Ever walked out of a job?

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Has anyone ever done this?

My last place I had days where I felt so close to just putting tools down and leaving.
My current place of work I feel like handing my notice in/not turning up (temp so 1 week notice anyway) as I can't stand it much more.

Part of me thinks the feeling must be amazing to have the balls to actually go through with it.

Other side thinks I'm without a job if I do.
 
i quit once with no-where to go if that what you mean. Worked my time and finished with no job to move on to.
Ended up getting some contracting and then moved into my current role :) worked out really well for me but to be honest it got a bit touch and go money wise at points...
 
You won't be able to work if you don't reply to my messages. :p

I've grabbed all my things and said I'm leaving to the manager but been talked out of it, was only a temp job and people were taking the ****, so I said **** this, I'm leaving.
 
Done this three or four times with various jobs. Only part time "doesn't matter" kind of work though. I just don't see why I should be made to feel crappy or treated like dirt for £6/hr.
 
Tute said:
Done this three or four times with various jobs. Only part time "doesn't matter" kind of work though. I just don't see why I should be made to feel crappy or treated like dirt for £6/hr.
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For me, it doesn't matter how much I'm getting paid. I don't go to work to be treated like a **** and for people to try to get away with stuff.
 
I have walked out of job before now, over worked and underpaid, plus the boss was a *****. But jobs were easier to get back then, I doubt I'd do it nowadays, not without something else lined up.
 
yes when i was working in chicagos in walsall was 3 week's befor christmas and the place was rammed some gimp of a punter decides to toss a pint glass at me my manager just ignores the fact so i tell him to fo and walk off the bar and out the door
 
I walked out of a temp job as I refused to do overtime, at which point the guy went mental and called me all sorts of things I'd get banned for if I posted the words on here.

I went out in a rage. They even had the cheek to speak to the agency to try and turn it round. Wasn't particularly satisfying to be honest, just filled me with anger!
 
the_chicco said:
Yes, when I was younger.

Working on a production line for Delice de France when I was about 13 (cash in hand). I told the manager to **** himself, threw my crate of unbaked croissants on the floor and promptly walked out grabbing a pain au chocolat and eating it whilst walking to the fire exit.
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nice :D

also when i was younger, i was working in a cheese factory (i still don't eat processed cheese ;))
i lasted 2 hrs before walking out,
manager was a ****** and the work was pants
 
depends on whether its a "odd job" or career, be careful look after your reputation leave gracefully. The next place could contact your old work for a reference given the choice of employing someone that leaves in a big cloud or someone else i know who'd employ......................
 
Not walking out but I handed in my resignation before telling them if you can find me something else within 2 weeks I'll stay (company was fine but the job itself was terrible) if not then I'm leaving, I meant it. I then got offered a job in IT support instead. Still work in IT 13 years later.
 
sigma said:
For me, it doesn't matter how much I'm getting paid. I don't go to work to be treated like a **** and for people to try to get away with stuff.
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Well yes, but when the pay is lower then my tolerance level is too. ;)

I did have a manager five or so years ago that used to make you lie to customers to sell products. Then when they came back to complain he'd have you on a disciplinary and deny all knowledge of what he'd said.

One day I got sent to another branch to help and it was amazing. The staff there were so much nicer in general.

Anyhow, the next time I was back working with him, I lost it. Told him how I felt, explained that maybe the reason his wife had left him a month before was because he was a first class ****, and said he could stick his job somewhere unpleasant.

Felt damn good afterwards.
 
Not walked out of a job just like that but I did hand in my notice when I worked at the Co-op 4 years ago over un-paid overtime and under paid wages. Most of the time I did enjoy working there apart from the ***** that was the manager who made all of our lives difficult and messed up the wages.

On my resignation letter I stated everything about being under paid wages, un-paid for lots of overtime and that despite numerous attempts to get it sorted out with the manager and even their head office - all they kept saying was that they would look into it, or towards the final attempts they would ignore me. I stated that I would be taking legal action to which I contacted CAB, but in the end I never got any of the money back that I was owed :mad:

Liam
 
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I walked out of Mcdonalds after just two days when the area manager called me some unmentionable stuff because I asked for a hand doing something.

I knocked the ignorant so and so out first though and told him "do it your ******* self." and chucked the hat and apron onto his prone body.

They had the audacity to phone me a few days later to ask me if I was returning.

I went and joined the marines instead.
 
Kind of yes.
I worked in a well known, well hated PC shop purely to fill the gap between other jobs. We were being pushed to sell anti virus software (Norton) and if needs be, to give the anti virus away as the days sales figures on that product were low.

I was then tasked with selling a laptop to a customer and little did I know that as the shop was quiet, I was being watched. As we got chatting, it turned out the customer and myself had worked at the same place and knew the same people.
Anyway, laptop sold, no extended warranty but threw in the software to raise the days figures (software price deducted from laptop itself).
Next thing I know, I'm pulled to one side and questioned as to why I am giving products away to 'friends'. Regardless of my protests, I was suspended and sent home pending investigation.

Now luckily, as the group in question provide a helpline number to staff who require advice, I did of course call and speak to someone who promised me a call back. That call never came so I posted on here asking for advice.
Fast forward a couple of weeks and I'm called in for my telling off. All charges dropped as such but now for something completely different.

I then, to my disbelief, had the entire OcUK thread pushed in front of me on paper and was asked if I went by the name of Charlie Bravo. I'm an honest person so of course said yes. I was then asked as to why I had bought the company name into disrepute as although I had not mentioned the name itself, I had stated the purple shirt brigade.
Off home I went, suspended again pending investigation.

A week or so later, I'm back. Within minutes of them starting, I announced you can stop there, here is my resignation. I then tore into them, highlighted all the faults of the hearings etc and they just sat there stunned. They had to call HR to ask for advice on what to do :rolleyes:


Anyway, sorry for the long story folks but I would just like to thank whoever it was on here that took it upon themselves to highlight my thread to the management. I had no job to go to but damn did that feel good telling them what they could do with their job! :cool:
 
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