This happens in Germany.
Work culture doesn’t fit my personality: I don’t talk much, I keep to myself, I simply want to do my job and go home, I separate my personal life from work, my colleagues are full fledged gossips, ignore the duties that need to be done and then expect me to help them when they are late. I don’t have patience for that crap anymore.
Due to internal regulations, I have to stay on the unit for 4 weeks after sending my notice. Answering honestly the question of why I’m quitting would ensure that they yell at me and bully me, and I don’t want to experience that again. Even saying ‘it’s none of your business’ ensures that they feel insulted and start yelling. I have decided I don’t have patience for people like that anymore.
So, what do I say?
I’ve quit a toxic workplace before - I just said “it’s a bad commute”. Nobody can really pick at that reasoning since everyone has way too many personal variables for commutes (even from adjacent houses) to be comprable.
Just say personal reasons. Even if they’re nosy and keep pushing, in that case they’re clearly in the wrong to any sane person looking on, because it’s normal to not want to share your deepest most personal problems with your coworkers.
I have been activated. Сука Блядь Comrades!
Будем здоровы!Just say, “I don’t feel passionate about this work and I want to look for something that I find more fulfilling.”
Put on a painfully sad face and say that you/someone in your family has medical issues and that you don’t want to speak more about it.
That could backfire if you meet those coworkers in the future and they ask about that.
Then you simply say “I was being polite. I hated the place”
Not at all.
If someone asks another person close to OP about their “medical issue” and the other person is clueless, there’s a way out.
Say they’re confronted by an old coworker later down the line who says “I talked to your sister/mother/SO/best friend/whatever and they said that you don’t have any medical issues!”
Then OP simply acts upset and says “you told × about my private medical issue???” and act distressed over it.
However, I doubt these coworkers care about follow-up. So this situation is very unlikely to occur.
Private medical issue = private. Even people close may not know. It’s a good alibi.
The colour of the walls irritates me.
“my doctor told me if I dont leave I will have a heart attack”
A bearded stranger told me to throw away a ring.
Tell me where is Gandalf for I much desire to speak with him.
Best I can do is have a bearded man expose you as a thief to your neighbours, only to have have his friends party at your home at a later point in time.
Assuming they don’t know what you’ll be doing after?
Say “found a new opportunity.”
You could be headed into unemployment and that’d still be a businesslike and no nonsense reply.
“well, with how things are going…”
“You’ll find out soon enough”
“You know about mice and ships…?”
Refuse to elaborate further.This damnable prison of log and ice eats away at my fibre. I find the lack of culture astonishing.
I need to move to Frisia to cater for my ailing mother.
Which Frisia?
This one. I didn’t know there was another?
East, West or North Frisia?
It was a joke, I was just picking somewhere far away.
“ I would love to stay but a personal matter has arisen “
Or
“I was made an incredible offer I could not refuse”
Go with the standard politician non-answer: “to spend more time with family”. I have no idea if German politicians give the same stock response though!
I won the lottery.
My mental health can’t handle this bullshit.
I had an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.
I have to care for my father/mother/aunt/dog.
I want to travel and see the world.
I hate you.
I hate (insert random coworker/boss here.)
My wife/husband is taking care of me.
Onlyfans makes more than here.
Ha, tell each one that you hate a different one!
