Ever consider walking out of a job?

SV

Ever actually do it?


I mean not handing in the notice, just straight up telling the boss to go fûck themselves and strutting out?

Never been as tempted to as lately but, being honest, I don't have the balls to carry it out

I did.

Started working in a computer repair shop in February 2007. Left after a week and a half; he was a dick. What broke the camel's back for me was that there was a discrepancy in the till and he flat out accused me of stealing. He also had CCTV cameras in the shop that recorded sound, which was possibly illegal. I just said it wasn't working out and left. Got a much better job a month later so I don't regret it one bit!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I walked out of two jobs. One was a showdown, the other I just stopped answering her calls, put her texts on block and sent her emails to spam

irish bloke

Think about it at least once every day

Archeron

Did it once, I left
Walking out felt really good
Bad plan, hindsight sucks.

The Backwards Man

I walked out on a job a half hour before I was getting a €1000 bonus. Never looked back.

mad m

Made sure I got my wages one Friday many moons ago. Never went back. I survived!

FearDark

Yep. I wasn't being paid for overtime for a few months. I was getting wages for a 39 hour week despite working for 60+ every week. Had it out with the boss who said he was not going to pay me a cent. I sat down in his seat in his office and refused to leave until he paid me every cent. Literally ripped the door off his office moments later in a fit of rage, he went away and came back minutes later with CASH from the safe to pay me everything he owed me! Walked out never to return again. Chancers.

Rawrr!!

Gongoozler

Almost every day. If I ended up doing it i would make sure to tell every fcukwit in there what a fcukwit they are on the way out.

It being so hard to get job is the only thing stopping me.

Oh I forgot, I did walk out of one years back. Nazi boss changed my set hours just to be a dick, then told me I wasn't getting holiday pay for days taken cause he thought I wasn't entitled to holidays. So i walked. It was pretty much mutual at that point.

sonyvision

I did !! Best feeling ever was telling the manager that always looked down on me what i really thought of himself and his job...

he asked me not to leave put me on next weeks roaster and i just didnt turn up....

I wonder am i still been put on the roaster 5 weeks later

Duvetdays

I was made redundant and ended up getting a job that paid a pittance as reception/admin (I've a new respect for receptionists it's a horrible job) one of the main guys was a bit of a spacer wanted me to bring the phone with me when I was going to the toilet......do you mind holding a second while I finish my p!ss.

I dreamed of walking out every single day of the whole whooping 7wks I worked there. I felt physically sick at the thoughts of the day ahead when I woke up. Luckily I got a much better office job with great people and even better money then my job I was made redundant from, it really was a blessing in disguise.

So the moral of my story is to everybody who despises their job and who works for tossers I know how you's feel but hang on in there!

Gee Bag

Yes,

I flipped one day and told the hideous cow I had to work for exactly what I thought of her (and called her every name under the sun) then walked out.

Had wanted to do it for ages, it felt just brilliant.

Mariasofia

I did once years ago. Told manageress in a very unladylike way to shove the job up her a**e and stormed out the door banging it behind me.





Was fcuking morto 3 minutes later walking back in to get my handbag and car keys in my locker !

Ace Attorney

Yes, a shitty call center job about 5 years ago fed up of abuse down the phone, not my fault shitty companys fault, i walked out and went on the beer, they rang my mobile looking for me everyday i didnt turn up and eventually wrote to me after two weeks of not turning up, saying if i didnt come in next week i was fired.

pablomakaveli

I almost did it once. Had started part-time work in a supermarket deli and had been there a few weeks. One of my colleagues seemed to be picking on me a lot, for example everything i did she'd check and then do it herself or criticize everything i did. What annoyed me was she was very nice to everyone else and never hassled them?

One morning i had enough, told her to go **** herself and walked out. I told the manager i was quitting and was grabbing my stuff to leave when this colleague came after me and asked what was wrong.

She didn't seem to be aware how pissed off i had been but she apologized and asked me to come back. I did and ended up becoming friends with her after that.

