Typical "not me but" story ...

Person was helping a customer, who was not being nice at all. My coworker is generally a patient fellow, which is part of why managers would send the doozies to him.

I don't know the full context, sadly, or exactly what was said, but as this woman was droning on about how disappointed she was, how he is doing nothing for her, how she has been so inconvenienced by this, he is taking his work shirt off.

As he's folding his shirt and waiting for her to finish her sentence, he lets her know that her, and people like her, who come in just to have a sound board to b***h at, are why he is quitting right now, in the middle of her session. She can go f**k herself, and that was it.

Great dude, but they couldn't keep him after talking to someone like that. He was done, anyway.

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Long story, the only kind I know how to tell it seems.

When I was 18 I was working at a gas station. Overall I liked the job. I met a lot of cool people, work wasn't too hard, most of the coworkers were tolerable. The place was usually busy since we were about half a mile outside of a huge Air Force Base (made the days go quicker).

My biggest issue with the place was the manager. She was lazy, incompetent and only cared about the sales numbers and labor costs so she'd always have just one person scheduled to a shift. She'd come in, do her paperwork and go, never bothering to help with stocking or cleaning. The only time she cared about those things is when the District Manager came in, then she'd throw us under the bus saying we refused to stock or follow her cleaning schedule.

It's really hard to clean and stock when you're the only person on shift and you have a line 5-8 people deep for hours. The shift before you can't do their duties because they're stuck behind the register the whole time so your shift is spent doing what they couldn't do and the next shift spends their time doing what you couldn't get to.

One day (my last day) the manager and DM come in right as the lunch rush is dying down. I'm trying to finish what the previous shift couldn't so the place looks like hell and everything needs to be stocked.

The DM comments on the state of the store and like expected the manager starts saying how we're lazy and always take advantage of her then starts talking s**t about me to the DM with me standing right there trying to get things caught up.

It pissed me off but I kept my cool and calmly told her it wasn't very professional to talk s**t about employees, especially in front of them and especially when they aren't being set up to succeed. Her response was "what do you know about being a manager? If you don't like how I run this place then you know where the door is."

She turned around and started talking more s**t to the DM so I politely excused myself to get by them, went in the back, took off my smock and clocked out.

As I walked past them one more time, now without my uniform the manager asks where I thought I was going. All I could do is grin and say "We do listen to you sometimes. Like you said a moment ago, if I don't like how you run this place, I know where the door is". I then danced my way out of the store, never looking back.

Mildly interesting post script to that story. A few years later I went back to work for that same company in a different store and made my way up to manager. Unrelated, her carefully crafted illusion of being a good manager eventually came crashing down on her. She was demoted to assistant manager and relocated to another store to be retrained by the manager who had the highest sales of the region for that quarter. Who was that manager you might wonder? Me.

Yes, she remembered me. No, I wasn't an a*****e to her. I retrained her, she became better, got another store and we actually ended up becoming good friends.

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Worked at a place for a year and a half that was similar to Subway, but little more "healthier" in the sense of also having salads, wraps, smoothies, etc. The owners also had a sister-store that I would sometimes fill in at if needed, and i found out that their new-hires were making $1 an hour more than I was, so I went to the owners for a measly $1 raise, and was told "no" and some b******t story about "things being tight right now" and maybe soon blah blah blah......., which was b******t because the owners already took their 3rd vacation for the year.

Asked for a few days off, started another job, and when I came back, I gave them a 1 week notice (they were so pissed !).

But here's the good part of the story: A few months before I left, they hired a new manager and I'd help him with counting out the register and doing cash-drops to the bank after we closed. Well after I left and he was the only one handling all that, he started pocketing the cash to supplement his gambling habit and ended taking over $4,000 before they caught on to what he was doing. The owners also had to settle-up with the food distributers since he skipped out on paying them and they eventually quit delivering, so there went some more money out the door. Since they were too cheap to do a background test when they hired this manager, they found out that he had an extensive record and even did time in prison for arson. There was also no way of them recovering that money because their lawyer said it would cost them more to go after it .

And that's the story of how refusing a goddamn measly dollar an hour raise cost a restaurant thousands.

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This was a firing not a quitting, but anyway. I was working at a discount tire and one of my co-workers we'll call Bob was ranting to me because he got into a fight with his girlfriend the night before. This went on for a while and some nasty things were said and he was really getting into it. Meanwhile in the show room I saw her walk in and start talking to my manager immediately and then him getting immediately pissed. He walked out and told Bob to take his work shirt off and to get off the company property and to never come back.


