Ever consider walking out of a job?

CianRyan · 07-11-2013 03:39PM

bear1 wrote: »

No I'm not siding with anyone, one thing is a slap, but break their jaw and a concussion? I think that is way too excessive

To be fair, why he describes is just pushing his face down into his line of Coke. I doubt he meant to break his jaw.

There were many times in my last joke I'd have loved to swing for my manager, she was a 40 odd year old woman though so that was never going to happen. Put a dent in a wall a week before I left though and I used to batter the lift doors after trying to speak with management about issues in a relaxed manner. They were never willing to talk though so I have them my week notice and they flipped ad told me I legally ha to give two weeks and that I "wasn't allowed to leave". I laughed.

Went home, printed out pages from the statute book, brought them my copy of my contract and threw it at them, telling them again that I'd leave on the date I previously gave them.
They backed down but said they were disappointed in me, getting the last dig in.

Had to go back into them to drop in a few things and collect my cheque and p45, they weren't welcoming me with open arms but there was no bad blood.

Trying to find another job is a bit of a he's wrecker but it's nothing compared to working in that hell hole of a hotel. :mad:

MadsL · 07-11-2013 03:45PM

superelliptic wrote: »

Yeah, cold calling sales jobs are the lowest of the low.

How dare people work for a living...

bear1 · 07-11-2013 03:46PM

MonstaMash wrote: »

Walked out of a job after breaking a managers jaw & giving him a concussion...

I walked into the toilets at the company Xmas party & heard said manager seriously bad-mouthing my kid brother while snorting substances off the sink...

I introduced his face to the sink in a downward motion at high speed...that'll learn him

CianRyan wrote: »

To be fair, why he describes is just pushing his face down into his line of Coke. I doubt he meant to break his jaw.

There were many times in my last joke I'd have loved to swing for my manager, she was a 40 odd year old woman though so that was never going to happen. Put a dent in a wall a week before I left though and I used to batter the lift doors after trying to speak with management about issues in a relaxed manner. They were never willing to talk though so I have them my week notice and they flipped ad told me I legally ha to give two weeks and that I "wasn't allowed to leave". I laughed.

Went home, printed out pages from the statute book, brought them my copy of my contract and threw it at them, telling them again that I'd leave on the date I previously gave them.
They backed down but said they were disappointed in me, getting the last dig in.

Had to go back into them to drop in a few things and collect my cheque and p45, they weren't welcoming me with open arms but there was no bad blood.

Trying to find another job is a bit of a he's wrecker but it's nothing compared to working in that hell hole of a hotel. :mad:

I can agree that there are moments of rage when you are treated like utter crap, I wouldn't want to waste my time with the feckers at all.
Let them have a sad ass life as this is the impression they give me when they start going off on one.
I'd prefer to just laugh in their face just to make them angrier and then say "arrivederci bitches"
But, the poster could have landed himself in huge trouble with that, the boss probably also cause of the coke I imagine he was taking.
Difference of opinion I suppose but I stand by my point that his actions were too severe

poundapunnet · 07-11-2013 03:48PM

Really considered it in the last one, it was in a café and I liked the people I was working with and the branch manager well enough but god the higher ups were the most wojus shower of shítes I ever met.

I was hired by the manager of my branch, but by the end, due to "staff shortages" at other branches I was being sent out to work there. Wouldn't have minded so much except that a) I was on a zero hour contract anyway so now had no idea where I would be working or how much and b) the gowl who owned the company was the one telling the other branch managers to put on extra staff and not listening when she was told they weren't needed, so I'd often travel the 30 minutes out there and then be sent home after two or three hours :mad:

Our staff nights out etc were paid for out of our tips, no input from the company. The manager would usually get a round in out of her own pocket.

The woman who owned the company was just the most condescending, rude piece of shít. She'd get notions every once in a while that we were going to start, for example, carrying people's trays down for them rather than it being all self service and she'd call an after hours staff meeting which could go on for an hour and a half to make sure we all understood the concept of carrying trays. I once saw her take a 17 year old member of staff into the back and shout and swear at her for filling up the containers in the deli counter without taking them out of the display. Occasionally she'd be in to do a day of supervision, without fail we'd be about an hour late closing up and the poor manager would have to chase her for the extra wages. She also ****ed my friend out of it for giving left over food to the homeless rather than throwing it out, really nasty stuff, and my friend was seven months pregnant at the time.

Two 15 minute breaks in shifts that could be ten hours long (where you're on your feet literally the whole time).

