#quitting

Terrible work environment and have another job lined up. Can anyone offer any advice on how to handle the exit process? What do they do, what can I expect?

It's just the fear of the cr-ppy job market that's keeping me here, nothing else.

Does anyone know if TI pays out TBK if you give proper 2 week notice with a quit date? Will they walk you out and still lay you for 2 weeks or do they walk you out and you’re done?

Quitting this dump this year. Can I take my 401k and pension and roll them into my next employers 401k plan?

If I rage quit same day how do I do this?

May seem like a d-mb question but I’m concerned they’ll pull some schiesty BS

50 weeks left. Hang in there.

For those of you that signed that retention agreement after last year's (or a previous year) bonus and you've quit, what actually happened? We signed to say that we'd pay it back, but what actually happened?

What if every AVP, VP, and SVP quit at the same time? You think Ds and MDs know what to do? They hardly lift a finger and will have to actually work to earn the money they get 😂. Great idea to float with our teams.

Anyone know what’s going on at 668 meridian? Supposedly everyone has quit or is fixing to quit including the store manager has quit already . It’s real bad ya’ll!😳😳😳

2 weeks notice or quiet quitting?

With the ‘generous’ and ‘industry competitive’ but below inflation pay rises for
most people; are you expecting another exxodus? Do people realize the company want you to quit so they can replace you in India or Malaysia

I work as a Coding Analyst I’m going to be quitting. Anyone know if they make work out the two week notice? Debating whether to give a 2 week notice or just quit the last day I would want to work.

I am miserable in my new role, the new office environment, and the new (poor) attitude that seems to come from every senior manager. I'm planning to quit, but if the next layoff isn't too far off it may be smarter for me to wait. Does anyone have reliable information as to when the next one might be?

Heard over 300 more stores will be sold off to agents in the coming year. Polish your resume and get out while you can. They'll either pip you out with these high quotas or you'll be working for an agent.

I want to quit so badly and I even have got interviews elsewhere but I’m held back by repaying my tuition. I have one more year for the two years so maybe I’ll just hang on til then. I hate this place so much.

There is a mass exodus of all job categories both in stores and at corporate in the state of North Carolina, dozens and dozens of jobs vacant in all areas (from high level corporate to entry level sales associate) all areas in almost all stores in the state of North Carolina.

Between quiet quits and full layoffs, I’ve lost track of how many faces are gone. Every week another familiar name disappears and the workload just piles up. At this point I don’t know how we’re expected to keep delivering with so many holes. And the cuts keep coming.

2,512 Days and now I am FREE!!!!

This is becoming ridiculous.

If they follow up the layoffs with a 5-day RTO I think they'll have a riot on their hands. There's only so much people can take, and I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being the straw that breaks the camel's back and we see massive quitting, which is probably the goal, along with massive walkouts. If cops can have the blue flu, we can have something similar as well.

When you give 2 week notice and they let you go immediately, do they pay you those 2 weeks>?

What about unused PTO?

Anyone here planning on quitting come January when RTO goes into effect?

My stomach was doing backflips the whole time, even though I know walking away is the right call. Sometimes quitting feels even harder than staying in a miserable job, but I can already feel the weight lifting. Goodbye PepsiCo, I truly wish I’d never known you.

That’s it, yall. After 8 years here in IT, I’m quitting with nothing lined up. I genuinely cannot do this anymore. Sure, the market is horrendous, but I have enough saved up and my health matters more. I’ll be free to apply to jobs and network in peace, and able to focus on what matters in my life. Godspeed to anyone else who is stuck in this “company”. I should’ve just AEOI’d but i was naive. Oh well, new chapter! Sayonara! ✌🏿

What’s happening with Alaska?
Seems like a big nothing so far, with people leaving the team recently for other companies.

Has anyone quit their job without giving a two week notice? Don’t want to keep waiting around to get laid off, and at this point I don’t think that a two week notice will do anything. They don’t hire internal US employees so I don’t think they’ll ever hire me back for any position nor would I ever want to work here again.

To get people to quit at first, then fire the rest that don’t follow the rules.

Her name is Natalie H@wke and she made her post public (which is going somewhat viral on LinkedIn):

This week, I walked away from Ford for the last time.

It was a difficult decision to leave my team, especially my developers, but a necessary one to protect my values and well-being. The environment had become draining, disheartening, and fundamentally misaligned with the kind of work I believe in.

I stayed as long as I did because of my team. They deserved someone who would fight for a better environment. I still love Agile development and product management. I still believe in both. But there was no longer space for either to thrive.

