2CPU.com » News » June 2007 » Weekend Topic: 'I Quit!' 15 Reasons You Probably Left Your Last IT Job

I've stumbled across a link from eWeek about 15 reasons You probably left your last IT Job. I know many of us who frequent the site tend to work in the IT industry and have been through stress.

Check out the eWeek blurb, and then post below which one of the reasons best describes you. I chose 14. Although, 4 would be my next option.

06/09/2007 03:48 AM: Weekend Topic: Your life with Linux? by ReMeDy
Recently, Dell has made a huge leap by pushing their boxes with Ubuntu. But, previously it was discussed about Why Windows Wins and Linux Loses on the desktop choice. So, with all the debate out of th...

06/02/2007 02:32 AM: Weekend Topic: Continuing education, College vs. Trade school by ReMeDy
I know many people go through this dilemma every year when leaving High school or otherwise trying to move up the ladder of success. However, I rarely see it discussed in detail. There are some Pro's ...

05/18/2007 09:28 PM: Weekend Topic: IT Certifications by ReMeDy
This topic is probably one that has been debated heavily in the last five years. However, it's always good to refresh the opinions from others who haven't participated. CompTia has overlapped the 2003...

05/12/2007 12:56 AM: Weekend Topic: Longest running Hard Drive you have currently? by ReMeDy
I've been watching some discussions from a few different forums other than our own here at 2CPU. Some members purchase drives with 1 year warranty and some will ONLY purchase a drive with a 5 year war...

05/05/2007 12:54 AM: Weekend Topic: When will You move to Vista? by ReMeDy
Microsoft released Windows Vista business market back in November 2006 and for consumer desktops in January '07. It is now May 4th. The question begins as our forum member, Slash , has posted the topi...

09/26/2004 01:46 PM: Weekend DC Updates by Hooz
Folding News There have been some personal milestones reached this week. Rick5127 will take over 11th spot from Trotador, and is poised to enter the coveted top 10, a feat that takes dedication and a...

07/31/2004 04:35 PM: Weekend DC Updates by Hooz
Folding News We are still getting an influx of new members (nine this week) which has helped us to decrease Team Eggroll's daily gain still further. foad is adding 240ghz of CPU folding power for a s...

01/24/2003 07:11 PM: Weekend Gaming: Part Deux! by Jim
Last weekend I decided to rally the troops around here a little bit and get some Quake II Deathmatch action going on. We had a fair turnout over the weekend and I know everyone had a lot of fun. This ...

08/19/2001 05:44 PM: Weekend News Tidbits... by Jim
*Yawn*. How are you folks doing this weekend? Work was stressful this week (rolled out a new app, which sucks evidently) so I'm trying to get some much needed R&R. At present I'm kicking back, lis...

08/04/2001 10:13 PM: Weekend News! by Jim
Ah good day to you all. I hope you're all enjoying your weekend. The Heritage Festival is on the go in North Bay this weekend, so the city's population has seemingly doubled. My sister and brother-in-...

opus13 misanthrope. Posts: 1628 Joined: 2002-04-05

#39684 Posted on: 06/30/2007 06:06 AM i didn't see one matching my situation: ex-employee of the recently shut down competitor walking in and saying "Hi, as you know (company X) just shutdown and i was in charge of their website updates for 6 years. I'll do yours for half of whatever your guy gets paid." i just couldn't compete with that.

tvadakia Registered User Posts: 28 Joined: 2003-11-13

#39685 Posted on: 06/30/2007 10:59 PM Number 14 in every way. Skill sets, workloads, and performance should all be compensated. Period. But they rarely are. I'm so glad people are sold for so cheap. Unique.

locovaca That's what she said Posts: 176 Joined: 2001-07-17

#39686 Posted on: 06/30/2007 11:19 PM #2. I wasn't in IT but Development/Support. Company has no ambitions of moving beyond SQL Server 2000 / VB 6 / ASP (even though we have no support for VB anymore), nor actively expanding beyond 150 customers. I left a year ago; they're still on the same platform with no plans of developing a next generation product.

jives BP6 User Posts: 2419 Joined: 2001-05-18

#39687 Posted on: 07/01/2007 12:12 AM Kind of a 14 which lead to 15 and finally an 8. Budget cuts lead to down sizing. I was the newest employee so at first I was scared but I was also the youngest and least paid. So they axed a few people above me and started to hand me their job tasks. At first I was happy just to have kept my job, but then as others left and they continued to expand it just became too much. I couldn't get over time I had to settle for comp, which I already had 6 weeks of vacation I couldn't use. After a year or more money was flowing again but not in hiring more IT and definitely not into my pocket. I started throwing apps in for other jobs internally with other departments and a few outside places which I felt were long shots but I made it know I was hunting in hopes they'd take notice and cough up some more money and some more help. Well one of the outside places called me in for an interview, I didn't get the first job but three months later they had another opening and straight told me they were very happy I decided to apply again. The day I told them I had an offer from another place they countered by matching the offer...except they could not say for sure just how long it would take with the paper work and all. See Ya!

The Doctor Jelly baby, anyone? Posts: 659 Joined: 2002-04-20

#39688 Posted on: 07/02/2007 10:42 AM Number 2 would be the immediate reason I handed my notice in last week (huzzah!), but 3 and 5 are very much endemic in this place, and since another guy left a couple of months back there have been shades of 14 too. Before anyone asks I work (worked?) for a large UK college, and colleges seem able to soldier on for years under financial, personal and professional conditions that would sink a company in the private sector in a matter of months. Where else could you have a network management team who have three server failures in one week due to running five-year-old hardware while they have two-year-old servers that have never been out of their shipping crates, and take the entire network offline for four days to fix the problem, and still have their jobs and cushy salaries at the end of it? Duallies Present Gigabyte GA-8I865G775-G (3.4GHz Pentium-D 950), PowerMac G5 (4x2.5GHz G5), PowerMac G4 (2x1.42GHz G4) Duallies Past Abit BP6 (2x366MHz Celeron @ 550MHz), Intel MS440GX (2x450MHz Pentium III Xeon), Tyan Thunder K7 (2xAthlonMP 1900+), PowerMac G4 (2x533MHz G4) "There are three roads to ruin... the most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians." --Georges Pompidou

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