News

16 people share the moment they decided to angrily walk out of their jobs.

Most people who worked a job they hated have daydreamed about rage quitting and making a scene. Since it takes a special level of hell (or financial safety net) to push most of us to that point, it&#39;s cathartic to read the stories of people who threw caution to the wind while flipping their boss the bird.In a recent Reddit thread, people who rage quit their jobs shared exactly what went down, and it&#39;s truly wild any of these workplaces are still in business.1. Tommy_Furys_Sandwich was practically dared to quit. &quot;I was working at a restaurant that was, to put it bluntly, fucking atrocious. The place was almost always dead apart from the owners friends who would make it their life&rsquo;s mission to be incredibly rude to myself and other staff members. Somehow I stuck it out for 6 months.&quot;  &quot;The final straw came at Christmas when I wanted to travel back home to spend time with my family (as my grandmother was sick at the time), and their response was &lsquo;you have to decide what&rsquo;s more important, your job or your family.&rsquo; I told them that was the dumbest fucking question I&rsquo;ve ever heard and walked out.&quot; 2. tiersin told Red Lobster &quot;boy bye.&quot; &quot;Worked at a Red Lobster for a few years in college. Didn&#39;t really have any complaints, it was what it was. Right after graduating I moved to another town and was able to transfer to one near my new location.&quot;  &quot;Worst experience of my life. Horrible management, and the location was in a relatively upscale part of town, so there were MUCH better alternatives for seafood so the customers were always shitty as well.&quot;  &quot;We were required to be in 15 minutes prior to the start of our shift for a pre-shift meeting and change over and stuff. Thing is, you couldn&#39;t clock in until 5 minutes before your scheduled start time. Like every other shitty company Darden (The owner of Red Lobster, also a VERY shitty company), wanted to run skeleton crews to save money so we were always scrambling.  So often I would come in and I would already have seated tables (plural) waiting for me. The host managers mentality was &quot;well they need to be here 15 minutes early anyway so if they can seat them 15 minutes early. Nothing seemed to ever clarify why this was wrong on many levels.&quot;  &quot;Well one day I came in and already had a seated table. Went over and greeted them immediately (They were upset but understanding) and then went to the bar to ask them to make some drinks (I couldn&#39;t enter them in the system since I couldn&#39;t clock in yet).  While I was waiting for the drinks I was venting to a fellow server about it and mentioned &quot;If they seat me again before I can even clock in I&#39;m done&quot;. Well before I could even finish the sentence they had seated me again.&quot;  &quot;I told the server I was talking to it was nice to have worked with them, made sure to let BOTH tables know they were seated in a section that didn&#39;t even have a server yet because the company didn&#39;t want to pay for a full staff and that they should dine at restaurants that care about them having a good experience, and walked out. No regrets and I&#39;ll never give Darden a dime of my money ever again.&quot; 3. CanIgetkalamari couldn&#39;t physically do their job anymore. &quot;Worked an overnight job. During the holiday season me and the other overnight guys took all the overtime we could get - working 18-20 hour days, working after having 4 hours off, whatever. All legal in the state I&#39;m in, and it&#39;s not critical or cerebral work so no harm - we&#39;re basically just lumps of flesh in a uniform.&quot;   &quot;That was fine for a few months - I bought a bunch of extra crap with it. But I got burned out after about four or five months straight of it and just started turning it down. Then the manager started making it mandatory. I told him no, we drive on our regular job so pushing it when we can&#39;t do it isn&#39;t a good idea. Appealed to his manager and the mandatory overtime went away for awhile.&quot;  &quot;Suddenly one day I come in to the other overnight guys being moved elsewhere and I have to pick up their slack. Why? That shift needs to be covered, so I&#39;ll cover their shift and mine... which will force me to work 4 to 5 hours over to just cover the shift and the work required on said shift.  I texted the manager immediately and told them I can&#39;t do it. He stated it&#39;s mandatory and if I cannot do it, I&#39;ll no longer have the job. He&#39;d do me a &quot;favor&quot; this one time and move the other overnight guys back so I don&#39;t have to stay over. They were legitimately shocked when I didn&#39;t show up the next night, or ever again.&quot; 4. mkay1911 worked inside a death machine. &quot;First, a little backstory: I worked my way through community college at an aluminum diecasting plant, in the tool room. It was the nastiest job in the plant, easily.  As the dies (molds) came off of production, we would have to take them apart, clean them, grease all the pins, polish certain areas prone to buildup, and then store them until next time they are needed. We would also fix whatever broke on the dies during the run, sometimes out of the press, sometimes inside of the press.&quot;  &quot;The press is a giant machine, 90 tons of pressure, that runs an ambient temperature of about 300 degrees considering that the molten aluminum being pushed through it is at about 1100 degrees F, if I remember correctly.  