“Goodbye”: 36 People Who Woke Up, Chose Violence And Quit Their Jobs In Dramatic Fashion

Not me but I once worked for a company in the UK that handles cleaning contracts (among other things). A guy that worked in the same division as I did was being forced to work more hours than was legal and when he told management that he wasn't willing to work more hours they basically said do it or you can find another job. This was a common occurrence at this particularly bad company and also the same reason I quit myself shortly thereafter. They have a very high staff turnover for this reason.

This particular branch of the company was based in Leeds in West Yorkshire and he was down near London with a company van carrying out a cleaning contract at a bank. After having this discussion with them he told them on the phone that they can shove their job then, and he was quitting on the spot. He then told them that as he's no longer an employee effective immediately, he won't be driving their van back to base and they can send someone on the 5 hour drive to London to pick up their van and drive it for another 5 hours back to base because he will be taking the train home.

I quit the following month, though I did return their van to them. I was on my way to a contract when they told me I would be working late yet again, despite already being over my agreed upon working hours for the week, so I turned the van around and drove back to base, parked it, went into the office, dropped the keys with the receptionist and told them that they would need to find someone else to cover the rest of my days contracts because I quit.

A cash job that said they couldn’t pay me until the seasonal good times. The seasonal good times came, and they still didn’t pay me.

I was trying hard to get out of the restaurant industry to find a full time job with benefits. Scored a leasing manager role at an apartment complex 10 mins from my house. Score no more driving in downtown traffic.

Red flags right away.

The property manager training me talked how she was so glad to have someone because she was going on vacation in three weeks.

The owners didn't like computer technology. So lots of paperwork and faxing.

She barely trained me and then lost it when I made my first mistake.

How she talked about renters was incredibly rude and made their practices look very shady.

I can't remember if I lasted 2 or 3 days. I do remember sitting in a lounge space by myself eating lunch and crying.

Mind you she keeps talking about her vacation and how I will be in charge...even though she is barely training me on their systems.

The next morning I walked straight to her desk and slid over my employee id badge. I looked at her and said I don't think we will get along. I'm done.

I still had restaurant shifts left. I went back to my manager and asked for my shifts back. They were so happy I returned. I stayed for quite a while. I haven't worked there in over ten years but I still go back to see my friends still working there.

I did not give a darn that I ruined that person's vacation.

A coworker was watching my screen and reporting what I was doing to the higher ups. Not sure if she went to the boss first or the boss asked her to do it. I was looking for a new job anyway but the fact that the person hired at the same time in the same position as me was being a weasel made me quit on the spot when the boss called me into her office to talk about my performance. It was also insulting because the weasel barely knew how to use a computer so I had to teach her everything. I was fast at my work and finished my tasks early, but I was supposed to find something productive to do with my remaining time.

So glad I quit.

I work in a labor union, and have been a union officer for almost 15 years. I've lost count of the number of times I've quit or been let go

it basically goes like this, if you don't treat me as a human of equal value, I walk. I'm very good at what I do, and people love working with me. those are both beside the point.

Nearly fell. Maybe not to my death, maybe just to being impaled on sharp metal.

But I was a teenager working for a temp agency dismantling a Child World (used to be a huge toy store back in the day). They had me on a 20 foot tall scaffold cutting down the suspended ceiling. So metal slats with disgustingly dirty foam tiles between. The debris would fall in a pile around the scaffold until I could reach no more, and then I'd climb down and we'd move the scaffold.

Except the boss (really, the boss' son) was tooting around on a 'bobcat' motorized plow/loader thingy and scooping up all the debris. He didn't give a darn and would slam it into the scaffold while I'm leaning over the edge 20 feet up. After the second time I yelled at him to be careful. He laughed at me and did it again a bit later so I threw my bolt cutters at him. Sadly, they bounced off the roof of the bobcat.

