Nearly Two Years After Quitting My Job

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 10, 2024

My last job I had held since 2011 (after being a postdoc) and I really wanted to quit in 2019 when "SHTF". My colleagues and I were bullied by managers (grievance complaint got filed) who didn't even know what "Linux" was. Looking back, given that we now know they also embezzled our pension money (that's pension fraud), there was no reason to stay there. Suing them for the stolen money would be more expensive than the case is "worth" and the company now hides in the US, so enforcing the law would be harder (we already reported this to Action Fraud, MPs etc.) if not impossible.

Life has been good since leaving that job and nowadays health is a lot better. Less overnight duties (except sites-related), no stress, and no more arguing with a clueless boss about why Clown Computing is nonsense, where company money gets wasted in vain.

I have friends who did the same - they quit their job in "IT". Some of them were made to work overtime for no extra pay and the pressure at work was generally growing. Why put up with it? █