Yeah! What gives?? Why don’t they just quit?
Why can’t they do the red-blooded American thing and shoot the place up? < /s>
Some of us stayed because we loved our job. We loved to help others, and had security plus benefits.
Just walk away? I was in therapy, for several years, just trying to hold on.
Once the “bottom line” became the norm for every company, the “family” workplace was lost. Then, there was good old Political Correctness, the friend of every cutthroat looking to climb the ladder. No more jokes, yadda, yadda.
I finally walked away, not knowing how I would survive.
I called my therapist (psychiatrist) and told him I was gone. He helped me to get long term disability.
I just retired recently. Still taking meds since about 1989.
It was a very difficult time, during and after I left the company. I thank God for carrying me through. I do not believe in suicide, though there were many times I wished to die.