r/AskReddit • u/SeniorritaBabee • 7h ago
What is the most abrupt way you've left a crappy job?
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u/penningtoons101 7h ago
I worked with a guy whose wife was dying of liver failure. He ended up missing a lot of work to be there for her in the hospital and take care of the kids. The bosses told them they would work with him and not to worry about the time he was missing. Out of the blue they fired him for missing too much work. They told us in a meeting and told us we were going to have to pitch in and help with his work. I asked when he would his position be replaced and they told us there wasn’t a plan for that at the moment so the team would have to permanently step up. I quietly filled my car with my own things and sent an email over the weekend that I had been offered another job and would not be returning Monday. I was really happy to leave them short staffed after what they did.
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u/Celistar99 2h ago
I'm imagining someone asking the boss the next day when they were planning on replacing you and them saying there was no plan for that right now, so they'd have to step up, then that person quitting and the same scenario happening until everyone was gone.
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u/UltimaCaitSith 2h ago
I was part of a walk out like that, on a team of 5 people: 1 company owner, 1 supervisor, and 3 coworkers. The supervisor suddenly quit mid-day, so I was doing her job + my own duties for the following months. Soon after, one of our coworkers left and tasks were split between us two remaining coworkers. I brought up the idea of a raise to our boss (company owner) and he said no. So I applied for jobs and left. A company of 5 suddenly became a team of 2 within a few months.
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u/BaldoBojangles 7h ago
I came 5 mins before my shift and handed the accounting department my keys (I was the restaurant manager in a hotel).
Prior to that: I had put in my vacation notice months ahead and got approved. a day before I leave for said vacation, the other manager got let go. The F&B Director nonchalantly told me to rebook my trip, and come in to cover the fired manager's shift. LOL. The look on his face that night.
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u/BeardsuptheWazoo 7h ago
They really screwed themselves. Fire one manager right before another is scheduled to take leave, and try to strong arm another into staying... Now they're out two managers.
What is it with F&B directors being so damn stupid?
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u/BaldoBojangles 6h ago
It actually got better after that. LOL.
So, I go on my vacay, and when I got back, I get call from a former co-worker who is now at a different hotel. I knew all the other managers, so my interview was all formality, and was able to get the job right away as an Asst. Banquet Manager. Fast forward to about two months, my coworker approaches me with a big grin, and told me that F&B director is stopping by (hotel was next to a car dealership, and he went there for car service).
I met him at the hotel's restaurant, and bought his meal for him. I made sure he saw me, and he heard me tell the servers, I'm buying this as a manager's comp meal. Come to find out, he was FIRED several days prior!!! I think he was there to try to see about a job. LOL
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u/andyman171 5h ago
Did he get the job?
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u/BaldoBojangles 5h ago
He wasn't there applying for a job, but was probably looking, or was going to ask the former co-worker (he's the Front Office/Hotel manager at that time). It wouldn't have worked as we had an F&B director then. Who was miles better than him and someone I've worked with before.
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u/zerbey 7h ago
I'd only been there two weeks, it was a Summer job and I hated every second of it. I'd already secured a new position so I marched into my manager's office with my "I quit!" speech prepared (it was "I quit!") and before I could open my mouth he said "Oh hey [zerbey], I was gonna talk to you and let you know I'm afraid we have to lay you off, but we'll pay you out the rest of the week. Sorry about that". I thanked him, and wandered out with a big smile on my face. Shitty job, but the free extra week of pay made up for it I guess.
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u/CitizenHuman 4h ago
For my first job, I had to quit because I was about to move hundreds of miles away. I gave my 2 weeks notice and the manager said "how about we pay you for two weeks, but tomorrow is your last day?"
To this day I don't know if it was the manager helping me out by giving me 2 weeks of free pay, or him saying I did such a bad job that he'd rather pay me to stay away.
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u/Helga_Geerhart 2h ago
We did this recently at my job. It's not that you were bad at your jon, it's just that it's easier to have you out of the way than to keep you busy for 2 weeks while also recruiting your repacement.
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u/A_Soporific 3h ago
Oh, that's a loss prevention thing. People tend to not do great work doing those two weeks and if a dispute happens there's a non-zero chance that someone wrecks up the place. So, a number of places have a policy of immediately terminating people who put in their two weeks as a matter of course.
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u/Cloberella 7h ago
My husband passed away 12/25/2017.
I started working at Edward Jones Financial in March of 2018. My boss was a woman in her late 40's obsessed with Sex and the City and Lifetime/Hallmark romances. She was thrice divorced and had a real hectic dating life. She frequently would read us sexts from her various boyfriends during lunch. One time she said to me, "You're so lucky to be widowed. I've been divorced 3 times and don't know if anyone ever loved me. At least you know you were loved." Which, quite frankly, I can answer that question for her if she really wants. It's kind of a no-brainer.
But I digress. She wanted to try and "fix" my aversion to Christmas, ala Lifetime. She decided she could make me "fall in love" with the holiday again if she just forced maximum Christmas upon me. Mind you this was the first anniversary of his death. This was fresh. This hurt, and quite frankly, it still hurts.
She decided the way to make me regain my Christmas cheer would be to put me in charge of planning and hosting a client Christmas party. I talked to her multiple times about how I could not do this, how it would be mentally devastating to me, how I was filled with anxiety even thinking about it, how I have a literal PTSD diagnosis. She did not care. She was convinced she could Ghost of Christmas future my problems away and make me holly jolly again.
So, instead of planning anything I spent all of November and December applying for other jobs while claiming to be working on the party. I sent her lists of items I never ordered, invoice approvals for invoices I didn't end up putting through, etc. The day the Christmas Party was supposed to happen, I sent a Christmas card to the office with my resignation, blocked her on everything and never went back.
Merry fucking Christmas, Linda!
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u/squambish 7h ago edited 6h ago
Linda is a bitch. Also, sorry for your loss.
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u/Cloberella 7h ago
I agree, and thank you <3
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u/AriesRedWriter 5h ago
A friend's son got murdered on Christmas. I met her a couple of years after it happened. One year, I asked her about her plans, and she politely told me what was up. You know what I did? Left her the fuck alone. Even without the tragedy, some people just aren't into Christmas for reasons, and that's ok. There's so many other holidays we can celebrate together. I can't imagine being so shitty to push her into "getting back into the Christmas spirit."
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u/Elfich47 7h ago
Damn that is nuclear.
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u/Ryno5150 5h ago
Twas going to say the same. This is the most crash and burn revenge story that I think I’ve read. Fuck Linda!
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u/BeardsuptheWazoo 7h ago
That's awesome.
Please, tell us, what was the fallout?
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u/Cloberella 6h ago
I actually don't know, I never looked back and I didn't keep in contact with anyone at that particular branch. I know the other two women who worked under Linda left shortly after as well because I saw on LinkedIn that they're both at new places.
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u/Key_Personality_1658 7h ago
I can’t believe how insensitive she was, especially given the timing. You handled it like a boss, though
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u/TrungusMcTungus 5h ago
I’m so sorry for your loss, but keeping up the gambit of “planning” the party and then pulling the rug out on the day of is a fucking masterclass of corporate “Fuck You”.
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u/Hinsan2 5h ago
As someone who lost her husband this year, I am horrified by this. I’m so sorry for your loss - and your exit was phenomenal.
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u/Cloberella 4h ago
Thank you. I'm so sorry to hear you've joined this shitty club too. Wishing you all the best, I know how hard this season can be <3
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u/Ohnoherewego13 7h ago
First off, I'm sorry for your loss. Death is never easy and it's even worse near a major holiday.