So you might be asking what's so great about this? I'll tell you. Bob had worked the front desk one time the day before and helped a "smokin' babe" (what he called her). He wrote down her number and her name on a small piece of scrap paper that he pocketed. He sent her two texts both reading the same thing, "Hey, it's Bob from Discount Tire. I think you're pretty hot and want to f**k you tonight...". This is what the fight the night before was about since his girlfriend found out about it.


She gave him an ultimatum of either tell your Manager yourself or I will. He didn't so she showed up. Best part is that his car was under her name along so she had a friend drop her off so she could grab the car. Bob had f****d up his whole life with two texts, and then to salt the wound was forced to ride a city bus shirtless.

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I was 20 and had been working in a call center for just over a year. I was promoted to an assistant manager with a new compensation structure that was identical to the other assistant manager. Basically you got your wage, a very small % of the total office revenue, and then 10% of your own revenue from when you worked on the phone. My immediate manager and office supervisor gave me this without confirming it with the regional manager who was on a two month vacation in the DR.

When I got my first cheque after being promoted there was no bonus, I was told it would be corrected soon. When I got my second cheque after being promoted there was no bonus, I was told it would be corrected soon. When I got my third cheque after being promoted there was no bonus and I was told we had to wait for the regional manager to come back and authorize it. I was being paid weekly and worked another 4 weeks under the premise that I would get a lump sum when the regional manager returned. The problem was that I sold significantly more than the other office manager. The back pay had grown to such a large amount that when the regional manager did return he questioned why the office manager had given me this structure as he considered it to be too much money.

On my next cheque there was no lump sum and I was told that they were figuring out a new structure. My following shift I stayed home and got a frantic call from the Office Manager asking me why I wasn't at work. I told him I couldn't afford to go to work. He said why can't you afford it? Because I have been getting ripped off for two months, call me back when you have my money or don't call me at all.

Never did get paid

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I worked for the most insane, chauvinistic chef ever in his “fine dining” restaurant. I was just a grunt, which was unfortunate, given my training. This man tried to be Gordon Ramsay in that he always screamed at us, except it was never for any good reason. He would smoke pot and cigarettes in the kitchen and then proceed to dip and double dip breadsticks in all of the sauces. He was disgusting, but I really needed the work at the time. I had a UTI at one time; for the uninitiated, it is literally e.coli bacteria in your urinary tract. The doc told me to take a couple days while the antibiotics kicked in, because despite proper hygiene, anything can happen. Brought in my doctor’s note and he then proceeded to berate me, threaten to fire me and march down to the clinic and tell the doctor to f**k himself. That was enough for me. When I went back, I was armed with a pocket full of glitter and rage. Worked as normal, but the second he got in my face, I reached into my pocket and ever so gently blew a large handful of glitter into his face, smiled sweetly, said I quit and left. It was satisfying.

EDIT:did not mean to strike up a conversation about my chosen form of birth control.

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I told my manager who was a chronic liar that she was an absolute horrible human being and that I quit. She had forced out two employees that had serious medical issues which were making them be a "not perfect employee," and some how was getting away with it. It was a bank I worked at, and I had compiled the data of all the customers she drove away, and the bank had lost about 57million at this point because of this woman. She flipped out and was yelling loud enough that the people upstairs came downstairs to see how it was. And she kept yelling that i "threw a coffee mug at her." She ended up calling the police, but by the time they got there, I already had grabbed my s**t out of my desk and and left.



As I was saying, this was a bank, so the police when they were called and told to come to the bank, they assumed it was a robbery, and pulled up in full force. Thankfully, the response time was around 4 minutes, and i didn't have much in my desk to grab in a rage. I ended up going to the bar, getting p**s drunk, eating way too much food, and then having to have a meeting with the CEO / CFO Who wanted to know what happened. They ended up telling me what she had said to them, and how i was highly disrespectful, and threw a coffee mug and she was pressing charges for assault and battery. That the police wanted to question me. We ended up pulling the security tapes and watching them together after i told them exactly what happened, which was the truth. A cop showed up, they showed him the tapes, they called the woman, they showed her the tape, and asked why she would lie about it. And she basically said "I don't care what the camera's saw, I know what I saw."



At this point of my life i didn't even drink coffee. I was purely a dr pepper to the veins kind of guy. She didn't get fired though, they told me not to quit, and the next day they moved her to a different branch and gave me a raise. I worked it for a month while looking for another job, and quit without giving my two weeks. They called me for an exit interview and I told them they know exactly why I left.

