30 People Who Quit Their Jobs With Style (New Pics)

This is unprofessional too, but so is the guy who sent these texts. They are not mutually exclusive.

I don't think it's necessarily bad to do a layoff on a video call if everyone is working from home. The alternative is to call them all into the office in person to do it. However doing it in a mass call like that is pretty insensitive. They should've done one-on-one calls with an individual employee and their direct supervisor.

you can fire through email nowadays too, but bosses are always excused, what about when they call you for a shift you weren't scheduled for?

"Not bad", at least they showed their face. I lost my job in pandemic by call from HR after 3 years of working for them. No call from my director with who I was working in daily base. So yeah, work ethic.

That was the second time the boss did the mass firing, and there were HR included in the bunch. The Boss cried over the call and called it gut wrenching to have to do it, but it had to be done. The reason was that folks were stealing from their peers. The folks on the call were hardly spending 2 hrs a day while their colleagues were getting burdened with the work. I believe it was justified to a degree, but on a large scale without having an option to explain oneself is unreal no matter how much gut wrenching it feels for the Boss.

Oh, yes — let's do talk about professionalism

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And the fact that the boss is of Indian origin, this keeps popping on my news feed.

Depends on your field. For most of use professionalism won't do much, but act unprofessional around the wrong person and your career is over. I'm not saying the employee should have done anything differently, if they want to burn bridges because the bridge isn't worth keeping then by all means, do it buddy, but that doesn't change the fact that the boss is right.

Thank you and I 100% agree with being professional HOWEVER, your company most times doesn't care about you and will let you go asap if it benefits them and if you get a severance package it will not carry you until you get a new job, so with. Plus, when I worked corporate, I watched so many people give their two weeks and wither a. Just be let go right then and there or b. Damn near everyone in the company would make their lives a living hell for the next two weeks. Why put yourself through that garbage. If your companies are one if the good ones, then sure give the two weeks, but if they are the bad ones, f them.

I mean, in most cases, it benefits the worker. At least in the U.S., most white-collar jobs require a good reference from previous bosses, so being professional is more likely to secure that which helps put you in a better position for a new job. The caveat here is if you have a boss that won't give you a good reference anyway or you're going to start your own business or something, then you don't need that reference anyway, so who cares? It's supposed to be a balancing act: Bosses should be honest and give good references (unless the employee like, sexually harassed someone or embezzled money), because if it's clear they won't, then there's no need for employees to give two weeks' notice or act professional; but on the other hand, employees who act unprofessional and quit without notice anyway may not get a good reference. So it's supposed to behoove both parties to act professionally.

If this job was a McJob or the OP was not looking to make a career in the industry, on balance you're probably right. But if this is someone who wants to progress in the industry, he's just kissed any future reference goodbye. Unless he manages to be a successful entrepreneur - unlikely - he's probably always going to have a boss. And *this* is where professionalism comes in

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Yes, but that goes back to the whole two wrongs don't make a right thing. If I get caught wasted at work I can't just say "well Jack was wasted too" and get away with it. It's always rather sad to see someone lower themselves to the level of another just because it's technically the fair thing to do.

Wait, in the US your employer isn't required to give you notice when they fire you? In most European countries they can't fire you on the spot.

They have to provide notice in Australia or pay you the notice period.

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I don't think it's the quitting over text that's the problem. Quitting without notice is unprofessional. Quitting then using that language in the final response tells me this is either someone very much at the start of their working life, or someone who will go through their working life constantly complaining about not getting a break, being beaten down by "the man", and feeling every inch the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire"

That has always been how I felt about it and the way I quit too.

How do you know there's no contract?

1 month notice if you have worked at least over one year, 2 months notice is over 4 years and 4 months notice if you have worked over 8 years. At least here where I'm living. Not everyone commenting these topics are living in the land of the free and screwed.

She who? .. Have you never heard of references from past employers ?

My company hired an IT and network admin company to take care of everything computer. (We were a website with a huge database.) One of their employees that was in his 40s or 50s was the one that dealt with us. He was always at our location fixing things or adding new equipment. He worked long hours at our place. He was good and we had a good relationship with him. We paid a lot of money for this. In November he had open heart surgery. In December he was fired. We were all shocked, saddened, and my boss was incensed at such a heartless move and called the company to fire them (also before the holidays), and told them that we can't work with people that would do that.

people seem to forget that HR is not really there to protect the employEE, it's there to protect the employER.

And yet, in the end the employee will be the one who "learns a lesson" if word spreads and nobody else will hire him