Tales Of Angry Employees That Made Them Say, “I QUIT!”

No amount of perseverance and patience will make you determined to stay in a toxic working environment. Once your hard work is not reciprocated, the perfect revenge plan is to quit. Knowing your worth is the most important thing.

The following Redditors share their tales of “I can do it!” to “I have enough of these!” Every dedicated worker has a limit and you’ll be intrigued what made them quit. These stories will teach you a lesson that “you should never settle for less” even in terms of work.

1. Balancing Act

After taking a few days off work while my father was having a brain tumor removed (and still checking emails and attending conference calls from the hospital), my boss gave me a new project. 

On a Thursday afternoon, she gave me a Monday morning deadline for a project that would take 6 to 8 days to complete. I worked 16 hours a day to get it done. When we met on Monday she asked how my weekend was and I said,  "I worked all weekend." Then she asked if I got to visit my dad in the hospital, I replied "No, I didn't get a chance because I worked all weekend."

A couple of weeks later she pulled me into a meeting and said "I feel like you were resentful because you had to work and I feel like I was really good when your dad was sick, maybe you're just tired. Are you tired?" She'd also make comments when I would leave the office on time, not early but “on time.” She said, "It's great that you just get up and go when your day is over like I have to go because I have a daughter, but you don't have any kids and you just leave at the end of the day"

Yeah, woman, I don't live here. I don't go home and sit in a dark room counting the hours until I get to come back here. I'm also not curing cancer, nothing we do here matters to anyone outside of here. I give you 100% when I'm here, but when my day is done, it's freaking done. I no longer work there.

[deleted]

Started my first job at 15 as a dishwasher for a friends families new Korean restaurant.

My typical workday was 4 pm-9 pm on the clock. Afterward, I was expected to stay and help close the shop, and instead of getting paid for those extra 3 hours, I was given a meal as compensation. There are laws prohibiting minors from working too long or too late. Honestly, I didn’t mind it as the food was incredible.

I’m now 16 and due to the minimal wait staff, I was expected to work as a waiter/busboy in between dishes. I was getting sick of the same old same old anyway. So I came in during the week to start “training” and since they knew I was already familiar with/ the menu, I wasn’t a shadow. 

I was just on my own and winging it. I made a mistake i.e. not remembering soup or salad so I went back upstairs to ask and when I returned with my answer I was insulted by my manager for not taking this seriously enough.

After months, I was waiting tables and dishwashing all while being micromanaged. One weekend, a Mardi Gras parade was being held downtown where the restaurant is located so it’d easily be one of our busiest days that year. 

I was scheduled for 4 pm to 10 pm but they asked if I’d come in that morning around 8. About an hour or two into my new shift, there was a mountain of dishes. I was expected to maintain them while also waiting tables. My manager walked in and asked, “Laiphe, what are you doing?” I answered, “Washing dishes.” Then she replied,  “Go ask table 6 if they need refills.” I then responded, “Yes ma’am.”

I walk out the back and to the front of the store while she’s tailgating me and picking up the pitcher of water. As I pick it up she asks, “Do you even know what you’re doing?” I’m pretty fed up and kindly respond with, “Yeah, I know how to pour water.” She didn’t like that and told me that I needed to LOOK at her with respect and that if I didn’t like it here I should just leave. So I left them with mountains of dishes and thirsty customers.

Know your worth.

Laiphe

I was working at a technical support call center. I put in for a day off for my birthday a month in advance so that there will be no problems when the day comes. 

All of a sudden, my boss forgot to process my request. She made it seem like it was my fault and said that I couldn't get it off when I asked about it closer to the date. She said that something all of the time off requests were being locked due to "upcoming training."

Those trainings were two weeks after my birthday.

Clownbird

I used to work at a bowling alley in the cafe kitchen when I was like 19 years old. One particular night, I was the only one in the kitchen during a slammed rush. I get everything out (somehow) promptly, clean the kitchen, and then go it for a smoke. The general manager walks out a minute later and proceeds to ream me, telling me I’m lazy no good piece of trash, and other awful things.

I finish my smoke, go back in, pull off my uniform shirt and name tag, set it on the cafe counter, and walk out the front door without a word.

