Have you ever quit a job? I am sure pretty much everyone out there can raise their hand in a positive “Yes!” to this question. However, have you ever strategically quit your job in a specific way because you absolutely hated it? Probably fewer hands, but still a good majority would be up I suspect.
I have this inkling that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the American job market. In the past five years I have had close friends who have quit jobs, been “let go”, gone on unemployment, and those who have gotten new jobs only to realize the complete bat-shit insane way in which the company they got hired by is functioning. Basically the American job-market and economy is a barely functioning entity.
My job search, after being unemployed, temporarily employed, and seasonally employed for four years, came to a screeching halt about 1 year and 5 months ago. I was hired by the TSA to become a Checkpoint Screener/TSO/that girl who took your water away security “professional”. I could go off on multiple blog entries about the atrocities that befell me (and continue to befall my friends I made at TSA who still work there), but this blog is about my meticulous way in which I said goodbye to my now former employer.
The main reason I plotted so stealthily my way to exit TSA was because of the horror stories I heard from other people about how horrendous management treated employees who were exiting the organization in the past. I have a first-person story of a good friend who had a manager try to push her out of employment before her two week notice was up. Yes. These are the type of upper-management geniuses at work at TSA.
I burned up a bridge that is for sure. But. Sometimes that is just what you have to do. And if you don’t believe me, please read the blog-series below about burning bridges/quitting by a good friend of mine.
I straight up just quit TSA. No notice. They did not deserve anything like that from me and I will hold true to that.. 99.9% of my fellow employees agreed with me. The best way to quit TSA was to just show up and quit, which is exactly what I did.
My plan of action was laid out a week and a half prior to the day I walked into the office and dropped my badges. If you think about it hard enough I’m sure you could come up with the things that I did within a week and a half’s time. We all know what you do when you’re getting ready to quit a job.
So. I did it. I quit TSA and I couldn’t be happier.
Have you ever quit a job? Did you plan out the way you would do it? Tell me below!
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