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30 Stories From People Who Dealt With A Colleague That Walked Out On A Job In The Most Sudden Way
There are various factors that one normally considers before taking the next big step in their career. Even after deciding to leave, providing one’s employer with ample notice might be a respectful and reasonable thing to do, regardless of whether it is legally required.
Having this in mind, it only makes it more unexpected to witness folks quitting on the spot! It is not that one can always know exactly the reasons that led the other person to simply leave and never come back, but considering there were no victims there, it does make for fun and lighthearted stories and these Redditors are sharing exactly these kinds of experiences when they witnessed someone just leave without saying a word or were the ones to do it themselves.
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#1
I quit on my first day of a waitressing job after the GM and his buddies sat in my section and the GM called me an idiot. I put down my tray, took off my apron and dropped it on the table, and told GM to get his own f*****g food. Went to my locker, got my purse and left. Never went back, not even to return my uniforms.
Fun Fan 2 years ago (edited)
Day 1. Was quite okay. Day 2. The owner's kids were in the kitchen, while we were working there (a big NO for safety reasons). Day 3 230 people in one evening, 4 events pre-booked with at least 20 guests each, 4 colleagues calling in sick. It was a shítshow! Day 4 and day 5 were day off. Day 6. I was quitting! I got 300 euros for the week.
Hey! 2 years ago
Was that a lot? ... when you can't even count on your co-workers to help when it's a big day
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Susan Atkinson 2 years ago
Practically the same story. I was right out of High School. 1st day, 1st table. I took their order and when I was serving the boss grabbed my a*s. His friends laughed and I dumped his soup on his lap. Walked out.
Alison M. 2 years ago
They should have put up a picture of an angry server with the guests smiling!
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StarlightPanda! 2 years ago
Should have gone to HR about it too, not that they usually do anything about stuff though. =/
Saphyre Fyre 2 years ago
Yeah...you can't possibly pay me enough to be your verbal punching bag, sweetheart.
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#2
At one of the c****iest call centers I ever worked at, a lady near me got a job offer over her cell phone during her shift. She left her badge on her desk and walked out. I had big time envy.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
I am in awe of anyone who does call centre work. Personally, I'd be running round with a machete on my 2nd day chasing down managers and owners. Fuucking usurpers!!
Bobby 2 years ago
You'll also want to chase down the jerk customers who view you as a company punching bag. Call center work sucks on all ends
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brittany 2 years ago (edited)
id do it if it paid enough and love all the people pulling pranks back or playing loud music or whatever. i use to have baby shark ready to go when sales calls came through and blast it over the speaker or draw them out while pretending to be hard of hearing bc then they are too busy trying to scam me to be scamming anyone else. my new phone has a feature that screens calls so i dont have to do that anymore, but sometimes i still answer if im bored
#3
I worked with guy once, he asked me to cover for him because he 'had to go' I thought he was going to the bathroom. He never came back.
Bogdan Chelariu 2 years ago
New guy on a call center job asked his manager (my friend) if he could take his lunch break a bit early, 3 hours into his shift. Still waiting for the guy to come back from his lunch break, more than 7 years later...
#4
I quit my job last week. I walked in, shook my boss's hand and said "I'm putting in my two weeks" and then he asked if I was serious. So I laughed and said "I'm kidding. I quit."
At my new job today and loving it.
WindySwede 2 years ago
I once told my boss i needed to talk to him on my own, there were some others there as well. Boss jokingly said, are you going to quit? "yes"...
#5
I did that at my previous job. After I put in my 2 week notice they started treating me like s**t, so about a week into the notice, I said screw it and left at lunch and never went back.
poison Ivy 2 years ago
Same for my daughter, she got yelled at for getting help picking up 50 pound stainless steel tables at work. She has titanium rods in her back. So much for their "teamwork" motto! She put her notice in and left early due to her supervisors nasty attitude.
Michael Braisher 2 years ago
That's it, just leave. No notice. After all, they can fire you in an instant with no problem.
#6
I once quit my job at McDonald’s by jumping out the drive through window. True story
Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
The one and only time I ever rage quit was when I worked at Burger King and a supervisor threatened to break my neck. I threw my hand out and walked out.
#7
At a place I work at a manager got up from his desk at noon, we thought he was going to lunch. He grabbed his bag, shut down his PC, noticed us looking at him, and he said 'bye'.
We were dumbfounded and looked at each other and said to one another 'did he just quit?'
