This place is beyond toxic and I’ve been trying to leave for a year but no luck. The job market isn’t good. Has anyone quit without a job lined up? I cannot take working for Frank much longer. I overstayed my welcome at least two years. My mental health is deteriorating.
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The job market is terrible but you will find something eventually. My mental health and physical health was at an all time low when I was working there. One morning while driving to work I had a break down and almost checked myself into a facility. No job is worth that. They literally don’t care about anyone. I don’t care to be in the office all week trauma bonding. No thanks.
Do what you need to do for your mental health. I left earlier this year and literally felt the weight lift off me as soon as I left. You cannot imagine how much weight you are carrying working for FI until you leave. Get out. Figure out your exit strategy and get out!
I sincerely thought about quitting without a job lined up. I had the money to do so. But I was concerned with the job market. It would be too long for me to find a new job. I stuck it out and eventually found something. Best. Advice is to send your resume through one of those AI readers. That's what everybody's using a lot of it is formatting of your resume on how it's read. You get a lot of rejections because of that. And after using one of those AI readers and taking their advice, it goes a lot better.
I took advantage of the EAP mental health resources on my way out. It helped me process the emotions and stay calm as I made a strategic exit. I’d often go to my car and do the breathing exercises on break to keep it together. Using the EAP resource, I received about 5 free remote “career counseling” sessions. It may be worth mentioning that the leadership at my site was incredible, and that the issues I experienced were due to the executive leaderships budget cuts (such as not providing me with my own desk every other day).
It took me a while to find something too, I looked informally for a few months, then got serious and it took quite a few months from there to secure a new role. Keep trying, it will happen.
I can offer a couple of suggestions. One, hire a resume service and/or career coach to help get your resume/CL/LinkedIn in order. One thing I've seen time and time again is qualified people not even getting a look at places because their resumes get dumped by the "weed out" softwares bigger firms use to screen applicants. There are experts who can help structure things to avoid that. Second, leverage your network. Getting a foot in the door is a lot easier if it comes off a referral.
Keep at it. Use your PTO, give yourself breaks. You'll get there!
What’s specifically driving the mental health concerns? Have you asked for help? Try calling your second level manager or even go right to the top MC if need be. If you don’t want to go to HR you can go to EAP or call the Ethics line. There are people who care here and will always to help.
I could not take the BS from my manager (not fiserv) so i quit early this year with nothing in hand. Its been 5 months and so far did not get any other opportunity, but i m NOT regretting my decision. moreover I dont expect the market to get any better till end of this year. I am upskilling myself in the meantime.
You need to ask the question to your self "is this work really bothering me and can i stay without pay for another 6-8 months" if you can and the issues at work is really stressing you out then quit, else continue doing minimum work and keep looking outside
Same issue here major burnout from dealing with angry clients 24/7. It’s exhausting for sure. Take care of you!!!
While I do agree with not making a decision purely based on emotions, if you've been on the fence for a couple of years, is it worth your emotional/physical health to continue working for this company? I don't know - I couldn't do it, but definitely understand the need to get out of dodge. It just becomes more and more miserable every Monday morning.
It's easier said than done but have patience. It took me over 13 months to find a new role and many times, I wanted to give up. Almost a year later and I am so much happier. Fiserv is not a good place for mental health.
I've been seriously thinking about it over the past few weeks. Still on the fence with the job market how it is right now, but I'll probably take some extended PTO to reevaluate everything before making a decision. You don't want to make this sort of decision based purely on emotions.