There are several ways you can approach the topic of quitting a job with your superior. There is the civilized way, then there’s the middle-fingers-blazing way, and then there’s everything in between.
And the interesting part is that some have the opportunity to do any of these via text. Like, pick up your phone, type up a message, and that’s it, you’re no longer working there.
Of course they shared it with the internet. If anything, leaving a job is cathartic and sharing it on the internet is even more so.
Scroll down to check out this, and other entertaining texts telling a manager to shove it and quitting then and there. And while you’re at it, we’d appreciate your upvotes and your stories of how you needed to resort to quitting with a text.
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Quitting a job is hard, but thank god texting exists because some of us can indulge in the catharsis by quitting by text
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Recently, Twitter user Raychael Sarah did just that, and got loads of love for doing so
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Quite recently there has been a bit of an influx of people sharing screencaps of texts of them quitting after a lady named Raychael Sarah on Twitter shared her ‘I quit’ text.
In her text, she quite politely explained that she didn’t appreciate the tone that was used against her in a previous conversation with, assuming, a manager, explaining that she has always been a good and loyal employee and didn’t deserve it. So, good-bye.
She shared the texts with the people of Twitter and it went viral immediately, garnering over 360,000 likes with nearly 19,000 retweets, and a bunch of commenting.
And Raychael’s tweet inspired others to share their (and not their) texts of how they quit
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And apparently a lot of people quit this way, as Raychael’s tweet inspired a slew of people sharing ‘I quit’ texts.
Now, these ranged from raging to wholesome to purely apathetic. In some cases, management was taking things too far, trying to manipulate the employee into ‘taking one for the team’ and threatening to fire them if they didn’t cooperate.
The now-viral Twitter thread featured a variety of texts: some were angry, others wholesome, and yet others—ok
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Others sent a positive message and got a positive message, like this one where the person decided to leave because of their mental health, thanking the employer for the opportunity, and hoping they left a mark. They got some prayer hands and a wish of prosperity.
Raychael’s tweet managed to get over 360k likes and nearly 19k retweets
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Yet others showed just how apathetic management can be as their response to “I’m gonna just put in my 2 weeks notice” was a simple, straightforward “ok”. Not even capitalized. The level of disrespect!
The list goes on and on, with some of the responses gaining thousands of likes and adding to the virality of the Twitter thread.
But bear in mind that this is just one of many places where people have shared their texts, as pointed out by one Twitter user who just now found out about a subreddit dedicated to this sort of thing—r/AntiWork.
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But said Twitter thread is just one of many places to find these, as the r/AntiWork subreddit, for instance, is also home to them
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You can check out the tweet and all of its responses in context in the now-viral thread here, but before you leave, keep scrolling as there’s more to see, and share your thoughts, or better, your texts and experiences with quitting in the comment section below!
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These so called "supervisors" are why establishments are so short staffed. If I was the manager and reviewed these texts, I'd probably be firing the supervisors for their lack of respect and lack of tact in handling their staff appropriately.
They're "supervisors" because they have 2 weeks seniority over the other staff. Maybe the company should try training them?
Load More Replies...It is really that hard for management/bosses to treat people like people? Like common decency? Mutual respect? This is just depressing.
Had someone in upper management once demand that everyone stay until the kitchen was clean, after I had already pulled a 12 hour shift, when the floors were only in bad shape because he rushed the contractor(leading for the concrete to not be finished properly and not be smooth enough to properly clean) and not giving us any proper tools to do the job. He wasn't even apologetic about it, he acted like we had been purposely filthifying the kitchen just to get at him or something.
Load More Replies...My favorite resignation was when I gave them the 2 week notice and none of the supervisors replied or spoke to me again. As a manager now, I stress work life balance and my company backs that policy. If you treat people poorly, you're a bad person, a terrible manager, and you're costing the company a ton of money with all the interviewing and training that has to be done to replace someone. Not cool,and not smart.
I had a manager that did that to my friend. The other three of us on staff quit within the next 2 weeks because of it.
Load More Replies...Gonna share an unpopular opinion, but people, stop giving two weeks noticed to s**t jobs. Just leave. For your own sanity, and because companies like that don't deserve those two weeks to dump additional abuse on you. Two weeks notices are for jobs that treat their employees like human beings, with kindness and respect, not for trash jobs that are nothing but meat grinders with bad attitudes.
