“Time To Go!”: Chronicles of Craziest Quitting And Firing Moments

Landing a job is one of the most essential things a person must accomplish. Living is expensive, and business is not for everyone. Because of that, people prefer to work in the corporate world. With that, being peaceful and comfortable inside the workplace is also important.

However, that is not the case for some people. They tend to do something to get fired or quit the job in the most magnificent way. Well, here are some of those!

1. Got There First

Many years ago, an architect in my firm hooked up with a secretary after a party. One thing leads to another, and they end up making out on the main conference table in the center of the office in the middle of the night.

The next day, the architect is confronted by the head of security, who has CCTV footage of the event, which he threatened to reveal to the firm leadership.

Instead of being blackmailed, the architect went directly to the leadership himself. The head of security was fired immediately.

Brit-Yank

The boss goes into the office of one of my dad's co-workers to discuss some kind of technical issue. They disagree about the proper corrective measure, it escalates into a screaming match, and the boss fires the co-worker on the spot. Tells him to take his things and get the heck out.

The co-worker comes back the next morning, just like nothing happened. Nobody's really sure what's going on, and since the boss had to go out of town for a meeting, they can't get ahold of him to ask.

He doesn't seem to be causing any problems, though, so they just kind of do their thing and leave him alone. The co-worker keeps coming in and doing work, and a couple of days later, the boss walks past his door and does a double-take.

"Co-worker, didn't I fire you?" Without looking up from his desk, the co-worker replies, "You can't fire me - I have too much work to do."

The boss thinks about that for a minute, shrugs, and walks off. The dude kept working there for another couple of years after that.

The_Year_of_Glad

I was buying a car, and one of the salesmen at the dealer was arguing with the manager over $50. All glass walls in this place, so I can see everything.

The guy walks into the manager's office and slams his fists down on the manager's glass desk, shattering it into a million bits. Computers, phones, and paperwork all go flying.

Without so much as a flinch while the whole thing happened, the manager, still sitting where his desk used to be, calmly said, "Get out. Do not come back."

Being the only customer there at the time, the manager then apologized for what I'd witnessed and said he'd knock $2500 off whatever price I'd already haggled my own salesman down to if I continued my business with them. Ended up with a nice car for a good price.

zeeker1985

Big box retail electronics store. All hands were meeting, so probably 60-ish employees. Management fired a guy right before the meeting.

Seems like a dumb decision, and before he walked out, he stood up in front of the crowd and said, "Well, I'm going to miss you all. These idiots fired me because they think I've been stealing stuff, and well, I haven't!"  

Right then, an iPod touch came tumbling out of his hoodie's pocket and hit the floor. Sealed in a box with the company's inventory and antitheft stickers still on it.

fanta_is_nazi_soda

She screamed at me in front of customers, calling me a "n-word witch" (…I'm white…) for moving some things on the store shelves. She had blackmail material on the head manager, so she didn't get fired for her 10-minute screaming fit.

But then! Months later, I was quitting to go to college. Everyone was tearfully hugging me goodbye, and the manager on duty was remarking how they'd miss me and all that good stuff.

Her eyes practically turned green. She was so envious of all the attention. She hated it when the focus wasn't on her. So she loudly announced, "Yeah, I'm quitting too. This place just isn't right for me."

The manager on duty got this big Cheshire cat grin on his face and said, "Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Let's get you started on the paperwork right now."

She shamefacedly followed him into the office and actually signed the paperwork to quit. They did not rehire her. Karma?

Hereibe

I worked at a company that was going through layoffs. I was in HR, sitting next to the girl who checked the anonymous HR tip line (3rd party company that employees could call without being identified to report HR issues)

Turns out a manager had been feeling down about the layoffs and decided his team needed a morale boost. He piled them all in a company van and took them to a strip club, including two women.

The women said they were uncomfortable and wanted to leave. He said, "Find your own ride home." The seminar we had about these things certainly did not matter to him.

