I just quit my job!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Holy shit, I just quit! Well, I guess I technically resigned, but…wow.

I accepted an offer yesterday and decided I’d tell my boss next Monday, you know, to make it an even two weeks notice and all that. Sure enough, this morning I have a meeting with my boss, his boss, the maintenance managers, the tech guys and a shift supervisor to discus the direction of the equipment and people I manage. Two hours later I’m feeling very slimy for sitting there agreeing to all the proposed changes, the hirings and firings and the not-so-insignificant capitol requests while knowing full well that I wasn’t going to be around for any of it. Sheesh! Then this afternoon, my bosses boss, a gent from the UK, sends around a message talking about the great strides we’re taking and how he is glad everyone is onboard and how he wants to inform the rest of the facility of the changes coming. Damn. So, without so much as a scrap of paper, I trudged over to my bosses office, knocked on the open door, shut it and resigned.

Thing is, he wasn’t surprised in the least. I explained to him that it wasn’t because of the job, the job is good; it’s the area. This town of 10,000 in southern NC is killing me. He’s married and he told me that he was pretty bored with the area, so he totally understood that it must be hell on a single man. So that’s good. Then he mentioned that one of our competitors gave him an offer last week! He mentioned that he didn’t decline it, but he didn’t accept it yet, either. This place looks like it’s falling down around our ears.
Again, I’m not quitting because I’m dissatisfied with the job, though, in truth, I’m not utilized nearly as well as I should be and when they hired me in here from our Technical Center, they had these great promises of projects and challenges that have never materialized, but still, the job is good. It’s living in a town where it’s a 30 minute drive to Walmart that spurred me to leave.

So that’s it, I just wanted to share. If anyone lives in the Columbus, Ohio area, bundle up, Snow is coming!

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Sounds like Pembroke. Am I close?

Either way, congrats.

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Good for you! I changed jobs this year.

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Kneadtoknow you are infact very close, but off by a few miles to the east (lets just say the towns name is a womans name that rhymes with “moron” and ends in “burg”).

Thanks, ya’all (or is it y’all?)

Oh, anyone in Columbus know of some good apts/condos coming available October 1st?

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They’re a couple posters here from Columbus. Drain Bead, who attends the OSU law school comes to mind and I know there’s at least one other, but I can’t recall the name right now.

Just to shoot up a flare to attract the Columbus dwellers, I could change the title of your topic to something with the word Columbus in it if you like. Or you might want to start a new topic.

Until then, here’s a site that’ll let you search, by a number of criteria, for apartments in the Columbus area.

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A band of roaming campus thugs is probably going to come pummel me for saying this (I live in Ann Arbor)… but I like Columbus. It’s a nice town, has an artsy district that’s interesting (so I hear), an intriguing ethnic German area, etc. And you’re close to the Hocking Hills. I’ve visited friends down there several times.

In a similar vein, I just told my boss I can’t work full-time anymore. I was freaking about it, because I know we’re understaffed and overstressed, and last year when I asked about it she talked me out of it. But this year, it wasn’t optional. I had talked it over with my husband and we agreed I could/should resign if they couldn’t work something out with me (although I didn’t have to use that as a threat). Anyway, it’s okay. She approved it. So I can keep a job I love without driving myself to the brink of insanity every week trying to juggle family, grad school, and work. GOD do I feel relieved.

Congrats on your new job.

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UncleBeer, thanks for the info, and now that you mention it, I do seem to recall a recent post somewhere where dopers listed their locale.

Cranky, what can I say, I’m a Buckeye! (altough I have made trips to that state up North and AA is actaully a nice town, too. Congrats to you, for being able to work things out, it’s tough seeing that oyu may ave to leave a job you enjoy. Like I said, I like my job here and when i was interviewing elsewhere and was asked what the ideal job for me would be, I honestly stated that it would be the one I have now, just somewhere else. Oh, well.

Thanks again all.

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Hey, I’ve been to Laurenburg lots of times! Good golf, lots of sand, boring after 6:00PM. You’ll have much more fun in Ohio. Good luck.