re: Worst stories of quitting a job

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Chucky Cheese

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little kids didn't kick me square in the nuts

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Probably for confusing them at Chuck E. Cheese by going by Chucky Chesse.

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that bitch fricking called the owner and told him I was quitting.

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She was prolly licking his dicking.

I once used the empty threat of quitting to get what amounted to a 28% raise. I had received a big promotion with a promise of a substantial pay raise 'as soon as finacially possible for the company'. I naively accepted and two years later was still stuck without my increase.

So when I got back from my vacation I called my boss and gave him my notice, telling him I accepted a job on the West Coast for an COL-adjusted 20% increase. I then faxed my written notice to him.

Long story short, they offered me a 28% raise if I stayed. And of course I had no other job offer, I just got pissed enough to take the chance.

quit a summer job in college on the first day ( construction) because the Forman looked at me, picked up a hammer and a concrete covered board, then motioned to hit the concrete off the board with the hammer. He thought i was Mexican and didn't know English. Im not, just dark from fishing.

So you screwed over your coworkers and the owners because they will have to deal with the consequences of regular paying customers now knowing what they really think. Also, losing customers because they now feel disrespected. Good Job. At least you got your feelings out in the open.

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He drove by my house and saw my car there, and just decided he didn't want to deliver pizzas anymore.

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I love this. People get so bent out of shape about people quitting jobs this way, but its part of America. You can quit whenever you want, and that's beautiful. I

We are all gonna be in the ground eventually. Breaking your back delivering pizzas on superbowl sunday when you'd rather be watching the game with your buds is no way to live. Especially considering the pay.

I abruptly quit my first job out of college. It was a really toxic environment, and my boss was awful. He constantly threw his subordinates under the bus to upper management, while also taking all the credit when they did something good. So he tasked me with helping him with this big project he thought was going to get him a promotion if he knocked it out of the park. Problem was, he delegated 95% of the work on it to me. A lot of it was way over my head and I was overwhelmed with it for a few weeks, and he refused to provide guidance or assistance. He also never asked for progress reports from me on it, which he probably would have fired me had he done that because I was getting nowhere on it. Finally, the day before he had to present it, I hit my limit when he came in and bitched me out over something unrelated. I thought, frick this guy. Just before lunch, I went and deleted all the work I'd done on it from the server, dropped all the paperwork into the shredder, packed up my shite, left for lunch and never returned. I rationalized that I was likely going to be fired anyway because I had only completed maybe half of the work. I sat at my apartment all afternoon watching the Caller ID display his office number and not answering the phone. I finally answered it close to 5 and he was in tears screaming at me that I'd ruined his career. I felt bad for a second or two, but not for long. What kind of idiot asks a kid right out of college to do all the work on such a big project? I got a better job a couple of weeks later.

It was 1982 and i was a office manager for Jacobs Engineering on a union job in Borden chemical in Geismar. The union contract called for a work week that went from Wednesday to the next Tuesday with payday the following Friday. There was a rule that the union employees could not get their checks early if they had not come to me and requested it. We did not receive the checks until Thursday. My computer at the time was a 10 key calculator, blank checks and a ball point pen.

One of our better pipe fitter welders came into the trailer on a Thursday morning and said he wanted his check. I told him they had not arrived yet plus he did not make the required request. He asked to see the superintendent so we walked to the other end of the trailer. After listening to the story, his request was refused. The welder said nothing, picked up the superintendent's hard hat, put it on the floor, unzipped and began to piss into the hard hat. Yes he got his way as I had to write 2 manual checks, one for the previous week and one that represented his pay up to the time it would take me to write his termination check and drive him to the gate. The whole job was laughing about that for weeks.

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Long story short, they offered me a 28% raise if I stayed. And of course I had no other job offer, I just got pissed enough to take the chance.

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One of my coworkers did this and at the first sign things got slow, he was the first to be laid off. No one ever came out and said why, but we all knew why.