u/isolate_hovers

They haven't realized it yet, but my friend and I have both accepted jobs at another company.

Once we leave, they're going to be in serious trouble. And I'm not exaggerating.

When I started there, we had 14 people. We're down to 4 now, and those four people have been carrying the workload that used to be handled by the entire team.

We've been asking for raises for more than a year after having our salaries frozen for years. We've been covering shifts, taking on extra responsibilities, and constantly rearranging our lives around whatever the company needed.

Every time we brought up pay, we got the same answer: "There's no room in the budget."

Eventually, we stopped asking.

My friend and I started looking elsewhere and, almost without planning it, ended up accepting offers from the same company.

We're giving two weeks' notice, but we're doing it a few days apart so we're not both dropping the news on the exact same day.

When I submitted my notice, something really interesting happened.

Suddenly, there was money in the budget.

They immediately started talking about what they could offer me to stay.

My manager was actually furious about it because he'd genuinely believed the company couldn't afford raises either. He told them straight up that if both of us leave, he's leaving too.

I've known this guy for nine years, and I've never known him to bluff about something like that.

So by the end of the week, they'll have less than two weeks to figure out how they're going to replace almost their entire remaining staff.

They'll need to find people, hire them, train them, and somehow get them comfortable enough to handle the workload before things start getting really busy.

And the funniest part is that I'm actually going to work my full two weeks.

Not because I feel guilty.

I just want to watch what happens.

I want to see all those magical offers that suddenly appear when they're desperate for someone to stay.

And I want to politely say no to every single one.

The weirdest part of all of this was actually going through the interview process again. After being at the same company for so long, I realized I'd gotten pretty rusty at talking about myself and explaining what I actually bring to a job.

I ended up reading a few interview posts on Reddit while preparing, including this one about how someone approaches interviews. A lot of it was stuff I already knew, but it was a good reminder that interviewing is a skill in itself and gets easier when you actually practice it.

For a long time, I convinced myself that leaving would somehow make me the problem. Reading other people's experiences helped me realize that staying somewhere indefinitely just because they're understaffed isn't loyalty.

It's just putting your life on hold for a company that wouldn't do the same for you.

So, yeah.

Two weeks from now, I'll be gone.

And I'm genuinely excited to see what happens after that. :)

My daughter is 19 and was working at a smoothie shop with a name similar to Rooster Juice here in Canada. She gave them 10 days' notice because she's leaving to study, and instead of keeping her on for a bit until she could train the new person, they fired her on the spot. In this economy, too.

The sad thing is that she genuinely really loved that job. She would come home talking about how she put little dinosaurs on kids' cups to make them laugh.

When I left my job at a convenience store in the early 2000s to go to college, my manager shook my hand, asked what program I was going into, and told me to call him if I wanted to take shifts during the holidays.

Have shop owners really become this short-sighted? They're supposedly desperate for staff, and yet they still treat good workers like trash? They're teaching people not to bother giving notice next time. Truly a bunch of idiots.

Do you guys have any tips for her next job interview? someone here Dmed this Post that i think more people could benefit from.

If you have any more sources please link them in the comments🙏