I'm glad that all happened though since it did end up solving the problem.

So TL:DR i came very close but didn't in the end.

MadsL

I told a boss to fire me once as I had not made a sale for 3 months and I was a damn good salesman, and he was too soft hearted to do it.

I told him he either need to:

1. Change his pricing model (his competitors were stuffing him)
2. Build the product I advised (€10k investment)
3. Fire me (pointless, but I couldn't help him unless he did 1 or 2.

I handed in my notice when he couldn't do 1, 2 or 3.

eamonnq

Gee Bag wrote: »

Yes,

(and called her every name under the sun)

Is that where you got your idea for your username ??

scrubber72

did it once and it was such a great feeling.Told the boss what i really thought of him, little pr##k, kinda felt a little silly as i walked out the door and was half way across the carpark when i realised i was still wearing work overalls and safety boots. Walked back in and changed clothes and left again and had to pass boss again. Gave him a few more thoughts too. Heard he had a meltdown a couple of weeks later too. :P

Gee Bag

eamonnq wrote: »

Is that where you got your idea for your username ??

Yes










I'm secretly in love with her.

Richard Hillman

I worked in telesales for about a week and a half. I hated the fact that I knew I was disturbing people constantly and constantly. The guy sitting beside me had just sold broadband to a woman in her 80s who clearly didnt have a clue what she was buying and probably didnt even have a computer.

I walked up to the manager and said thank you for the opportunity but this is not for me. I still get annoyed with myself that I didnt try and stop the guy beside me from doing what he did.

pharmaton

Worked for courier company and it was just me and another girl in the office, she had to drive 50km on bad roads to get to work so most days she never showed up or came in late and left early to beat traffic so I was left running the office. Came in one morning and she hadn't left keys for me so I wrote a note on a big cardboard box and stuck it on the office window and never went back. Note was short and sweet, along the lines of I hereby...

Vizzy

MadsL wrote: »

I told a boss to fire me once as I had not made a sale for 3 months and I was a damn good salesman, and he was too soft hearted to do it.

I told him he either need to:

1. Change his pricing model (his competitors were stuffing him)
2. Build the product I advised (€10k investment)
3. Fire me (pointless, but I couldn't help him unless he did 1 or 2.

I handed in my notice when he couldn't do 1, 2 or 3.

Not surprised you didn't make a sale.
Not much call for that nose wax stuff around these parts.

Heard there is great demand in the States .........




Oh wait .....

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Have desperately wanted to in current job, senior manager is bordering on bullying/ verbally abusive. One meeting recently she spent an hour telling the new staff that I could not manage a p1ss up in a brewery while i was sitting there doing inductions and slating me continually (so much another senior manager came to check on me afterwards to say she had never heard anyone treated like that before). Should say that I am very well qualified and very good at my job so it is unfair. Wish I had the guts to walk out but I freeze and stay quiet - would love to see her face if I did (it's a very PC organisation)

Kersh

Yep, way back when I was 18. Learned an awful lot from it.

Boss blamed me and 3 others for breaking an expensive piece of kit, and wanted to dock us wages.


So we all agreed it wasnt right so we would all walk out.

That day, me and one other guy did. Two stayed, didnt have the balls to walk.

We headed over to my Mams house, had tea, agreed it was scary to do, but were happy that we had the backbone to do it.

We are still friends now, Venture leaders in the same unit in fact.

skirtgirl

I did. I was 16. Taught me that not all bosses are nice. Cried every single day I had to go into work. Best thing I ever did telling him to stick his job. Most horrible man I have ever met.

michellie

Yes I did, I worked for a complete bitch, it was a small place, with only myself, her and one more person. She started giving me grief one day and I was 7 months pregnant at this stage, so I just said "**** this I'm out of here" stormed out of her office to get my bag from behind my desk, and was just down the stairs and about to get out the door when she called me back and apologised Blah blah blah.

I went back in because I only had 4 weeks left and badly needed the money. Never returned after my maternity leave, awful awful woman to work for !