WaffleFoxes

Back when I got my first FT job as a developer, I was with a start-up that I'm sure nobody will really know even five years later.

They had one Web Developer at the time, and I was brought on with a few other people to round out the team, making us four people strong. What we were working on was an LMS.

We had one woman there who would be in and out of the office and have the door closed a lot of the time if she was even in. We did not mind that at all.  

She was generally nice if we did pass by, but if she needed something, she was always very specific about it. Turned out she was leaking company data and proprietary info to a key competitor and was fired on the spot.

PAFaieta

I was an assistant manager for a well-known food chain way back in the day. Had a drive-thru customer come inside, furious because instead of a Filet-O-Fish in her packaging, there was a nasty, dirty grill towel.

The store manager happened to be there that day and handled this customer. She asked the people working in the grill area, "Who did this?" and this one guy proudly took credit for it.

She was in the process of telling him he was fired when he just yelled out, "I Quit!" and marched out with a big old smile on his face. Also, when I ended up quitting, I was the 1st assistant manager and pretty much ran the store.

We had just had an evaluation done on our store, and the manager was not happy with the grade, so he took it out on me. Even though the grade was crap, they give you three reviews, and the first one is always bad.

Anyway, I got sick of him chewing me, so I told him I would quit right now. He just said, "Whatever..." so I did. I handed him my keys and walked out.

To show just how out of touch with his job he was, I was scheduled to open the next day. Nobody ever covered that shift. He didn’t bother to check.

So when he pulled up to work at 9 am, all the opening crew was across the street at a donut shop. It's a pretty big offense not to open that store (especially a corporate one) on time.

ST1300rdr

When I was in high school, I worked at a local coffee shop. One night, when I was going through the necessary closing procedures.

I returned to the kitchen area to bring the dishes to the back, only to find my very peculiar coworker stark naked and climbing into one of the giant sinks.

If it wasn't alarming in itself, he stood up when he saw me come in to show me that he had "hilariously" put one of the leftover bagels on his private part.

It was pretty weird, and I remember being speechless and just walking away. I finished my nightly tasks, called my boss up, told her, and just left. The next day, I heard he had been fired.

zombreness

We had a guy work with us for about a year. It was his first job out of college. When his contract ended, he sent a pretty standard goodbye email.

It was something like, “It was nice working with all of you. Here is my personal email, blah blah blah.” Except he sent it to everyone in the entire 20k+ employee company.

We assumed it was some stupid accident, but apparently, he did it on purpose, thinking it was standard protocol to email the CEO and everyone else to say goodbye.

anormalgeek

Had a co-worker who was into arm wrestling. We're talking arm wrestling competitions and everything. He would take anybody on and almost always won. Most people just stayed pretty far away from him.

He's pretty nuts. The cleaning crew didn't know how nuts he was, as they only came in at night shortly before the regular employees left.

Our arm wrestling buddy was working one night when the cleaning crew arrived. I was on the sales floor by myself. The store is quiet.  

All of a sudden, there is an audible POP that comes from the backroom, and seconds later, one of the cleaning crew comes running onto the floor, crying and clutching his dislocated elbow.

My wrestling buddy comes out a second later. "I feel bad for the guy, but he had terrible form." Never saw him again.

antoniusmilo

A woman started insisting that we were all sneaking up on her, so she bought a mirror and taped it to her monitor. Then another and another.

Then, every time someone walked by her cubicle and she noticed, she would yell, "YOU SCARED ME!" All of this was mostly ignored. She was getting her work done, I guess.

One fateful day, she slapped and pulled the hair of one of the cafeteria workers because she was certain that the cafeteria worker was poisoning her soup.  

She was escorted off of the premises by a police officer, and we never heard from her again. What a weird lady. She thinks too much, I guess.

Onid8870

When I was in college, I worked dorm security over the summer. A guy who had just graduated and had been a senior RA in the building was working staff with us, too.

He knew where an unused, unlocked closet was and decided to secretly move in over the summer. Most of us on staff knew about it but didn't tell our boss.