I'd love to name and shame tbh but I don't know if it's allowed. Anyways I had to take a weekend off for family reasons once, manager said to just let her know when I was ready to come back and I never did, couldn't stomach the thought. Not exactly walking out I know, I just wanted to give out

BlimpyBoy · 07-11-2013 03:49PM

CianRyan wrote: »

To be fair, why he describes is just pushing his face down into his line of Coke. I doubt he meant to break his jaw.

MonstaMash wrote: »

I introduced his face to the sink in a downward motion at high speed...that'll learn him

To be fair, he smashed the guy's face off a sink. I think he did mean to do some damage.

Few slaps would be fair enough but that's a bit much.

MonstaMash · 07-11-2013 03:50PM

bear1 wrote: »

I believe this would be called an assault? Also, did you walk out or get escorted out by police?

Never reported...I assume the state of him & the amount of class A's in his system & on his possession deterred him.

CianRyan · 07-11-2013 03:51PM

bear1 wrote: »

I can agree that there are moments of rage when you are treated like utter crap, I wouldn't want to waste my time with the feckers at all.
Let them have a sad ass life as this is the impression they give me when they start going off on one.
I'd prefer to just laugh in their face just to make them angrier and then say "arrivederci bitches"
But, the poster could have landed himself in huge trouble with that, the boss probably also cause of the coke I imagine he was taking.
Difference of opinion I suppose but I stand by my point that his actions were too severe

Issues of force and acts of violence will always has these sort of divides, it's fine by me to agree to disagree.

I hope you can take my the post you quoted that I am more than capable and I actually prefer to take a diplomatic route.
I believe violence isn't the answer but sometimes it is a justified reaction.

MonstaMash · 07-11-2013 03:52PM

BlimpyBoy wrote: »

To be fair, he smashed the guy's face off a sink. I think he did mean to do some damage.

Few slaps would be fair enough but that's a bit much.

Prior history with this jumped up wanker & yes I fully intended to fook him up...judge away, I care not a jot for anyone else's opinions regarding my actions!!!

Drexel · 07-11-2013 03:52PM

I walked out of one job cause the smell of the guy they put me working with was awful. I stuck it out for 2 days. The first day I gave him the benefit of the doubt but when he was still stinking and obviously hadnt washed I told him I was going to the shop for something for my break and I never went back!

bear1 · 07-11-2013 03:54PM

CianRyan wrote: »

Issues of force and acts of violence will always has these sort of divides, it's fine by me to agree to disagree.

I hope you can take my the post you quoted that I am more than capable and I actually prefer to take a diplomatic route.
I believe violence isn't the answer but sometimes it is a justified reaction.

Not disagreeing with your post at all

I'd more inclined to agree with you about being diplomatic.

Wanderer2010 · 07-11-2013 03:56PM

When I was 19 and stupid I walked out a job I had been in, on and off, for 2 years. The place was a factory with a very bad rep for bullying and conditions which I did experience but as I was a temporary worker and young with no commitments so I put up with it for a few bob. Anyway, one Friday I was told with 2 hours left of my shift that I was going to be working in a different department that Monday, no shift work (down a lot of money) and when I questioned it I was barked at by the absolute pr!ck of a manager "Just do it Im the boss so Just do it!!"...

So come Monday I spend the day chilling out and shopping. Tuesday morning a phone call from HR which I ignore. Another call on Wednesday and the girl asked me when I was going in to work I said never because the place is a horrible place to work and I was given no notice of a shift change...she was a bit shocked and asked me a few times would I consider but I said no. I know it was stupid looking back I should have just got on with it but I went to college the following summer and am now in a very good career.

The mad thing? The very same company, just 3 months after I effectively told them to F Off, sent me a letter asking me to return for another 6 months of casual work. I binned it and then the same woman rang me up asking me to come back!! I would have though that after what I did, my name was just blackballed but some places are very badly run...

Guy:Incognito · 07-11-2013 03:57PM

sonyvision wrote: »

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

Depends on how much you like rohypnol and threesomes I suppose.

bear1 · 07-11-2013 03:58PM

MonstaMash wrote: »

Prior history with this jumped up wanker & yes I fully intended to fook him up...judge away, I care not a jot for anyone else's opinions regarding my actions!!!

Righty-o

dj jarvis · 07-11-2013 03:58PM

i walked out telling a manager to go **** himself , i was a base controller for a courier company , about 10 to 15 bikes on it , it was a busy friday , and it started lashing snow , so one by one the bike started to call in they were no doing any more calls as it was just to dangerous , but the phones were still hopping , the manager just had not got the balls to tell the customer they could not get the call done becasue of the snow

so it was all backing up and getting mental - no bikes left , office was like a nut house , and he started shouting at me to get the bikes back on the road - i told him shall i go and sweep the snow off every road in dublin ??? he said do something - so i did , picked up my jacket , told him to go **** himself , and marched out - about 10 yards down the road to a pub and had a few scoops

OldNotWIse · 07-11-2013 03:58PM

I did. I was on 6 months probabtion with the rest of the team. They all got made permanent after. Myself and the only other person from South Dublin on the team were left on probation by our Monaghan b1tch of a boss.

