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Never work in a snake pit
Posted by doggonedmysteries
For lack of anything to watch on TV tonight, DH turned on that Undercover Boss show. I was working at the computer and only half listening. However, I did come to the conclusion that if someone had done that at one of places where I worked for a very short time I might still be working there.
This office made you dread having to go to work. I stayed only a couple of months. I couldn’t take the vicious backbiting and stress it caused. When I left there, I felt a great sense of relief. How I left there was inspired. I’d had a particularly bad day of dealing with malicious coworkers and impulsively called the human resources department.
“How do I quit this job? Do you want two weeks notice or what?” I asked.
They tried to persuade me to stay but I’d had it. They even offered to transfer me to another location. I still wasn’t interested. They finally told me that since I was only part time I could leave straight away. I told them I’d finish out the day but that would be it.
Before I left that day, I typed a letter to my boss explaining why I decided this was not the place for me and left it on his desk—he was never one to be found in his office. In the letter, I told him it was no wonder that they had such a huge turn over in help. They needed to clean out their snake pit if they wanted anyone to stay more than a month or two.
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