Bad job rant

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Uhh I guess it happens, but it also feels like the tried to gaslight me and ick the whole thing just makes me feel sick. I still feel a bit bad about not giving a two week notice and basically just walking out on the last day of a short week before the 4th of july holiday. Likely leaving the rest of them with more work than they wanted that day, but maybe they should have been nicer if they didn't want me to do that.

I guess not much of a rant so much as should I feel bad or did I do right by going away with an as*hole move of my own by not doing a two weeks notice, and just leaving that day. Like idk I feel like maybe I was too much of an as*hole, but idk if that is just my social anxiety getting the better of me. But also I could not stand it anymore, like I feel like I needed to end it there for the sake of my mental health as well. I did not want to give the two problem employees two weeks to find ways to retaliate.

Is this the first job you have left this way? Have you had other jobs where you have had difficulty on a personal level with the others who worked there?

You don't owe an employer a two week notice, and an employer isn't required to keep you around for two weeks after you have given notice.

How you should feel is directly proportional to the possibility that what went down with this employer could burn you in the future.

Yes, it's the first job I've had to leave that way, all the others I put in my two weeks notice. I did make sure to tell the boss that I was leaving due to the manager and a coworker being hostile towards me. He did offer to talk to them which I accepted initially but then I just couldn't do it, so had to go back a couple minutes later to tell him actually I for sure did need to quit.

I am not too worried of it burning me in the future, I feel like the hit my mental health would have taken if I stuck around for more bullying would have done a lot more to burn me in the future. I know in workplaces I will have to be able to handle people not always being pleasant, but I can't deal with a manager picking on me like that.

I think you did the right thing for you. Try not to let it eat away at you. It's done, regardless, so even if it wasn't the right thing (and I think it was the right thing) you can't change it now. Relax! (If you can.)

Well thanks, I think I did the right thing for me to like if those guys didn't want me to leave so rudely they shouldn't have acted like such as*holes to drive me out. Still I have a bit of satisfaction because I don't think those two really thought I'd quit...but once they realized that is what I was doing I could see a bit of regret in thier eyes like they thought I would stick around for more bullying but were worried once they saw I was actually quitting on the spot and leaving them to have to actually do my job like they kept saying I was bad at. So they got what they wanted or something and quitting my job before setting another job up first probably means I can just go back to getting the full SSi amount while I try to find a new job.

But nah if I stayed a minute longer I might have ended up like the guy in a true crime documentary where he shot peope that kept giving him crap....and would not let up.....that poor man ended up killing the bullies and then himself cause he probably had remorse unlike those sh***y bullies he shot. Its just the poor war veteran wanted a peaceful place to stay and those neigbors made it absolute hell for him till he killed them and then himself. Like why couldn't they have just left him alone instead of always going out to call him a fag or whatever. And so part of why I quit was not sure I cold keep taking that without having an extreme reaction so I had to quit before I strangled the manager to death for being such an as*hole for instance. Cause well I'd be lying if I said I never thought of trying it. LIke the last argument feels like she tried to scold me and in my head I thought 'b***h who do you think your talking to, i'm almost 30 years old DO NOT TALK TO ME AS IF I AM A CHILD. I think that was the last straw I argued with her and she tried to scold me which I was not cool with as I am an adult woman and if the manager has a problem she should use words to talk to me not just weird passive aggressive gestures like a giddy middle school-girl would use.

Its like I am sorry you never graduated from middle school, but grow the f**k up you're still supposed to be an adult.

Aw man you did the right thing

You shouldn't have to feel obliged to stay anywhere where it could negatively affect your mental wellbeing

For sure, though I do need to try let it go as I keep getting all ranty about it, but those people aren't paying rent in my brain so I should not spend mental energy thinking of them anymore. Or worry about worst case scenarios of what may have occurred if I stayed.

Sweetleaf:

There's a difference between a job not being for you and how you are treated. In your situation you felt as though you were treated poorly. Therefore a two weeks notice is not deserved. Someone made an simple yet excellent point to me which was "You're working for them; not the other way around." Meaning it will ALWAYS be their loss. In most cases unless you had people that valued you as associate and a person, your a number on a company spreadsheet. It'll always be what can you do for us; the company in exchange for a wage and benefits. If labor laws didn't exist, how many companies would abuse the lack of it? I'd say plenty would. Don't ever feel bad.