Ever consider walking out of a job?

SV · 06-11-2013 11:23PM #1

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

06-11-2013 11:26PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:28PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:29PM

Think about it at least once every day

Archeron · 06-11-2013 11:31PM

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

The Backwards Man · 06-11-2013 11:31PM

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

mad m · 06-11-2013 11:31PM

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

FearDark · 06-11-2013 11:35PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:35PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:36PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:40PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:45PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:49PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:50PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:52PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:53PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:53PM

Gee Bag wrote: »

Yes,

(and called her every name under the sun)

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

scrubber72 · 06-11-2013 11:54PM

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 · 06-11-2013 11:56PM

eamonnq wrote: »

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

Yes

I'm secretly in love with her.

Richard Hillman · 07-11-2013 12:02AM

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 · 07-11-2013 12:06AM

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 · 07-11-2013 12:10AM

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 .....

5p9arw38djv2b4 · 07-11-2013 12:13AM

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 · 07-11-2013 12:19AM

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 · 07-11-2013 12:28AM

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 · 07-11-2013 12:29AM

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 · 07-11-2013 12:36AM

I've walked out of a few jobs.

seanaor · 07-11-2013 12:40AM

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 · 07-11-2013 01:04AM

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 · 07-11-2013 01:23AM

Oddly enough I have stepped in a few jobbies.

princess-lala · 07-11-2013 01:28AM

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

Ever consider walking out of a job?

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