To heck with you, Paul.

SenorDongles

I interviewed for a corporate accounting role because public accounting had much less pay and a lot more hours. I was told in the interview that it was to show up between 8-9 am and leave between 4-5 pm. There’d be no more working late nights, or having to work on weekends, which was great.

I took the job, and within 2 months realized they were lying through their teeth. First off, there was no training on their processes. I was given enough work for three people, with no direction on how to do it. 

My manager was so scatterbrained, that he could never give me any help when I asked. No one talked for 8 hours a day, and it was just an unbelievably bad work culture.

I’d get to work usually at 8:30 am and leave at 4:30 pm while eating lunch at my desk. I came in one day and was told “Since you’re leaving so early, I can only hope you’re working from home.” 

Then the next week, we were told we had to come in for a full day on Saturday because we had New Year's Day off that Monday. My final straw was when I left at 2:30 pm one day for a doctor's appointment. When I came in the next day, my manager pulled me into a room and said that I didn’t have enough accrued PTO to do that, and he was going to dock my pay (in a salaried position).

I went in the next day, told him it wasn’t working out, and put my two weeks in. On my last day, he told me I could leave at 11:30 am so I did. When I got my final paycheck, he docked my pay for the remainder of that day.

Luckily, the recruiter who got me the job followed up to ask what happened, and I was completely open and honest with her. Apparently, that manager has a very high turnover rate for the position I was in, and the recruiter told me that the CFO is looking into replacing him.

Dirtybirds233

I was in the same position for two years and was actively looking at other positions within the same company. The bosses knew about it, it was just time for a change and to advance my career. 

A great opportunity came up and I was offered the position. However, my current leadership blocked me because I received a “promotion” six months prior. That promotion was an automatic email that said congrats you’re now level 2 instead of level 1 because I had met my sales attainment and completed all my yearly training. 

An automated email stopped me from getting promoted and bosses said I had to wait another 18 months. I left that company and went to a competitor doing the same thing for better pay and significantly more support.

austintx-16

My boss had my crew and I cut corners on a job. I was fairly new to the position and took what he said as the way it was supposed to get done. The inspectors then came and checked the job because of an unrelated screwup by another company and in turn found out what we had done. 

A great opportunity came up and I was offered the position. However, my current leadership blocked me because I received a “promotion” six months prior. That promotion was an automatic email that said congrats you’re now level 2 instead of level 1 because I had met my sales attainment and completed all my yearly training. 

An automated email stopped me from getting promoted and bosses said I had to wait another 18 months. I left that company and went to a competitor doing the same thing for better pay and significantly more support.

austintx-16

I was a new sous chef at a country club. The chef wouldn't let anyone but himself do the ordering. His ordering method was to go over a paper hanging on the line where people wrote down what we were out of. Not what we were nearly out of, but what we were completely out of. Any time I'd try to add items that we were close to out of on, he'd lose his temper. We were constantly out of things. 

One day, we had a huge Easter breakfast event. The horrible chef didn't order nearly enough eggs and we were out of all sorts of other random items. I was out front making omelets for members. We ran out of eggs and I stood around for 15 minutes waiting for more while the members became increasingly frustrated and then angry.

I went to the back to see the chef yucking it up with the FOH manager. I handed him my apron and told him to pound sand. I was at that job for less than 2 weeks.

DarthRusty

I was a line cook in a pizza place. The general manager was the son of the owners and a total piece of crap. 

One day the dishwasher doesn’t show. I had arrived a few minutes early (10 minutes, to be more precise), so I clocked in and set up the pit so we could at least have something to work with. I worked the whole day, with no incidents. 

The manager never said a word to me. When I clocked out, my time had been adjusted and those ten minutes were removed. I went to talk to him, but he was gone for the day. 

I checked my email later to find an email to the entire store staff saying we are not allowed to clock in early, at all, ever, and that adjustments would be made if we did. I was making like $10/hour at the time, so this was all over what amounted to maybe $1.75. I did not go back.

Firesoups

I waitressing at a small cafe, the owner was also the manager/cook. One day, we were in the weeds, getting thrown around left and right, and finally, when it slowed down, the other line cook messed up. So the owner, who already had had several screaming meltdowns, picks up a plate and throws it right at the server alley. It broke on the wall near my head.

