Associate Advice, Money

Quitting After A Partner Screams At You Won't Get You More Money

You can't quit your job just because a partner embarrassed you and expect to be paid for it.

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Mere oversensitiv[ity] to criticism, whether warranted or not, which may be expected in the normal course of employment, is not sufficient justification for quitting a job. … [O]n-the-job reprimands administered to claimant by her supervisor … while public and arguably improper and humiliating, [are] not so burdensome as to justify a claimant’s departure from the job.

— Judges Jonathan N. Harris and John C. Kennedy of the New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division, affirming the decision of the Labor Department’s Board of Review in attorney Ann M. Dooley’s unemployment benefits case. Dooley decided to quit her job at Lite DePalma Greenberg in 2010 after the firm’s managing partner publicly berated her for asking another partner who was on maternity leave for assistance in a class-action suit. The New Jersey Supreme Court denied Dooley a further appeal last week.

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