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Was employed at a certain seafood restaurant that was Red. HATED that job more than any in life. The people were awful and management even worse. I hate corporate restaurants because they a*s kiss customers so much.

Well this one particular day I had a Karen in my section. Snooty right from the beginning we could get nothing right. The bread was too garlicky, too much Ice in her tea, the sweet tea was too sweet. Y’all know the type. Well She sent her pasta back because of she didn’t understand that it came with red sauce and not Alfredo. On the Second trip back to the table I brought her food back and this lady sighed, rolled her eyes and said “ I don’t know if you’re deaf or just stupid and started ranting about the new dish

Y’all Time slowed down I said to myself F**k this s**t I picked up the plate of food and just slowly dumped it in her lap. Untied my apron dropped it on the floor and just walked out while she was screaming and my manager was yelling.

I was then served with a trespass warning at my apartment later that week and banned from Working at any Darden Establishment.

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I worked for a company for over a year that was contracted to make deliveries for Amazon.

The vans they equipped us with were terribly maintained, and fully unequipped to handle winter weather. I worked with the company through their first winter, which meant sliding all over the road when it was icy and getting stuck constantly every time we had snow. I never had a major accident, though I did have 2 or 3 close calls where only minor damage was incurred to the van.

I decided to stick it out through the summer, when the weather was obviously much better. All summer long they promised us that new and better vans were coming. September rolls around, no vans. October, no vans. November, no vans.

That month we got our first real snow. I got back from my route and immediately put in my notice. My boss told me they would be getting new vans by the end of the year. I told her that was nice and walked

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Last job I quit, I put in my two weeks notice and then I came in every day and stayed a few hours late to help with the transition. On my last day I shook some hands, told everyone it was great working with them, handed in my kit and left.

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I posted this on another thread:

I worked at a sushi restaurant that had a really high turnaround rate. The reason why is because one of the owners was a huge b***h who loved to yell at people. I saw people come and go, most usually lasted only a few days. There was a sushi chef there that had been there for a while. He was pretty cool and we got along great when we worked together. His girlfriend also worked there as a cashier and a lot of times they were scheduled together.

One Saturday that I was supposed to be off, I get a call from Carol (the b***h boss) asking me if I could come in. Apparently Max and his girlfriend had had enough of her and they both just straight up left and walked out of the restaurant. The place was pretty small so usually it was just the cooks in the back, the sushi chef, and the cashier/delivery driver. So, when they left, they basically left the place empty aside from the cooks, who did not speak English that well.

I decided to take the shift for the extra money and when I got there Carol was already there behind the sushi prep area making orders. She usually didn't come in at all on weekends, but would still watch the security cameras occasionally from her laptop at home and if she saw you standing around doing nothing, she would call and yell at you. It turns out that was exactly what she did to Max and his girlfriend and they had finally had enough. Carol showed me the security footage of Max yelling at her over the phone, hanging up, then taking off his apron and both him and his girlfriend flipping of the security camera and walking out.

She was showing me because she couldn't believe how disrespectful they were and how they could just leave the restaurant like that when there were customers in it. Personally, I thought it was pretty badass they walked out together, I know I wanted to quit hundreds of times when I was there, but I was a broke college student that needed the money.

Last I heard of them was that they both got jobs at the sushi place that was competing with the restaurant they walked out on.

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My first proper job. The place was a hellhole (you could have had the work done by God himself and it wouldn't have been good enough) and I knew I wanted out.

I stayed for 8 months and handed in my notice to my manager.

Two weeks later, on my last day, my manager's manager called me into the office while my manager was off and started berating me because I'd (and this is no joke or exaggeration, these were his actual complaint), stapled an invoice with the staples at 45 degrees, not parallel to the long edge of the paper, highlighted the company address on a different invoice with a non-blue highlighter (we'd run out of them because he'd cheaped out on the stationary order) and without using a ruler, and my hole punches on that second invoice were a quarter inch too far up the paper (these guys were really OCD - a crooked hole punch was practically a whipping offence).

He then goes "I don't think this is going to work out between us, so I've decided to let you go". I just sat there and said, "Ok... you do know this is my last day anyway?"

He stops and just stares and goes "what?".