So I took off my apron and waddled myself at home. To heck with that. It closed a few weeks ago, which wasn't surprising.

[deleted]

I arrived at the bar to work my shift only to discover that the owners had sacked my manager because there was, in their view, too much waste. At the time, he was recovering from major surgery on his arm. He had 3 young children and an 8-month-pregnant wife. 

They thought they were losing money because not every drop of beer poured went into somebody's drink (which is just a fact of life in a bar), and not because their idle toerag son/brother (father/son owner duo) kept coming in with his mates and demanding we give them drinks they didn't have to pay for. 

I quit on the spot and went to the manager's son's christening a while later. A year or two later, I was told the bailiffs had come to visit the bar and left with quite a lot of furniture. It couldn't have happened to bigger flirts.

Chuckles1188

I was volunteering in a local charity shop at the weekend. As it turns out, most of the non-paid "volunteers" were conscripted from job seekers or community service or whatever. They had to turn up to get their welfare payments etc. Anyway, I'd been there about 6 months, was hard graft at times moving sofas round the shop, up and down three floors.

It was a nice sunny day and I was taking my lunch break out the back sitting on a sofa at the loading bay doors because of a public car park, eating a sandwich with my feet up on the railing. 

All of a sudden, some woman who I've never seen before starts waggling her finger at me like I'm a naughty kid, then shouting at me in a disgusting tone "Get up young man, how dare you.” She kept ranting on. I'm like who the hell is this? She gets messed up. Slowly, I get up and move inside.

Turns out she was the area manager. She pissed me off so bad. I didn't have an issue with what she was asking, it possibly didn't give a good impression, but it was the way she was speaking to me that I had a problem with. I think she thought I was the typical conscript who could be abused without recourse as they had to stay there and take the abuse to get their payments. 

Some customers in the shop heard how she spoke to me and they backed me up so I knew I wasn't nuts. I told her she could stick my volunteering and I got the hell out of there. I never went back. 

It made me think why should I give up my free time to help this horrible woman on a fat salary hit her targets. I doubt she had a charitable bone in her body. I wrote a two-page letter of complaint to the head office but never sent it. I kind of regret that.

Elec_EngiNero

My wife has one. Her boss suddenly became obsessed with bringing in as many new people as possible. Oddly, he seemed to forget about retaining his current workers. Many, like my wife, were very experienced at this point. You would think that they’d be considered the most valuable employees of the group.

My wife had settled into a nice Monday-Friday schedule, with good hours. Suddenly, her boss pulls her in for a meeting and says, “Most of the new employees can’t work nights or weekends due to personal conflicts. I’ll need you to switch to a 1-9 schedule and work Saturdays.”

My wife was caught off guard and responded, “When you hired me, I told you that I had conflicts in the evenings and weekends and that I would be able to work within that schedule!” The boss got all serious and said, “Listen, I think I’ve been more than generous and accommodating of your schedule needs. I think it’s time for you to show us some of that same flexibility.”

My wife started crying immediately and stormed back to her desk. She called me and said that she thought she needed to quit, but wanted to make sure she wasn’t crazy. After listening to what happened, I said that the boss could go to hell and she should never look back. She took her free water bottle and never returned.

EmperorBulbax

I was at my dream job building high-performance Corvettes. There were a lot of downsides; not W2, no benefits, long hours, and you break it you buy it. 

Then, they introduced an efficiency measurement, where if you were not fast enough you had to work Saturday to make up for it. Measuring efficiency in custom work leads to corner cutting, and in general is impossible, as it's custom.

Then I had to push the shop owner's car in to fit some things. It took me 2 hours to wrap up the car I was working on, push it out, move 2 other cars, get the forklift started, and get the car in (it didn't have a motor yet). All is not chargeable, all is not my fault, and all is supposed to be made up on Saturday. I quit the next day.

GenerationSam

I worked for a company for over a year that was contracted to make deliveries for a company.

