Two-thirds of executives have walked out of their job after spat with the boss: Poll

As an employee, it is natural that we want to be acknowledged and appreciated for our worth by those higher in the hierarchy.

However, there will be times when your immediate boss or others in management do not see your point of view – or choose not to see it.

This often leads to frustration, possibly a heated argument and perhaps a big showdown, resulting in the extreme cases an employee throwing away her/his job in a hurry, only to regret later, at liesure.

A recent poll run by Emirates 24|7 reveals that more than two-third of the respondents (67 per cent) have, at some stage in their career, walked out on their jobs after a heated argument with the boss.

The smarter ones, of course, had another offer in hand before the showdown, but a majority quit their job without the safety net.

Of those who dumped their paycheques after a spat with the boss, 54 per cent claim they did so without a job offer in their pocket while 13 per cent claim to have done so when they had another job waiting for them.

Some of the respondents confessed to having a short temper and throwing away their job in a fit of rage. “Hindsight is always 20-20,” said one respondent. “The situation could have been discussed but got out of control. It ended up with harsh words being exchanged, and I quit in a fit of rage,” she added.

For the not-so-hot-headed ones, keeping the job is a much better option even when you feel you’re at the end of your tether. A good 16 per cent of the respondents said they were very close to walking out of the office for good, but better sense prevailed – eventually.

The pragmatic ones believe that it would be only foolish to give away your source of income for a fight – 17 per cent of the respondents said outright that it’s foolish to be hot headed and jeopardise your future.

Previous studies have shown that employees quit bosses and not their jobs. According to career experts, one of the main reasons employees leave a company is because of poor management or a bad boss.

Authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman say in their book ‘First Break All the Rules: What The Worlds’ Greatest Managers Do Differently’ that people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.

The authors stress that if employees don’t get along with their managers, they will eventually leave their jobs despite a good pay packages and perks. A bad manager is a big factor in employee performance and talented people will not put up with such bosses.

According to a recent job survey by Bayt.com, employers in the UAE and the Mena region said the staff turnover among the current generation is quite high. A whopping 75.9 per cent of the poll’s respondents believed that the turnover rate in their companies is ‘very high’ or ‘moderately high’ and 60.2 per cent state that retention today is lower than in previous generations.

As far as the employees are concerned, a majority of the respondents claimed that the average amount of time they have spent in a job is no more than five years.

More than quarter (27.7 per cent) have stayed between two to five years, 20.5 per cent have stayed for no more than two years, while 22.2 per cent have stayed for an average of less than one year in a given job.

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