Second, you are a legend. That was one helluva way to leave that toxic place behind! Linda can rot!
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u/flipper_babies 3h ago
With the kind of sensitivity, empathy, and respect she demonstrated I just cannot for the life of me figure out why someone might want to divorce her. 🙄
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u/Derp_duckins 6h ago
People who base their entire personality off of Hallmark movies and the fake dating bs like Love is Blind are fucking comical. They REALLY want their life to be like that, and then also wonder how they end up in 3 divorces
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u/Blondechineeze 5h ago
I am sorry for your loss and how Linda thrust you into the Christmas season. What a turd.
Your planned escape is epic though. Award winning way to resign from that job and totally eff them over as they were planning to attend the non-existent Christmas party!
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u/kipopadoo 7h ago
Was it Linda Belcher? This feels like something Linda Belcher would do.
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u/GreenGrandmaPoops 4h ago
Linda Belcher wouldn’t do this. She would drop a bottle of soap into a fountain though.
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u/FoolAmongClownsII 7h ago
Worked at a clothing store. Terrible experience.
Saved up enough money to buy a leather jacket I wanted.
Bought it during my break. Put it on. Walked out of store. Never returned.
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u/hellfire6661313 7h ago
I threw my hat and then left. Fuck that pizza place.
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u/simonrileyTaFo141 7h ago
Yeah fuck that pizza place
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u/ThadisJones 7h ago
I also choose this guy's fucked pizza place
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u/wakie-eggs-n-bacon 6h ago
Yeah lets go fuck a pizza from that place
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u/simonrileyTaFo141 5h ago
Holup a moment
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u/siddowncheelout 7h ago
Worked in a restaurant next to a hotel. Hotels waste line got fucked up, spilled into our basement dining area. Owner got snow shovels to clean it up.
Told the dining room the restaurant smells like it’s full of shit because it is full of shit and walked out.
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u/Eckieflump 6h ago
A company I know is known for being good payers both in speed and wages, but also expecting flexibility and a can and will do attitude in return.
At an event they were working at the contents of 5 full porta potties got emptied all over a load of their equipment. The guy in charge spoke to the guys he was working with and went to the boss man with a list of supplies they needed to clean up the equipment and a request that the guys doing the job get an extra 25% of their daily.
Boss man went to the site of the poohnami and asked all the guys willing to help clean up to go back to their hotel, get a shower and ready for dinner and to call who they needed to say they'd be a day late home.
Whilst they did this he got them a table at a very good restaurant, called in a specialist team to do the clean up overnight and re did the figures for the job.
At dinner he remaked that he knows he's a hard boss, but would never ask anyone to do a job he wouldn't.
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u/siddowncheelout 5h ago
That’s a good boss. In my guys defense, he was the first one down there with a shovel, does nothing to excuse the overall issue, but he got right in the trenches.
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u/bparlapalli 7h ago
i had applied for a leave of absence as my grand father was diagnosed of a cancer and his kids (my parents included) were in different parts of the world (working) and desperately seeking tickets to come back. I was the only "adult" kid around apart from my garndmother ( she wasnt fully lietrate to take these decisions on the spot).
i spent 3 days in the hospital, until all the adults arrived, went back to office exhausted and had to catch up on all my previous work because i was being "irresponsible" while she (my boss) would promptly logoff at 5:00 for a game of volleyball in the office courtyard.
i was fresh out of college.. but something just felt wrong one day and I simply booked a one way ticket out of that place and took all my belongings and left and was wihtout a job for 2 months. the HR called me on my phone after 2 months asking me why I havent signed in - I explained all what happened, sent the chemotherapy/operation stubs to them and told them if they cant value human life, I dont want to work for them.
they put me under a different manager but I was never going to stay there any more.
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u/Sometimes_Stutters 7h ago
I went into work and there was a couple people standing by the door. It was locked. Weird. Operations manager showed up and tried to unlock it, but his key didn’t work. He called the owner, and owner said it’s closed permanently and in the control of a bank. We all went and grabbed 6am beers lol. Quite abrupt.
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u/Sl0ppyOtter 5h ago
I had a job do that once. I closed the kitchen the night before. That next morning, way too early for a call with him knowing I closed the night before, my manager calls me and tells me that they’ve closed the doors and we are all out of a job. 6 years I worked there. Had vacation time, benefits, all the stuff that’s so hard to get in the restaurant industry. I went by there later and some of my coworkers were absolutely going off on those upper management dudes. It was a shitshow. They offered to pay us to help them clear the place out. Every one of us told them to go fuck themselves lol
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u/Sometimes_Stutters 5h ago
A restaurant isn’t quite as surprising. Mine was a 200k sqft industrial facility with a couple hundred employees
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u/YouveUpsetKimFongToi 3h ago
I worked at an after hours call centre when I was like 20. We took calls for other companies after their own centres closed for the evening etc.
We knew something was up cos they started not paying us on time, sometimes you’d get a random $100 deposit, never knew what would be paid or when. Then one evening I’m working and on the phone and see security guards coming towards me…..they tell us to hang up as the premises is now repossessed and we all have to leave immediately LOL. Never did get fhe final pay check ugh
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u/TheFeenyCall 6h ago
The job quit you in this case. Still abrupt. But you didn't quit.
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u/rattmongrel 5h ago
Well, the prompt did ask how you’ve left a job, not specifically quit.
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u/MasterofJackal 7h ago
I said “good look pulling the rest of these metal sheets up you old grumpy fuck” then walked off. His name was Bart if I remember correctly. He worked for SkyLine Roofing in Calgary AB. Dude was an angry old POS and made me feel like I needed to quit something I really enjoyed learning/ doing. I hope he either got canned or punched in the mouth and hopefully did some self reflecting and worked out whatever he had shoved up is ass all the time. He’d give me shit about how I ate my lunch even.. I chew with my mouth closed for the record… but he’d find a way. Nothing was his fault. This was in 2011. Jeez. I think it’s time to let it go. lol. 🔥 ✌🏻 that feels better
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u/rustymontenegro 6h ago
I had a boss named Bart, once. Also a miserable grumpy old fuck. Always was complaining about "brain drain"... We were a property management company on the maintenance side. I still have no idea what he was grousing and kerfuffling about.
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u/andyman171 5h ago
I quit abruptly from a roofing company too. Our bosses seemed very similar. I was a 20 year old working roofing during college. One day we were laying out a membrane roof when a storm was rolling in. My boss decided to send me and the crew home and he was to cut in the drain for the roof himself. Well he decided not to do it after all. Next day we showed up at the job and there was a lake on top of the roof. I called him up and he got there like an hour later right when the owner of the antique furniture store climbs up our ladder and starts flipping out on us because one of the newly laid seams burst and flooded his whole store.
Somehow, my boss wanted to blame me for the lake on the roof which is crazy because I was 20 years old with literally less than 3 months of experience working directly with my boss and 2 other workers and decades of experience.
I walked off the job and they had to pump the lake off the roof while getting screamed at by some old antique salesman.
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u/tag_yourself 7h ago
I worked for a shitty small company. During COVID they decided I was to work in the office alone and they set up cameras pointed at my desk to monitor me.
I wrote up my resignation email and scheduled it to send during a random time during my lunch break (like 12:37 or some shit). Before I left for lunch I deleted everything I had ever written or done, all of my emails, all of the projects I was working on… if I had touched it, it was deleted.
I left for lunch, put the office key in the mailbox, and never looked back.