Yes, yes he did. Never came back!
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I worked with a very old guy who just walked out the door and said "see ya in church".
Papa 2 years ago
A former coworker of mine said he had worked with a guy somewhere else who suddenly realized, or was told, that he was eligible to retire. He went straight to the office and said he was ready to retire. They said "So when? Maybe in two weeks, or the end of the month?" He replied "No. Today. Right now!"
#8
I was training this one guy a few years back. He asked me if I ever heard the one about the guy who said he was going to the bathroom and never came back. I said no we've had some walkouts but never that. He then looked me in the eye and said he was going to the bathroom. Never saw him again.
C .Hunger 2 years ago
I went to a 2 day training for Home Depot. They gave us a binder with everything we were going to cover in the 16 hours of training. It had like 10 pages, and I read it and understood it in about 10 minutes. I sat through the first thirty minutes to confirm that, yes, this was all we were going to do. Went to the bathroom and walked right out to my car and drove away.
#9
I walked out of my grocery store job after having a meeting with my supervisor. She told me I I wasn't getting my vacation, again, because I was a middle manager and my direct manager wanted that time off, so she was approved instead. The meeting ended, I walked to the doors, took off my stupid f*****g tie, and never came back as an employee. I was also Union so they had to pay me my 126 hours of PTO I had accrued in 3 years of being denied vacation (would have had more but I used like 40 hours worth on 'sick' days in the months before I quit).
F**k you Shawna you stupid b***h! I hope your job was difficult after my meeting with the Store Manager.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
He shall be avenged. I plead for 250 days of 24/7 whipping the witch called Shawna with the long time untied tie......are there any volunteers, besides me?
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
I'm very afraid this is going to happen to me. My work imposed a system where seniority gets priority for vacations and then the newer people last. Not sure how that's going to work. All I know is I've been working there for over a year and not had a vacation, yet, but so many people have had 2 vacations in the time I've worked here. Most of them seniority.
Hey! 2 years ago (edited)
My husband had 3 months off before he retired. He had accumulated vacation - he was there for 22 years so he had 7 weeks- sick, overtime, etc. That was really fun and during COVID too. They wanted him to stay more. Nope. This is it after working for almost 1-1/2 years for 18 hours, even though his regular hours were 7 hours. He was management so they usually didn't pay overtime but the mayor overrode that for COVID because 90% of the people were at home, doing nothing, and still getting paid.
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
I worked at a grocery store during HS. When I graduated, I asked that if I went to get training as a cashier, if he would hire me. I get that I wouldn't b able to ring up alcohol, but that was it. He denied me. So I left for another job instead. Got promoted, and everything. For 2 years after, every time I went in, and every time my dad shopped there, it was made to be known that I always had a job waiting for me if I ever wanted it again.
#10
Had a boss tell me I wasnt allowed to quit so i threw my apron at him and told him to f**k himself
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I don't get how employers think they can impose those no quitting policies, knowing very well they can't keep anyone from walking out or not showing up.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
Happened to me as well. I stared at him and asked him if he understands I do not require permission to do that.
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
Customary not in the States, but I once worked in a car parts processing plant between HS and college when one day the miserable scumbucket excuse of a boss once told our best line supervisor at his station he would regret it if he quit (the guy was pissed of at the conditions he and his team were forced to work in and frankly, I don't blame him). The response: His entire line of about 7 kids fresh out of high school just straight up said "Watch Us!" in Chinese, straight up dump their aprons and gear on the ground and walked out with the supervisor without looking back. The boss had to literally beg them to come back because they were the most productive line in the factory but anyone want to take a wild guess how many decided to return? I left the factory to enter college the following week, same time scumbucket Boss was given his walking papers.
#11
We had a receptionist that had to run to Walmart for "female emergency supplies." She never came back.
Hey! 2 years ago
Dark, but I still like it, me who almost bled to death - coma for 3 days and 7 blood transfusions.
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#12
Before I got hired in at my current job, one of the guys also left for lunch and never came back. The guys who were there when it happened still sometimes joke that "He's still on lunch."
#13
LOL. I love this.
Years ago I worked as a mail carrier for the US post office. Three weeks into the job, they sent a supervisor out with me because they felt I was delivering the mail too slowly lmao. 10 minutes into the shift, the supervisor started berating me and screaming at me to not use walkways and instead to walk over people's lawns. I went up to him and told him I was finished. He said, "Yeah, you're finished with this street. Time to move on." I replied, "No, I quit." He was f*****g pissssssssed. He followed behind me back to the post office (I should've slammed on my brakes and let him hit me and then sued). He demanded that I come inside to sign a resignation letter. I laughed and walked away. Never went back.
