Submitted by Grouchy_Advance6946 t3_y9fcy4 in tifu
A little backstory, I've been working at this place for 5 years and it's been the most toxic place I've ever been. I stayed telling myself the pay was worth it but the abuse got to be too much recently. I feel like I have to justify my decision by adding that the abuse I'm referring to includes calls 24/7 asking me to do work from wherever I'm at. I've gotten calls at 3 am, while at a funeral, while at birthday parties, basically whenever my asshole boss wants. Also, he loves to make me feel like crap and insult me every chance he gets, telling me how I'm a mess and basically useless. When I confronted him about it, he said he paid me enough for me to keep my mouth shut about it.
Well today I had enough. I quit telling him that tomorrow would be my last day and it'll only be to finish what I hadn't today. I don't regret quitting I only regret not doing it earlier. My problem is that I now have no job and have to wait to hear from them places I've applied to. This means I'll be not working for at least a few weeks and as a person who lives paycheck to paycheck this is my worst nightmare. I don't know how I'm going to make rent next month as I don't know if my last paycheck will be enough to cover it. Now I'm scrambling to find some filler work while I hear from the other places I've applied to.
Anyone have any advice?
UPDATE: thanks to those of you who have left advice on the comments it’s been great thank you. To those of you who are still confused by the financial aspect of it, I realize how that could be confusing, I didn’t think to go into full detail that’s my mistake. My father passed away earlier this year (the funeral I mentioned earlier was his) and I was the one responsible for his funeral expenses as he did not have any sort of insurance, but I do also recognize lack of spending control on my part. Also to those of you mocking my decision to just quit before getting a job, believe me when I say I always wait until I have a job before quitting but someone careless mocking the way my father passed away snapped all my patience and I couldn’t bare to stay any longer. The only reason I’m going back tomorrow is to not leave my coworker with all my I finished projects.
TL;DR: I quit toxic job but now worried about income