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How to quit my job?
I work at a jewelry store and I am good in sales plus I enjoy getting to meet so many very different people. However, I am just not handling my current boss well. As my husband put it, "When was the last time you came back from work with a good story you were excited to tell? Or even when you came back in a good mood? You're always a wreck when you get back."
My boss is crazy. Really. Since she became manager, this location has had an extremely high turnover rate, which is really telling since we are the most well known jewelry store. One of my co-workers described her as "flipping." As in, "Be careful, she just flipped," and everyone clears the way because she is suddenly in a mood where everything you do is wrong and if you happen to be short in sales you get pulled aside for a one-on-one, potentially a write up. Outfits that you've worn to work for months are suddenly "inappropriate" and cannot be worn to work again. Plus she consistently has this condescending way of talking to her employees as if they are stupid. Not one person in her store, which she has managed for 3 years, is part of the original crew from when she became manager. One walked away from her the day he quit saying, "You're crazy," shrugging, and laughing in disbelief. Etc.
I do really well when I have a great manager, and when I started I loved her. Then she showed her true colors, constantly making me feel like a slacker and an idiot. This is not easy for me to handle as I am a perfectionist. I have not been making my sales goals and I keep getting written up so I am ready to be done–but I hate the idea of quitting. A co-worker of mine got me the job and I hate to let her down, but I feel like I am making her look bad by sucking at my sales.
Every co-worker I have says, "You just have to be more confident!" I am confident, and I know I have tons of specialized knowledge and I can deliver on my promises. It is just hard to act confident when I am affraid of becoming a "liability" or "legality issue" or "customer service issue." Everyone else shrugs it off, but I need a new manager. It just sucks because the company itself is great and makes a great while-I-finish-college job and I don't know what I would be getting myself into going to a different chain. At least one jewelry store in the mall is hiring and although I'd like to stay with my current company, my numbers are crap and no manager would take me as a transfer.
I am really sorry that this turned out to be a rank–I only meant to leave a couple of paragraphs! But I was hoping maybe someone has gone through something similar 🙂 Or maybe some has tips on how to quit but not close any doors? It's kind of tricky to give an honest reason for quitting without ticking her off ("I quit because you're crazy and I can't work for you" haha).
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