Seaneh

I've walked out of a few jobs.

seanaor

Wanted to every day for two years. Had dreams, glorious dreams, about how I was going to stroll out and wreck the place on my way. But I stuck with it.

Now I have a much nicer job, and am constantly being told how much I am missed in that hellhole of a workplace I was in before.

Witchie

A bit like Michellie above I was pregnant when I walked.

Was working in advertising sales in media at the time and was very stressed because the head of sales had said at a meeting "I hope none of you ladies intend getting pregnant coz we have too much work to do this year" while I was sitting there about 2 months gone.

But it was the sales manager in my office that really made life hell. She was meant to allow me to do some of the smaller jobs and was to hand some files over to me but constantly went behind my back and kept files. I think it was killing her that I was very successful even with her blocking my way.

Anyway, one day, a week before I was going to hand in my notice because the Doctor had told me the stress was harming my baby and it was a choice between my job and my baby, I had been busy selling and hadn't noticed it was past the usual time I would go on lunch. When I finished up my call I looked through the glass between our offices and signaled to my "boss" that I was going for lunch. I took my hour, came back and was hit by a s**t storm. My "boss" came into the front office where there were some public hanging about and started bawling me out of it. She was late for an appointment coz she couldn't leave the office when I wasn't there. She started screaming that she was the manager there and I should do what she said. She hadn't told me she had an appointment and hadn't tried to stop me when I was leaving for lunch.

Anyway I sat down at my desk really upset and something snapped. I strolled into her office, sat in a chair beside her desk and said "I am sorry that you missed your appointment, I didn't know you had one or I would have been back earlier. I know I don't know much about management but one thing I do know is that a manager should never bawl out a member of staff in front of the public. Stick your job up your f***ing hole" and got up and left.

The head of sales from head office rang me later and tried to talk me round but I told her I couldn't work with someone like that.

Funny thing is I ended up briefly back in the same company a few years later and still have a good relationship with some of the staff there. She is no longer employed by them.

MadsL

Oddly enough I have stepped in a few jobbies.

princess-lala

Worked for a woman for 18 months!!

Total geebag, omthe saturday before Christmas I had enough and told her to shove her job!! She got her mammy to ring me to beg me to go back!!

Such a satisfying feeling

420

Yes. Everyday and everyday i see the same group of people sitting outside drinking their expensive coffee's planning their moves getting through life the easy way and then i think to myself that im not working for this company ..i'm working for them . Them sitting there watching the people go to work drinking their coffee's.. All day everyday.

Rant over. Work in the morning!!

pharmaton

yeah, and that's why I chose to work with men

Maximus Alexander

I had a terrible telemarketing job for a few months in 2009. Left for 'lunch' one day, went to an interview, went home, never went back.

siblers

When I was working at Smyths toys I was so tempted to, the 2 managers there were the two biggest arses to work for. I wish I had told one of them to go f**k themselves, I lasted two weeks then one Saturday I just decided I couldn't do it anymore so didn't bother turning up. Had a few missed calls off them, got my P45(or60) in the post a week later and that was that.

B.A._Baracus

I walked out of some many fucking jobs when I was younger. It was a joke. And when I say younger I am only talking over the last 10 years.

I would quit a job... wouldnt even text or call. Just no show cause I got "bored" or some other immature and foolish shit. But the mental thing looking back was that I would often use the last job as a reference and still get another job!!! ... wtf like.

[-0-]

A friend of mine in New York quit his job today. He walked out of it because a new boss was treating him like dirt. He's the second person to leave the job this week too so management will surely take notice.

I've done it once. One summer during college I got a job in a kitchen as a deep scrubber. I worked for something like 11 or 12 hours without even taking a piss. I had my hands in the sink the entire time; my fingernails all fell off at the end of the shift. I quit and never went back. I never even went in to pick up my cheque, I told them they could stick it up their arse.

grenache

SV wrote: »

Ever actually do it?


I mean not handing in the notice, just straight up telling the boss to go fûck themselves and strutting out?