The vans they equipped us with were maintained, and fully unequipped to handle winter weather. I worked with the company through their first winter, which meant sliding all over the road when it was icy and getting stuck constantly every time we had snow. I never had a major accident, though I did have 2 or 3 close calls where only minor damage was incurred to the van.

I decided to stick it out through the summer when the weather was much better. All summer long they promised us that new and better vans were coming. September rolls around, no vans. October, no vans. November, no vans.

That month we got our first real snow. I got back from my route and immediately put in my notice. My boss told me they would be getting new vans by the end of the year. I told her that was nice and walked.

Mgraunk

My first job, working at a little BBQ place with a drive-thru. My day off. The manager calls me at 8:30 am (30 minutes before we open) saying she doesn’t feel good and needs me to open. 

I rush in and end up working all day. 5 pm rolls around, our manager comes in with the owner of the business, who she’s dating. They were at the fair all day and completely forgot they lied to me about her being sick. 

I bite my tongue and ask if I can go home, but they say no and keep me until close (9 pm). At 9 pm I took my shirt off, handed them my keys, and said “Today was my last day” as I walked out the door shirtless.

The best part, was when I got home my dad was pissed that I quit my job. I told him what they did and said I wasn’t making enough money. He looked at my pay stubs and saw they hadn’t been paying me overtime the entire time I worked there! 

He made me go back in and demand my overtime pay. When I came in with the pay stubs the manager started crying and gave me cash out of the register to cover my overtime and then some. They called me the next day making sure I wasn’t going to report them. I didn’t, but my dad did.

TrippyJesus

I was 20 and had been working in a call center for just over a year. I was promoted to assistant manager with a new compensation structure that was identical to the other assistant manager. 

You got your wage, a very small % of the total office revenue, and then 10% of your revenue from when you worked on the phone. My immediate manager and office supervisor gave me this without confirming it with the regional manager who was on a two-month vacation in the DR.

When I got my first cheque after being promoted there was no bonus, I was told it would be corrected soon. When I got my second cheque after being promoted there was no bonus, I was told it would be corrected soon. When I got my third cheque after being promoted there was no bonus and I was told we had to wait for the regional manager to come back and authorize it. 

I was being paid weekly and worked another 4 weeks under the premise that I would get a lump sum when the regional manager returned. The problem was that I sold significantly more than the other office manager. The back pay had grown to such a large amount that when the regional manager did return he questioned why the office manager had given me this structure as he considered it to be too much money.

On my next cheque, there was no lump sum and I was told that they were figuring out a new structure. The following shift I stayed home and got a frantic call from the office manager asking me why I wasn't at work. I told him I couldn't afford to go to work. He said why can't you afford it? Because I have been getting ripped off for two months, call me back when you have my money, or don't call me at all.

Never did get paid.

catch22milo

In the job I used to have where I was fired for not lying to prospective new hires, we had a similar situation where not only was my bonus delayed because it had been green-lit by the wrong VP but when it did appear it was several hundred dollars less than promised because that same wrong VP didn't get approval before implementing the bonus structure.

I also found out after I had been fired that my old manager had received a $25,000/year increase in her department budget and allocated a thousand of that for raises for the 4-person team (a raise of about $.80 per person per day) and then gave herself a $24,000 raise.

You are a witch, Kat, you waste of air

no_this_is_God

The company of my wife did all sorts of stuff for the employees, regular parties, prizes for extra work, that kind of thing. But for some reason, her department never had any of them. Her boss said it was because her department was structured differently.

Christmas party occurs and every department has these lavish parties, bonuses, gifts, and prizes for games they all played. Her department had a brief gathering over cheap grocery store donuts and 3 prizes that were done as a random drawing. All 3 prizes were promo items the company gave away to customers at trade shows.

My wife is in the parking lot later and starts going off to one of the engineers from another department about how unfair the company treats her department. The engineer was confused and said there should be no reason her department is treated differently and started asking questions.

It turned out each department had a rather sizable budget for the manager to spend on all this stuff for the employees. Her manager just kept pocketing the money each month instead of spending any of it on the staff.

My wife quit a month later.

DeaddyRuxpin

I had a manager who just didn't like me. I don't know why, it happens. But she couldn't keep it professional, and acted as if every mistake I made, I had made on purpose, just to mess with her. Meanwhile, everyone else told me that they were super happy with me and that I was a great worker.

