Yeah, it fucking rules.

Not at first but after a while I started to notice which places weren’t going to give the bare minimum in respect for human beings.

They know it too, places like that tend to be more surprised if you give two week’s notice

yeah one time my coworker said some real rude shit to me at a company happy hour and i just walked out and never said anything to anyone from that job again

Nah, I don’t even make it that far. Typically I just get “terminated with cause” the first time I get sick or need a disability accomodation.

Got tired of being micromanaged by my boss, so after a weekend of partying, I walked into my job 30 minutes early, shook hands with everyone that I liked, grabbed my box, and rolled out as my boss was arriving, 15 minutes late.

I had a mental breakdown at my last job and I just kinda stopped coming in.

Yeah. I was doing onboarding training for a phone service thing for collecting student debt, during the last break of the day I got in my car and drove home and never called them back, lmao.

Twice:

I was in one for about 5 days and there was a single morning bus that went to the work site and back in the evening. Just two trips. The first bus I rode to get to the work bus was late, so I missed it. And had to walk 45 minutes to get to work that day, explaining that it wasn’t my fault. Then it happened again.

This was on top of it being a very high stress high turnover kind of job I didn’t feel qualified to be doing and wondered why they hired me in the first place.

So I called them and said I was quitting. I had an HR interview who said they’ve never had anybody quit this fast and were basically asking me a million questions to make sure I hadn’t been harassed, or that something serious didn’t occur because they didn’t understand. I was also black listed from working at that company for like 10 years and they expected a reaction from that, but I just gave them an “OK” lol.

The second one was to be a nursing assistant. I couldn’t handle the abuse from the folks stuck in the nursing home, who admittedly lived kind of miserable lives being confined to their beds against their will while losing their memories. Quit about 2 weeks into the training because I broke down crying in the bathroom and said I couldn’t do it. The trainer was very kind and understanding and said I was just too sensitive for the position, but not in a mean way. So they wished me well and I figured out healthcare was not for me.

I’ve quit on the spot once when the boss hired a new guy at higher pay than me after turning down my request for a raise earlier in the season. I had worked there for 4 seasons but he decided the inexperienced guy was worth way more than I even asked for

I also left halfway through training for a sales job when they revealed we’d mostly be preying on lonely, elderly people. I was desperate for money but not that desperate, I ended up suffering through a few months of grueling factory night shifts but it was preferable to that scummy sales job

oh hell yeah, I’ve walked out on tons of bullshit jobs when i was younger. some shift manager Burger lord ain’t gonna power trip on my ass, I’m fuckin outta here and on to the next slop joint down the road

I tried to sell supplemental health insurance for a week and couldn’t hang. Felt bad because sales seemed like a super useful skill.

It’s funny the way I fucking hate talking to any intense business bobblehead who’ll sniff their own farts, but I want(ed) to be one because I associate it with getting a bunch of money and having people actually listen to you.

My very first job at 16 was at McDonalds and I quit that one on the spot one day, but it wasn’t like a dramatic walkout or anything. I’d just been working there for about a month, liked my coworkers and didn’t mind being on the fryers. This being high school, I was volunteering a ton as well and had cleared volunteering at a race with my shift lead the week prior at work & she told me she’d take me off the schedule that day. Of course, as it goes, she forgot to and when I saw it the night before, she wasn’t in so I was like “I’ll call tomorrow when I leave school”.

Call as I’m walking out of class and she picks up.

“Hey, just double checking that you know I’m not coming in, like we discussed a week ago? I’m volunteering at the race later today. Saw last night I was still on the schedule…”

Of course she claimed we never had this conversation and that since I was on the schedule, I needed to come in or else I could come & get my last check next week.

“B-but I’m volunteering and I told you…” I said before she repeated herself and I just snapped “Fine I’ll come and get my last check next week. Goodbye.” and hung up.

i was wfh my first (and last) real corporate software job and i just stopped answering the phone. i was having a mental breakdown and i ended up going to the psych ward and they paid me a stipend for like 2 years then i quit and grabbed holiday pay for that period too. fucking suckers

I walked away from a hotel that threw me into the dish pit like 3 days before the nationwide COVID lockdown, so I was furloughed and qualified for unemployment.

More recently I took a trash valet job that falsely advertised an hourly rate by hiding a disclaimer that it was actually nightly. Tbh, I only stuck with it because I saw it as getting paid to workout- but I kinda snapped when I got misted by glass shards, so I just dumped everything in a pile and peeled out.

Quit a job at McDonald’s last year. I was gonna walk out mid shift. Thing is, most of the supervisors up to and including store manager were fine to great. Store manager in particular was a great guy. But! There was a higher up who came in on weekends, when I worked. He was a nasty bullying asshole and every time he was in the building stress went through the roof. Once threatened to sack me because he was in a bad mood. Not reading between the lines, that’s literally what he told me. I heard he was coming in one day, supervisor started his whole “come on guys we have to make everything perfect for Adrian!!!”, and I just fucking couldn’t any more. Bad enough the way he was to me but the way this guy got off on bullying the literal children who made most of his money for him had me thinking things I prefer not to think.