Never been as tempted to as lately but, being honest, I don't have the balls to carry it out

I feel your pain. It's not worth it in the long run though, especially if you'll need a reference.

dd972

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I walked out of some many fucking jobs when I was younger. It was a joke. And when I say younger I am only talking over the last 10 years.

I would quit a job... wouldnt even text or call. Just no show cause I got "bored" or some other immature and foolish shit. But the mental thing looking back was that I would often use the last job as a reference and still get another job!!! ... wtf like.

That post is a Celtic Tiger relic !, seriously though it's better to walk than be stuck in a job you hate, researchers have stated it's healthier mentally and physically to be unemployed than stuck in a job you hate with piss poor pay, no control over your day and duties and no prospects, this is especially true with things like call centres or shop work where your're a pawn of fate at everyone's whim.

MonaPizza

SV wrote: »

Ever actually do it?


I mean not handing in the notice, just straight up telling the boss to go fûck themselves and strutting out?

Never been as tempted to as lately but, being honest, I don't have the balls to carry it out

Have done it.

Walked straight out into unemployment because of practices at the firm with which I disagreed.

Shanotheslayer

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I walked out of some many fucking jobs when I was younger. It was a joke. And when I say younger I am only talking over the last 10 years.

I would quit a job... wouldnt even text or call. Just no show cause I got "bored" or some other immature and foolish shit. But the mental thing looking back was that I would often use the last job as a reference and still get another job!!! ... wtf like.

'It's against the law to give a bad reference' According to the misses

Savage Tyrant

Walked out of a few jobs when I was younger. Bar work, kitchen staff and call centre.

My cousin though, he worked in a computer programming job. 6 years for the same company. Well paid and very competent at it. But personality wise clashed with most of his superiors.
On finding out that he'd been given a new job he applied for he decided to quit in epic fashion. He hung up the call offering him the new position, and immediately set about telling people in the place what he thought of them. By all accounts it was a tirade of abuse aimed at 3 particular people that would have made the lads on goodfellas ask him to tone it down a bit.
Walked out feeling proud as a dog with two dícks.
The job he went to lasted 10 weeks.... And now he has an awful time explaining why he has no reference for 6 years of his employment history. :pac:
He's sorted now again, but still quite an embarrassment for him.

Ruu

Used to do telesales and on the long bus ride in the morning, I often contemplated getting off a few stops early and hang out in the shops for most of the day. Never did but didn't last long in the job anyway.

Thespoofer

Walked out of a good paying one a few years back due to stress ( actually just didn't go in one day ).
I ended up living abroad for a few months a week later, unplanned, where I met my now wife and now have kids and very happy....( despite thinking the same about present job the odd time...)

Teyla Emmagan

I did a few years ago. I was miserable and being bullied by a colleague and the guy I was working for was a right SOB. So I got a new job and told him I would be leaving on the X date. He told me I couldn't go as I would owe them a month's notice. I said no, my contract is up then. I had been sent out a new contract but because I was so unhappy I hadn't signed it.

Then he started threatening me. Then he rang the people who had offered me the new job and told them if they took me on he would sue them as I was in breach of verbal contract to him!!! I had been stupid enough to tell him where I was going unfortunately. So they withdrew the job offer. I'd say he was delighted then thinking I would be forced into staying.

I left anyway as per the date I had notified him. I had enough of being bullied and treated like crap by everyone involved at that stage. And then I sent him a solicitor's letter stating that if he defamed me again I would pursue him for lack of earnings.

I had another new job two weeks later and I hope he learnt the basic lesson that you retain staff by treating them well and not like ****.

