I just quit my job

[Pflugerville Ag]

Well, I just told my boss that I am leaving the company to take another job. I guess I did a good job keeping it a secret b/c he was floored when I told him (and mighty pissed).

I guess he should have ponied up more $$$ then.

[Vlyrock]

Awesome! Did you do the whole, "I really liked it here, but the financial security at this other job is better" to see if he'd bite or offer?

So what're you going to do now?

[Pflugerville Ag]

I actually really did like my job, but another company that I have worked with (not for) in the past called me up out of the blue and told me that they would do whatever it took to get me to work for them. I threw out some crazy numbers and they agreed to them. So, I got a 50% pay raise and the freedom to do more work from home and travel less (more time with the wife and baby). I wasn't even looking for another job.

I'll still be working in Austin doing supply chain management and sales for a private company based in San Jose.

[Vlyrock]

Sweet. 50% pay raises are awesome.

[Pflugerville Ag]

Yeah, its hard to beat a 50% pay raise. Gotta love the tech industry taking off again in Austin. I've more than doubled my pay in the last two years.

[CoolaidWade]

Well, I just told my boss that I am leaving the company to take another job. I guess I did a good job keeping it a secret b/c he was floored when I told him (and mighty pissed).

I guess he should have ponied up more $$$ then.
That is great! Hopefully it's a much better job. The path to promotion is often with taking another job.

When I joined the SAFD it was one of my all time great stories. The application process took a year and was pretty difficult (Over 6000 applied and they only took 48 cadets) and at one part they wanted to interview my current boss.

Well I was a Regional Sales Manager in Austin and my boss just happened to be the Vice President of Sales so an interview with him was out. (I would have been canned) so I had to go to mail every day until I intercepted the letter from the city of SA and had to pay a guy who worked in marketing to pose as my boss. So a fire investigator drove to Austin to have lunch with some random guy posing as my boss. He then drove to my apartment and interviewed all the neighbors in my building about my character. They were all UT students.

That was pretty stressfull. And then when the city of SA actually hired me (which to this day I still don't know how I made it in) the date the Fire Academy started was two months away. So for six weeks until I gave my two weeks notice I did absolutly nothing.

And when I say absolutly nothing I mean it. I went to work, closed my door, had my staff do random stuff, and just played on the internet or read for two months straight. It got pretty boring actually. My guys (and girl) was so good, however, that we actually didn't really suffer much. They just had no idea that they had no leadership at the time.


Oh, and for the record I ended up taking about a 50% pay cut.

[Pflugerville Ag]

Wow, that was pretty ballsy having some guy pose as your boss. Nice work.

[Foot Wedge]

And you're gonna bus tables where?

Stealing tips rule!

B.C.

:p

[Slotback]

Damn Wade, that was BOLD!

[phatbc]

wow good thing you aren't at A&M now. we have this thing called the honor code:(:D

[Dustin00whoop]

wow good thing you aren't at A&M now. we have this thing called the honor code:(:D

Its not like he was lying. The guy was his boss ( & his daddy) the night before!! ;)

[aggie1997]

Hope no one at your new company reads AggieFans forums.