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Before I start with my reasons for resignation I'll go ahead and give a little background story for my first reason. In October 2011, it was my first month as being an Assistant Help Desk Manager and I sure was very excited and nervous at the same time. Excited because I would be working alongside with my partner-in-crime and best friend Charity - nervous because I wanted to do my best as possible for the department and to really make HxHD the best that it can be while working with Charity. For two months, I enjoyed it very much and continued to work as hard as possible with Charity by my side. Then, it was on December 3rd Charity had resigned. I lost confidence in myself because I had negative thoughts like 'I'm not going to be good enough anymore', 'Not many people may like me as a manager', and so much more thoughts. I also felt down a lot, but you know what? All it took was for one person to say that they believe in me and will continue to always believe in me along the way - this person was Mike. So as days went by, with the statement he gave me I gained back a little more confidence, but I was still shaky on HxHD duties. It was then a group of 'trolls' at the time decided to really be rude to me and it brought me down so much that I wanted to give up (as I had never experienced that time of rudeness towards me before). One day, when one of the trolls continued to bring me down even though I was trying my best to continue my job and to shake it off. It when then Mike stepped up and really told them off. I was surprised and grateful to see that someone had really stood up for me and continued to do so when they were very rude. On that day we had quite a long talk about how to deal with trolls, people who are rude in general, not taking so much to heart, about really stepping myself back up again in HxHD duties and showing everyone what I have really got to prove them that they were wrong and luckily I did. From that day on, I gained so much confidence back in not only dealing with trolls and HxHD duties etc - but in myself which I had lost for quite some time. Also, when things didn't seem to go right, I made a mistake, or fell back behind Mike would tell me the absolute truth and 100% honesty and sometimes it would be harsh, but it is and was needed because not everything is going to be sugar, spice, and everything nice. If I mostly would have gotten sugar,spice, and everything nice then that would have gotten me nowhere. With his honesty, trust, and great advice I was able to make it as a manager and improve so much - and I believe others have also! Now that he's resigned, it's just hard for me personally to continue because that's how much he really meant (and means) to me helping me through the way in HxHD and it feels so different doing it without him.
The other reasons for my resignation is just the rudeness, over competitiveness, and just the atmosphere being quite negative around here and I don't really like it and neither do I enjoy working in HxHD as much anymore with these things going on. It really ticks me off when some people on here gang up on another person (or say some very very rude things about 'em) for absolutely no reason or a very small mistake/action that does not need to be blown up like that or constant snide and nasty remarks about another person. Also, with some people getting so over-competitive or rude it has lead some people to tears even and/or to completely lose faith in their team/department/etc. All of this is not needed and in the future I am hoping that it can be reduced at least, but for now this is not what I will have to continue working with.
Also, as it is my last year of college, I want to be able to enjoy it without having to worry about HxHD so much and to also make even better scores on my assignments, projects and tests as for through the years I feel that I could have done better if I wasn't too focused on HxHD sometimes.
