Quit my position(not my "job")

[SnakeEyeSS]

I had recently moved into a management position at the company I work for. Things at the company are not going well. I went in to try to get thing done right. After my direct manager, who likes to yell on a regular basis throughout the day went off one too many times, and I was doing the job employees under me for them(which was affecting an injury I have), I decided to go back a step, the stress increase was no where near to the increase in pay.

 

So I called one of the top guys for this branch to let him know. He really didnt seem to give a flip, told me to talk my direct boss to arrange an exit back to my old job. She blew up and basically told me to get out fast, so I called the guy back to let him know. I told him the problems I had with how basically all I was trained was which company rules to break at what time. His response was "that is the situation we are in now" .....ok, so I told him having to do the emplyoees job for them because we are understaffed was worsening my injury. His repsonce was "yeah that can be rough"... I told him how he told me I was not to break a big company regulation reguarding a specifc situation, but I was actually instructed by my direct boss to do it......he told he knew, that he didn't have a problem with breaking the regulations

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So, long story short, going back a step isn't far enough, anyone know of any good work at home businesses? I'm actually planning on starting to write some. maybe self publish an ebook

[2010LTZ4x4]

 

So, long story short, going back a step isn't far enough, anyone know of any good work at home businesses? I'm actually planning on starting to write some. maybe self publish an ebook

 

 

If you can work for yourself than go for it, that would be the best thing you could probably do.

Good luck with your new position for now.

[SnakeEyeSS]

If you can work for yourself than go for it, that would be the best thing you could probably do.

Good luck with your new position for now.

 

what if I said I work for the government....would that make more sense?

 

I actually started writing the book today. Few pages done. I'm thinking I might epublish the first chapter for like a quarter and see how it does.....letting people know it's just a chapter to gauge interest, a short story that will turn to a book if they like it and tell their friends to check it out. I had a teacher in high school that thought my writing was amazing, pushed me to pursue it, so I've always wanted to try.

[2010LTZ4x4]

what if I said I work for the government....would that make more sense?

 

I actually started writing the book today. Few pages done. I'm thinking I might epublish the first chapter for like a quarter and see how it does.....letting people know it's just a chapter to gauge interest, a short story that will turn to a book if they like it and tell their friends to check it out. I had a teacher in high school that thought my writing was amazing, pushed me to pursue it, so I've always wanted to try.

 

Man, if you work for the goverment you would be crazy to leave if that was what you were planning .

[SnakeEyeSS]

 

 

Sounds like you have no management skills and were set up to fail. You either are a micro manager or do not know how to handle your direct reports. If the employees under you do not perform, you fire them and hire new employees that do perform. You do not "do the job of an employee under you" if you are a manager. If you did their jobs because "you wanted it done right & did not trust them to do it right" then you are a micro manager and have no business ever being an effective manager.

 

 

Oh look, this site's most useless contributor showed up. Guess his bridge was getting danky.

 

first, I'll let you take a minute to pull your head out of your butt to realize you are assuming things.

 

You assume I had the power to fire people. I didn't. I was even told from the beginning.

 

You assume I did the job of employees because I wanted to. I did not want to. I told my superior they needed to be canned. They refused and instructed me to pick up the employees slack. One guy wasn't just slow, he made zero progress after the first few weeks, hovering around 40% of where he needed to be. I pointed out his uselessness every chance I got. They wanted to keep him. All it would have taken was a page or two of paperwork to boot him.

 

In my manager told me "to get used to doing their jobs too". I complained to her boss and he said the same thing.

 

if you haven't figured it out YET, the entire "chain of command" is incompetent. I have caught people stealing and they let the people stay.

 

They underschedule so basic work hours are reduced, even though those hours are covered by overtime AND double time instead, costing the company MORE money. The overtime doesn't factor into the hours. That is how stupid the place is.

 

My stupid mistake was thinking they wanted to make the company actually efficient.

[06pirate]

I am currently unemployed. Last October I was laid off from a giant multi-national company that had the same type of management structure. If I named them they'd probably sue me, so that's out. I was just a lowly line tech building things. But those guys spent more time yelling at each other and trying to circumvent their own rules than they did effectively managing anything. That's why they let the business get into a bad position, overbid a bunch of contracts, lost the business and had to "downsize" about 70 people.

 

Some people are managers and some aren't. You might be very effective in one company and unable to fit in at another. I don't consider it a plus necessarily to be a manager type nor an insult if you aren't. I'm a mechanic, not a veterinarian, nor a marriage counselor, nor a farmer. I have held management positions, but I am not a good manager of people. I can manage projects and systems and operations, but not people. I think the OP showed a lot of courage to admit that the job wasn't for them and got the heck out. Far better, I think, than to be like the "managers" at my last company who couldn't do the job, refused to admit it, and kept on taking up space in a position in which they are incompetent, which makes everyone suffer. Sometimes the imbedded corporate system is bigger than one person can change and fighting it gets real old, real quick. A lot depends on how much you want to fight idiots "above" you trying to meet their unrealistic expectations, especially when they are torpedoing you at every opportunity.

 

Some years back, at different times, I managed a couple of aircraft repair stations and I was always caught in the middle between owner/managers and the shop mechanics. It is the worst position to be in the middle. In my case it led to alcohol abuse and health issues. That was in 1996. My choice was to get the hell out and get on with my life. It's just a job and there are other jobs.

[Wolfmanjohn]

Similar situation as Pirate, but was able to retire as an out.

[RyanbabZ71]

Please stock "poking" each other. It's not cool to argue on the Internet

 

 

Ryan

 

 

[6Sixathome]

I think writing a book would be awesome and I think you should really pursue it because it kind of sounds maybe that's where your heart is. A bad job will only make you feel horrible all the time and everyone one around you will feel it too, trust me : / focus on the first book and let the chips fall where they may. My wife always wanted to write a book too You never know, the book thing may take off and you can tell whoever is in charge over there to....well you know.