17 June 2015
The reasons why I quit my job:
no noticeable payrise since I started
on-call work woke the wife more than me
frequently offered to help cover on-call for others, the favour was rarely (if ever) returned. this really was unacceptable.
on-call collided with charity preparations
on the final days of work I noticed that someone had wiped a bogey on the wall in the toilets. it remained there for a long time, wrong on so many levels.
When the wife is woken by the on-call pager she would loose sleep, dear child would wake at 0700 (or close) there was no putting him back to sleep. The wife would have to handle his needs, without her full quota of sleep. I’d have to go to the office in the morning, so it was always her or nobody, to look after dear child.
So, all in all, when an offer came along for the same salary, without the on-call requirement, how could I say no?