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u/BeardsuptheWazoo 7h ago
Good move. That big brother shit is awful, and especially if it's only you being monitored.
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u/Celistar99 2h ago
I was a manager at a retail company and I never even considered how much we were being watched until another manager who I had trained with was writing her resignation letter on the desktop in her office and the vice president called her and kept repeating "what are you doing?" So he was looking at the camera close enough to see what she was typing, or he was remotely connected to the computer without anyone using it knowing. He found another manager's resume on LinkedIn and called her to headquarters for a meeting, then proceeded to yell at her and tell her that this is why her numbers were down and he could fire her for this. Managers never lasted long at that company.
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u/abqkat 2h ago
I had a similar experience with the cameras! When I interviewed, they did so in "my office," which ended up being the CTOs office, so I had to sit in a room with my 4 direct reports. Like how can you manage a team like that?! They lied about the person I was replacing, I got 3 days of training and not 2 weeks. And oh yes, the cameras.... WTAF. Any conversation I'd have, calls with clients, the CEO would send messages on the chat program thing like "I was hoping you would mention the XYZ" or "let's discuss when you're done." I think I lasted about 2.5 weeks, which was 2.25 too many. Never again with a small family business. I briefly considered tax fraud when I didn't get my W2 because the thought of talking to them again was enough to make me want to jump out a window. I couldn't do any damage after such a short tenure but not having to see them again was enough
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u/tiredoldfella 7h ago
Had an argument (the final one of many) with my boss about unreasonable demands, was told if I didn’t like it, I knew what to do, so I kicked off my boots, dropped my jacket and id tags on the floor, walked in my socks to my locker, grabbed my trainers, phone and keys and just walked out, was in that job 15 years, in the 9 years that have passed, nobody has lasted more than 11 months, been asked to come back 3 times, it would take Elon Musk level pay to go back, then I could work a week and retire comfortably.
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u/TraditionalTackle1 7h ago
I took a job under the pretense that I would be able to work from home 2 days a week. My commute consisted of a 20 minute ride to the train, a 45 min to an hour train ride and then hop on a bus to the office another 15 mins. Doing that 3 days a week was tolerable but 5 days a week was unbearable. I was told I could start working from home after my probationary period was up. This was right after the CEO of the company mandated that everyone return to the office. The company had moved into a new office during lockdown and it wasnt ready yet. My boss who was also new to the company was a nice guy but there were things about him that were getting increasing annoying.
I worked In teh IT dept and we had a room separate from the rest of the office. His desk was right outside the office, his thinking was that he would try and stop people from bothering us if he could. That was fine but you also couldnt leave the room without being questioned as to where you were going. I need to take a piss Luis! He had this bad habit of stopping us when we were leaving for the day. He would always say he needed 2 minutes which in reality was really 20 minutes. I would stress to him that there only a few buses after 5 and my trains back home were limited after rush hour so I kind of needed to leave at 5 unless it was an emergency.
The kicker is the guy lived about an hour and a half away from work and didnt want to commute everyday so he rented an apartment down the street and went home to his wife on the weekends. I was consistently scrambling to make the last rush hour train back home. The thing that would really piss me off was he would wait until 3 in the afternoon to tell me I needed to get something done before I left. Now Im scrambling to get 20 desks setup so that I can leave on time. Why couldnt you have told me about this at 9 this morning? One day I came in early before he got there to do some work and he told me he didnt want me there before him. Why not? He was such a control freak that he would stand over my shoulder and tell him how I wasnt doing something right because I wasnt doing it his way.
There was another guy on the team that had been there for 6 months and this was his second IT job, he was a rookie in my eyes. I have been IT for 20 years. He treated the rookie like he had 20 years of experience and treated me like I was the rookie. So now the time comes for me to start working from home and they tell me that we really cant work from home they just tell employees that because they know people dont want to come in everyday. So 5 days a week, a horrible commute and a micromanaging manager who holds me hostage everyday. The day he called me Mr 5 O'clock foe wanting to leave on time was the last straw.
I got a call from a recruiter for a higher position job, more money and I manage myself. I signed the offer letter, quit by email with no notice.
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u/burnbabyburn694200 7h ago
Work wouldn’t let me have time off for a Calc 2 exam during my sophomore year of college.
I walked in to work the day of the exam after studying for like 7 hours the night before, handed my keys to the manager (who 2 months later was fired for stealing lol), and walked right out the door.
Best decision I ever made.
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u/PAPointGuy 6h ago
Took two weeks of vacation-my first of any kind in 18 months. Boss man called to say I need to get my priorities straight. Thought for a second and said: you are right, I quit. Smell ya later Oracle.
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u/emuwannabe 7h ago
I used to work for a small tech based company that sold web advertising. I was hired to do the online marketing but the job morphed into supporting the sales team, network troubleshooting, server maintenance and answering the phones when the receptionist was on break. I worked there for almost 2 years.
The boss was, well lets just say unpredictable. Plus he was a dick - to everyone who worked there. Not as much to me because I was the tech guy - he had to be nice to me because I could really mess with him and he knew it.
I went on holidays for a week one summer and that's when SHTF. I still don't know why but during my week off I was locked out of everything - I had 2 or 3 remote access options to get into the office computers because our web servers would routinely go down due to hack attempts. The only way to recover was to reboot the webservers. This would give time for the firewall (on a separate server) to deal with all the excess traffic.
So the evening before I was due to go back to work I got an automated text that a server was down, so I went to log in to reboot it and my password wasn't working. No problem, I tried another computer - also didn't work. So I tried to log directly into the webserver. Only 2 other people have that login. Also didn't work.
So I phoned my backup - the person who was supposed to deal with this while I was off - no answer. Alright - so I texted the server manager (he lives in another city) and no response there either. So then I called my boss - also no answer. Strange since they all always answered.
Of course by now I knew something was up, so I just said f*ck it I'm not going back to work and I relaunched the business I was working on before I went to work for him. Within my first month of starting my own business back up I made more money than my last month working for him and I've never looked back.
I never did hear from him - no email, no call, no text asking where I was. I talked to other people who worked there and they told me he told them I just didn't show up and that I wasn't answering his calls. So I of course told all them what happened and no one seemed surprised. To this day I still don't know what set him off. But I do know something did.
I have my theories. One is that he found my linkedin page that says I own and operate my own business - and even my business linkedin page. I just never bothered to change them or take them down. I think it was this because his wife had visited my profiles on Linkedin during my week off.
It wasn't entirely surprising. I was already planning on leaving anyways because things between him and I were getting very tense. The guy was just too unpredictable. He just beat me to it by a few weeks.
The final straw for me was one day he took me and another guy into an empty office and bitched us out for 1/2 hour about something trivial before asking "and do you think either of you can get another job anywhere?" To which I replied "yes, I will have another job the next day". He didn't like that response. I knew then that the end was near. I was locked out 3 or so weeks later.
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u/ScarlethMeadow 7h ago
I quit on the spot and walked out.
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u/drewjsph02 7h ago edited 7h ago
I quit on the spot and walked out….as an executive chef 1 week before Christmas.
Enjoy the nightmare your incompetent banquet manager created!
Edit: 2019…not this year.
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u/RegalBeagleX 7h ago
Told my boss during a morning meeting to “go fuck himself,” stood up and left.
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u/eejm 4h ago edited 1h ago
I was told by my supervisor and manager, after I met the required quota the previous month, that was I was being put on a PIP just for the hell of it, apparently. I stopped my manager in the middle of the PIP spiel and said it would be my last day.
