My one and only quitting - Bastards
Once up a time, a younger, less-cynical Miraclefishy worked for the [DELETED FOR LEGAL WHATNOT], in their [SLAVERY] call centre, a big, happy independent subsidiary of around 200 people in total, selling contracts to the hard of thinking.

The money was great, the people were ace and the nights out were four a week. It was a good time.

But things got bad. The company lost the plot; putting profits on a pedestal above all else: integrity, customer's rights and employee wellbeing.

After 18 months of downhill crappiness, it came to a head when I was told I'd have to work 11 days straight, and, because the company hadn't made enough that month, they were restructuring the bonus scheme: i.e. we weren't getting any.

At which point, halfway through my shift, packed my stuff away and walked out, ignoring the questions of my friends, managers and co-workers. I retired to the pub, switched my phone off and spent a week lying in bed and feeling the stress float away.

At which point I turned my phone back on, to discover dozens of messages from the team managers.

I replied to one, a nice enough guy who'd left a snide message saying 'if you're going to quit, at least be professional enough to tell someone.'

I replied with 'This company has left me with so little energy, I couldn't summon the effort to resign. I reccommend you and anyone else with a soul left gets out now, before the company shits you out, too. Have a good life.'

Then I wrote a four page goodbye, critique and list of every single illegal act, improper sales technique, scam and bastardly act that the company had forced me and others to do, sent it along with an explanation to [email protected] email address.

Fifty people forwarded it on to their line managers saying 'we agree in complete with every word of this, you HAVE to sort this out or we will all go, and pass this on to trading standards.'

I then got a letter from the HR team saying 'please cease and desist from emailing the company. However, we are somewhat concerned about the content of your email - we would like to schedule an exit interview - in the meantime, we would very much appreciate if you did not forward your resignation letter to Trading Standards until we have had a chance to speak to you.'

To which I replied with:

'Certainly, I'd be happy to. My fee as a consultant in this issue will be £20/hour and you will, of course, provide travel expenses and a free lunch. When are you free?'

They never replied.

90% of the staff there have resigned, been moved on or fired.

The BBC has since investigated them for allegations of cashback fraud.

I'm in my dream job. They're up shit creek.

Miraclefish 1 - Big corporation 0
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sun 25 May 2008, 15:44, Reply)