I worked at a paint store part time, all I had to do was stock stuff in the back. it's was great, I could turn my brain off and vibe for 4-5 hours twice a week and get paid. we got a new GM in our store and she changed the dress code one day that I wasn't there. I learned about the change when I got in that day. the new dress code was all black shoes were required(keep in mind this is a paint shop). I had all black shoes but in my time there I had gotten a small splash of paint on the toe of one of my shoes. I wore those shoes for months with the old GM. well on this day I roll in unaware of the dress code change and start stocking stuff in the back. the new GM rolls thru probably 2 hours after I got there and immediately comments on my shoes. like ok yeah I just learned about the dress code change, I'll make sure to change em for tomorrow. that wasn't good enough and she sent me home to change my shoes right then and there. I left and started driving home but as i was sitting there in traffic that whole interaction kept repeating and I was absolutely pissed. I turned around and drove back, went to the stocking area and grabbed my speaker, phone charger, and then wiped my name off the schedule. the only thing I said to her was "bye J, it was a pleasure working for you". as I started driving off the assistant manager ran out like where are you going. I told here my hand has been forced and I hoped her the best. two days later the gm called me asking where I was an I told her to frick off and never call me again.


this was in 2018ish, I just got my final paycheck from them like last year when I checked for unclaimed property.

Bullying in nursing is real. We had low census in the ED. I was preparing for my grandmother's celebration of life that was 2 days from then. I was overnights. I'd asked to be first in line to be cut early. She looked at me like a grew a third eye. at 2 am, I saw another nurse walk about because he was cut early. I gave notice immediately.

We had a DB guy who was a bit of an arrogant jerk at the job (nice guy outside of it weirdly enough!) and I told him off for something he was demanding another team do. I had already told my boss I was leaving but for some reason I thought I should give lengthy notice of a month (mostly bc I was going on vacation before starting a new job).

My boss pulled me into a conf room and said he didn't disagree with me but he couldn't have me doing that, so they were just going to pay me out that month. 😂 I was so happy to leave, and I got a bit of overlap pay as a result.

I didn't quit completely, but still relevant story.

Small company, one warehouse guy. He got fired, and I volunteered to keep the warehouse running while we looked for a replacement. Started coming in 2 hours early every day to do the warehouse stuff, then bounced over to my normal job, while still popping into the warehouse to handle deliveries, pickups, etc. After 2 weeks, boss calls me in, says I can't come in early anymore bc the OT is too much. I said, cool, I'm not doing it then, and didn't step foot in the warehouse for 2 days. Things quickly fell apart, and on day 3, I got the overtime back until we hired someone with no more complaints from management.

Engineer where I worked previously walked out of a meeting with the public works director. Raised voices but no screaming. Grabbed his keys and said he was going to lunch. Never came back.

Having had my own meetings with the same director, can't say I blame him. I gave two week notice when I left, though.

Refused to honor my schedule request for that week of finals. Then put me on “probation” and said I was losing my team leader position for griping about it.

Turned in my uniform the next day.

It was a beautiful day. By 11:55, I had zero tables. I asked the manager to cut me loose since I was going to make about $20 and I had a ragtop just itching to take me on a ride. She said if I wasn’t seated by noon, I could go. I got seated at 11:58ish and asked another server to take it. They were happy to. The manager was not and dug in. I said, loudly, I quit and walked out, lobbing my apron high in the air. F you Karen (she was Karen before Karens existed).

Worked for a gutter cleaning contractor. They employed a Mexican couple that were their most reliable and hardest workers. For a couple days, they didn’t show up and didn’t call, didn’t communicate. Boss said some racist stuff about them when it happened, and then her mother who visited the office on a weekly basis (it was a VERY small family business) backed it up.

Understandable to be upset about no call/no show, absolutely not an excuse to be racist or otherwise hateful. There was a lot more that happened before that that had made me lose any respect I had for my boss, but that was the final nail in the coffin. Packed my stuff and walked out.

Being lied to about something significant that affected me directly.  In both cases it wasn't the last straw; it was the first and only.

I explained to my boss on multiple occasions that i was not a water bender. i can not move water with my mind. That i use a pressure washer for my job, so if it (water) bounces around and gets on the floor, then I'm sorry, but that is NOT my fault! Once it leaves the hose, it is outside of my control.

And then after an unrelated heated debate (He took my job away from me and was doing a worse job at it. I basically said "Let me do my job, or let me go home") he tried to use "You always get water on the floor!" as some kind of "Gatcha" thing to say why he needed to prevent me from doing my own job.

My last words to him were "I. CAN. NOT. MOVE. WATER. WITH. MY. MIND! I AM A HUMAN BEING! I'M SORRY!" before storming out.

Walked in the next morning with a letter for the management explaining the situation in my own words. Basically saying "Stop taking my job away from me. Let me do my job, or i quit."

They chose to let me go.