Thoughts on quitting without giving 2 weeks?
I’ve been working in tech for nearly 8 years. About a year and a half ago, I left a Fortune 50 company I had spent the majority of my career at to join a smaller and less “tech mature” company. It’s still a large corporation, but its tech org is no where near the maturity of my original company. Let’s call my current company, Company B.
I started working at Company B because Company A was returning to office, and Company B promised fully remote, contract to hire setup within 6 months. A family member had become terminally ill during that time, so it was important for me to stay remote.
I took the job with optimism that I could make a difference and have more visibility at a “smaller” company that needed a lot of design help.
Company B has been a disaster. This was my first contract job, and of course they changed their policy and converting to FTE has been taken off the table for all contractors. My workload has doubled, and now I’m covering 2 product teams. The PM on one project has pushed me to my breaking point on a high visibility project. They treat me like I’m a machine, and “less than” because I’m a contractor, and don’t value the time it takes to produce quality work and think through design problems. The only way I can describe this PM is “workaholic bully”, and they are notoriously difficult to work with.
My other team is losing patience with me because I just can’t handle juggling last minute asks when there’s no product roadmap. It’s just “leadership wants this NOW”, make it happen.
I’ve been burnt out for months to the point I’m angry every time I have to log on. I absolutely hate this job. I have no support from my manager, who cancels our 1:1s often. In their defense, they are overwhelmed with work too.
I know if I give 2 weeks notice, they will make that 2 weeks a living hell just to squeeze every last bit of work out of me, knowing they’ll be in a tough situation when I’m gone.
I’ve been treated poorly, given double work without even a talk of a raise, and been handed broken promises of a conversion to full time among other things. The culture at this company is just crap and leadership is poor.
I’ve seen Company B executives literally pitch fits like children when they give teams a project with an impossible timeline and inadequate resources, then get angry when the results fall short.
I have another job opportunity and I’m in the final stage of an interview next week. If I get the job, I want to quit Company B without giving 2 weeks. I’ll never work for this contractor or Company B again. I know it’s horrible etiquette, and I know that the “tech world is small” but I really just want to say “F U” to Company B after how awful they’ve treated me.
Also, I haven’t had a 2-3 week break without work in literally 8 years, and I just need time to decompress and reset before starting a new job.