50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them

Most of us spend a lot of time thinking and planning before quitting a job. It’s wise to start applying at other companies first, and ideally, you'll have a new position lined up before deciding to jump ship. Plus, we’re all expected to provide our employers with at least two weeks' notice to be courteous. But if you’ve never felt respected by your boss, there’s no need to worry about the bridges you'll burn on your way out.

Employees on Reddit have recently been sharing stories of experiences that caused them to quit on the spot, so we’ve gathered some of their wildest tales below. Enjoy hearing about the straws that finally broke these frustrated employees' backs, and keep reading to find a conversation with Pamela Skillings, President and Chief Coach at Big Interview!

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Not me but a middle aged tradesman where I work.

I work underground and it isn't for everybody, terrible environment and what not. This particular individual starting working and after a few weeks decided that it wasn't for him. Bad conditions and hostile supervisor. He approached the boss at the morning meeting and told him that he wasn't going underground and that he was quitting. The boss told him that he had to give him 2 weeks notice and without missing a beat the guy replied: "for the next 2 weeks you're gonna notice that I'm not here", turned around, packed his s**t and left. Was never heard from again.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 5 months ago

I like that!

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Once as a teenager at a new job I got my hand smacked by the owner the first day because I was writing with my left hand. Walked out.

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Agfox 5 months ago (edited)

My Dad was born in 1917 & was left-handed. He told us that the teachers at his school used to smack him with a ruler whenever they caught him writing with his left hand. Eventually, he became ambidextrous but left school when he was 13

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them As a journalist I was once told to pretend to be a doctor to get access to people who had been hospitalised in a terrorist attack to get quotes from them.

Resigned on the spot and never worked as a journalist again from that day to this.

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Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

Now THAT'S integrity.

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To learn more about this topic, we reached out to Pamela Skillings, Co-Founder, President and Chief Coach at Big Interview, the #1 job interview training platform. Pamela was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and detail some of the reasons why employees might spontaneously quit.

"In my experience with coaching clients, people only quit on the spot when they have been pushed to their limit," she shared. "This could be due to months or years of a toxic boss or work environment or even due to a single wildly inappropriate incident."

50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Worked for a privately owned bakery for exactly 1 week. The owners son comes in, walks passed the counter and into the bathroom. He comes out a few minutes later without acknowledging me or my coworker, gets into his car and drives away. We both looked at each other then opened the door only to find this guy literally s**t all over the toilet seat and the toilet paper holder. I called the owner, told her what happened and she said to “Deal with it.” So I asked my coworker if she wanted to clean it up because I wasn’t going to. She declined and I told her I was walking out. She did as well. We locked up the store and told the owner we quit but would reconsider staying if her son came back to clean up his own mess. She yelled and berated us for 20 seconds before I said goodbye and hung up.

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TruthoftheHeart 5 months ago

Imagine expecting other people to clean up after your inept grown up sons s***!! I don't care if he was even special needs, its not their job.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I was already there 3 hours past the time my shift was supposed to end- along with everyone else who was on my shift. We were all very PO'ed. I get that you often have to stay after when you work in food service, but everyone from the next shift was already there and there was zero reason for us to be there for 3 extra hours.

Finally someone asked to go home and the manager started SCREAMING in the middle of the restaurant floor that, "JUST BECAUSE YOUR SHIFT IS SUPPOSED TO END AT 10 DOESNT MEAN YOU GET TO LEAVE THEN. I TELL YOU WHEN YOU GET TO LEAVE. YOU ARE ALL JUST NUMBERS ON A SPREADSHEET TO US, WE CAN REPLACE YOU IN A HEART BEAT IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE HERE."

So, I dropped all the money on the table in front of her and said "replace me then, f**k you."

Found out later that they lost damn near half their staff that night because most others followed my lead after.

There was a huge football game the next day right across the street from the place and they got to deal with that with no servers. I went to the game and had the time of my life lol.

It was a f****n IHOP.

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 months ago

I've worked for managers like this. It's like they were born angry.

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Walked in to the interview, everything went well, accepted the job offer.

Went to the front desk to do the paperwork and noticed that the contract had a different pay amount, and that I would be "interning" for the first month for $100/week. I asked first about the amount difference, was told "oh, this the standard contract, it just hasn't been updated for your specific offer." I told them they'd need to edit and initial the changes before I would sign. "Oh...that's not how things work here."

I thanked them for their time and left without signing anything. They called me back on the day I was supposed to have started asking where I was. I told them because didn't sign the contract, I was never an employee....hooo boy that was a fun call.

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Nitka Tsar 5 months ago

Delusional company

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Pamela noted that most people prefer to give two weeks' notice and leave on good terms, even if they hate their job. "But sometimes, patience and perspective run out," she says.

