What is the best and safest way to get out of your job? The best time of year/month/day? Anything helps because I can’t take it anymore but want every $ I’m owed. Can you volunteer for a severance package?
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Why lay you off and pay severance when they think you may voluntarily leave soon?
Time your departure after bonus payout. Use your floating holidays and personal days first when taking PTO. Start looking for a new job after the holidays, that way you are closer to bonus and wait to start with a new company after payout.
OP you are reflecting a suppressed emotion back to the ones replying to you about being weak. Shine your light and keep making these fools uncomfortable. Deep down they agree but number themselves long ago.
Best to wait for bonus payout at this point before giving notice. And give it a few extra days to be sure those SOBs can’t claw it back.
Best time of month is the beginning. At that point your benefits are paid for the whole month and you accrue PTO for that month. Unused PTO pays out after you leave, but floating holidays do not. Floating holidays accrue for the year on 1/1 so take all of them before you give your notice or they will reject your time off requests.
Don’t even think about raising your hand for severance package. You won’t get it, and your manager will devote him/herself to making you want to quit. Better to stay under the radar and put your energy into looking for something else.
OP, please leave now. Your attitude stinks.
If you’ve been in one position, for at least a year, start applying for another position within the company. You could End up on my team, where we all work remotely and hardly have any responsibilities. It’s like being on the company payroll, not doing any work.
- You don’t have to be in the office.
- Bring your laptop with you to Starbucks, hotels, and airport lounges.
- Log in a few times a week.
- Open up lots of trouble tickets.
- Try to solicit work from other departments, which will keep you busy from having to do your own work in your own group.
Pro tip: save enough PTO for a 2-week vacation and deliver your 2-week notice on day 1 of it. Bo-m, you quit without having to work an extra two weeks.
I would like to get off this plantation. Where’s the escape?
Quiet quitting works for someone who is building up their side hustle but it’s not a long term solution to resolving your unhappiness. You need to take more control over the situation and be proactive. The bank isn’t out here conjuring ways to make their employees happy. In case you haven’t noticed yet they don’t think too highly of us. Sounds like you have more of an entrepreneur spirit. Try making $ off something you enjoy doing and build that up while you collect your wf check.
I suggest you research and read articles about quiet quitting. There’s all kinds of ways of psychologically removing yourself from the company, but still getting paid.
I perfected it.
If you’re physically getting ill from going into the office, then keep visiting this site as we’re always coming up with ways to stick it to the company. No point leaving and giving up the biweekly paycheck. Trying to re-interview all over again it’s a pain in the ar-e.
To clarify. I’m actually in my early 30s but I don’t see this job let alone career going anywhere any longer. I am officially demoralized and unmotivated. The office straight up hurts my soul. I feel like I am getting sick from physically being here. My job? I could do it in my sleep. My boss? Never any issues aside from asking me to come into the office. I just feel like some elementary student. I don’t know how you all handle this situation however I can speak from my own personal experience. I didn’t know about the 401k date but I also don’t trip over that anyway, but I do want my bonus due to me in feb, big or small. I just can’t imagine living or feeling like this as it just goes against my own nature. Hope that even makes sense. IYKYK. I can feel the mental strain more and more everyday. It is a kick in the gut when I know there’s such an easy fix but they don’t allow it. The only other response I can come up with is okay, well 🖕🏻!
Record date for the now yearly 401k match is 12/15 for payment date 12/31.
Dont give notice without hitting past that 12/15 date to get the match. Next date is End of February for bonuses. Just focus on short term targets. I get it.
Is this company full of these same people as OP with no ba--s? There's no way you can be over 20 with these types of hand holding questions. Just quit and stay in your mom's basement. That way she can chose your meals for you too because it seems making decisions is not your forte.
That’ll work. Lots of complaints and issues from your department will reflect poorly on your supervisor. Since document complaints in trouble tickets have a legitimate paper trail Per company policies
Stay put until February when you might get your annual bonus. other options to get out of work are the following:
- Open lots of trouble tickets. Technology is always pushing out hot fixes that mess up computers.
- Constantly find things that are occurring wrong your department, document them, and report them to human resources.
- Constantly complain to your supervisor’s supervisor.
- If you can work remotely, that’ll free up a lot of your time and emotional duress. Time will go by faster if you’re not in the office.
I've been here 15+ years and I've been at my breaking point at least a dozen times. Moments when I was almost convinced to resign with nothing lined up given the circumstances but agree with another poster......it always passes. It doesn't make the suck any less as you're going through it, but it will pass. You'll look back and think 'that wasn't so bad' when you couldn't see any positive outcome at the time.
Wells sucks. I stand by that. I perform the most meaningless, inefficient value-minus type work. It is literally the same thing everywhere you go in this company. 15+ years....7 different positions of all progressing responsibility. Complete pretend work everywhere you go. It's such a drain to think - if we stopped this today and all this work disappeared, would there be any adverse impact to the company at all? Nope.
That's reality is so much of the control, IRM, and Audit businesses. If you don't think they'd replace your role if you left, your entire existence here is unnecessary. Thousands of us in that situation for years and years. The pay is ok, but it's the lack of feeling like your work means anything at all that makes you become a mental case.
Stay put until 401k match and bonus paid. You are very close and the time will pass. I do understand, though.
Other than egregious offenses, it takes a long time to get fired at Wells.
Try not to sweat it. Just keep getting paid to do whatever you choose to do. Your excuses for not getting other work done can be flimsy - you just need any excuse.
It might feel awkward at first, but it'll pass. You'll get used to calling your own shots and having your manager give up on trying to change you. They'll just give your work to someone else.
At the end of the day, Wells managers are prohibited from providing a reference, so there's little/no motivation to try to impress your boss.
Just do whatever you need to for daily sanity. The money Wells pays you is not charitable - it's in exchange for your time. How to spend your time is an agreement between you and Wells. This isn't the military where you blindly take orders no matter what.