re: have you ever just quit a job on the spot?

never with out having another job line up. I worked at Lowe's for most of my college career but by my third year there I hated dealing with the general public. I had already accepted a new job when and I was planning on putting in my two weeks notice the same day when I had to deal with a moron of a manager and just basically walked out and told them to mail me my last check.

Yep. Working with heavy steel. A weld broke free during construction and a piece of steel that previously was stationary suddenly was no longer stationary and was aggressively relocating itself. It stopped about three inches from my face.

Instaquit.

I have and it was a senior professional position too. I was the lead sysadmin for a firm that had just lost a major client due to no fault of ours, it was a nationally-known major lawsuit and the parties suddenly settled and no longer required our services. The settlement was for just under a billion, it was that big.

We had about 50 people on the payroll and I knew most would be laid off, but as the head IT guy I knew I was safe, at least for the time being. What I didn't know was that the firm's partners had been overpaying themselves during the good times and blowing the cash on stuff like jetskis, cars, etc. and couldn't come up with the cash to make payroll. So they had filed for bankruptcy.

That Friday morning one of the partners called me into his office and asked me to help him inventory all the computers, figure out which were the most valuable and move them offsite before the bank auditors came to evaluate our assets.

Of course, that is fraud. I asked said partner if he realized it was likely illegal and he responded that if it bothered me I could just do a verbal report so there wouldn't be a paper trail. I realized that even if I refused I would find out about it if someone else did the deed.

So I told him I'd think about it, walked back to my desk, collected my personal stuff, and emailed my resignation. Walked out the door immediately.

It scared the crap out of me because at the time I had lots of debt and desperately needed the cash. But I heard later from a couple of people I knew that that day was the last day anyone got a paycheck, and I wound up getting another job *just* in time to pay the bills too, so it worked out as well as it could have.

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Strangely I have four friends in the last year who have all quit professional positions on the spot. It worked out well for two of them, one is tbd (she quit last week) and the fourth is now a house husband.

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So he doesn't have to do shite all day? Sounds like you meant it worked out perfectly for 1, well for 2, and tbd for the other

I did a version of it when I was in my 20's.

I gave two weeks notice from a very nice position without having even interviewed elsewhere. I had confidence a bit out of proportion to the realities.

I took the first job I was offered (more money, nice title, interesting work) and it turned out to be a wild place to work.

I learned a lot though, and "enjoyed" a variety of exposures and opportunities. the uproar gave me chances to do things I never would have done in a well run stable environment.

I would not recommend it to just anyone. I had had a zillion offers to interview when I took the job I was leaving. I knew that my skill sets were in high demand. And I had polished my resume nicely at the job I was leaving.

I saw it go down in Dearmans back in the day. Server got in an argument with another worker (may have been a manager) and started cussing. Then she screams at her about the 2 week old tuna that is in the fridge that they are still serving customers. Then she quit and walked out.

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I'm on the verge every day, but trying my best to play passive aggressive instead of blowing up. Wish I had the balls to do it, but I'm trapped in a job that pays just well enough to deal with the misery.

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my wife
she's been sabotaging herself for a year. failing to bill for this and that. not getting reports in on time. actually missing appointments. I can cover the money difference so she does not have survival issues. Many people keep on with a job that is wrong for them because they have to to survive.
She is at a work level 1/3rd what it was a year ago.

today she talked it over breakfast (for the tenth time) and then started applying for another job with another company she thinks would be better (better technical support, more money, offices nationwide, so she can eventually transfer to Hawaii (our dream locale) or panhandle of Tex (mom is there) or cenLA, which I would like).

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Yes, I worked at a vet's office. Someone brought in a crazy dog. Possibly had rabbis. The two girls asked me to put a muzzle on it

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I quit on the spot.

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Good for you! That place seemed very anti-Semitic.

Yes in 2003 in Natalbany at a wood mill called Hunt plywood...I had worked at the plant in Pollock for a little while and thought I would transfer to that one to live with my then fiance while she was going to LSU..it was a crap show compared to the one in Pollock. One night the supervisor walked by and started pulling some strips of wood off the return belt onto the floor and told me to pick them up.. It wasn't good wood by any means to save so I told him to throw that shite back on the belt and once again he told me to pick it up..I told him he was stupid and he said if i didn't pick it up then he'd have to write me up. I said I'll save you the write up. Told him f you and this shitty mill..and walked out.. Don't think it really effected me and getting another job..