"I would always advise stepping away and taking at least a moment before giving in to the impulse to quit on the spot. In some cases, you may decide it's still the right move, but usually some space will allow for a calmer, more reasoned decision that benefits you more in the long term," the expert added.

And although Pamela has never quit on the spot herself, she admits that she's been tempted to! "Sometimes it helped to just take a walk around the block and imagine quitting with a dramatic exit line."

Going to the toilet pre-meeting to negotiate a raise I heard both directors of the company (small firm, everything ran through them) talking outside the window that they were going to flat out refuse any offers and "make the a*****e work overtime to prove his loyalty" and "he has no prospects anyway, where will he go?".

Entered the meeting with my signed and printed resignation in hand, slapped it on the table after sitting down and stood straight back up saying " meeting over".

I now work for a successful company, part of a brilliant team of 10 people, amazing pension, terrific bonuses and obtainable progression with a great work-life balance. Half day every single Friday til I die also.

If you're being mistreated at a job, overworked, underpaid, whatever it may be - Get your affairs in order and walk.

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Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

👏👏👏

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I got mugged on a delivery for dominos, and came back to the shop crying and panicked, had my phone, wallet, and pizza taken, told my manager what happened.
“Anon, are you hurt?”
“No, but I lost my phone and wallet, I need to call the police”
“No time for that, here’s your next delivery.”
(It was like 2 blocks from where I was just mugged)

I just went home, the police never really did much to get my phone and wallet back, not like they could.

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Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)

"Domino Pizza delivers!" - but not for their workers. I would have said "Next delivery? Sure!" and gone home with the pizza and eaten it there. What are they going to do? Fire me?

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them My grand-father, who I considered like a father, passed away after a long stay in hospital. We were closer than he was with his own kids, and our bond was quite special.

I spoke to my manager about getting the day of his funeral off, since I was organizing part of the arrangements, and having a day or two of bereavement leave, and he agreed.

The day of the funeral finally comes and the staff start calling me, leaving me messages asking why I'm not at my shift, and telling me, while I'm in a suit hosting family members at the funeral home, that I have to find someone to replace me or face repercussions.

Needless to say, I told them to figure it out, and never looked back.

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Lee Banks 5 months ago

Good for you. Shame on them.

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As painful as it may be to stick around for two more weeks, Pamela recommends giving your employer a heads up that you're leaving if it's possible without sacrificing your own best interests. "It's always better to leave on decent terms and maintain a professional reputation," the expert says. "A lot depends on your relationship with your manager and your experience at the company."

"If you've been treated well and know a sudden departure would put your team in a bad situation, give as much notice as possible," Pamela told Bored Panda. "If you haven't been treated with respect and need to leave sooner (perhaps a new job with an immediate start date), then I think you have to prioritize your future well-being over workplace etiquette."

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I had a very stressful job and was expected to answer Slack messages from my boss at any time, or I would be fired. He was in a different time zone so often I would be woken up at 3 am being yelled at to do something. One day in the office, he was talking s**t about me on Slack and accidentally posted it to a channel I was in. I was killing myself for this guy and he didn’t even appreciate it. I packed up and left, best thing I’ve ever done.

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Luke Branwen 5 months ago

I'd also try and sue for $hitloads of money since you technically have to be compensated if you're on-call

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Selling vacuum cleaners . They expected me to hard sell to an old man with dementia who didnt have carpets . F**k that.

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Content Wombat 5 months ago

Thank you for being the type of person who wouldn't do that.

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#12

This is probably going to get lost beneath all of the other comments but I will share anyway.I started working at a lingerie / sex toy store when I was 17. After I made it through training, two weeks in, all of the other employees quit. For about 6 months I was the only employee. I ran that store by myself. I took care of everything. I was working split shifts every day and never once was my till short by even a penny.

Meanwhile the owners kept interviewing new employees. They finally found a woman to come in and start training. I trained her and after her two-week training, they informed me that she would be my manager.

Their only explanation was that she had previous management experience.

I brought up the fact that I kept the store alive on my own for the last 6 months, working split shifts every day, no days off... I brought up the fact that I trained her. But they were adamant... They wanted her to be the manager.

So I quit.

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Lara Verne 5 months ago

Sex toy stores employ people under 18?

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As far as how employers can try to prevent workers from quitting on the spot, Pamela says, "Companies should be sure to train all of their managers and model respect and fairness from the top down. They can't let bad managers get away with bad behavior. Even at good companies, people quit because they can't stand their horrible manager. Managing people well is a learned skill and a lot of managers don't get the guidance they need."

