re: The worst way you've left a job

I had probably the worst panic attack of my life when I had a job bagging groceries. Left midshift and went back a few days later to say I found another job which was a lie. They sent me my pay check in the mail like 3 months later.

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Going into it I was looking forward to seeing the bridge/road side of civil construction. Then I found out they hire everyone in as a "Safety Manager" so that they dont have to keep an actually trained Safety Man onsite. Little to no regard for human lives. Truly amazing they dont kill more people.

Straw that broke my back was the way they ran the Crane Ops. 90% of the operators didnt speak a lick of English or understand universal hand signaling. No lift plans were made, they would just hook up and hope the crane held the load. Almost every crane aside from the 110T had derricks that were twisted from overweight picks. Day before I left a guy on my crew rode a concrete pile about 15ft into the air because the operator didnt wait for him to jump off after hooking it up.

Absolutely terrible safety culture at that company from the top down

Demotion

Packed up all my shite. Mailed a letter of resignation the next day. I don’t regret it at all.

In a body bag

Had a boss pull a gun out of his desk on me.
18 years old I quit because my paycheck bounced, got cash from the owner instead. Found another job and my last paycheck bounced so I went and cashed the previous bounced check. Dude call the cops on me so I agreed to meet them at his office. Got there before the police and he pulled a gun on me saying I stole from him and I counldnt leave until they showed up to arrest me. Cops never showed up and he ended up giving me everything he owed me after his wife lost her shite on him.

Walked in the Entrance door, then straight back out the Exit door, then straight to the beach to relax.

Gave two weeks notice and was honest on the exit interview

Just out of high school I tried to join the airforce, scored a 98 on the asvab and at meps was told I could pretty much choose any job I wanted. Sat in delayed enlistment program for a while and started another job while I waited. Pretty much just bs labour work.

Always watched the truck drivers sit and do nothing while we loaded their trucks and figured that didn't look too bad. Got a cdl permit and they let me drive their trucks to practice for the driving test.

Airforce eventually said they were downsizing and we could get out if we wanted and I figured "Well hell I'm getting my cdl and actually moving up in my first job since high school, I'll give this a shot".

Not long after, warehouse manager got a retired otr trucker friend of his hired and I was off the road and back in the warehouse.

I thought "Well shite, already passed on a career opportunity to stay here, what do I do now?"

Found out that they were creating a new tech position for the machines we sold but I needed an electrical background. So I started going to college, aced my classes the first semester, then called in and took a day to go set up my classes for the second semester..

Warehouse manager went to the branch manager and said because I didn't show up they had to rent a bigger truck for another driver to drive for the day cause even though he had a class a cdl he refused to drive a tractor trailer and would only drive straight trucks. Got fired the next day. Another co-worker later told me the rented truck sat at the warehouse all day, never got used.

Dropped out of college cause I didn't see a need for the classes I was taking at that point and I've been driving trucks ever since.

But I guess it's cool.. got a free cdl and the warehouse manager later got cancer.

Packed my stuff up at midnight, included waiting room furniture.

They came in to find empty office. I got a lot of nasty voice mails and threats.