(apologies in advance if this is the wrong subreddit!)
TL;DR: I quit due to health reasons and because I hate working 2nd shift. Is it better to give the first reason for quitting, or the second reason, or some other option?
I'm currently working at an employer who, I guess, manipulated me(?) into a job where I work 6 evening shifts per week (4-midnight) - the story is buried somewhere in my post history but long story short I was lied to about the hours of work.
Unfortunately, I have some medical issues I've been dealing with, which always get worse when I work weird hours. I've actually had 2 different doctors tell me to stop working evening shifts because it's making things worse. If the employer had been honest with me I never would've accepted the job.
But to be honest, even if I was perfectly healthy, I'd still have refused to accept this job because I hate working second shift, I'm sure most people hate it so I don't need to explain myself here.
So, I've found a new job which is a daytime shift! :) Buuuuuuuut it's a temporary (summer) job so in a few months I'll be looking for a job yet again. And then... Well, due to my current family situation it's unrealistic for me to leave town, and my current employer is one of the three employers in my industry where I live, soooo... There's a fairly good chance that I'll have to work for my current employer again at some point in my career, as much as I hate them. So I'm trying to find the reason-for-leaving that will burn bridges the least.
So what's a better reason for leaving to give to my employer?
- "I found other employment because I am unwilling to work evenings. If a shift opens up on the daytime crew in the future, I would be happy to return here."
Potential issue: there was a huge argument a couple months ago because a woman on the evening crew was also manipulated into taking that shift and she asked to be put on mornings so she can see her kids more than once per week, and my boss went on this rant about how he used to be in the military and people who aren't willing to be away from their families for work are lazy and entitled and bad team players (somehow it's ok that the morning crew guys all said that they'd quit if he put them on evenings though)... So anyway I'm concerned, of course, that my boss will think "she's so full of herself and lazy, she doesn't fit the company culture so I'll never hire her back".
- "Unfortunately, due to health reasons I am unable to continue working evenings, but I will be happy to return if a shift opens up on the daytime crew"
Potential problem: my boss won't think I'm quitting due to my so-called lazy and entitled personality, and maybe he'll even like me better -- because if he places such a high value on making personal sacrifices for work, staying at the job for this long despite my health problems might align with his value system enough that he ends up thinking that I'm actually a super awesome hardworking team player or whatever. But I'm worried that it will raise doubts like "maybe she's too sick to work mornings too, maybe her health problems will cause her to make mistakes on the job, maybe she'll just quit again if I hire her back, I had better make sure to never hire her again because it's not worth taking on the risk!"
(I have to admit that I am also secretly hoping that he'd say "oh your doctor said you shouldn't work evenings? Ok I'll move you to the morning crew and all your problems will be solved!" Even though based on the situation mentioned above with the morning crew threatening to quit if their shifts are changed, I'd say there's a 0.0001% chance of him actually making this accommodation. I'm in Canada, is there any kind of legislation that would force him to accommodate me? I'm guessing there isn't, right?)
Submitted May 15, 2017 at 11:38AM by your_internet_frend http://ift.tt/2qjGQKe
