OH YEAH? WELL I QUIT!!

[arwalden]

Have you ever just up-and-quit a job without giving notice? Was it dramatic? You know... name calling, shouting, door slamming, tears?

There have been times when I would have liked to, but ya never know when you might need a reference. Besides... unless you already have another job lined up, who can actually AFFORD to quit in anger on the spur of the moment?

-- Allen

[ewagner]

1. Yep!

Ten years of anger and frustration exploded when confronted with one last act of managerial stupidity.............

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. I did--- once.

It was quite satisfying, but thankfully I wasn't dependent on the income from the job.

[City Lights]

3. I did. Once.

A long time ago, when jobs were easier to come by. It felt great to basically tell them to fuck off, so yes, it was dramatic.

[giant_robot]

4. Only once

I was working at a Pizza Hut delivery with a real a**hole manager when I was in college. I think that was a bridge that could be safely burned.

[jus_the_facts]

11. Oh hell yeah....they were one that I said FUCK YOU too when I left....

....asshole tried to justify me workin' off the clock...I told him...maybe other imbiciles who don't understand their RIGHTS might listen to you and comply..but FUCK YOU...I QUIT! :eyes:

[giant_robot]

19. I wasn't quite that dramatic.

I won't eat one of their pan pizzas to this day. (I'll spare everyone the gross details.)

[redqueen]

5. No

I've never been financially secure enough to do that. Always have to have a job lined up before I quit the old one.

[democracyindanger]

6. Yep

In a bar, drinking with my immediate boss, also a friend. He told me that I'd had a few and should sleep on it. Went in the next morning and said, "I still quit."

Damn, it felt good. Didn't burn any bridges though.

[Wickerman]

7. I quit with no notice once

with no prospect for a job. It was a crappy college job that turned full time. I asked for Christmas off as my dad was coming to visit and I hadn't seen him for two years. I had seniority. Of course, I was scheduled for Crhistmas eve and Christmas day. They were screwed for Christmas - had to bring in manangement to cover my shift - then were equally pissed when I filed for unemployment. No way I would win, but I enjoyed them having to send management to 3 meetings and tying up their resources.

[MsAnthropy]

8. I did it--and LOVED it

I never quit without having another job lined up first, but that 15 minute notice I gave the last place felt incredibly good. They were mean to me and deserved it. I just "I'm outta here!" and left with a big grin on my face.

[Taxloss]

18. Feels great, doesn't it?

I remember grinning like a moron.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. No. At worst I just didn't show.

I take that back. There was this one time I took a part-time job telemarketing for what turned out to be a ministry of some sort. I lasted ten minutes, and told them I just wasn't comfortable soliciting for them. And yes, I was that polite.

[SmokingJacket]

10. I did.

I said "Fuck you" to my boss and stormed out.

I don't even remember why, now, but my boss was a pain in the ass.

He needed me and my phone was ringing when I got home. He begged, begged, begged me to come back.

I did for a while, then I quit for good.

Saying "FUCK YOU" to a boss is quite cathartic, I must say!

[asthmaticeog]

12. I've done it.

It felt SO good. It wasn't in angry tell-off form, though, I just quietly collected my stuff and split, knowing I was fucking my boss over royally in so doing on a production day. It was such a horrible gig that I didn't really care about the income - it had reached that point where fear for my health and sanity became more important.

I had a better-paying job with a competitor in less than a week, and I'm still at that job, six years later. The place I quit went out of business two weeks after I bailed.

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[radwriter0555]

13. Yes. I just packed up my personal effects and quietly walked out

and told Jerome that if he wanted me to take the kind of aggravation he was dishing out, he'd have to pay me an additional $250 a week.

He called me less than 3 hours later and accepted my offer.

[arwalden]

17. So... What Happened Next??

Did you go back? Did he make good on the extra pay? How long did it last beyond that?

Or did you use the chance to reject him TWICE in the same day?

[radwriter0555]

36. No I went back and worked for him for another year or so until his money

REALLY ran out.

