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Sometimes you just need to leave a place that truly clashes with your values

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Sometimes you just need to leave a place that truly clashes with your values

I have worked for the same company for a long time. I enjoyed it, have grown professionally, felt that my work matters. Unfortunately, with some new management the company has taken a bad turn. I started observing questionnable behavior (not outright unethical, but close), decisions that in my mind do not make business sense, but are made to favor friends of management, loss of access to people and data to actually do my job, decrease performance rating without adequate feedback not just for me, but also for other long term staff members.

I decided to leave despite not having equal job lined up, but I feel I cannot take this anymore. It is affecting my health and tolerating became too difficult. I may regret it for financial reasons, but isn't our sense of self-respect sometimes more important?

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  1. Anonymous

    Good for you! I left a similar (but it may have been even worse - unethical behavior became the norm, including hiring unqualified people to lead the organization simply because of political connections) situation last year.

    Life is too short to feel miserable and under attack all the time.

    I will say that it took months for me to get back to the happy-go-lucky person I was before things got so bad at work. But, not a day goes by that I don't feel relieved and happy and certain that I made the right choice. Financially, I was fortunate to have a safety net so I got the opportunity to start a business of my own. Yay!

    I wish you the absolute feeling of relief and joy that I had when I turned in my resignation letter. That was such a good moment. I will never forget feeling like I could breathe again for the first time in ages.

  2. Anonymous

    Not only your self-respect, but your mental health when put into question could affect you the rest of your life. I had a stress consultant tell me once I need to leave a job regardless of whether I can pay my mortgage or not, in the real world of course we can always make those choices and I did not, but I found another job and even though it had less pay, it got me over the hump into what was my best job ever.

    So be diligent with your job search, cautious with your selection and once you start going to work knowing you’re leaving it does help. Good luck.

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