I work in recruitment. When we make a placement, we ring the bell and write it up on the whiteboard with a round of applause from the office. This guy worked and filled a job, with himself. Rang the bell, wrote up his own name and mic dropped the board marker then walked straight out into his new job

I worked at a Taco Bell and was also working another job as a bar back. The bar back job was paying me enough that I didn’t need the Taco Bell job. It was just extra money. Anyway, I previously never asked for time off at TB. I told them at least a month in advance that I needed to be off for the Super Bowl. I then reminded them every week leading up. Anyway, they put me on the schedule anyway. I told them I could not work that day and that I would not be there. They wouldn’t budge and left me on the schedule. Anyway, on the day of the game, I did not show up to work but I did go in to order food. They were like, “what are you doing? You’re supposed to be working.” I said, “I quit. Let me get a Mexican pizza combo add sour cream.” They (the manager) actually made my food and gave it to me. She was pissed though.

Coworker of mine got really pissed at work (large multi-national), went home and never returned to the office, never called, nothing. Just stopped going in to work. He expected at least a call from his manager after a couple days, but nothing. 4 months later his manager asked me if I’d seen him recently, I said nope, I thought he had quit. It was another 2 months before they finally stopped paying him. Just because I know someone will mention it, this was/is Ontario and the employer has no legal way to force you to return the money in such circumstances.

I went to tell the store manager about my two weeks notice and coincidentally he planned on letting me know that they accidentally paid me as a cashier instead of a bag boy for an entire year and they were going to start paying me the correct rate (about a dollar less) starting next pay period. I was like ok well here’s my two weeks lol bye.

like 3 months into the pandemic, a guy prob 24 looked like he was run over by a train at McDonald delivering me curb-side food, he told me it’s hell inside, and only like 3 people are working, with one manager chewing everyone out. Right as he handed me food and told me how shitty it is inside, the manager came out and was mostly cussing to he was red in the face for him to move faster. so I asked him if he wanted an easy security job at our factory for 14.00 an hour. he said ya, but he has no ride. told him to hop in and I’ll drive him, I’m heading into work now, and my boss needs another guy to work. he jumped in my car like some 90s action movie and we took off. go him hired THAT DAY, and working that night. went back to that Mcdonald’s to recruit the rest of the kids working at it and they all work security, where they mostly can sleep all they want at the post, just make sure doors are all locked at night.

8 years ago I quit during my performance review. It was awesome. I had gotten my license to be a mortgage broker while working for a large automation company for the previous 10 years. I started doing mortgages part time, and had a plan to leave after 1 year if things were going well 5 months in and I was starting to find my groove and had a really good previous month, but still didn’t have any intention on quitting. Well, during my performance review my manager told me I was doing really well, and wanted to know what my aspirations were for the next 6 months. I thought about it for a second, and then said “Well Frank, I gotta be honest; to not be here.”

He was so confused, so I told him what I was doing on the side, and he was super supportive (which surprised me). I told him I didn’t see things slowing down, and if I was doing mortgages full time, I probably could have quit already. And he said “well… why don’t you?” So I did. I thanked him for being so understanding and supportive, told him I would use my remaining vacation to cover my two weeks and emailed him my notice the next day. Shook his hand and left. I called my wife from the parking lot, shaking like a leaf, and surprisingly, she also was super supportive, even though I hadn’t run it by her. Shout out to her! Fast forward 8 years, and it was the best decision I ever made. I love helping people, I love math, and I love trying to come up with ways to pay the bank as little as possible for my clients, plus I have way more financial freedom.

In the 90s working in a warehouse with a guy that had lost his middle finger in a construction accident many years before, had a prosthetic middle finger. Our boss was a guy that would look forward to finding any reason to yell at any of my coworkers, even if it was not their job or fault. Early morning boss asks him to use the big forklift to get some stuff from high up, guy says sorry, dont have a license to use it and will not do it, will not be liable for damages and such. Cue boss going ballistic. The dude just listens for a while with a blank look on his face, then removes his prosthetic and hands it to boss, boss takes the prosthetic and asks the guy what the hell he was doing. “Im giving you the finger” and just walked out. Never saw that legend again.

I managed a sandwich shop in college for a terrible owner and was in charge of hiring. I hired this guy that was covered in tats and had gauges because he was really chill, lived within walking distance, and had experience working at a deli. Checked all boxes! You got a job. First day on the job the owner accuses him of stealing a FUCKING GATORADE! He was on lunch and had made himself a sandwich, which we were allowed to do. Owner confronts him, and he throws his sandwich on the guys shoes and walks out. He texted me later and said “y’all cool but that dude is a fucking prick. Don’t tell him but I stuck my dick in his gas tank and took piss.”

Worked for an electrical company. Family-owned. The owner’s brother was calling me an idiot all day saying I can’t do anything right. Tells me to go to Dunkin Donuts to get breakfast. He says to me “can you at least get donuts for us without fucking it up? I took his van to Dunks, bought myself a nice sausage egg and cheese, called my girlfriend to pick me up, and left his van right there. He calls me at 11 flipping out. “Where the fuck is my van? Where are you?” Told him I went and got breakfast but he never told me to come back. So I went home. Fuck entitled brothers.

I was severely underpaid and tried for two years to have constructive conversations with management about this. It wasn’t going anywhere and generally led to a lot of unhappiness from me. When I handed my 2 months notice in, I was asked ‘is there anything we can do to get you to stay’ told my manager that if he had a time machine he could go back two years and listen to me then. The company then tried to claim I was liable for a large chunk of money because they’d paid for training. It was in the thousands and they were threatening via email to take it from my next two months pay. So I verbally agreed until two weeks before leaving and then asked for proof of costs. They couldn’t provide them. In my edit interview made the HR manager write down that HR need to brush up on their training course funding rules.

I was driving to work but got stuck in traffic, I called my boss to let him know I would be late. He said fine but when I got to work he started yelling at me, saying “if you pull that shit again you’re fired.” He didn’t believe that I was stuck in traffic caused by a wreck. Coincidentally the next day, another wreck, same road, I would be late again. So I just turned around and went home. My boss called me yelling at me “where the fuck are you?” I told him I got stuck in traffic again, and well he told me that if I “pulled that shit again” I would be fired. He started saying “oh come on, I didn’t mean it! Can you please come in?” Nope, bye.

Not me but a guy I worked with in a busy kitchen. The manager was back there yelling at all the cooks for making mistakes and one guy goes “I don’t need this shit”. And just walks out during dinner

I worked at the post office in the 90s and they hired lots of temp people for the holidays. One year they scheduled all the temps to come on Christmas Day and most of them didn’t show. They were only scheduled for one more week, why would they blow their holiday?

On a slightly different note, a friend of mine (f) had a bit of a thing for her boss and kind of felt it was mutual although he never said anything or did anything to confirm it. They worked together for almost a year then he handed in his notice and the day after he’d left and had a leaving do etc he called her and asked her out. That’s classy. They’re now married.

Worked at a bowling alley. Got written up for improperly stacking garbage cans. Decided to quit and took the whole kitchen staff with me.