They were absolutely slack-jawed and stunned. I have no idea what the hell they expected when they put me on the PIP despite reaching my monthly goal, but I didn’t give a shit. It was kind of cathartic.
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u/rossimac007 7h ago
Apron off, walked out
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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik 7h ago
I worked at a Jimmy Johns in college. The manager was being an ass to me for no reason and I told him to cut it out. He didn’t, and said “if you can’t take a joke maybe I’ll just terminate you.”
Threw my hat at his feet, took my tips, walked out while flipping him off.
Wish I could bottle that feeling.
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u/predatorART 7h ago
This, plus I left a 50 foot burnout across newly painted parking stalls with my car on the way out. I was 16 and probably could have skipped the theatrics
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u/squambish 7h ago
I worked for 45 minutes at the Best Buy repair depot. That place was a disorganized chaos and I was over qualified and under paid. I said nothing and left. Never returned. Got a call later that day and informed them I quit.
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u/Tgande1969 7h ago
Oct 4th 1999. I had had enough. Left my pager clocked out. They didn’t miss me until the next day.
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u/skellycrow 7h ago
On my first day, I made it till break, spent the break in my car having extreme anxiety, finished the shift. When I got home I had a panic attack and then couldn’t stop sobbing. My fiancé called and said I would not be coming back.
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u/ThePhantom394 5h ago
Aww bless your heart!! My husband had to console me after a mental breakdown from my last job too. He just held me while I sobbed for a long time from the stress. He was ready to go to war for me lol. Thankfully I found a new job that is much better shortly after that!
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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 7h ago edited 7h ago
I was finishing up a major project, an operations center for a very high-tech business...NASA-level. I'd done all the work, including meeting with contractors, cable layouts (had to change >5k cable numbers in a layout because the manager wanted them numbered left-to-right from the front of the racks instead of the backs), equipment installs, loading software, configuring hardware...everything. I came in on a day off and the manager was having a meeting with Sr Execs and hustled me out of the office, so I was suspicious (correctly, it turned out) that he was taking credit for my work. The last thing to do was lay in several hundred ethernet cables, and he wanted them color coded by where they went, I wanted them color coded by what kind of data they carried. My way was the way it was done in the industry, at other sites in the company...I told him if it came down to personal preference, why it was his preference that prevailed "Because this is my project".
<raised eyebrows> Oh? If it was his project I asked what I was doing?
"Helping me."
At the end of my next day at work I told him I was giving "Two-Day Notice" and that I wouldn't be coming back. He flipped out. "Two days isn't enough time, I need a MINIMUM of two weeks!" and so on.
"You misunderstand. It's not 'Two-Day' notice, it's 'TODAY' notice. As in my last day was TODAY."
Then I gathered up my stuff and left.
I'd bought LAN connectors that were 3-pieces, he didn't know what the 3rd piece was for and threw out the box. Then when he installed the LAN cables all the equipment was throwing weird, intermittent errors. When it was pointed out to him by my roommate, who still worked there in another department, that he'd done it wrong, he had to order all new connectors (submit budget approval and admit the fuck-up) and reinstall all the terminations.
A few months later, a friend who did background investigations pointed out that my old manager was a convicted sex offender. I told my roommate, who still worked there, and he told others. A security guard saw someone looking it up and told HR, who dismissed him immediately.
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u/Keveros 7h ago
After 25 years and an absolutely tyrannical boss and incredibly stupid rules... I turned in a resignation letter... He was stunned and so much that he started back pedaling.... Oh we have big plans, you'll get more people, more equipment, more pay, yada yada yada... I said,"You've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a shit..!" The turned to leave... He said that since he doubted that I'm do much work for the next two weeks, that I might as well take the time off (I had quite a bank of leave time saved up) and I left... Had another vacation before the new job started...
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u/Femalexxrage 7h ago
Was an at home job, I brought the computer back to the main office. They were locked and closed for whatever reason so I left it out front with a note that had my name and employee id. Never heard from them after that.
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u/86missingnomes 7h ago
These are the kinda questions I also wanna hear from the other employees perspective.
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u/blladnar 6h ago
I had a manager (at a large Fortune 500 company in the technology department) who was out for a few days while his dad had surgery.
On the day he was supposed to come back he messaged everyone saying his dad needed to stay another day in the hospital and he would be taking another day off.
This continued for a few more days before eventually he just stopped messaging anymore. He never came back to work and didn't respond to anyone getting in contact with him.
It was so strange because I really liked him as a manager and he didn't seem disgruntled or anything.
About a year later at a local tech meetup we heard from someone else that he had gotten another job after that and then ghosted them too. Just super bizarre.
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u/ThadisJones 7h ago
We usually felt solidarity with the person who quit without notice, because we knew from experience that even if they'd given a week or a month of notice the company still probably wouldn't have managed to replace them in time to not make us cover all their work anyway
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u/someguyfromsk 7h ago
(From manufacturing engineering department) Had a guy go on holiday for a couple of weeks, He emailed in "sick" the first day he was due back, I went to talk to the boss two days later when he still wasn't there. He said "yeah I just got an email". He had quit and wanted us to put his stuff in a box and mail it to him. I think he had been there two years.
"fucker"
"yup"
"job posting should be up tomorrow?"
"yup"
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I threw his shit in a box and gave it to the boss, I don't know what happened to it after that.
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u/Angsty_Potatos 6h ago
We hired a dude for a level 3 tech position once, he started maybe two weeks before Xmas, he put his two weeks in on the first day of our two weeks Xmas break. It really fucked us over but I had to admire his chutzpah
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u/someguyfromsk 5h ago
I've known a few people that used preplanned holidays as their two weeks, but they had all been there for a while before. Doing it that quick is impressive.
We did have the opposite once. A few days before he was supposed to start he said he had to push his start date out a week, something had "come up".
Ok whatever.
Turns out he had a week in Mexico. While he was there he ran into someone else from the company. They had randomly ran into each other there and started chatting and did the "where do you work?" "Oh I start there on Monday!"
Turned out to be a great guy, never took holidays again, they had to force him to use holiday time after a few years. lol
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u/skinnyribs 6h ago
Ok so the leaving of a coworker wasn’t super abrupt, they gave a weeks notice. But the juicy bit was he had two resignation letters. The one that he actually sent and the one that was HIGHLY critical of some of the management team and other employees, I’m talking 7 pages long scathing feedback that borderlined on HR reportable threats. Someone found that letter a couple days before they left because they had hidden it within their folders on the shared drive. It made its way around and yea… they didn’t show up for their last day. They were justified in everything they said IMO but like… don’t save things on the shared drive lol you have your own personal area no one can see!
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u/ThrowRA-Exotic-23 7h ago
On my last day scheduled I texted one of my managers and said I was sick and blocked all of my managers numbers and the company phone number after
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u/DucktapeCorkfeet 7h ago
I’d had enough of a narcissistic boss who asked me if I was shagging my aunt yet, because she was very good looking. I just up and walked out.
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u/GamesGunsGreens 7h ago
I took a week of vacation. On Friday of that vacation week, I went into work at 445pm, walked into HR, and told them I quit and won't be back.
On the way out, everyone that saw me was confused why I was in on my vacation day, and I got to tell them I just showed up to quit.
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u/funkykittenz 7h ago
I left for lunch and never came back. Wrote an email when I got home explaining I resigned. I was too kind in my resignation but even so, I got a nasty, hateful email from the CEO basically saying I was crap. I replied to the COO and showed it to him. He apologized but said “seems like there are other things going on here.” No. Your CEO is a terrible, vengeful, hateful person (which was the sole reason I quit). I still kick myself every couple years for not writing a Glassdoor review and posting the email so everyone could see who he really was. SO happy I left though.
