Where are you? I know a lot of distributors in Northern California
NY. I'd wanted to get a couple APICS certs to go along with my ASQ certs. Think I'm going to take 8 weeks to bang them out.
Had been having a bad couple of weeks. To the point where I had to pull over while driving to the grocery store on lunch yesterday because I wasn’t sure if I was having a panic attack, a heart attack or something else.
Came in very proud today about a change I had fought for a month to implement only to be called on the carpet by my director. Reached out to the COO (who had been in the loop about the discussions) and had a meeting where for 20 minutes I kept getting dumped on. Pulled the plug at 1:50 pm.
I’m lucky enough to have 12+ months of expenses and it’s amazing to feel the stress bleeding off. Going to add a certification in the downtime and open to any tips for a mid-level supply chain / operations guy.
So how did the actual quitting go down? A simple “I quit”? Did they try to change your mind? Two weeks notice?
I was managing a Union workforce. I created and presented metrics for both DCs across all shifts. One of the biggest was Cases Received per Hour. It took two years, but I had gotten them away from cases handled which can be gamed by consolidations that don't provide value. Wine & Spirits lags over the next couple of months before picking up for the holidays. For a month on weekly metric calls I had pointed out the incoming hit to velocity and argued that there was a way to mitigate. Most of my day shift folks had run out of PTO, but there was an opportunity for unpaid time on a volunteer basis. Finally got the COO and Director to sign off. Implemented on Wednesday. Came in on Thursday to a bunch of nasty emails (no impact to production at all, just union complaints from other work groups) from my Director. Attempted to clear the air with him. He told me it was "another mistake in judgment" and suggested corrective action. He then calendared a meeting with the COO. I presented the data that we were covered properly, the workload that was done and the COO took a hands off approach, while my director doubled down on his mistake in judgment line.
I stated it obviously wasn't working and quit effective immediately. Hung up the Teams call. Gave my master key to the senior manager under me and left.
Might want to check in with the doctor about that episode while driving, just in case it's something else.
There are so many jobs - good for you to leave one that was miserable.
Cardiologist appointment on Monday, but I feel much better. I think it was stress (the above issue was just the most recent), but do want to get checked out.
Don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t give notice. Pretty unprofessional, especially in a management situation.
Isn’t the employee/employer relationship mutually agreed upon?
Seems like a lot of employees resent their employers for actually expecting them to, you know, work.
I was doing work. I was happy to do work. I liked most of the job. My action was a direct response to the accusations of my Director. I'm unsure if he was pushing me to leave, but the company wouldn't have given me two weeks if they decided to let me go.
Don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t give notice. Pretty unprofessional, especially in a management situation.
I’ve always given 2 weeks but I get it if someone doesn’t.
I’ve been laid off before, and was given zero notice
Ding ding. If they're going to let you go there's not likely to be any notice so you owe them nothing in return. Prospective future employer might be the only one to worry about if it comes up.
I have a couple references already lined up from this job, so I'm not too concerned. There's only two major Wine and Spirits players in NY, so I'm not likely going back into the same product lines.
Do you still get unemployment bennies if you quit?
Usually no.
I made a previous employer fire me for this exact reason. They verbally asked me to do unethical activities (obviously wouldn't put it in writing) and I said no. They called my bluff, found out I wasn't, thought I'd quit, didn't, so they had to cut the cord. I've had some toxic weeks at work before, but nothing will ever compare to that one.
I could have done that and thought about it, but I'm not really the type of employee that can just go on cruise. I want to make an impact. I'm OK getting called on the carpet if there's substance. I originated in data analysis, that's how most of my decisions are made. The physical effects really got me to a point where either I was going to make a meaningful impact in my work environment or I was not going to stay in that work environment.
I appreciate all the comments, even people who think I'm in the wrong. Wife is freaking out a bit more than I and I'm not looking forward to the COBRA bill, but I just had a nice morning with my 4 year old before he starts school on Monday and I wasn't stressed a bit.