Gongoozler

LadyLabyrinth wrote: »

Have desperately wanted to in current job, senior manager is bordering on bullying/ verbally abusive. One meeting recently she spent an hour telling the new staff that I could not manage a p1ss up in a brewery while i was sitting there doing inductions and slating me continually (so much another senior manager came to check on me afterwards to say she had never heard anyone treated like that before). Should say that I am very well qualified and very good at my job so it is unfair. Wish I had the guts to walk out but I freeze and stay quiet - would love to see her face if I did (it's a very PC organisation)

How big is the company? Do you have policy and procedure on anything like working conditions etc? Sounds like an awful position to be in. But you're also letting it happen. If you don't speak up about it it will continue. It's work, people are meant to be professional. Seriously, put a stop to it today.

DeanAustin

Would love to in my current job. Company treat me well and overpay me but the egos and politics do my nut. F**king mickey measuring contests everyday where people aren't doing the right thing, they're just doing what best suits their personal agenda.

5 years ago I'd have left. I've done it in two jobs before (albeit I left 'properly' with notice and stuff) with nowhere to go. But when you have a kid and a mortgage and the company pay you a very good wage they ultimately end up owning you pretty much.

OneArt

Not so much a job-walking out story, but there was a client who irritated me a little bit.

I usually did a bit of overflow work for her when she had too much too handle so it was just a bit of extra cash. I wouldn't starve without it, but it was welcome. She could be a bit nit-picky to the point of where writing her articles was sometimes too time-consuming, but it was very good experience and she always praised my work stating that I was one of the best writers she'd worked with.

Anyway, she asked me to do about seven or so high-quality technical articles. I was a bit tired but decided to take on the work anyway. The deadline was two days, but three hours later she kept sending the articles back to correct minor things. It was high-quality so I didn't mind (the pay was nice too), but after a while I was just too wrecked because I'd been teaching as well. Since the deadline was far away I told her that I just wasn't up to it and that she'd better go with someone else (if I change my mind on a job I make sure the deadline is as far as possible and let the clients know immediately).

Anyway, she then sends me a snarky message saying that the deadline had now changed to twenty-four hours (thanks for letting me know!) and that I'd "let her down". The next day I got a polite "thank you for your work and best wishes in your future endeavors" e-mail. Fair enough, she was being a miserable cow so I was ultimately glad not to have to work with her again.

Since then, I've gotten several e-mails where she asks if I'm available for work, as if nothing happened. What? I sent her an e-mail after the first one saying thanks for considering me, but I'm too busy to take on overflow work now. She doesn't seem to have gotten the message though because I keep getting the odd e-mail asking if I'm available.

Nuts.

Delirium

Left at job at a printers and the boss didn't realise for 2 weeks that I'd quit :pac:

Was working for the printers and they started to cut back my hours. Got to a 3 day week. Then cut again until eventually it was a half day a week (if I was lucky). Found another company willing to give me full time work instantly. Two weeks later got a call from the printer asking me to come in for a half-day. :rolleyes:

CruelCoin

SV wrote: »

Ever actually do it?


I mean not handing in the notice, just straight up telling the boss to go fûck themselves and strutting out?

Never been as tempted to as lately but, being honest, I don't have the balls to carry it out

Was working in Holland for a year (went to improve my dutch and gain experience to bring back to family business).
Boss at one firm didn't hold up his end of the bargain, so i told him i was leaving as i wasn't doing the work i went there to do, and left to work for his competitor.

No need to be childish about it with "**** you"s or anything like that.

DeanAustin

Oh actually did walk out one time of a pub job.

Small bar with four of us on. Me and the ex missus and the boss and her fella. Big party in for a Christmas do and the boss said something real sh!tty to my missus. So she fcuked plates around the kitchen, said "F**k you b!tch, I'm outta here" and walked. All I could do was follow suit. Felt bad for yer man coz he was a nice guy but the boss was a cnut with no people skills. Anyway, dunno how they managed with two people coz the four of us were struggling on the night.

When we got home, I pulled a big set of keys from my pocket which were the keys to pretty much everything in the pub. Brought them with me accidentally. So if they got through the night, they had another headache in trying to lock up and get replacement keys.

She was a cnut anyway so she deserved it. Dreaded going to that job every single day so was delighted I got to walk out even if it was the missus who made the call to do it.