“Will a 50-cent raise make you come back?” I LITERALLY GUFFAWED.

As a reminder to anyone who's just starting out in the working world, 2 weeks notice is a courtesy, not a requirement. If you are concerned for your safety or mental health, you are in no way required to work an additional 2 weeks. You can just quit and leave.

"If you quit it'll ruin my vacation." Way to establish a negotiating position.

A friends cousin found out they were going to be fired as soon as their supervisor returned from a dream vacation to Hawaii that she'd been planning for years so that the supervisor's niece could have her job. The cousin waited till the day the supervisor was to fly out then came in and quit on the spot. The CEO freaked out and tried to stop the cousin and was told "fuck you" as they left. No one else had the knowledge to do that job but the cousin and the supervisor and it was a vital position. The supervisor had planned to train her niece when she got back in three weeks. Ended up with the CEO calling the supervisor and telling her to cancel her vacation and get her butt into work, if she wanted to keep her job. The supervisor lost her deposits on airfare, hotels, sightseeing tours, all of it. Last the friend heard from her cousin that supervisor never got to go on the trip. Oh and the niece was a dumbass and couldn't handle the job LOL.

When the people needed me most, I vanished.

When they wouldnt allow me time off for my grandpa's funeral :D

“Overtime pays for my bonus” (From the perspective of another employer) Do the employers not realize overtime is being payed for that extra time? It isn’t a bonus, it’s something your employees earned.

I just don't understand some bosses. "You mean, if he quits it will cost my six figures, okay lets go out of our way to make his life miserable". I don't get it!

A year of working at 711 for minimum wage ($8.25) I'm doing countless tasks: cycle counts, training, ordering. Due to me being the most senior employee, other than my manager, thought this was normal.... ...Until I found a 711 poster buried in the backroom behind another poster.. detailing the tasks of different levels of associate titles, here I find I am doing assistant manager work under entry level title for minimum wage. I bring this to my bosses attention and she tells me she'll talk to her boss about it. The next day she offered me a $0.14 raise. I showed no emotion but accepted it and started to plot my exit. I just did not do any of the work I was assigned, other than keeping the customers happy. After almost a month of having all this work piled up she tells me it needs to get done in 2 days because the bosses boss's boss (president of 7-11 I think?) Was going to be in town.. I then proceed to tell her that I will not be coming in for those 2 days nor any other of my shifts and good luck. Fuck you lady.

"Old job kept calling my new job to try and get me back" Surely that has to be illegal somehow?

I worked at a nursing home as a CNA that had a outbreak of COVID-19. They didn't tell us who was sick until it happened and most of the employees (myself included) got the virus. I was sick for only a few days and then had to self-quarantine for a month. That in itself wasn't too bad. What was bad is that HR and the head nurse wanted me to come back even though I was still tested positive. They wanted me around elderly people with compromised immunity systems and take care of them even though I was a health risk to them. HR kept trying to twist my arm into coming back, but I couldn't in good conscious do that. The company gave me no choice but to resign. I to this day still feel guilty on leaving the residents like that. They didn't ask for this to happen to them and neither did I. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth over it.

Bath and body works regional manager called a store manager who was at her father's funeral and demanded she come to work for one of their numerous seasonal sales. Store manager quit.

Walked out of a job after my coworkers found out I was quitting to go to another job that paid me 30% more as a starting pay. They literally left to go talk to people and go on smoke breaks while I had to unload and cut rubber for an entire plant......I told my boss I quit and left. My boss called me an hour later begging me to come back, I told him if he can match what my new job is offering and a clean slate I would come back. The plant manager didn't go for it and said I was being insubordinate. So I started at my new job and never looked back

Worked as a assistant kitchen manager at a new breakfast place. I started on day one of the business and within 3 weeks I was running the back. With in the first 2 weeks they had 1 guy quit and fired 2 others. So I started doing those 3 guys jobs as well to fill the void. The owner saw that I could handle the on slot so he just decided not to replace the 3 employees as had lost. After working 10 hours a day for 97 days straight I lost my shit and said I needed to be paid more. Well they ended up capping me at 50 hours at $500 a week salary. This was a $2 hour raise on paper and gave me one day off. Well I put up with this crap for about another 3 months until I was being forced to work 20-30 hours a week extra without being paid for it. Then they opened a new location and took the guy who covered my day off. So I was back to 7 days a week now working 12-16 hour shifts. For $500 a week. I sat down with the owner again and told him. I'm doing like 5 peoples jobs now plus I have to do the shit the front of house staff refuse to do And you pay me peanuts. You need to pay me a living wage and hire more staff so I can have a life. To which he refused.. I went home that night filled to my core with rage. The next day was holiday monday in February. Our busiest day of the month. I decided that if I was not gonna be paid for going in early I was not gonna go in early. So I set my alarm for 8am instead of my normal 430 to be into work by 5. By the time I woke up I was 120 missed text mags from my bosses demanding i get to work and from servers panicked because they keep running out of things that they never told me they needed the day before so that I could have made enough for the day. Still with an hour to get to work by 9 I sat down on my deck and lit a smoke. Pulled out my phone and played seize the day by avenged seven fold. No reason other than that's the song that was next in the q. Well right before the guitar solo the song cuts out and it's my boss calling me again. I pick up and he starts screaming at me to get to work. I told him look you stupid fuck. I dont start till 9. You dont pay me to get there at 5 am so I'm not gonna get there at 5 am and hung up. Come 9 am I sent every one in the company a msg saying that call me a coward. But this captain is not going down with the ship. I quit. I was the only person that new any of the recipes there for I made all the waffle, crape, sauces and many others things for 3 locations. As well as the dish washer, as well as the guy who did all the inventory, as well as the guy who trained all the staff, as well as the only cook who could speak English with the servers, as well as the only one who could drive the company truck and trailer... They had to hire 3 people to replace me and lost 3/4 of there customer base. I took a month off and when I started looking again I sent out only one resume. Was called within 20 mins of that, meeting with the head chef of the new restaurant within an hour and was hired at an hourly position. 35 hours a week at 17$ an hour plus free mean and 50% beer after work. So recap. Left shitty 100 plus hours a week job that averaged out to pay me around $6 an hour. For a mind my own business and do my job for almost 3x the money and I only had to work 5days a week. I really learned my worth there

You were in the national guard, you should have reported your boss to your unit and really screwed her over, the state NG could have pulled her business licenses and permits and shut her down for what she did to you.

I was one of those bastards who would call you up on Sunday morning to sell you a Capital One Gold card. I was #1 in sales and my bonus was gonna be 4 times larger than my paycheck. Well, evidently one of my calls was monitored and I made a flub in their policy (basically they felt I did not try hard enough to close a sale) which was grounds to rescind my bonus. I wasn't the only one. I walked into the call center, asked everyone for their attention and publicly announced how we were all being fvcked over. I really didn't know anyone else there so I have no clue if anyone else quit or how many others got screwed out of their bonus. This was just before Christmas too so being cheated out of that cash hurt!!

As an understudy to a lead theater role, I quit just before opening night and the star actress had gotten arrested the night before (judge denied bail). I had been abused by both her and the director, and I had just had enough of them. I refused to come back, and my last paycheck bounced, which was the last straw for me. Also, my contract allowed me to quit if even one paycheck of mine was either short, delayed, or bounced. They had no one to take the lead role when the curtain rose, so they had to cancel the performance season.

My employer gave us a bonus but it wasn’t really a bonus because they deducted it out of our next paychecks and so I waited for one of the most busy nights our restaurant would be experiencing in this case it was thanksgiving day and I walked out in the middle of dinner service, I was one of two dishwashers and apparently the other dude just said eff this and fucked off outta there a half hour after I did 😂

I used to work in a deli at a supermarket and on one closing shift, the manager decided to give me 2 completely NEW people who had just started not even a week ago to close out with. I'm one of the best employees there(which is why I assume they did the following and thought they could get away with it). Now, there are usually 4 people closing(one of which leaves an hour before the entire store closes so they help with misc things) but this time, there was not. So, I was basically stuck with two new people who had no idea what to really do because they weren't trained properly and moved so slow. (Keep in mind, I blame the managers who trained them for this, not the people themselves). So I had to clean the entire deli by myself(since they did not know how to take apart any of the machines), which was 1 rotisserie machine, 2 large jumbo fryers(drain oil, clean, filter, fill with new oil), clean ALL the kitchen dishes, do the out of dates, restock the outside areas(one area which was tea and wraps so had to go into a cold cooler/freezer), disassemble and clean all the meat/cheese slicers. We didn't leave until 1-2am. Oh, and the icing on the cake? I had to take the bus to and from work and it runs slow at nights. So I missed the normal late night bus, had to wait at the dark bus stop for 1-2 hours, then take an hour long busride home, THEN walk 25-30 minutes to get home while I'm already exhausted from doing 3-4 peoples worth of work. I didn't get home until about 5-6am. Needless to say, I never went back to that job. Managers tried to call me, some of the other employees, but I straight ghosted. Gonna screw me over? Alright, but I can promise you that it will NEVER happen a second time. For $10 an hour? HA! Never went back to that job. Didn't even put in a two week notice. They say not to burn your bridges, but some bridges are better left to the blazes. Bridge HAPPILY burnt.

