 7 or 8 months later that project was exposed as a colossal failure; the other projects were also never started as the funds were reallocated to support the epic failed project. They fired that SVP and disbanded his team.
The last two weeks didn't matter. On paper it looked like I was giving proper notice, but in fact I was acting like the main character in the movie Office Space. I stopped giving a damn, and that was quite liberating.
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