I get where you're coming from but not giving two weeks looks bad on you. It also gives you some time to get your stuff straight. I did straight up quit one time, but that was only because I would have smashed the face of the one supervisor if I was there any longer.
Load More Replies..."This is not the first time you have screamed at me. However, it is the last time." QUEEN
What all these employers seem to be missing is that they do not own their employees. Slavery was abolished centuries ago, I guess some idiots really need their visages rammed in with this fact.
I told a boss more than once that I am not their property and am not going to do whatever they ask/tell me to do just because I work there. Most didn't like it, but all did nothing about it because they knew I was a good worker. Every time I've decided to move on I've been begged to stay.
Load More Replies..."management doing low-level work".... xd sounds like that prick is only just out of short pants and is on the very first rung of the 'management' ladder and thinks they're a big shot.
If staff have pre-booked PTO it's not down them to ensure cover, that's down to their manager.
I had an employer do that to me~~I had requested the weekend off for my birthday campout a full month earlier. They refused and I still went camping.
Load More Replies...I hope the one that said "Good luck with your future endeavors" Has a pillow thats cold on both sides
A long time ago i worked somewhere where my boss would have meetings with me about taking more than five minutes in the bathroom, including asking me what I was doing in there. One day she went on the rant about how none of us are forced to work there and our employment is at will so we can quit at any time and we can be fired at any time for any reason. The next day I quit. Her face was the shocked Pikachu gif.
The one that says "Eat. My. Ass." one is very f*****g funny!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some of these "you have to cover" stories remind me of something from years back. I was working security. It was end of shift and my cover wasn't there. I had plans and had to leave but my boss kept insisting I had to cover til they could get someone else in there. I told him that was on the manager to cover the post, not the guy that's already been there 8 hours. I put him in his place and he eventually relented and came to cover my post. The best part is the whole "argument" happened over our radio traffic.
i had an ankle surgery go horribly wrong, resulting in an infection that the drs couldn't get under control. i had tried to go back to work but pus was literally oozing from the wound - not a good look for my clients. so, dr put me off work for more time to heal. got called into meeting w/bosses & HR. reprimanded for time taken off & told i had to return. i wheeled myself out to my hubby's car and,due to his having laptop & portable printer, typed out my resignation. later found out they told my colleagues i had been fired. surprise - surprise when i showed up for health insurance mtg two wks later to get info for ppl like me who took early retirement.
Dunno how long ago that was, but you can sue.
Load More Replies...most places like Target, WalMart, ect, give bonuses to store managers depending how much "payroll hours" they've "saved". that's why these places are always short staffed.
When hired on at a call center i told them id need off a certain date in may for my mom's wedding, they said no problem, put in the request off a month or 2 in advance. Two months beforehand i put in request off...it was denied as they "anticipated high call volume" that day. I handled on average 200+ calls per day compared to most employees who barely met the 100 minimum. Obviously called in for the wedding...was fired for it. That kind of job environment is not worth it, can get hired anywhere. Was the first time i realized my worth as a person and wasn't afraid of what "could" happen by standing up for myself. Got hired on at a great family diner 2 days later.
I'm stunned at all the "I'm going to need you to come in" talk. It's not only incredibly rude, it's an ineffective way to win over your staff. I'm happy to help when asked, but when someone demands I come in on my day off? No.
I gave two-week's notice. The store manager said, "I accept your resignation immediately." I was out five minutes later. Just as well.... PS: That store is gone now. No loss.
For those who live in "At Will" States~~this not only mean's that the employer can fire you for any legal reason; it also means YOU don't have to give those douchebags any notice either! So when your boss says you have to give notice? Well, give them something even more special, like the finger.😁
They expect employees to be grateful for the pathetically ~low minimum wage that they bribe Congress to approve.
Load More Replies...I once had a boss try to tell me I had to work past my two weeks (which I did because I could) and she forgot I had quit. She texted me all pissed that I didn't show up for my shift the next day after I had decided I wouldn't do her "favors" anymore. I texted her back that I'd quit a month ago and had moved out of state. She threatened me with termination, I threatened a law suit (for unrelated bs)
I just quit now kinda because they didn't believe my asthma issues. Asthma is real people n you can die from it!!!!