End at 22:23, Worked at a BK for 5 years, ONLY nice manager was quitting because he couldn't take what owners were doing to employees so i asked what he meant, he turned in uniform, and work equipment, and stood at the front and told who crew: He quit because the "OWNERS" had a pay freeze in effect from the day you were hired. when all were hired since we weren't full employees yet the company is allowed to deduct $ .30 and return it after probation is over, never happened, we were frozen at below minimum wage the entire time. ALL STAFF but few managers who had been given raises quit that day. best former manager ever, Hear he works for LOWES now.

Walked out when I was 15 because they refused to give me breaks and expected me to eat while doing dishes

I had a boss who once worked in a software engineering consulting gig for an automated warehouse for machinery parts so massive that they rely on robots to move products around. Another team kept giving him a lot of crap for a problem that was neither his fault nor his responsibility to fix. Tensions grew so hot that he was forced to work an all-nighter on the last day of his contract and ordered to have everything figured out by morning before the company executives show up. All alone in the warehouse, he set up a series of tests that perfectly exploited the faults in the automated systems. By the time the manager came back the next morning, the entire warehouse was in total chaos with giant machinery parts laying about and pallet robots running around confused with empty containers. Having just finished a 24 hour work day, he gave the managers the logs of everything the system did and walked out, leaving the managers to figure out how to sort out this massive mess before the executives arrive in the next hour or so.

In Florida in 1978, I worked for a concrete company in the block plant. Four jobs plus foreman ran the plant. In 18 months, we had 6 foreman's. You start at the cuber sliding blocks into the proper pattern for a machine to put them on a pallet. As people quit, we would rotate jobs. In nine months, I went from cuber to forklift to Ericson operator to block machine operator. My next step should have been foreman. I agreed with being passed over for the first through third pass over in my fifth through nineth months there as I didn't have enough experience operating the block machine. After six months on the machine, (really not that much to the job), was the first pass. I objected because the replacement had less time and experience than me. He hadn't even rotated through all the jobs yet. He got the job because he managed a tire shop in Indiana. It was more work for me to go to lunch than it was worth. Every time I turned my back, he would make adjustments to the machine like he knew what he was doing. It took me a half hour every time to make the machine make square blocks again. They fired him in two weeks and brought a guy down from the ready-mix scale house. Why? He had a college degree in ASPHALT PAVING. He could have been a road inspector. No knoledge how to make block or operating the machinery. Foreman has to releave for breaks. He was out of the company in nine days because he screwed up 45,000 blocks by not letting me do my job. After he left, I walked into work beaming expecting my promotion. I walk into the block plant office and who's sitting in my chair but the guy who runs to the junk yard for parts when one of our trucks broke down. I said, " Hey, what's up? Excuse my please." He said, "Jeff, now don't gat mad. I didn't ask for this." I said, "See ya.", and walked into the plant manager's office. I asked why I didn't get the job this time. The parts runner had two years of business school. I asked the manager if they taught him how to run a Besser block machine built in 1946. He said no. I said well let's see how fast he can figure this one out. On the road again... They found out with a few months and proper training, there isn't that much to running one... UNLESS there's no one there to show you how to do it. As it turned out, they shut down production on second shift and laid off the crew to bring the new guy to first shift to learn the machine before he was confident enough to go it alone. 15 X 8 hour work shifts X 5000 blocks per shift equals 75,000 blocks NOT made. 75,000 X $.38 per block wholesale equals $28,500 NOT made in those 3 months. I guess I got the better part of the deal though. It was on the recommendation from that job that got me a machine operator / forklift operator job with a major orange juice manufacturer that lasted 19 years until I retired with a pension and benefits that I wouldn't have gotten making block in a one man owned company.

I worked for a few years a seamstress at David's bridal while I was doing my masters degree. I was hired in the slow season so I could train for the busy season. Went well until the slow season came back around. The store is only open until 7 pm on Sundays so my boss decided that the person who opened needed to work all day and stay till close. That would have been fair if she hadn't already told me she would stop scheduling me on Sunday mornings. The store opened at 11am but I had a scholarship that was conditional on my church attendance which I told her about. For some reason she decided that I would continue to be the only employee on Sundays despite one of our other seamstress' desiring more hours and our willingness to trade shifts. Well then the busy season rolls around again. I mean middle of June when we are doing 50-75 dresses a week. They realized that somehow I was the only person scheduled to do pick up appointments that Friday and there were 30 wedding dresses and more than 20 bridesmaids dresses. Rather than add someone to the schedule they tried calling and getting as many to reschedule as possible. Only 7 rescheduled. 15 of the wedding dresses weren't finished being sewn, 7 other dresses weren't even steamed for pick up and I had a constant flow of 3 appointments at a time so there was no time to finish the others like there normally would have been. My last bride that day waited for 2 hours to try her dress on then had to have adjustments made and come back the next day. God bless her she didn't complain once. After that shift I decided I didn't need that job. While the pay rate was nice it was overshadowed by the fact that I was constantly being called in to cover for someone else, getting off late cuz they always scheduled a bride during the last hour, and we were blowing my pay on fast food cuz I never had time to make a real meal. To top it off my husband and daughter never got to spent any time with me because I was either working, studying, sleeping, or in classes. I handed in my 2 weeks after that shift without any guilt. It was great suddenly being able to play with my daughter again.

I worked at a company that fired me for "missing too much time" because I was in the middle of a bloody divorce AND my daughter's medical problems at the same time!! I was the ONLY PERSON who knew any of the four departments I was "in control over" and I worked in seven different departments on any given day anyhow, because of my experiences in metal fabrication and engineering skills, as well as computer skills!! BUT in these FOUR DEPARTMENTS the company never felt the need to train anybody else in my departments because I was able to get orders out by my self quickly and efficiently, because as I just said I was the only person ever trained in them!! Funny as this was the week they fired me I was off for three days and they had already called me multiple times begging me to come back in and speak with them!! At one point they wanted my shop notes (for free) to which I offered to sell my notes to them for $30,000 and they turned me down! Then they asked me if I would consider "returning to work" and I told them the only way I would come back is if they started paying me $15 an hour, and they countered this with their own offer of just $8.00 an hour which was only a $0.50 raise from what I was earning when I left! AND I had been employed there for 5 years, and people who'd been hired with me were already earning $12 an hour while I was stick earning just $7.50 an hour and had earned the after dime and nickel raises for five years!! And I was doing MORE WORK than the people I was hired with, as I was supervising my own work force of roughly 20 people DOING all my own assembly, metal fabrication, engineering and test engineering as well! And I was even ordering my own parts, and controlling my own stock most of the time!! On top of this I was doing all my own data entry and when they finally began BEGGING ME to come back STILL offering me a lowball pay increase I had to tell them "Thank you but never again will I be used by you!"!!! That is when they quit calling me!! In the end a friend of mine from the same company told me that they lost ALL FOUR contracts in those departments a month later. The same four departments I was the only one trained to do the work in! The company had tried to hire an outside company to do the metal fabrication on the assemblies I built and quickly found out what I was doing in an hour or two at $7.50 an hour was actually costing them $900 per box to have modified and built in metal work! The funny thing is I could do 30 boxes in an hour....at $7.50 an hour, and the outside company was charging them $900 a box and the boxes the other company was modifying and building were coming in all screwed up! So they were getting junk in because NOBODY BUT ME seemed to be able to read the blueprints!! To which ultimately the bad products they began shipping to their customers started coming back and again NOBODY (but me) knew how to repair any of them!! The one other "klcker" I also consider is that they fired me for asking for a modest $2 an hour raise!! Which would have taken me from $7.50 an hour to $9.50 an hour and they refused it, and fired me three days later AFTER I asked for more money! SO I wasn't heart broken at all when they fired me because I knew they had screwed themselves!! In the end to all this six months after I left the company closed its doors and went out of business, letting go of all the employees that had worked there!! I can't say "they closed because of me" but in the larger scheme of things my departments WERE the only customers that the company had left when they fired me who were still placing orders!! And without me there to exploit, the company I worked for, basically shoot themselves in the foot!!

Had a mental breakdown because of poor mental health caused by horrible work conditions. Wound up in a mental hospital for a few weeks. The moment I was released, my boss got mad at me for taking so much time off when we were so short staffed. I promptly told him to eff off and quit on the spot. I have a much better job now with much better people. It’s less money, but I feel so respected and happy there.

My job was giving me high blood pressure at 22. I was on meds for it for months. I quit leaving them in another state and 2 weeks after quitting I was off my meds and now I’m 29 & haven’t had high blood since. Hubby and I think it was the job

My little story.....worked in a factory that paid me $5.25 per hour--crappy wages even in the early 90”s. Every time i got on my feet financially they would lay me off. They wouldn’t even give me a quarter raise even though i worked over every time they needed, set up machinery for them, worked faster and harder than anyone else, and they brought me the difficult jobs because they could count on me to do it right. I took an evening job doing programming. My boss asked me when i was going to come on full time. I thought it over, and next morning i showed up in a suit and tie to get my belongings. I heard they called a meeting about me. The manager said “don't let that &@$#%]€ back in the door!” They didn't have to worry about that.....😁 memory still makes me smile.

