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4 hours ago, PuliMorgan said:

That is certainly true in the case of a friend of my husband and mine.  He suffers from anxiety and one job he had was just too stressful for him.  His next job was the complete opposite in atmosphere.  He was treated with respect, his skills were valued, and he said that the company would throw going-away parties for employees who were leaving to go elsewhere.  Unfortunately, the company had to furlough him recently because they didn't get some contracts they were expecting.  But several of his co-workers (independently, I gather) contacted him, going "Are you okay?"

I had a job when I first got out of college which I absolutely hated (I had worked for the place a couple of summers in college).  But I needed a job which gave me health benefits (I was aging out of my dad's health plan at his job), so I took the job (fortunately someone remembered me from when I worked the summer jobs, when he saw me) and I was given the option of day or night shift.  And took the job with the express plan of taking it and looking for something better.  The second place was better -- for a couple of years -- but then my boss decided to not come back from vacation and it kinda went down hill in my department after that.  So I started looking again, and found a place that was in the same area but was supposed to be moving to the other side of town from my parents' house.  And that job?  I was paid relatively well, liked and respected my boss (there was one sales guy who was not allowed to cross the threshold of the art dept. door on pain of DEATH and I don't think my boss was completely kidding about the "death" part because he was such an idiot -- he HAD been a VP and had gotten demoted back to outside sales (!) and we actually had a term for the ads he sent in (badly laid out and "EVERYTHING supposed to be that size type, and it was for a one inch high ad..." and we'd just roll our eyes and go, "Yup, it's another [name of sales guy] ad...." and do the "standard" layout for 1" high ads....  If I hadn't gotten married and moved to Pittsburgh from southeastern NYS, I would have probably continued to work there once the new facility across town was finally built (I worked there over a year and they had FINALLY broken ground on the new building -- one woman who worked downstairs had quit because she just couldn't handle the commute from Poughkeepsie to Elmsford and back every day anymore -- and Poughkeepsie was about another hour NORTH from my parents' house.  

As it was, when my boss found out I was quitting, she was (half-joking/half-seriously) going "Get us your new address so we can send you the ad copy!"  And if I had been thinking fast enough, I should have said "Sure, no problem -- my freelance rates are...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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6 hours ago, PuliMorgan said:

While this is true, some of us, including me, have left good jobs and great work cultures for other, more attractive or lucrative positions.

 

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18 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

That is certainly true in the case of a friend of my husband and mine.  He suffers from anxiety and one job he had was just too stressful for him.  His next job was the complete opposite in atmosphere.  He was treated with respect, his skills were valued, and he said that the company would throw going-away parties for employees who were leaving to go elsewhere.  Unfortunately, the company had to furlough him recently because they didn't get some contracts they were expecting.  But several of his co-workers (independently, I gather) contacted him, going "Are you okay?"

I had a job when I first got out of college which I absolutely hated (I had worked for the place a couple of summers in college).  But I needed a job which gave me health benefits (I was aging out of my dad's health plan at his job), so I took the job (fortunately someone remembered me from when I worked the summer jobs, when he saw me) and I was given the option of day or night shift.  And took the job with the express plan of taking it and looking for something better.  The second place was better -- for a couple of years -- but then my boss decided to not come back from vacation and it kinda went down hill in my department after that.  So I started looking again, and found a place that was in the same area but was supposed to be moving to the other side of town from my parents' house.  And that job?  I was paid relatively well, liked and respected my boss (there was one sales guy who was not allowed to cross the threshold of the art dept. door on pain of DEATH and I don't think my boss was completely kidding about the "death" part because he was such an idiot -- he HAD been a VP and had gotten demoted back to outside sales (!) and we actually had a term for the ads he sent in (badly laid out and "EVERYTHING supposed to be that size type, and it was for a one inch high ad..." and we'd just roll our eyes and go, "Yup, it's another [name of sales guy] ad...." and do the "standard" layout for 1" high ads....  If I hadn't gotten married and moved to Pittsburgh from southeastern NYS, I would have probably continued to work there once the new facility across town was finally built (I worked there over a year and they had FINALLY broken ground on the new building -- one woman who worked downstairs had quit because she just couldn't handle the commute from Poughkeepsie to Elmsford and back every day anymore -- and Poughkeepsie was about another hour NORTH from my parents' house.  

As it was, when my boss found out I was quitting, she was (half-joking/half-seriously) going "Get us your new address so we can send you the ad copy!"  And if I had been thinking fast enough, I should have said "Sure, no problem -- my freelance rates are...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Thank you for sharing your experiences 😊

 

 

16 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

While this is true, some of us, including me, have left good jobs and great work cultures for other, more attractive or lucrative positions.

 

 

You belong to the lucky minority. Most people endure their work.

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I have borrowed this from @brokenclay. Beautiful and brilliant!

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37 minutes ago, PuliMorgan said:

GK Chesterton reportedly said that the only person he could not debate was someone with whom he could not agree with about anything.

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John Steinbeck.

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3 hours ago, PuliMorgan said:

Our sorrows we carry are the scars our souls bear for ever more. 

 

(A widower)

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