I QUIT! How you get out of a bad job before it’s too late.

Some people want you to believe that quitting is weak and for losers. They’re lying and we need to normalize leaving jobs that are not good for us.

In this video we take a deep look at what happens when you’re unhappy at work, how you can know it’s time to quit and how you can support others who need to get away from a bad job.

Content:

(00:00​) 1: Frogs aren’t idiots
(01:01​) 2: Introduction to quitting
(
03:45) 3: How hating your job hurts you
(
06:56) 4: Exposing the anti-quitting propaganda
(
18:05) 5: The excuses people make for not quitting
(
27:23) 6: Should you quit?
(
32:47) 7: 21 perfectly valid reasons for quitting
(
40:21) 8: What if you can’t quit
(
46:24) 9: How to quit
(
47:39) 10: Should you always find a new job first before you quit?
(
49:42) 11: We should celebrate quitters
(
59:22) 12: I quit!

References, articles and books from the video

Boiling frog experiment video

Boiling frog myth

Relationship between a bad job and poor health

A bad jobs affect sleep

A bad job makes you gain weight

A bad job hurts mental health

Unhappy workers are less productive

Japanese runner breaks leg

Effective propaganda exploits existing biases

Ambiguity effect

The status quo bias

Loss aversion

The endowment effect

Successful Stanford dropouts

Emotional contagion

How Herbalife and other MLMs scam people

The No Asshole Rule – excellent book by Bob Sutton

Turing pharmaceuticals raised prices

Hope theory

Stories from people who quit without first finding a new jobs

Apprentice car mechanic commits suicide after being bullied

Steve Ballmer throws a chair

The most basic freedom is the freedom to quit

The true cost of employee turnover

Bosses try to predict who will quit

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