I just quit my job as a Dietary aid at a retirement home. Everyone was fighting with one another. Fighting with the CNA's and nurses who were very mean and unkind. Physical fights were often, and the new Chef they hired thought he could yell and throw crap at me to make me work faster. I quit and I now work as a factory assembler which I prefer

Left the company an undeliverable load (worth several million dollars) hogging up one of the few road-worthy trailers in one of the even fewer parking spaces in the yard. Was also the ONLY time in my career I ever used a kingpin lock, so they couldn't just relocate the trailer. They deserved it, though, after trying to coerce me into operating illegally and then having the gall to threaten to fire me for insubordination when I started quoting the applicable safety regulations to them

I was doing my apprenticeship in a hotel. Some days i ran the bakery literally by myself. My boss from a different department (Patisserie) kept pushing me harder and harder. Normally i would've dealt with it because hey, you pay me to do this, but Apprentice pay is a tenth of a Commis pay, and eventually i started doing 14 hour days, 6 days a week. I called my school and told them what's up - they had my back and transferred me out. To be fair, it wasn't really my boss's fault - he was quite openly butting heads with the other kitchens to pull for more staff but HR and the other kitchens like to underplay our role. My "quitting" was the straw that broke the camel's back, since we struggled to fulfill orders for breakfast, let alone ANY kind of event, and finally the bakery was given some priority.

My boss would call me at 6 in the morning, wanting me to work shifts that I’ve already declined since I had to attend my university lectures during the days. She yelled at me every time I said no, called me a lot of names etc. called in sick from work ONCE, and later that day she fired me because apparently calling in sick even once in like a year makes me untrustworthy. It’s not even legal, but I was so done that I gladly agreed to be fired. She was so angry over the fact that I didn’t beg to get my job back, but almost cried out of relief

I was getting ready to join the Army, I had to take the asvab test and it was going to be way later in the evening when I started work at 5 am, there was NO way I could stay up all night then go work with dangerous machines. So I gave them notice the second I got notice that I would NOT be available for that morning... They scheduled me for that day, I told them again I was NOT available for that day, it was NOT a request. My dept manager said to call out that morning... I followed that and the store manager FLIPPED out... "Why didn't you come to me and tell me you were available for that morning" ah I did.... I was only working there to make a little money to buy everything I would need for boot camp... (I later found out that I didn't need to bring a damn thing, everything needed was on base and with the advance, no need to bring cash....) I was leaving in 2-3 weeks so I did NOT throw my dept manager under the bus... I just quit on the spot... Many co-workers and my dept manager was PISSED off at the store manager for his BS.... I heard later that the store manager was escorted out by security, but I don't remember what he did... since he was a miserable little troll there are endless reasons why.... . When you tell them you are NOT available that means you are NOT available... But if it was a vacation day etc where time lines are flexible it would be a request... Big difference...

I work at a hospital and in 2018-ish (before I worked there) 181 people quit within 5 months. I guess the change of hospital CEO and him not giving anyone any bonuses and basically changing everything turning it into a shit show was the reason why so many people left. And I don’t blame them. The ceo is one of the highest paid ceos in my state meanwhile no ones gotten a raise 3 years, large equipment is breaking down, pipes leaking etc . I can’t say the name of this hospital but I’m only here for the “benefits”.

New manager came in and immediately started telling myself and the other cook that she would be replacing us soon so we waited for the Sunday lunch rush (southern church rush) and we just walked out the front door. Sorry but screw them

I love hearing when companies or managers/bosses who treat their employees like shit get fucked over in a big way regarding work. Its absolutely beautiful they deserve that shit in every way, good on ya to anyone who's ever quit out on a super shitty job it isn't worth the stress and time of your life on that shit.

I was the lead janitor of the gym with 3 others below me who always called out, leaving me to pick up the work (I was use to this). I also knew how to make sales, repair equipment and train people who couldn't afford our training. I had 2 other jobs, this was just a side job to keep a free membership. Inspections were coming up, but I'm never worried becuase i keep the gym clean roundly rather then all at once. I noticed my schedule changed to have me work morning and night shifts(5-10am, 5-10pm). She would do this with other workers but most of the staff were 18 year olds who still thought they get what they get and shouldn't compain. Well, I complained as this would interfere with my other jobs. She didnt even look me in the eye as she threatened to fire me if I didnt do so. "Well I guess I'm fired", i went into my car for my gym gear, had a x coworker friend give me a deal on a membership, and just started lifting weights. I worked there because I wanted to, not because I had too. The best part was watching her clean glass windows with our floor cleaning products. They failed the inspection.

Busiest shopping day of the year. Im horribly ill with a stomach bug. Cant stop vomitting. Manager gets annoyed and punches the wall beside my head. She clearly wasnt aiming for me, just frustrated, but i still walked out. Im not dealing with that kind of behaviour

My moms job (yeaaarrrsss ago, I was still a kid) fired her because they had hired a new younger girl to do her job but the younger girl did a horrible job and then the boss begged my mom to come back😭💀💀

I do not understand how bosses think that overtime is a reward. I worked for the post office, and the trainers and supervisors kept referring to it as "Sweet, sweet overtime," and I'm just standing there thinking, "Yeah, but at what cost? You know it pays more because you're being put in adverse conditions, right?" In fact, the policy there is that if you do your route quickly, you're just given more and more work piled on, effectively forcing you to make up for the lazier coworkers. Because I'm really bad at cheating and giving less than my all on a job, I had to quit after six months because I could barely walk anymore (consistent 60-hour work weeks carrying a 20-pound bag over my shoulder while walking), and two years later my feet still hurt when the weather gets cold.

I am about to quit, and it’s the fact that she hired someone new to also do my job, and then decided to give her one of my days, of course she didn’t bother to tell me until I made that day clear to work, and had already gotten to work. But our other person is about to leave, so loosing both of us should be interesting

I worked as a composite specialist in a company that made and repaired aircraft components. I had trained under a super nice guy that everyone called, "the Indian". We worked together for almost five years. The main project we were working on that made the most money was for making missile sensor refit kits for a certain military aircraft. I designed the tooling and layup patterns for making most of the composite parts, plus repaired other components as they came in. There was a crew of 8 that built kits that brought in $40,000 for each kit, and we were tasked with getting out 25 kits a month. We would get $300 bonuses each month for meeting our goal, which we always met. Well, one month they didn't give us our bonuses and told us that they would give them all to us at Christmas, a few months away. Christmas comes and everyone got a smoked turkey instead of about $900 in bonus money. There was a lot of grumbling in the shop, but I was able to keep everyone from quitting, but morale was in the toilet. The company employed about 70 people, mostly airframe mechanics. The company got very tight with money and kept harassing my manager, "the Indian", who was a really brilliant person, so bad that he finally quit. That left me as the only person who really knew how to produce the composite components. The company promised me a $2 an hour raise to compensate me for the extra workload I would be taking on after the Indian left. We kept meeting our goals. I kept everything running smoothly. Finally, after about a month, I asked where my raise was. They said they had changed their minds and weren't giving out any raises. I told them, "Fine. you have my two weeks notice." I worked for the next few days, and the company became paranoid that I was still working there after they knew they had screwed me over. I hadn't planned any revenge or done anything out of the ordinary in my job, but they let me go early. "OK," I said and made the rounds and said my goodbyes, wishing everyone well. Four days later, I get a call from one of the guys I had worked with. A radome for a 727 had come in for repair from a lightning strike. A radome is very nose of the plane and it houses the radar system and a lot of avionics equipment. It is about 5 1/2 feet tall and 6' in diameter. A lightning strike makes the composite bubble where it is hit, and it is an easy fix. It takes me about 2 hours to repair the blister, but you really have to know what you are doing to repair composites. The company normally charges about $2000 for such a repair. Along with my labor and materials, the repair costs the company less than $50. Not bad for the company. Anyway, now I am not there to repair the part. Before I left, I had offered to train someone, but the company couldn't get me out the door fast enough. They get one of the other shop guys to repair the part. He completely botches the job. Not only was it not done right, but he completely ruined the whole radome in the process. The company is now on the hook for a $26,000 part. They found a used radome for $16,000 and replaced the ruined part. I called down to the company and talk to the president. I offer to come back and train people to work the composites, and that it will take me two weeks. I offer my services for double the rate they had paid me. He declines my offer. I tell him that I heard about the debacle of the 727 radome. He starts getting angry with me, but I explain that I had offered to train my replacement before I left. He really didn't have any argument to fall back on. I was laughing at him and before I hung up on him, I told him, "That $16,000 you lost would have covered over 2 1/2 years of that $2 an hour raise you had promised me."

"50 CENT RAISE" 😂💀

Always caffes, restaurants, customer service people in general get treated like absolute crap.

I worked overnights at a certain big blue and yellow box store in the US, and had a side gig three mornings a week at the local high school. My manager tried to argue with me leaving (at my scheduled quitting time) claiming the box store job was more important. Her exact words were, "But which is your full time job?" Neither was. Box store worked me just short of full time so they could use me as much as possible without having to pay me benefits. I soon switched to second shift, unloading trucks. Shortly after that I acquired a back injury, and that same manager refused to let me sit even though I had a doctor's note that I couldn't stand for more than an hour at a time. I put in my two weeks notice a few days later when a new position opened up at the school and I could work exclusively there. They had just fired two people, one for stealing, and one for harassing suspected (innocent) shoplifters. The other time, I found out the manager was spreading rumors that I was a lesbian (I'm not) just because she saw equal rights project and lgbtq ally posts on my page. Two days after I found this out, I had a fever and couldn't work. The manager tried to argue it when I couldn't get anybody to cover my shift. I knew nobody could, I was the only one with that availability. She set herself up for this disaster. But I told her I literally cannot work, I have a fever, I am not allowed, it is in the state food code. So the co-owner had to cover my shift, and I guess he was pissed he actually had to work for his money, cuz I got suspended. I quit then and there. I wrote a note in shitty sharpie, something like, "Don't bother scheduling me again, I won't be back." So now the co-owner had to cover all those shifts until they hired someone else.

