Re: How To Quit Your Job

BroTher zAchary wrote:

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"Take the senior executive at a Toronto advertising company who was
angry with his employer. Rather than discussing his concerns, he
announced his departure in an abrupt voice mail to his boss.

In my experience, having such a discussion did little good. The
employers simply ignored my comments.


That is irrelevant. No matter how angry you are at your job, you should
display a basic level of professionalism.

I always was and hoped, quite foolishly as it turned out, that someone would actually heed my advice. Most likely, it was disregarded as coming from a malcontent.



It doesn't matter what one does or doesn't do--someone is bound to take
offence. For example, keep to one's self and one risks being branded as
anti-social or not being a "team player".


And it is possible to take the middle road. It should seem self-evident
that one should make allies of co-workers who have decent characters
and work-ethics, and keep away as much as possible from those who do
not. Of course, this should have been learned on the playground a long
time ago. Some people never learn.


That assumes, of course, that those who are of good character are in favour with the management or have some degree of influence. In my experience, however, those who were chummy with the boss were precisely the bunch I wanted to stay far away from, sort of like what I saw on the playgrounds of my childhood.
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