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30 Moments In Which People Realized They No Longer Wanted To Work At Their Current Job
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I bet that at least once, every one of us has wanted to just throw away all the work that needs to be done and leave. We may have become extremely tired of our jobs, experienced rudeness from others, had an excessive workload, our necessary vacation days were declined, or we had another reason. But eventually, most of the time, we come to the realization that perhaps everything was simply a passing fit of anger. But not always. There are moments when quitting is the best decision when we have reached our breaking point and are at a loss for words.
About that, one Reddit user recently started a thread asking people online to share what were their final straws that led them to straight-up rage quit their jobs. So scroll through and, well, maybe feel relieved that your job doesn’t suck that much!
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#1
I was working when I got the call that my partner of 7 years had been in a terrible car accident while visiting family in Florida. He was in the hospital and his mother called me to tell me he wasn't awake yet.
I was obviously devastated and scared out of my mind. Told my coworkers and boss because it was obvious I was panicking and they told me to take the rest of the weekend off so i could deal with things and prepare and clean his apartment for when/if he got back. Specifically, they said to come back Monday and it was a Friday.
Next day I was cleaning up his apartment when I got the call from my boss screaming about why I hadn't come into work that day. I told him that I recalled him telling me to take the weekend off and come back Monday. He said to come to work immediately because they needed me.
Against my better judgment and my emotional state I showed up and clocked in. Boss came up to me, threw the stack of checks down on the counter that had just come in, and told me, "if you do that again youre fired." This was someone who had never yelled at me before, or even dared speak to me in any stern way. Prior to my arrival their store was an absolute mess and I spent all of my free time, what little there was, reorganizing and cleaning and setting up new systems. For some reason, the fact he chose to start speaking to me this way, and demanding my attention *now*, at that time? It just made me snap. A chord was struck and it resonated, *strong*. I got the message clearly. He was one of those bosses who became controlling of any one who became of value to him and his business. The moment you aren't available when they need, or even wanted you to be, they were going to make you feel bad about it so you were afraid to ask for more personal time, or any other leniencies that took you away from work.
I was literally reeling. Saw red. The moment he turned his back I snatched my check, walked out with a full line of customers at the counter and the phone going off with incoming orders and drove off. He blew up my phone all day. Never came back or called back.
Fortunately, he made it home safe and healed up fine. Unfortunately, he passed away on our anniversary a few years later. I regret every moment I passed up to spend time with him over that job, or, any job, for that matter. I know barely anyone is going to read this now that it's buried under a pile of other comments. But it still felt nice to type it out.
MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
I am one of the few that Covid lockdown actually benefitted. I was able to work from home and be with him for the last 2 years before he passed.
Tumbah 1 year ago
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Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
Oh Honey!! I am so very sorry you had to go through this. 😢😢. I hope you’re feeling better soon. ❤️
Calyx Teren 1 year ago
I’m so sorry for your loss. And very glad that you were able to rage quit that person who totally deserved it.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I could easily imagine a stressed person in that situation mishearing something the boss says. Like the boss telling them to take the rest of the day off, but them hearing it as the weekend. That said, it really doesn't excuse the way the boss acted. That just shows they have no empathy and compassion. Getting out of there really seems like the best thing they could do.
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#2
I was waiting tables while I was in grad school. I had requested a weekend off far in advance (right after I got my syllabus) because there was a seminar pertinent to a class. Our professor expected to us to go and write a paper. It was a decent chunk of our grade.
The weekend comes up and lo and behold, I’m scheduled doubles Friday through Sunday. I hunt down the manger and say I can’t do that and I’ve given months notice. She pulls the “requests are just requests not guarantees” and I tell her point blank I will fail this class if I don’t go. She shrugged she said “that isn’t my problem”. I told her “is now” and left. Like hell I was going fail a class for my masters degree waiting tables at a f*****g Rainforest Cafe
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Love the "not my problem" replies. It will be your problem, it will be >:)
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Slowly, calmly and with direct eye contact say, "Are you fully prepared for the consequences of your decision on this matter?"
Michael Largey 1 year ago
"Boss, if my problem is really none of your business, then neither is my solution for it, right?"
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
"Is now" 😆 I wish I could see the look on the manager's face LOL
Melissa Schermerhorn 1 year ago
Rude, and very demeaning of people working a difficult job. Uncalled for, and nasty.
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#3
I was a receptionist for a medical software company. Boss refused my request for a single day off to take my teen daughter to get eye surgery. I waited until the first day of her 2 week vacation and put in my notice. Ruined her holiday.
WindySwede 1 year ago
"Oups, was your holiday this week!? I'm sooo soooorry!"
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I applaud your patience and timing, OP. You are someone we should emulate.
Bored Panda got in touch with Farhan Raja, who is the founder of one of the world’s leading career and interview coaching specialists and a career coach. He kindly agreed to share his professional insights regarding this topic.
To begin with, we asked Farhan to share the key red flags that indicate when an employee should consider quitting their job, and the first one he listed was ‘Your manager is gaslighting you’. He added that many people are bullied by their managers in a subtle and manipulative way.
“The most common being gaslighting, which can have a huge negative impact on your self-esteem and confidence. For example, you’ve completed an amazing piece of work which everyone appreciates yet your manager is still finding faults. You’re constantly being told you’re not working hard enough even though you are.”
#4
Not me, but a colleague once wrote a long stinker of an email, hit send at 10:30am and exited the building immediately. He blind-copied all receivers but sent it to multiple departments of a large multinational I was working at, no one knew who did/didn’t get the email, except for the gasps and OMGs around the office. He was completely disgruntled, and went in on multiple managers, supervisors and various colleagues with absolute venom. It was amazing, still the best work email I’ve ever received and some s**t he called out actually had to be addressed by management, it brought about a lot of positive change. If you’re out there Khalil, that was awesome.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
It was well before my time but some dude at the radio station I used to work at got all disgruntled and barricaded the door during his shift on air and spent the entire time rabtibg, swearing, and playing songs that definitely didn't meet crtc guidelines until they managed to get the door open. (Crtc = Canadian radio television communications commission, the fcc equivalent for Americans).
#5
Mine?
I was tired of doing a 3 person job. My boss following me around, calling me at home during meetings when I was sick, talking to me outside the bathroom door was making me crazy.
I came back from vacation one day to find piles & piles of work that other people could have done.
I quit, packed my s**t & left.🖕
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
2 times in the past 30 years I've made the experience that, while I was given the impression I could do better, after I changed jobs out of frustration, the old bosses hired 2 full time employees to cover what I did. Some people I'll never understand. Why not reward and keep good team members.
Donald 1 year ago
My previous job was like this, thankfully without the bathroom visits. I asked for a year and a half to hire just one more person to help clean and cover when people were on vacation or out sick. I quit and they had to hire 3 new employees to cover what I did. My uncle still works there and he said it has become a trash heap with an insane turnover rate in the 2 years I've been gone.
Seadog 1 year ago
I just might be doing this today, depends on what the meeting this morning produces. Doing a 2 person job and all owner can do is find wrong in the way I'm dealing with it. If I walk it'll mean early retirement as there are no other jobs in my field in reasonable driving distance and no one else is going to hire me at my age.