You don't owe anyone, especially not an employer, s**t.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I understand that the USPS is no joke to work for. That said, if you can "get with the program", it's a great gig. I know at least 3 individuals who retired from them, retired young (well under the 65 retirement age) , and retired comfortably. There's a lot to be said for retiring ~42 years old!
Zaach 2 years ago
One of the benefits is you can carry your medical insurance with you after 5 years - I retired 5 years ago (M75) and have full medical coverage
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KingCobraKai 2 years ago
Lol, I love all the privilege in these posts. Wish I could afford to quit a job.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
My old cat would hiss at the mailman who treaded in my garden, walking way to close to the big picture window.
Hey! 2 years ago
I hate it when they do that. We have a by-law that protects us against this but no one is putting it in effects. So one day my mailman decided that my driveway wasn't cleaned to his liking so they sent a noticed that my mail wouldn't be delivered until I clean it up. I sent several pictures of the mailman actually going through my snow-full lawn and the in-between the houses hole also full of snow, and the guy walked through both without complaining. Got my mail back after they reviewed everything. And they changed my mailman for some reason.
JL 2 years ago
This is apparently what they are trained to do - "Letter Carriers may cross lawns while making deliveries if customers do not object and there are no particular hazards to the carrier." -- Agreement between the United States Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO - Section 41.3.N - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/olms/regs/compliance/cba/2019/public/unitedstatespostalservice_k840319_092019.pdf
MaryHadaLittleLamb 2 years ago
I walked out halfway through my day after 8 YEARS as a mail carrier. Took the 2nd half of my route back to the office and quit. My mental and physical health improved immediately. It's a terrible place to work for, very toxic and dangerous. There's a reason people have "gone postal."
Madb vonMesser 2 years ago
I tried to eye- trauma myself due to the mandatory overtime earlier this year. I can't afford to quit, but time as a mail carrier is killing me.
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I quit my last job by clocking into my break time, getting in my car and leaving. They called a few times, “are you okay? You left and didn’t come back.” Yes, in fact, I am better now that I’m not breaking my back for 10/hr.
Fun Fan 2 years ago
If they are the type asking "Are you okay?!, instead of "Where the fúck are you?!", you should have the decency to tell them before leaving: Sorry, it's not for me, I'm quitting.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Depends on the circumstances. Just because the employer was calling up without shouting and cursing, doesn't mean they have been polite and respectful leading up.
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I actually ran away from work before when I was 19. I was QA at a frozen food plant and they literally moved me to a different part of the plant (I had been doing a really good job where I was, but the season changed), and gave me more work than I could actually complete, then gaslighted me when I tried to figure out how tf others who had this position supposedly did all the tasks I was assigned. I had a supervisor say she GOT BORED when she did my job previously, and I have no idea how. A few days and a panic attack later, I just...left. They blew up my phone. I didn't answer.
I sort of lied and said I had 'voluntarily quit' that place when applying for jobs after that until I actually started my career and didn't need to list them anymore. Here I am, decades later, in a job where I am certainly making more than anyone who worked with there. I have a hypothesis that they added more tasks to that particular position, but I'll never know for sure. I tried to address it the 'right way' (seeking direction and clarification) to no avail. No regrets.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Interesting choice of photo to go with this story. I think the BP editors picked the wrong choice for "plant"
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
IMO I can see it as OP "running away from work" XD
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I feel like this is the direction I'm headed. Problem is, I don't know what career to do nor where to go.
#16
At my job when a guy didn’t show and didn’t answer texts the boss called the cops for a welfare check. They went to his address where he lived with his grandparents and they were really worried because he was missing.
When he finally showed up he was told the cops and his grandma were looking for him.
Turns out he was a aspiring rap artist and had been out late and fell asleep at a friends house.
The previous person who didn’t show also had a welfare check called. He’d [taken his life] because he owed the IRS several years of taxes from his side work. He’d spent it all on strippers who really loved him.
Historyharlot93 2 years ago (edited)
It may seem like an obnoxious and controlling thing, but I think the boss called for a Welfare Check because he was scared of another suicide. I think it was really nice.
