ANSWERS: 100
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It wasn't the right fit for me. +5
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The company was bought out and they fired all the directors which I was one.
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bad owner
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Low pay. I did love that job though.
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I decided I had had enough. I worked somewhere doing something for 37 years, so I quit, 3/15/2002. I am not going back.
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panic attacks. I would never admit to this in a job interview. I would make something up.
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The company went out of business.
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Because my government security clearance didn't pass in time.
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They changed management, and the new manager was a total hag.
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The birth of my second child.
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Because after working 30 plus years under others. I finely got wise & became self employed.....M.C.S.
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The owner was incredibly demanding. I worked 10hr days including time on weekends, and at the end of my fourth month (after 3 months probation..) he decided that if I was to earn my 'full time' increased salary I would have to take on more work!
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I left because it was just a volunteer position, and I needed something that would pay my bills.
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The company I worked for moved out of town, and I was 6 month pregnant. They paid me for six months pay, plus I received disability for 12 weeks after he was born, and a full year's unemployment. By then, I realized I didn't have to work, and I stayed home.
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I had to go to college.
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I am currently in my 2 week notice for my current job as a waitress. I thought I could manage it while starting Grad school, with 2 kids, but I don't think so. I am also going to start something different soon.
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I left because it was a part time "as and when" type job, one moneth I may have worked 5 days whereas the next it would only be 1. I needed more stability and found it in the form of a full time job. The job before that, I was forced out because my then boss wanted to enploy one of his best friends AND his GF to replace me (2 people to replace me!) bang out of order but he did it when my contract expired so there was nothing I could do :( The job before that I left because I moved from London to Oslo, a little too far to commute every day even though they did offer to double my money!
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Because I'm an idiot.
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2 strokes!
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the place was a printing company, it was ok but i could not stand the ink smell. it was making sick!
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Gosh, it was really awful. Even though I normally work for myself, I'd given in to financial temptation and taken a big corporate marketing job I'd been offered [even though I hate Big Corporate]. I lasted exactly two days before I had to tell them I just couldn't go back. In those two days I figured out from the regularly scheduled meetings that my life would have consisted of actually doing my job only 40% of the time. The rest of the time I would have been reporting back on what I'd done, or telling people what I was planning to do next. The thought made me want to staple myself in the forehead.
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I received an internship with the Bank and did not have time to work.
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They stopped paying me.
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I moved. It is difficult to make a 89 mile commute when you don't have a car.
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Got a better offer. More pay, better benefits, better job, no union dues.
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Early medical retirement. That 60% pay-cut, after 18 months of no pay, is a killer!
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It was quitting time.
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Not enough hours worked=small check!
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To go to school.
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end of season, and the kids were running me ragged
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I got fired!
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Because I moved to a different state with my husband for his job. +5
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My boss wanted sex from me, I said no, he got me fired by telling me not to call in and then telling the higher up's.
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I can't remember what my last job was LOL .... I believe it was a temp job at a factory and like two weeks after I got it they laid everyone off. And then I applied for the job i have now
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To start this one. Left on great terms.:)
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I moved.
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I didn't quit I got the sack :((((((( LoL
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It quit me... (Job was eliminated) :-(
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A feeble attempt to hold on to some of my sanity.LOL
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It was a soul sucking place that employed the living dead. I had to get out before I became one of them.
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I was working at Sensor Engineering a receiver at $6 per hour 21 years ago. The Post Office started me at $10 per hour. I resigned Sensor and went to the better paying job.
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Many reasons. The three biggest being: I was tired of never being home. I needed to pick a career that was not so at odds with my personal beliefs. A bit difficult to separate in this particular line of work unfortunately. My mom became ill and I just couldn't manage both. She is more important than a job as far as I am concerned.
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I've been laid-off twice in my life and quit once because I hated my boss. He didn't do anything and didn't know what was going on behind his back but took all the credit for what was done in his department.
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I retired from my last job because I no longer needed to work.
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I was being under utilized and underpaid and my boss was not the brightest bulb on the tree, but would never lose his job because his wife was a VP with the company.
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Lets see, the last job because they didn't even want to pay me minimum wage and they were very nasty to the lady in the office (it was a small motel). The place before that because it seemed I was the only one who worked. Other people stood around and chatted all day long or watched movies while I stocked shelves and cleaned. The job I have now I'm going to quit when I find a new job because I applied for full time only and am only getting 5 hours per week (it's a half hour drive each way, too) and they didn't bother to mention that during the interview!
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Before becoming a teacher, I worked as a parts inspector in a clock factory. I quit this job because I started to substitute teach thereby getting my foot in the door for a full time teaching job.
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Because I was being asked to compromise my ethics. I had already decided I was going to quit and then I found out that my boss was going to ask me to leave by sending me an email. She wasn't able to send the email, because the DSL was down, but when I went back to work all of my personal belongings had been removed and my replacement was already there working. (This was over a weekend.) So, then my former boss lied to me about why my things had been moved and I put in my resignation.
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I was board....but that was about 4 years ago
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I got pregnant.
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Because my boss sucked the big one and he called me a fucking idiot... so I went to lunch and never came back.
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Low salary, very few benefits, arrogant boss.
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I was infatuated with someone and I decided to go find her, which involved me quitting my job (without notice, too). It probably wasn't the best idea.
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Better pay.
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To become Self employed. One of the best moves I ever made.
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It was eliminated. Prior to that, it was better pay and more programming than administrative work.