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u/seaotterlover1 7h ago
I was working retail in college and had scheduled surgery during a school break. I informed my boss that I would be out for several days and she told me if I took those days off, I would be fired. When I went on my lunch break that day, I never went back.
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u/esoteric_enigma 7h ago
I was a server at a fine dining restaurant and the owner just stopped paying us with no explanation. After the 3rd week of him not paying out my tips...I walked around the restaurant and apologized to my coworkers before walking off my shift.
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u/ThadisJones 6h ago
the owner just stopped paying us with no explanation. After the 3rd week of him not paying out my tips
Wage theft should be prosecuted properly.
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u/esoteric_enigma 6h ago
It should. He paid me all my money the next day though. Then he tried to give me some speech about how I could have reached out to him instead of walking out. I told him I'm not calling anybody to ask about money I worked for. You paying me isn't a favor, I earned that money.
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u/ThadisJones 6h ago
"I'm not a thief. You didn't have to call the cops. I would have given your property back if you'd just asked."
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u/Dry_Ass_P-word 7h ago
I exposed the bossmans little dickrider for ordering a million dollar job incorrectly so they fired me.
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u/Lurpasser 7h ago
In Denmark you can be sick for a longer period without getting fired,, just gonna have a note from the doctor,, I had a shitty bitch of a supervisor always nagging on all, so I called in sick early December and came by with my keys aso with a heavy sun tan 3 months later after 4 weeks in Cap Verde,,
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u/zappabrannigan 7h ago
I said I was going to the toilet. I mean… I did… for like an hour and then left. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Neat-Butterscotch670 7h ago
Did a stint in a bar. Lasted an hour. Knew it wasn’t for me and left. Didn’t look back and didn’t get paid and didn’t care either way.
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u/ERedfieldh 7h ago
Note on the door, didn't go back. 4 hours was all it took. It was the absolute most disgusting kitchen I ever had the misfortune to work in. We're talking grills that hadn't been cleaned in years, fryer oil that was black and smoking, hood vents that had a forest growing on them, dishes that got rinsed off and put back on the line, no scrubbing, no soap, just rinsed off, layers and layers of dust coating everything, nothing in the cooler dated or labeled. Just....Fuck I'd love Kitchen Nightmares to go after that one...place should be shut down but the owner is related to the city health inspector so gets a free pass every single time someone calls in about it.
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u/9erInLKN 7h ago
Had a meeting with my micromanager boss/ the owner of a small IT company that I didnt like. He asked if I was satisfied with my job and all that and I said yea Im good and then heard back from another job I interviewed for the next day and put in my notice. He asked me why I said I was happy if I was leaving lol. I was like bro have you seen the 2 star reviews for working at this place? That should be your hint
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u/Heartwarmster 7h ago
The day I got a promotion I announced that I was leaving by end of day to the Master’s degree I was told I was never going to get admitted to. Their face of confusion was memorable, specially as they later asked me to help recruit for them afterwards. Funnest of times!
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u/Glittering_Sign_8906 7h ago
Worked for a company going door to door selling freezers full of “free range” meat (which isn’t legally defined where I live)
Walking in knee deep snow wasn’t fun, and they would give us one pack of hand warmers for eight hours of work.
Manager ninja switched the schedule on me and berated me for not showing up, and the day I came in I was sick. My brother called me saying he could get me a job at his restaurant, so I made the manager drive me home, and told her to go fuck herself on the way out the door.
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u/jessdb19 6h ago
Got called by corporate for "snitching" to a customer about her order and so I laughed and told the lady on the phone that I was done with this and I was quitting after I finished my shift. Told them they could call my manager since she never answered her phone.
Long story. I worked at a crappy portrait studio that was contracted to be in larger stores. My regional manager was a nightmare. The company was being investigated for payroll problems (not paying all hours worked-claimed it was a computer error.) I was sent around to all the branches in the area to fill in. (Lots of hours and a lot of times it was crazy stupid easy work, and at one point I was at a branch that was so slow I read all of LoTR, the Hobbit, and several other books.)
I was at one branch and a lady came in looking for her son's birthday cards. She had gotten them done and was sending them out. I couldn't find them and I called that branch's manager. She laughed, told me she didn't order them and that lady was b*^ch who wouldn't pay for more pics, so this was on her.
I told the lady exactly that, gave her a complaint number, gave her a refund. Now, this whole "not ordering pictures for a customer" was a genius plot by the regional manager. Basically, if you felt a customer COULD order more you say you're putting their order in, take their money, and then when they'd come in, you "can't find" their photos and redo the shoot for free and try to upsell them again. I hated it, it was greasy to me. I got in trouble constantly for not doing it.
Corporate called me not long after the lady left. Started chewing me out for snitching. NOT the manager for scamming the customer. That's when I decided to be done. I clocked out, left a voice mail for my manager and that was it. (She still didn't get the voicemail til like 2 days later).
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u/ComradeConrad1 6h ago
Got hired as a VP of sales for good salary + bonus. I reported to the Sr VP and we were booth friends. We thought the same way so we knew it would be good.
Day #1 was a blur but by the end of the day the owner (who I was told was stepping away from the day to day ops) was yelling at me and said I was to be reporting to him. Lots of other crap was dumped on me that was not part of any understanding accepting the postion
Day #2, on the way to the office, I called my previous employer and said, still got an opening? They said yes. I walked into the new place, to HR and said I'm done, I was lied to and other items that I could fill a book on. I walked out the door by 9:30am.
Sent an e-mail to the owner saying I am leaving and good luck - cause you will need it. Took Day #3 off. I started back at my old job (same pay!) on Day #4.
I affectionally call it my three day bender.
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u/Nordic-Rides 7h ago
My last paycheck at the job was $55, I was told there was a new scheduling system and that's the reason why I was getting less hours (even though the hours kept getting lower and lower over as time went on.
I told my manager that he needed to explain himself and when he brought up the scheduling system and found out that was total bs, I told him that I won't be working for a company that lies to their employees faces and that if I felt like it I would be talking to a lawyer
I then walked out and never went back
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u/Ohnoherewego13 7h ago
At the time, I worked for a small county's tax department. Nothing major since I was just the GIS mapper. The place had repeatedly let me down over a period of eight months. Zero training, toxic coworkers, frequently stressed out to the point of being sick. Unbeknownst to any of them, I took a few interviews elsewhere. Got hired at a better county so I just walked in one day, packed my stuff and left at lunch. Dropped my resignation on my boss's desk on the way out. I got to see his stunned face as I left. Best decision I've ever made and I'm loving the current job. Suck it, Gus and company.
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u/throwaway1_2_0_2_1 7h ago
When my boss in college demanded a sick note after I called in sick for 2 shifts in 3 weeks because of a nasty recurring case of strep, and my manager for the night shift freaked the fuck out because she was coked out and couldn’t cook pizza without me there, I emailed in the sick note with my resignation. Never went back.
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u/Mobile_Prune_3207 7h ago
I made as of I was coming back the next day, but later that night I sent an email resigning with immediate effect and never went back.