Dont you just love it when a supervisor gives you an unreasonable time limit to do a bunch of different things or risk punishment? Then says that anyone else including themselves could do it in less time they are giving you but they never actually show that they can? Definitely been there. Didnt quit. Just changed to a different position with a different supervisor. Now i have new issues lol

I used to work for a local KFC. I was a bit of a local legend because according to a lot of people during the three months I was there the quality of the chicken was extremely good and different. Even had a few customers come and greet me in person. As stated I only worked there for three months. My job as the chicken guy was easy, make sure there was enough chicken for the next batch of customers and fry it up when needed. I maintained two large fryers and the breeding station. I was also very thorough with the coating and made sure everything was perfect. While the job itself was perfect, the other staff were certainly far from it. After a few incidents around the place and some minor chaos, I decided to hand in my letter of resignation. The following events happened in the span of two weeks: Manager quitting Assistant manager quitting Getting workers from the city branch to fill in Cashier coming in drunk Two grease spills And to top it all off my inexperienced ass having to guide everyone through a few lunch rushes.

I worked as a Pro-Loader at Lowe's, after working for a while as an Electrical associate and a Lumber associate. I knew the store in and out, every item and their location through every department of the store. I was doing the job of the Lumber associates, my job as a Pro-Loader, and I was also doing a management job of training new associates in the departments and on the power equipment. A string of unfortunate events, and now we are stuck fully staffed with some new hires that were 18-20, and had absolutely no work ethic whatsoever. I went from doing my job and assisting others to doing the job of the receiving team (because I was one of the only, and the best forklift driver in the store), the lumber crew (nobody but the supervisor had a forklift license besides me, and supervisors are fucked hard at Lowe's), my job, and some odd jobs (again, one of the only and one of the best operators for any of the equipment in the store). The lumber team hated each other, and one thing led to another and everyone but the one older gentleman quit in the span of two days, including my supervisor. My manager pinned all the work on me, being one of the only people that knew the department well enough to cover it's entirety. Well, before this it had been several months of dancing back and forth with the store manager about that raise in my contract after moving positions that I never got, I threw a hail mary and told him that if he wants me to do all that work, give me the supervisor position that was now open, and I would gladly continue to do exactly what I have been doing. He denied that, and never corrected my wages, so on a Friday just as my shift ended, I went into the HR room, sat down at a computer, wrote an email to all the management in the store telling them that I was leaving and various reasons why, shredded my vest, clocked out, and walked around the store for a couple hours to watch the chaos unfold. We got hit, HARD, just past business work hours (which were my hours) and nobody to cover. I walked around and told some customers where they could find things, but if anyone needed labor help, that was not my problem. Nobody got the chance to see the email until late, so my ex-coworkers kept asking for my help getting things down and if I could help them move things that required equipment. I stayed and had a chat with some of them after explaining I had quit. Came back two weeks later, they had one new lumber guy, supervisor wasn't filled yet, nobody who wasn't ridiculously busy could drive the power equipment, and when I mean there was no wood in the Lumber department, I mean there literally was NO WOOD in the department besides a couple pieces of bow-shape or twisted wood left on the shelves. That lasted for two months, and I have never once regretted my decision.

"Will a 50-cent raise make you come back?" Seriously did he expect anyone to come back for 1 extra dollar every 2 hours

Oh I got a good one for this. When I was 18 I got Into the service industry mainly bottle shops/bars with drive thru. I worked in a locally owned chain only 3 stores all located within 10mins on eachother. Our boss was awesome and I loved working there. After about a year and a half he got an offer from Woolworths that he couldn't turn down millions of dollars. He sold the company and we were now working for Woolworths. First thing they did was fire all the managers and general managers, halved the full time staff and went mostly to a causal staff management setup. So one manager per store and the rest were casuals. I was lucky enough to be the senior.most casual of the store and my job was safe but I now was also the only person who could fill out orders, balance the weekly stock and cash balance as well as do the specialised orders for Xmas which was coming up. Before the sale of the company I had out in for 2 weeks off over Xmas at the start of the year. My boss who got fired assured me he told them about it. I show up and I'm rostered on over Xmas full time basically. I walk over to the manager and say hey " I'm going away over Xmas and I put in for time off over a year ago.". His response was "that was with the wogs company not with us". So he was also a racist I figured that out. So I argued with him in front of customers being as professional as I could while he is swearing his head off at me for not being a team player. I couldn't get refunds for my trip so I eventually just said I will work Xmas Eve until 3pm but then I gotta go fire me if you want but I'm not missing this trip. He didn't fire because he knew I was the only person on the store roster who knew how to manage the entire store so we came to an agreement is work until 3pm. I show up Xmas Eve and my hours are set to close and I'm still rostered on for my time off. I had had enough, on this day they had me deliver ice to the close stores using the ice truck. So at each one I parked on their drove through, opened the back and gunned it spilling the ice all over the drive through and making a hell of a mess. I then returned to the store and was promptly told off....before he could finish I threw the keys at my managers face and told him "good luck running this place without me for 2 weeks in not coming in... In fact fuck this and fuck you I quit.". This is when he got violent in front of customers and tried to attack me. I was not a small guy and a bit of a gym junkie, this dude looked like Hank Hill so I easily took him down and got him in a hold and told him to settle down before he does something he will regret. He calmed down enough I let him up. This is all in front of customers in Xmas rush. They got between him and I and were asking if I was ok and do I want to ca the police. I said no and just walked off and got in my car and drove home packed my things and went on my trip. When I get back I get a phone call from the area manager.. asking if I wanted to come in for a shift and that the store manager had been fired due to the actions he took that day and a number of complaints from customers who saw it all. He then asked me if I wanted his job.....I didn't take it that company was awful regardless of who was running it...just about bottom line didn't care about the awesome team that built the previous company upto a boutique wine and beer shop...they gutted it 50 years of experience just gone....it sucked after that. I was only 19/20 at this time and it made me take my education more seriously that's for sure. I enrolled in uni and am now out of hospitality and happier for it.

Kills me when these stories talk about "contracts" and "annual leave." WTF, America? I love my country, but why do most employers here treat their workers like they're disposable?

Used to work for Subway (the restaurant) and had one really bad day. I came in to close and when I got there, there was 1 other employee (there's always supposed to be 2 except during the last few hours they're open and the first few hours they're open). I asked where the other employee was (as they were my only coworker for the rest of my shift until a few hours before close) and they explained to me that the other coworker essentially had a heart attack behind the line and collapsed. They had just been carted off in an ambulance maybe 30 minutes prior to my arrival. Normally it's the day shifts job to make sure things are set up for the dinner rush (ingredients are prepped and there's enough bread). The person who had been left behind was overwhelmed by the workload for one person and didn't get anything done, so I was essentially walking into a store that may as well have been unmanned except for making sandwiches. I was supposed to be there for 10 hours by myself, which normally I would've been able to handle, but the extra workload and the problems that caused (like lack of materials) ended up almost causing me a mental and stress-induced breakdown two hours in. I called my manager, told them: "You can come in and fix your damn store.", clocked out, shut the gates (it was in a walmart) and left. Never looked back, still don't regret it to this day. A company that refuses to help their employees when one has a heart attack is not a company I want to work for.

I found this extremely cathartic. I'm working at a library with a bachelor's librarian degree and I just found out I have zero to no influence - my job could be done by a high schooler. Frick it, keep this shit coming

Little bit of background before i get into the story. I work in a pharmacy as a technician. I'm the type of person where if someone called in or didn't show up to work, you could call me and i'd cancel plans, reschedule doctors appointments on the fly. I'd go in early, i'd stay late. Help wherever i could basically. I once covered 3 different shifts in one day bc those three people called in sick, yup! You guessed it! That was also on my day off, but i still went in! I also got yelled at while being off the clock, after a shift for being late by an hour that day due to a last minute company event that i got permission from my bosses boss to be late. "Youre not dedicated to the store, or your shifts" he yelled at me. While i was on the phone with my supervisor trying to figure out a schedule mistake bc the next day i was supposed to have the day off for a dentist appointment. I put the request in a month before and had it approved a month in advance. Guess he just so happened to forget that i'm always covering shifts for everyone and everything. Came into work the next day and turns out that they l found someone to cover my shift. My shift was at 4 p.m....they never called or texted me about the coverage they found. So when i came in and saw that they had someone there....they even hinted at me trying to make it for my dentist appointment....that was at 2p.m. and i was the last appointment for the day. With all that i decided to look for another job. The event that made me quit on the spot and walk out of the pharmacy. Was when the pharmacist was just being a dick that day. Just nonstop bitching and talking down to myself and the other techs. We were extremely busy that day with flu shots, prescriptions, and it was also our month delivery day, so yeah its hectic. The pharmacist, (who we'll call Z ) called me lazy under his breathe as i was walking away and had my back turned to him all bc i didn't send a request off the exact way he wanted it. I heard him and just stopped in my tracks and thought to myself, "you know what. I'm done. I dont deserve to be treated like this." So i got my licenses off the wall said "Thanks for everything Z, but i quit. I have my licenses. I'm gone. " and just left. As i was leaving i heard Z talking shit so i said to him infront of everyone. "You dont say something negative about someone as they are walking away from you with there back turned. You dont do that. Thats the move of a coward." He tried to get me to talk to him about it in private. But i said "Nope. I'm done. Goodbye." And walked out. Turned all my store issued items. Cleaned out my locker with supervision from the store manager. Told the store manager what happened and went home and enjoyed the rest of the day. I later found out from my ex-coworkers that the store manager pulled Z aside and yelled at him for about an hour, bc she knew he fucked up. Since i was also helping cover shifts for her when cashiers called in sick last minute. P.s. that whole 2 weeks advanced notice is just a curiosity. Just finish out the shift if you can and then quit. (Edited to add the p.s. part)

Working in a dry cleaners. There was too many clothes to clean, mend, and iron all by myself. Including cleaning fur coats, and hats. I only had 5 days to do over 700 items. On the 5th day 8am my boss starts complaining. "You've only done about 200 items? What are you going to tell the customers? Ummm I didn't clean your precious items because I'm too lazy?" I said to her "why didn't you do anything? Well i'm just going to quickly run to shop across the road to buy a Red Bull." I left the dry cleaners, and never came back. I ignored her calls, and messages demanding I come back.