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having 2 strokes ... bummer!
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my manager was bi polar
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To finish planning my wedding :)
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My previous job was as temporary Christmas help. When Christmas was over, I was let go.
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it was boring, i couldn't stand it .. also the employees absolutely hated me because i was very young and got hired as a manager while they'd been there forever so it wasn't a pleasant atmosphere.
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Better pay and the company I joined had more modern computer hardware.
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The Sheriff wanted a raise this year. They decided to use my salary to give it to him. I worked in the Planning and Development department. I don't get it either.
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I moved from Virginia to Belgium, and I'm sorry but an everyday commute across the Atlantic didn't appeal to me LOL.
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I was being asked to compromise my ethics.
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That would have been back in 1977, when I started my own business as a martial arts and health science instructor.
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Being sacked, pretty much. (I'd told them that I didn't enjoy the work and was considering looking for a new job - five minutes later they threw me out. This was two weeks before Christmas 2005.)
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...completed the scope of work...
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They were incredibly badly managed and were fast collapsing. I made my (repeated) warnings and offers to help prevent this collapse by improving the systems and procedures etc but they were largely ignored as certain managers had their own ideas. They also didn't pay enough for the work I was doing for them. And the atmosphere was appalling. So I walked. Sure enough not 6 months later the company folded. I can't say I didn't feel a little smug :)
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because it was making me ill, i was isgned off for 6 months with depressing, caused by the people i worked with and the pressures of the job. which were unnecessary due to the nature of the job. leaving was the best thing i ever did.
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Answer 1: Because it sucked. Why else would someone leave, idiot! Answer 2: I got fired because I sucked. So why would you ever want to hire me idiot!
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I hated it and I knew it was time to go! So glad I did because I LOVED the job that I am at now!!
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I got a better offer. More money and newer technology.
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My SSI would pay me just as much to stay home, as if I were to be paid if I were still working that dead-end low-skill entry-level job. The only reasons why I'd stay at a job would be for financial security, chance for success, or emotional well-being. That job gave me none of those.
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You were expected to not have a life and be obedient and fearful of the owner. Even though you are salaried you are expected to work an extra 10 hours a week and skip lunch, not once in a while, but every day! Got an ulcer and an aneurysm in the process. It sounds far fetched, I know, but I assure you the place exists and they are in business...I never worked under these conditions before. Thank God I am doing better although still jobless. I know how stupid it may sound and I don't recommend it but that's how desperate, sick and depressed I was! And I am a professional woman with a degree and an excellent background, imagine what others less fortunate go through...
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I was sacked
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Because I realized I was working for someone who wasn't acting right in the eyes of the law, but no one will ever know because this person has familiy lawyers (two of their brothers are lawyers).
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failed a drug test and got fired..... oh yea
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severe emotional strife.
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I quit because they were making me work hours that they didn't pay me for and then they accused me of doing something I didn't not do so I quit.
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Because my husband moved his company 500 miles away. :(
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Haha ohhh jeez. Well...besides the seriously under educated wiggeriffic gangster wannabe kids I worked with? Probably $9.30 an hour wasn't cutting it ;)
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I recently quit a job that was a second job, simply because it was costing me money in lost potential wages at my other job, and gas to get to the second job that was too far for me too ride my bike to. If you want to go with the job I had before the job I now have, it was becase the previous job was very late at night, and it was beginning to affect my grades in my college classes.
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It was beneath my level of education being a parts inspector in a pressed metal foundry. It was also very dirty work and it involved working around asbestos.
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Because my job was being shipped to the Phillipines and I had an offer from a place I like better.
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Because it absolutely sucked!
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Salary uncertainty!
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not quit but left on good terms but did leave due to boredom, needed a new challenge and direction.
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figuered that since i could get paid to go to college, why work? now i paint houses and i get paid what i say. not much work tho...
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The store I worked for had just been sold at the same time that I was offered a managers postion at a friends store. It just felt like a good time for a move.
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I deserved better.
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Will make things short, I told my previous employer to fire me! I do not quit, because who I am. They made the job so miserable,my daughter cried at night.
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They kicked me out because they said I was medically unfit, but the pension's good.
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No hours and shady upper management. (short version) One month I only got 6 days of work, next two months were similar. You can legally file for unemployment if you have extremely low hours to supplement your income. They attempted to block my claim. They universally block all claims, legit or not. They won on a technicality because although I was scheduled for full time hours I was technically only a part time employee. I was furious! I knew I wouldn't do any work if I showed up the next day so I quit. Better than wanting to slit my own throat all day or someone else's. On a good note they're currently on the verge of imploding because of high turnover and archaic equipment that keeps them from competing in their field.
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Dated an employee from work, broke up, it got awkward, then he turned into a stalker!
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I felt my previous employers took advantage of people, their available time by scheduling and then cutting people after an hour of work. I also felt they abused their "owner" power by demanding people to perform all tasks in different areas aside from where they were hired. And damn don't play favorites. Makes me want to vomit. And to play favorites for the weak, trouble making, whiners of the world. And they were complete liars.
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Working too long hours, which meant having no life outside of work, inadequate training, which as I was working with electrics was potentially dangerous for me and others, and having too big a workload, which was shared with a colleague who was a nice enough guy, but was slower than a week in jail.
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I was stupid.
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Arrogant boss is a big reason. Wages were OK/ good for type of work. But at the end of the day the job was not worth the pay.
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