re: What is your most memorable co-worker quitting story?

It's actually a story of when I quit.

I came in and took over a department that was underperforming for a while. I turned it around in a year or so, and after a few years we were the best department in the organization, and were winning all kinds of accolades in our industry. Well, our organization had just had the best year in our history the year before. We got the best evaluation in our industry in the country. It was one year later and we were still doing well, but not as good as the year before.

Turns out my name had gotten out there about how I turned around my department. Well, I got a few offers and, even though I was very discreet, I guess my organization heard about it. I was asked countless times if I was looking for another job. By both superiors and other's invested in the interest of our operations.

So, naturally I lied to everyone in my org., telling them that I was very happy and staying put and they didn't have to worry. All the while I had accepted another job. I had to lie to my company for a couple months due to the new job not needing me immediately.

When the time came I told everyone at once, and very publicly that I was moving on to be the next head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

Well done.

This is more about me than the girl that quit.

My department covers phones when the receptionist has to go somewhere. While the chick that was moving on was at a meeting, the receptionist left to pick up the farewell cake for her, and transferred the phones to us.

Chick comes back from meeting, and phone rings. She asks, "oh, we have the phones? Where's Lucy?"

I had to think fast, and came up with.....

"She's having period problems, and had to run home right quick."

I guess the girl had issues with my impeccable wit, and I got called into my boss' office later for a tongue lashing.

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When the time came I told everyone at once, and very publicly that I was moving on to be the next head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

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So, how did the Dolphins job work out for you?

Someone posted a story about a co-worker shitting her pants then leaving and never showing back up. I wish I could find it.

Damn, my employer doesn't offer Short Term Disability...not a bad idea.

At fire dept I work at we had an ambulance run, the fireman who had only been there for a few months was riding 3rd man. Dude was a disgruntled employee right off the bat and hated riding ambulance. On way there he said I came here to fight fire, not ride an ambulance, or something like that. I was driving and we were on way to a run, captain turned around and cussed him out basically telling him to quit then. We got on scene and dude got out and walked the frick off He called a ride and never came back to the station again. I was like wtf, but it was funny as hell.

Back when I did an internship at the local news in college this old geezer who had been the lead anchor for 25 years literally list his shite on air....walked off and started yelling out the Window

I'M MAD AS HE'LL AND IM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!

over and over and over...There is video of it on ylutube.

I work for a fortune 100 company and one day a dude sent a mass email to the whole 30,000 employee base saying how he's quitting and his boss is an a-hole

He said his boss was fricking one of the sales girls and even called him out on certain instances where he saw them. He also copied his bosses wife on the email

Scorched earth

In between college transfers I took a semester off and got a job landscaping. My crew boss was a 50-something New Orleanian native. We were on a big job in Lake Charles and we had a 2nd crew there with us. My boss didn't like the way the other crew was fricking around, in particular one of the biggest guys you did not want to mess with. He stormed over and got in this guys face, using my work ethic as an example for this guy to follow. I had already had something of a run-in with this guy a few days before. He basically gave me the Vince Vaughn speech from Rudy. I laughed in his face and told him to stop worrying so much about what I was doing and get out of my face. He wanted to kill me, but laughed it off because i am the size of Rudy. Fast forward a few days later. My boss is giving this guy shite, I see him look at me over my boss's head mean mugging the hell out of me. I smiled. His face distorted, he throws a punch, my boss ducks it and gives this guy a body shot that dropped him. Our big boss had just showed up a few minutes before and saw the whole thing. My boss walks over, big boss asks "what the hell was that?". My boss replied, "I just accepted his 2 weeks notice effective 2 weeks ago."