When should I quit?

Are you earning more money with the promotion? If so, I say try to tough it out until you and your girlfriend move. Saving the extra money will definitely help in the long run. That said, if you aren’t earning anything more or much more, consider going back to your old position, that way you’re able to keep the job a little longer without going insane.

I know what it’s like to work a job you loathe. If it starts wearing you down too much, get out of there as soon as possible. Your happiness should come before anything else. Good luck to you.

I’d tell my old boss that I prefer to keep my old position and let them hire someone else for the promotion. I would also tell him/her that you will be leaving at the end of June.
Giving your employer lead time will allow them to recruit and hire a replacement, and allow you to help with the training of the new person. If they say they want you out sooner, then ask for severence for the weeks you will not be working…it’s a legit request since you are giving more than a month’s notice. And, it never hurts to ask, huh?

With the end in sight and so close, I would tough it out too. There is a great deal to be learned from it. Treat it as a class in psychology and organizational behavior.
—Observe what makes your boss a bad boss and learn from it.
—Figure out what you can do to make your role bearable and learn from it.
—Study your own attitudes as an unhappy employee and a short-timer and learn from them.
—Notice your co-workers’ behavior and attitudes and how they correspond to the way they are treated, and learn from them.

Two months can seem like a long time in a job you dislike, but some people are trapped like that for years. There is always more to be learned in adversity than in comfort. Every insight you gain now will make you a better employee and potential boss later on.

If you were facing an indefinite future in this capacity, I’d say cut your losses and go now, but the end of June is practically the day after tomorrow.

Your boss probably doesn’t care about you. Don’t care about them.

Keep on doing what they want and get paid. It isn’t like you are going to add this job to your resume. You have only been there a few months. I wouldn’t put that on my resume.

@johnpowell good point!

sorry bro cant help ya here.oh by the way your fired be out by Monday afternoon

How much notice do they give you when they fire you? If it was an outstanding job and you had been there forever would be different. In this economy they can replace you before the door hits you in the back side. Grab your money and run!

I have been an employee and an employer, I try to look at situations from both sides. I acknowledge there are bad employers but there are plenty of bad employees as well. I think if you are planning on leaving soon I would not take the promotion, leave it for someone who is going to stay with the job. It is unfair of you to take the training for the new position only to walk out in a short time.

I always figure if you don’t like the job then quit. That makes more send to me than sticking around and complaining.

I only ever fired people if they were not doing the job I hired them to do or if they were stealing, etc. Employers do not summarily fire good workers.

Don’t take the promotion. It wouldn’t be fair to let them put the time and resources into training you when you know you’re leaving soon anyway.

That said, don’t tell them now that you are leaving unless you are irreplaceable (you’re not, no one is). They will probably tell you to go ahead and leave so they can get started with training someone who plans to stick around. A really nice employer might give you severance pay, but probably only one you had a very good, very long relationship with. This doesn’t sound like that sort of situation. Give the typical two weeks – it is fair to everyone, which is why it is the standard.

I have already been promoted and trained, the training consisted an hour of someone babbling about stuff I already knew. So it’s not like it really took much. Also, I work in collections, there is hundreds of people who work there, I know they would not have any problem replacing me in even one day, I am for sure going to give my two weeks. Just not sure when.

Boss being a jerk meaning; he talks to me like I am a child, less of a person, and just in general treats me different. I am a younger and smaller woman, I feel as though he thinks because of that he can talk down to me. He does not talk to other employees this way.

@rooeytoo I am not complaining, only asking the nice people on Fluther their opinions.

@DesireeCassandra – sorry, didn’t mean you specifically. I was speaking in generalities.

I would tough it out, it does not matter that Mr. Boss man is a total jerk, you’ll be free of him in a few weeks, with extra bucks in your wallet.

Good luck!

So I told my boss when I was leaving. He was surprised I told him so early. But he didn’t care.