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People In This Online Group Share 15 Of The Most Intriguing “Nope, I Quit” Stories
Article created by: Robertas Lisickis
There is a reason why the saying “find a job you like and you’ll never work a day in your life” is a thing. But let’s be fair, there’s more to it than just actually doing your job.
It’s about the work environment, the culture and everything else that, no matter how much you love the process, can make any job unbearably miserable.
Well, Redditors have been sharing some of their “nope, I quit” stories showing just how crummy it can get, making for an entertaining read.
Bored Panda has collected the best of the best stories from the viral AskReddit post and put them into a neat curated list for you to enjoy. So, why don’t you leave a comment and an upvote on the submissions you liked the most!
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#1
I was in the same position for two years and was actively looking at other positions within the same company. Bosses knew about it, it was just time for a change and to advance my career. Great opportunity came up and I was offered the position. However my current leadership blocked me because I received a “promotion” six months prior. That promotion was literally an automatic email that said congrats you’re now level 2 instead of level 1 because I had met my sales attainment and completed all my yearly trainings. Literally an automated email stopped me from getting promoted and bosses said I had to wait another 18 months. Left that company and went to a competitor doing the same thing for better pay and significantly more support.
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#2
I was 20 and had been working in a call center for just over a year. I was promoted to an assistant manager with a new compensation structure that was identical to the other assistant manager. Basically you got your wage, a very small % of the total office revenue, and then 10% of your own revenue from when you worked on the phone. My immediate manager and office supervisor gave me this without confirming it with the regional manager who was on a two month vacation in the DR.
When I got my first cheque after being promoted there was no bonus, I was told it would be corrected soon. When I got my second cheque after being promoted there was no bonus, I was told it would be corrected soon. When I got my third cheque after being promoted there was no bonus and I was told we had to wait for the regional manager to come back and authorize it. I was being paid weekly and worked another 4 weeks under the premise that I would get a lump sum when the regional manager returned. The problem was that I sold significantly more than the other office manager. The back pay had grown to such a large amount that when the regional manager did return he questioned why the office manager had given me this structure as he considered it to be too much money.
On my next cheque there was no lump sum and I was told that they were figuring out a new structure. My following shift I stayed home and got a frantic call from the Office Manager asking me why I wasn't at work. I told him I couldn't afford to go to work. He said why can't you afford it? Because I have been getting ripped off for two months, call me back when you have my money or don't call me at all.
#3
Started dating a guy that one of my coworkers liked. He was a regular customer. She started doing things like spitting in his food, telling my boss I wasn't working, writing her name on the checklist of our side work and acting like she did every thing and I did nothing.
Then she stole $100 from my drawer and the boss wanted me to pay for it, didn't believe me because she was friends with the girl. I walked out on the spot. Like a couple months later they caught her stealing again on camera and fired her.
Also the guy is my husband now 😊
#4
I worked for a company for over a year that was contracted to make deliveries for Amazon.
The vans they equipped us with were terribly maintained, and fully unequipped to handle winter weather. I worked with the company through their first winter, which meant sliding all over the road when it was icy and getting stuck constantly every time we had snow. I never had a major accident, though I did have 2 or 3 close calls where only minor damage was incurred to the van.
I decided to stick it out through the summer, when the weather was obviously much better. All summer long they promised us that new and better vans were coming. September rolls around, no vans. October, no vans. November, no vans.
That month we got our first real snow. I got back from my route and immediately put in my notice. My boss told me they would be getting new vans by the end of the year. I told her that was nice and walked.
#5
I got an interview offer from "Vector Marketing" (Cutco) as a teen. I went. It was a knife presentation.
The presenter pulled me into the office for a short interview. Offered me the job on the spot.
"So you expect me to make appointments and travel?"
"Yes."
"And you want me to pay for my own knives, then tell me to sell them to my friends and family for commission."
"Yes."
"I'll just get a real job."
#6
Was told in the interview that it was show up between 8-9, leave between 4-5. There’d be no more working late nights, or having to work on weekends, which was great.
Within 2 month realized they were lying through their teeth. I was given enough work for three people, with no direction on how to do it. My manager was so scatter brained, he could never give me any help when I asked. No one talked for 8 hours a day, and it was just an unbelievably bad work culture.
I’d get to work usually at 8:30, and leave at 4:30 while eating lunch at my desk. I came in one day and was told “since you’re leaving so early, I can only hope you’re working from home.” Then the next week, we’re told we have to come in for a full day Saturday because we had New Years Day off that Monday. My final straw was when I left at 2:30 one day for a doctors appointment. When I came in the next day, my manager pulled me into a room and said that I didn’t have enough accrued PTO to do that, and he was going to dock my pay (in a salaried position). Went in the next day, told him it wasn’t working out and put my two weeks in. On my last day, he told me I could leave at 11:30 so I did. When I got my final paycheck, he docked my pay for the remainder of that day.
Luckily, the recruiter who got me the job followed up to ask what happened, and I was completely open and honest with her. Apparently, that manager has a very high turnover rate for the position I was in, and the recruiter told me that the CFO is looking into replacing him.