9:34 Oh dear god. I've worked at a Casey's, and I know this feeling. My store manager was a younger than me, very uppity rich girl, and she was ALWAYS trying to belittle our workload and tell us to work harder. The more she spouted it, I just eventually stopped catering to her rules (did start using my phone up front when there were no customers in front of me and I was the only one up there), and at one point, she schedules me without telling me, just wrote me in for the next day, I told her I couldn't because I had an issue at home I had to resolve. She said she didn't care. Guess who didn't come back that next day and it was considered a "no-call-no-show" despite me saying I wouldn't be there the next day. Guess who got fired and regrets nothing.

When I was in my early 20's I worked at a McDonald's where a customer hit me in the face. The police told management not to let this individual back into the restaurant. He came in and management did nothing. I clocked out right before the lunch rush and never returned. In my late 20's I worked at a ancient resort. It was the final two weeks before they would close forever so I found a new job. I asked the supervisor not to schedule me so many clients. She refused. I never went back. She blew up my phone and my parents' business phone.

Forced me to work 14 hours 6 days a week for months and months with no insentive or promotion, had me train someone for the position I wanted, went to a different company for more money and better training

I was pregnant and stressed so I said I was taking a personal day. We get three. And they said I already used them. Um No I used vacay days. I never went back and neither did my bf who worked with me

For some reason reading these I quits is giving me an incredible amount of power

I remember working in a restaurant as a waiter and one day we just hear a loud crash in the kitchen and a chef just walked out, completely silent and calm. He had trashed the kitchen and quit in a violent rage.

This summer I was working a steel metal framing job for a construction/remodeling company that bid on 4 jobs at once when the crew was actually way to small to handle it, my mom was in the hospital and we could really use the money so we took the job, for the next 3 weeks we’re working literally 24 hour shifts just so we could finish on time and saying we need to hurry to get the job done in time even though we’re are private contractors. But what really made us mad is when we got there and the guy blamed us for being slow even though they wanted us to work in a small space with more than 10 guys in that area. We left and told them if they wanted us back we would need double pay. We were compensating swimmingly.

Started working at Wal-Mart when I was about 19. Was told I was going to be a cashier. Trained to be a cashier. Got made to go out and push carts every day because they "had no one else" (this was before electric pushers or security ropes to keep lines together). Became so routine that I was officially labeled a cart pusher. Got to keep my cashier pay though ($0.50 more than other cart pushers). So, I pushed carts for a while, by myself. Found out, it was supposed to be a 3-man job. (1 for each side and 1 to cover breaks, assist with peak hours, and do other small tasks that they had pushers do). Did this for a year and not very happy about it. But they paid more than anyone else within walking distance, so I stuck to it. Then I find out that there's going to be a new position being created. Pusher supervisor/trainer. I'd been pushing longer than anyone else there currently pushing. I did a better job (kept the bay fuller and by myself). Figured I was a shoe in. Applied for the position. They gave it to the maintenance man to justify giving him more hours (he never supervised a thing or trained a single person between then and when I eventually quit). By this time, I was done. But it was also late summer. So, I stuck with it. Come November I started putting applications in (lots of seasonal hirings going on). I quit on Black Friday. I pushed a bunch of the carts into a big middle finger and waited for the rest of the carts in the bay to be emptied out. Walked to the back, punched out, encountered management on the way out (figured I would). Customers were all lined up griping about there being no carts. Management saw me, called out to me, and demanded to know why there were no carts. I said, "Ask the supervisor, I quit." Then kept on walking.

0:19 "Hey guys, sorry I was gone so long, there was a line."

I worked as one of three secretaries for guest services at this luxury hotel, the other secretaries would disappear for 10 to 20 minutes leaving me to handle everything on my own. I would get swamped but still managed to get all my work done while being yelled at by my mod he never said anything to the others just me, after being left to check in a small convention I typed up my resignation letter and taped it to my mod's office door.

When they didn’t care about my failing health and over worked me when I told them before my body couldn’t take it so I ended up passing out at work and even after that they were still asking me to come in. I passed out also because they understaffed and we had a rush no one was prepared for because of how understaffed we were. I was one of their most dedicated workers, I never called out.

I was the assistant manager, my boss and another manager left me and the store for another location, and the people who came in immediately began running my store into the ground with neglect. I had multiple meetings with them, let them know I'm just trying to help them, since our area manager, "Shaun" we'll call him, isn't very nice when it comes to people being stupid at work. Otherwise he's a fantastic boss who is understanding and appreciative. They didn't listen to me, and as I walked in one day and there were literal bags of trash in our walk-in cooler I called Shaun and talked with him a bit. I was planning on leaving soon anyways, so I asked him if I walked out and made the new GM close would I still be able to get a good reference, and he just let me know if it's my last day, it doesn't really matter. It felt great. He's now talking with me about coming back as the GM and having the current one relocated

One of my first jobs out of the military was working for GNC. I hated the whole "you have to wear this red collar shirt, khakis and dress shoes crap the district manager wanted, so I dressed in regular clothes (jeans, no logo long-sleeved shirt, a pair of boots) and just talked with people and had an average sale of $50/hour (which is unbelievably hard when you think about things and how GNCs hourly reports work) and I worked a military base solo, so I always had loads of traffic and could identify with the guys because I had only been out for a year or two, so a $5k sale day wasn't out of the ordinary when I dressed normally. DM came in who was constantly stealing product from the stores, like whole cases of drinks and 10lb tubs of protein powders and high end supplements that actually work, and threatened to fire me because I was out of uniform. I was making $9/hour plus shit commissions (a weeks pay ended up around 220 for 40 hours after taxes) and driving 82 miles a day for work because I needed the job. He worked me hard that entire day; I cleaned the entire store from the tiniest corner to the ceiling, organized the back room again (before I started working there, you couldn't even walk into the back safely), replaced all of those stupid display pictures over supplements, threw out old equipment, mopped and did all of the zoning and removing expired goods from the shelves three days early (something against GNC protocol at the time) and a bunch of other crap. It all took me only 5 hours because I was a hard worker and did stuff fast due to being the only one to do it in the store. At noon, I told him I was going to take lunch and he told me I don't need a lunch (even though I was working more than 8 hours that day, I was going from 7am to 9:30pm), so I reminded him that according to state labor laws, I was entitled to an off the clock lunch (GNC was in the middle of a class action lawsuit around this time for denying people meal breaks) and he finally agreed and said we would talk about my continued employment after I clocked out for the night. So I knew he was planning on firing me. But I was a petty asshole and I decided to ruin his life instead. He left the store and started closing up for my meal time, lowering the shutters, stuff like that, but instead of taking the door key with me, after leaving a lovely note on the shutters that read 'I quit', I closed up the store, locked the switch and tossed the only key to the store through the shutters. I walked out, drove to another store I have a key to and handed it over and shut my phone off for the next three days after sending an email to the regional manager for my area of the country detailing how this guy was stealing and having sex with the PX manager in the back room, violating health procedures. I called in to a friend I made at the PX pretty often to see what happened. GNC got into the store, installed cameras in the storage room and eventually caught him stealing and having sex with the aforementioned PX manager. I started working a new job about 3 months later in the local mall and saw my former DM sweeping floors and taking orders from the 18 year old manager. He had been demoted from district manager to a part time employee, he was eventually fired because the store I worked at was forced to close due to a total lack in sales for 3 weeks.

I could literally toss 4 stories to this Reddit from 4 different jobs i've walked out on lol. Good on these people, I feel for them all.

I quit a job once and the boss' response was "You can't quit!" I laughed all the way out.

Why do companies constantly fail to realise that if you put a horrible person in charge and let them treat people (and even customers) like shit, their business will fail... every time?