So she had worked that Saturday, and when I turned on my PC that Monday morning I had about 10 emails from her, all with screenshots and rude remarks like "Why is it so hard for you to follow the rules?" and "How did you not know this?" (while she was the one that trained me). I can’t take that crap, I'm worth way more than that.

Jesuswasnotwhite

I had my annual review after finishing my first year at a retail store and I got a 13-cent per hour raise. A coworker of mine who drunkenly broke into the laundromat/grocery store in town to steal beer a few weeks prior got a 14-cent per hour raise. And new employees were making 12 cents more to start than I was one year in.

Our store manager went to a national meeting and ended up getting another store manager pregnant (not sure if they knew each other before that) but he left shortly after I did. 

Some other things went down with reports by the employees against longtime managers and new managers so some regional or HQ executive came in and fired all the managers and they started from scratch. Very poorly run over the entire course of my employment there. Considering the manager who hired me allegedly got fired for harassment. Or he quit just before that. 

When I left, I left to take a job from the UA assistant manager’s wife selling shoes at Dillard’s. The assistant manager worked for a few months at UA before quitting around the time I did for a lot of similar BS reasons. At Dillard’s, I made $11 per hour before commission, drove like 10 minutes to work instead of like 30 minutes, and had a way more enjoyable experience but still ended up leaving after 6 months. 

Now I work in my field of study while I finish my masters. So done with retail forever, I hope.

RandyMarshUSGS

When I worked at a certain store, I didn't get a raise for 3 years. Although where I live is a fairly low cost of living and being in high school/college they worked around my schedule wonderfully it just felt awful. 

I collected my anniversary bonuses last year and put my 2-week notice on the same night. The recent guys they had hired who were just lazier than crap were making 10 cents higher than me. I got out of there and doing software development now making 4x hourly while finishing school. Much better opportunities out there.

Work_throwaway88888

I was at a job for 3 years, consistently in the top 3 of my department in terms of performance. Asked my supervisor repeatedly if I could be recommended for advancement/promotion and he always told me he was trying his best to get me new opportunities. I found out from a friend in a different department that I'd been considered a top candidate for 4 different promotions and each time my supervisor blocked it.

When I confronted him with this information he told me it was true and he did it because "I could never find someone who does what you do without paying them a lot more.” Internally said I can’t do this. 

I quit and found a new job within 3 months. Took all my PTO and on the day I came back. I quit 2 hours into the day leaving him high and dry at a peak time. To heck with that dude.

Kilen13

I got a summer job in a downtown (scuzzy part of the city) retail store. I was repainting the wooden fence around the parking lot. The fence wood was a pattern so on an angle you could see through it. 

I was painting one side and a guy walked up on the other side and started pissing on the other side. A stream of piss was almost on my head. I yelled and said get the hell out of here. He continued to piss and then dropped to a squat for a #2. I got up. I picked up the paintbrush and paint. I went inside for a break. 

The boss said, “What are you doing? The fence is not done.” I replied, “You don't pay me enough to get pissed on.”

[deleted]

I worked in a Greek restaurant. Owners spoke very little English. Once I was making that tzatziki and the owner started talking to his wife behind me in Greek. Then his daughter joined in. Eventually, the owner got my attention and started off talking to me in Greek with his daughter translating.

It gradually went from talking to yelling. Both of them. One in Greek, the other in English about how I’m messing up the tzatziki. This went on for about 5 minutes.

I’m just standing there listening to this. I was not able to get a word in until I just snapped, “SHUT UP!” They surprisingly stopped. Looking at me like I just ended their goldfish. “Yeah. I quit.” And I just walked out.

The chef followed. We went to a local bar and drank and talked about how freaking nuts they were.

Ronark91

I had a minimum wage job at a cheesesteak restaurant in a strip mall while I was trying to stack cash before a vacation.

I cooked for 2 days while Stavros screamed at me for taking too long, using too much meat, and not letting the steam cook the skin off my arms. He felt no pain and would demonstrate how little scorched human skin hurt him, so naturally, I should also have that level of pain tolerance for being burned.