Another red flag is lack of respect for personal boundaries. Farhan pointed out that since a job is a profession, maintaining one's professionalism is essential to proper behavior and etiquette at work. If your coworkers are going too far in probing personal matters or making negative comments about your appearance or dressing, then it’s not a healthy work environment to be in.
And finally - blame culture. “If you find that there is a lack of ownership from colleagues, always blaming incomplete work or mistakes on others, it is usually a sign that there is a lack of productivity, where staff are more focused on how to do as little work as possible than be productive,” he emphasized.
#6
Was promised that if I got my accounting degree they would move me to IA so I could get hours towards my CPA.
Worked my a*s off, graduated, and the boss said "Yeeeeeaaaah, were going to move you to Customer Service. Sound good?"
Stayed late that night drafting a company wide "F**k you" email.
Probably shouldn't have done that in hindsight, but some bridges just beg to be burned.
Frank Russell 1 year ago
I was promised a promotion once for completing a long, fairly complicated (and not very relevant) computer-based training regimen. Found out about halfway through that there wouldn't be an opening for that promotion anytime soon. My manager wasn't surprised when I stopped wasting my time on the training program, even though he was the one who had offered the promotion.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
That first sentence had me saying "They are definitely not going to move you.". They probably didn't expect you to do it. Torch that bridge!
White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago
In the corporate world, nothing is a promise if it's not in writing.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
If you never need to cross it again by all means burn that bridge when its deserved.
#7
One very busy night while waitressing, I was standing at a table of 12 in the middle of taking their order when another waitress came up to me and said our boss wanted us in their office that instant. So I leave my full section in the middle of chaos to go see what the problem is. My boss began to chew us both out because the other girl asked if I would switch shifts with her and I had agreed. I didn't say anything but was obviously annoyed because I had just left all my tables thinking there was some sort of emergency. My boss looked at me and asked why I looked mad and I told him "I feel like this could have been sorted out without me, if you didn't want her to leave early you could have just told her no instead of pulling me away from our customers". They said "if you're going to have an attitude get your s**t and leave".
I said ok and went to transfer my tables. I was over it. I had worked there 3 years and the owners were alcoholics that treated us like garbage and spent all the company on themselves instead of getting ingredients to make food or paying their employees. The other waitress came back out and said our boss wanted me back in the office. I went in and they said "put your apron back on, you're not fired". I said "you're both f*****g crazy if you think you can treat people the way you do and expect them to want to work for you" and I walked out. As I was leaving they came out behind me saying I would regret it and was never allowed back if I left. I threw up my middle fingers and kept walking.
Funny part is I let my boyfriend take my car to work that night so I had to walk a mile home and break into my house🤣
Victoria Gerencser 1 year ago
She probably kept her house key on the same key ring as her car key and her boyfriend was most likely supposed to pick her up after work
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
While still in high school, I got a job waitressing at a famous chain restaurant. The manager was a belligerent, heavy drinker who threatened the employees when he was in a foul mood, which was frequently. One night, steak knives were flying by my head as I was waiting on a customer. I ducked, as did the customer, and saw it was that a-hole wanting my attention. I ended up ducking out, and called my father who showed up with his friends to "talk" things out with drunk boy. At last, the employees were free to simply do their stupid, menial jobs without fear of physical violence.
The danish woman 1 year ago
What is it with americans and walking. 1,5 miles! My daily walks with my dog is 3 miles. And that is short walks, cause I have nervedamage in my legs.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
My thoughts exactly! I'm Dutch, a fifteen minute walk is where I might start to consider unlocking - riding - locking - unlocking - riding - locking my bike.
Load More Replies... #8
I worked for a call center for AT&T. I refused to try and sell a DirectTv package to a woman who was literally bawling her eyes out on the phone because she was having to switch her phone plan to her name instead of her husbands name because he had just died.
Natasha Arruda 1 year ago
Wrong. Profits over anything that bothers the "lower" folks, but make sure there isn't even a slight inconvenience to anyone that has a title that's a bunch of letters. (CEO, CFO, etc.) That's also why emailing corporate and whatever is often met with "Oh, here you go, here's a gift card or discount even though you assaulted a call center employee or a salesman at our stores."
Load More Replies... Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 1 year ago
You can wait to do that. I think most of my mom's bills are still in my dad's name and he's been dead almost 20 years.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Are you sure you're not interested in DirectTv? Think about how lonely you'll be now your husband's dead. Think about all the shows you can watch, sitting alone in your home.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Worked in AT&T for 2 years, last year as tech support for U-verse. They tried to put on us any conceivable upsell, like Fiber upgrade for 80 years old granny with basic landline and TV package.
Nolgoth 1 year ago
I was an att dsl phone tech a few years back. I hated the force uverse migration. People that had working 1.5mb dsl for decades with no intention of getting anything higher cuz they didnt need it (usually elderly people but also people out in the boonies that couldnt get anything higher) being told they *had* to switch to uverse... their dsl service got turned off, tech that goes out cannot set up the uverse cuz they were too far away on the loop to get it, system wouldn't allow them to switch back to dsl. Such a cluster.
Load More Replies... Seadog 1 year ago
DirectTV and Dish Network are both a total ripoff. 150 channel package has less than 10 channels that actually show any programming the average person would watch. C Band satellite was always better than the little dishes will ever be. Biggest mistake I ever made was taking down my 10' dish. Now I can't find anyone who knows how to put it back and align it. C band is still out there although it has limited programming now.
Sonja 1 year ago (edited)
In my first call centre job the bosses were like that. The client company had already 50% of their customers on their upscale plans. The other 50% mostly couldn't afford it, couldn't have it in their area or resolutely refused it several times already. Their salespeople were too good and they had this package deal where you could have the program for free for a year and then people got used to it and wouldn't cancel it. It was a great thing too. People liked that special service and actually ask for it at first contact. So upselling at later points of contact, especially in customer service, was nearly impossible. But they insisted that an upsale should be possible in at least 3 out of 10 contacts. So they had the client's best salesman put in our customer service to proof that this and more was possible. In sales, that guy had a quota of selling that product in 50% of calls. No surprise there, those callers had no service at all and explicitly called to subscribe to the service. Of course they'd take the extra package free for one year if it was at all possible. In one week in customer service, with callers who already had contracts, he didn't make even one, single upsell. They still blamed us for bad quotas.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago (edited)
And, I, as you seem to, would not ever allow ourselves to follow that kind of situation with an attempt to sell something. Hill I will die on. Because 5.5 years ago, my best friend of 40 years and husband for 20 of that died, age 56, not of the leukemia, but from the the blood poisoning the hospital (One of the top research hospitals in the world) carelessly gave him. 4 days after our 20th wedding anniversary and 1 month before it would have been a full 40 years. 😭💔
Now, speaking about the toxic environment’s impact on a person, the career coach shared that it can actually affect mental health and well-being in many ways. “You take your work problems home and they start having a negative impact on your personal life and family.” He added that you will find family and friends saying that you don’t seem yourself or you find yourself taking your anger and frustration out on loved ones.