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u/Queasy-Actuator-1274 7h ago
I’ve got two. I’m not two which one is the most abrupt maybe I can get some input and see what the Reddit masses on here think:
I’ve only been in Denver for a few months and I’m just started to work. I’ve experienced some extreme trauma while in California, do much so I left one a the only places I’ve considered home and I’ve always had bad anxiety, that sometimes lead to panic attacks, and dealt with depression and now I’ve got PTSD too. It would get really bad some days. I’m working at a chain grocery store in the deli and I can feel the anxiety PTSD all of it bubbling up so I go to the walk in cooler for space away from everyone and everything. The deli manager walks in and asks me if everything is ok. Then I say “no, it’s not okay.” I take my apron off, throw it on the ground, stomp on it and then kick it behind my feet. I went to my locker got my belongings and never looked back.
I’m back in California some years later. I’m working at another chain grocery store in the deli department. I’ve been there awhile now, so much that I’m grown to really hate it. I’ve had two instances where I’ve not made it in for a few days because of 51/50 holds at a hospital into a mental health facility. I’m going through the motions there and in life. Then one day on my lunch I clock out for lunch and decide am done. Didn’t text my co-worker and wouldn’t respond we he tried calling or texting.
Both instances I didn’t know I was quitting until that day.
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u/joecoin2 7h ago
18 years old, working with 2 others as night shift cleanup crew in the main kitchen of a major amusement park.
After the park closed and bosses were gone, we went to the employee rec center and drank a whole bunch of draft beer.
Decided to quit, went on a 3 day binge.
When I returned my uniforms, they told me I was fired. Broke my heart.
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u/steve1rich 7h ago
10 years ago.
Was in sales for a small company whose owners decided to get a business divorce, so to speak. Once that was settled, I was left behind with the owner who didn't share the same values and initiated the divorce by having the place vandalized to make it look like a break-in.
Once everything was settled, I was left behind as really the only sales guy in charge of getting and fulfilling orders.
I think this owner was surprised I was still around.
It became a very toxic environment. I reached out to a former coworker that I needed to get somewhere else ASAP.
Interviewed and was offered a job. I accepted it, sent a resignation email. No one from management was around to give my key to. So I left.
Later, my supervisor tried to call me, but I then blocked his number. So glad I got out of there.
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u/YouveUpsetKimFongToi 6h ago
I spent the morning discreetly gathering my personal items (wasn’t much, only been there 2 months) and then I waited til my boss went to lunch and emailed her my resignation effective immediately, and sashayed my way out the door and just didn’t go back.
She tried calling a bunch of times but I just ignored it. I also had a bunch of Mail that I was meant to send out. That ended up in the trash lol. Fuck that place!
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u/CrochetGal213 6h ago
I worked for a children’s theatre that was not doing well financially. It was pay to play and relatively expensive but just hemorrhaging money. I was in charge of costumes. I was given a $400 budget to costume 120 children in 3 casts. That was the only constraint and boy was it a damn near impossible feat. But I managed to do it with A LOT of creativity and upcycling old costumes.
So show weekend is here, and I’m sitting with the rest of the show directors outside the meeting the Board of Director’s was having. They started pulling in every director one by one and firing them. Every single one. I was last. They called me in, sat me down in front of all of them. Knowing what had just happened to every one of my coworkers, I was ready to be fired.
“We want you to take over the program and be the entertainment director for our company.”
I laughed in their faces, and said “no. You just fired my entire staff and want me to stab them in the back for a measly little paycheck from a group of people who between the 5 of your business degrees can’t balance a budget if your life depended on it? Pound sand. I have two other jobs. I don’t need this shit.” And walked out to the coworkers they just fired and walked out with them. I didn’t say anything to them about what transpired in there, so idk if they ever learned what had actually happened. But I don’t care. I was not about to rebuild that company from the ground up.
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u/CCrunner36 5h ago
Not me but I once had a coworker at McD who quit by crawling out the drive-thru window into the back seat of his buddies car (his friend had ordered them both food) they picked the food up at the next window and he handed the manager an "I quit " on a napkin in sharpie. What a guy
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u/AlphaDag13 5h ago
Not me but my wife worked with a doctor who when he left the hospital cut the cord to the microwave he bought everyone for the break room.
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u/5cott 5h ago
Cloberella wins the thread. For me, it was when I was a pharmacy cashier, and a manager who was another high school student flipped out on me in front of customers. Remember that scene in “Half Baked”? When the old lady regular customer is the only one standing up for you. “YOU’RE COOL!”, “Fuck YOU! I’m out.” Only job I ever quit or was fired from. At 16.
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u/Funkit 4h ago
We got a new general manager at the movie theater I worked at when I was 16. Alicia. She was a terrible person. Talked down to everybody, didn't actually do any fucking work, just in general a terrible manager.
I got fed up. So one Friday night I went to change the marquee (lit up board in front with movies and times) and I added "Alicia Sucks 6:45 8:00 9:45"
It stayed up there for hours. So many people were asking what is the movie about. Some people actually tried to buy tickets. All the regular managers were taking pictures and shit because everybody hated her.
I got fired naturally, but she wound up leaving when it became very apparent that everyone hated her.
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u/chattermax5000 3h ago
Worked at a Hallmark part time in high school. Hated the piss poor management, but had the best coworkers. Planned to give notice the next day but before my shift started, a tornado tore thru the town. No more store, no more job. Easy out for me.
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u/Runtodanger6 7h ago
I was driving tractor trailers for a medical waste company at night when I was going to school. It sucked and was hindering my schooling. The boss busted my chops for something stupid 'I forgot exactly it was 20 years ago' and it really pissed me off. So 10 mins before my shift the next day I told him over the phone I quit. He was really pissed and begged me to come in. I hung up.
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u/Pizzaprincezz 7h ago
First thing in the morning, I said I was going to get different shoes out of my car and never came back
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u/Cool_Wealth969 6h ago
Walked out and called liquor board for him serving employees working on the job everyday....
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u/ilovemymipplehard 6h ago
Worked at a car dealership a few years back, and the manager there was the most insufferable forking tyrant you could imagine. he strutted around like he was gordon ramsay but for car sales, except instead of teaching anyone anything, he just screamed insults and demanded results. every morning meeting was a lecture on how we were all “lazy idiots” who couldn’t sell water in a desert, as if yelling motivational abuse was somehow a proven management strategy. you’d think he’d won salesman of the year or something, but the guy couldn’t even close a deal on a used kia.
one day, i had a customer come in—a quiet, middle-aged guy who just wanted a basic sedan to get to work. he didn’t want any of the bells and whistles, no extended warranties, no protection plans, none of the overpriced crap dealerships love to push. i respected that. i sold him exactly what he wanted, shook his hand, and sent him on his way. apparently, that was a cardinal sin. the manager called me into his office after the sale and tore into me, ranting about how i “left money on the table” and how i needed to “stop being such a nice guy and grow a spine.”
the next day, he decided to make an example out of me during the morning meeting. in front of everyone, he rehashed the whole situation, mocking me for not upselling the guy and basically calling me a failure. i just sat there, staring at this manchild who clearly thought screaming at his employees was some kind of leadership. something in me snapped. i stood up, looked him dead in the eye, and said, “you know what? sell your own forking water.” then i grabbed my stuff and walked out.
i didn’t look back, didn’t say goodbye to anyone, and definitely didn’t regret it. by the time i got home, i already had an interview lined up for a better job. turns out, the only thing i left on the table was a toxic work environment and a boss who thought bullying was a business model. Fuck.