Apparently, my manager never told him that I handed my notice in, so he didn't know I was quitting. He then decided it was easier to put me on "gardening leave" for the rest of my notice period (all 3 hours of it) than to deal with the paperwork to fire me (they'd never given contracts of employment or anything, and they'd been so abusive and overworked us to such a degree that at one point he was standing in a road convincing me not to throw myself in front of a bus while my mother tried to get there), because if they'd fired me, I'd have probably taken them to court for breach of regulatory standards, paying less than the minimum wage and wrongful dismissal (in 8 months, they'd never found anything more wrong with my work than things like a wrongly coloured highlight or a comma instead of a full stop in a description, I had no written or verbal warnings or anything).

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Relayed to me by one of my buddies. Way back when we were still in HS my friend's coworker was getting fed up with the supermarket they worked in. It was a few towns over in a not so nice area and was right off the highway so that made it super busy and a lot of out of town commuters. He was going away to college and hated management. On his last day a woman walks up to his line and tries to brow beat him into taking a bunch of expired coupons. He tells her he needs to check with his supervisor and slowly pulls out a Jack in the Box from under his till and methodically places it on the scanner and just starts cranking the thing. When it finally pops he looks her in the eye and just says "Yeah, he said no". She flipped out and screamed for a manager while he just cracks up, takes off his smock and walks out.

Edit: Sent a link to my buddy who wanted to correct a few points. Apparently we were older than I remember (Freshmen in college). The guy who quit was a HS senior. Also, he said it wasn't as smooth as I made it seem. The person who quit had already told his friend/coworker (same HS I assume?) about his plan and they were both barely keeping it together.

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Put in a request for 2 week vacation, dropped by the store on day one of vacation and put in 2 week notice.

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Worked in an office supply store’s print and marketing department. Should have known the place was not good when the management tells me on day one that the last person who they hired for that position quit “unexpectedly” after a week. Very little/inadequate training, obscene workload, our legally required breaks were often discouraged or outright denied, lots of unnecessary stress/pressure, and management was very rude and inept. Y’know, all the hallmarks of a s****y workplace.

After about two whole months of this abuse, I finally resolve to quit. I write out a letter of resignation and a two weeks’ notice which I plan to give to management after my shift ends. Flash forward to midway through my shift: I’m desperately trying to clear an immense backlog of orders all while handling the entire department and the numerous current angry customers on my own, which was standard practice. There’s a lengthy line at the counter and several people are needing my help at the self-serve printers too.

It’s at this time my chief manager decides to come to me and ask me to print off next week’s schedule —a feat she can easily accomplish herself in her own office without me. I point out the obvious fact that I’m currently swamped, but I can do it for her if/when things have slowed down. She huffs impatiently in response and insists I do it right then, regardless of the other people I am currently helping. Something in me just snaps in the face of her childishness. “I’m afraid I can’t print the schedule off anyways, ma’am, as it will likely be incorrect. I’ll no longer be working here after today.”

The manager’s eyes went wide. “I’m gonna need that in writing.” she inhales. That’s when I handed her the resignation letter I had tucked away in my apron pocket (sans the two week notice, of course) which she proceeds to slam down on the counter in front of me. Let me tell you, the woman was seething. “Are you at least gonna stay here ‘til close?” I calmly responded that I intended to. And did.

That was the first and only day management made sure I got my legally required break. And the first time I ever heard them mention that they planned on hiring more people for that grossly understaffed department. Needless to say, I walked out of that place that night and never came back.

TLDR; Worked at a terrible place that was so bad I decided to quit on the spot instead of giving them two weeks’ notice like I had originally intended. Sometimes being the “bigger person” just isn’t worth it.

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Years ago I worked in construction for a company I didn't like. I was scheduled to go to school a few weeks before I was sent to a jobsite with a delinquent foreman (he was the son of another foreman and as soon as they gave him two sites to run he stopped showing up for work, always telling his guys he was at the other site... In the age of cell phones. It was the worst kept secret)

I knew I had a few weeks left and no intention of returning after trade school, so I looked through the materials and told him I had a week's worth of parts left, and he should get more so we could keep going. He didn't show up, even after a couple of reminders. So I stopped working.

The other apprentice was a buddy going to school at the same time, so he stopped as well and we hung out and shot the s**t for the last week. I was so frustrated with the company's complacent attitude I wrote "Because, We don't care!" in 4 inch tall block letters on the lunch table (a sheet of plywood, no real damage done)

On the last day we took every ladder in the job shack and opened them all up so you couldn't move. Opening the last one by reaching around the inward swinging door so that it tipped down and blocked the door once we had closed it.

Locked the shack and laughed all the way to school...

