Scored a job interview in a field that works well for my personality. I get to be left alone, physical activity, good benefits and pay. I've bounced from job to job due to some personality quirks, am working to change those, but job hopping is something that may come up and I want to be prepared. I've left my previous jobs mostly due to poor or misguided management. The dreaded question I have consistently been getting is "if you did so well at XYZ company why didn't they try to retain you?"

I am quitting my current job because the new job pays more, better benefits, and my current manager is not placing orders for the safety equipment the company needs which is directly related to me doing my job. While I can inventory the items we need I am not able to place the orders, and suggestions that I be allowed to do so were denied. I recently talked with the CEO and he doesn't seem interested and backed up management's decision. I am also able to tell management I need cleaning/maintenance equipment but again, can't place the orders for the items. I can guarantee that place is going to have issues if they get hit with an inspection and that will directly affect me. A few managers in different departments recently resigned, an inspection is a huge deal and they will have to make a decision to either a. attempt to lie to an inspection team or b. roll the company under the bus as they are aware of these safety violations and are ignoring them.

Quit the job prior because the owner was talking about increasing the pay scale, offering benefits, until he took me aside and said he "wasn't sure if he could do that, and his wife wanted another child, larger house, health care is expensive, etc, etc." He offered me a bump pay raise when I put my two weeks in which I declined. He had also denied me from using a chair I had purchased - I was developing shoulder pain. I'm too tall for the desks there.

The job I had which also lines up with this job had major issues. Prior to starting the company bumped my pay down 20% (after I had accepted their offer), benefits were late by 4 months (supposed to kick in after 3 months), my yearly pay raise based purely on me staying with the company was a year late. Whenever I had an issue one of the managers would tell me "I'm a vet, you don't talk to veterans like that." When we were short staffed I would ask an office person if they could check off shipments while I unloaded and they would decline. Upper management had turned off the climate control in the warehouse to save money (didn't really bother me) and none of the office staff or my immediate managers could sit in a chair and check off a shipment under those circumstances. I worked quite a few 80 hour weeks and when I went in to discuss an additional pay raise the same vet guy reminded management how I "had been late three times last year." Like who gives a fuck? I had also redone the database in the warehouse to accurately monitor damage to shipments (saved the company 10 grand the first week because of this) and management tried to take credit for that. I threw a bitch fit on that one. I had accrued paid time off and management said I could have the time off but they wouldn't give me my pay days. The CEO's brother tried to threaten me with physical violence (he was 63 and 5'4", what's he gonne do?) in front of 20 people at a warehouse meeting. Ridiculous. The general manager was an old guy who was downing pain medication like it was going out of style and was barely coherent so discussing this with him never worked. When I put my two weeks in the CEO had an emergency meeting and had a list of high paying jobs he was willing to offer me which I declined.

How would you focus on the good and ignore the list of negatives?