So they lock out this instant-death machine, you climb in, and fix what may be broken, trying to avoid getting burnt (you don&#39;t avoid it) or being squished like a grape if something goes wrong.  Other than the machine shop, it was not climate controlled, and in the summer, could get up to 120 degrees or so inside the building, with fans being the only relief. By the end of my shift, I&#39;d be a greasy sweaty mess, and would have to change clothes just to drive home without ruining my car.&quot;  &quot;I started working there at the start of my second year of college on 2nd shift. I was majoring in Engineering Graphics (drafting) and had hoped that this job could be a foot in the door for when I graduated. I&#39;d go to school during the day, then go to work full time on 2nd, come home, do my homework, catch a few hours sleep, and repeat. I graduated a year later, and had the opportunity to move to first shift, same job.&quot;  &quot;Sure I lost the shift premium, but at least I was home during waking hours with my soon to be wife. In the meantime, I&#39;m ravenously looking for my first job, but everyone tells me the same thing... you don&#39;t have any experience. I worked at that hell hole for another year while I continuously looked for a job in my field. I&#39;d keep my mind sharp by quizzing myself on how I&#39;d draw a part that I might be working on at the time.  During all of this, my first shift manager, A*shat, was going to the same school at night, with the same teachers as me, for the same degree I had already graduated in.&quot;  &quot;One day, Prof, the head of the Engineering Graphics department, brought in a new class for a plant tour of our facility. This would be the same plant tour I did two years prior, and how I learned about the job I currently had. The group finally made it to my department, and I tried to hide from Prof out of shame of still being there. He saw me, came over to me, and said, &quot;What the hell are you still doing here?  You were my best student of your class.&quot; I told him like I said earlier, no one wanted to take a shot on me, everyone said I had no experience. That&#39;s when he shook his head and said: &quot;I lost your number right after you graduated. I knew you worked here with A*shat, so I have been telling him for over a year, for you to contact me, that I had jobs lined out the door.&quot;  A*shat turned red and walked off. I gave Prof my number, thanked him, shook his hand, packed up my tool box and walked out the door. Had a job two weeks later.&quot;  &quot;TL;DR: Worked at a factory doing unskilled labor for a year after I graduate college, couldnt find a job. Meanwhile my supervisor who was attending the same school at night, with the same teacher, was being asked to ask me to contact said teacher for job opportunities in my field. I found out about it from teacher during a plant tour with his new class. Quit on the spot.&quot; 5. Jeremyvts&#39;s boss wanted them to work in a kitchen with a torn ACL. &quot;So this happened 2 weeks ago, I was going out with some friends and I tore my ACL. Told my boss I couldn&rsquo;t come in for a while because of this ( I&rsquo;m a chef so there&rsquo;s no way I can work with a torn ACL) however my boss failed to understand that and said that if I didn&rsquo;t come in the next day I would be let go, I quit on the spot.&quot; 6. bsknash26 lost their mind selling cable over the phone. &quot;Inbound cold transfer sales job, you get utility customers from across the USA randomly transferred to get a &quot;confirmation #&quot; but mostly to upsell for cable services. Hated it, would always get pressured to sign-up caller for Dish Network even though no one ever wanted it.&quot;  &quot;One day my supervisor, sits next to me listens to every call I&#39;m doing questioning why I didn&#39;t sell a 80 year old woman AT&amp;T U-verse triple play when she said I don&#39;t own a computer and I just use an antenna.  He freaks out and says you need to get your shit together now. I give him a blank stare continue to take calls for the rest of the day and ignore everything he&#39;s saying. He is storming around I get 0 sells. I grabbed my phone charger and on lunch never come back.&quot; 7. chickadee35 was expected to guard a pool with a broken arm. &quot;I used to work as a lifeguard. I had injured my shoulder and was in a sling, and they forced me to come into work and threatened to fire me If I didn&rsquo;t. I had to guard a pool being unable to swim because MY ARM WAS IN A SLING. Did the pettiest thing possible, sent in my resignation late at night, the day before my morning shift. Have fun finding a replacement, assholes!&quot; 8. headdna stood their ground. &quot;Worked for a soda plant. For two years I was the best worker there. I know this due to the daily reports. I carried my team and other teams and only had two raises. I would sit on a raise for about 6 months and finally get it but my other quarterly raises would be ignored since &quot;I just got a raise&quot;  &quot;Well after 2 years I went up 50c while other people who didn&#39;t work at all had multiple raises and been there only a few months. They thought raises to shitty workers would mean they would work harder. The hard workers already work hard so who cares.&quot;  &quot;I never got promoted officially. Never got a raise after year one. Worked 60 hours a week and never called off. My production was twice the average guy and never appreciated. Well someone left and a position was up for promotion. I didn&#39;t even apply but they told me in a few weeks I&#39;ll be moved into the new spot. So I busted ass for a few weeks to let them know why I really deserve the position.