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I wasn't quitting the job in the traditional sense. i was in the Navy and in the days before my transfer I was kind of goofing off. You see, prior to a transfer to a new duty station, you have a lot of things to do. Back in those days you had to physically collect parts of your file and deliver it to the personnel office so it could be delivered to your new duty station. We had to arrange transportation and moving, etc. I tended to make the most of those appointments and when they were done, made my way to the beach rather than back to work.

This annoyed my Chief Petty Officer who was not fond of me in the first place. So, one morning he catches me in the office and starts yelling at me about how I'm a slacker and he knows I'm transferring but I still have a job to do and he's full on red-faced yelling at me about everything under the sun. When he finally winds up with "I expect you IN THIS SHOP DOING YOUR G-DANG JOB EVERY DAY UNTIL YOU CHECK OUT! Now. When do you check out?"

The fool.

"Today." I said and dropped my division sign out sheet on the desk.

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I work at a small local engineering firm owned by a husband and wife. They're fantastic bosses. A couple years ago, we had another husband and wife couple get hired to be drafters. They were pretty lazy employees - spent half they day watching YouTube. That kind of stuff. After about 6 months, the bosses go on vacation. The next day, the drafter couple come in and say today's their last day. They're moving about 8 hours away. Totally out of the blue. We were all like, "uh...ok..did you talk to the bosses? Did you give any notice??"

"Oh yeah we talked to them yesterday and gave two weeks notice, but they said to feel free and go ahead and move so we can get our kid settled in a new school before the new year starts."

"Alright, well good luck"

They worked maybe 3 hours but put a full day on their timecard. Then they sent out a company-wide email thanking everyone for being so nice to them while they were here, blah, blah, blah. It was touching. The next day, the bosses call and were like "what happened with so-and-so??" They had no clue. The email was the first they heard of it.

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I was just out of college and had got a "real" job, so when I had to quit the job I had been at for like a month, I wrote them an email and told them i was leaving to join Scientology in LA and to send my check to my mom at XXX address.

I knew I would never go back there or use them as a reference so I told them some off the wall story. It was stupid but I still laugh about it.

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A women who quit at my job walked the entire plant telling everyone "f**k you." Security and a few members of upper management just kind of awkwardly followed her around as she did it. Up and down stairs, across catwalks, through the locker rooms, through the business offices, and even the shipping and receiving docks. Everyone got a "..and f**k you.." except me and 2 others out of the 200+ employees.

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I had a job I really liked, and then my boss left, and we ended up with a new boss who was extremely unpleasant to work for. The stress of it started causing me health issues, and I needed time off for doctor appointments, which made the new boss even worse to deal with. The company I worked for was pretty cool and I started applying for other positions in the company. I thought I had one locked when I found out new boss went and bad mouthed me to potential new boss. Potential new boss was fairly new there herself, and didn't know me well. Most of the other people who did hiring actually had a good opinion of me, so I shook it off and kept trying. Finally got an offer in a different department I had a good rep with - and who had also had negative experiences with my new boss - who had in fact tried to lose me that job as well. So when I got the offer (after actually hugging my new boss) I asked if I needed to type up notice or how the transfer would work. He said because it was internal he had to negotiate with my current department head on my start date so he would tell that manager I had accepted the position and work that out. In retrospect, knowing how this boss was, I should have submitted notice when I knew the date, but I didn't. So things went on without my boss saying anything to me about the new job or my end date, and I didn't say anything either, because I considered it all worked out, and frankly I was doing my best to avoid interactions to keep my stress down. Well, one day when I'm like a week or two from leaving she assigns me to go to the resource scheduling meeting for our department, which means I'm going to schedule certain resources our department needs for the next 3 months. (Something the manager really should have taken over when they started, but didn't). I kind of laughed and said "You do realize your going to have to handle this yourself soon, right" and I get "I don't know anything of the sort, you haven't told me your leaving." I was kind of shocked, and practically shouted, "Oh! Well, I'm leaving!' And then I was told how unprofessional I was for not giving notice. I tried to apologize and explain that I was told by my new boss it wouldn't be an issue, but I just kept getting yelled at, so I walked away. When I showed up at the resource meeting, everyone was surprised to see me, because it made no logical sense to send the person from the department who was leaving, but whatever. I didn't screw her over, mostly because it would have screwed over coworkers I liked, and I didn't want to get a bad reputation for petty revenge, but it was ridiculous. I was so glad to get out from under that manager. My review upon leaving was not good, which followed with an excellent review from my new boss, which had the HR person a little baffled, but sometimes bad managers create bad reviews.