#7
Currently in the US Military. Was back and forth about re-enlisting for another 4 years (have done 9 to this point). I have a 3 year old daughter at home who I haven't seen in almost 2 years for more then 3 weeks. Was talking to an Officer in my chain of command when I told him my thoughts. I had just received orders to remain overseas for an additional 2 years. His exact words were "You've already missed 2 years of her life you can afford to lose 2 more." I went to my Command Career Counselor office that day and signed my intention to separate.
Edit: the officer meant I've already missed 2 years I COULD afford to miss 2 more since I've already know what its like.
#8
I proved to the CIO, using math, that the Help Desk could not lower its abandon rate to an acceptable point without hiring more people. She responded by telling me that my team just "didn't have enough discipline" and then I got written up. I quit the next day, and told my team "They will replace me with a manager whom the CIO will let hire more people." I was right.
#9
I had a manager who just didn't like me. I don't know why, it happens. But she couldn't keep it professional, and acted as if every mistake I made, I had made on purpose, just to f@#k with her. Meanwhile everyone else told me that they were super happy with me, and I was a great worker.
So she had worked that Saturday, and when I turned on my PC that Monday morning I had about 10 e-mails from her, all with screenshots and rude remarks like "Why is it so hard for you to follow the rules?" and "How did you not know this?" (while she was the one that trained me). F@#k that s@#t, I'm worth way more than that.
#10
Got called into a meeting with my manager (S) and the Area Manager (AM) Apparently someone on my team of 4 people had complained to AM about me, over the managers head.
AM: You're the hardest worker and I know that you put more hours in and always go above and beyond the rest of the team. But that doesn't make you better than them.
Me: (you kinda just said I was better, but whatever) I just want to come in and do my job.
AM: Someone has complained you're being bossy, do you think you are?
Me: I don't think so, can you tell me what I'm doing that's being perceived that way so I can stop?
AM: There's been no specifics, just stop being bossy.
Me: How can I stop a behaviour if I don't have any idea what that behaviour is?
AM: Just stop.
S: Working with her every day, I don't think she's bossy, I think she's assertive.
AM: Stop being assertive, its bothering your coworkers.
S and me: ...
Wrote a letter of resignation there and then. Don't tell your staff, who are expected to work using their own initiative, not to be assertive.
#11
Worked at a big box office store, on my first week I got held up by a train and was 5 min late. By the time I had gotten there the manager had blown up my phone (15 calls), but since it was winter and I had a big wool coat on plus a sweatshirt, I didn’t feel my phone go off. I got a lecture when I walked in and all morning he kept looking at me like I had killed his pet, about two hours later I got called into the office for a write up. I went in and was very calm about the whole thing, he kept saying I should show more remorse, I told him if 5 min was getting me a write up and a lecture, plus being told I obviously don’t care since I’m not remorseful enough he could keep the job.
#12
When I was a student working as a pizza hut delivery driver in the armpit of VA. Had this dumb policy where they pick one driver a night to do all the dishes. You're told to "do them in between deliveries" but that's impossible when you're constantly getting orders. Others are supposed to help out throughout the night, of course nobody did. I was left with about 3 hours of washing dishes at around 1am. I had two finals the next day, and was going through really bad family problems at the time.
I got so frustrated that I just walked out, drove home, and had an absolute mental breakdown due to all the stress that had been piling up. Didn't say a word to anybody, never went back. To this day I feel absolutely awful I left the manager with all that work to do, though she was kind of a b!@#h anyways. Still, feel ashamed that I just walked away from hard work rather than deal with it.
#13
I used to work at Dollar General. I was about 5 months pregnant at the time and had a lot of tailbone pain. I normally worked freight because even though I was pregnant, I was still the most efficient at it.
At some point my manager had gotten into a serious car accident and couldn’t return to work for a few months. This basically promoted our assistant manager to manager.
Dollar General does inventory once a year for each store and it’s pretty much hell. The only good part about it is that you don’t get a truck that week so there’s no freight to put up. The bad part about it is that you get a huge truck the next week.
So we get through inventory and the next week we got the huge truck as expected. I ended up having a scheduling conflict due to an appointment and wasn’t able to come in during the day on a Thursday to put up freight but could come in that night or another day. So instead of the assistant manager letting me do that, she just took me off the schedule completely and didn’t replace me with anyone. All while we have the biggest truck of the year.
It was pretty obvious she was doing it to be petty so I called the manager bawling my eyes out because it wasn’t the first time something like this has happened. You know who got yelled at? I did. I was 5 months pregnant. Putting up freight even though I was in a lot of pain doing it. Was the hardest worker there. And the assistant manager was being petty. So I was fed up, clocked out for lunch that same day, and never went back.
Bonus story. Two of the people I worked with were robbed at gunpoint right before closing and quit on the spot. A couple months later, the manager had a gun put to his head during another robbery, but he stayed. There was a video on the news and everything.
#14
I worked at a movie theater for about 2 years when Star Wars 7 came out, which was hectic enough. But we also have to work holidays there. So, I was working on Christmas day, when I was informed via radio that one of the theaters had a mess to be cleaned. When I arrived I found a pile of a grown man's s@#t on the ground. I put down my broom and walked out. I never even told them why I left, didn't feel like I needed to justify that.
#15
Working at a tech support call center. I put in for a day off for my birthday a month in advance. Boss forgot to process my request and said I couldn't get it off when I asked about it closer to the date, saying something about time off requests being locked due to "upcoming trainings"
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