Handed notice in, fed up!

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So... today in work, I cracked and ended handing my notice in due to a complaint I received from a client that was made against me. I handed my notice in because I'm sick of being overworked and underpaid and not getting anything thanks. I have been in my job for almost 6 months and I do business travel and have been really unhappy for a few weeks. My boss came back from lunch to find out that I had handed my notice in and he called me into his office to say that he doesn't want me to leave etc.

I am honestly not sure what to do as it might have been a bit drastic but I've been in my job for almost 6 months as I've said and I'm still not settled (business travel is new to me).

Can anyone offer any advice?

Before anyone starts, I don't want to hear about my decision being selfish as millions are out of work etc. because nobody knows how I feel atm.
 
At my last job I was the same, fed up, sick of the people I worked with who were utter cretins and never thanked you for the things you did for them. The bosses were a bunch of ****s as per.

I was there 3 years and nearly handed my notice in a few times. I tolerated it longer though and sometimes it got a bit better and didn't mind but then a few weeks later it would be the same again.

As you've only been there 6 months, personally i'd try and give it another 6 months as you really do need to give it time to settle into a job.
 
Everyone takes **** at work. Stop being a cry baby and get on with it. If you think your job is bad, imagine what nurses working for the NHS have to put up with and they get paid peanuts.
 
MrMoonX said:
if you get sick pay you should have just gone sick and found another job then quit!
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Model employee.

To the OP. I understand your predicament but your actions were perhaps a little over-zealous.
Being unhappy for a few weeks isn't a good enough reason to jack it in. If you've decided your underpaid after only 6 months in the job, why did you take it in the first place?

Talk it out with your boss if he will have you back - you may well be able to find some sort of arrangement which suits the both of you.

That said, if the complaint is one of many, you may have done him a favour.
 
Jimmeh said:
Model employee.

To the OP. I understand your predicament but your actions were perhaps a little over-zealous.
Being unhappy for a few weeks isn't a good enough reason to jack it in. If you've decided your underpaid after only 6 months in the job, why did you take it in the first place?

Talk it out with your boss if he will have you back - you may well be able to find some sort of arrangement which suits the both of you.

That said, if the complaint is one of many, you may have done him a favour.
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When I took the job, I wasn't made aware of how much work it entailed.

I talked to him today and he said that he doesn't want me to leave (my notice period is 2 weeks). He'd be screwed if I left as the company is already understaffed and there could be potential of losing a major client due to low staffing levels.
 
Robert1986 said:
imagine what nurses working for the NHS have to put up with and they get paid peanuts.
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They don't get paid peanuts and most of them are glorified cleaners. I looked at the wages advertised on the board at addenbrookes hospital for nurses and midwives, it was far from peanuts for a job that takes school leavers with very little qualifications.

If they don't like it they can leave and do something else. Which is the exact same line would be pedalled to anyone else on this forum moaning about pay or work.

I have plenty of friends that are nurses and not one of them ever complains about the wages, most infact think they are well paid for the job they do and they get plenty of time off.


OP did you do it for a reaction, hand the notice in just so you got to be called in and told how great you are?

If it upsets you that much stick it out until you find something else atleast.
 
1. You want to have a new job lined up before you quit this one.
2. You've trashed your relationship with your boss
3. You don't like your job anyway

so...

1. Keep working there.
2. Look for a new job
3. Once you have a new job lined up, hand in your notice
 
Jimmeh said:
Model employee.
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It's the only way at some workplaces to be able to get "time off" to attend interviews. Normally you have to give advance notice of any holiday booking so you can't take the day off as holiday if you find out 3 days before the interview.
 
Well, if youre really unhappy and dont see it changing then stick to your guns and find something else. Perhaps go back to your job until you've got your teeth into something else as it can be tough to find something else.

If you think you were having a bad day, you see an improvement then go back to it. Perhaps ask for a payrise. Jobs tend to be harder work for the first part as there's lots to learn.

What exactly do you do? What do you want to do?

:)
 
buckeejit said:
When I took the job, I wasn't made aware of how much work it entailed.

I talked to him today and he said that he doesn't want me to leave (my notice period is 2 weeks). He'd be screwed if I left as the company is already understaffed and there could be potential of losing a major client due to low staffing levels.
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If he's screwed without you try and get some more £££out of him to stay on until you have another job lined up.
 
Oxy said:
Don't resign it's the worst thing you can do atm. Just be thankful you have a job.
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Yup,

Go in tomorrow and talk things through with your boss. You don't want to be looking back in 8 weeks time, jobless thinking "why!?"

Never quit a job before finding a new one
 
bledd. said:
Yup,

Go in tomorrow and talk things through with your boss. You don't want to be looking back in 8 weeks time, jobless thinking "why!?"

Never quit a job before finding a new one
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This, I have learnt the hardway. I left my job after 4 years as I hated it so much, started teacher training but quit half way through as it wasn't for me. Now I'm unemployed and it is extremely hard to get a job now.
 
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