Additionally, it can reduce your overall quality of life. “If you're not happy at work, it means that you’re not happy for 1/3 of your day and when you consider that the other 1/3 is sleeping, it actually means half of your day is passing by with you being unhappy and stressed,” Farhan pointed out.
“This continuous persistence of unhappiness and stress can lead to depression or stress-related illnesses caused by a toxic work environment.”
#9
When I was 20, I worked a commission based sales job. The manager hated me for some reason. I genuinely to this day have no idea why. I tried really hard, had a good attitude, and followed all the rules. My sales weren't extraordinary, but I always met my numbers.
My grandmother died about six months into the job. I texted my manager to tell him I'd be taking my three days of bereavement as allowed by the union. I even apologized for the inconvenience, as though I could control my grandmother's death. He called me the day after she died accusing me of lying, saying I was lazy and just wanted the time off. Keep in mind I'd never called out before or even been more than 5 minutes late to a shift. I sent him medical documentation proving she'd had a stroke during the night and passed away. He called me back and said fine, I could have that day off, but he better see me the next day (my third day of union-protected bereavement) or I'd be fired.
Stricken with grief but terrified of losing my job, I drove the two hours back to my apartment from the grandmother's house that night. The next morning I went into work tired and melancholy. He b***hed at me to smile because no one wants to buy cell phones from a sad girl. I plastered on a smile and hit the sales floor. At lunchtime I cried my eyes out in my car. Reapplied my makeup. Went back to work with my fake smile. I was in the middle of helping a customer when he comes bouldering up to the table and starts asking the customer all the same questions I had to see what products they'd be eligible for. The customer was baffled and told him I'd already covered everything and that no further help was necessary. He went on a rant about what a terrible, useless employee I was.
I looked at the customer and deadpan said, "I'm so sorry to leave you with him, but as of this moment, I quit." The manager followed me to the break room, shouting and raving while I gathered my purse, turned in my equipment, and clocked out. He followed me to my car still berating me. Finally that same customer I walked away from came out and physically stood between me and the manager so I could get in my car and drive away. The manager proceeded to call me every day for a week and leave abusive voicemails about me "missing shifts" because he "didn't accept my resignation". He even called me the day of my grandmother's funeral and said now that she'd been cremated, I had no excuse not to come back to work.
F**k AT&T and f**k that douche Jeremy. I hope he eventually got a taste of his own medicine.
MotorcycleDoggo 1 year ago
I had a boss who 'did not accept my resignation' once. I said that was fine and he was welcome to keep paying me but I wouldn't be coming in again.
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Natasha Arruda 1 year ago (edited)
I'm sorry but if you're lucky enough to have a union, MAKE USE OF IT! Contact your rep, explain what this boss is doing, show the texts, tell them about the verbal abuse on the floor which is likely recorded because expensive cell phones everywhere. Have that costumer call in and report him and his interactions in front of him. I assume you were paying dues into it, don't let that money be a waste.
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
I hope OP reported this douche and got a compensation from the company
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
In Germany, I'd say this is "Nötigung" (duress?). People like that need to be put in their place. Sued or whatever.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
So, I used to work at a call center for one of AT&Ts big competitors (there's only 2 left and their still in business). The amount of customers that would call in and say "I work for AT&T but they're customer service sucks and I'll never be a customer of there's, even with the discount for employees" was astounding. They specifically chose our company for the customer service they received and would mention how they wish they could work for us, versus AT&T. I was only on the phones for a year and a half, before promoting, but I talked to well over a 100 customers that were employees of AT&T, I didn't even ask....they'd volunteer the information!
Trish Christoffersen 1 year ago
She should have contacted her Union Rep - they may have helped her sue the idiot since her bereavement time was Union mandated.
#10
Many years ago while working in a manufacturing facility. My boss came into work already pissed off because his wife served him divorce papers.
Saying “good morning” was apparently enough to set him off and he picked up a wrench from the table and threw it at my head.
I ducked…it missed…then I just closed my toolbox and wheeled it to the truck lol
WindySwede 1 year ago
"You couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat!" - Patches O'Houlihan
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
I mean, some mornings I feel the same when someone tells me good morning but I'm definitely NOT going to do it
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Then you should have called the cops and him arrested for attempted assault and battery.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
I can see why that guy's divorced. He probably just proved his wife's point.
And finally, Farhan says that “If a workplace is toxic I always recommend that you leave, but, and this is a big but! Make sure you have an exit plan. This means you set yourself a target to leave your current job for a new role in the next 3 months.”
“What this does is create a light at the end of the tunnel but also ensures that you take a strategic approach. Your rational mind is in control of the process and not your emotions, so you’re able to move to a bigger and better job rather than any old job just to get away from your current toxic environment,” he notes.
Don’t forget to check out Farhan’s interview coaching website!
#11
I was vomiting in the parking lot every day before walking into my job from stress. Then one day I was kicked in the teeth (literally) by one of the clients and my boss would not let me leave to go to the dentist. I went anyway, was docked pay for my time at the emergency appointment, and then they begged me not to sue. I quit.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
If you check the source apparently they worked with severely mentally and emotionally challenged people. So that kinda explains the violence. S**t attitude from the employer though.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
But did you sue? If not for yourself, for the ugly publicity this jerk-off company would've received. It would've forced them to make certain improvements in relations.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
And here I am, thinking I have had bad working experiences... nope. None on that level.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I worked at a cut rate retirement home. I had 12-16 elderly folks I had to get up, dressed & into the dining room by 7am - which in & of itself was bullsh*t. It was the only job I could find at the time, but I went home every night for 2 months & bawled my eyes out over how awful it was. I came in one day and the nursing director was crying because this was the only facility her Mom's insurance would cover. She was CRYING that her Mom had to come live there. I quit on the spot.
#12
Got told by my boss that he doesn't give a s**t if I don't have time to spend with my son. Quit on the spot.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Ugh. This is on the same level of, "Whats more important to you? Your xyz or your job?" I've seen the xyz as school graduation, final exams, partner/parent/sibling had a accident and is in hospital, family time, etc. No job is more important than the most important non job thing to the worker.
Ripley 1 year ago
It blows my mind that they'd think that "my job" would ever be the answer. Like, there are other jobs, genius, but your life is one and done, and no one has ever lain on their deathbed wishing they spent more time at work.
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Nannychachi 1 year ago
I was working as a nurse and one of my aids came to me and said that she was being mandated to work day shift after just finishing her night shift. She said she couldn't because she had a Dr's appt that morning to have some testing done on her heart. Management didn't care and told her she HAD to stay. I told her to quit and go home and take care of herself They cared nothing about her. She did. And, I felt good about telling her to quit.
Faramir10 1 year ago
It's not good to exhausted employees working, especially when they're taking care of people.
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#13
This was 20 years ago.
My fiancé had been hospitalized for 16 months after a car accident.
When she passed away my boss would not let me have time off for bereavement because we were not legally married.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I doubt that they would have missed him all that much.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I took time off to bereave animal companions. If a boss complained, they were no longer my boss. My personal life is just that, and no job is worth sacrificing how I spend my personal time.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Did he deny bereavement leave but allow sick or holiday leave? I could imagine having a rule (and being forced to stick to it) that bereavement leave only applies to spouse not girlfriend. BUT that should just mean that the boss says "Sorry you'll have to take the time as sick/holiday leave".