I am so sorry. I developed really bad lung problems when i was doing my final internship for my masters. I didnt know what it was but i needed to go to the hospotal several times, I coughed all the time and so hard that made me nauseous and i was extremely weak and dizzy all the time. My boses kept being angry if i needed to do a test at the hospital and barely passed me, calling me inmature and irresponsible because I was ill. I wish I could make them both chronically ill so they see how fun it is...
Load More Replies...Reading these supervisors text, they are so unprofessional you wonder why staff quit on such short notice because I'd quit as well if someone spoke to me like I owe them my life.
Im glad people are quitting instead of letting management walk all over them. It’s like this because we let it get like this by not saying no or establishing any kind of standard. You think people would just be decent, but they arn’t.
I realized when i was having a mental breakdown after having worked 14+ hours in one day because of an excessively demanding upper management that the worst job I'd had was destroying my mental health. I left my key on the counter, clocked out, and left before Mr Rage could see me leaving.
It's kind of amazing how polite people are when they quit when they absolutely don't owe a bad employer anything.
"This job is so horrible, I can't do it once, your fired". Short-sighted much?
Usually, douchebags like this also spin it to make any situation a "fired with cause" termination .. so you can't collect unemployment even though, you know...you paid into it!
You can fight it, so save those texts! The labor board also doesn't like abusive employers.
Load More Replies...I want to see the supervisors’ replies to the I Quits. Also can’t these exchanges be used against them with hr? They all seem pretty dirty to me. Blah.
I've talked before about the time I let my retail bosses know, three months in advance, that I had concert tickets, so I needed either the Fri/Sat or the Sat/Sun off (concert was on Sat). They promised me they'd take care of it. Lo and behold, the schedule for the week of the concert goes up. My only day off is Sunday (which never happens in retail), and I'm working so late on Sat that I'll miss half the concert. I look at the rest of the schedule (everyone's hours were posted together), and I see a coworker has Sat off, so I ask her if she's willing to switch. She's more than happy to do so--apparently they'd been shorting her on hours even after she'd begged them for more shifts. We jointly go to the scheduling manager to tell her that Coworker is taking my Saturday, and I'm taking Saturday off. Manager decides to yell at me for "forcing" Coworker to take my shift, and is very surprised when Coworker says, "Um, no, I'm happy to take her shift, I willingly agreed!" "Oh..."
I quit a job several years ago, because they thought they owned me and literally sold my IT services to another company for 3 months! I came back to the office after those 3 months, deleted all my emails, wiped my laptop and left my badge and keys without saying a word. When they couldn't get a hold of me on the phone. They found my laptop on my desk and opened it and found my note, " I QUIT, I QUIT, I QUIT!
I had a job with a points system for absences/leaving early/being late. You receive 2 points for being late/leaving early and you get 5 points for missing work on a scheduled day. If you accrued 10 points, you would be reprimanded and at 15 points, fired. Over the course of my two years working there, I had a couple emergencies with my children, one where I had to leave work early and another where I couldn't come in because my child ended up needing an appendectomy... When I showed up to work after my child's surgery, my supervisor came up to me to discuss the points I've earned, which were only 7 at that point (and no, these points do not reset every year... They just keep adding up until they finally fire you for them)... I told him, "I've been here two years, do my job better than anyone in this building, I'm reliable and even come in on my days off when y'all are in a bind and need to get caught up... Talk to me about points again and I'll quit" never heard another word about it.
After I gave a 2 week notice I was told I could leave, I told them "After you write my final check and don't forget the overtime" I flipped the camera off on my way out. (I already had another job to start in 2 weeks) I later learned that another employee had quit who did a specific job that one else knew (except me 😂) I ended up starting the next job a week soon and never missed a beat! Oh yeah, the job I gave notice to had just paid me all my unused PTO 🤣
The favorite time that I quit was the only time. And guess what. I DIDNT QUIT! I went in to tell my boss at the time that the police had to talk to me about a drunken brawl that occured above my unit in my complex and some minors got the absolute hell beat out of them by 1 drunk adult! Someone's finger got broken. My life was threatened and I almost sent the drunk adult over the 2nd story rail getting him off an intoxicated 17 y/o. I was 19 then and it was the start of Dec. I kept waiting for the cops to talk to me but they left. I was up for 28 hrs by the time I went in to tell my boss. He said I could not miss work that night since I was the only in-store employee. (I was at the time but there were 2 assistant managers and the manager working.) They literally had no one I could ever get to cover my shift because I was the ONLY in-store employee. The others were all delivery drivers. They should have had 3 in stores at minimum. Nope. Then I was told if I walked out I would be ......