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I was asked to lie to parents and cover up a kid failing (in elementary school) by support staff. When I confronted the principal about it, he said that she was just doing her job and I was not a team player for not doing so. So I explained the situation... same response, I should have helped in covering it up. As soon as kids went home, I started emptying my desk...

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84points

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AnnaB Premium 5 months ago

No wonder we have seniors graduating with a third grade reading level.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Asked for a raise and was told okay. Next morning (Friday) I was told by the same person who agreed with the raise that I should put a few more years in and then we’ll talk again. Locked my tool box at the end of the day and called a tow truck to pick it up. Shop manager was shocked that next Monday to find a empty spot where my tools were and couldn’t understand why I left.

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Ample Aardvark 5 months ago

Put a few more YEARS in? Good job walking out!

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Began working at a persian restaurant in the kitchen. I overcooked a steak slightly, the owner came back threw a plate at us then a hot meat skewer before storming off to his office. I dropped my apron grabbed my bag and told him I was leaving. His response was "okay at the end of the night you can go"

My response was "clearly you don't understand. I'm leaving right now, here's my parking pass, I'll expect my cheque in the mail".

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79points

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Nimitz 5 months ago

I worked at a computer shop with a Iranian owner. The guy wouldn't hire women, looked for temporary foreign workers over qualified locals (TFWs don't get taxed the same so they pay them less and save money), literally took his d**k out and told us to suck it one time when we complained about safety (we were expected to use methanol to clean things instead of isopropyl and weren't provided gloves), and eventually brought in his brother (an unemployed car mechanic) to be our boss in a computer shop. The brother didn't know how computers worked. Eventually me (tower shop manager), the general manager, and our QA manager all quit. They kept the business afloat for a year by laying off their other workers, having them collect EI, and paying them cash under the table. Once we reported that, the business finally collapsed.

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"If you find yourself regularly tempted to quit your job on the spot, you need to get serious about planning your next move before the stress burns you out completely," Pamela added. "Take a mental health day if you feel you're at your limit. Use some of the time to update your resume."

And if you need to brush up your interview skills before applying to new jobs, be sure to check out Big Interview!

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them Being hired to sell cars, then in the middle of training I get pulled aside and told I’m being moved to lot attendant. That position paid minimum wage and I didn’t even get a chance to be on the sales floor. Left and never went back. I was in my mid twenties at the time and was trying to find a possible career. Didn’t have time for that b******t bait and switch.

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Ads Ads 5 months ago

I knew they bait and switch the cars they sell, but pulling a hair and switch on the jobs they offer is an unexpected low.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them "When my job kept wanting to treat me like a full-time employee, having me order supplies, staying late on truck days until it was done. Yet, when I asked about moving to full-time ($5 extra an hour and I’d get 15 more hours a week), they told me they couldn’t. So, I quit."

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ZuriLovesYou 5 months ago

If I'm gonna be a full-time employee, then you best better pay me like one!

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I’m gay but at the time wasn’t very open about it. Was placed with a crew of guys that made homophobic comments all day long. It wasn’t anything personal towards me, but it would not have been healthy to stay in that situation long term.

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Nimitz 5 months ago

Yup. Been there. I stayed in the closet at every job I had till recently. And as soon as I was openly gay, people immediately started treating me different. The first person I came out to rounded up all the overt homophobes and told them to be careful what they say about me. The support was entirely towards the bigots. This was 2022. In 2022 the homophobes got the protection...

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ॐBoyGanesh 5 months ago

To kinda jump of your and OPs statements: as queer people, we continually have to “come out.” It’s never a one and done. Nor is it a dozen & done. It’s a continual process with a lot of analysis and mental labor, that’s at times absolutely exhausting. I try to make it clear from the get-go, but in my 50+ years, I’ve had to come out thousands of times. Jobs are always a tough one. Have to weigh out safety & job security and whether or not there will be consequences. It’s never-fücking-ending

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Della 5 months ago

I had a gay manager at a part time retail job. I could not have cared less about his sexual orientation but he used it as a free pass for horrible behavior, rude, crude and embarrassing in front of customers. I refused to work with him and ultimately quit ( due to in house theft). Business folded, owner refused to rein him in.

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Lee Banks 5 months ago

I am so sorry this happened. That's horrible. If it means anything, my friends have often had 'parking lot conversations' with folk who assumed that because they were straight and white they would hold the same bigoted opinions.

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nancthetank 4 months ago

So sorry. When, o lord?