He wasn't a bad guy; we just had this brother/sister fighting thing going on.

He also knew no one else would put up with his shit, and that he really needed me for the project we were working on.

[AlCzervik]

14. Yes, i worked for an ogre and quitting was one of the best days at that

office. the only that made it better was when i was contacted by the state AG to testify against her and the company.

[underpants]

15. Are you kidding I had 9 W-2's on year in the 80's

NINE!

[Taxloss]

16. Yes, I have. After one week.

Miserable job, horrible people, lousy company. I stood up from my desk and said "I can't do this. I quit."

I was ushered into a side office by a manager and talked to for a bit - I remained completely calm and polite - and then walked out of the building. At 11am.

[Skittles]

20. my brother did

he had been terribly upset over outsourcing - said he was sick over having to train foreigners who eventually took his coworkers' jobs. The day they told him to lay off a woman he had worked with for twenty years - a lady with a disabled husband and child - he yelled FUCK YOU, YOU DO IT and walked out. After 25 years on the job.

Sadly Glenn passed away in November; he was a nice guy and wasn't cut out for the cutthroat world of IT.

[fluffernutter]

21. he was a really nice guy.

:hug: good for him. and hugs to you.

[Skittles]

22. he kept saying why don't they lay me off instead of people with families

it just tore him up. Very sad to be with a company that long and watch it descend into hell. That lady was at his funeral just balling her eyes out. :(

[fluffernutter]

31. i bet she was.

:cry: just reading your stories about him makes me cry, and i didn't even know him like she did. he was lucky to have a sister like you who obviously loved him very much.

[terrya]

23. That's a fantasy of mine. But I'm way too cautious to do it.

I have to have a job lined up even to give notice...

T

[Book Lover]

24. No, but once

when I was younger and stupider I told a boss that I had to leave because my mother was terminally ill and wanted to travel to Ireland before she passed on... I was hired at the start of the summer, and rather than being honest (I was going back to school) I told that ridiculous fib.

[Karenina]

25. Three times.

Each time I was called and asked to return and refused. No job lined up- didn't matter. Once I "snapped" it was time to move on. Next. No regrets.

[trof]

26. Yep.

I said "Life is too short and this job just isn't worth it."
So they promoted me.
Go figure.

[HEyHEY]

27. Yup - but the guy somehow convinced me to stay

I quit again two weeks later.

[Der Blaue Engel]

28. I did

I set my asshole boss up with two of my coworkers. The three of us all went to work for a former employee (and girlfriend) of our abusive boss after he fired her. We were able to set our own hours (the only reason anyone ever took or stayed at that job...that and the pay, which at $6/hour to start was twice what anyone else in Tucson was paying at the time...how sad) so we worked both jobs, biding our time until Asshole pushed us and threatened us (it was his favorite thing to do, to bully his "victim of the day," call them stupid in front of everyone and threaten them with being fired). One by one, we waited until he chose us as the day's victim and after he was done with his pompous rant, we told him off and walked out.

I was the last one to leave, and he never suspected I was in on it because I had worked for him longer than anyone, until I told him, as I was calling him an asshole, where we were all working now. Never had more job satisfaction than I did that day. :)

[Maddy McCall]

29. Yes, a coworker and I had had miscarriages within a week of each other...

when we returned to the job, we ran into each other in the hallway and hugged and cried for a moment.

Asshole new engineer walked by and said, and I shall never forget this, "What is this? A lactation convention?"

She and I both looked at each other and then at him...he had already sexually harrassed me, and I had complained, but nothing had been done. I had had enough. I went to the boss's office, told him what the engineer said, and told him this was the last fucking straw, and if he wanted women to work in his office, he'd better attend to federal workplace laws. I said that it would be my last fucking day, and I promptly got my shit and left.