Ford promotes a concept called the Ford Operating System. A set of values known as FordOS Behaviors. On the surface, they look great. But dig just a little deeper, and the contradictions become impossible to ignore:

🔹 Excellence
• Deliver it — but only exactly how you're told
• Own it — but not too much; don’t challenge leadership

🔹 Focus
• Do only what matters — unless leadership mandates otherwise
• Bias for action — only if it's controlled from above

🔹 Collaboration
• Seek to understand — only with permission, and only if the questions don’t ruffle feathers
• Solve together — so long as the solution aligns with what’s already been decided

The worst part? This creates a culture of fear, where performance reviews aren’t based on impact or outcomes, but on obedience. Living the FordOS values in practice often leads to being labeled “difficult” and being punished for it.

That fear runs especially deep in Ford’s RTO “strategy.” Employees receive threatening emails if they fail to meet RTO mandates. But there simply isn’t enough space, not enough desks, not enough parking, not even enough chairs. On the first day back, people had their cars towed because the lots were overrun. Others have been forced to work from cafeterias, couches, barstools, even microwave counters. Fistfights over desks have been reported. And yet leadership insists: “We do our best work face-to-face.”

Who gets into a literal fight over a desk?
Someone terrified of losing their job over a mandate they have no control over.

And toward the end, I finally saw what so many women in tech have long experienced. I used to believe that things had improved, because I hadn’t faced it myself. It turns out I had simply been lucky to work with leaders who valued my contributions. Respected my voice. That luck ran out. I found myself being interrupted, second-guessed, and talked over.

Through it all, I worked with some of the most brilliant, thoughtful people I’ve ever met. But even they couldn’t do their best work with their hands tied by outdated mandates and a culture that rewards compliance over innovation.

I didn’t leave because I gave up. I left because I know I can do more, create more, lead more, and thrive more outside of a system that stopped valuing individual contributions.

I don’t know what comes next. But I’m ready to find out.

And to all the people I met along the way: Thank you. I’ll always be grateful.

If people would just follow through with their theats of quitting then we would have less layoffs. Every post seems to be “I’m the best employee ever and blah blah blah happened to me”. Nobody cares. If it’s illegal or wrongful termination get a lawyer and handle it like a normal person. Otherwise it’s just noise.

I was on HCL IBM Cloud Team. The project wasn't going well. IBM was wanting us to support 10 different companies that all wanted different forms of support and all wanted their tickets done differently. On top of this it was very high volume. Often on a call with one company and chat with different company simultaneously. I found it to be difficult. I was curious if HCL still has that project. When I gave notice, others were also quitting.

I was thinking about this recently, about how many people said they would walk away if RTO was implemented, but I don’t know a single person who actually did. Goes to show why companies get away with the things they do. Most people are strong on words, but never on action.

Ford work culture is decorated fully. All the high performing engineers are sidelined or made quit and ford management mostly promoting or favoring pets who are good at showcasing. I got few offers outside? This c×× nonsense is in big mess ? No way management is listening in anything. I want opnion other seniors who are at ford. I am at my mid level career now. Do you think it is high time to leave ford ? Or should wait things will change for good?

They don’t care about us at the Support Office. Everything is so Field-focused now and if they want that, then they can run the show at Corporate themselves. I’d love to see what happens if everyone just mass quits, ha!

I found a mediocre job at a not-so-stellar company. The pay and benefits are about the same, definitely not an upgrade. But at least they seem stable for now, and I just couldn’t deal with this cr-p here any longer. After a 25-year career, I’ve ended up in a place where I have to take whatever I can find just to get by. Sc--w this economy.

How did you do it? What did you do with your laptop? is there anything you wish you had done differently? From my understanding Cisco and NC are "at will", hence no legal requirement for notice.

Spare me the "burning bridges" comments. Cisco is not a bridge I want to keep. I just watched my leadership sc--w over hardworking teammates over and over again. I am DONE.

I plan on quitting in November but I have 3 weeks of earned vacation left. Should I use it all before I quit? Will Ford pay me for the unused portion? What is the best way to handle this?

I handed in my resignation, and I can’t stop wishing I had done it differently. I wanted to get out as fast as possible, but I didn’t do my due diligence, and now I’m in a far-from-ideal position. Looking back, I think I would have waited for a better offer or prepared more carefully before making the leap. It’s a tough lesson learned the hard way.

There’s no chance to breathe or rebuild after a layoff before the next wave begins. It feels like living inside a permanent storm where the forecast never improves. I'm starting to wonder if this is all deliberate to force us out by quitting. Can anybody think of a better explanation?

After I win the powerball, it’s be nice knowing you all!

Does anyone know if there are implications of quitting immediately after your parental leave ends?

At this point, I’m ready to quit without a backup plan. I don’t understand the need for a company to spy on their employees. I’m sure their controlling energy could be used in a better way?