#14
The boss told me I should be sleeping at his house because that’s the level of dedication he needed from me. Bye!
WindySwede 1 year ago
"Could you send that by mail so I have all the details (before calling HR)?"
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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
I can't even begin with this one, I need a word for it and dedication isn't it.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Back in the 70's/80's, the level of on-the-job sexual harassment and assaults was rampant, to the extent that many women simply endured it because going to another job wouldn't spare them. Work for the devil you know was the unspoken motto.
#15
Was having a meeting with the boss who was a difficult guy to work with, and he stood up and punched the wall. He wasn't doing it jokingly. He bare knuckled went at the wall of his own office like he was in the gym hitting a punching bag.
I sat there in astonishment for about two seconds, then stood up and left. Cleared out my desk, exited through the back door without a word to anyone.
There's no place for that conduct in the professional world even if the guy does own the company.
Donald 1 year ago
"Terrible form boss, gotta keep your guard up. There ya go! Keep focused on your footwork!"
Load More Replies... Dee Rutherford 1 year ago (edited)
I had a similar thing happen. Although he didn’t punch the wall, he thumped on the desk while reaming me out in front of our entire department. I looked around at the people I worked with and they were all a Staring at the floor. I walked out of his office, went straight to payroll and told them to send my check to my home. Cleaned out my desk, and walked out.
#16
I never have, but my favorite example was when a co-worker in student transportation, who had finally gotten a position she wanted after years of suffering through stress in another, was called by management over the summer and told she was being reassigned to the stressful position because no one else wanted to do it. She had fought too long and hard to get what she wanted, and her immediate response was, "Then tell me what I need to do to resign." She did, and she's been at peace with her decision ever since.
Helena 1 year ago
Maybe competent and malicious management. Her quitting could've been the outcome they were looking for.
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When I was driving home and my blood pressure shot through the roof cause somebody was driving the same make, model and color car as the boss.
...obviously that wasn't THE STRAW, just the recognition that there was to be no more straws.
Amanduh 1 year ago
I was driving to work at a cable company customer service job and was hoping I’d get into an accident so I didn’t make it there.
Bec 1 year ago
My friend had a similar epiphany as she was considering crashing her car on her way home rather than go home to her husband - fortunately she realized she could divorce him and is doing much better now
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Natasha Arruda 1 year ago
They're trying to say that the place of work was so bad and stressful that just seeing a similar car to their boss triggers an instant fight-or-flight response.
Load More Replies... #18
My managers boss did a surprise inspection and my boss wrote me up for doing my job the exact way he trained me. Apparently when he trained me he was cutting corners.
#19
Worked in Retail, sprained my ankle really bad while Ice Skating. Couldn't so much as get out of bed. Had to call in and take 2 days off before I was even able to limp to work. Soon as I got back in, Manager pulled me into his office to SCREAM at me for taking 2 days off. For a physical injury that physically made it so I could not do my job. Threw a cold cup of coffee on him and walked out. My only regret is that the coffee was cold.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Sounds like something I'd do, but I would've heated McDonald's style first.
WindySwede 1 year ago
The boss: "why did you just throw cold coffee on me?" "I thought it was hot" https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/588d23b7-5ce7-45db-95cf-38553ee37824
Danish Susanne 1 year ago (edited)
That is the problem with reacting without thinking first. The coffee should have been heated up and laced with lots of sugar and cream to make sure he would be sticky until he could get a bath and a change.
#20
At one office job, I quit after the first day because the lady training me would ignore me when our manager wasn't around, and I caught her snooping through my purse when I went to the bathroom.
At another job at a clinic, I quit after a month because they made me do a solo receptionist shift without training me on what I needed to do to open the clinic, and then I got yelled at for not knowing what to do. In front of patients. It was so bad, some of the patients came up to me after and asked if I was ok.
veirdbuttrue 1 year ago
Yep me too. The people that are supposed to be training you, withhold the training and then yell at you for not knowing what to do. Such power tripping sad people. Such a horrible thing to do to a nervous new employee.
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Jennifer Hartigan 1 year ago
That situation is all too common. Nowadays we have to learn via baptism by fire, messing up and being yelled at. The days of proper training are over.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I was a customer in a local restaurant having a decent time, until I heard the manager berating my waitperson. Loud and nasty. After the "floorshow" was over, I asked her if she would be punished if I didn't pay my bill. She didn't think so, but I gave her my number just in case. Instead of paying the bill, I gave her the amount to keep. I proceeded to tell the manager I had no intention of paying for my meal under the circumstances and if I hear that he sought revenge on her, I would be back with some friends.
#21
My manager started snapping her fingers in my face, 3 inches away from my eyes saying in a slow drall "youuuu're doinnnng it wroooong, hellloooo that's not how I told you to do iiiit" when I was folding the shirts somewhat slower and less optimally than I was shown (though achieving the same fold-also it was my third week and one of 20 folds I had to learn on that job). I walked right then and there.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
37 years experience in aerospace manufacturing and I was saddled with my 35 year old boss's BFF with zero experience that he hired as a favor. His buddy was a walking disaster and I spent 50% of my time fixing his screw ups. Boss chooses to yell at me for the drop in production and tells me I'm as useless as tits on a boar, then says he ought to write me up or fire me. Told him I'll save him the trouble, "I QUIT, good luck meeting those product delivery dates, you know the ones with penalties for late delivery?"
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
All I can picture is that douchebag boss on Wanted that does the stapler thing. OP's boss sounds just like her.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I would have slapped her silly. I don't even like that sort of behavior when I see it used on animals.
#22
My boss cursed me because I took a phone message for him, because he was already on a call. Apparently he was eagerly awaiting the call I answered and would have preferred I interrupted him. I threw a pencil at the wall, said “Do I look like a mind reader? Cut me my check; I quit.” He tried hard to backpedal but there had been many, many previous straws.
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
Had this happen on a regular basis. Finally got fed up and left in the middle of his tirade
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Then he should have told you he was expecting another call. Dumbass.
veirdbuttrue 1 year ago
Yes that's the sort of c**p I deal with too. So tempting to do the same as the OP.........
#23
Had a sweet schedule working security in a Class A office building. Three swings (2pm to 10pm) and 2 graves (10pm to 6am) per week. My "weekend" was Friday and Saturday. The graves were actually really chill, easy to deal with. I liked them. But only two of them.
Then we get a new security company. All the supervisors are fired and new ones from the new company are brought in. Suddenly I'm working 5 graves. I ask for a change to swing. No dice. They offer to move me to a different site. It's 5 graves again.
I find out my old supervisor is now working as security manager at a local mall. I give him a call and he offers me a job. I took it.
Grabbed my uniform from the old company. Drove to the office. Walked it. dropped my uniform on the director's desk, turned and walked out. Went down to the mall and picked up my new uniform.
Frank Russell 1 year ago
Sometimes new management does underhanded $hit like this to get people to quit, but usually it's just gross incompetence.
Nimues Child 1 year ago (edited)
Sometimes it's just ego flexing to prove "they're in charge".
