I’ve done both. What’s even better is walking out on a job midway through the shift at 2am, knowing your boss is a sound sleeper and won’t wake up even for emergancy calls.

So for one glorious night in 2009, a Circle K at 2am had the doors wide open, no one around working there, and no one answering the call to come in.

And now that I think of it, I’m not even sure who WOULD call her.

All I know is I came in at 11pm, started my shift, and looked at next weeks schedule. I had no hours listed. I didn’t know if they were firing me, or just forgot. Either way, I just started doing my job as the only person on duty. I waited until the absolute dead of night, and I left.

I didn’t steal anything, but I didn’t lock the doors either. I left. Whatever they lost is on them. They treated me like shit for 2 months, and then post a schedule with my hours blank. Fuck all of that! Especially since I worked Christmas eve/night and New years eve.

So when I saw that schedule blank, I thought I should walk out at that moment. Then I instantly realized all I would be doing is punishing the day girl. She gets off at 11pm, and the boss would have made her stay. So, I waited. I assumed I’d get checked up on. A phone call to explain things, or even make sure I’m still there.

Nope.

The boss really just assumed I’d wait until morning when she came in to get fired.

They tried threatening legal action, saying I was responsible for everything stolen. That held no water, and is the exact reason I didn’t steal anything on my way out. The police told me, when he came to my house that if they had video of me stealing, then I could have been charged with that theft as a primary crime, and then they would have added all following thefts to me. But with no evidence showing I stole anything, they had no case. It felt like the cop was basically lecturing me because now he had complicated paperwork to fill out, and it’d be easier if he could just arrest me.