As it turns out, he was doing more than that. He also stole a meal card for the dorm cafeteria that was intended for use by kids at summer campers, and he and a couple of other people on staff were using it.  

They got caught and all banned from the building. Not coincidentally, there were a lot more hours available for those of us who were still there.

AcrossTheNight

After high school, I worked at a well-known supermarket, unloading trucks for a summer. Two of my coworkers, let's call them Paul and Henry, completely hated each other and were constantly berating one another.

One day, Paul lost his mind and started punching Henry, and an all-out brawl occurred for a few minutes before managers broke it up.  

My other coworkers and I told the management that Paul started it, and he agreed. Thirty minutes later, Henry got fired for being slow at his job.

[deleted]

Worked at a well-known food chain this past summer. The manager and assistant manager were both two-faced and liked to gossip, spread rumors of different employees' sexual orientation, and change hours on the schedule at the last minute unannounced - generally, they were just terrible.

Fast forward a few months. Corporate had sent in an undercover employee to spy on the Manager. She was reported and promptly fired.

Kinda mild, but anyone who knew how bad she was elated. AM quit earlier on because the Manager took her full-time hours away for calling in sick on a Friday.

Bonus: The manager wasn't even technically employed - her husband was the one on the papers working there but didn't want to work the opening shift, so he sent his wife instead.

DaxEPants

I worked for a psycho lady who fired a woman while the woman was on vacation by certified letter. The only problem was the woman's apartment office signed for the letter and wasn't open on the Sunday that she returned from vacation.

The woman came into work that Monday, having no clue why everyone was looking at her so oddly. She was refired that afternoon.  

The same psycho boss promoted a guy into management on Monday afternoon, then fired him Tuesday morning. What a crazy management.

MsPersona

I saw a post in my Facebook feed. The poster was not a friend of mine, but one of my Facebook friends had left a comment, so it showed up on my feed.

The original poster shared a picture of some flowers she had received, along with a note from a suitor asking her to dinner.

The photo included the guy's name and phone number. Apparently, she was in HR, and a recent applicant was the one who left the note/flowers.

She posted a comment with the picture, something to the effect of, "Yeah, right, like I would go out with this guy...and he has a criminal record!". Many "haha, OMG, what a loser!" comments were visible from her friends.

I texted the guy that there was a pic about him on FB, and he might want to check it out. After a couple of "who the heck is this" texts, I sent him a screenshot of the post (with my info blacked out).

He brought it to the head of HR at the company. She got fired. He got the job he was applying for. You think that would be taught in HR 101, but I guess people are still idiots.

birdonfly

When I was in the Army, we had a guy tell the predeployment psychiatrist that he saw a ghost in the shower. He didn't deploy.

He then proceeded to get drunk every day while on restriction (confined) in the barracks.

One day, he was walking around in the middle of the work day, only wearing a partial uniform and drinking beer, when his 1st Sergeant spotted him.

His 1st Sergeant got in his face and started yelling at him drill sergeant style. 1st Sergeant was so pissed and so close to his face that he didn't realize the guy unzipped his fly. He proceeded to piss on his 1st Sergeant. He got kicked out for being crazy.

Kilt_

I was a mid-level developer in a smallish team back in the late '90s. We hired a guy based on his CV and a phone interview (bad idea), and from the get-go, he was weird.

A few weeks after he started, he claimed he'd found so many major bugs in my code and would reveal all to the managers when he'd fully investigated.

Fine, I said — if there are problems, let's fix them. His claims vanished pretty quickly after that. He started getting really, really paranoid about his work.

He wouldn't allow anyone to see it, deleting the C$ administrative share that Windows liked to create at the time, etc. It came to a head when he was finally walked out of the building for non-performance.

That's not the crazy bit, though. I had a '91 Land Rover Discovery at the time and parked it in a multi-story not far from the office.