Considered a no show no call EVEN THO I WAS IN THERE TO LET HIM KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND IN PERSON NO LESS! A Freund's cousin consulted with an attorney pal he had. He said I can't be fired for talking to police. I left and walked to the police station 2 miles away with my brother. Long story short-that specific cop I was told to talk to left early to go get drunk since it was his last night before transferring out of state. Apparently I couldn't talk to anyone else for some stupid reason. I left, slept hard and missed the next day due to puking my brains out. I didn't call in Kuz screw him! I went in Monday for my shift and he looked at me and asked "Why are you here?" 'I was scheduled to work today so I'm here.' "No! You quit!" 'Really? No I didn't!' "You did when you walked out the other day!" '.........well then l, since I don't work here any more you can't fire me for what I say. GO STICK YOUR D~CK IN A TOASTER!' Found out later he told me that I quit so I couldn't collect ...
Load More Replies...Seriously, what kind of sector these people were working at? Genuine question, no judgment whatsoever. Also, why are these employee put up with it for so long? I understand the necessity to survive, but to what degree, when all we have as human beings are our integrity and self respect. I've been in a corporation for almost 15 years, I would DARE anyone to talk to me these ways, not only would I quit, I'll make sure they will never be working in the industry again. Middle management are NOTHING nor they MATTERS. Just saying the truth.
The majority of these are whiny employees that think they are special, then get angry when they aren't treated the special little princesses they think they are.
I'm also reminded of how, at my wife's last job, she and her coworkers each individually did the work of three ppl. Every couple of years, the bosses would decide to hire a couple of new employees. Every couple of years, my wife and her coworkers hoped that meant that their workload would decrease. No such luck--hiring new employees meant, in management's mind, that they could take on even more work, so even the new hires were each individually doing the workload of three ppl. My wife doesn't miss that job...
These so called supervisors don't understand the new work world. For years they got away with threatening people by saying they'll get fired, on suspension, on report. It doesn't work that way right now. I live in a usually high unemployment area. There are Help Wanted signs everywhere and not just minimum wage jobs either. It's a worker's world and these people need to learn that.
Why do you hate working? You're either depressed or lazy.
Load More Replies...I didn't have texts when I first started working. I just walked out. I was working At walbaums, a food store in Long Island in the 90's. I was the best stocker they had. Fastest cleanest. I had the worst , hardest isle. Minimum wage was about $3.90 I was getting $1 over minimum. I asked for more because of the work. For weeks I asked. Again. This is a time when management actually managed and didn't have to ask corporate for everything or anything. I asked for weeks. Then one day I pulled out all my stock and asked again. I didn't like the answer to so just left without telling anyone .
Are threats and foul language really considered professional? So disrespectful and demeaning, like a parent scolding an unruly child. Blackmailing your employees into coming to work sure will lead to stellar results. And what the heck is the problem with people sitting down on their job when they perform just as well?
Most of these are petty little tyrants enjoying the tiny bit of power they think they hold over people. But I do wonder if some of the more reasonable ones have had their hands tied further up the corporate ladder, and shouldn't get the full ire of the internet.
No, the more 'reasonable' ones may have higher-ups making the demands, but they still shouldn't be a$$holes to the employees under them. I once worked for a manager who had all kinds of sh!t coming down on her from the 'higher-ups' & she never took it out on anyone who worked for her.
Load More Replies...These so called "supervisors" are why establishments are so short staffed. If I was the manager and reviewed these texts, I'd probably be firing the supervisors for their lack of respect and lack of tact in handling their staff appropriately.
They're "supervisors" because they have 2 weeks seniority over the other staff. Maybe the company should try training them?
Load More Replies...It is really that hard for management/bosses to treat people like people? Like common decency? Mutual respect? This is just depressing.
Had someone in upper management once demand that everyone stay until the kitchen was clean, after I had already pulled a 12 hour shift, when the floors were only in bad shape because he rushed the contractor(leading for the concrete to not be finished properly and not be smooth enough to properly clean) and not giving us any proper tools to do the job. He wasn't even apologetic about it, he acted like we had been purposely filthifying the kitchen just to get at him or something.
