Poll of the Day > Have you ever walked off of a job?

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have you

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No, but there've been times when I considered it a viable option should things go south too quickly for me to arrange my resignation.

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No. I have left other ways, though...
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Every day at 4:30, until I grow wings.

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a few times

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almost, but no I didn't, and it worked out in the end

Yup. Dishwashing job a decade ago that was excusing the absence of the guy I was always booked to work with but would never show up, sticking me with twice the work with the same minimum wage pay.

Brought up my concerns with the manager after putting up with it for a month. I was promised the next weekend shift would be different and they'd have someone else working alongside me. It wasn't. I quit on the spot.

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No, not right on the spot. I always gave my 2-weeks notice or longer, up until the age of 26. I quit at the end of a shift at a lumber yard that sucked butt, and last summer I left a job at an optometry office without working my two weeks. I suppose that was kind of 'walking off the job' as I had a shift that day. I laid out why the contract I signed was completely illegal, and brought up problems I had with how I was cheated through an optometric assistant course. It was all amicable at the 'meeting', but then I started getting nasty emails. I lost a friend, was threatened with court, but that never happened. Oh well!

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I didn't quit, but I walked out on my old job multiple times.

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Yes, and for less valid reasons than the ones presented in this topic, thus far.
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Yeah. My very first job. As soon as the month was up and I got paid I went for my break and never went back. I was tired of the jobsworth telling me what to do.

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No lol I need money

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Yeah walked out mid shift after being strung along for full time for three months. It was at a hardees and I was one of two cashiers they had for breakfast and they kept scheduling just a few hours under full time. One day the district manager comes in and starts going on about drive thru time. I said fuck this shit and tossed my headset. Went to the gas station across the street for an app and got hired that week.

Was working at a Wendys as a cashier my drawer was low on quarters I asked the manager to get me some. Told me sure in a minute. A volleyball team comes in and I still don't have quarters so i ask again manager says i should've asked earlier and starts to berate me in front of all these people so I walked. We were also three people short that night so they got slaughtered.

Was working thirds at a gas station and was tired of dealing with the particular meth head every night had a fist fight in the parking lot and walked off because I knew I would've been fired.

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Sort of.

Had a job where my hours were Monday-Friday. No weekends, except on volunteer basis.

One Friday after we'd had a bad snowstorm, my boss asks if I want to come in Saturday to help catch up on the work. That weekend happened to be my birthday and I had plans, which I mentioned, and I declined the weekend work.

Cue to later that evening as I'm punching out and a different manager says "Hey I'll see you tomorrow thanks for helping out with the delayed deliveries" and I say "I told Joe Schmoe that I couldn't work, I have plans" and this guy says "Well we have you down to work, if you don't show up it'll be a no-call;no-show and you'll be written up"

I didn't go into work that weekend.

Monday morning I get called into the supervisors office and they're telling me they gotta write me up, and I told them it's bullshit and why and walked out.

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Yeah. Twice.

Once was digitally and just like "I caught you lying to me because 'competent person B' didn't know about the problems I have with 'incompetent person A' and accidentally let it slip that you're not getting rid of them like you said so I'd stay." The guy waffled a bunch and I know he was between a rock and a hard place with it, but I'd basically been begrudgingly working with someone who in terms of intelligence level, maturity, and competency was Donald Trump. He made more work than he completed. A lot more. And he had just enough initiative to "make work" and fuck things up at breakneck speeds. I felt bad leaving the dude, but I was losing my mind and just worn down to nothing after two years of it. I knew my leaving was probably gonna be like pulling the pin on a grenade for everyone, but I felt like I'd given enough of my soul by then to bounce with a clear conscience.

The other instance was when I was in college, and I didn't storm out but it was an abrupt screw job in its own way. I had a retail job for fun money and a couple people had given exceptionally long resignation notices to the manager. Rather than hire people with all that time, do nothing was chosen as the resolution. I was going to be heading into finals for the semester and was not gonna pick up any extra shifts. 1-2 per week was gonna be my max. I knew my manager could be sorta stick-up-the-ass about certain things (but was okay in general, to be fair), so about two weeks before the last quitter was due to leave I went to talk to said manager with a resignation letter in my back pocket, just in case. I said "okay, this place isn't my career. I have finals, and you haven't hired anyone else the past month or two. I will stay and work my usual amount of hours but because of school I can't be working 40+ hours or whatever because we're short-staffed soon." The manager says "well, I can't make any promises." I say "I need you to do that for me, and I will stick around, but I'm probably not gonna be here a whole lot longer anyways." I get the same "I can't make any promises." I just say "okay, then here's two weeks notice. I quit." My old boss's face was priceless, because now they were gonna have two employees total once I was gone.

Yes.

Almost all of them.

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No, and my last job had me more likely shoot myself behind the cash register than just leaving and not returning.

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Rotpar posted...

No, and my last job had me more likely shoot myself behind the cash register than just leaving and not returning.

Well you certainly wouldnt be returning.

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Worked with my sisters (then) boyfriend in his shitty delivery job, where he would pay a flat $100 for a days work (but didnt tell us that days could sometimes last up to 17 hours) and half of the gig was just putting up with his moody shit.