#17
I'm about there with my current job. My old boss who I got a long with really well had enough of his boss and walked out, now his boss is my boss. It's a s**t show here. I'm going back to school in September so I'm really just counting down the days and racking up hours. If I get too stressed, I'm out. If they fire me big woop, I already have the reference of the boss who already quit. They got nothing on me. I live 2 mins away from this place so I spend no time commuting.
If my boss is reading this: Fire me, I dare you. Gimme that severance.
Realistic Optimist 2 years ago (edited)
If it's not in your contract, they don't have to give you severance. At least in the US they don't. Awesome if you get it, but don't assume it will be offered. Just a PSA, so my fellow US residents don't get a very unpleasant surprise when they're laid off or fired.
Tom De Paul 2 years ago
Have them fire you for a crappy reason. File for unemployment. Tell them you'll quit school if you get a suitable job offer. Make sure you don't. Get 6 months of unemployment on old job's dime.
Hi There 2 years ago (edited)
Unemployment is hardly a supplement for working income. I've seen many many people make the mistake of purposely being fired for the glory of being paid to do nothing. The truth is if you're lucky you get half your original income and it takes about six weeks to process, so you'd better be setup for a good two months before you start seeing benefits. Also the threshold is very low, any source of taxable income (severene, vacation pay out, tips, gig work ect....) you receive while on unemployment goes against your benefits. It's best to find a new job and quit. Unemployment isn't as glorious as many make it out to be.
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#18
Quit a job at a restaurant recently. Was working twelve hours a day 6 days a week and was one of two people who could run the Make Line at a rate of speed which was extremely efficient. Two weeks prior to quitting I had called in for the day to go to the doctor because I was feeling sick and thought it may be covid. Didn’t want to get my coworkers sick so I didn’t come in that day. Flash forward to two weeks later. All of the bosses decided to have a “meeting” with me and the other person who worked my line. They said we were lazy and that we weren’t to miss anymore days or else. They had told everyone on the team that we HAD covid which is illegal here. They told us if we didn’t want to finish the shift that day we could leave since they had covered the shift. We said “actually I don’t feel like being here.” Never came back. Was still in contact with a few of the crew members who later that week informed us that all the kitchen staff walked out two days later after realizing that all the work had been shifted to them and management was still just hanging out sitting in the office and leaving early every day. Serves em right.
Hphizzle 2 years ago
I love it when bosses mess with their best employees and then the rest of staff leave too. Don’t bite the hand that feeds your pockets.
Lauren 2 years ago
Took a job making pizza in a newish kebab shop. Nothing but great reviews when I was in. After more than 20 bad reviews on the owners shift I was made to work more. Owner used to big himself up 247 and his wife would belittle customers, if a customer complained, she'd basically tell then shat she doesn't need their money and to f... Off... Then we have a really busy weekend shift, I ask him how long till his part of an order will be ready so I could cook my part on time and boom, he totally exploded at me. Screaming in a shop full of customers that I was stupid and costing him money etc.. I let him finish then grabbed my stuff and left. Been 3 weeks now and I still get a call to see if I wanna go back... Ha no thanks!!
#19
I worked with a guy, middle of shift he says his wife got stung by a bee and he had to go.
I never saw him again.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
He was telling the truth. It happened to her when she was in the third grade, but his wife did get stung by a bee.
#20
When I quit my job at McDonald's I told them I was going to the bathroom and I never came back 💀
Hey! 2 years ago
Seem to me a lot of people go through the bathroom and never come back. Same with blind date and such.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
When you tell people you're going to the bathroom, they rarely probe for specifics.
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Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
I followed the cute delivery driver out the back door at a sub shop...never came back.😁
#21
Dude, i did that last year. My girlfriend thought it was hilarious, not so much me though…I felt guilty. I just said I was going for lunch, got in my car and f****d off home. In retrospect they had it coming.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
I tried going to the Reddit thread these are all taken from but couldn't find this one, I assume it was left as a comment on someone else's story.
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#22
Years ago I was working for a small company that hired a not smart but very pretty person for Reception. She did not even know the basics for our work despite being there for years. For example, she didn't know that an 11x17 sheet of paper was also called Tabloid size, despite us selling things on paper.
I was the only person running the computers, literally a 5 person business.
The owner and key sales person called me into their tiny meeting room because this lady was upset about something that I cannot even remember. I was super friendly to her and would explain this stuff to her. I liked her. (I am also female.)
I had been working until about 4am the night before because we had a few bit jobs come in and the deadlines were short. I had planned to leave early and catch up on sleep.
