• When you don’t believe in what you’re doing or the product you represent.
• When your boss hasn’t said anything that actually makes sense in…..
• When you have no respect for management.
• When you can’t remember the last thing you were able to accomplish.
• When you feel like you’ve lost your Mojo.
• When Monday starts to suck on Sunday afternoon.
• When you’re trapped in Middle Management hell.
• When you haven’t got your 75 days of skiing and boarding in due to work.
• When you’re having stress induced heart attacks.
• When you’re reading Gun’s & Ammo on the way to work.
• When you hope and pray everyday that you will suffer serious injury in the workplace and can collect Workers’ comp.
• When you take up smoking just to have a reason to leave the office for 10 minutes every hour.
• When co-workers post your nameplate on a bathroom stall due to the inordinate amount of time you’ve spent there.
• When you call in sick to work because of “woman problems” and you’re a dude.
• When you have to scroll down at least 30 websites on your recently visited URLs on your work computer before coming across anything related to what you are being paid to do.
• When your daily “Lunch hour” has morphed into a “Lunch Afternoon”.
• When the only raise you’ve received in the last five years is in your blood pressure.
• When your boss tells you the company is in great shape while repo men take off with all three of the grey felt-lined walls that signify the 2′x 2′ boundaries of your workspace.
• When your boss is smiling at you and the only thought that crosses your mind at that moment is, “Something bad is about to happen.”
• When your colleagues notice that you’ve missed work to attend five separate funerals for your father in a one year period.
• When your appointment book contains exactly zero appointments and over 100 doodles of different scenarios in which your boss can be brutally murdered.

In all seriousness when you’re demoralized and burned out from the incessant restructuring and changes in senior management it’s time to quit. When the stress and frustration is slowly driving you insane it’s time to quit. When you are constantly asking yourself “why do I put up this shit day after day” it’s time to quit.

A job is like anything else, it changes over time and not always for the better. Take a hard look at your day to day and what the future holds and if it sucks quit. Balance is the key and you can’t be in balance if you spend 10 hours a day doing something you hate with people you don’t like. Life’s short so if you’ve reached a point of diminishing returns with your current job make a change and keep your health and your sanity.

p. smurf