Went to go home that night, stepped out of the lift, and there was a Discovery with the rear window smashed in with a rock. Okay…

Weird — looks exactly like my car, except for the registration number. I'd got out on the wrong floor. Mine was on the floor above, just fine.

[deleted]

They started a new sales manager at the place I worked in a few years back. Guy had left another job on foot of the job offer they made him in my place.

The guy showed up at 8.30 am - I met him and said hello/welcome. At 9.00 am, the managing director turns up, sees the new guy, calls the sales director in, and tells him to fire him - immediately, which he duly does.

It turned out the MD had told the sales director not to hire anyone due to tough trading conditions, etc, and the sales director went ahead anyway.

Clown. The poor new recruit was devastated- I shook his hand and didn't know what the heck to say to him. He had a wife and kids.

I wonder how he explained that to his wife. The sales director retired a few months later after 40 years of incompetence.

Fluticus

I was working at a call center on a Canadian Tire campaign, and I worked alongside Ben, who was friends with one of my friends at the call center.

He had only been working there a few weeks (I had been there a few months, actually enjoyed the job, and did well). Ben received another job offer and decided to quit the call center the next day.

Not only did he quit, but he also terrified the entire sales floor, slandered customers on calls all day (essentially bashing the company he worked for and its customers, which is illegal), and simultaneously got me fired.

The day Ben quit, after our lunch break- he dressed up in a gorilla costume, jumped on a few desks, and screamed, "THIS JOB IS DRIVING ME BANANAS," and lumbered out of the building like a gorilla.

People were freaking terrified. They thought he was a terrorist. No one could tell who it was in the costume. Unfortunately, I was privy to his brilliant gorilla scheme, and to calm everyone down, I said, "DON'T WORRY, EVERYONE, IT WAS JUST BEN QUITTING."

In hindsight, I probably should have kept my mouth shut because I got fired immediately after for being a "liability to security" for having known Ben would do that. (he told multiple people, not just me.) So yeah, I got fired because of some jerkward.

emildee

I was working in Iraq as a contractor, and our DPM (deputy project manager) was fired after he was caught with liquor in his room while throwing a party with other managers.

He got the liquor by driving off base to the press hotel. Along with him, ten other managers and supervisors were fired. Uh-oh…

They were on the first flight out of Baghdad that morning. Didn't even get a chance to pack (their stuff was mailed to them). Eleven people lost $230k/year jobs because they wanted to drink so badly.

[deleted]

I used to work for a huge bank that all of you have definitely heard of. Well, during some layoffs, someone no one knows takes a dump on their manager's desk.

Yes, dump on his desk. During the next round of layoffs (layoffs are pretty regular at banks), someone, no one knows who crapped on his desk again.

In this man's professional career, he has had his desk crapped on twice. Though I didn't know who did it either time, that's my best getting fired story.

[deleted]

In my old job, there was a guy called Jesse, and he was a miserable moody twat. Unfortunately, he also happened to be a genius with computers and all things technology.

He was the second in command. A few months after I left, I went back to visit, and someone told me Jesse had been sacked. "Why?" I asked. "For being a witch." "Don't think you can be fired for 'being a witch.'"

Then I asked someone else, who also told me Jesse had been sacked for 'being a witch. I don't know if it was written into his contract that he's not allowed to be a witch, but I asked about five people, and all told me he was sacked for 'being a witch.’

[deleted]

About four years ago, I was a receptionist in a medical office. One morning, I arrived to open our urgent care center, and the MD on call wasn't there (normal, he was always late).

After an hour had passed and patients were lining up, I walked down to his office to see if he was just waiting to be called down.

He wasn't there. I went back down to urgent care and started checking people in. I heard some commotion down the hall while another MD came down to start seeing the patients that were now piling up.  

It turned out that the MD that was on call cleaned his office out and quit via letter that he slipped under his office door.

batteriesincl

There's an apocryphal story at my work where someone needed more space to do some work on the weekend, so she grabbed a table from the conference room.

