re: Quitting your job stories

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I walked away from my job totally out of the blue on Feb 28, 2020. I walked in at 8, told them I quit and packed my shite. I was out by 8:15.

I wasn't getting a covid clot shot or wearing a mask. And the 2 guys I was training were knuckleheads that thought they knew what they were doing, so I said frick it you do it then. They didn't last 3 months after i quit.

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Covid lockdowns didn’t hit till March or April of 2020. Definitely no vaccine for another year after that.

Must have meant 2021 or 2022

Put in my two weeks, walked out same day, paid for two weeks before I started my next job.

I got a job as an entry level programmer out of college. The pay was a good bit under the average of starting pay for that position but they assured me in the interviews that it was temporary for the first 6 months. I figured this was a good opportunity to get my feet wet with the promise that my pay would reflect the market after the evaluation period.

As time went by, I started to see red flags from my boss. A lot of backtracking about items we discussed. The biggest being told that if I could figure out a solution for a year long problem, then my evaluation period would end. I worked my arse off and resolved the issue. After a couple of weeks of my boss not bringing up the end of the evaluation period, I brought it up myself. He said, they couldn’t end it early. I was highly upset but figured I only had a couple more months to go.

Fast forward to the end of my eval period, I had a meeting with my boss and the VP of the company. They blow a bunch of smoke up my arse then hand me the new salary sheet. The salary was still way below the starting range. I mentioned the promises made and discussed the salary range for my position. They both said they couldn’t do it right now but promised that they would be able to do even better than the market in the near future. (this was a highly successful company so money shouldn’t have been an issue.) I laughed, stood up and walked to the doorI turned back around and said, “this meeting is over, right?”

After that, I immediately went to my desk and started applying for jobs. I wasn’t even trying to hide it. Found one pretty quick that ended up being a great opportunity.

I'm gonna come back to this. Only had 2 jobs my whole adult life. Gotta think how to give it justice. I'll be right back

Had a blow up with a close co worker/friend of sorts. Water under the bridge now but knew it'd never be the same again.

Had a micromanager for a boss. After numerous conversations I just had enough and resigned same day. No 2 week notice

Current employer asked why I left, told them the situation, didn’t care I didn’t give a 2 weeks notice.

Recently had a coworker just walk out on a Monday. He sat down and worked from about 8AM to 9AM. Not sure what exactly happened, but he texted our boss that he quit and just walked out of the building without saying a word or collecting any of his shite. It was awesome. I’ll be quoting the same job as soon as I find another one.

Corporate take over in 2000, working a badly business planned asian startup , and was determined to be the knowledgeable odd man out by the old company staff afraid for their retirements. Best ever early retirement after 30 years, and flew from Tokyo to Houston last trip home with vp operations of new company. Told him to take out paper and pencil for the best debriefing ever, covering everything from labor rates/overhead, to raw material to technology.
24 months later new company announced plans to sell out.

Honestly gave them 2 days notice. Then did nothing for those 2 days. Boss was a moron.

I did tie up all my work because I knew one of my coworkers would have to pick it up.