" When I took my first personal holiday in a tenacious metre , my supervisory program email me , ' I fuck you ’re in Iceland , but I just want to go over the travel docket for next hebdomad with you … '

Many of us have had the unfortunate experience of working in a really toxic work environment. And while some of the bad behavior might be tolerable, there’s often a breaking point when you just know it’s time to leave.

So when Reddit user , u / plantsnpaper_asked , " When did you screw it was time to allow for a line of work ? " on ther / AskWomensubreddit , so many of the answers were SUPER relatable .

So here are 17 times people knew it was officially time to leave their jobs.

1.“Right before I quit teaching, I remember praying I would get hit by a car because I would literally rather break a bone than step into the building again.”

— Anonymous

2.“I knew it was time to leave when my manager took full credit for my idea and initiative, which earned our store loads of recognition and additional sales. When I corrected him by saying it was my idea and I was the one who did all the work for it, he said, ‘Well, I am your manager, so therefore anything you do is credited to me.’ He was then awarded a trip to Las Vegas to present his ‘idea’ to the corporate heads at a conference. I was gone before he got back.”

3.“When I took my first personal vacation in a long time, my supervisor emailed me, ‘I know you’re in Iceland, but I just wanted to go over the travel schedule for next week with you…’ Even though they knew how rarely I took vacations for myself. Also, this vacation was only four days.”

" But I did n’t even quit then . It was n’t until a few months later , when I had gotten approval to take a day of bereavement for a funeral , that my managing director was trying to indirectly hale me into traveling for workright after the funeral . "

— u / TheObserver724

4.“I was hole punching documents to be filed away in a binder when a visitor came in to see someone in the office. I let their host know they had arrived, and they sat in the waiting area. I continued to punch holes in the remaining documents. Later that day, I was brought into my manager’s office for a meeting. What did we discuss? How my hole puncher (company property) was too loud, and that I need to see about getting a quieter one because a visitor complained.”

— u / beelovedone

5.“I realized I was full of anger, anxiety, dread, constantly getting sick, and constantly getting snappy with people around me. One day, I finally snapped and had a huge panic attack at my desk during peak work hours. My boss claimed he ‘didn’t notice.’ I gave my two weeks' notice right then and there and told myself I would never let myself get to that point ever again.”

6.“I applied for four different promotions and was rejected for all of them. In one case, my direct supervisor said, ‘You shouldn’t feel entitled to this just because you’re already working here and we know your face.’ Then hekept recruitingfor the position after a bunch of people rejected his job offer. That felt really bad.”

— u / heidismiles

7.“I knew it was time to leave when the company cut 20% of everyone’s pay except for the managers'.”

— u / Tinywrenn

8.“When everyone was quitting, I realized I would be working alone AGAIN. I had worked like that for a year, and I wasn’t about to do it again so soon. Just because Icanget all the work done by myself doesn’t mean I shouldhaveto do it by myself. So I also quit.”

9.“I knew it was time to give notice when I got screamed at by my boss for something I hadnothingto do with.”

— u / darcerin

10.“When my boss told me that with my recent promotion, I would be makingalmostas much as my male manager counterparts. I called to tell her I was leaving. And then, she said, ‘It is customary for folks to stay in management roles for one month after giving their notice.’ Leaving was the best decision I ever made. My current job is better in every aspect.”

— atomic number 92 / clairebearzechinacat

11.“I kept getting excluded from every meeting and party on purpose because I had upset one of the heads of the company. This person made life miserable for me every passing day. So I quit.”

— u / Orchidlove456

13.“I couldn’t stop thinking about work enough to relax while at home, and I was unable to sleep at night because of the anxiety surrounding the job.”

— uracil / JustLayneIt

14.“I decided to leave when I realized I’d rather be doing literally anything else—like reorganizing my sock drawer.”

15.“I don’t have any of the connections with my co-workers the same way I did as recently as a few months ago. I also felt miserable walking into work; all I could do was count down the hours until I got home. I talked to my friend about it and he said, ‘Stop wasting your time on sh*t you don’t really want.’ and that did it for me.”

— uranium / sireggplantt

16.“One day, I justsnappedand had two panic attacks in one day. Then I quit.”

— u / Iowa_and_Friends

17.And lastly, “When someone else on the team unfortunately fractured their leg, my first thought was, ‘Oh, if that happened to me, I’d get some time off from work.’ I knew in that moment that job was literally sucking my soul.”

— u / Working - Mountain6680

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