Sounds innocuous. But I should mention we work with live viruses. She was doing tests with a radiolabeled virus (32P). The table, the hallway, and parts of the conference room were described to me as "hotter than hell".  

The only reason she was found out was that they had rewaxed the floors the day before, and the table she dragged left long scratch marks pointing right to the lab. She didn't last long.

unimatrix_0

The receptionist is interviewed at my job, gets hired, does a pretty good job, and is well-liked. A few months later, it came out that the person working the front desk was actually her identical twin.

Turns out the girl who applied ended up getting more than one offer, so rather than turn down the job, her unemployed identical twin just came in and did the job instead.

They only found out because she had to go by the original twin's name, and that twin updated her employment status to the OTHER job on Facebook.

They fired her, but I mean, she did a good job and was a pretty cool person, so I would have just hired her instead. What a crazy experience to witness, lol.

xmod2

I worked for a marketing agency and was training someone from one of the big banks on how to use specific software while working from home and sharing my screen with them—call finishes, and a job well done to me.

I decide to go on Fetlife (a fetish social media site). After a good 15 minutes of browsing through fetish pics and profiles on the site, I then realized on my second monitor that the conference call app was still open.

I freaked, closed it, and hoped they minimized it, but I saw nothing. The next day, I got fired and found out practically the whole office floor on their end was watching my screen share in horror.

fetishyidiot

There's something of a legend in the advertising business in Chicago about a creative director who worked at one of the really big agencies.

He got another job but decided not to tell his old agency that he was quitting. He figured the place was so bloated and poorly run that no one would notice, and he could just keep collecting paychecks.  

The way I heard it, he got paid for about six months, but when they figured it out, they ratted him out to his current employer and fired him. Don't know if it's true, but I know enough about the business to know that it easily could be.

jimmyjazz2000

I work in a mill where we make parts for cars and stuff for the mining industry mainly. We had a forklift driver who didn't really like to do his job.

One day, he decided to hollow out a space, the boxes big enough where he could lift up more boxes and back the lift in and be hidden in his makeshift box fort and take a nap.

After 4 hours of looking for him, the general manager spotted some yellow between the gaps in the boxes, and the guy was caught and fired on the spot.

schnurtheblur

We had an Iraqi IT contractor working with us for a while. He was a smart guy, very competent, and way overqualified for the role he was filling, so no one was surprised a month later when he resigned in order to accept a better-paying job elsewhere.

The same day he let the department head know and made a point of shaking everyone's hand, he tracked down a woman on another floor (also from Iraq), and in front of her entire team of co-workers, he went full retard at her.

She was a witch and the daughter of witches. Her entire family was worthless, etc., etc., etc. Reduced her to tears. Then he calmly walked out and never looked back.

Seems like his people and hers lived next to each other in the Old Country, and about 200 years ago, some crap went down that he wasn't completely finished with.

I_throw_socks_at_cat

This had been a long time coming because there was this gentleman who did things that weren't really wrong, just weird. He was writing a spy novel and sending us invitations to like its fan page.

He had a girlfriend none of us had ever met who sometimes was a celebrity figure skater, sometimes an FBI agent, sometimes a CIA agent (it's not that she was all of these things; it's that he literally would just change her occupation and no one ever called him on it).

One day, "she" friended us all on Facebook, and her pictures were all stock photos from catalogs, photographed from above. From then on, she would message us instead of him and just say, "My boyfriend says...."

The day he got fired. Apparently, one of the managers had reprimanded him for something dumb, and he was standing behind the cash register by himself.

He took one of the box cutters and started cutting shapes into the counter. Stars, words, he was just going to town defacing the company property.

So he got fired... and his girlfriend messaged all of us telling us "we didn't deserve him, he was going to Barnes and Noble."

bubblesugarsocks

Worked at a big shoe store at the mall towards the end of college. Only one guy there was older than me. He was like 25 at the time.

To this day the best salesman I've ever seen. He was just super personable, comforting, and knowledgeable to talk with.

