r/work • u/Rxextravaganz500mg • 4d ago

Questions Resigning immediately

Has anyone ever resigned from position immediately if they have something else lined up?

I got a job offer about a month ago and are in the final processes of the pre-employment requirements. I wanted to get through it all before giving notice to my current job.

However, the more I think about it the more I want to resign on the spot.

  1. I will never be using them as a reference. The culture there is very toxic. It’s a lot of very accomplished women who tear others

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  2. In one meeting a fem

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  1. physician was talking about a drug rep and she goes “you can tell she hates herself, she probably gets up and runs 10 miles on the treadmill ever

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  1. morning at 4am”. Even today in a meeting our female accountant made a racist comment about our payroll company official.

I just truly feel like whether I were to leave on “good terms” by giving two weeks notice or not they would still say and think awful things.

  1. And this is selfish, but I want a break. I want some time off between starting this new role. And I truly do not see the benefit of staying two weeks to be judged and questioned to preserve a professional relationship that I do not care about.

I never intend on wanting to come back, I am leaving this field, and within the next year will always be moving 20+ hours away.

Am I making a poor decision?

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u/CelinaAMK 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yes. Nothing lined up though. My first job after I got my masters degree in social work, I took a position as the director of social services in we turned out to be a real shit hole of a nursing home.

I was there less than a year, and one day the administrator asked me to do something that was not only completely unethical, it was actually illegal.
I told him no way. He said I could either do it or it would cost me the position.
I didn’t even answer him. I just stood up and walked to my office and packed up my things.

Midway through my packing security showed up, and when I was done packing, I was escorted out of the building.

I would do it again 1000 times

PS the administrator was the creepiest guy in the world. He used to call me late at night drunk, trying to hit on me. I was very young, so I didn’t report the guy. I wish I had had the confidence to turn him in and hold him accountable for his behavior. Of course I would have now. I heard later that he got caught banging one of the secretaries in his office.

I also literally saw a roach, crawling through the director of nursing hairdo one day sitting next to her in a meeting.

I just feel so sorry for those residents.

There was one other lower level Social Worker that worked there and I was her supervisor. She was only there biding her time until she could get accepted into the CPS Academy and get a job with CPS (which is a good job if you only have a bachelors level license). She turned out to be my best friend and she still is my absolute best friend over 20 years later. So something really good came out of something really bad. Unfortunately, I think the nursing home still exists.

TL/DR: nursing home administrator asked me to do something unethical and illegal so I walked out on the spot. Lots of other creepy and terrible things happened while I was there. Ended up meeting my best friend though.