I see so many walking away and I wonder what's the thing that ends up being the last straw. Pay, burnout, feeling invisible, or something else entirely?
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Doing the job of two people and major projects being added to my workload making the job impossible. There were no discussions of how to split up the workload. When the stress led to multiple breakdowns at the end of the workday, that is when I knew it was time to leave. Better to leave with my health and not have money, than have money and lose my health.
Badly trained employees not informing participants of what they could actually withdrawal where I was getting it felt like at least 2-3 calls of day with people in tears once you told them the funds they had were restricted or just sent them wrong forms and they had a deadline. Hard to have peace when so many people telling you how they needed the money to not loose their apartments and had children. Then you see these same people get sweet customer reviews (scores given before the clients understand they gave them bad info) and yours get hit for telling them the truth. Then the same bad employees get moved up after 18 months.
Mind numbing, soul su-king environment. Manager was a bi--h on wheels, arrogant and nasty. Hope she gets run over by a bus one day soon.
Money! I took the insane voluntary severance during covid. Would have never gotten injected with the poison they required after I left so it all worked out. Once you’re gone, you realize it was 1000x worse than you actually thought. Get out and regain your soul!
I left because my position was changed, then there was litigation for the RAFV tool, then told position moving to in-office in Frisco. I don't live near a hub, so I was honest with my manager and told her I was looking for another position. I was lucky to find a job 15 minutes from my rural home, it is a small boutique firm, in-office and I am loving it. Fate intervened for me!
Fired for not getting a covid vaccine? lol. I know plenty of folks that didn’t get one and are still here. Sure most are fully remote but at least a dozen or so walking around a few hubs that never got one…
Sidenote. Your body your choice? But I’m sure you don’t believe the same for others, who that line is actually made/meant for.
I was fired from TIAA (actually worked for Nuveen at time of firing) for standing up for my body, my choice and refusing to get the covid vaccine. That is what made me walk away. But it sounds like things have only gotten worse since I have left.
Wow. Good question. I can't remember exactly what was the last straw, but I remember quitting. I told my director that Wealth Management seemed like the financial version of a mindless assembly line job and nothing like the way the WMA role was described to me in interviews. I told him I felt like the place was full of people who were either too afraid to speak their minds or were making too much money to complain about the insanity of the place. They gave me the old, "You've just hit the "2 year wall" and it was totally normal...." I told him I was done and could tell I wasn't ever going to be happy at TIAA...... So I quit and drove home. I remember that I cranked "All the Money" by the Dandy Warhols on the way home. I finished some leftover chinese food, drank some Jack Daniels had a few cigarettes and went to bed....thankful to be free again. That place was a soul-crushing factory. The managers were so small-minded, petty, manipulative, dishonest and, to the degree that a corporation can be self-conscious, the place was hyper self-conscious and vindictive....at least that's how it was in IAS (Wealth Management circa 2013-2015
Toxic environment, micro aggressions, incompetent leadership, the hr clearance personnel (swear they’re a buncha former big box store liquidators). 🖕🏼
Lack of pay raises.
That is important when the price of everything keeps increasing fast. Our paychecks haven’t kept up.
Money isn’t what motivates me. But in this economic environment it is a necessity. We need raises just to keep up.
I’m leaving cause the company has shown me that it sees employees as a liability instead of an asset and it does not actually care what happens to us if it doesn’t make them money or gain them recognition.
When no one is looking, the company is not treating people right. Even my 5 year old can see that this is wrong.
Toxic environment, weak immediate leadership, and having a workload of 3 people. I decided the money isn't worth the toll on my health. The sad thing is I hate the job that I once excelled and liked.