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Happy D
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Initially Posted - 04/03/2011 : 16:48:11

Well, I finally did it. I quit my job and started a new job. The old job was great. I had to travel a lot but they made sure we had time at home. Worked for them over 10 years. Then came new management.

The job became unbearable. Travel is maxed out. One night at home in six weeks and the like. 70 days in a hotel room this year. Mangers that are absolutely clueless. When you are at home, they give you so much homework to do you don't really ever get away from it. Everybody hates the place.

So I quit and began a new job where I come home most every night. The travel requirement went from 100% to 30%. I came home for dinner on Friday and it felt weird.
Anyway, I hope to get back to work on my C25 and return to being a normal person. So far, I'm really happy. Working with a great company and really good people.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 04/03/2011 : 18:21:37

Happy for you Dan, you made the right decision. There's only so much time, we need to live life not work it away.

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two port feet
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Response Posted - 04/03/2011 : 18:56:16

Grate to hear. Working to live “not“ living to work.

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 04/05/2011 : 19:56:52

Dan, this is a great story. I started a new job recently, and while it has started out with a crazy schedule, it'll settle down soon.

Like a really smart person once said, 'Nobody lays on their deathbed saying to themselves, "I should have spent more time at work"!'

Enjoy the short blink of time that is our life, as you only get one shot. The puritans had it all wrong. "Live every day like its your last one."

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Alan Clark
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Response Posted - 04/06/2011 : 04:24:30

Congratulations, Wishing you the best in your "NEW LIFE"

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 04/06/2011 : 08:38:21

I ran into the same problem last june......new management team took over our functional area and didn't know/understand what we did, how we did it, or why. A great job nose-dived. My supervisor of ten years changed jobs within a month. I'm 61 so I just quit and retired in October. There is now only one of 6 people who originally worked there, still there. The new manager spent so much time at work learning the job, training new employees, and taking shifts because she didn't have enough people that it effected her marriage.
She's now divorced. What a mess.

This was a "LEAN" initiative that went very wrong...poorly developed. inadequately researched, badly executed, and didn't inlude our office personnel in any of the steps invloved.

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OJ
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Response Posted - 04/06/2011 : 09:14:47

One of the flaws with public companies - investors and Wall Street analysts always expect higher revenue and and even higher profit margins - every quarter. When idiotic management takes idiotic steps to achieve this - it often has dire consequences for those employees who made the company what it is - or was.

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Response Posted - 04/06/2011 : 20:58:31

I seem to remember a few years back when everybody trusted wall street to have vision and take care of business. Then the bottom dropped out due to basically criminal behavior -- "let's give mortgages to everybody, whether they could afford them or not, and let's lie about their credit-worthiness".

Now companies are still looking to wall street for guidance -- how dumb can we get? "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".

Analysts evaluate companies, and the opinions of a few idiots who could not get real jobs doing something of value force public companies' officers to make assinine decisions about people's lives, their company's futures and their customers' and employees' health and well being in many cases.

When will we all wake up and snap out of it? When did we become the slaves of wall street? And by the way?, these same people also soak up all the money, taking it out of the pockets of the middle class, leaving us to fight over the scraps.

I think the inmates have taken over the asylum, and we are their hostages!

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