u/Fluffy_Part4961

After about 14 months of applying to a lot of jobs almost every day, I finally found a remote role with a good salary, and it was pretty much what I had been hoping for.

The short version is that I kept staying up late talking to people and doomscrolling like the idiot that I am, and on a few mornings I would wake up late. Not by much, maybe around 20 minutes, but it happened more than once and my manager noticed.

He gave me a chance to be honest and say why the laptop showed that I was logging in after 8:30 a.m., and I didn't have the courage to tell the truth. I said I was having WiFi/laptop issues instead. In the end, they fired me, and now I feel like a complete failure.

I'm back to square one, and honestly I feel like there's no hope. Since I finished college, I've worked 3 jobs, and none of them lasted more than 4 months, so my resume looks really bad. I started applying again, but losing a job I really needed because of something as basic as waking up on time is really getting to me.

I think part of the reason I stopped feeling motivated to get up and stay focused was that the job wasn't something I was interested in, but that still doesn't justify what happened. I know I did this to myself.

I was hired as a regional sales manager at a company in September. $95k base + 6% commission on all sales. My team's quota for the year is $2.1 million. So that's another $126k, making the total OTE about $221k.

Anyway, after about 3 months, the company was sold to new owners, and the new owners decided that my salary would now be $65k with 0.75% commission. Same quota, of course. So my OTE dropped from around $221k to about $81k. They added a few small bonus targets that, if everything worked out perfectly, would add another $12k. So the best-case scenario would be a total of about $93k.

When I told them I was extremely upset and that I never would have accepted this job with that comp plan, the VP said I was making a big deal out of it. It's obvious they did the same thing to every sales manager. And before anyone says, "Sounds like they're trying to make people leave," 3 managers already quit and the company basically panicked and threw a lot of money at them to stay. Fortunately, all three left anyway.

I saw this post talking about something called cold emailing, and I applied it. Thankfully, I was able to find another job quickly that pays a lot more, and doesn't have this nonsense.

So my question is: do I give these assholes the courtesy of a 10-day notice, or do I tell them to go screw themselves?

Hey Reddit folks, I have a classic scenario for you that really makes one think about their priorities.

Let's call this **Scenario One: The Balanced Life (around $95K per year)**
* Consistent 38 hours of work per week, with regular and fixed work hours.
* One work-from-home day every week.
* 35 paid vacation days per year, which is a lot.

Then we have **Scenario Two: The Grind (close to $125K per year)**
* This averages around 55 hours of work per week, with a rotating schedule: 4 days on, then 4 days off.
* You'll constantly rotate between two morning shifts and two night shifts.
* All work is in the office, no work-from-home options.
* Shifts are long, about 13-14 hours - meaning from early morning until late night, or from late night until early morning.
* The weekly average really reaches about 55 hours when you calculate it all.
* You get 18 paid vacation days per year.

So, what's your decision? Which one is more suitable for you right now, and what's the reason for your choice?