Owner starts YELLING at me. Going red in the face. Losing his s**t. She is just sitting there, like she had seen this before and wasn't phased by it.
After him going on for awhile and there being nothing for me to argue with I just said: "I don't need this s**t." And calmly walked out.
I headed over to a nearby business that I had previously worked at and had coffee and hung out... and started work there immediately.
F**k a******s.
BabaBizzle 2 years ago
What does the hot but dumb receptionist have to do with the boss flipping out on this person who quit?
#23
Where i work someone signed up for overtime showed up and said they had to go to the bathroom real quick. They sat in there from 630 to noon then clocked out and never came back.
#24
That’s awesome! My bro-in-law and I worked as servers at a restaurant. One day during a rush he just walked out because he had finished school and got a job as a teacher. After six months he realized he hated teaching, so he went back to school and they gave him his job back at the restaurant!! So just remember even if you p**s them off you can always go back! Haha
Little king trash mouth 2 years ago
While I don't normally believe in burning bridges, sometimes it's warranted.
#25
Had this. Except I wasn't production I was the night shift robot tech but I was never really busy besides some daily pms so I would sometimes watch people's posts for them while they smoke or pee. One dude did it yo me three times while I worked there where he would just go to the supervisor and say he's sick and, because my job description said I'd have to help production sometimes if it was really necessary, I would be told to do that for the rest of the day while also having to do my pms. Dick move Tony.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
OP was robot tech, easy work, but had to back up production line for breaks or callouts. During callout fill-ins OP had to work the line *and* do all their own robot programming work. Tony did this three times, and sometimes had to do double duty as a result. Tony was being a dick.
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#26
It happened before I worked there at this restaurant, but apparently the dishwasher walked off the job around 6pm. Chaos ensues and various people help out when they can to wash dishes. A couple hours later one of the cooks looks out into the restaurant and here is the now-ex-employee sitting down to a table with his family for dinner, change of clothes and everything. Kitchen manager goes out there and asks what is going on.
Dude says "eh, I just didn't want to work here anymore".
BabaBizzle 2 years ago
So he would eat there the same night he quit? Didn’t he think they’d spit and s**t in his food?
#27
Friday close of business I brought my retirement papers to Chiefs secretary and told her he needed the envelope that afternoon. Turned around and walked out of building. They owed me 3 months pay so I didn't have to give notice. Didn't feel like doing the political thing with A Holes.
#28
At my old job, another receptionist and I got hired about the same time and for at least 6 months afterwards, someone would comment "oh, good, you came back!" after every break and/or lunch we had. It started to make me wonder what I was missing for all those others to disappear.
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
Why not just ask the other receptionist that all this was being said to?
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
It was being said to both of them, and both of them were hired at the same time. how would the other receptionist magically have knowledge that the poster didn't?
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I was a supervisor at a call center. One of my employees went to the restroom and never returned. Lol I don’t blame her the job paid s**t. Earlier in the day (10 am or so) I was talking to her and she smelled drunk
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Sometimes you need a shot to walk off a job. Sometimes you need one to stay there.
#30
Noice. I ghosted my last job because they were horrible to me.
David Paterson 2 years ago
"Noice, or nice pronounced with an exaggerated Australian accent, is a synonym for awesome."
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Brainmas 2 years ago (edited)
At 15 working at McDonald's, after working 7+ hours on drive through with no breaks, in the middle of rush had a lady who kept changing her full order. I mumbled something out if frustration that no customer could possibly hear, and the DM came screaming out of the office and completely flipped out. I threw my headset at him and told him to do it himself and stormed out. I eventually went back after multiple calls and apologies, and they learned I don't put up with b******t. I'm guessing DM was afraid I'd report the labor violations. The rest of my time there wasn't too bad.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago (edited)
My sister's boss came over to our house searching for her because she failed to show up to work and she wasn't picking up her phone. She became registered as a missing person, and presumed dead. Nobody has seen her since. I miss her.
walkabout 2 years ago
I worked in a fabricating shop with 15 or so other guys. One position there, grinder hand, had a pretty high turnover rate. One day the GH drops by my station and says that he's run-in up to McDick's-did I want anything? Naw. He continues throughout the shop taking orders, leaves at 1200 never to return. I never understood why he thought stealing from a dozen metal workers was a safe bet.
