Anyone have stories about quitting their job

Pretty much half of America does currently. Dat sweet gubment cheese is too enticing.

Did it once. I actually did have an offer I had accepted. So I turned my notice in one morning, and my boss flipped out. I guess he decided he was going to make my life miserable those two weeks or something. I left for lunch that day and never went back.

Company I had an offer from was bought out a few days later, guy that hired me was fired(and later arrested for embezzlement) and the new management called me and said the offer was no longer extended.

It worked out fine. I had enough in savings to weather the 2-3 weeks it took me to find another job. The job I ended up getting set me up nicely for my career and where I am today.

Sure.

I left mid 2017 because my employers were a little (a lot) crazy. Kind of wanted to start my own practice but didn't know if it was feasible to do from scratch. I applied for a couple of positions, but I really liked the idea of working for myself. I found a lady who was looking to retire and bought her existing business and have been on my own for 4 years now.

I don't think I could ever go back to working for someone else.

In 2012 I left a stable job with a small business for a corporate job with a much higher salary with an insurance company as a local territory sales manager. They flew me up to Chicago for training and on the second day I learned that they switched me from a local territory to a state-wide territory. My overnight travel went from being 1-2 nights a week to 6 nights per week with zero increase in pay.

I was shocked but decided to sleep on it before making any decision. After a few more days, I still was just as uneasy about it as I was the moment I found out so I quit with no other job lined up with faith that I'd find another one quickly.

My boss had the nerve to tell me I was immature for reacting that way and I told him it was an a-hole move to lure me in with a big salary for a local job then after leaving my previous employer change it up on me in a major way. He graduated from Vanderbilt and thought his shite didn't stink. Actually told me he thought it was stupid that LSU students don't dress up for football games. Yea, you read that right.

Anyway, that company ended up going out of business due to some stupid financial moves about a year later. frick them and frick him too.

I ended up finding another job within a week.

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Anyone have stories about quitting their job

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Man, I woke up this morning with $50 billion in my bank account. I text my boss and told him to frick off, I quit!

When I finished college I found work as an accountant but it didnt pay much so I took an overnight position at a group home. My job was to make sure the 3 guys in the home didnt burn the place down, make their lunch and get them on the bus every morning for their job at Goodwill. One day I show up and there is no more lunch meat or bread to make them sandwiches, so I put a can of corn in each of their lunchboxes. When I get to work the next day the supervisor is waiting for me. Bitches me out that I didnt even give them a can opener and that I should have defrosted and cooked a pork roast that was in the freezer. Next day I sent a fax from my accounting job that I was resigning.

Get fired so you can get unemployment. Fwiw, I've never been on unemployment, I just think my friends should get it if scumbags out there do less.

Let me ask you, what was the easiest/hardest part about going out on your own? I’m graduating this next semester and obviously know that I’m gonna have to work for somebody for a couple of years, but I have the itch to do something on my own and either fail/succeed on my own versus riding the coattails of somebody else

I have another story and I genuinely feel bad for doing what I did even though it felt so good to do at the time. Back in 2016 I had worked for LSU for about four years and it went great at first. I loved the job even though it paid very little (my happiness in the position was worth way more to me than the money at the time) but after a couple years things started changing. My boss started playing favorites big time and for whatever reason - I don't know if it was something I did or didn't do or if he was just that big of a dick - and I was on the shite end of his stick all the time.

Some of my co-workers noticed it and I even was approached by the head of another department who noticed it herself. She noticed it AND she had some of her employees (one of which did not get along with me at all and even she spoke up about it) bring it up to her out of concern. Anyway, it was very obvious that he had it out for me personally.

After a couple years of this I finally said frick it and found another job. Well, on my last day I went to my boss's boss's boss (not going to name names but you all 100% know his name and he was one of them who was "let go" about a year or so ago - very, very well liked) and HR and played recordings of recorded meetings on state-owned property of my boss telling our team about his son's three-way relationships and explained all the other crap he had done in the past.

My boss's boss's boss apologized profusely to me and asked me to stay instead of leaving but I declined because if I had stayed after reporting this, there was no way in hell I would be able to have a pleasant work environment. He had major concerns and told me he would look into it.

A few months later I found out that my boss was fired without warning. Now, a couple others were also fired at the same time so I don't know if my meeting had anything to do with it but it very well could have been part of it.

He was fired and ended up getting another job at another university in the state but far away. I recently was bored one day and decided to do a bit of research on him. Found out that it appears he and his wife are now divorced (this would be his third or fourth divorce). The son whose three-way relationship he told us all about was actually his step-son and it makes me wonder now if my report really was what got him fired and he had to come clean to his wife and admit that he was talking about her son to his subordinates at work.

It felt great when I did all of that but now that I'm older and more mature, I feel terrible. I should have just let it be and moved on since it wasn't going to be my problem anymore. He's an a-hole but he's still a man who had a job and a wife and now he lost both of those. To think that I could have potentially played a small or big part in that makes me feel terrible.


Moral of the story -- don't go out with a bang regardless of how badly you want to. You may regret it one day.

Fairhope, would you mind shooting me an email or something later? I’m really interested to talk to you more about going the entrepreneurial route and your story is honestly pretty inspiring to me. Regardless, props to you diving into the unknown and taking a chance