'It's time to quit': 20+ Red flags that reveal when employees are about to quit their jobs

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    What is 1 sign that tells you when it is time to quit your job?
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    wazzle13 When you notice all the good employees are leaving
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    Oxfxax If your stomach turns when thinking about anything work related it's time to leave.
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    maler27 Your paycheck bounces
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    XRBLX When many HR professionals suddenly move on to a new company, they are usually the first to know when things are going wrong at work.
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    FlintTheDad Panic attacks
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    Local_Cardiol... Sunday afternoon makes you think about giving up
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    Opposite Pen... For me, when I lose the smallest bit of empathy and feel robotic, it's time to reevaluate
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    stuloch The sign telling you to not clock on until aftet you're dressed in your uniform and to clock out immediately before getting changed out of it.
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    Master-Prepa... If your job is impacting your mental health, it's time to quit.
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    Ok-Jelly-8034 When it affects your life outside of work.
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    rejectedone247 They don't appreciate you any longer and just expect you to do the job because nobody else knows how to do it
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    DMaster44 When you start dreaming about work and they're all nightmares. That's a clear sign it's time to move on!
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    ratherBwarm When your manager's boss belittles you on a zoom meeting for taking your allotted vacation approved months in advance. I answered emails and critical voicemails each day of the vacation. After pointing this out he didn't back down or apologize. In retrospect I should have started looking.
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    NaturalForty I guess I'm putting in a novel answer: when you get a bad performance review. That may not get you fired, but it gives you a hole to dig out of. None of your current managers will comment negatively on you when you apply elsewhere. In fact they
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    may happily give you a good reference so they can get you out the door. Maybe they're unappreciative ah les, maybe you needed to learn a lesson...either way, start over.
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    Crafty-Mix211 When it starts to affect your personal life and you realize that you don't deserve to be consumed by stress from every corner
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    SadSalamand... When you feel like your talents and skills are being underutilized, it's a clear sign to leave.
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    beartheminus When a big publicly traded conglomerate buys your company. Stay to hope they lay you off and you get a package, but if not, no good comes from it. They are there to every penny out of your company and dump it.
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    [deleted] Dreading Monday on Friday is my go to.
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    lookyloolooki... None of your current coworkers remembers any of the people who working there when you started.
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    flamedarkfire If others are leaving for one reason or another (it does. happen) but they're not being replaced, their workload is just being put on others or spread around. Especially if this was supervisory work and they're not giving the title/pay raise to whoever they put it on.
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    Hail_Yondalla Here's an early sign of trouble; You get conflicting directions from different members of leadership who are not communicating with each other. That's how you suddenly end up the subject of a petty power play custody battle. Abandon ship immediately.
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    AdAutomatic... When your side hustle starts making more money than your job.
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    OxfordComm... Years ago I was so stressed out at work I would cry on the way home. Then I started to cry on the way to work in the morning. Then one day I felt like I was going to start crying while I was at work so I went to the bathroom to cry in private, but one of my coworkers was already in there crying. That's when I realized I had to get the f out of there.
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