He had several customers give them their cards to apply for positions with their companies. Just a really rare guy. Anyway, I guess he was expecting a promotion.

One day, we got a phone call, and the manager gave him the phone at the desk in the middle of the store. I guess it was corporate telling him that someone else got the promotion.

Really calm. He was like, "Ok... Yeah... ok..." Then he hung up the phone, removed his work shirt, and walked out of the store shirtless without saying anything. Never saw or heard from him again. Godspeed, Jason.

[deleted]

The guy in his 40s had been working here for 15 years and was sick and tired of the way things were going. He quit in August and didn't even have a job lined up.

He just wanted the fudge out. Spends a whole month doing whatever the heck he wants. Then, in late September, while riding his bike, he gets hit by a car, spends a week in a coma, and then dies.

I guess you could say at least he wasn't working at a place he hated before he died and got a good month out of it. But darn it.

I can't imagine just being like, "I finally got out. I'm gonna turn my life around and get a job I want!" And then you die unexpectedly.

ceedubs2

We had one guy who seemed to get into these disputes quite often. He was originally going to be fired but managed to negotiate staying for a lower salary.

He then went home and told his wife, who convinced him to quit and travel back to their hometown. He came back to the office the next day to quit and get his amenities.

He was told he didn't qualify for anything since he was a 'new employee.' He went crazy and threw a punch at the HR guy, but another dude pulled him away before it landed. It all happened in the reception area in clear view of everyone.

t4coffee

The Titanic museum exhibit travels with a large "iceberg" made using some mechanical wizardry. He was one of the techs who took care of the place.

Something led to something, and as he closed up for the night, he disabled the iceberg, causing it to melt and flooding the whole museum with several inches of water.

They say he was already back home in Australia by the time they opened the next morning. That was a huge surprise. Well, that was wild, man.

TimeSlipperWHOOPS

I was 16, and my first Summer job was at a trash/recycling company. One guy in particular had apparently gotten a much better job offer at another company.

On his (unknown to everyone) last day, he decided to complete his entire route, filling his truck with trash, and instead of taking it to the dump before returning to the yard, he decided to skip that step altogether.

He pulled his truck up to the middle of the company parking lot in front of the entrance, dumped his entire load of trash, hopped in his car, and drove away without saying anything to anyone.

Machiavelli920

A woman I know called into work because she had the "flu." Her boss excused her and worked her shift that night. Not that sketchy.

When the boss got home that night, she checked Facebook and saw the night before, and her employee had been drinking it up at the local bar.

She called the employee the next day to come in but couldn't because she was still "sick." So when the employee finally did show up, she was obviously very hungover(being on a drinking binge for two days), and they sacked her.  

They showed her two days' worth of Facebook pictures for drinking, etc. One should not add their boss on Facebook. What a karma.

[deleted]

The Dallas office is a well-established company with a new CEO. CEO writes an all-company email with some sort of harmless “inspirational” message about how we are going to crush it and do well, blah, blah, blah. Nothing to get worked up about.

A woman in accounting who was mild-mannered and a hardcore Christian Texas lady does a reply-all that says something like: “Like we believe a word that pompous jerkward has to say.”

She had been with the company for 15 years and came in super early to do the books, so it had already happened by the time most people got to work.

But people there at the time said that her reply all went out. She made a loud (for her) squeak when she realized her mistake.

She calmly got an empty box from the mailroom, packed up her desk, walked out to her car without saying a word to anyone, and drove away. She was never seen again.

Makerbot2000

I went into a taco store and ordered a super burrito with no tomatoes or black olives to go. They weren't super busy, but there were a couple of orders ahead of mine.

So I'm standing near the counter watching them put items together, and I see that they have started on my burrito. The cook loads it up with everything and wraps it up.

He has it in his right hand and reaches up with his left to clear out the order on the monitor. He stops for a moment when he realizes that he messed up by putting everything on the burrito.