Load More Replies...My favorite resignation was when I gave them the 2 week notice and none of the supervisors replied or spoke to me again. As a manager now, I stress work life balance and my company backs that policy. If you treat people poorly, you're a bad person, a terrible manager, and you're costing the company a ton of money with all the interviewing and training that has to be done to replace someone. Not cool,and not smart.
I had a manager that did that to my friend. The other three of us on staff quit within the next 2 weeks because of it.
Load More Replies...Gonna share an unpopular opinion, but people, stop giving two weeks noticed to s**t jobs. Just leave. For your own sanity, and because companies like that don't deserve those two weeks to dump additional abuse on you. Two weeks notices are for jobs that treat their employees like human beings, with kindness and respect, not for trash jobs that are nothing but meat grinders with bad attitudes.
I get where you're coming from but not giving two weeks looks bad on you. It also gives you some time to get your stuff straight. I did straight up quit one time, but that was only because I would have smashed the face of the one supervisor if I was there any longer.
Load More Replies..."This is not the first time you have screamed at me. However, it is the last time." QUEEN
What all these employers seem to be missing is that they do not own their employees. Slavery was abolished centuries ago, I guess some idiots really need their visages rammed in with this fact.
I told a boss more than once that I am not their property and am not going to do whatever they ask/tell me to do just because I work there. Most didn't like it, but all did nothing about it because they knew I was a good worker. Every time I've decided to move on I've been begged to stay.
Load More Replies..."management doing low-level work".... xd sounds like that prick is only just out of short pants and is on the very first rung of the 'management' ladder and thinks they're a big shot.
If staff have pre-booked PTO it's not down them to ensure cover, that's down to their manager.
I had an employer do that to me~~I had requested the weekend off for my birthday campout a full month earlier. They refused and I still went camping.
Load More Replies...I hope the one that said "Good luck with your future endeavors" Has a pillow thats cold on both sides
A long time ago i worked somewhere where my boss would have meetings with me about taking more than five minutes in the bathroom, including asking me what I was doing in there. One day she went on the rant about how none of us are forced to work there and our employment is at will so we can quit at any time and we can be fired at any time for any reason. The next day I quit. Her face was the shocked Pikachu gif.
The one that says "Eat. My. Ass." one is very f*****g funny!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some of these "you have to cover" stories remind me of something from years back. I was working security. It was end of shift and my cover wasn't there. I had plans and had to leave but my boss kept insisting I had to cover til they could get someone else in there. I told him that was on the manager to cover the post, not the guy that's already been there 8 hours. I put him in his place and he eventually relented and came to cover my post. The best part is the whole "argument" happened over our radio traffic.
i had an ankle surgery go horribly wrong, resulting in an infection that the drs couldn't get under control. i had tried to go back to work but pus was literally oozing from the wound - not a good look for my clients. so, dr put me off work for more time to heal. got called into meeting w/bosses & HR. reprimanded for time taken off & told i had to return. i wheeled myself out to my hubby's car and,due to his having laptop & portable printer, typed out my resignation. later found out they told my colleagues i had been fired. surprise - surprise when i showed up for health insurance mtg two wks later to get info for ppl like me who took early retirement.
Dunno how long ago that was, but you can sue.
Load More Replies...most places like Target, WalMart, ect, give bonuses to store managers depending how much "payroll hours" they've "saved". that's why these places are always short staffed.
When hired on at a call center i told them id need off a certain date in may for my mom's wedding, they said no problem, put in the request off a month or 2 in advance. Two months beforehand i put in request off...it was denied as they "anticipated high call volume" that day. I handled on average 200+ calls per day compared to most employees who barely met the 100 minimum. Obviously called in for the wedding...was fired for it. That kind of job environment is not worth it, can get hired anywhere. Was the first time i realized my worth as a person and wasn't afraid of what "could" happen by standing up for myself. Got hired on at a great family diner 2 days later.
I'm stunned at all the "I'm going to need you to come in" talk. It's not only incredibly rude, it's an ineffective way to win over your staff. I'm happy to help when asked, but when someone demands I come in on my day off? No.
I gave two-week's notice. The store manager said, "I accept your resignation immediately." I was out five minutes later. Just as well.... PS: That store is gone now. No loss.