I was being greatly overworked with this beer distributer I was working for over the summer. Think 12+ hour shifts that were sometimes an hour+ away from where I lived, varying amounts of manual labor, 6 days per week. The route I was on and my location changed frequently but at some point I must have gotten on my bosses bad side (my coworkers were all very satisfied by my work ethic, said I was some of the best temp help they ever got) I have no idea what pissed him off but he started putting me on the hardest routes and giving me an attitude all the time. Towards the very end of the summer, one of my last shifts of the season, I was on a shift that was going into its 15th hour. In hindsight, I had been eating and sleeping very poorly all summer and I was physically exhausted. The last two weeks of the season I was very lacking in energy and needed to take more breaks, pace myself more, felt like I was letting my coworkers down. The guy I was with on this particular day had the longest and hardest route, once again over an hour from where I lived, and it was an extra long itinerary on this day. I told him I needed to go or at least rest a bit because I could feel the energy drain from me, I realize now my blood sugar must have been depleted and I needed to eat literally anything. He wanted me to help him with the last store or two and then I could go, maybe another hour or so of work. He walked into the back of the store to get to work and I went to go help him but I tried to pick up one heavy case of beer and nope I put it right back down with no energy to pick it all the way up. Was out if his sight, just walked out the door without saying anything, didn't have the energy to argue, went straight to the nearest McDonald's and chowed down on a bunch of burgers. Sorry dude, wanted to help you but I wasn't any use to anyone like that. A 99 cent candy bar wasn't enough, needed a full meal. Felt much better after eating but maybe a little guilt for abandoning a guy who was clearly overworked and needed all the help he could get. I just couldn't. I was a much thinner man than most of the types of people who worked that job but despite my work ethic I just couldn't sustain that level of manual labor along with no sleep and a horrible diet with little nutrition. You can't sustain that level of exertion on Arnold Palmer Iced Tea, Protein Bars and $1 bags of snacks (think Combos or Cheetos) and 5 hours of sleep. I was 20 at this time and my mother was on my case about making money during my summer break from college, she wasn't satisfied if I wasn't working to exhaustion. Didn't have the time or energy to prepare proper meals. Sometimes I might buy Subway or something if I was on an easier route but there was frequently just no time. Didn't really understand how awfully I was treating my body. Despite all the bad stuff, it was a rewarding and fun experience in a lot of ways. Met a lot of cool people too.

Worked at a retirement home for about 10 months give or take. Management was nice, residents loved me, super close to home, etc. One day In January our head management was fired for being nice to residents. The person who replaced her was insufferable. She never talked to staff unless it was an order to intimidate them (easy to tell when she was doing this because her voice was shakey as if trying to hold back screaming) called people lazy, and slowly fired management And replaced them with her friends. I went on vacation and when I came back, one of the managers I like left, then my other housekeeper (so it was me and my supervisor left). Then he left. So I put in my two weeks and just worked how I did. (Was even scorned saying I didn’t put In proper two weeks to avoid paying out PTO, but I counted the days in front of her and she just sighed in defeat saying “so it is...”) Come my last day, as the last housekeeper, I said goodbye to all the residents, and the managers I still respected, and left. Was the only one they didn’t throw a farewell party for. I cried a lot that say when saying goodbye, but I had to do it. To this day I worry it that crazy lady will attempt legal action on me, I don’t know why Any management who doesn’t do anything to keep you, especially if you’re the last of your crew, isn’t one to be trusted. You are worth more than you think

I feel a lot of people forget that a business is nothing without it's employees. Where I work (Assistant dentist), my coworker and I do everything but the dentistry. Our boss doesn't know how to do anything else. Not the computers, the cleaning, or the maintenance. If we quit, he'd be screwed.

I worked at Papa Johns last year and was pretty desperate financially. The company sucked in how it treated its employees. Customers would almost daily give us death threats, threaten to shoot the store, never tip and you as the driver were constantly getting ripped off. There were days when I spent more on gas than I did in tips. I worked there for about 1 year doing night shift and at the end of the year the manager was fired for doing heroin in the bathroom and laundering money. Finally I had had enough after I delivered a pizza about an hour out and an hour back on Christmas eve to a rich neighborhood and the customer decided to say "Merry Christmas" with a smile while writing a big fat zero on the the receipt. At that point I was already fed up, but my manager's text telling me that there was another customer threatening to come shoot everyone in the store because we didn't deliver to his area finally did it for me. I came back, told them I was quitting that day and that I would finish my closing shift and not come in tomorrow, and that was that. I actually got yelled at that I was making a big mistake and it would affect me the rest of my life if I didn't give a two weeks notice and that I couldn't ever work at Papa Johns again. A year and a half later I'm making 75k a year doing the career I have been working toward for years. Walked in to that same Papa Johns to order a pizza for the first time in 1 1/2 years and they actually asked me to come back. I simply laughed and left. That company has zero protection for its employees.

I was a new associate at Walmart and kept our Frozen/Dairy/Meat wall up and running efficiently (not good but feasibly) and should’ve quit when I had to train a Department manager who would be paid more to do my job less efficiently. When I was actually able to be a department manager I let it flounder while training incompetent managers while being asked repeatedly to do their job. I was so angry I just let the department rot metaphorically, I took my Job of getting the food in the coolers and freezers serious because people would get sick if I slacked.

3:00 50 cent raise? You should have turned that question right back around on him.😂

I worked as a cashier for a well know supermarket a couple of years ago. They were really under staffed and had a weird idea of what part time and full time hours. I had a manager tell me that part time was up to 40 hours while full time was easily 40+. They hired me as part time and for my first couple of weeks had me work 40 hours. At first I wasn't complaining because the pay was decent, 10$ an hour with no experience. I live in the US and I was making over minimum wage in my state. But they started scheduling me to work 4 to 5 days in a row working full 8 hour shifts. I pleaded with my supervisor to space out my shifts since it took a toll on me. I was actively ignored and sometimes pressured into taking over more shifts. I only stayed with them for about 3 months during the summer since I am a full time college student. When school was getting ready to start, my supervisors tried their hardest to convince me to stay. I was pretty fed up by that point so I put my foot down and turned in my two week resignation. If they were willing to actively ignore my requests I was fairly sure they would interfere with my college academics. Sometimes I wish I had quit on the spot because I have no intention of going back. But at least my resignation prompted several others to leave as well. It was the final push that forced them to hire more people.

Was next in line for shift supervisor. I was trained on opening and closing, inventory, everything. But kept being told that I wasn't ready yet. Okay, I'll work harder. I picked up extra shifts and cleaned everything top to bottom, I busted my ass for this bullshit fish restaurant. The GM told me he wanted to give me the promotion but needed the assistant manager to approve. But...she loved me? Always sweet and we never once had any issues. I do everything she says. My best friend at the restaurant, who was training me, came up to me one day. She was furious because the assistant manager said training me was pointless and that I am the laziest person she's ever met (really..I know I jokingly complain but I do my fucking work and I'm proud of it. *also note that AM wanted me to train the new people and the GM at the other location specifically asked for me to train her newbies because I knew what to do). So okay, I'm so lazy and a horrible worker? I'll show you lazy. I stopped giving my all. Things were half cleaned and I didn't do my daily tasks. I stopped counting the cash register, stopped stocking the food. Everything to fuck her over when she opened the next morning. Then I went to the hospital after a suicide attempt (bonus, I also found out I was pregnant). I was in the hospital for 5 days. I came back to a fb message from the manager the day after I went to the hospital asking me to work the next day. Lol no. But that wasn't the end. I finally come back to work after my wounds healed enough and I could mentally take on customers. The AM suddenly was nice to me when I told her I was pregnant. She wanted to plan my baby shower, the surprise party to tell the rest of the crew (we truly were mostly like a family) basically take over my pregnancy. Then I started to miscarry. She was pissed I told her I needed to leave work one day. When I confirmed I lost, she showed zero compassion. As if she was a mother in law begging for a grandchild then treating you like shit when you say you can't have kids. It was a complicated miscarry and took a lot out of me. But the AM was constantly there asking when I would come back to work and she NEEDS me. That her miscarriage wasn't that bad do mine isn't. Do I just said fuck it. Enjoy working Lent with your best crew member leaving. Pretty soon, my best friend stopped working at that location as well. So they lost a shift lead too. oh and they gave my shiftbkead position to someone who worked there maybe 2 days a month because she is an active soldier (no hate to her, she is a great friend..however , when she was working she literally did nothing. She was extremely lazy and was proud of itm but she took our AM to a concert so she is just way better than me)

My parents quit their jobs when their boss needed them the most. Context: My dad is a mechanic and was also the manager of the business. His boss was opening another shop and he wanted my dad to be the manager of it. My dad and mom talked it over and we ended up moving. For the longest time the only people who worked at the shop was my dad and a coworker. My dad had to start cleaning up the shop (not just his work area. His work area is obviously his to clean up). He had clean the whole shop which is two stories. Well, because my dads boss underpaid my dad and didn’t stick to his promise of giving him a pay raise when we moved my mom had to get a job. My mom ended up taking a job at the same place my dad works but as a janitor so that my dad didn’t have to do all the work. The guy that worked with my dad quit and his boss hired two other guys, one of which who quit after working there for a month. So basically it wasn’t the best workplace. My dad and mom worked around 14 hrs every other day and if my dads boss ever had problems at his house he would ask my dad to come fix it and then not pay him for fixing it. My parents were frustrated and started looking for another job. My dad found one but we would have to move again, but that was fine because we would be closer to our grandparents. One day my dads boss said something to my mom that I won’t repeat and she quit right then and there leaving my dad the only one left. Everything was falling apart because this is when the the other guy quit leaving my dad and the other guy who was very lazy and usually never done much to work alone. Note: My mom was hired as a janitor but ended up doing some easier jobs a mechanic would do to pick up the slack and she would never get paid for them. Because they didn’t have my mom picking up the slack like they usually did they fell behind on work. Right when my dads boss didn’t think things could get worse they did. My dad told his boss he was moving and quitting (he gave a two weeks notice) Time skip 3 months later the same guy text my dad asking if he will move back if he would give my dad a pay raise. My dad left him on read.

After listening to so many of these. You dont realize how a good a boss is until you have a really bad one. Where I work thry rule by fear. Honestly think if production falls off it's because they are being to nice to us. Our superintendent now takes ZERO shit. He has our back 100% and will take up for us through anything. They just cant understand how smooth everything runs now and how much we work to make it all run great. Would think that was basic human nature.

