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Why did you leave your last job? (Poll Closed)

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Total Votes: 352
8 Comments

  • Anon - 9 years ago

    Laid off. Other handpicked layoffs included people who had worn out their welcome at the company after on-the-job injury, bereavement, and of course, cancer. Never could make peace with those decisions. Weak leaders led by the nose to do unconscionable things. Looking back, it all reminds me of the Stanford prisoner experiment. Glad to be in a better place now, both literally and figuratively.

  • Donaldo - 9 years ago

    I went to work in 2011 for six months with a competitor in an industry where I'd worked previously for 7 years back in the early-mid 1990's. The local management (of which I was a member) and overall staff was fantastic; the division management to whom we reported was a den populated with back-stabbers and micro-managers. Competition was eating our lunch nationally, and their response was to constantly cut staff and raise prices; classic short-term thinking. At a senior management budget meeting, the DVP of Operations verbally promised me, with over 30 of my peers as witnesses, that he'd allow our local team to freeze pricing for six months in order to repair customer retention and allow our operations staff (most of them Teamsters) to focus on improving customer service. In fact, this goof broke the promise in six weeks! I gave notice to my local GM, who hired me, 90 days after I started. He begged me to stay on through the end of the year (another 90 days) and out of respect for him, I did so. I didn't even have another job lined up, and I'd never quit a job like that, but I couldn't stand the place. Ironically, five months after I left the division management team was broken up via termination, re-assignment, and retirement. Karma does indeed live!

  • lae - 9 years ago

    I was lucky enough to obtain my first CIO position at an organization that had never had a CIO. It has been over 2 1/2 years now, and I am very happy to be here.
    It has been the most challenging, frustrating, rewarding, scary position I have ever taken on. I never know what the next day wil bring, but I keep coming back for more. I have a really good team that really cares about the organization, and I feel incredibly lucky to have them.
    So much to do...gotta go...

  • Old Pueblo IT - 9 years ago

    The software company where I worked for many, many years sent me to India to train developers. After I returned, the company decided they didn't need the experienced local staff and our jobs were outsourced to India.

  • Little Miss Sunshine - 9 years ago

    Mr. HISTALK - I left, not because I was unhappy or underpaid at my last job, but because I saw an large challenge in my new job. I'm one of the lucky ones. I loved where I worked and the people I worked with. I believed in leadership and had a great team behind me.

    But this new job came a'-calling and the offer was intriguing. Essentially the same money, but in a warmer climate. The job though was to start a program from scratch, accelerate it as quickly as possible. I wanted to see if I could do it. I also was thoroughly impressed by the leaders here. I left my comfort zone. The first year was a challenge as I had been at my previous employer for 15 years so really understood all the politics there. I was lucky. I have a great boss here and we've been successful together.

    So I left my happy job for another happy job. I know that's unusual. I know I'm lucky.

  • Doctor T - 9 years ago

    And when I turned in my notice, management went after me. They contacted Epic to look into if I might be trying to go into consulting. Epic found I was. My management told them to blackball me in an attempt to get me to stay. The job which I was to start in a few weeks disappeared. The site and recruiter were told by Epic that they could not do business with me since I was leaving an active installation which was untrue. We were several months past our install phase and into our optimization phase. See why I left?

  • HIStalkfan - 9 years ago

    I left the Advisory Board Company's performance technology vertical mostly due mostly to management issues. Individuals in management roles tended to be those who stuck with the company the longest, rather than individuals who were talented or forward-thinking. There was no official training that management received, as far as we knew, so most managers didn't know how to grow their team members or keep them at the company (most managers had no idea how to handle HR issues either, like what to do when an employee told them they wanted to quit). There was also a severe lack of accountability. No one really held anyone else to deadlines regarding deliverables to his/her member hospitals, and no one seemed to care when hospitals grew upset with their services from the Advisory Board, unless it threatened the chances of that member hospital renewing their services when the time came to make a decision. Most of the time, the company prioritized securing sales rather than trying to deliver quality products and services that would renew themselves, if executed and supported successfully. On top of all of that, VERY few if any employees had even an average working knowledge of the healthcare industry, on all levels. Employees were generally taught just enough to be able to fake it, and there was little additional training available after that. Of course, employees were sold as "experts" to the member hospitals they supported.

  • A Nony Mouse - 9 years ago

    I resigned from McKesson Technology Solutions because I have no confidence that anyone in their leadership chain truly cares about their customers or their employees, actually knows anything about technology (despite the name of the division), or has a cohesive strategy that will be successful. That ship is slowly going down, and is only buoyed up by the big profits on the Pharma side of McKesson. If you look really carefully, you will see there have been quite a few low-key resignations of mid- and mid-upper level Technology division leaders over the past year or so. I wonder when Mr Hammergren will finally just dump the whole Technology thing so he can concentrate on the part of the business that is actually working?

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