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I worked for a guy I really liked. He owned a commercial flooring installation company & I was the bookkeeper. He came to me one time & asked me to teach his TWELVE year old daughter how to enter payables because she wanted to "earn" some money (on top of her allowance, which was ridiculous for a 12 y/o). I told him I was not about to teach a CHILD how to do my job, that if she wanted to earn some money she could always was the company trucks (which I knew she was WAY too lazy to do) & if he was unhappy with my work I could just quit, if he preferred. He packpedaled REAL quick, but I just never felt quite the same way about him after that. He ended up moving too far away for me to commute, so we did part ways. But MAN, that rankled.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
So you quit like they wanted you to? They were obviously trying to send you packing.
#24
Godfather's pizza, the manager wouldn't give me my paycheck at 8pm on Sunday because the money might not be in the account yet, but I could pick it up at 9am Monday. This was decades ago, before direct and mobile deposits. THE BANK WOULDN'T BE OPEN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY ANYWAY! All of the paychecks were literally in his hand at that moment.
There were lots of issues before that but that was the final sign that the manager was completely uninterested in reason.
In the next few weeks nearly everyone else quit, then the manager was finally fired.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Greasiest, nastiest, best tasting pizza I've ever had
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James Frail 1 year ago
Not saying he was a good manager, but giving checks out early is often against corporate policy. Reason is irrelevant. You were asking him to fo something that could get him fired.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Depends what the policy (if there was one) actually said. If it said "Employees paid at end of shift" then they should have been paid on the Sunday. If it said "Paid on Monday morning" then sure.
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You either give me my check now or I take cash from the till. But I'm not coming back in the morning to get it.
Ubiquitous 1 year ago
Why wouldn’t they just pay the money directly to your bank? How long ago was this?!
#25
I was flat out lied to about the position.
It was a management position at a residential mental health facility and I had taken it (leaving a great paying but stressful position) because it wouldn't require travel and was supposed to be much more laid back. On top of many other issues I ended up having to work eight weeks straight without a single day off (even weekends and one holiday) so after a very heated meeting with upper management where one person was flat out lying to cover their own butt, I sent a resignation email from the parking lot.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Mental health facility. Work 8 weeks straight with no days off. Something sounds off with that place lol
Frank Russell 1 year ago
Probably heavily dependent on government (Medicare) money. Almost all of those places are hella shady.
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interviewed for a desk job working in payroll, was hired and the first day they had me out front at reception and i would rotate between payroll and reception. i stuck it out because i was told everyone rotated to reception to learn how it worked in case we ever had to cover it and i would do payroll full time at the end of my 90 day probationary period. it was easy enough to learn so i didnt complain and it was confirmed this was standard practice by the other workers at reception. 2 months in, im still in my 90 day trial period and a worker comes in apparently just having finished her maternity leave. found out the job i had interviewed for was actually her job and they were just filling it till she was able to come back. everyone knew about it and had been lying to me for two months. the same day they told me i was now a full time receptionist and would not be returning to payroll. i quit on the spot and never went back.
#26
Was told I did not have experience to move up. Hired a person with 1/20th of my experience in that position.
Nikkie Nothing 1 year ago
Sounds like corporate douche speak for "you are worth more than we want to pay you, so we are going to hire someone under-skilled so we can pay them less"
FABULOUS1 1 year ago
This recently happened in my department. I was told that I didnt have the experience for the trainer position, even though its on my resume. Been working for this company in same dept for 8 years now, I train new staff and train seasoned reps in different areas. I was told I did not qualify for the position, but the person they hired had a background in being a influencer. The girl only lasted about 3 months, before everyday for two weeks they marked her out of the office. Then her name was never mentioned again, even to tell us she is no longer with the company which is usually what they do when someone quits or is fired.
#27
I was a supervisor of housekeeping at a hotel, every holiday all of management would take off leaving me the highest in charge, I asked for a raise after working a full year of holidays as the only management and was denied the next year on the biggest party day in the city, I set all my employees up with their work and texted the managers a picture of me at the bar partying telling them the hotel might be on fire, I don’t know I quit
#28
Worked at an upscale busy bar a couple years back right after Covid. We were constantly under staffed, over worked, and treated like s**t from management and customers. One Friday night, my manager let the other bartender go early, because he had a crush on her and wanted in her pants. I got overwhelmed by a rush and he started b***hing at me about not being able to handle the bar. I looked at him in the eye (about to REALLY RAGE) and without a word walked to the back into the liquor room, grabbed two bottles of Jameson, put them in my backpack, and walked out the front door. My managers fearful, confused face while asking “where are you going!? What are you doing!?” was absolutely priceless. Best decision I made and I’m not joking lmao.
Mark Bayliss 1 year ago
I would think compensation/revenge/satisfaction - right or wrong.
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David MacLuna 1 year ago
They were more than likely paid per diem - paid daily, which is the advantage, but unlikely to be paid at all if they bail.
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Sephora Black 1 year ago (edited)
I call that compensation for mental pain and anguish.
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#29
The owner of the company told me to fire a woman for arriving to work right on time.
It was always something different with him, some ridiculous new rule that he applied retroactively to suit whatever mood he was in on any given day. And that particular morning, he took it as a personal insult and a show of blatant disrespect that his employees didn’t arrive early.
I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t fire this woman, who I didn’t even particularly like, to satisfy this new whim of his. So instead of firing her, I marched into his office and quit myself.
Funnily enough, the woman I wouldn’t fire continued working for him for years. She might even still be there now, twenty-some years later.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Once had a boss that had mood changes like that everyday. He was always listening to music in his office. We found, whatever genre of music he was listening to first thing in the morning, was what mood he was in. If it was Blink 182, it's gonna be a great day. If it was Country music, everything is mostly ok. If it's Heavy metal/Screamo, you're in for an annoying day of rule changes and yellings.
Frank Russell 1 year ago
You yell, I bail. No one should have to put up with that kind of abuse.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Boss may have been looking to cut payroll. She may still be there - but doing her job and yours.
#30
I’m a physician who does procedures. This business was composed of several outpatient offices. Specifically, we did a high volume of peripheral arterial interventions and dialysis access maintenance. We also performed vascular ultrasounds. In the first month, I watched my colleague sign off on numerous ultrasounds that he had not interpreted (only a preliminary from Sonographer). All these were billed for physician interpretation, which is fraud. After that, I started to realize that a large number of our procedures were not indicated. Patient data such as tests, symptoms, labs etc were fabricated and modified to trigger us to say yes to cases. I started noticing a lot of normal angiograms, which didn’t make sense. Then, they pushed us to always perform an intervention, usually atherectomy, because that’s the highest reimbursement, around $20,000. There was inadequate equipment and only one nurse for every procedure (who was also the office manager, billing dept, receptionist). The ultrasound unit was damaged and images sub-diagnostic at best. The EMR was from the early 2000s. Ultrasound and angiogram images were often deleted, tampered with, or swapped between patients so if there was ever an audit… the fraud wouldn’t stand out. Oh, and the angiographic equipment (X-ray, table, etc) hadn’t been inspected or certified for years. I voiced my concerns. Nothing was done. The company existed solely to generate profit, with no regard for patients. I witnessed complications from procedures that didn’t even to happen in the first place. After enough of this, I went to work and suddenly quit at about 2 PM. The company was also already under a corporate integrity agreement. The appropriate regulatory agencies were notified. They’re still business as of today, but it won’t be for long.