Walked out. Still regret it. Those were the days when you could walk out of a job one day and walk into another one the next. Wouldnt do it now!

petes · 07-11-2013 03:59PM

Have done it and I was there a lot of years. Luckily enough to get in somewhere else before everything went to fcuk!

120_Minutes · 07-11-2013 05:01PM

If i ever walk out of a job it will be like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOKJTRHMdw

Bog Standard User · 07-11-2013 05:19PM

Duvetdays wrote: »

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 bet he would phone you while you were taking a sh!te

sparkthatbled · 07-11-2013 05:22PM

As much as I'd love to do this most of the time, I've been in the same job for 9 years. I'd never be employed again with a cv gap like that! Fair play to those who had the balls!

KungPao · 07-11-2013 05:22PM

Did it twice

First time I had just been promoted but I had enough of the industry really, was just going with the flow but deep down I knew I wasnt cut out to be "a suit". At the time I had thoughts of heading out of Ireland for a while, so anyway I handed in my notice of 4 weeks and booked my flights etc.

The bigwigs were cheesed of with my upcoming departure so soon after promotion and I started getting shiitty shifts and general bad vibes - A kind of feck this guy, he won't be for long anyway attitude. So with about 2/3 weeks left of my notice period, I got my jacket and walked out. Couldn't face a few weeks of that treatment especially as I had worked HARD for the company for years.

Second walk-out was when I came back to Ireland afters a few years gone. I got a pretty basic retail number but I had grown out of that industry by now, and after about a week, I just told the boss "sorry, I can't do this, the hearts not in it, but thanks anyway" and again grabbed my coat and hit the road.

It was for the best anyway, good things have happened since.

Sleepy · 07-11-2013 05:36PM

Back when I was 20 I had one of my favourite ever McJobs as a night porter in a Galway hotel which has long since gone to the wall. I actually loved the work but the General Manager was an absolute cvnt who only had her job because her cousin was the owner. Seriously, the woman couldn't even manage to run the place at a loss as she'd been instructed to do on some sort of tax maneouvre (presumably the owner was planning to offset it's losses against profits in another business before flipping it for a real estate profit).

Because I loved the work I was able to put up with her ****e for quite a while until the day I asked if it was okay to swap a shift with the other night porter the following week so I could have my 21st birthday off and was told that, despite it having no impact on payroll or any other aspect of the job, she wouldn't allow it. I spent the next hour or so considering my options and coming to terms with not having the night off until my shift manager asked me to lend a hand with something in the bar which I happily did until the General Manager decides to try giving me a bollicking for leaving the front desk in front of the full bar.

The tirade which left my mouth was something I've never been able to repeat. Absolutely ****ed her our of it, slagging off her incompetence, the fact she couldn't see how her "friends" only palled around with her when it was after hours and they wanted a lock-in, her inability to deal with her own sexuality and how it was glaringly obvious that her own insecurities were the root of her unhappiness and unreasonable behaviour. Finished up with "**** you, **** your job, you're nothing but a miserable cvnt" and walked out of the bar.

Got a call 15 minutes later from one of the lads telling me that she'd left in tears and that I should come back to collect my final wages. I walked back into the bar to a standing ovation from the regulars and drank free for the rest of the night. The absolute highlight of any of the part-time jobs I had in college.

Electric Sheep · 07-11-2013 05:47PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Back when I was 20 I had one of my favourite ever McJobs as a night porter in a Galway hotel which has long since gone to the wall. I actually loved the work but the General Manager was an absolute cvnt who only had her job because her cousin was the owner. Seriously, the woman couldn't even manage to run the place at a loss as she'd been instructed to do on some sort of tax maneouvre (presumably the owner was planning to offset it's losses against profits in another business before flipping it for a real estate profit).

Because I loved the work I was able to put up with her ****e for quite a while until the day I asked if it was okay to swap a shift with the other night porter the following week so I could have my 21st birthday off and was told that, despite it having no impact on payroll or any other aspect of the job, she wouldn't allow it. I spent the next hour or so considering my options and coming to terms with not having the night off until my shift manager asked me to lend a hand with something in the bar which I happily did until the General Manager decides to try giving me a bollicking for leaving the front desk in front of the full bar.

