This is an article on when to quit your job. This article is based on hard experience. I have been wounded in battle and I am still carrying the scars. Not physically but mentally. So give this blog your due attention. It can save you your reputation and an enormous amount of anguish to you and your loved ones. In my case I also contracted a mental ailment. Of course that was an extreme case.
But if I had known what I know now I would have quit my job and saved my sanity.
Start by reading a related blog of mine that I published way back in 2019. Link is below:
Point (9) of the above blog makes the point that it is best to resign when you get the indication that your services are not valued. I learnt that harassment is a common practice when employers want people to quit when I read a Dick Francis novel: For Kicks. Link to buy the book from Amazon is below:
The protagonist, Daniel Roke, is working undercover at a racehorse trainer’s establishment. The trainer is engaged in nefarious activities and has made it a practice to force his employees to leave so that nobody suspects what he is doing. The trainer doesn’t want his stable lads to be too intelligent or stay long enough to be able to suspect that there is something fishy going on.
Anyway this article is about harassment of employees to force them to quit. Here is a relevant paragraph from Chapter 9 of the book. The foreman is advising the targeted stable lad:
The boss has taken against you I am afraid. You won’t ever do anything right for him from now on. Best thing to do and I am telling you for your own good, mind, is to find a job somewhere else. The boss gets these fits now and then … You can work till you are blue in the face but he won’t take to you anymore. You don’t want to get bashed up anymore now do you? All I am telling you is that if you stay here you will find that what happened so far is only the beginning. See? I am only telling you for your own good.
And there is no point complaining to the cops. There is no evidence that will hold even if the cops are interested in prosecuting which almost certainly they won’t be.
So this is the fictional account.
My advice to you is the same as that of the foreman. In the Dick Francis novel the form of harassment was beating with sticks and hard physical duties and missing meals. In India as I have experienced it the form of harassment is insults, ridicule, being shouted at and humiliated in public in front of other employees and having your reputation destroyed. I have had my dignity stripped away and I still didn’t quit. My loss. I was foolish.
I don’t want to go into all that was wrong with me and there was a lot that was wrong. It will suffice to say that I had learnt none of the skills that are listed down in the blog linked to above. Read it again.
By quitting I would have preserved some amount of goodwill of the employers and I may have found it easier to get a job again. But I found that I was blacklisted unofficially because of my pigheadedness.
If that happens the only thing left to do is to leave your city and try to find employment in some other part of the country. Or you might try to go abroad especially the Gulf.
My big advantage was that I had not married and had no dependents. I even had free room and board through the generosity of my parents. So I was able to survive.
This brings me to a related topic which will be the subject of my next blog. Stay tuned.
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