Frank Russell 1 year ago
Gotta be the U.S., where corrupt politicians ensure the for-profit "healthcare" system gets wealthier while people die.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
This is absolutely disgusting. My blood boiled the whole time I was reading this. I hope that place gets shut down and everyone gets sued and/or goes to prison for what they've done to their patients.
#31
Working as a mortuary transporter (the dude who picks up corpses and brings them back to be cremated) for a family-owned crematory. Boss was kind of a b***h, and her husband was an idiot, constant on-call overnight shifts and zero PTO days… but honestly I really enjoyed the work so I put up with it.
The problem was that my boss REFUSED to do direct deposit (this was two years ago, so it’s not like DD was unheard of), and she’d hand us out checks on Monday. I’d been on-call the weekend prior to payday, and it was really busy, particularly Sunday night. I was out from like 8 pm until 6 am picking up corpses, so on Monday I called out because I didn’t want to drive a full shift on zero hours of sleep. Well, in my constant sleep deprivation, I’d forgotten I was supposed to get paid. That Friday, I was talking to a coworker on our way to a pickup and mentioned how I couldn’t wait to get paid next week, and he gave me this look and told me we got paid on Monday, and asked if I’d never gotten my check. So at the end of the day I went to my boss and asked, and she just laughed and “joked” that she’d wondered when I would ask for it and had hoped I’d just forgotten.
So her playing cute with my checks was the beginning of the end. Then next payday, she sat us all down and explained that from here on out, drivers were not allowed to call out simply because they’d worked all night before. By this point, she’d driven off all the other transporters and was down to me and one other dude full-time, with another transporter coming in two days a week, and her business couldn’t function if either of us called out. So I got my check from her, and then at the end of the day (I ended up working till 10 pm that night) I left her a note saying I quit effective immediately and to mail me my last check.
A few months later, the other driver texted me and told me that she’d never replaced me, and that he’d quit and got hired at another funeral home and convinced the part-time driver to go with him. I just checked the website and apparently they’re still open, idk how they managed with nobody to get the corpses.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
My factory job refuses to do direct deposit. We get paper checks each Friday. Many workers don't have bank accounts so they go to Walmart to cash their checks :/ I have an online bank and I just do mobile instant check deposit and have my money within a minute.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Mine takes cash. It's the easiest I guess. He goes right to his bank after collecting all the rent from all the places he rents out.
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#32
Wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." A few months later, wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." A few months later, wanted to take long service leave holidays, but got denied because "we're too busy right now." I replied to that email with my resignation, handed in my pass to security, and walked out the door.
#33
I was working as the kitchen b***h at a 24hour Greek restaurant. Hired as dishwasher, also doing cold prep and maintenance. I was the guy peeling 50 lbs bags of onions/carrots/potatoes, as well as making dry ribs, pizza, salad...
I had booked off 3 days over a weekend. Got called on day 2 at 7am telling me I was late. Got there and was told I was on the 11am start... then it got changed to 4pm when I went in again... Then got changed to 11pm when I went in for 4pm... And when I went in for 11pm it was changed AGAIN to actually have me off for the 3 days.
4 schedule changes in 24hrs. Laws here say 1 week minimum notice, that owner would change the schedule AFTER you clocked out to say you worked shorter hours on a regular basis and you pretty much had to check at 7am to see if you were on for the day.
I had my choice words, told em I'd be back in 2 weeks for my paycheck.
3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
I had a jerk change the schedule after I’d gone home, never told me and then wrote me up. So I left. Stick it Blake.
Seadog 1 year ago
AutoZone. You get paid sick leave only if you're out 3 scheduled days straight. When I returned to work, the manager had changed the schedule to show day 2 as my one of my days off for the week. He would've used them both but I had already taken one. Either way if cost me my paid sick leave. I told him he could change it back that very day or I'd notify corporate. I transferred to another store shortly after that and he was terminated not long after that.
#34
He wouldn’t train me properly, then come yell at me in front on the office. He would always threaten my job or like hiring someone else and I finally said good I hope you find someone better because I quit and will be leaving once *other lady* comes back from lunch. He tried to back pedal and ask if I was serious. I never looked back.
ETA: he hired me without any experience because he knew he could lowball me. I got paid pennies for what someone with experience would get paid. 😀
#35
He gave me literally 72 hours worth of work and insisted it be completed in 36 hours. When I pointed the inconsistency out he said, DO WHAT YOU CAN. And when I submitted it he called me, from vacation, to scream at me about mistakes. I deleted everything, walked away, blocked him on everything. ETA: I mean 72 BUSINESS hours and 36 calendar hours
#36
I was a community engagement officer, which basically means I took a disabled adult out in the community to achieve certain goals (ie, grocery shopping, some basic concept of money and rudimentary budgeting, exc). He was fine. His mom was a pill. The sort of pill that has been abusing underpayed staff at underfunded social services for entire decades, to the point her grip on what the world owed her (for free) was…heavily screwed. Also, all she ever did for herself was sit on her bum in front of Netflix all day. She would call, almost always after I had wrapped up for the day and was driving him home, to demand that I stop at a convenience store for cigarettes/booze, or a specific fast food joint on the other side of town because I am apparently a free personal courier. My favorite moment was when she actually had me pick up cigarettes and drop them off at her cousins’, because why not get the whole family in on abusing impoverished public servants? I tried to set simple boundaries with her (you can ask me when I am leaving for x,y, and x), and she would just show her a*s so much (oh, I don’t know when I’ll be needing cigarettes. I just call when I do! Oh, I can’t afford instacart or Uber, even though my kid and I easily eat a grand in fast food a month, my car is $500/month, and we haven’t even started talking about booze and cigs. No, paying people for their labor is where I need to cut my corners!). So, I cut her off. She continues to pretend she doesn’t understand that she is cut off, like a five year old. Anyway, she demands that I go to a convenience store and get her cigarettes. I say no. And then this b***h sits on her fat a*s, yards away from a $500/month car, and proceeds to text her kid to harass me for what she thought she was owed. It occurred to me that no $10/hr gig was worth it. So, I dropped him off at her place and told her I was glad she was going to be twitching and sweating all night. I’m still owed money from that job, that I will likely never see.
Donald 1 year ago
You get two types of parents that have children with severe disabilities. Ones that are eternally grateful for any help you give them, even just being a good neighbor and bringing in their trash cans. Then you get these "people" that feel like the world owes them something for having a disabled child.
#37
This just happened last week- I was driving a shuttle bus for a retirement community and the maintenance department manager accused me of drinking on the job. It was an absolutely out-of-pocket accusation without a shred of proof other than his claim of “smelling it on me” There are hand sanitizer stations next to every f*****g time clock and I use them. I said- “I’ll take a f*****g breathalyzer test right now. Let’s go.” And he balked. Pretended like he didn’t just f*****g accuse me of putting the residents lives at risk and then expected me to finish my shift. I noped the f**k out of there and went straight to calling out sick for the next week until they fired me for “no call no showing for an entire week.” Check your f*****g voicemails, prick. F**k that f*****g place with a soiled catheter.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I had the head life guard accuse me of sleeping on the job because I was wearing sunglasses. Sitting in a life guard chair. In the blazing sun of an afternoon. Facing west.