He is facing me, and he turns around and fires a 100 mph fast-ball burrito against the back wall. He walks into the back room, takes off his work shirt, puts on a T-shirt, grabs his smokes and his drink, and heads out the back door.  

Thirty seconds later, the girl running the drive-thru wants to know where Brian is. I pointed him out to her as, by now, he was walking across the parking lot toward downtown.

I told her that I thought Brian had given his notice. She says a few choice words and wants to know what I ordered. Way to give it the man, Brian!

LiesureSuitLarry

A co-worker of mine at a well-known food chain when I was working during college. It's the lunch shift of one of the busiest shops in the area.

The guy gets halfway through making a sandwich, looks at the customer, and then our manager says..."Til next time, bro," and just walks out.

Never came back, not even to pick up his final paycheck. When I left to go back to school, I left 100 sticky notes in random places throughout the store that said "Til Next Time."

[deleted]

Relayed to me by one of my buddies. Way back when we were still in high school, my friend's coworker was getting fed up with the supermarket they worked in.

It was a few towns over in a not-so-nice area and was right off the highway, making it super busy with many out-of-town commuters.

He was going away to college and hated management. On his last day, a woman walks up to his line and tries to browbeat him into taking a bunch of expired coupons.   

He tells her he needs to check with his supervisor and slowly pulls out a Jack in the Box from under his till, methodically places it on the scanner, and just starts cranking the thing.  

When it finally pops, he looks her in the eye and just says, "Yeah, he said no." She flipped out and screamed for a manager while he just cracked up, took off his smock, and walked out.

ProlongedSuffering

I was a janitor at an elementary school. I worked there for several years and was popular with that k-1st grade teacher. I had to move to a different shift so I could work another job.

So I swapped with another janitor that the 2nd-grade hallway teachers liked. It made them mad, I suppose, and they would file complaints about my work, and I often got called into the office.

I was doing my job, but they wanted their other guy back. They were even being rude to me to my face. After several months of this, I get called to the office.

My supervisor said, "One more incident, and I'm going to write you up." I was calm and said, "That's ok. I'd like to put my two weeks in."

He looked shocked and said, "Uh, don't you need some time to think about this?" I said, "I have. Their opinion of me isn't going to change, and I'd rather save us some time," while not that epic.

The look of "wth?" His face was priceless. It was nice being able to quit like a calm, reasonable person. In conclusion, I went back to school and got a much better job I enjoy.

jdaaawg80

I had to lay off my entire staff (and myself) with 8 hours notice. I was the contract project manager on a government project (office-type work).

At our periodic review on a Thursday, the government announced they would not renew our contract, and our last day was Friday (the next day).

I brought everyone into the conference room first thing the next day and let everyone know that we were all out of a job and that today was everyone's last day.

I had everyone email me their resumes, and we went over everyone's on the conference room projector and updated them over the course of the day.

I then printed out "reference" sheets for everyone, and we all spent the remainder of the day writing letters of recommendation for each other.

I ordered everyone pizza and bought everyone a round of drinks at the bar next door. Most folks had jobs by the end of the next week.

[deleted]

I work at a small local engineering firm owned by a husband and wife. They're fantastic bosses. A couple of years ago, we had another husband and wife couple get hired to be drafters.

They were pretty lazy employees - they spent half the day watching YouTube. That kind of stuff. After about six months, the bosses go on vacation.

The next day, the drafter couple comes in and says today's their last day. They're moving about 8 hours away, totally out of the blue. We were all like, "Uh...ok..did you talk to the bosses? Did you give any notice??"

"Oh yeah, we talked to them yesterday and gave two weeks' notice, but they said to feel free and go ahead and move so we can get our kid settled in a new school before the new year starts."  

"Alright, well, good luck." They worked maybe 3 hours but put a full day on their timecard. Then they sent out a company-wide email thanking everyone for being so nice to them while they were here, blah, blah, blah.

It was touching. The next day, the bosses called and were like, "What happened with so-and-so??" They had no clue. The email was the first they heard of it.

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