There are those of us who're considering leaving but are still undecided on the matter. I admit I'm worried about leaving a job I've been doing for nearly seven years for something unknown. I'm curious if anybody knows a former employee who left on their own and later regretted it. Is the grass really greener?
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To the person posting as , just wanted to call you a childish reactionary id1ot for trying to make Apache’s cr---y management a male/female fight—as if the CEO and the head honchos of the Alpine boondoggle aren’t men who made equally bad decisions.
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT
Everyone, listen up.
Take the advice I've read posted several times already. Do not let emotions allow HR to withhold your earned severance from you. Make them pay you to leave. Milk the cow, leave the cow and then eat the beef.
Oh, and where is this rumored new office supposed to be?
Wait, does Apache still have all of those talented female VPs dictating orders to those with more expertise??
@2roa+1dBHALpC… I don’t mind the impending loss of our Galleria office. From what I heard our office will be closer to where I live if we do move so shorter drive for me when we have to go into the office!
Just ask yourself what would you miss?
It's the only thing keeping people here, really. Almost everything else about this place is atrocious. Executives who make massive mistakes that cost employees their jobs and who don't face any repercussions for it, board members abdicating their fiduciary duties, worthless middle managers who are just coasting until retirement, almost zero career advancement, dried up international opportunities, and (probably) the impending loss of our Galleria-area office space.
I beseech you. Please do not let the golden handcuffs restrain you from leaving if you are unhappy.
But the money is so good
When I resigned, it was a hard choice to make because of the benefits. There was nothing else that made me happy. I’m glad I left.
It’s simple, if you can…, leave! Life is too short to be miserable. Don’t let the financial component be your primary driver. Go to a situation where you can grow and be happy. I found that the moral values of the company just don’t align with my own.
Finally, this is my last interaction with this site. I had great fondness for this company at one time, but that company doesn’t exist any more.
I have not heard from a single person no longer here whether they left for greener pastures, fired, laid off, retired, left for any reason who regret their new circumstances.
I regret not leaving sooner
I left in the summer of 2019. Had been looking for the right employer for a year and a half. The writing was on the walls about how poorly Apache was ran and managed.
The grass is greener. Not to say that will be the case everywhere, but Apache is really bad.
I'm worried but I'm also pumped to be leaving later this month for the new gig.
Fortune favors the bold.
The majority of your time is spent working so if you are unhappy in your current spot, and APA can’t open a new opportunity for you, then the right choice is to leave. Life is too short to be unhappy/depressed in your career.
I have not talked to a single person who left ON THEIR OWN ACCORD (don’t fall into a trap talking to laid-off people as there is a reason they were laid-off/fired) that regrets the decision. If you have other job opportunities it likely means that you are, at a minimum, a decent performer so bet on yourself that you can perform just as well at the next company.
Take control of your destiny and stop letting the underperforming management at APA control your life and happiness. JC and his college cronies have crippled a once great company and will likely continue to sell assets in an effort to disguise the extreme debt loads, low CF and how poorly managed the company which will allow the company to limp along so they can keep collecting their inflated compensation packages.
Anecdotally, I haven’t heard a single person express regrets for leaving voluntarily. All seem to be doing better.