#38
Well, I'm genuinely about to right now after my manager told me our dishwasher is broken and won't get fixed until at least thursday and I have to pull solo shifts next week, because we're seriously understaffed after 2 people were let go in January, despite me telling management repeatedly that we actually need more people to account for all the vacation days and sick leaves happening right now
UPDATE: apparently restarting fixed the "broken" dishwasher. So that's at least one problem off my back
#39
Had to drive to a site, directions were wrong, ended up having to walk a mile in North Texas in July with 35 pounds of materials. ETA: This is pre-cell phone.
#40
Worked at a korean bbq resturant. They said since I was unexperienced they will cut my wages. Hired me as a server and Made me clean toilets and grills all day. 12 hour shift, gave me 9.45 in cash. Quit on the spot
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
You were stu**d to take the job after they mentioned that they would cut your wages.
#41
When I realized I was running the bosses business, and he balked on my timesheet.
#42
I was told I wasn't working hard enough after months of 70+ hour weeks being salaried doing multiple people's jobs. I had asked multiple times to hire someone else, I knew we had the budget on the job. I agreed to work harder and called mom to vent because I was so angry. During the call she texted my then boyfriend, now husband, to go to me because she genuinely thought I was going to [end] myself. I'll admit I was hysterical so I get why she was worried.
When he told me that I called my boss back and quit with no notice.
What was even more f****d up is a few days later I was asked to call my former boss to calm her down and say it wasn't her fault. I didn't but I did calmly explain how she burned me out and multiple people needed to be hired to cover the workload I was doing otherwise the same thing would happen again.
Seadog 1 year ago
My current job. Former person in my position told them he'd quit if they didn't get him some help. I'd worked here in the past so they asked me to come back which I was more than happy to. I love the job. 3 years later that guy quits because his wife got promoted and they had t move. This begins my spiral into hell. 4 totally unqualified assistants later I finally get one that's good. I'm essentially training my replacement so I can retire in a few years. Then out of the blue they take my assistant and give her a completely new position while saying she's still going to be my assistant. Can't figure out how they think she or I can be in 2 places at once. Owner got all uppity when I reminded him I was hired to be part of a 2 man department. So, here I am, running it alone and they keep talking about other stuff I need to do that we've NEVER done before. I hate being trapped in a job. Even though I love what I do, being trapped makes it suck.
#43
I was sweating my tits off at a convenience store, in the back room washing dishes or some f*****g thing and this b****y lady I worked with came in, saw me sweating to death, and then went back out and told people I was washing my hair in the sink with the dishes. I said f**k it, this place sucks, and I just never went back. I went back to work at McDonald's after that
#44
I was exhausted, had been working 50+ hour weeks, and couldn’t wait until Christmas break. I was the only person out of 25 required to work Saturday mornings on a 6-week fundraiser in addition to my regular hours. Others were only scheduled once. I was scheduled all six Saturdays. Finally, a foreign colleague wanted to work Christmas so she could go to her home country early in the next year. The entire office was supposed to be closed for those two weeks. The boss picked me to be with her and refused to let me say no. I didn’t want to take a break later when the rest of my family would’ve been off over Christmas. And I couldn’t bear to have waited another two weeks as I was barely hanging on right then. She wouldn’t let it go so I quit. The boss decided to work with her herself. That was fine with me. The mystery is why it had to be me or her out of 25 co-workers. Well, not my problem.
What do you think ?
Sally Signup 1 year ago (edited)
Mine was less dramatic. They started shorting my check and giving me the runaround about it. That was the only job that I didn't give notice to. I don't work for free.
Rick Seiden 1 year ago
My rule number one of being a manager: Be the manager you want to have.
Queenie G 1 year ago
My first real job out of high school was a family owned business. Mom ran it and both sons work for her. I worked in their convenience store. The oldest son, mid to late 30's used to come over from the building he worked in to use the bathroom in the c-store. They had a bathroom in his building. Anyway, he would grab a playboy off the shelf, open it and go sit in the bathroom. He did this many times. One day there was a customer at the magazine display when he went to put the magazine back. He told the customer he found it in the bathroom and they had to keep an eye on me because I would sneak in the bathroom to read dirty magazines. I was horrified! He thought it was funny. They were a terrible family to work for.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
I've had a few of these moments. My very first dental hygiene job out of college, I got hired by a dentist who informed me (on my first day), "we don't schedule any lunches or breaks, we all just leave earlier" (but the hours were the same anyway, nobody was leaving an hour earlier). Then, after I'd worked there about a week, he told me, "since you're brand new at being a hygienist, we're only going to pay you what the assistants make". I got so fed up that I never went back. Most recently was the dentist I worked for before where I am now (and forever). I was making decent money as a hygienist but had no health insurance. I make too much to get subsidies and its about as much as a mortgage payment here. My boss established the rule that if you test positive for COVID, you can't come back until you test negative. I tested positive, and then she called me every day, multiple times a day, to find out when my new test was coming back. Since I had no insurance, I did it through CVS
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
Because at the time it was free (i didn't have a regular Dr I could see, again, bc no insurance). So she finally started in on why don't I have insurance, I have the money bc she knows how much I make (since she's the boss), and even as expensive as it is I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get some. "Some people spend their income in a vacation house, well, your insurance will be your vacation house, or your boat". She didn't want to wait for my test and told me I better be back on Monday, WITH proof of health insurance, AND proof of negative COVID test. That was the last straw in a whole pile of straws. I was a very hard, loyal worker who went above and beyond unquestioningly, even at times like when the office got together (right after my stepfather died) to ask me why I couldn't be more like the new hygienist, and move a lot faster? Or all the times the boss called me while I was on my hour-long commute home, demanding that I turn around and come back because I forgot
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Islandchild 1 year ago
I was asked to carry a double workload temporarily while they found a replacement for a coworker who'd left because of a medical issue. Told them upfront that it would mean I could only handle the daily transactions but none of the archival work. Four weeks in, no replacement, I'm telling my boss daily how behind the archiving is getting. Monday week five I'm called into a meeting with my boss and his boss to be reprimanded and written up for not keeping up with the archival work. I told my boss's boss that he needs to have a chat with my boss about the situation as clearly he'd not been kept up to date on the situation and to allow that I'd be back in ten minutes. Went to my desk a wrote my resignation. There was apologies and begging when I went back in. I enjoyed the heck out of my notice period since as I had to train my boss to do my job.
Mez77 1 year ago
Went for medical leave, and manager...(who was the owners 20 year old kid) called to ask "exactly how long is this going to take?" Now asking how I was or anything... Got back to work to find someone at my desk.. the big boss shrugs and says "we'll find you something" shifted me around the office doing c**p work until COVID shut us down a few weeks later ... Got a letter shortly after saying "you're services are no longer required" must have sent it pretty quick after shutting down... I had been there 20 years, and looking back I now realise just how toxic the place was, and how toxic it made me and my life.... Being let go from there was the best thing that ever happened to me, and just wish I had quit like many many many people before me had....
