Glorify God When You Quit Your Job

When I left my previous job, it was mostly to get out of a horrendous (76 mile ) commute 3x a week, and also because the employer was having quarterly RIFs. I wasn't quite sure whether they were going to keep me around, and it actually turned out that six months later, there was a big RIF that I am pretty sure I wouldn't have survived.

On my last day, I dropped by my 2nd level manager's office to wish him well, and he surprised me by smiling, shutting the door, and saying "you can say anything you want, no consequences." Well, I wasn't feeling mean or ornery that day, so I just told him that there were times, with all the RIFs and such, that I wasn't sure that they wanted to be in the business I was part of. He graciously agreed with me--and a few months later, was part of that RIF I mentioned above. He's doing fine, thankfully.

One time when I was let go, HR was at the "parting ways" meeting, and when they asked me if I had any thoughts, I was compelled by conscience to mention that due to the way the executives were handling thing--it was a nasty fight between them where everybody spent months in dread--people were openly wondering who was going to lose it and "go postal". I actually chose to take a slightly smaller severance (60 days per WARN vs. 63 days of pay if memory serves) so when the question came up of how things were there, I could be honest. I didn't worry about burning bridges/gangplanks to that ship because six compartments had been breached by that iceberg.