For those who live in "At Will" States~~this not only mean's that the employer can fire you for any legal reason; it also means YOU don't have to give those douchebags any notice either! So when your boss says you have to give notice? Well, give them something even more special, like the finger.😁
They expect employees to be grateful for the pathetically ~low minimum wage that they bribe Congress to approve.
Load More Replies...I once had a boss try to tell me I had to work past my two weeks (which I did because I could) and she forgot I had quit. She texted me all pissed that I didn't show up for my shift the next day after I had decided I wouldn't do her "favors" anymore. I texted her back that I'd quit a month ago and had moved out of state. She threatened me with termination, I threatened a law suit (for unrelated bs)
I just quit now kinda because they didn't believe my asthma issues. Asthma is real people n you can die from it!!!!
I am so sorry. I developed really bad lung problems when i was doing my final internship for my masters. I didnt know what it was but i needed to go to the hospotal several times, I coughed all the time and so hard that made me nauseous and i was extremely weak and dizzy all the time. My boses kept being angry if i needed to do a test at the hospital and barely passed me, calling me inmature and irresponsible because I was ill. I wish I could make them both chronically ill so they see how fun it is...
Load More Replies...Reading these supervisors text, they are so unprofessional you wonder why staff quit on such short notice because I'd quit as well if someone spoke to me like I owe them my life.
Im glad people are quitting instead of letting management walk all over them. It’s like this because we let it get like this by not saying no or establishing any kind of standard. You think people would just be decent, but they arn’t.
I realized when i was having a mental breakdown after having worked 14+ hours in one day because of an excessively demanding upper management that the worst job I'd had was destroying my mental health. I left my key on the counter, clocked out, and left before Mr Rage could see me leaving.
It's kind of amazing how polite people are when they quit when they absolutely don't owe a bad employer anything.
"This job is so horrible, I can't do it once, your fired". Short-sighted much?
Usually, douchebags like this also spin it to make any situation a "fired with cause" termination .. so you can't collect unemployment even though, you know...you paid into it!
You can fight it, so save those texts! The labor board also doesn't like abusive employers.
Load More Replies...I want to see the supervisors’ replies to the I Quits. Also can’t these exchanges be used against them with hr? They all seem pretty dirty to me. Blah.
I've talked before about the time I let my retail bosses know, three months in advance, that I had concert tickets, so I needed either the Fri/Sat or the Sat/Sun off (concert was on Sat). They promised me they'd take care of it. Lo and behold, the schedule for the week of the concert goes up. My only day off is Sunday (which never happens in retail), and I'm working so late on Sat that I'll miss half the concert. I look at the rest of the schedule (everyone's hours were posted together), and I see a coworker has Sat off, so I ask her if she's willing to switch. She's more than happy to do so--apparently they'd been shorting her on hours even after she'd begged them for more shifts. We jointly go to the scheduling manager to tell her that Coworker is taking my Saturday, and I'm taking Saturday off. Manager decides to yell at me for "forcing" Coworker to take my shift, and is very surprised when Coworker says, "Um, no, I'm happy to take her shift, I willingly agreed!" "Oh..."
I quit a job several years ago, because they thought they owned me and literally sold my IT services to another company for 3 months! I came back to the office after those 3 months, deleted all my emails, wiped my laptop and left my badge and keys without saying a word. When they couldn't get a hold of me on the phone. They found my laptop on my desk and opened it and found my note, " I QUIT, I QUIT, I QUIT!
I had a job with a points system for absences/leaving early/being late. You receive 2 points for being late/leaving early and you get 5 points for missing work on a scheduled day. If you accrued 10 points, you would be reprimanded and at 15 points, fired. Over the course of my two years working there, I had a couple emergencies with my children, one where I had to leave work early and another where I couldn't come in because my child ended up needing an appendectomy... When I showed up to work after my child's surgery, my supervisor came up to me to discuss the points I've earned, which were only 7 at that point (and no, these points do not reset every year... They just keep adding up until they finally fire you for them)... I told him, "I've been here two years, do my job better than anyone in this building, I'm reliable and even come in on my days off when y'all are in a bind and need to get caught up... Talk to me about points again and I'll quit" never heard another word about it.
