Work

I *Don’t* Quit

Some people hate their jobs. But they solemnly refuse to leave.

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Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct Report , she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.

When it’s time to resign from a job, people tend to fall into one of two camps: those who can’t wait to tell their boss they’re leaving, and those who feel tremendously guilty about quitting, as if their resignation will be a betrayal of their colleagues. If you’re in the first camp, you probably find this hard to understand; this is business, after all, and it’s normal to move on from jobs.…