Tell me your stories of jobs you left before they got so bad you had no choice. How did you know when to leave?
(Not the terrible or abusive jobs where it was clear you had to dip, but the ones where you were still ok, sometimes even good, and were on the fence. What was the thing that got you to realize?)
@histoftech
~2000: Internet startup bubble collapsed, company was very obviously not viable for much longer, options vested - took the money and ran.
~2007: Poached from a consultancy back into a former employeer (large telco) for security cleared work (had to be FTE)
~2013: large telco was still very badly managed for mainly political reasons, constant barrage of stupid HR things, opportunity with smaller org came up
~2020: smaller org changed management, to old telco bosses 🙃, I retired.
@phlash @histoftech I was with @phlash for the 2000 dotcom one...
2014 my employer sold out to Cisco for approx £1m per employee. They hired clueless managers and fucked up the business.
2017 my department, that still made a profit, was sold to an outsourcing company and hired back in... hmm. 2019 the original owners bought it all back for 1/5 what they sold it for, bought us back in house and asked us to 'save it from collapse'. Employees got nothing.
I walked out.. best thing I've done 🙂
🍵=> EMF