[MuseRider]

30. Once.

I overdrew my account when I was in school so I took a part time job at a Taco Tico just until I earned enough to get myself back on the positive side. I was there my first day for about 2 hours when the manager pulled me into the freezer and tried to put his hands up my shirt. I smacked him so he locked me in. When he let me out I screamed at him, quit and left. The cops thought it was funny, it was 1972 and women did not count yet for much. So my brother and his friends made a little visit there the next night. I got paid for one whole day but I never went in to pick up the check since the manager was the one that had my check. It felt good to call him a bastard.

[Solly Mack]

32. Yes. Walked and never looked back

No goodbyes, no nothing....

[furrylitldevil]

33. Yep, it was very liberating

The company was going under anyway. Even if I didn't already have a job lined up I wouldn't have had a reference in the future, anybody could see the writing on the wall.

[SOteric]

34. In my extreme youth, and not since.

I worked as a teenager, counter help at a dry-cleaning and laundry service.

The owner was a slime-bag who looked down on me for being ethnic and seemed to think his inheirant superiority entitled him to access to my undergarments.

I quit in a flaming storm of epithets hurled with razor-like precision in the presence of his girlfriend.

My father sat me down and applauded my sense of pride and personal esteem, but reminded me of the importance of not burning one's bridges. Then he sent my two older brothers over to have a 'polite' conversation with the man. He paid my remaining wages and a month's severence, and has crossed streets to avoid me ever since.

[RetroLounge]

35. Yeah, I did it once, when I was 16

Working 50 hours and going to High School got to be a bit much. Had to astudy for exams, so when the manager told me I had to stay late (once again) I told him no, I had to study. I turned to walk away, and he grabbed my arm to stop me. I spun around and decked him good. He went down like a sack of bricks. I enjoyed it. He was a dick.

RL

[Dzimbowicz]

37. Nope, I have never done that

however, I did stand up and applaud when my former boss announced his retirement.

[AccessGranted]

38. Sometimes You Have To Just Up and Quit - I Did

I worked for a lawyer as a paralegal and he was really stressed and his workload was way too heavy. We were both working like 70 hours a week. One day HE made a mistake and I caught it. When I pointed it out to him, I guess he was insulted because the conversation went as follows when I pointed out the mistake:

Attorney: I'm the F'ing attorney here.

Me: Yeah and I'm the F'ing paralegal.

Attorney: Did you just curse at me?

Me: Yes, because you cursed at me first.

Attorney: So just shut up and do what I tell you to do.

Me: You know you really need to stop cursing at everybody.

Attorney: Well, at least they have the common sense to be humble when I curse at them.

Me: Being humble is a luxury I cannot afford around a personality such as yours.

Attorney: We can't work together anymore. You're over-stepping. You have two weeks find to another job.

Me: Do you think I actually want to work with you for another two weeks? I quit!

Attorney: No, you're fired.

Me: Whatever. You can go F yourself. Now please get out of my face so I can pack my stuff.

(He went in his office, slammed the door and started throwing things up against the wall. I packed my stuff and left).

NO LIE - TRUE STORY!

[Hubert Flottz]

39. Many Many Many Times!

"If it feels good...DO IT!"

My tombstone will read:

Here lies old Hubert, he never kissed ass, he always kicked ass!

I always stayed on jobs because I worked hard and knew how to do what I did! I figured if that was not enough I didn't need to be there! I tried being the boss and I could handle it, until it came to putting the shaft to someone! I even defended people I didn't like! Most of the time I was the union rep on the job, so I went toe to toe with the bosses without much fear of being fired! Heavy construction is dangerous, dirty, cold, hot, hard work and the people who bust their asses and produce should be treated with just as much respect as any boss on the job!

I always gave out the same type or amount of respect as I got from the people I worked for! Many times I had to do without things because of my attitude, but I've never felt much guilt over something I did or said to anyone at work! To me a day at work is like a day anywhere else! My rule of thumb was do unto others, the "same shit" as they do unto you! Some things mean more to me than money and that I could or would never change!

Edit: Thank Gawd I never had to spell for a living!