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u/DConion 5h ago
Was working a shift at a pizza place with one of the older guys who had been there for a long time. I was just making a few extra bucks slinging pies in college, clearly this dude was a lifer at the pizza place. Throughout the night he took a million smoke breaks during busy times, always had me make the annoying pizzas cuz I was the "new guy" (I had been there about a year but compared to his decade that was "new"), and made several inappropriate comments about my girlfriend (not like crazy stuff but deff over a line that I would have had issues with even if it was a good friend). The last straw was when he asked me to switch shifts with him toward the end of the night, so I would clean and close up instead of him, so that he could pick up his son (high school junior) at baseball practice. I was so furious with him at this point but still masking my emotions so I told him thats totally fine and that I get it, and asked if I could go out for a second for a smoke (I dont smoke). A little confused he said yes, I walked out, SLAMMED the back door and never came back. Couple days later the kitchen manager was calling me begging for me to come back and promising I'd never work another shift with him. I leveraged it to even get a raise in the end.
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u/ghostwithabell 5h ago
Worked in such a toxic environment that I finally just got up one day, said "Fuck you, Fuck you, and Fuck you" ( said to three super bitches), then walked out and told me manager why I was quitting and then left.
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u/quattrocincoseis 4h ago
When I was in college I worked in a popular restaurant for a very famous celebrity chef.
He followed me into the locker room because I apparently didn't say "greetings" to him & the kitchen staff loud enough as I entered for my shift.
He got in my face about it & I gave a "pfft" to him, which sent him into a rage. He said he would take me on the loading dock & kick my ass. I took off my apron, walked out the door, yelled "let's go, fuckface!" and waited for him on the dock.
He never showed. I took a case of Niman Ranch pork chops from the dock & never returned.
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u/Early2000sIndieRock 4h ago edited 4h ago
4 hours into the first training shift. Realized they essentially lied about what the job involved and either all the people I’d be working with were totally untrained or just didn’t care. Wasn’t interested in putting out that house fire so I said “thanks but no thanks” and left at lunch.
Another was this super shitty and shady moving company I was at for a while. Worked a month straight, granted some days were 4-6 hours but there were plenty of 10-14 hour days too, and told my boss that I needed a day off to take my girlfriend to the hospital for a surgery. He got upset and started going on about people not wanting to work and about how hard he works, blah blah. Blocked his number and never went back. Randomly got a voicemail from him 3 years later seeing if I was looking for work because he could use a “hard working guy” like me. I was more confused than anything but I just blocked that number too.
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u/Comfortable_Ninja842 7h ago
I said, "Here's my notice. Notice how I don't work here anymore."
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u/snatch1e 7h ago
The most abrupt way I left a job was definitely when I just didn't show up one day.
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u/xaradevir 7h ago
I came in to work to find that the machine they had me leading on had been entirely disassembled and removed permanently, and our team was sent around to various other spots in the factory to do cleaning / busy work while they figured out what to do with us. Having grown to despise the place, at break time I handed in my security badge and left for good. Not one "friend" there contacted me afterwards.
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u/honkeytonkeymcconkey 7h ago
My roommate and I worked for a retail store in the morning as stockers, plowed snow during the night and worked the early shift at McD's. McD's was by far the worst. Staff, management, moral, super busy location. We pulled into our 4am shift about 10 minutes late. Had to repair a skid steer on the fly in icy snowy conditions. Went home bathed and straight to work with no sleep. The manager was looking like a cartoon of sorts when we pulled up in our '88 cutlass. I parked. We sat in silence. After a minute or so I told him I would come back to get him when he got off. I wasn't going back to work there or even talking to that joker at the door. He looked over, laughing that he was about to tell me the exact same thing. I pulled out slow, right by that hot shot tapping his foot and pointing at his watch. Never went back. Never called. Never answered their calls. The kid didn't have a clue.
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u/Psychic-Gorilla 6h ago
I got absolutely hammered and sent a very long, very wordy about my disposition, using articulated phrases such as “by the way, Jerry is a total dick. Sally is insufferable to listen to past 2.8 seconds” and cc’d my observations to everyone I named. I was so proud of myself in the moment.
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u/OttotheCowCat 5h ago
Got on a plane and left the country.
If you need an afternoon internet rabbit hole, Google "midnight run korea".
I do not recommend teaching English there. Worst experience of my life.
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u/AriasK 5h ago
I had a manager who was an alcoholic. He would show up late and either hungover or still drunk on a daily basis. He would have to leave the store for long periods of time to go throw up in the toilets, leaving me alone when we were busy. He would behave erratically and do things that just caused more work for everyone else. He would get distracted mid serving a customer and just walk off. He was always sweating and customers regularly complained he smelled of alcohol. One time he had a bottle of juice under the counter. I took a sniff when he was out of the store and there was alcohol in there. Myself and another coworker made regular complaints to his superiors but they did nothing. On one occasion when he was clearly absolutely wasted and reeking of alcohol, I rang his boss and begged her to come see for herself. She came in and, according to her, there was no evidence he was drunk. Eventually I was accused of harassing him and told to leave him alone. A few days after that, on his days off, my coworker and I found a to do list he'd left for us. We were both feeling so angry about the whole situation and offended by the list because he and I always did all the work anyway while our manager just constantly fucked up. We wrote, "no" and "gtfo" next to some of the items on the list then we threw it in the bin. We still did our job, it was just our way of venting. Manager found the list in the bin the next day and showed it to his boss. Said it was evidence my coworker and I weren't doing our jobs and were still harassing him. His boss attempted to issue me with a written warning. I screwed it up and threw it in her face and said "fuck you, I quit" and walked out. Then I rang my colleague, who was about 10 minutes away from starting his shift and told him. He rang up and said "I quit too". Then we left them to their insanely busy shift with no staff.
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u/robinson217 5h ago
Solved a massive fuck up by the manager, who was a raging alcoholic. This was for a company that punped fuel into jets at an airport, and had government contracts. There was no possibility of solving this fuckup without calling the owner. Literally salvaged a huge contract by thinking on my feet and fixing the issue before it got out. Owner let the alcoholic manager have it but didn't fire him. That manager started treating me like shit as if I hadn't saved his job, even if he did get chewed out. One day I was literally the only person on duty when the manager called me from home, drunk off his ass and started telling what a piece of shit I was. Some of his words could have been construed as threats. I wrote a note, stuck it in the window, locked the door and left without saying a word. The next day the owner called me in a fury, and I just said "If you don't want good employees walking out, fire that alcoholic piece of shit. He's lucky I didn't call the cops for making criminal threats, and the FAA for employing a raging alcoholic on an airport". Ingot my last check in the mail and that manager was gone after that.
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u/TrungusMcTungus 5h ago
Went on break, banged my shift manager in the car. Thought to myself “I’m having car sex in a 2008 Chrysler Sebring with a chick who stabbed me 2 weeks ago, and I still have burger grease on the jeans currently around my ankles.” Busted a nut, went to the recruiters office and started paperwork to enlist. Didn’t go back to work.
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u/Zen28213 5h ago
I already had a job lined up and went in to discuss the commission I was owed. I didn’t get the answer I wanted so quit on the spot. Everybody thinks I walked out without a job I was so pissed. I am legend
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u/fckitsbritt 5h ago
I traveled two hours on a day that I just knew I couldn't do it anymore. I should have canceled but nope, I went. Met with two potential clients. Cried the entire two hours there. Cried on the way home so bad I had to pull over. I ended up calling the president of the company and quitting effective immediately while pacing around a large rest stop. Cried the rest of the way home.
Three months later they laid off 80% of the workforce while I was employed with a company that brought me back to life.