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Drippy Potato 5 months ago

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Ralph Watkins 5 months ago

One of the most disgusting things I ever saw happened at the VA where I worked. We had a very beloved nurse who was fantastic at her job. She was gay. One day the director who was unstable calls her up to his office. He locked the door & was going to convert her. Sexually. She screamed & kicked & the secretary rescued her. She came back downstairs & told us what happened. Then upper management showed up. All women & a few of them gay themselves. They told her to shut up or they would ruin her. Not only get her fired by have her lose her license. Why she continued to work there, I don't know why. 2 years later karma kicked in. He attacked his secretary to where she was unconscious. The facility police did not make a report but he was forced to retire. A year after that, he did the old hose to the exhaust pipe. The nurse he attacked was a devout Catholic & she felt sorry for him. The rest of us were happy that he was gone.

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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 5 months ago

Why is it necessary to come out in the first place? Why should anyone have to care about what you do between the sheets?

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Lee Banks 5 months ago

It's not about telling people what you do between the sheets. Plenty of people do very interesting things. It's that some folk get reeeeeally offended if you show up with a partner of the same gender. Sex swing and the occasional tryst? Cool. A man kissing a man, or a woman kissing a woman? God is looking down on you. You're mostly preparing your family for being accepting, or not. It was terrifying introducing my first girlfriend, but my mom never has to know what my male fiance and I do.

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A few years back my wife’s health started to deteriorate. She was in constant pain and really struggling. It was a big change for both of us and I had to leave work often to take her to the doctor. One day my boss says she needs to give me less hours as I’m missing shifts. I accepted that and was willing to work with her on it. Then she said “I mean, you don’t have to leave every time your wife hurts her little finger.”

I quit on the spot.

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Jessica SpeLangm 5 months ago

@Sunny Day....and there are people that consider their spouse MORE important than a job or insurance and will figure out bills later. Most hospital systems in the USA will have financial counseling and work out payment plans if a patient doesn't have insurance. I know because that's my job.

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I was 16 working part time in an island in Greece and a guy walked in with a knife and demanded to give him the money from the register. I obviously did it and immediately called my boss. He told me that I was a pu**y and should have stood up for myself so I just left without even replying.

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Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)

OP did stand up for themselves. Their life was more important to them than the boss's money.

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#21

I got blamed for something that wasn't my fault, was in an argument with our VP or marketing because I had the audacity to suggest a solution that would have avoided our problem instead of accepting fault for something I didn't do. He told me he doesn't pay me to think, so that was my last day.

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

"So, boss, who do you pay to do the thinking here?"

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Worked in a call centre in the UK and was phoning people about buying porcelain cats on the day of the London bombings (07/07/05). A man that I rang told me he was waiting for his daughter to call to tell him she was OK and that it was immoral that I was ringing when so many people were waiting to hear from family. I couldn’t argue with that and walked out after that call.

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P Peitsch 5 months ago

Porcelain cats????????

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#23

I was getting married.

I had a temp job, and told them on my first day that I needed a weekend off in a couple of months for my wedding. I reminded them every couple of weeks, had it on the calendar, and even reminded them that Monday.

That weekend came, and I was on the schedule. I told my boss that I needed it off for my wedding, and she said, "You're just a kid, can't you move it? We really need the parts." Admittedly, I was 21 marrying my 19 year old girlfriend, but yeah.

I laughed at her and left. We were scheduled Saturday and Sunday, two "attendance points" and you're fired, so I assumed that I'd be job hunting on Monday after my wedding.

I went to another temp agency on Monday and had a job lined up for Monday evening. On Tuesday, the temp job called and asked if I was coming back. I told that person (the temp agency lady) what they'd done to me, she was upset that they'd done that, tried to get me to go back, but I liked the new job and stayed there.

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Steve Hall 5 months ago

You never owe a temp agency anything, they get part of your paycheck, they owe you!

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#24

Getting repremandid for not pushing a patient into getting a dental procedure he didn't need or want.

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Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

Why does that sound like Bright!Now Dental or Western Dental Orthodontics?

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Started working for a drive-thru pizza place famous for $5 single topping larges. When I started, they said shorts can be worn. Five months go by, and I walk into work that day to find the manager changed overnight. New manager, whom I only just met, said I had to find khaki pants ASAP. I told her I could do that after payday next week because my last $8 was going toward diapers for my 5-month-old. She said that wasn't acceptable and that I had to obtain khaki pants immediately. I reiterated that I was unable to until payday next week. She said the same garbage again, so I quit on the spot.

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Steve Hall 5 months ago

I always wondered how pizza pizza stayed in business.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I worked for an attorney. I was 7 months pregnant. I was supposed to be a secretary but instead I was constantly being sent out as a process server. In July. At the end of my 3 months (August) I was supposed to get a raise and she said that she couldn't give me a raise. The day she said that, I left at lunch and never went back. She was an awful person and the guy I replaced told me that he felt sorry for me on my first day as he was leaving. I should have left that day.

