Day 92 of writing every day.
After a week of balmy spring weather and endless pollen, it’s cooled down a bit since the arrival of rain clouds overnight but barely any rain actually fell. I felt pretty good and got a full 8 hours of sleep last night and began listening to another self-help type audiobook.
I started my day making a copy of the documents I’d been asked to send in as part of the process for quitting my job. Then I went to send it off at the post office, the documents sealed in an envelope already affixed with a postage stamp provided by the company. This should be all I need to do in terms of paperwork before my final half day of work at the end of the month.
The thought of this week being my last week—at a job that’s been nothing but awful for the past four months—has been a giant and much needed mood boost. I feel great!
The thought of my coworkers who have to carry on with work they didn’t sign up for saddens me. I was the first one to join the team, and will be the first to go after it maxed out in size. Technically, a more experienced member of the team left first, but they were reshuffled into the newly formed team after already working a few years at the company.
Morale seems low as well and my leaving might make things feel more bleak. Though the terms of our contracts seem to all be the same, the way things played out for everyone was quite different. The only thing in common about it all is that we’re underpaid for college graduates and perhaps below average for the industry.
Who knows what will happen to them after I leave, but that’s their journey, not mine. I wasn’t feeling happy with how things have gone and my voice doesn’t seem to carry any weight with the decisions being made, so I’m more than happy to leave a job that demanded more qualifications to get hired for than they were willing to pay from the start.
When expectations are betrayed from the beginning and loyalty means nothing, then it’s time to go and stop wasting time with an organization that in practice treats you like machines instead of people with unique preferences, challenges, needs, and so on.
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