KombatBunni 2 years ago
Faked an injury to get out of working at Myer (big chain department store here in Australia) and told them I quit. Got an email a day later saying I was “let go” and to fill out some paperwork. I said f that and just didn’t reply. 2 months of a s****y job that almost destroyed my sanity.
JustinTime 2 years ago
Had several jobs where I woke up one day and said “NOPE” and went right back to sleep. BTW- don’t join the military.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
Once at Home Depot I got fed up w manager lies and coworkers from hell. I came back in from lunch. Clocked in. Went to my locker an took all my stuff. Walked to the HR ladies office an said I'm done. She's like why?? I told her everything an she calls the boss right then an he's like yeah well sorry. The job before that the managers were not training new hires an it was a s**t show. I was injured and went to the boss the manager an a person from diff department. Manager goes you should have told them blah blah your fault. The f ing ower said yeah you're fault. I left the office. Finished the day. Decided to see how long it would be til owner said sorry and he didn't. So I just emptied my locker and got in my car and left. I just believe if you aren't happy so getting the s**t stick just leave and find something you enjoy.
Sky Render 2 years ago (edited)
I used to work for an insurance valuation firm, and one day out of the blue one of the long-time employees came to the end of the cubicle rows and loudly declared that she had to move to Idaho to help her sister who had just had a miscarriage. We never saw her again.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
I've just handed in 5 months' notice. I'd love to leave now but that would be unfair on my successor.
Looks like an Angel 2 years ago (edited)
Years ago a job I accepted lied to me about the job I was hired to do, I was PISSED. On my first shift, I walked out the door for my break and just kept walking.....all the way home. This was Pre-Cell phones, so they couldn't get a hold of me when break was over and I didn't come back in.
Brainmas 2 years ago (edited)
At 15 working at McDonald's, after working 7+ hours on drive through with no breaks, in the middle of rush had a lady who kept changing her full order. I mumbled something out if frustration that no customer could possibly hear, and the DM came screaming out of the office and completely flipped out. I threw my headset at him and told him to do it himself and stormed out. I eventually went back after multiple calls and apologies, and they learned I don't put up with b******t. I'm guessing DM was afraid I'd report the labor violations. The rest of my time there wasn't too bad.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago (edited)
My sister's boss came over to our house searching for her because she failed to show up to work and she wasn't picking up her phone. She became registered as a missing person, and presumed dead. Nobody has seen her since. I miss her.
walkabout 2 years ago
I worked in a fabricating shop with 15 or so other guys. One position there, grinder hand, had a pretty high turnover rate. One day the GH drops by my station and says that he's run-in up to McDick's-did I want anything? Naw. He continues throughout the shop taking orders, leaves at 1200 never to return. I never understood why he thought stealing from a dozen metal workers was a safe bet.
KombatBunni 2 years ago
Faked an injury to get out of working at Myer (big chain department store here in Australia) and told them I quit. Got an email a day later saying I was “let go” and to fill out some paperwork. I said f that and just didn’t reply. 2 months of a s****y job that almost destroyed my sanity.
JustinTime 2 years ago
Had several jobs where I woke up one day and said “NOPE” and went right back to sleep. BTW- don’t join the military.
Mad McQueen 2 years ago
Once at Home Depot I got fed up w manager lies and coworkers from hell. I came back in from lunch. Clocked in. Went to my locker an took all my stuff. Walked to the HR ladies office an said I'm done. She's like why?? I told her everything an she calls the boss right then an he's like yeah well sorry. The job before that the managers were not training new hires an it was a s**t show. I was injured and went to the boss the manager an a person from diff department. Manager goes you should have told them blah blah your fault. The f ing ower said yeah you're fault. I left the office. Finished the day. Decided to see how long it would be til owner said sorry and he didn't. So I just emptied my locker and got in my car and left. I just believe if you aren't happy so getting the s**t stick just leave and find something you enjoy.
Sky Render 2 years ago (edited)
I used to work for an insurance valuation firm, and one day out of the blue one of the long-time employees came to the end of the cubicle rows and loudly declared that she had to move to Idaho to help her sister who had just had a miscarriage. We never saw her again.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
I've just handed in 5 months' notice. I'd love to leave now but that would be unfair on my successor.
Looks like an Angel 2 years ago (edited)
Years ago a job I accepted lied to me about the job I was hired to do, I was PISSED. On my first shift, I walked out the door for my break and just kept walking.....all the way home. This was Pre-Cell phones, so they couldn't get a hold of me when break was over and I didn't come back in.
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