Current project leadership is like gorilla glue and won't let people off. How to roll off without doing something that would get you fired?

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I had that once. Rolled off using leave of absence

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Leave the firm. When they ask why, tell them, “since you wouldn’t help me get off this project, I helped myself”

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Boomerang or find other leadership that is stronger than gorilla tape for you.

This. There’s always a partner above the partner. I wanted to be off a project and in my local market/sector focus — after “paying my dues” to the current project the NYC based partner basically gave me to okay to name drop him to the account lead and say he needed me in NYC and had me lined up for other work.

They still tried to encourage me to extend/stay - but I was able to say no, this is in line with my goals and this is what my CFL/sector leader wants.

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Tried to do this within the first few weeks of a project because of different dynamics, was told by the SM that it wouldn’t reflect well for my promotion or my reputation at the firm to do that. Have stellar performance on everything before this, starting to look for a new job ASAP

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