Utter gits
I worked for a year for a network integration firm, bursting my bollocks to make sure the job I'd been taken on to do was done and dusted on time. Customer was an utter prick, but I kept on going, rain or shine, rich or poor, thinking "at the end of this there is a very large pot of cash for me and my skills"

Wrong.

Customer turned out to be clinically diagnosed as schizophrenic, equipment vendor had difficulty shipping anything working outside of Tel Aviv, and the company I worked gave me fuck all support on-site. I spent the best part of a year away from my wife, and had nothing to show for it, so naturally I was quite pissed off.

I raised my concerns at a meeting with both directors (one of whom had been offered a headlock and severe kicking a month previously by myself for endangering engineers, breaching H&S etc), at which point I'm asked in a most circumspect manner to tender my resignation.

Oh shit, maybe I've not thought this through, I have no other work lined up, it's before xmas, what will the wife say, how the fu...

"Yeah that sounds fair, but I'll tell you what - instead of me resigning sans notice period, consider this my verbal resignation, you'll have written confirmation tomorrow, and I'll expect renumeration for my notice period in line with my current salary"

Stood up, walked out, informed the MD I had no problem with him but his associate was a fucking prick, and never looked back.

Walked into a job paying double my salary with international travel for free within a month (after sitting on my boney arse playing Hitman & Metroid for most of that time).

Still gives me a cold sweat thinking about that crunch point when I did throw the towel in with nothing lined up. I still cant quite figure how I fished myself out the shite there.

Moral of the story: dont be afraid to speak your mind and call a cunt a cunt.
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Wed 28 Feb 2007, 23:16, Reply)