Engineering manager tells employee to "go elsewhere" so they do and quit the next day: 'I have never quit a job with no notice in my life… until that day'

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    BAY A 史密
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    Was told I should go elsewhere, so I did. S tl;dr- engineering manager tells me to work somewhere else, so I left the next day. About a year ago I Was working for a manufacturing company that had mismanaged itself into a zero operating cash scenario long before i got hired on. After all the managers who had hired
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    me in got fired with no notice, i got nervous and started looking around for other employment. At one point, i was trying to update a customer with status regarding some in-process issue that landed squarely in the newly appointed (but formerly as well) Engineering manager's responsibility, and he told me I should never have brought it up and that i should just keep my mouth shut. I told him it was too
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    late for that, and that they wanted a update- but he was too busy watching tv on his ipad, which as far as i can tell is all he ever really did... so i told him that i would just reach out to his contacts for the update myself. He said "yeah, do that. And if you don't like how long it takes me to respond to the customer you should just go somewhere else".
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    Little did he know i had an interview the next day. I have never quit a job with no notice in my life... until that day. Get 1, Timmy.
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    Morty_IS... OP Fun follow-up: apparently after I quit the remaining management held a meeting to tell the hourly associates that i quit with no notice. With a little bit of luck, that sonofabitch felt like a real -canoe for at least one millisecunt.
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    T. This is where, when you write your resignation letter, you throw the manager under the bus. "Engineering Manager said I should just go somewhere else. I am taking his direction to do so and am resigning, effective immediately. Best regards, XXXX"
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    LooseConnec... Sounds like Lassie should have just left Timmy in the well lol
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    DefiantLaw7... I did the same kind of thing recently too. Lots of changes where I was working - new management, org structure. and the job description became very narrow. A recently promoted person on my team (didn't report to them but they had a more senior title) said in a meeting that if I wanted to work the way I used to then
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    I should go somewhere else. So I did! I made sure to mention that in my exit. interview too Now I'm working for myself and quite a few of my good clients reached out after I left to continue working with me.

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