Shake it for the feeling, not the verdict. A random yes cannot see your notice period, your savings, or the thing that is actually wrong.
Ask, then read yourself. If the ball says yes and you feel a rush, you have already decided and you are waiting for cover. If it says yes and you immediately start listing reasons it is wrong, you want to stay and something specific is grinding — worth naming before you resign over it.
Is it the job or one thing in it? A single manager, a single project, a commute, a schedule. Quitting solves a whole-job problem and is an expensive way to solve a one-thing problem that a conversation might fix.
What is the runway? Months of expenses covered, not weeks. This is the number that decides whether you can leave before you have something lined up.
What does the next thing look like? If you cannot describe it in a sentence, you are not choosing a direction, you are leaving a room. Sometimes that is the right call, but name it honestly.
What are you giving up? Vesting dates, bonus timing, notice periods, healthcare, a reference. Cheap to check now, expensive to discover in week two.
The work has stopped teaching you anything and there is no path where it starts. You are being treated badly and raising it changed nothing. The pay is below market and asking did not move it. You have something better and the offer is real, in writing.
One catastrophic week. A reorg you have not seen the shape of yet. Being angry on a Tuesday. Wanting to disappear rather than wanting to go somewhere. None of these mean stay forever, but they are all better decided on a Saturday than in a Slack thread.
The small version of the question — whether to have the conversation this week, whether to update the CV tonight, whether to apply for the thing you keep opening in a tab. Those are coin-flip decisions and it will end the stalemate for free. The resignation itself deserves better than a random draw.
Ask the ball → Free, instant, no sign-up. 27 answers, one shake.That depends on runway measured in months of covered expenses, not weeks, and on whether you can describe the next thing in a sentence. Leaving a room and choosing a direction are different decisions, and only one of them survives a long gap.
It is useful for the small version — whether to have the conversation this week, whether to send the application tonight. The resignation itself involves notice periods, savings and timing that a random draw knows nothing about.
Name the specific thing that grinds. If it is one manager, one project or one schedule, that is often fixable with a conversation or a move within the company, and quitting is an expensive fix for it.
Vesting dates, bonus timing, notice period, healthcare coverage and whether you will need a reference. All cheap to check now and expensive to discover afterwards.