I’ve been weighing up leaving my job for some time. In short, the CEO is an egotist. Which would be fine… many of them are and I’ve dealt with worse… problem is he is my line manager. He completely ignores me 99% of the time but when he’s got a bee in his bonnet about something the other 1% of the time he will be a totally unbearable shit.
The big issue is that that 99% of the time he ignores me is when I need things to do my role e.g., people in my team, budget, sign-off on work. It makes it impossible to functionally do a good job. Which makes it all the more galling when he pulls me up on something I’ve been asking about for months.
The final straw was last night when he sent me a long rant at 11pm on a Saturday. A long rant in which he was unhappy with something I’d done. I take huge issue with some of his reasoning about this particular thing - but his tone was deeply unpleasant and it seemed like he was honestly a bit drunk.
I’ve drafted up my resignation letter, I won’t be disrespected. I’m going to send it tomorrow as a nice early Christmas present. I don’t have anything lined up though so hold a place in the queue for me at the soup kitchen. People might advise me to wait until I have something new but I’m not waiting because I have a long notice period plus it is impacting my mental health tossing and turning at night… not to mention the principle of it.
Has anybody else taken a leap of faith and quit on the spot? Any creative suggestions for serving my notice? (Before anybody suggests it, I’m not shitting anywhere)
It's a tricky one blue.
After 12 years working at the same firm at the airport, the Christmas roster came out and they had me in Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New year's eve and New years day.
They knew full well I had two young children and I wanted some time with my family.
I stood up in front of the crew room and declared to around forty people, that I would not set foot in the place again.
A couple of pricks heckled me with shite such as "see you on Christmas day".
I went home, rung the quacks and got a sick note. Never set foot in the place again.
I'm glad how I handled it but I didn't give my self anywhere else to go after I had declared that.
Get on the sick and find a new job. Let that arsehole find someone else to sort their shite out.
Cheers mate. I am 100% raising it with HR - but as others have said, I don’t think I have anything to gain by being a stick in the mud. I’m going to, in a professional way, state my opinion. Whether anything happens is another matter, given his station.
I think it’s a fine line whether what he’s said will be excused as just unprofessional or crossing a line into something worse. There was a lot of telling me about my supposedly “shit” and “measly” work, a stream of aggressive questioning - some targeting my team members (“what the fuck is X doing?”). And this on a non-work platform at that time of day. I’m not beyond criticism, but I would have been more than happy to have an adult conversation to educate him on why things were done the way they were - because all of his comments have easy responses. The way he does things I have no right of reply. His messages are a relentless conscious stream of thought with no filter.
I do worry about my team, they are a small unit and they know what he’s like and are aware I’ve been insulating them from the worst so they can focus on doing great work - and they are brilliant, diligent, hard workers. I can’t see any of them sticking around for long. For the people saying go on sick or go awol, I won’t do that because while I know I don’t owe my employer anything, I want to make sure I help the team either get prepared or find something new if they want to leave. I’m not going to leave them high and dry, and maybe that’s more fool me… but I can take being the fool on occasions.
Haha top man, bet that was an eye opener working out there. Elf and safety? Isn't that an English or German thing. Wages paid when the gaffer fancies.
AtAll the suggestions that have been put are the best ways to go especially getting a note for stress , I did exactly the same thing in 2009, with one additional thing, I took out a grievance sighting the unreasonable behaviour of my immediate line manager, I never set foot in the place again, I was paid fully for the next two years and bonuses paid also, and finally they paid me off with a lump sum. My immediate manager was shown the door also after I was paid off. I ended up having the last laugh.
A Greek building site will be a minimum of 8 men chainsmoking all staring at a cordoned off hole, before deciding its lunchtime.
Could have a case for constructive dismissal .
Acas is your friend.