January 3rd was the first day back to work after the holiday break (holiday break is a misnomer, it’s really just all the holidays he should have gotten throughout the year stacked up at the end of the year), so I did the only thing I could think of, I put in my two week notice and decided to take 2 weeks of vacation which ended this past Friday!
Why did I wait until the beginning of the year? I wanted to make sure I got my bonus from last year (which you don’t get if you leave on your own) and I wanted to get my holiday time off with pay.
So what happened? During the break, I was watching TV and What Happens in Vegas came on. There was one line in the movie that really struck a chord with me: “I'd rather do nothing and be happy than do something I know I don't love.”
It was at that point I decided I was going to quit and figure out what to do after that. When I walked into my flunktional manager’s office to tell him, he was a little shocked. When he asked me why I was leaving, he just had a blank look on his face when I simply said “I’d rather do nothing and be happy than do something I know I don’t love." He then asked if I had an offer at another Shitshow, I answered with continued "I don’t have another offer, I just know I can’t work here anymore." The blank look on his face was worth a million thrown rocks.
Because I hated my job, I threw the only rock I had left to throw and quit.
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