I've always wanted to be in such a position where if I quit, they would call me to get me back. I would love to make some outrageous demands to see if I'd get them. "I'll come back if you're let go. Tell your bosses that." Or, "I want to make $35 an hour doing my job if I come back. Get it in writing as a contract, then we'll talk."

My friend in high school (she was 14) had gotten pregnant with twins, had one and lost the other. Then she got pregnant again not even a month out of giving birth and got an abortion. Then about two months later she got pregnant again. There was so much more going in behind the scenes with her abusive parents and abusive baby daddy. I was so stressed out having to deal with her, her parents, mother in law, baby daddy, and new boyfriend constantly. But, when she came out pregnant that final time, I had enough. Worst part is that her boyfriend was very naive and knew nothing about sex so she basically took advantage of that. I had told both of them if their gonna have sex, they need to use protection. She refused because condoms where "too gross". So when she came out pregnant I instantly blocked her and everyone else, ghosting all of them instantly. When you're trying to fight for someone and fix someone else's problems while in a position where you can't actually do anything is the worst. I was a 16 year old trying to rangle and entire family. Once I realized that there was just nothing I could do and that this shit was just going to keep on going, I couldn't do it. Oh and I didn't even know her for a year and this all happened in under 6 months.

I had a similar incident. After I got out of college automotive school I went to work at a local car dealership washing cars because that’s all they had. A spot opened up in oil change so I moved in there. More work with no pay increase. But I was hoping it would lead to more later on. So about three months later they found out I could change tires, mount and balance, plug and patching them also, so while I wasn’t doing oil changes that’s what I did. A few weeks go by and a few car wash guys later one guy was eating a lot of car soap. I mean 55 gallon drums in two weeks kinda waste. A drum should last you almost 6 months. It’s super concentrated. Side note. On the weekends we could wash our vehicles if we weren’t busy. The owner of said company allowed it as a thank you. And he knew I washed my every Saturday before I left. So he approached me an accused me of stealing the car soap because they were going through a drum almost a month and a half. It went down hill from there, always yelling at me for being slow with the oil changes, being slow with the tires and what not. He pushed so hard to have 10 minute oil changes. We got really close most of the time. But never could get the goal. But he just kept on and on and on and on, so I got tired of it and brought my uniforms in one day, clocked out that afternoon after my shift and never went back. He called me about four times and made me come back about two weeks later after I had already found another job to get my check. I told him then I quick. I was tired of how he treated me. The service manager, my boss, didn’t work there very long after that. Maybe a year or so. Just horrible record and customer service they fired him. I hate that man. Ps the only positive was my co workers got a lot of over time till he replaced me. They were upset that they had to work so much but they were liking the money. PPs. The pay was shit. We made 10 dollars an hour.

I ended up quitting Arby's when there were only 9 employees (myself included) because they kept scheduling me out of my availability and making me stay late It ultimately wouldn't have been that big of a deal, but I was a minor still in highschool

I worked at a hotel for about 4 3/4 years. I was hired for the kitchen, unfortunately, the head boss would, on occasion, come into the kitchen, pull me out, and have me work custodial. Translation, I was reassigned to clean bathrooms because I was one of the few people in the hotel that could do it properly. I left for another job, moved, moved back, and reapplied to the place under the understanding I was to be working solely in the kitchen. A week after coming back, the head boss informed me that he was going to pull me out of the unfortunate spot of kitchen work and put me back in custodial (where I really wanted to be...or so he thought). He gave me the weekend to mull this over. Monday morning, I walked into his office, fully packed, handed him my room key, and left. Two of the managers were in total shock, the third had a grin on his face knowing more or less why and that he seemed to understand.

I was working at McDonald's and was cross-trained in basically all positions of the restaurant. I was the one that was left in charge when the managers would go on break or needed to do something in the office. This included sending people on breaks and completing the managers checklist, all stuff that was beyond my paygrade as the lowest tier employee they had with years of experience under my belt. They would never give breaks out on time and often had to stay after my shift to take a break. Challenged that once to the GM and was basically threatened to take my break (in California, if an employer fails to give you a break you're entitled to 1 hour of free pay), so I would basically clock out without telling anyone and leave. The straw that broke the camel's back, was I heard they were promoting other workers who had way less experience and were worse at their jobs than I was. Found another job and quit. One of the regulars on my last few days pulled my manager aside and said I was the best and friendliest employee he's interacted with in his years of coming to the restaurant and would frequently get compliments from the customers. He didn't even know I had put in my notice. Most people hate dealing with customers, but the customers were the ones keeping me in the job the most as I got more praise from them than from the crappy management.

The one where he wrote out "I quit" in the flour was pretty savage!!

KFC was the _worst_ job, I lasted like three days. But ill never forget orientation, when my boss told me I couldn't wear makeup - not even foundation or powder. Because "we sell chicken, nothing else" meaning he thought wearing any form of makeup would make people assume Im a hooker and that the restaurant was promoting prostitution and/or offered it. I was 15. He straight up thought if a customer saw me wearing foundation they'd complain to the company that they were hiring prostitutes and letting them work out of the store.

Quit my job yesterday. I was a shuttle bus driver for a private medical company. It was cool at first, but when the pandemic hit, all hell broke loose! Long story short, the work increased, added MORE patients in the center, had us transport people to appointments and informed us that they were COVID positive AFTER THE FACT! One by one the drivers were leaving, and I was one of them. This company is gonna go outta business if they don’t get their 💩 together!

I worked at a hibachi restaurant for about a year in my freshman year of highschool (most of the staff were also friends from school). Started as a dishwasher ended up also being a busboy and food prep many nights working double (dishwasher then food prep etc...). The owner was generally an ass and had no appreciation for staff no matter how hard you worked you could work harder. One day (I was a dishwasher this day) I was fed up and decided to ask for a raise as I was working more than the part-time I was hired for and working multiple positions any given day and if he said no I was gonna quit at the end of my shift. Of course, he said no but when I left the office my best friend (who was a busboy) came up to me as said he was fed up and wanted to quit and asked if I would walk out with him. Well, that gave me the idea to convince the other busboy and dishwasher we should stack up all the dishes and all walkout. This was on fathers day btw which has very busy. Also apparently the owner was racist towards the Hispanic workers. We all went together to get our last checks and they made us wait outside for a while. The cops showed up apparently they wanted to put trespassing orders on us so we wouldn't come back...well almost everyone...the owner came up to me and said he knows it was the Mexicans that made me do it and he forgives me I smiled and told him actually it was my idea so you can go ahead and trespass me too racist. TLDR: Convinced all the busboys and dishwashers to stack up the dishes and walk out of fathers day. P.S I went back almost 10 years later and the owner's wife spotted me before I was even seated and started yelling at me to leave. 😂

I had a boss quit in a Toys R US Store in the middle of a Black Friday and send most of the team home. It was insane

it's amassing how much an employee will do for a crap company if they have a good direct supervise worse job i ever had but i had loyalty to the direct supervise who was a godsend and protect us employees from upermangement bs when management found a bs reason to fire the manager me and pretty much ever one else quit over the course of a month