The tirade which left my mouth was something I've never been able to repeat. Absolutely ****ed her our of it, slagging off her incompetence, the fact she couldn't see how her "friends" only palled around with her when it was after hours and they wanted a lock-in, her inability to deal with her own sexuality and how it was glaringly obvious that her own insecurities were the root of her unhappiness and unreasonable behaviour. Finished up with "**** you, **** your job, you're nothing but a miserable cvnt" and walked out of the bar.

Got a call 15 minutes later from one of the lads telling me that she'd left in tears and that I should come back to collect my final wages. I walked back into the bar to a standing ovation from the regulars and drank free for the rest of the night. The absolute highlight of any of the part-time jobs I had in college.

Both the regulars and you sound like assholes if you think that a person's sexuality is something to be used in an unrelated argument.

Sleepy · 07-11-2013 05:55PM

She was openly homophobic yet "discreetly" tried to pressurise female staff into going home with her.

Normally, I'd agree with you. I don't think it's anyone's business what consenting adults do in their bedroom but I can't stand hypocrites and tbh, I was looking to hurt her so pushed every button I was aware of. She had obvious problems accepting the fact that she was anything other than straight or "normal" as she'd have put it so while it was possibly a low blow I can't say she didn't deserve it.

Joe prim · 07-11-2013 05:56PM

Theres always this approach

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrSVkTRb24

bear1 · 07-11-2013 05:57PM

I don't think Sleepy was using the person's sexuality against her, even if it can sound like that.

EDIT: Saw Sleepy's answer, so disregard my above comment

Wanderer2010 · 07-11-2013 06:13PM

I do wonder how many of these stories are real and how many only exist in the heads of people who would like to walk out but are too scared to do it so they invent fantasies in their head and put them on this thread as if it were real. Im not saying ALL of these stories are made up but a few of them just seem a bit too Hollywood and polished to be the whole truth. Some people have stormed off and left people "speechless" and managers who were nasty for years suddenly back down when their employee fight back without so much as a squeak..

All its missing is "Next Week on Eastenders"....

Soft Falling Rain · 07-11-2013 06:18PM

I am shocked at the amount of walk outs that have been documented in the catering/hotel/supermarket setting. Always thought that these sectors had the most qualified and best trained managers you can find.

RoboRat · 07-11-2013 06:23PM

In my last job I thought about it every day but decided it would be career suicide even though it was actually slowly killing me - it put me on anti depressants with the amount of **** I had to put up with.

Eventually after a long time looking I got offered a job and with great pleasure handed my notice in.

The best part was meeting a previous client last month who told me that they never comprehended the amount of work I done until I left and it was too late to do anything by then.

I wasn't looking for a pay rise even though I had voluntarily given up a large portion of my wages to help the company. I used to work about 15 extra hours per week without looking for a red cent. All I wanted was to be treated with respect and dignity and that was deemed too much.

I am now working in a lovely environment who really appreciate what I have brought to the company. Its still a very tough job, but they can respect what I am doing and although they can't reward me as much as I would like financially, they treat me well and respect me and that's a big thing.

Electric Sheep · 07-11-2013 06:25PM

Sleepy wrote: »

She was openly homophobic yet "discreetly" tried to pressurise female staff into going home with her.

Normally, I'd agree with you. I don't think it's anyone's business what consenting adults do in their bedroom but I can't stand hypocrites and tbh, I was looking to hurt her so pushed every button I was aware of. She had obvious problems accepting the fact that she was anything other than straight or "normal" as she'd have put it so while it was possibly a low blow I can't say she didn't deserve it.

I can. Her sexuality is none of your business, however you choose to backpedal.

misterdeeds · 07-11-2013 06:37PM

never had the guts to do it but gave it serious taught

worked for a little s..t in an off licence a few years ago and by god he was sooo annoying, always moving stuff around in the store saying this was in the wrong place and that was in the wrong place( ffs in the store I always kept it tidy and neat and customers would never be in the store anyway ) and to make it worse the s..t lived in canada and only came home every 3 months but would ring every f...ing morning at 11 am talking crap
asking if it was busy and his usual crap talk
the closest i came to walking was just after christmas one year he calls me aside to give me a pay rise and telling me he is happy with my work bla bla
so i go home and cant wait to open my pay packet ..... TWO FU...NG POUND !! little **** is all i could say ,so from that day on i decided i had enuf and slowly took some stock over 3-6 months til i got a new job and i did, happy days (and drinking) the starting rate in this new job was double the little s..t was paying me . best move ever

Ever consider walking out of a job?

Comments