I endured this until the 3rd day. He handed me a shovel when I clocked in and told me to "clean up the dumpster.” It was CRAWLING with maggots to the point where the whole pile of filth lying around the outside of the dumpster just wriggled and crawled like one giant organism. 

I walked back in and handed him the shovel, told him I wasn't going to do that. He flipped and yelled A LOT but that was a hard pass for me. I apologized to the other crew working that day and bounced.

I've since wondered how much money it would take before I would have dug in and handled the mess. Maybe $500 in cash, under the table? Probably $1,000 before I would do it happily. $5.15/hour, $4.25/hour, or $3.85/hour in 1998 dollars was not getting it done though.

Darth_Corleone

I started dating a guy that one of my coworkers liked. He was a regular customer. My coworker started doing things like spitting in his food, telling my boss I wasn't working, writing her name on the checklist of our site work, and acting like she did everything and I did nothing.

Then she stole $100 from my drawer and the boss wanted me to pay for it, but didn't believe me because she was friends with the girl. I walked out on the spot. A couple of months later they caught her stealing again on camera and fired her.

Also, the guy is my husband now.

Nukagirl

I worked at a movie theater for about 2 years when this famous movie came out, which was hectic enough because of the load of customers. But we also have to work holidays there. 

So, I was working on Christmas day, when I was informed via radio that one of the theaters had a mess to be cleaned. When I arrived I found a pile of a grown man's crap on the ground. I put down my broom and walked out. I never even told them why I left, I didn't feel like I needed to justify that.

Grugger2

I was working at a restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I found a better job that gave me hours and went in to put my two-week notice (was more like a week or a few days due to the timing of the new gig) out of courtesy. 

Then, I got a lecture about how I could never come back to the company since it wasn't a full two weeks. I then suggested politely "That's great, let's say today is my last day then."

It was such a relief.

FlammusNonTimmus

I had a manager who was just trying too hard. Our team meetings were just yelling sessions because we did not work as fast as she expected. She would commit 2 days to the client for something that would take 3 weeks. She got her comeuppance when more than half the team quit within a month of each other.

I gave her 15 days notice. She told me I should stay for longer else, she'll make sure I'll never be able to work for the company again. I was willing to sit with her and help her with the tasks handover in the 15 days, but once she threatened me I told her I was not staying longer and enjoyed my 15-day notice.

Introduce_URself

I went in to give my two weeks and even offered to work on my days off since I would be switching to retail and would have two weekdays off. The director spent time telling me how useless retail jobs were, that it was a bad career move etc. I worked at a daycare. 

I informed her most of my friends were in retail (my best friend was a manager who made more than any of the teachers there). She tried to backtrack. I said goodbye and left at my lunch once my relief came and I wrote out detailed notes on each child's schedule/likes etc. I became assistant manager of the store and got benefits and better pay starting the next day.

fliffernim

I worked at a big box office store, on my first week I got held up by a train and was 5 minutes late. By the time I had gotten there, the manager had blown up my phone (15 calls), but since it was winter and I had a big wool coat on plus a sweatshirt, I didn’t feel my phone go off. 

I got a lecture when I walked in and he kept looking at me all morning like I had ended his pet. About two hours later, I got called into the office for a write-up. I went in and was very calm about the whole thing, he kept saying I should show more remorse, I told him if 5 minutes was getting me a write-up and a lecture, plus being told, I don’t care since I’m not remorseful enough he could keep the job.

Indy_Photographer

I used to work for a big blue home improvement store in the paint department. Not the worst job in the world, but management was awful. I just so happened to be getting married later in the year, so about 6 months beforehand I put in my request for leave per the store manager's instructions. I got no response from them then, and just figured it would be fine right? 

It came down to about a week before I was supposed to be married and go on my honeymoon, and I went to double-check that my leave had been approved. I was told that it hadn't been approved and that I was scheduled to work most days that I had requested off. I begged my case that I had put in my request for leave and followed all the proper channels, and was informed that they couldn't give me the time off because the manager of my department had requested off and it goes by seniority. 

I asked what would happen if I didn't show up, since I would be out of the country for my honeymoon, and was told that I would be fired and blacklisted from ever working for the company again. I told them I'd save them the trouble, and walked out right then and there.