19:46 Used to work at KFC. In a Mall. The biggest one in our city. There were times where we had 2 people at the front and 1 at the back on busy evenings. I only worked in the "kitchen" but I was damn good at it. The clerks deal with the stress of people. The breading (which I was) deal with everything else, I am not joking. We are supposed to keep stuff squeaky clean whilst also working fast with almost no margin of error extra time to clean. So as you can imagine; it was a shitshow, and we did our best or tried to. We were competitive amongst each other, as there were only guys in there. We would sing, joke, laugh and dance but when it came to the food it was a boxing match between the machinists (people putting the meat on timers in oil, cleaning the machines, changing oil, giving orders to breading and writing on the expiration list) and the breading guys. After one month I had learned how the machines worked but was not confident enough to use them. After about 2 weeks I could easily give the right commands and do everything I was supposed to. (in our improvised, never the same thing twice kinda way) I had two days where I was alone and had to do literally everything in the back end A L O N E. The second time a really fucking hot manager that everyone but me had sex with came to help me after about half an hour. Now, let me take you trough the process of making "bites" for example. We did 50 at a time, you are supposed to do 25 only but the thing is that's literally impossible to maintain. So you go in the refridgeration which is next to the kitchen, look for the oldest bites in the fridge (none of them were old, we were just supposed to use the least fresh but they were all fresh idk) then take 2 bags of that, put it in the vat with the salt and pepper flour, twirl them around a few times so they are covered, take a sift for meat sort of thing and shake the flour off, put them in a water bucket, shake it up and down, the water bucket had a special grate so you only take meat out not also water, put it in the flour, twirl them around again, then put them in the metal grate shaking thing and shake the flour off, then pray to fucking god you have a free machine for salty stuff because there are only 2, put them in, close the lid, press the 7th button and they will be done in like 1 minute and 40 seconds if I remember correctly. That, right there, is the process for making literally the least complicated thing on the menu aside from wings which you just put them in spicy flour then water then spicy flour again then on one of the 3 spicy machines. There are also: Chicken fillets, Zinger (spicy version of fillets), Chicken (a chicken, but cut up into certain parts), and strips. One bag of fillets contains 15, same with zinger. A bag of chicken contains 2 processed chickens. A bag of strips contains 20 and a bag of wings contains 15. The button for fillets on the salty machine is the 4th, the button for zinger is the 5th on the spicy one, the button for chicken is the 3rd 3 on the non spicy, the button for wings was the 3rd but later found out that the 5th button is better for them and the button for strips is the 2nd (I can press that button blindfolded with the tip of my shoe with my back turned to it, that's how much of it we made) (keep in mind each of these has a different process of going trough flour and water and it's too much to explain) Now, we had these grills. It's a hollow square of metal with grill walls ceilling and floor with an opening on one side. It's not big at all. This "grill" is actually 4 grills, because we have 3 other flat grills that worked like floors in it and also we use the bottom but were careful so that the chicken doesn't get bad grilling marks. If you are creative enough you'll realise that it's actually 5 layers because you can put stuff on top but we don't even mention that unless there are 50 people outside. So, I would take 5 strips in my hand and put them on each grill, if we were in a hurry it turned to 6. This is by far the fastest method of filling up that meat cage. The wings just get dumped into a deep fry. The chicken needs to be put on the grills in a special way and made to look pretty (makes a world of difference) The fillets and zinger just go on grills, but need to be beaten a little before doing so (good fists recommended) There is someone supposed to be in the sandwich making thing but that is such a busy and stressful job that often we would deep fry the fries and salt them, and sometimes put them in the cardboard thingy. All of these go into an oven after being cooked, to maintain temperature and freshness. That oven is fucking magical. Okay, so, all of these need to be maintained. We had to always have 50 bites up front, 2 chickens, 40 strips, 50 bites and 30 chicken wings, so basically 2 of each. The fillets and zingers are made when they are ordered, they are the least ordered thing on the menu and we did this so they would not taste bad. Okay, now, the oven had many grills that don't move, like shelves. One shelf is made to fit 2 grills, no, not the ones I was talking about earlier, we have flat ones that look different and are used differently, to carry the cooked meat to the oven, kinda like plates in a way, but metal and carried with a small metal thing that was extremely hard to hold and let's just say you need weightlifter wrists. So, alongside the stuff in up front ready to be served we had to always have 3 shelves of strips, two of wings, one of bites and one of chicken. No, not grills, shelves, which fit 2 grills. Sometimes we would only need, say, 10 bites to fill things up on a slow day, so what I'd do is just grab the bag of 20 and squeeze one half out. Anyway, back to the point, you also need to churn the flour in the 2 flour vats (1 spicy 1 non spicy) about every 5 uses, 3 if it was a busy day. We also had to change the water, this you can just know with experience when to change. We also had to keep the stainless steel table that the vats are on clean. We also had to put more flour into the vats and dump bad clumpy flour out into the trash. At the end of the day you wash the table and clean the floor and leave, because I had a 6 hour shift. If I had an 8 hour shift I'd stay until midnight to wash the floors, walls, literally everything is cleaned, even the trash bins. Now, think about everything I've just said and try to imagine doing all of it alone, or with 1 other person and 1 poor clerk in front. I'm not saying we didn't have people, most of the time it was well scheduled but shit happens. It closes at exactly 10 PM, not a minute early, then we go into the employee hallway behind the restaurant and sit down on the things on 2 wheels you use to move wood pallets and eat and drink and laugh. Yeah, we went to war together. Edit: oh, yeah, forgot to mention that on top of all this, there are 4 female managers. 2 are cool and 2 are out to nitpick and get on your nerves. Sometimes when we would simply stop, look at a wall and wonder what the fuck we have to do next we'd hear "stop sitting around and doing nothing" while we forgot what to do because of the stress. The hot manager got married 2 months into my work there but she still flirted with me. God, that smile.

I quit a call center job for the company that takes school pictures in the U.S. b/c the photo lab was constantly messing up and getting orders wrong, so every day we'd get customers calling about how their photos were screwed up. One woman literally raged at me because she paid $60 for premium retouching and the photo looked like basic retouching wasn't even done. It was a constant barrage of angry parents who paid upwards of $200 for just okay pictures. I left during the busy season when they needed all hands on deck b/c I just couldn't handle so many people cussing and yelling at me over pictures. Apparently I wasn't the only one.

1986, worked nights at a coffee shop in Toronto. It had just been bought by a "nice" family from China/Hong Kong (can't remember which now). Our baker was more than happy to train the son, as we needed a second baker badly. About a month in, we come in one evening and check the schedules for the following week - the rest of the fam had just arrived, and lo, none of our names were on it. We asked about this, were told this was our last night. We all walked out on the spot.

My dad (he’s in the army) told me this story about how one time he was deployed, he got to a new station and they because the last IT guys sucked they started making my dad do stuff he wasn’t normally suppose to do, but every-time he did what they asked he turned off the Internet because there always has to be someone manning the Internet, needless to say he was left alone for the rest of his time there.

I didn't actually quit this job, but it's the only time I've ever walked out in the middle of a shift. Worked at a pizza place at an airport. There are a dozen or so restaurants at the airport but they're managed by 2-3 different companies. The one I worked for (come to find out) was paying people less than the other companies for similar jobs at the same airport. Anyways, when I first got hired my shift lead was a cool guy who was good at his job, all around good boss and good person. A month into working there he accepted a restaurant manager job somewhere else that was going to basically pay him double what he was currently making. The other guy who filled in the shift lead position was also nice but wasn't as good at his job, but looking back that really didn't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. Our GM, who oversaw all the restaurants our company ran in the airport (like 5 or 6 of them) was very incompetent. After weeks of us trying to get him to resolve issues we were having (logistic, not personal) with no success the newer shift lead quit, leaving us without any direct in-house management. My roommate at the time also worked there with me and she was the most experienced (10+ years in the restaurant industry including fine dining) so we expected them to at least offer her the shift lead spot. Our GM, before all this had happened, even remarked to her that "this place wouldn't be able to run without you". Well, he didn't offer it to her, or to anybody at first. Instead he decided to come and do the work himself. But the problem was he was also supposed to oversee several other stores and so he would only stop by a coupe of times a day for not even 5 minutes at a time. We were basically left to fend for ourselves. To be fair through, we didn't want him there anyways. It was myself, my roommate, an extremely lazy 18-year old who this was his first job (so lazy that when he would go to the bathroom our productivity would actually increase because of more space and we hoped he would take longer), and one other skater-bro type guy, plus 2 awesome prep people in the back. Basically were were pretty short-staffed all the time and kept begging HR to hire more people. We even had to have one of the prep people in the back come out during the rushes and run the register. We sold pizza by-the-slice and would always have dozens of people in line around dinner time and we'd go from the usual 6 different pizzas to only selling cheese and pepperoni because that's all we had time for. Now, Skater Bro was a good worker but had a short temper and would blow up in front of customers and so myself and my roommate would usually step in to take over the situation. Weeks of all this later... want to guess who got offered the shift lead position? Yep, Skater Bro. He at least understood the pressure we were under and thankfully decided that instead of closing at 8:30pm like normal we would wait until after the dinner rush was over (around 7-7:30) and then stop making pizzas and sold whatever we had left and then close. Thankfully our GM never once caught on to this (how he didn't I have no idea, he was THAT incompetent). Now that I've set the back story, here's what made me walk-off. One day we had several people call in sick (there was a flu bug going around the airport at the time), so the only people there were myself, only one prep person in the back (the one who DIDN'T know how to use the register), and my GM serving as a shift lead (was the ONLY day he was there the whole time). I should mention my roommate had the day off, she wasn't sick, but Skater Bro and lazy teen were both sick. We were super busy and with there only being 2 people in the front my GM took over the register and I had to make the pizzas, greet and take customers orders, cut the pizzas, and all the GM did was stand behind the register because apparently he was never trained on how to make the pizzas, leaving me to do the job that normally we had 2-3 additional people doing. Super stressed, I texted my roommate and asked her to come in to help. She did, but when she showed up my GM yelled at her for coming in when she wasn't scheduled. So as much as my roommate wanted to help the GM told her to go home. I waited until the lunch rush was over and then told my GM that I was going to go talk to HR (thankfully he couldn't say no to me doing that) and explained to them the whole situation in much more detail than I'm giving here. It was then that the super nice HR lady spilled the beans to me (off the record) that our GM had actually been demoted several weeks earlier and was only still doing his job until they hired a replacement. Fancy that. With this knowledge I returned back to work and then when I got back he yelled at me for calling my roommate instead of asking HIM to call her. Fed up with him and the whole day I told him I was going home and that he could run the place by himself the rest of the day and then I left. To this day it's the only time I've ever walked off a job. Interestingly, I never got in trouble for doing that, most likely because it would be HR in charge of discipline and they were completely on my side. The funniest part of all was the restaurant closed down a month later and I found a better job. TL;DR we were super short-staffed and when a co-worker came in on her off day to help me my boss told her to go home since she wasn't on the schedule. I told him I'm not going to do the job of 4 people and went home, leaving him alone to run the place.

I worked at a Deli at a supermarket for maybe 3 years, the job was fine for the most part. We were always understaffed and they knew they could rely on me to run half the deli by myself. One day, there was a lot of people waiting for me to serve them and i'm the only one over there and even some customers questioned how there was nobody helping me. The majority of customers were mad because I was taking to long even though I was going as fast as I could. My boss came out from the back and started yelling at me because there were to many customers not getting helped. Everything all at once made me lose my shit. I told my boss I quit, took off my apron, hat, and nametag and dropped it on the floor in front of her. She was left shocked as I left her to take care of maybe 15 pissed off customers. She tried to get me to come back and even asked me to come back thru phone calls but I didn't budge. I talked to her on the phone and told her i'm never coming back and that i'm not sorry for leaving her with all those people then I hung up. She never tried to contact me again, thank god

I spent most of my 20s quitting jobs in this style. Lots of good memories 😂