Resignation as Resistance
You may be at a breaking point in a toxic workplace and the life changing question becomes: is a full salary more important than your mental health, self esteem, and worth?
We believe that prioritizing your mental health and belief in your value can be met with a salary that serves you. You deserve to make that your reality, but it may require quitting. There’s only so much pushback you can engage in or emotional abuse you can ignore before that becomes your entire job or your spirit is crushed and anxiety and depression take over. That stress and knowing you don’t deserve that treatment will get loud.
We call this: resignation as resistance, quitting as choosing your wholeness and health while disrupting capitalism, white supremacy, and family patterns. You can stop fighting what and who refuses to see you and isn’t willing to address the true needs.
Journalist Nikole Hannah Jones was the first person to serve as chair but be denied tenure at The University of North Carolina, she said “to be denied it, and to only be granted tenure on the last possible day at the last possible moment after legal action, after weeks of protests, after it became a national scandal, it's just not something I wanted anymore."
She said no and took another job that offered what she deserved. She said, “It’s not my job to heal the university.”
She gives us these gifts and reminders:
It is not your job to fix, heal, or change your workplace, not if it’s costing your spirit.
Refuse to be tolerated.
Janaya Future Khan said it well, “Go where you are loved and celebrated. Go where your hard work and dedication to truth will liberate as legacy.”
If it takes a public scandal or if you’ve been mistreated and take complaints to all channels and get the “calm down everything is fine” talk we invite you to consider. If you see systems of oppressions at play coupled with the power being wielded at the top, we invite you to consider:
RESIGNATION AS RESISTANCE
As dreaming. As living. As a valid choice you have permission for.
As the ultimate fuck you that opens up possibilities for closer aligned ways of living and working.
You will be valued and seen somewhere else. We hold that vision with you and for you.
We understand this can seem impossible due to financial constraints and perhaps a longer plan or asking for help is needed to make it realistic, but we believe in the possibilities that exist to make it so.
If you need the permission to consider quitting to save yourself, here it is.