Forithan

I worked nights (10 pm - 6 am) at a British supermarket while I had some time off from university a few years back. I’d been there for 2 and a half months and was just about to finish my probation period when I got pulled into a meeting and was told that my probation period had been extended by 6 months because of 2 unauthorized absences, one was through illness and the other was because I was in a car crash 3 hours before my shift started. I was annoyed but I let that slide. 

The next night, the 29th of December, I went in as normal and around 3 am I was cornered by my section leader who told me that I had to work 2 pm-10 pm on New Year’s Eve. This fell on a Saturday which I wasn’t contracted to work, and I was already working until 6 am on the 31st. 

The section leader said that this was non-negotiable after I told him that I hadn’t been informed that I was required to work NYE before that conversation and that I’d already made plans. I finished my shift and just didn’t show up for my shift the next night and refused to answer their calls.

Tonybrazier699

I got a write-up for cussing to the air when everyone else did it regularly (the supervisor was just mad that the inventory part of my job got him caught doing horrible things) and when I called HR I was told the only reason I still have a job is because my parents work there and anyone can do my job. So I told her I guess you guys don't need me then. I packed up my stuff and left.

A few months later I caught up with a few former co-workers and, the company lost two huge contracts because the inventory department couldn't keep up, had to hire 3 people to cover what I did in 30 hours a week, and the supervisor was fired after he was caught stealing a large amount of product (entire pallets at a time).

CaffineFuledGamer

I was in college with an evening part-time job at a grocery store. Had what you would call an internship lined up that I was planning on doing simultaneously with the job and school. My typical job for an evening would be to keep shelves stocked and make sure the back room was ready for a truck delivery of groceries, which would arrive during the night shift. 

One evening I was told by my very incompetent manager that there was no truck scheduled to arrive that night after I had expressed concern about a back room that was getting ridiculously full of stock. Well, go figure, not only one but two trucks showed up almost simultaneously during my shift. 

One frozen foods truck and one dry groceries truck. There was nowhere to put anything. I started unloading the trucks and had to put a pallet of ice cream outside of the freezer. I left right then, trucks half emptied, and never went back to that store, even as a customer. Guessing that pallet of ice cream was ruined.

It all worked out though because my internship offered me a better, paid position pretty soon after I started.

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I was interviewing for a manager's job and got it. A woman was interviewing for the same job and she was hired as an assistant manager under me. She didn't like me. She was constantly trying to undermine me and I was planning on having her moved to another location or just firing her.

My VP then hired her husband as my district manager. After about a month of constant backstabbing, I was at a manager's meeting. Both the VP, the husband/district manager, and about a dozen location managers were all there. 

The district manager starts to lay into me while I'm the guy with the best numbers in the bunch. I stood up and told the VP I couldn't believe how he would make a hiring decision like he did with the husband which was so stupid and unethical. I told the husband/district manager that he was an idiot and walked out of the room.

The location I managed closed about a year later and while I was happy that the wife/husband team couldn't achieve the success I did there, I felt bad for the employees there. They were good, hard-working people who were suddenly out of a job because of circumstances they had no control over. And it didn't have to be that way.

CJ74U2NV

I was currently in the military. I was back and forth about re-enlisting for another 4 years (have done 9 to this point). I have a 3-year-old daughter at home who I haven’t seen in almost 2 years for more than 3 weeks. 

I was talking to an Officer in my chain of command when I told him my thoughts. I had just received orders to remain overseas for an additional 2 years. His exact words were "You've already missed 2 years of her life you can afford to lose 2 more." I went to my Command Career Counselor office that day and signed my intention to Separate.

Srekalz

I worked in a restaurant (which, because of the earthquake has limited job opportunities outside of construction) the owner wanted us to arrive a half hour before shift in uniform and work until our assigned time and then clock in. 

It was a split shift, she wanted us to do the same for the second half of the shift. At the end of the day, she gave us until 10 to clean and finish and signed us out at 10 before she left. We got dockets in the past 10:30. 

The next morning I was there 30 minutes before my shift and the head chef came bolting in the door. He asked them if the owner was there yet. I was like no. He was relieved that she wouldn't know. 30 minutes later I see him clock in.

