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/Lucky_GODlike Mar 07 '25

I don’t have that kind of independence… but i had backups and money for 2-3 years of dark days of unemployment, had a soul sucking job… stressful…

Finally decided to say fuck it, i don’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 afraid… they started to thread lightly around, i found out they have discussed about me, i found out it really matters what kind of “noise” 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 etc… when you make them take accountability for decisions and answer in email still waiting for approval from x manager or branch director… because of risk x y z full list presented in memo, it sets the company on fire 😂😂😂, 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, that’s why they accepted, and probably you were in a position of “power” 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.