I posted a list of 10 reasons to quit your job not too long ago.  After this past weekend, I decided to come up with list of 10 more reasons to quit your job.

This list is based on the concept that every job has absurd and ridiculous demands.  Those demands often become ”normal” for us.  They become part of our daily routine.  They become so repetitive that we forget they are actually occurring.  When these demands become so normal, they become signs.  They transform into beacons that say, “Hey, you should be doing something else.”

Here are more reasons to quit your job (most of which are taken from my very own personal experience):

1) Someone you work with has so much work that he tells you he is on a “seven day work week” and “buried, swamped, and under water,” despite the fact that nothing he is working on would qualify as an “emergency.”

2) The person in item # 11 waits until he is on a “seven day work week” before declaring that he is “buried,” “swamped,” “under water,” (and every other synonymous method of suffocation imaginable) before asking you to help him out.  (Personally, I would have reached that “buried, swamped, and under water” breaking point much sooner.)

3) A nonchalant e-mail from a superior asking you to take on several MASSIVE tasks that must be completed in a very short period of time.

4) There is no “thank you” in the e-mail from item # 12.

5) The amount of work you have prohibits you from checking any website or doing any Internet surfing at all during the day.

6) You go to sleep at midnight and check your Blackberry to make sure there are no e-mails to worry about.  You wake up at 7 a.m. to find an e-mail from a boss sent at 1:15 a.m. asking for copies of various documents, underlined and highlighted documents (including two highlighted copies, two underlined copies, and two blank copies . . . what am I, a monkey?), handwritten notes on some of the documents, and other miscellaneous tasks.  He requests to have all of this done before 8 a.m., which is when he has to leave to go to the courthouse.

7) You have to work on Christmas Eve.

8) You have to work on Mothers Day.

9) You have to work on Fathers Day.

10) You have to work from 7 a.m. to Noon and 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on a Saturday in order to spare some time to make an appearance at your daughter’s first birthday party from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

If you have similar reasons to quit your job or other interesting signs or experiences, I’d love to hear them!

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