re: Job quitting stories?

I pushed carts at target during the dead of summer. The lesbian manager told me it was unprofessional to roll up my sleeves and wear a bandana. I took off my reflective vest and told her to mail my last check.

I was 18 working for a construction company out of Jackson, Mississippi. We were in Bayou Sorrel building flood walls. My buddy and me were finishing the concrete and helping set forms and pour concrete. Our main job was finishing concrete though. We had to haul water from the river up the levee. We were working our arse off.

Our boss was an alcoholic and would drink during working hours, he was an arse hole. He told the superintendent we were screwing around and behind on our job which was a flat out lie. My buddy told the super he was done and asked me if I was coming with him. I told the super, "well, that's my ride" and we both walked off the job.

We drove back by the job on the way home and the forman was having to finish the concrete by himself. We had another job before we even got home.

fresh out of college, I got a job as supervisor for a multi route distribution company. I was responsible for 8 drivers and their activities.

Over a few weeks, One of my drivers, who was good friends with my immediate supervisor, had been failing to turn in his receipts. Turns out he was using company money to pay a gambling debt. With my unsuccessful efforts to collect from the driver, my supervisor became frustrated and gave me the old ultimatum “it’s either you or him.”

Since I couldn’t collect money that was already spent, I fired the driver and started operating his very profitable route. When my supervisor found out what I had done, he melted and he told me I couldn’t run a route and be a supervisor. I told him that was fine and I would keep the route. When he threatened to fire me, his supervisor told him “ Hell no. He’s bringing the route current. He can keep the job.”

I made more money on that route than I was making “managing and supervising” anyway.

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Who is going to replace you at the drive-thru window?

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He is not a fast food employee!

Have an older friend that is a very bright engineer and was very successful in sales. He was so good with the product they wanted him as the engineer in charge of remanufacturing at their service center. That’s not the job he wanted and turned it down twice. He was also not a fan of the man who would be his boss.
He is driving one day and this guy calls him telling him he had him transferred to that position, he said hang on a second I’ll call you right back. He called his wife to pick him up and left his truck on the side of the road. Called a major competitor and had a job with them the next day. Didn’t call the guy back lol

I quit a job once to start a competing business. My supervisor at the time was a bit of an overbearing oaf, and he was sitting in my office debriefing me on the projects I was leaving behind. His chair was out of the line of sight of anyone outside the office.

One of my coworkers came walking in my office with his hand outstretched and said, “Proud of you boy; sticking it to these motherfrickers!” He was about halfway through “motherfricker” when he saw Mike.

Not me, but I knew a guy that worked in IT for a major company back in the mid 90’s. He had quite a bit of responsibility in the division he worked in. This was when PC’s had made major inroads in corporate America but nightly backups were still in the future. He formatted his hard drive, put a note on his desk saying “I quit”, and walked out of the building.

I don’t know if I’d call it funny.


I do however suggest small business owners not hire college students saying “come work while your in school!” So that you can hire them for cheap and then a month later complain that they aren’t around when you need them because they go to classes.

You’re opening yourself up to the potential for some pretty spectacular quitting stories. Atleast one of which I’ve been personally responsible for.

I just recently left my job for a very lucrative opportunity. About 3 and a half weeks ahead of me making the jump, I get a call from my boss on the weekend….. his boss had been contacted by a real estate agent who could have potentially handled my relocation. I guess they had ties.

So yeah, luckily I was pretty well regarded so there was no funny business, but it was highly unprofessional. So input in my notice early and worked my time out.

Used to run a bread route working 12 hour days , one Saturday my last stop was closed because the company had filed for bankruptcy, it was one of my biggest stops.

I called the supervisor, he tells me to come on in , nothing we can do about it .

I get excited because I’m getting off early , well I get in and he tells me to go back to the store , he just off the phone with them and they will now take delivery.

I was already going to quit but was waiting to find something else , after he told me that , I handed him the keys to the truck and told him , you can do it , I quit.

Got in my truck and went home .