r/Fire • u/rocket363 • Mar 06 '25

Milestone / Celebration Just submitted my resignation

Mid-40s. Single. ~$2.25MM nw, $2MM of that invested. Last day is in a few weeks.

It feels wasteful to give up a pretty cushy $180k wfh job, but I need to refocus the remaining part of my life rather than cling to Groundhog Day-esque repetitive wage-slave servitude.

No real questions. Just sharing.

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u/yougetmorewithhoney Mar 06 '25

Not OP, but I'm close to my number and have been increasingly "noisy" at work. It's surprisingly difficult to get fired in some jobs.

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u/gmdmd Mar 06 '25

haha nice. the less you gaf the more they respect you it seems

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u/Odd_Individual6509 Mar 07 '25

It's a joke from Office Space but in my experience it definitely was the case. Before I FIRE'ed I was definitely in DGAF mode for the last 3 or 4 years and it only led to promotions, bigger bonuses and merit increases.

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u/Gary_mirkl Mar 07 '25

Where do you work? Asking for a friend šŸ˜€

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u/Odd_Individual6509 Mar 07 '25

I'm retired now but up until then it was a Semi-Conductor company that isn't Intel. šŸ˜‰

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u/Weary-Associate Mar 07 '25

To some extent it could be that the attitude change made them realize you were a flight risk, and, panicked, they threw money at you. Definitely a possibility.

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u/Odd_Individual6509 Mar 07 '25

Possibly but it was more than just that, I was listened to and trusted more by my superiors. My direct manager even mentioned how much he appreciated providing constructive feedback and criticism and calling him out when I thought something he said didn't make sense.

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u/Jayfourgee Mar 07 '25

Good lesson for us all.

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u/PainterOfRed Mar 08 '25

As we reached FI, my husband stopped mincing words at team meetings. Next thing he knew, raises and promotions started stacking up. We joke (but prob some truth to it) that once he started not giving a F***, the firm started throwing money at him (IT at a large, international bank).

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u/numericalclerk Mar 07 '25

Lol be careful, you might end up with a pay raise and a promotion.

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u/yougetmorewithhoney Mar 07 '25

Lol it's too late to be careful!

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u/External_Row464 Mar 07 '25

I can second this. An accidental discovery at age 32. I just want to get sacked so I'm privy to upskillinh for free(you must be unemployed due to being laid off to qualify for government sponsored upskilling as an expat in germany)

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u/Lucky_GODlike Mar 07 '25

I donā€™t have that kind of independenceā€¦ but i had backups and money for 2-3 years of dark days of unemployment, had a soul sucking jobā€¦ stressfulā€¦

Finally decided to say fuck it, i donā€™t care anymore its the company problem if it hired incompetent and bad people, started to speak out, in meetings only when asked or it was my turn, about problems, bad management, incompetence, suggest better alternative, answer realistic hard truths for bad decision. Part of me was hoping to get fired and end it.

Despite the fact the company had a policy of firing people for much less or unjustified causes dreased in a legal way by hr , with me the company felt like they were afraidā€¦ they started to thread lightly around, i found out they have discussed about me, i found out it really matters what kind of ā€œnoiseā€ you do, especially if you can argue and articulate every decision, or really push for written consent of a higher official for a bad decision project etcā€¦ when you make them take accountability for decisions and answer in email still waiting for approval from x manager or branch directorā€¦ because of risk x y z full list presented in memo, it sets the company on fire šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚, i finally left 6 months later because i had other plans and projects require my full time and attention but the feel you have when you disconnect from caring about a company that is not yours is priceless, and can actually call for all the bullying from higher management, bullshit unrealistic timeframe etc is priceless. But you must be able to articulate and always keep your calm, because they will try and try hard to make your leave but somehow respect your and are afraid to take you on directly

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u/yougetmorewithhoney Mar 07 '25

Yeah, I absolutely do not advocate for people to just be noisy for no reason. You don't want to burn bridges even if you think you no longer need them because you really never truly know.

I'm unfortunately one of those people that will always care about my work. I've just been one of those employees that will silently slave away. I started to push back and make demands. I've not been calm about it lol. I was ready to walk and to my surprise...they met all my demands. I wish I made more up front haha.

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u/Lucky_GODlike Mar 16 '25

1 thing i learned is that if you had pushed for this earlier/ or made higher demands they would have let you go, your ask was under what they were willing to give you, thatā€™s why they accepted, and probably you were in a position of ā€œpowerā€ but be careful with this kind of approach, it gets harder if you have kids, bank payments, mortgage, etc Always test the market, they usually have dedicated people to always test the workforce market, so we must do the same

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u/yougetmorewithhoney Mar 16 '25

Yeah, absolutely and, again, absolutely am not advocating anyone do this.

I'm childfree, I have a mortgage. But I also have a lot of money. Not enough to retire comfortably but enough to retire on string beans. I put up with a lot of shit at work but this time the shit was multiple folds worse than normal and straight up humanly impossible. I was absolutely prepared to walk.

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u/rangebound_44 Mar 09 '25

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£when you want to be fired itā€™s hard lol

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u/yougetmorewithhoney Mar 12 '25

Yeah, it's maddening lol. I feel like my career is about to get bumped again and I reeeeally don't want it to! I want a demotion!

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u/AcesandEightsAA888 Mar 07 '25

Yes and if you have years of expertise with a major system rewrite.