40 Times Employees Said ‘I’m Done’ And Left Work For Good

At last minute, owner/manager/CEO d******r revoked my Christmas leave. My wife was terminally ill, my daughter was about to move off to college, and it would be our last Christmas together, ever again. It’s the only time in my life I’ve ever said “F**k You!!” to a bosses face. .

I got a call at work from the vet saying that my senior dog, who had been acting weird and weak for the last week, was actually bleeding out internally from an aggressive cancer that had ruptured his organs. The tech read the scan that morning (scan had been done late at night the day before) and immediately called my vet because it was that urgent.

I had been at work all for an hour that day and immediately thought, "I need to go home and get him put down and spend his last hours with him."

I tried calling my boss (who was, per usual, not in the office) and she didn't answer. I left a voicemail. I then sent her a text and email explaining and left. Everyone in the office, including the office manager, was like, "OMG, just go! Be with him!"

I got a text on my drive home saying, "If you don't have any calls or meetings today, that's fine, but otherwise you need to stay to find someone to cover those for you."

I told her I had none. She then texts again, "Just so you know, you don't get paid for today since you left early.". First off, I'm salary so whatever. Secondly, that was so far on my list of concerns that I didn't give a f**k.

I arrived at my apartment and texted her from my parking lot that that's fine, this isn't working out, and we clearly have two very different communication styles which will make working together difficult in the future. She texts back immediately that my resignation is accepted immediately and she hopes I got all my stuff from my office.

I then spent the next five hours curled up on the floor with my boy while waiting for his appointment to put him down. I adopted him when he was nine and we had five great years together before he passed away.

I will never regret what I did. Hell, I had a new job the following Tuesday lined up to pay me $25k more than what my prior employer was, so it ended up better in the long run.

So, Blue, if you're out there, you're always my boy!

They tried to have me come in and run the store literally as I was coming out of anesthesia from surgery for an injury I got working there.

"Hey, I know you just had surgery and are still in post-op, I need you to close tonight. You don't have an option."

I quit and let an attorney deal with it.

Quality and Health and Safety Manager here. Managing Director asked me to falsify a First Article Inspection Report for a product going to an aerospace company. I said I would not do that. He told me I would if I wanted to continue working there. I chose not to continue working there and reported him to the relevant agencies.

I worked for a photographer, and we were on a tight deadline schedule. Most of the office had been let go for the summer, so it was just me (the head of my department), one coworker, and the owner.

I come in to discover the owner left town with his family on vacation.

I hit my breaking point.

I put my letter of resignation on his desk while he was gone. My only coworker left with me.

The owner had no idea what had happened until he returned home to the letter, undone work on the counter, and zero employees.

I got told I wouldn’t be getting a raise *because* I asked for the raise. But apparently if I hadn’t asked I would have gotten it. My boss then said I was on the “s**t list” of the higher boss (for asking) and that I wouldn’t get a raise for at least a few months.

Yeah I quit right there lol.

Head mechanic at a small but busy bicycle shop .Been there 5 years or so with no raises other then promised "soon"

Owner showed up with a nice new car and started the same old spell about there not being enough money to offer a raise of any sort . Told him to get f****d walked out and down to the main competitor down the road .

Better pay and better place to work. Once word got out I was there a lot of the cliental followed me there.

Old place was out of business in 9 mths or so .

My boss had me riding in the same vehicle as someone he knew had a high infectious illness and it was our job to go into homes of both infants and elderly people.

I was denied promotion for the third time in 4 years.
Always great performance reviews. Max score. "Example to others".

First time it was "too soon" as I only been in the Company for 10 months but of those 10, 5 were a complete crisis where management gave up/burned out and I had to save the dat.

Second time the acting manager convinced his buddy to run for promotion as well so he could pick him but I was made "high potential" without any benefits or raise or projects or training,...

Third time they didn't even post the job internally, when I asked for a reason I was called into the HR manager who said "you stayed at home for 2 weeks in the first covid lockdown which showed lack of commitment". I was working an extra day on overtime for 3 years on that Point. At least 20 days a year.

I told her I would be taking up all my paid overtime and send in my resignation at the end of the day and that I Will also be requesting a formal exit-conversation with the VP (he knew me from my first year when I had to save the ship).

S**t hit the fan real fast after that.

Had a supervisor who was really unprofessional and disrespectful. When I turned in my two weeks I also left a personal note for my manager telling them exactly why I was quitting, and that I refused to work any more shifts with the supervisor during my exit period. First week was fine, but I walked in one day and there was supervisor. Gave them a chance but they quickly pulled some c**p, so I walked out and skipped my remaining shifts. No spectacle, but I’m still proud that I stood up for myself.

I worked for Homegoods as my first job, and i always had to get the carts. I applied at Shop Rite and interviewed for a stocking position. I made it very clear in my interview with the manager i just didn't want to have to get carts anymore and would literally do anything else.

Second day on the job. Cart guy calls out. The same manager who interviewed me asked me to get carts.

I gave him my apron, walked out, and applied at the pizza place next store. They didn't have any carts. It was a fun job.

