re: Quitting your job stories

Worked for a tech company couple years ago. Things were going south like just about everywhere else but I was in a good spot. A younger guy in our group who was a great worker was informed he was being let go and all his PTO would not be paid out, would just get a 2 weeks pay severance. They could do that bc they are based out of Colorado (Zayo).

They went about his firing terribly and he let me know outside of work. This along with many things really rubbed me the wrong way. Since they laid him and many others off they were “renaming our positions” which essentially meant changing our titles with no significant pay increase but a lot more work.

I let those arse wipes train me for two months and quit on the spot as soon as training was done to start for a company I had already lined a job up with.

frick you Zayo.

I've always given two weeks notice however my last position wasn't really how it was represented so I started looking after about six months.

Went through the hiring process with my current company which took about a month and received an offer with a 30% raise and better benefits.

Dates got kind of jacked up and I ended up only giving a one week notice.

Another time, I was offered a management opportunity in Arkansas but didn't want to move. Vice president of the company was basically like, "What else are you going to do, stay where you're at forever? I can't promise you'll have any more opportunities if you turn this down."

I thought about it a few weeks and quit.

Dude was a douche.

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Employers display little to no loyalty to their employees, so why should I?

When it’s time to depart I generally stick to the 2 day notice protocol.

I quit 2 day, later bitches.

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I got the call from the local last week for my first union job. Told my boss, finished out the day, started my new job the very next day.

They were nice guys, but shitbags as coworkers. Unsafe environment, they just didn't give a shite. Do your fricking job, frick your safety, that type of shite.

Hopefully I never have to work outside my trade again, but if I get a long layoff and have to pick up a random job I won't give a 2 week notice again. No point.

Not me but a coworker.

We had a brand new Marketing guy. His first day on the job. He is at his desk and I am in the Sales Bullpen bullshitting with a bunch of the inside guys. I don't work at HQ so I always catch up with these dudes when I am in town. Our boss went on a tear a couple of years back and hired a bunch of 75th Ranger Regiment guys. Nice dudes, funny as hell but not a very PC group. We are all talking and they are telling jokes and being young Rangers. This new Marketing kid could apparently hear us all.

He just stands up from his desk, grabs his bag and walks out. Company never heard from this kid again. Four hours on the job and gone. He moved from CA to take this job.... in GA.

When I quit my job as sales manager for a B2B manufacturing company to start my company, I worked remotely from an office in my home, which was 3 hours from the plant. I called my President and told him I had a conference room rented near me for the next day and he needed to meet me there at lunchtime. He and our HR manager showed up and I handed them the keys to the company car that was parked outside and everything else that belonged to the company. They asked me why I was quitting and I didn’t say shite. I just thanked them for my time there and walked out.

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They asked me why I was quitting and I didn’t say shite

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Why didn't you tell them?

Congrats on the enormity of your success.

Seems a little chicken shite to not speak your mind in a very speak your mind setting.

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Because while they were making the 3-hour drive back, I was emailing and calling the customers that I intended to poach. Sounds shitty, but that company was an unmitigated disaster that went out of business pretty soon after I left. The companies I took with me were mostly small and medium-sized companies

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Congrats Michael Scott

Unbearable boss in my first job out of college. He would knock off every Friday at 2PM to go and play golf would call the office every Friday at 5PM to make sure I didn’t leave early would give me tasks at 4:45 that he could have given me at 1:00 was just a total jerk who made me do all the work that he took credit for. Found another job and resigned and he didn’t show up for work the first 3 days of my notice. Shows up the 4th day acting like he was happy for me etc.
He gave me a task to do at 4:45 that I could have done at 1:00 and I just flat told him I’m leaving at 5:00 I have somewhere I have to be and it will have to wait until the next morning. He totally lost it was yelling and screaming like a maniac etc. told him it wasn’t my problem anymore. Went home thought about it and said screw it im not going to work out my notice for this moron. Went into office next day at like 10 AM in my jeans and a tee shirt turned in my phone, badge, and laptop and told him I’m not going to work out the notice due to his behavior the previous day. When I was walking out of his office and down the hall to leave he was screaming for me to come back or he would not give me a reference in future etc.

Coworker told me he went through a total meltdown after I left because he actually had to do work now and couldn’t leave early everyday. Normally I would never do anything like that but just got sick of his bullshite.

I gave the firm my offer letter from another company on a Monday

That offer letter requested that I start 2 weeks from the date that I gave the letter to my current company.

The following Tuesday, I inform my boss and HR that I am leaving since I never received a counter offer. Within two hours, I have a formal counteroffer.

I tell the company that I will sleep on it overnight and let them know.

On Wednesday, I inform them that I'm taking the offer and leaving the current company. They ask me when I'm leaving, and I refer them back to the offer letter I had provided a week and a half before.

They were not prepared for me to be gone in 2 days.