He tried to embarrass me by telling me that I needed to locate a box of furniture and said it mustve been in back somewhere, so I spent 10 minutes looking, and when I came back to tell him it was nowhere to be found, it turned out he was just trying to make me feel like an idiot for trusting him, because he revealed the box was in the truck the entire time and I shouldve been smart enough to look. I didnt bother arguing with him and just left. This caused problems with me and my sister for a while, because she just couldnt see how big of a dickhead he was despite the obvious signs.

Other people who worked with him would air their grievances and hed go and tell them, in the warehouse full of other people, that hed knock them out and that they were lucky he hired them, because he was feeding their families.

He was just an overall shitty wantrepreneur who seemed to get off on having this sort of power imbalance with other people. Everyone else wound up quitting within a year later, and he had to move in with his mom lmao

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I damn near did this morning. I actually said, "F this! I quit!" then walked out the back door. I turned around and came back in after a dozen or so steps. I don't think anyone heard me anyway.
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No.

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Yep. It was only a pizza-maker job, though and I had a new job the next day.

im feeling that way right now. i get huge brain fogs when im at work. i just dont care anymore

I was a DC elementary schoolteacher for literally one month.

First day of school, I shit you not; a parent fought a fifth grader because the fifth grader called her a bitch. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

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I did early starting out because the job was BS and the pay sucked which is why I admired anyone who works and gets paid by the hour because hourly paid workers in America are at the very bottom of the pecking order when it comes to employees.

I worked at a food manufacturing plant as an assistant plant manager and the reason I left was the fact that they worked the hourly people pretty much 6 days per week for no reason other than to secure bonuses for upper management.

We would have product in the warehouse that was made 6 months prior that never shipped and the management kept saying the inventory was low which was total BS because I would do inventory scans on my own and we would have more than enough product.

I got fed up with that and just didn't go back one day.

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EvilMegas posted...

I was a DC elementary schoolteacher for literally one month.

First day of school, I shit you not; a parent fought a fifth grader because the fifth grader called her a bitch. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

I hear you. I'm actually thinking of going back to teaching, but I keep remembering things like this. The pay vs crap you have to put up with really isn't worth it. The only reason I'm considering going back is because it doesn't require traveling and I want my summers off.

Not on the spot but I just no showed

I worked at a grocery store for about a month and was given little to no training and they just kinda threw me into it so naturally I screwed up a lot

Before the day I quit they took me into the office and said I could either quit now or they could fire me within thirty days

The next day I called and said I want to quit but the manager was all like "Oh you can't do that we'll talk about it when you get here"

So I hung up the phone and didn't show up

What's funny is it was 4th of July too so odds are it was pretty busy

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No, Im too spineless to burn bridges, even if its deserved.

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Far-Queue posted...

Sort of.

Had a job where my hours were Monday-Friday. No weekends, except on volunteer basis.

One Friday after we'd had a bad snowstorm, my boss asks if I want to come in Saturday to help catch up on the work. That weekend happened to be my birthday and I had plans, which I mentioned, and I declined the weekend work.

Cue to later that evening as I'm punching out and a different manager says "Hey I'll see you tomorrow thanks for helping out with the delayed deliveries" and I say "I told Joe Schmoe that I couldn't work, I have plans" and this guy says "Well we have you down to work, if you don't show up it'll be a no-call;no-show and you'll be written up"

I didn't go into work that weekend.

Monday morning I get called into the supervisors office and they're telling me they gotta write me up, and I told them it's bullshit and why and walked out.

The thing about working today especially hourly paid jobs is how little voce employees have now. it's all rigged to favor the employer. If you told them you couldn't work, it should have ended there since you said weekends were volunteer basis but I guess they just ignored that and that sort of stuff is why some workers need unions.

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EvilMegas posted...

I was a DC elementary schoolteacher for literally one month.

First day of school, I shit you not; a parent fought a fifth grader because the fifth grader called her a bitch. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

EvilMegas posted...

I was a DC elementary schoolteacher for literally one month.

First day of school, I shit you not; a parent fought a fifth grader because the fifth grader called her a bitch. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

Oh damn that's crazy!

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No, but I thought about it at the machine shop I worked in college. But in a moment of clarity I realized that being covered in hydraulic fluid all day and mindlessly pressing a button for $7 an hour was way less trouble then working a retail job, so I stuck with it.

(Note: Minimum wage was $5.15 back then)

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No.

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Not yet, but I've come close.

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Multiple times.

One time I just got hired at a restaurant to wait tables. The chick training me was telling me what kind of income I should expect daily, and it was pathetic. So I told her I had to go to my car real quick and then I drove home.

Longhorn was paying me crap (like 25 a night), and I got an invite to play hockey, so I left to play.

Outback I got in a shouting match with my cokehead manager and walked out.

All these were crap jobs with crap pay with bosses that treated me like crap. My current jobs I've been at for 7 and 10 years now though (7 for my full time, 10 part time side gig). Turns out if you pay me well and the job isn't crap I'm pretty good at showing up for it

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