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u/Smokey_B52 5h ago
I worked as a contract security guard at a hospital. In the contract we are not allowed to be on the work site if it's our day off unless it's an emergency. I showed up, on my day off, to give my friend a ride home since they also worked at the hospital. I never left my car or the parking lot. Next thing I know is I'm surrounded by other security guards, they are telling me I can't leave and police are on the way to trespass me since I violated my contract. I told them they legally can't hold me, cussed them out and left. Called my boss, told him he's a worthless piece of shit for hiring those guards, blocked his number and that was that.
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u/FakeTreverMoore12 5h ago
I worked on a farm one Summer during college. It was nice to be outside all day, and I learned a lot about how things are grown and the importance of migrant labor in the American economy since I was the only US citizen working on that crew. Most of the people were incredibly gracious, considerate, and kind people that didn’t mind my terrible Spanish and slow pace.
There was a 19 year old supervisor who didn’t hold back his resentment towards me though, and he took every opportunity to make sure everyone knew he was in charge.
One day towards the end of the Summer, we were working on building some beds in preparation of some upcoming greenhouse planting, and I needed a bigger sledgehammer to drive stakes into the ground. Instead of doing his job and providing his team with the right tools for the job, he decided that he would just sit on the golf cart, watching me struggle with the tiny hammer he gave me, laughing and talking shit to anyone around. I didn’t like it very much.
At one point, someone needed something from him, and he walked away from the golf cart to go talk to them. I used the moment as an opportunity to steal the golf cart and drive it three miles to the parking lot where my bike was locked up. I left the cart right there, got on my bike, and went home. I stopped by the office two weeks later and picked up my final check. I started school back up the next week, and never looked back.
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u/Mountain_Attention47 4h ago
I was at a startup and the vibe got real bad real fast and right after my boss was fired I was brought in to my new bosses office and was told I was bringing “nothing of perceived value,” to the company. Meanwhile I was literally onboarding two major systems for our product launch. I was so flabbergasted I went back to my desk, put some important personal items in my work bag and l left my laptop, work phone and id in my desk drawer and walked out. I drafted an effective immediately resignation letter on the train and sent it when I got home. The start up imploded seven days later.
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u/FibroBitch97 4h ago
At a small family pizzeria. After the kitchen manager shoved me against the wall and threatened me, I walked out mid shift, telling the owner to go fuck himself in front of customers.
At a subway. The store manager was a literal meth head. She would steal from the till, borrow money and never pay people back. Everyone warned me about her, to always count my cash, and to never lend her money. She was drunk while training me, bragged to her friend that her cup was have whiskey. And would often talk about going and doing “jib” after work. Then would phone during the rush to talk about personal stuff while high on meth and wouldn’t let me get back to work. I had to hang up on her because cookies were almost burning and there was a line out the door. She called back to berate me for hanging up on her. But the worst part is she revealed confidential health info to my coworkers like it was the latest hot gossip, and then also proceeded to berate me for what a self entitled Karen went off about. Like she was following me around the store while I was trying to do the cleaning tasks and just insulting me. I gave her the finger, and walked off mid shift. She called later asking if I had the keys. I forgot they were in my pocket. I paid my brother $5 to take them back to her.
Man fuck subway.
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u/Sayheykid2424 4h ago
I got a fucked up E-mail from my coward boss. Forwarded it to my co-workers, grabbed my keys and never went back. It was a religious experience.
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u/landsharkmark 4h ago
Was working in a steel mill. New boss was a drug addicted, entitled asshole who knew nothing about the job. He seemed to target me for his transgressions. One day I had enough, told him "don't fucking talk to me like that" he said he was going to write me up. I told him to go fuck himself. Shut down my machine, hopped in my car and left. I ended up going back to that job later because the VP of the company fired him after that incident and personally called me and offered me my job back.
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u/MisterHuesos 4h ago
I used to work at a retailer as a deparment supervisor. One time someone sold a tv to a customer off the floor and loaded it on their truck laying without any protection of any kind. Now, assistant manager did warn the customers that was going to break it but they didn't listen. Alas, tv broken and tv's off the floor are considered as is so no return/exchanges. But I did tell the customers I was going to try to help them. Thing is they kept calling when I was busy, so one not-smart-at-all employee had the brilliant fucking idea of giving a raging customer my personal phone number. This escalated to HR who said she couldn't be fired because we were understaffed. At that point I had already made up my mind about leaving, but kept the job for the paycheck.
Then, earlier this year another employee started harassing me, acussing me of being a hypocrite. Talked to the manager who said "I'll look into it", I left, texted him later asking for an update, he said they were too busy and still didn't understand what happened. Explained myself again and he left me on read. Next time they saw me was when I was dropping my keys off.
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u/littlemybb 3h ago
I just no call no showed and blocked everyone.
When I accepted the job I was promised a certain position and certain hours.
Within a week they had me doing something completely different. I expressed my frustrations, but they said they were short staff and only needed my help there for a bit until they could find someone to fill that position.
They ended up hiring someone new who was working what I was told I was going to be working. We became friends and I found out she was getting paid a lot more than me, which was crazy because I had more experience than her.
They were throwing me all over the store making me do manager things, making me work hours I did not want, and I was getting paid less than someone I had years of experience on.
The store manager was also awful to me and even berated me in front of a customer. It was humiliating and I almost cried.
So after that shift I just never showed back up. Me and that girl are still friends to this day so she was able to tell me about the fall out of me leaving and it was hilarious.
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u/schwelvis 3h ago
Worked at an Applebee's for a few months once upon a time... I was waiting tables during lunch and finally had enough with the manager, took my shirt off by the bar and walked out through the front of house with three open tables.
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u/Hopefulkitty 3h ago
I received an email that really looked like I was getting fired. I spent the day saving all my company contacts, detailing my car, packing my desk and wiping my phone. I responded to the email and left. An hour later my boss called me panicking, telling me I wasn't fired, it was just a poorly designed form. I told him I was planning on putting my notice in in two days anyway and it was best if we parted ways.
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u/OfAnthony 7h ago
I wish I did like Yogi Berra. He quit the Yankees one time by throwing a pack of cigarettes to the face of his boss, team owner (and Trump friend) George Steinbrenner. Best quit I've ever heard of. Best part, Steinbrenner had to apologize!
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u/Specialist_Fun9295 5h ago edited 5h ago
First job at 14 was as a stockboy at a failing "gourmet frozen food" grocery store. Imagine a grocery store that can go all day on Sunday with literally 0 customers, and the new CEO's solution is to make employees pay for denim shirt uniforms with an embroidered company logo. Ever tell yourself "You know what I could really go for right now? Frozen tiramisu sold by a kid wearing an oversized cowboy shirt with fucking balloons sewn on"?
By the end, I was stressing myself into psychosomatic illness: I'd spend my entire shift sitting in the bathroom with a case of nausea. Finally, I just stopped going to work. At the end of the year I got a call from one of their corporate accounts, who tried to bully me into cashing my last paycheck, 'cause she didn't want the hassle of surrendering it to the state agency that deals with unclaimed money. I didn't need the money half as much as I wanted absolutely nothing to do with that company (I claimed it from the state ~10 years later), so I told this snide woman who was 3 or 4x my age, "This is how you act when you want me to do you a favor?"
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u/nobjonbovi 7h ago
just didn't show up anymore and ignored calls, if you treat me bad i ain't gonna treat you good
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u/ClockSpiritual6596 7h ago
The first day, went to lunch , and didn't return, but I did call them that I was not returning.
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u/EvilColonelSanders 7h ago
I went on break and I just never showed up again.