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Dream 5 months ago

Ditto. The law firm was one of the worst places I've ever worked. More liars and d***s than you can imagine. Also, a******s. MANY a******s. Anywho, f*ck lawyers.

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Worked as a cashier in a local shop, one night 2 guys came at me with knives trying to get in the till. I just walked away and said have at it as it wasn't worth the minimum wage to get into it with a couple of guys waving knives at me. After they ran out the store I picked up my mobile and called the police then called the store manager. The next day, the district manager meets me as I turn up for my shift the very next day, her first words were it was very unprofessional of me to be on my phone while in work. I laughed at her and told her she could take this as my notice and walked out. I never had a problem with being held up but the sheer gall of that got me.

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 months ago

I don't know about companies in the UK, but here in the US, convenience store clerks are told not to resist a robbery. Just let them have what they want and call the police after. Insurance covers the loss.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I get a job at a restaurant, first day I show up and the heat is broken in the dead of winter. It was like 35 degrees. I ask the cooks if it’s always like this, and they say yes. I walked immediately.

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Sunny Day 5 months ago

If you're working in a busy kitchen, they 35 degrees (F) is going to seem like heaven.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them I used to work at a chicken joint and one day I accidentally threw away some tongs. By the time I realized it I had already bagged and threw away the trash.

My supervisor had a meltdown and said that those tongs cost like $80 to the restaurant and demanded I go into the dumpster, open up every bag, and find it or otherwise he’d write me up.

It was midsummer and a day before trash pick up so I was up to my knees in trash bags. I lost my balance and accidentally punctured a bag catching my footing and had gravy and sauce explode on the side of my pants.

I climbed out, handed him the tongs, and my hat, and walked off and never went there again.

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Nitka Tsar 5 months ago

That restaurant should not exist, if they can‘t afford mistakes.

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50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them It was Thanksgiving day at Kmart (I was a teenager) and I had been working non stop for 5 hours because of all the "good deals". I had a drink under my register and I took one drink of it. The assistant manager looked at me but didn't say anything. Ten minutes later it was time for my much needed 30 minute lunch. I proceeded to ask for coverage for my break and the assistant manager told me I didn't get a lunch since I took a drink of my sprite. I then proceeded to tell her too bad and walked away and got all of my stuff out of my locker and started walking out to the parking lot. Then the store managers all rushed out begging me to come back and work and apologized. They said I could take my lunch. They even had the assistant manager (pathetically) apologize to me. I think she got in big trouble because she never treated me like a b***h anymore.

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Some guy 5 months ago

Hold on -- how COULD she have treated you like a b***h after you quit on the spot?

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#31

Worked as a waiter at a place that promised me full time hours but only gave me part time hours. They expected me to be top of my game despite not paying me enough and barely giving me enough hours to survive.

They scheduled me to work on the day I was taking my girlfriend, who was visiting from out of town, to the station. And when I asked for 1hr off so I could take her to the station they said no and lectured me on how I was no more special than anyone else who worked there. It was raining all week and there was a food festival on in town so the restuarant was dead all week.

I left that day and never went back.

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Mike F 5 months ago

Well, if I'm not that special then you shouldn't have any problem getting coverage for an hour.

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#32

My first job was Pizza Hut. There was a ghetto area we kept black listing for robbing drivers and the management kept unblacklisting it.

I got the flu and called out. Guy who filled in for me was robbed at gunpoint. Took his phone, car, wallet, etc and left him stranded on foot in the ghetto.

I found out when I walked into work a few days later. Walked right back out. They didn’t care about our safety.

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#33

Walk into first shift at Applebees wearing a full black uniform. The button down shirt has a thin strip of gray on the inside of the cuff. Boss notices the gray. Says I am not in uniform and I need to leave.

Once I got home I called in and told them I quit. Saved myself inhuman amounts of pedantry.

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Steve Hall 5 months ago

I only had to eat there once to find out it was not a great place to go to.

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#34

"Me: 'I need to take a week off next month.'

Manager: 'We really need you tho. :/'

Me: 'Yeah, but I already told you two months ago.'

Manager: 'Can't this wait?'

Me: 'I quit.'"

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Hannah Taylor 5 months ago

Succinct.

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#35

I worked at Walmart for a short time. I worked as hard as I possibly could to unload their pallets of merchandise. I always thought I was so damn fast, I studied the process and I believed I perfected it. EVERY SINGLE DAY my manager came up to me and told me I needed to be faster. So I did, and the fast pace made me lose a little focus, causing me to break a finger. I let management know that I might be a little slower due to my injury and they straight up told me “we won’t tolerate any laziness” and wrote me up when I didn’t meet their ridiculous standards. So I went home after my shift, and never returned. Never called, never formally quit. I just never came back. F**k Walmart.