I had a verbal agreement with my manager that she’d reduce my hours so I could continue working during the school year. She put me on for 40 hours per week on the first school time schedule.

I spoke to her about it and reminded her of her word. She stonewalled and denied everything. I apologized and walked out of her office.

I graduated and got a good job writing software. 30 years later KMART no longer exists.

F**k you Beth.

Newly in the field in my own, early 20s and no prior experience being up high on ladders.

Believe it was my third day out. Cable install tech. Got to the site and it was a midspan drop - meaning along the wire on the pole, midway between poles. And right in the way we're trees and bushes making it next to impossible for me to get the ladder correctly positioned.

I tried for a good while and then called dispatch. They complained about my complaint, and basically told me to suck it up and figure it out.

So I tried again, getting the ladder hooked but nearly vertical. I got the best angle I could on it and climbed up a couple of rungs but the ladder tipped back. A few more repositions later and now I have the ladder against a tree but there's limbs and bushes poking thru the rungs. I start to climb and maybe 4 or 5 rungs up the whole ladder shifts sideways and I nearly went tumbling.

Called dispatch and they more or less told me I was to stay there until I had the job done. So instead I packed everything up, told the customer I couldn't help them, and went back to the warehouse, dropped all the equipment and cable boxes and such that I had, and left. Didn't even say a word to anyone there.

The first time I was accused of stealing from a small family owned restaurant I worked at. I was under so much stress, I was only 15, my mom had just passed away, I had just gotten home from working a shift that broke child labor laws, and then I get a call from my boss (the manager) saying my register was short about $100. She said she was checking the camera and would call the police. I said go ahead. Ten minutes pass. She’s blowing up my phone apologizing and begging me to come back the next day. The cameras showed the owners wife coming in and taking money directly out of the register before I even came in for the day.

I was a floor nurse at the time. My Boss promised me that if I worked thanksgiving eve and thanksgiving day, Halloween eve and hallween day, and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day that I could have New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day off (my favorite holiday).

I agreed and did it (the halloweens and the thanksgivings dates). Out of nowhere, She revoked that promise like the first week of December saying we all needed to “be part of a team” and that she couldn’t honor that promise and that I was expected to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. I didn’t quit on the spot, but I gave a week’s notice 2 days later that I’m leaving.

I didn’t cover Christmas/Christmas eve and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day!!!!!

her f*****g face was priceless!!! She was like I cannot believe you’re doing this to me at a busy time like this!!!

Last thing I heard about her is that a lot of the nurses ended up leaving and she is no longer a manager, she is a simple floor nurse herself now!! :) she was fuxking crazy, she wouldn’t even allow us to drink coffee! She took away our coffee maker saying it’s unhygienic to have this in a hospital! Not even the nurses lounge! F*****g crazy!

I was working for a major video game company back in 2003.

We were in crunch time, working from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. 6 days a week. Right before lunch, our supervisor walks in and says

"Good news everyone, we get to come in on Sundays now, but it's only a half day!"

The moment he was done with his speech, I walked over to his desk and told him I was quitting immediately.

He warned me that I would never work in the game industry again. I didn't give a proper 2 weeks, I told him that was fine and finished my day.

I ended up working in the industry for another 3 years until I freaked out and quit for good!

Never again.

Oh! Maybe my favorite ever story to tell, though it's not very dramatic.

I used to get mini-panic attacks on Thursdays in sort of a "I can't believe this is what I'm doing with my life!" kind of way. And I'd chill out by going to the vending machine or getting a drink of water and remembering the next day was the last of the week.

Then one day I started feeling this way hard on a Wednesday. I started adding up all my assets in my head and figuring out how long I could go without a job. I cleaned my workstation, packed up my things, went to the office and said to the supervisor, "I think I have to quit." The night office lady cried and hugged me. I was on third shift and quit in the middle around 2am or so. I'd been there eight and a half years. The de facto human resources woman, who knew I had been unhappy for a while, put a few extra vacation days on my last paycheck.

Dumba**es were exploding acetylene gas for yucks and the owner of the company thought it was cool. I quit on the spot.

Addendum: the owner of the company was given it by his dad on his eighteenth birthday, and his dad took the company back after a few months.

I've done it twice:


First time, district manager at Applebees decided that my request off for a school competition that I had put in months earlier and had been approved already was just not gonna work anymore, and changed the schedule without telling me. I didn't come in because I didn't know. Then, like 2 months later, my mom called in for me because I was projectile puking from flu or food poisoning and he yelled at her. As soon as I could walk without barfing, I took my uniform in, handed it to him, and left.


Second time, I was working at a daycare while looking for work as a teacher. The daycare charged by the hour, so they only got money if they kids were there. They wouldn't call parents if the kids were sick or had fevers. One day, I was left in a room by myself with NINE infants. No break. Not only is that ILLEGAL, it is super dangerous. I called her after relief showed up and quit.

I already had another job lined up. So when I got push back from my district manager about my almost 3 week notice I just handed over my store keys and left.