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Went through the new hire process, then showed up the first day for work. Saw the written schedule finally, I was scheduled 5 days per week, 3 hour shifts, so 15 hours total. This was when minimum wage was $5.15 US dollar. Finished that first shift and told them I wasn’t coming back.

Before anyone asks, I inquired about longer shifts and they told me ‘maybe on the next schedule we’ll try to give you a few longer days.’ That was enough for me.




Next one was at a fast food store. I got hired just before Halloween. Was already working at a Haunted House, and told the hiring manager that I couldn’t work Friday or Saturday night until after Halloween. She agreed, then I was promptly scheduled to close Friday and Saturday. Left early both days. The next weekend was the same thing, again left early both days. Manager was obviously not happy, but I wasn’t about to quit the other job and leave them short the weekend before Halloween. When I left Saturday night the schedule for Sunday wasn’t posted yet. As soon as I left she posted the schedule for me to open on Sunday. I got home from the haunted house about 4am. At 6am the day shift manager was calling asking where I was. I told her the story, she said to get there as soon as I could. I told her to f**k off, I’m going back to sleep, I’ll be in on payday to get my check.

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Worked with a real douche bag that wasn't technically my boss but was with the department for three years longer tan me. The dept. consisted of just he and I so we didn't have a whole lot of back up if one of us was gone. Well it came to my attention that I was doing about 75% of the work while he was on the internet with some girl most of the day. He was much younger than me an a know it all who thought he was a bad a*s. After about three years I decide the hell with this and plotted my departure. This 'co-worker' was scheduled to go on vacation for two weeks just before Christmas which was a busy time for our department. The day before he was due to leave on vacation I wrote the vice president a e-mail from home and told him what I thought of this piece of s**t and explained that if I wanted to work for a company like this I would move to North Korea. There is no way they would allow the guy to go on vacation without a backup so, well f**k you dude. Shouldn't have tried to take advantage of me. Take your vacation after you've trained a new guy. Should only take about six months.

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I had a position that was a year's contract. The year was coming up and I decided that I did not want to continue past the end date , so I told my boss (a complete moron) that I wasn't going to renew my contract. This was 6 weeks before the contract ended.

Starting from that day I was person non-grata in the office. I wasn't CC'd on any e-mails, not invited to any staff meeting, they had a "team building" event outside the office one day - I showed up for work and no one was there in my department ....they were all out "team building". I spent the whole day just reading a book, surfing the WWW etc.

On my final day, it was about 1PM and I was saying good-bye to people in other departments. The boss comes down and says "we need you in the office NOW"!

I used the phone to call someone and they said that they had planned a goodbye party for me ! After 6 weeks of being treated like shit, they wanted to make themselves feel good by giving me a cake.

I said no way - and snuck up to my desk (already cleaned out) and walked out the front door, got in my car and drove home.

Turns out they started paging me for about 30 minutes, then realized that I was gone and the boss got PISSED.

She decided NOT to send out my record of employment so I can collect unemployment insurance. I sent an e-mail to her boss, her boss' boss and the CEO explaining what she did and they had 3 days to get me my ROE and if it did not arrive with my final pay cheque, I would file a complaint with the government and see where it goes. It arrived via Purolator the next day....she was fired 2 months later.

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This is a re-post.

I had a position that was a year's contract. The year was coming up and I decided that I did not want to continue past the end date , so I told my boss (a complete moron) that I wasn't going to renew my contract. This was 6 weeks before the contract ended.

Starting from that day I was person non-grata in the office. I wasn't CC'd on any e-mails, not invited to any staff meeting, they had a "team building" event outside the office one day - I showed up for work and no one was there in my department ....they were all out "team building". I spent the whole day just reading a book, surfing the WWW etc.

On my final day, it was about 1PM and I was saying good-bye to people in other departments. The boss comes down and says "we need you in the office NOW"!

I used the phone to call someone and they said that they had planned a goodbye party for me ! After 6 weeks of being treated like s**t, they wanted to make themselves feel good by giving me a cake.

I said no way - and snuck up to my desk (already cleaned out) and walked out the front door, got in my car and drove home.

Turns out they started paging me for about 30 minutes, then realized that I was gone and the boss got PISSED.

She decided NOT to send out my record of employment so I can collect unemployment insurance. I sent an e-mail to her boss, her boss' boss and the CEO explaining what she did and they had 3 days to get me my ROE and if it did not arrive with my final pay cheque, I would file a complaint with the government and see where it goes. It arrived via Purolator the next day....she was fired 2 months later.

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