After I gave a 2 week notice I was told I could leave, I told them "After you write my final check and don't forget the overtime" I flipped the camera off on my way out. (I already had another job to start in 2 weeks) I later learned that another employee had quit who did a specific job that one else knew (except me 😂) I ended up starting the next job a week soon and never missed a beat! Oh yeah, the job I gave notice to had just paid me all my unused PTO 🤣
The favorite time that I quit was the only time. And guess what. I DIDNT QUIT! I went in to tell my boss at the time that the police had to talk to me about a drunken brawl that occured above my unit in my complex and some minors got the absolute hell beat out of them by 1 drunk adult! Someone's finger got broken. My life was threatened and I almost sent the drunk adult over the 2nd story rail getting him off an intoxicated 17 y/o. I was 19 then and it was the start of Dec. I kept waiting for the cops to talk to me but they left. I was up for 28 hrs by the time I went in to tell my boss. He said I could not miss work that night since I was the only in-store employee. (I was at the time but there were 2 assistant managers and the manager working.) They literally had no one I could ever get to cover my shift because I was the ONLY in-store employee. The others were all delivery drivers. They should have had 3 in stores at minimum. Nope. Then I was told if I walked out I would be ......
Considered a no show no call EVEN THO I WAS IN THERE TO LET HIM KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND IN PERSON NO LESS! A Freund's cousin consulted with an attorney pal he had. He said I can't be fired for talking to police. I left and walked to the police station 2 miles away with my brother. Long story short-that specific cop I was told to talk to left early to go get drunk since it was his last night before transferring out of state. Apparently I couldn't talk to anyone else for some stupid reason. I left, slept hard and missed the next day due to puking my brains out. I didn't call in Kuz screw him! I went in Monday for my shift and he looked at me and asked "Why are you here?" 'I was scheduled to work today so I'm here.' "No! You quit!" 'Really? No I didn't!' "You did when you walked out the other day!" '.........well then l, since I don't work here any more you can't fire me for what I say. GO STICK YOUR D~CK IN A TOASTER!' Found out later he told me that I quit so I couldn't collect ...
Load More Replies...Seriously, what kind of sector these people were working at? Genuine question, no judgment whatsoever. Also, why are these employee put up with it for so long? I understand the necessity to survive, but to what degree, when all we have as human beings are our integrity and self respect. I've been in a corporation for almost 15 years, I would DARE anyone to talk to me these ways, not only would I quit, I'll make sure they will never be working in the industry again. Middle management are NOTHING nor they MATTERS. Just saying the truth.
The majority of these are whiny employees that think they are special, then get angry when they aren't treated the special little princesses they think they are.
I'm also reminded of how, at my wife's last job, she and her coworkers each individually did the work of three ppl. Every couple of years, the bosses would decide to hire a couple of new employees. Every couple of years, my wife and her coworkers hoped that meant that their workload would decrease. No such luck--hiring new employees meant, in management's mind, that they could take on even more work, so even the new hires were each individually doing the workload of three ppl. My wife doesn't miss that job...
These so called supervisors don't understand the new work world. For years they got away with threatening people by saying they'll get fired, on suspension, on report. It doesn't work that way right now. I live in a usually high unemployment area. There are Help Wanted signs everywhere and not just minimum wage jobs either. It's a worker's world and these people need to learn that.
Why do you hate working? You're either depressed or lazy.
Load More Replies...I didn't have texts when I first started working. I just walked out. I was working At walbaums, a food store in Long Island in the 90's. I was the best stocker they had. Fastest cleanest. I had the worst , hardest isle. Minimum wage was about $3.90 I was getting $1 over minimum. I asked for more because of the work. For weeks I asked. Again. This is a time when management actually managed and didn't have to ask corporate for everything or anything. I asked for weeks. Then one day I pulled out all my stock and asked again. I didn't like the answer to so just left without telling anyone .
Are threats and foul language really considered professional? So disrespectful and demeaning, like a parent scolding an unruly child. Blackmailing your employees into coming to work sure will lead to stellar results. And what the heck is the problem with people sitting down on their job when they perform just as well?
Most of these are petty little tyrants enjoying the tiny bit of power they think they hold over people. But I do wonder if some of the more reasonable ones have had their hands tied further up the corporate ladder, and shouldn't get the full ire of the internet.
No, the more 'reasonable' ones may have higher-ups making the demands, but they still shouldn't be a$$holes to the employees under them. I once worked for a manager who had all kinds of sh!t coming down on her from the 'higher-ups' & she never took it out on anyone who worked for her.
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