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
My second year in college, I was living in the dorms and working part-time as a cashier at a grocery store. I had gotten approved a block on my schedule (no shifts, but also no pay) for the last two weeks of December, because I wasn’t going to be in town (home was several hours away, and the dorms were closed during the break). A week before I was going to be gone, I checked the following week’s schedule and saw that I was scheduled to work the entire week while I wouldn’t be in town. I confronted my manager about it, and she said, “There’s nothing I can do.” I responded, “Well, there’s something *I* can do. I quit.” Walked out on the spot. Only time since then I’ve set foot in that store was when I picked up my final check.
DrBronxx 1 year ago
There have been several moments for me, but most recently it was when we literally didn't win the lottery. We do the lottery twice a year, when the jackpots are at their biggest in our country. It's always been just a bit of fun. However, when we didn't win the most recent one, I realised how much hope I had invested in my "bit of fun". The disappointment that I would need to keep going to my job was huge. I also admonished myself on being so stupid as to place so much hope in the f*****g lottery.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
When was it time to leave? 1)When the manufacturing plant I worked for decided to move operations to Mexico, and wanted ME to train my replacement. Uhm, no. 2) when the bosses running the hotel I worked at decided the janitor (me) had to do housekeeping as well (nope, not my department and you aren't paying enough)
La Lucy 1 year ago
I have had camel straw moments as well. I do, however, take a lot of these with a grain of salt. A lot were told to just quit, so they did. Very possible the employer wanted to fire them anyways but didn't want to pay unemployment (in the US)
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
A common misconception in unemployment benefits is that you have to be fired to collect benefits. You can qualify for benefits if you quit with good cause connected with the work. Former unemployment benefits appeals judge here.
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Mine was less dramatic. They started shorting my check and giving me the runaround about it. That was the only job that I didn't give notice to. I don't work for free.
Rick Seiden 1 year ago
My rule number one of being a manager: Be the manager you want to have.
Queenie G 1 year ago
My first real job out of high school was a family owned business. Mom ran it and both sons work for her. I worked in their convenience store. The oldest son, mid to late 30's used to come over from the building he worked in to use the bathroom in the c-store. They had a bathroom in his building. Anyway, he would grab a playboy off the shelf, open it and go sit in the bathroom. He did this many times. One day there was a customer at the magazine display when he went to put the magazine back. He told the customer he found it in the bathroom and they had to keep an eye on me because I would sneak in the bathroom to read dirty magazines. I was horrified! He thought it was funny. They were a terrible family to work for.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
I've had a few of these moments. My very first dental hygiene job out of college, I got hired by a dentist who informed me (on my first day), "we don't schedule any lunches or breaks, we all just leave earlier" (but the hours were the same anyway, nobody was leaving an hour earlier). Then, after I'd worked there about a week, he told me, "since you're brand new at being a hygienist, we're only going to pay you what the assistants make". I got so fed up that I never went back. Most recently was the dentist I worked for before where I am now (and forever). I was making decent money as a hygienist but had no health insurance. I make too much to get subsidies and its about as much as a mortgage payment here. My boss established the rule that if you test positive for COVID, you can't come back until you test negative. I tested positive, and then she called me every day, multiple times a day, to find out when my new test was coming back. Since I had no insurance, I did it through CVS
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
Because at the time it was free (i didn't have a regular Dr I could see, again, bc no insurance). So she finally started in on why don't I have insurance, I have the money bc she knows how much I make (since she's the boss), and even as expensive as it is I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get some. "Some people spend their income in a vacation house, well, your insurance will be your vacation house, or your boat". She didn't want to wait for my test and told me I better be back on Monday, WITH proof of health insurance, AND proof of negative COVID test. That was the last straw in a whole pile of straws. I was a very hard, loyal worker who went above and beyond unquestioningly, even at times like when the office got together (right after my stepfather died) to ask me why I couldn't be more like the new hygienist, and move a lot faster? Or all the times the boss called me while I was on my hour-long commute home, demanding that I turn around and come back because I forgot
Load More Replies... Islandchild 1 year ago
I was asked to carry a double workload temporarily while they found a replacement for a coworker who'd left because of a medical issue. Told them upfront that it would mean I could only handle the daily transactions but none of the archival work. Four weeks in, no replacement, I'm telling my boss daily how behind the archiving is getting. Monday week five I'm called into a meeting with my boss and his boss to be reprimanded and written up for not keeping up with the archival work. I told my boss's boss that he needs to have a chat with my boss about the situation as clearly he'd not been kept up to date on the situation and to allow that I'd be back in ten minutes. Went to my desk a wrote my resignation. There was apologies and begging when I went back in. I enjoyed the heck out of my notice period since as I had to train my boss to do my job.
Mez77 1 year ago
Went for medical leave, and manager...(who was the owners 20 year old kid) called to ask "exactly how long is this going to take?" Now asking how I was or anything... Got back to work to find someone at my desk.. the big boss shrugs and says "we'll find you something" shifted me around the office doing c**p work until COVID shut us down a few weeks later ... Got a letter shortly after saying "you're services are no longer required" must have sent it pretty quick after shutting down... I had been there 20 years, and looking back I now realise just how toxic the place was, and how toxic it made me and my life.... Being let go from there was the best thing that ever happened to me, and just wish I had quit like many many many people before me had....
Toothless Feline 1 year ago
My second year in college, I was living in the dorms and working part-time as a cashier at a grocery store. I had gotten approved a block on my schedule (no shifts, but also no pay) for the last two weeks of December, because I wasn’t going to be in town (home was several hours away, and the dorms were closed during the break). A week before I was going to be gone, I checked the following week’s schedule and saw that I was scheduled to work the entire week while I wouldn’t be in town. I confronted my manager about it, and she said, “There’s nothing I can do.” I responded, “Well, there’s something *I* can do. I quit.” Walked out on the spot. Only time since then I’ve set foot in that store was when I picked up my final check.
DrBronxx 1 year ago
There have been several moments for me, but most recently it was when we literally didn't win the lottery. We do the lottery twice a year, when the jackpots are at their biggest in our country. It's always been just a bit of fun. However, when we didn't win the most recent one, I realised how much hope I had invested in my "bit of fun". The disappointment that I would need to keep going to my job was huge. I also admonished myself on being so stupid as to place so much hope in the f*****g lottery.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
When was it time to leave? 1)When the manufacturing plant I worked for decided to move operations to Mexico, and wanted ME to train my replacement. Uhm, no. 2) when the bosses running the hotel I worked at decided the janitor (me) had to do housekeeping as well (nope, not my department and you aren't paying enough)
La Lucy 1 year ago
I have had camel straw moments as well. I do, however, take a lot of these with a grain of salt. A lot were told to just quit, so they did. Very possible the employer wanted to fire them anyways but didn't want to pay unemployment (in the US)
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
A common misconception in unemployment benefits is that you have to be fired to collect benefits. You can qualify for benefits if you quit with good cause connected with the work. Former unemployment benefits appeals judge here.
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