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Ace 5 months ago

'murica, where you can't even get paid sick leave after suffering an on-the-job injury...

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#36

"I was renting an apartment with my wife, and our toilet backed up and started overflowing. Couldn't get ahold of the landlord or the on-call plumber. Called into work before my shift that morning and told them what was happening and that I wouldn't be in that morning but would call to see how the afternoon went. Finally got a plumber in and got everything cleaned up and made it in for the afternoon. Got sat down for a fifteen-minute talking to about how work should be my biggest priority and everything else should come second."

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AKA AKA 5 months ago

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#37

When I was 16, I was a bus boy off the books. Made $250 a week working 35 hours a week because they paid per day as opposed to per hour.

Manager comes to me and says they’re restructuring how the pay scale is and said he wanted me to work less days, same amount of hours but for half the pay.

I made him repeat to me his plan and once he confirmed it I said give me money for the week because I’m leaving.

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Nimitz 5 months ago

I had this. 13 years old washing dishes at the local Chinese food place. Paid cash under the table, less than minimum wage ($4.50/hr minimum wage was $7). After working there for 6 months I was replaced by a 16 year old who would work for $0.25/hr less than me. No negotiation, no severance, obviously. Just one of the many ways businesses exploit child labour

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#38

Pumping gas in the late 70's when the customer could just reset the pump to zero with a flick of a switch, my boss docked me $16 for being short for the week (was paid $3.75/hr), I handed her the keys and wished her a nice shift pumping gas on a Friday night on her own. Joined the military after that, learned electronics and now have a career in networking making the big bucks!

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Mike F 5 months ago

I want to know what planet paid $3.75 an hour in the 70's! I worked in a union plant and made $2.99.

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#39

Had a job about 10 years ago doing tech support for an ISP for a week. The pay was minimum wage + bonuses you earned for selling people stuff. And by stuff I mean terrible, overpriced services that you can get online for free. I was still in the phase of training where I had a supervisor listening in on my calls and after a call, he told me I should have paused to try and sell him some shitty antivirus service before I fixed his problem. Handed in my headset right there. Felt so skeevy when people call you for help and you have to turn into a telemarketer

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

Some businesses are viruses all by themselves.

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#40

Worked at a restaurant as a server. We'd just catered a large wedding reception. The owner's wife was chatting with the wedding party all night and occasionally getting the drinks. At the end of the night she said she's taking "her share" of the tips since she helped so much. I say fine even though that's illegal in our state. An hour and a half after the party ends the restaurant is still a mess and the owners wife is just standing around talking while I was supposed to clean up. It was almost midnight and I'd worked my other job earlier that day. I walked out without saying a word. They ended up giving me all of my tips on my last check.

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ॐBoyGanesh 5 months ago (edited)

I imagine that owner has to do a lot of reeling in of his/her/their wife. Also, great she was helping out her family business & income stream, but the greed of taking employees tips isn’t only illegal and immoral, it’s hella f*****g trashy.

27points

#41

I was at a company for about a year and a half as an assistant project manager. In that year and a half, i had 3 different bosses, the newest one being a heavy micromanager, i was getting paid about 20% below the standard salary for the position, overworked without any additional compensation, and the overall culture of the company was just flawed.

My boss started nitpicking my work at the end of the day, i told her i had plenty of time to get it done before the end of the day, but she kept pushing and escalating. She was borderline screaming and I just cut her off and said "I'm not doing this s**t anymore, i quit." she yelled back "WELL I NEED IT IN WRITING" and i said back with the straightest face "i don't have to do s**t in writing." I quietly packed all my stuff up, said good luck to my coworkers, and left.

A year later (after working a couple of other jobs), i accepted a Project Manager position with a competing company and make almost twice as much as i was making at the previous. And i get to post on reddit while at work without getting yelled at.

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Carrie B 5 months ago

Why would you want to use your work computer for reddit? No way I'd let my company have access to my reddit, or any other accounts.

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#42

I took a temp. job in a call center. It was outbound sales, calling people and offering them Time magazine's newest book: Portrait of the Presidents. We had a rule of having to hear NO three times on a call before we could end the call.

First five minutes on the floor I placed 6 (yes, six) calls and was hung up on, sworn at, and yelled at for interrupting dinner.

After the sixth call I took a deep breath, hung up my headset, and walked the f**k outta there.

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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 months ago

I hate sales jobs of any kind, but cold call sales is the absolute worst.