I was like heck with this noise and went to her mid-shift and said I quit. She was surprised and surprisingly upset. I explained I'm not working two hours for free every day. She said that she knew for a fact that the doors were locked at 10 the night before. So I should her the receipt of five dockets that came in between 10 and 11.

She said she was surprised and asked me to stay, I said it hadn't worked out, and in fairness to her, she paid me for the full day, and the day before including the two hours, and said she isn't here to rip anyone off. But the problem was I think nobody stood up to her, with very few restaurants I reckon the staff just put u with it and accepted it.

Doogie34

I was doing some side work on a farm where we would be bailing Hay. which is notoriously hot and miserable work. 

I inquired to the farmer I was working for about when I could expect to be paid for the hours I had already "about 40 hours already that week.” That's when he broke the news to me, "Well, I usually pay all of my help at the end of the season." The end of the season was about three months away, and I have bills to pay unlike most of the high school kids that were working on this farm with me. 

I then requested that I be paid bi-weekly at the very least or I would no longer be able to work for him. He said that he was not willing to do this, so I said okay then I will require my pay by the end of the day and that I will not be returning tomorrow. 

I felt bad leaving him high and dry for the rest of the week but how does he expect an adult with bills to pay to work for months on the promise that I would eventually be paid?

Mattryser99

I was working 10-12 hours a day at a startup where my official work hours were 10 am to 7 pm. One fine Friday, I finished what I was doing and shut down my system all ready to go home at 6:45 pm, and was told that I could not leave because my work hours were 10-7 and I should go back at the start at the blank screen for 15 more minutes. 

I started going in at 10 and leaving at 7 every day even if it was release day or the production servers were down. Took me some time to get out of there due to adult life problems but that was the day I unofficially quit.

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I was working in a fast-food restaurant where 3 people were working. In the middle of the kitchen floor, as in sitting on the floor of the tiny kitchen, was the 55-year-old owner, playing a mobile game at full volume. He doesn’t care even if the kitchen is too busy.

This went on for 30 minutes while everyone was running around him. At the end of the shift, the tip jar mysteriously was empty. Those 3 didn't come back the next day

Skillshy

So I was a manager, and the company I worked for was awful about raises. I made it my mission to get my staff fair raises each year. The first year, I took a hit on my raise so my staff could get fair raises. 

I found out that instead of the 3% ownership agreed to, they only got 1%. The second year, I went full force and asked for a raise to compensate for the previous year and also fair for the current year along with the same for my staff.

The ownership reluctantly agreed. We had increased overall revenue by a whopping 24%, the best the company had ever seen. I let each of my team know what their raise would be in their performance review.

The ownership then went behind my back and told each member of my staff that I lied to them that they never agreed to it and that on top of not giving them a fair and well-deserved raise, they were removing all bonuses.

I told the owner to apologize to my staff and accepted a position with a huge raise, a great bonus package, and wonderful benefits. I left them behind, and last I heard they were suffering badly. Hemorrhaging accounts that I worked hard on, serve them right.

Panicoohno

When I was a student working as a pizza delivery driver, we had this dumb policy where they picked one driver a night to do all the dishes. You're told to "do them in between deliveries" but that's impossible when you're constantly getting orders. 

Others were supposed to help out throughout the night, but of course, nobody did. I was left with about 3 hours of washing dishes at around 1 am. I had two finals the next day and was going through really bad family problems at the time.

I got so frustrated that I just walked out, drove home, and had an absolute mental breakdown due to all the stress that had been piling up. I didn't say a word to anybody and I never went back. 

To this day I feel awful I left the manager with all that work to do, though she was kind of a douche anyways. Still, feel ashamed that I just walked away from hard work rather than deal with it.

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I worked on a cruise ship and dragged myself every day to make sure my section was running smoothly. I had been gone for 3 months after the birth of my son and when I returned we had a new supervisor. 

He took me aside 2 months later and told me I wasn't doing a very good job. We worked totally different shifts and never really saw each other. I had enough stress in my life being away from my family and went straight to our HR department and put in my 2 weeks.

SarcasticGamer