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#43

Resigned from a job because my old boss promised me salary after two years and then reneged. On top of my office job he made me work with another department that was shortstaffed and we always had to work 12+ hours, from either 2:30 am or 4:00 am and often have our lunch break 8 or 9 hours after start time. Unprofessional and lying boss made me leave. Eventually found a much better job. EDIT: first time receiving 1k likes thank you for upvoting! Definitely makes me feel like I made the right move.

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#44

50 People Who Quit Their Job On The Spot Share What Did It For Them "I showed up for my first day of work at a large retail store. I like having a 5 o'clock shadow (use an electric razor). I'm told to go grab a razor and be clean-shaven. Sayonara!"

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Caramello 5 months ago

I once worked for a warehouse that wouldn't let you have facial hair if you were going to be a supervisor. Companies can be obsessed over the most ridiculous things.

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#45

I had a boss scream this is a dictatorship and I'm the dictator in a meeting while slamming his fist on the desk

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

His self description was two syllables too long.

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#46

I was 18. On my lunch, a (drunk) manager came in the break room, asked me a bunch on invasive personal questions, and when I was curt and evasive, she exited the room, closed the door, and announced to the office, "WHAT A BITCH." Gathered my stuff and walked out. An assistant manager followed me out and tried to block my car from pulling out of the parking lot. I pulled around him and left. Heard later that the story going around the office was that I "almost ran him down" in the parking lot. Not even close.

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Candace Taylor 5 months ago

Why would your assistant manager follow you out and try to block you from leaving??

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#47

My company laid of 20,000 people over a year in a very unhumane and disgusting way. These people were treated like trash even though they made the company what it is. After seeing how people were laid off, I decided to quit.

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David 5 months ago

Did you work for Elon?

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#48

Total opposite but it’s still a good story imo. I worked at a very dysfunctional family owned company. They put me on probation because the family member(my boss) in charge of IT convinced everyone else he was a genius and could do no wrong, so whenever something happened bad related to IT he’d just blame his underlings and everyone in power agreed with him.
A few weeks later when I got the dream job I have now, I said in the exit interview one of the main reasons I was leaving was because I was tired of being on probation for 3+ months. They’d actually taken me off probation but never told me.
I still would’ve left regardless, but the fact that they never got around to saying “hey were not about to fire you” blows my mind.

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Michael Largey 5 months ago

They hadn't actually taken the OP off probation.

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#49

My first job was working as a dish washer at a seafood place. I wasn't *hired* as a dishwasher, I was supposed to be a busser, they just shoved me on the washer and left me there.

One of the other employees there was an elderly man who worked alongside his wife and grandson. Every day he would find an excuse to walk up close to me and put his hand on my a*s. He was a 70 year old man, and I was a 16 year old boy.

I should have reported him, but i doubted anyone would have believed me since he'd been there for years and I had only been working for a month. I just called the manager, told her I had to quit for "school reasons" and never looked back.

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Jessica SpeLangm 5 months ago

You STILL should have reported him. It needed to be on record, even if nothing else happened. No telling who else he has done that to.

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#50

This was back in the day, shortly after college I was still working as a delivery driver at a local pizza place. It was expensive pizza and the tips were good, plus it was during the height of the Great Recession so I was just glad to have a job. Because I had just graduated, it freed up my schedule. I started regularly getting put on the lunch shift, which blew absolute donkey d**k. All your work is from 11 AM - 1 PM and it's super stressful, then it's completely dead (aka no tips) from 2 PM - 5 PM, so you're just doing dishes for minimum wage.

Then the manager started to try and send me home any time there wasn't actively a delivery, so I'd get halfway there and then a delivery would call in and I'd get called back. End result, he saves $0.35 in wages, I spend money on gas + wear and tear on the car.

Then one day I come in and look at the schedule. It's the clopen from hell. I'm on from 5 PM - 3 AM Thursday, 11 AM - 5 PM Friday, and 5 PM - 3 AM Saturday. The only shift where you would make real money is the Saturday shift.

I said f**k that and left a note on his desk resigning.

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ElfVibratorGlitter 5 months ago

Clopen. Learned a new word today.

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#51

Being talked down to by a “chef” I could cook circles around. Username is specifically because I’ll never work under any of these bloated fuckwads again. I cook for people I love, and for enjoyment only. Never ever again for ungrateful customers or unqualified chefs.

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ILoveMySon 5 months ago

A chef threw a pan barely missing my son! The jerk was later a contestant on "Hells Kitchen". I was delighted to see Gordon Ramsey degrade him and call out his lack of skill. He lost of course.

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#52

I worked at a distribution company where we collected products on a pallet and they were shipped out to department and grocery stores. It was a soul killing job for me. I drove over there on my day off on my birthday to quit. It was glorious for me. Not as exciting as some of these other stories though haha.

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Oskar vanZandt 5 months ago

Best birthday present!

9points

#53

Walked in to the interview, everything went well, accepted the job offer.
Went to the front desk to do the paperwork and noticed that the contract had a different pay amount, and that I would be "interning" for the first month for $100/week. I asked first about the amount difference, was told "oh, this the standard contract, it just hasn't been updated for your specific offer." I told them they'd need to edit and initial the changes before I would sign. "Oh...that's not how things work here."
I thanked them for their time and left without signing anything. They called me back on the day I was supposed to have started asking where I was. I told them because didn't sign the contract, I was never an employee....hooo boy that was a fun call.

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David 5 months ago

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#54

I was 18. On my lunch, a (drunk) manager came in the break room, asked me a bunch on invasive personal questions, and when I was curt and evasive, she exited the room, closed the door, and announced to the office, "WHAT A B***H."
Gathered my stuff and walked out.
An assistant manager followed me out and tried to block my car from pulling out of the parking lot. I pulled around him and left.
Heard later that the story going around the office was that I "almost ran him down" in the parking lot. Not even close.

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R.C. 5 months ago

I worked in a pet store when I was in high school. They sold puppies (among other things) and part of the training was to ensure customers were told that all the puppies came from reputable breeders. Only the manager and assistant manager were ever scheduled for delivery days and I never thought much of it. Then one day when we were short staffed, I was scheduled to help the manager with the delivery. What I saw has forever been burned into my brain and I'm in my early 40's now. The truck pulled up and the driver opened the trailer door. It was nothing but floor to ceiling crates of puppies. The manager and I then had to "screen" them. Two were rejected because they were infested with fleas (how they all weren't is beyond me) and one was rejected because it still had stitches from a surgery it had recently had. I have no idea what happened to the puppies the manager refused delivery of. Reputable breeders, my a$$!! Walked out and didn't look back.

Sickening... And it still happens today. I encourage anyone who wants to adopt a pet, to go to a charity/shelter to adopt rather than buy a dog/cat/rabbit etc from unlicensed breeders or pet shops...

Montanavanna 5 months ago

I worked at a hallmark store in our mall that had a post office in the back. It was me and my manager on shift. She was working the post office. I had to stay out front to run the til and help customers. She was mean mugging me all day but I thought hey, she is weird, whatever. When the next shift comes on she takes me out into the mall to yell at me for being so rude and not visiting with her in the back all day. Uh, what? This 35 year old woman was yelling at a teenager for doing her job instead of slacking off with her in the back, is that what I am to understand? I put in my two weeks, she changed the schedule to just 2 days as far apart as they could be in those two weeks.

7points

Darth Kittius 5 months ago

I worked at a local restaurant recently for about 3 months. I have severe IBS and one day I had a horrible flare-up and so I tried to call in an emergency sick day. I was told that if I didn't come in I'd be fired. So i went in and quit

3points

Some guy 5 months ago (edited)

Well, who wouldn't want someone with a severe IBS flare-up handling their food? /s

4points

Guess Undheit 5 months ago

All I will say is, if you come to Taiwan to teach ESL, NEVER apply for a job at "American Eagle". The FIRST DAY I was supposed to start, I cancelled my contract and work visa because they tried to dump a load of work on me that was NEVER mentioned in the six previous weeks (while I was preparing to leave my last job). The idiot owner sent me an email at TWO AM, expecting me to be up and reading it when I had to be up at 8AM for that first day. AYFKM?

These stories make my being on disability seem like heaven.

CA Hyde 5 months ago

Had a retail job years ago, showed up on Halloween wearing a costume (nothing that would interfere with my job) and was told "we don't do costumes, go home and change!" I went home alright, but didn't go back! What a horrible boring place to work!

2points

Simon Chen 5 months ago

Many of those never happenend and some are quite overreactions imo

Trisec Tebeakesse 5 months ago

Pretty easy - worked in a high stress, low reward job for quite a few years. (Tourism, specifically a hop-on, hop-off tour in a major city. ) Was lead dispatcher, but was so good at it that management expected me to bail them out every day something had gone wrong. One too many days - on my last day, I arrived on time to utter chaos, no vehicles assigned, cruise ship in town, and pickups in a half hour. I just lost it, threw my water bottle across the room, slammed down the board, and screamed "I quit" and stormed out. I don't know what happened the rest of that day.

Work Christmas party was amazing. Catered, open bar, private. Woke up in the arms of a coworker (non sexual) in the basement of another coworker. We decided to check on the place to clean up as a thank you. I only asked to swing by my Apt to change clothes. My dude had destroyed Everything. I was broken, but I still showed up to clean, and cover for everyone that was too hungover. They told me I'd be working foh, and I begged to be boh. No dice. Walked out

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