&quot;  &quot;My last day at the bottom and I&#39;m finally moving up I get prepared for my new spot. I come in the next day and they hired a guy off the street for the new spot and told me they changed their mind. I argued with the top managers, telling them if they dont promote me I will quit. They told me i needed to change my attitude and that&#39;s why they didn&#39;t promote me.&quot; 9. HawaiianShirtsOR quit after being punished for being good at their job. &quot;Inbound call center. My sales stats went up because I reversed the order of two upsell paragraphs. Boss told me to just read the script. I handed in my notice. Not really a rage-quit, but definitely a spontaneous one.&quot; 10. Holly-Trees dealt with ringworm in the workplace. &quot;I worked at an animal shelter. I loved my boss, manager, everyone that worked there were like family to me.. But the board of directors kept fucking with us, cutting our budgets and hiring people without our knowledge.  One day when I was off my boss arranged a walkout to go complain to the county executive about the unfair behavior of the board and the mistreatment of our staff (including EXTREMELY racist remarks towards our manager).&quot;  &quot;All of the animals were taken care of before the walk out, and they were only gone for an hour. We thought things were finally going to get better, but ten days later the BOD came in and fired my boss. Most of the staff quit and walked out with him, I wish I did too.&quot;  &quot;Within the next month the new management let the place go to shit, cats not getting their medications, being given the wrong food, and a massive ringworm outbreak. They had to open a new building just for the cats that needed to be quarantined, and the remaining original staff was thrown into the mess to supervise the new buildings ourselves. It just kept getting worse, spreading around the shelter like a wildfire.&quot;  &quot;New management had no idea how to handle it, and one day a couple of veterinarians came into our building and put down three cats. They actually had to restrain us from the room they were euthanizing in, and after that I sat in the break room and refused to work for the rest of the day, just crying with my other coworkers instead.  I went home that day and never showed back up. I now volunteer with an amazing organization with my old boss and other staff members, still rescuing animals and doing all that we can.&quot; 11. meddlingbarista&#39;s boss was so deeply incompetent they didn&#39;t pay people on time. &quot;Once, I worked at a Barnes and Noble during a summer home from college. I had a job teaching at a summer camp lined up, but had time to kill before it started. Worked full-time for a few weeks in the cafe, with the understanding that when the camp started I would drop down to 1-2 shifts a week for the rest of the season. The camp was a day camp that ran Monday-Thursday.&quot;  &quot;Didn&#39;t get a paycheck for my my first month because the manager never put in my paperwork. Thank goodness the time clock saved my punches and just left them in the system to be processed later. That should have been my sign that this wasn&#39;t a good place to work.&quot;  &quot;Before camp started, I wrote down my new part time availability and handed it to the manager. The week of camp starting, my schedule was the same as before, and I was scheduled during camp. Reminded the manager that I put my availability in his hands week before, and he said &quot;oh, you shouldn&#39;t hand me important documents, I always lose them.&quot;  &quot;I wrote &quot;you&#39;re an idiot, and I quit&quot; on a piece of paper, handed it to him, and said &quot;Don&#39;t lose this.&quot; Another time I gave my two weeks on the spot after doing two full time positions for one salary, and my boss told me she felt like I was only putting 60% effort into both jobs. I reminded her that was 120% and that wasn&#39;t worth 35k A year.&quot; 12. mooroi refused to serve disgusting ham. &quot;Worked in an independent cafe as the lone chef. Hours were good, free reign with the menu was great and the quality of produce that came in was second to none. Unfortunately the owner had misplaced aspirations towards being a chef and instead of hiring help, ran the kitchen himself on my day off.  After repeated conversations about food safety and his apparent lack of care for customers well-being, I came in after my day off to find a single breast of chicken cling-filmed (serran wrapped?) together with ready to eat ham (fucking expensive ham). I told him this wasn&#39;t safe and if he continued to violate food safety, I&#39;d walk. He told me to serve the ham.&quot; 13. AlwaysUseAFake wasn&#39;t allowed to go to a funeral. &quot;I was about 22. Working at a call center for sprint. There was a three week training class before you got out in to the work space. I was in the last week of training and I needed the afternoon off to go to a funeral. I was miles ahead of where people needed to be at that point, it was training for idiots who didn&#39;t know what a cell phone was.&quot;  &quot;I got told I couldn&#39;t have the afternoon off, but if I did go I would have to restart my training on Monday and do it all over again. I walked right out told them to mail me my last check&quot; 14. JerkfaceBob left the salad game. &quot;I&#39;ve posted this before, but here you go, copied and edited for your enjoyment:&quot;  &quot;I had a job in a salad plant (those bags of salad mix a lot of restaurants use.) I was there for two weeks coring lettuce: in front of a conveyor belt, 8 hours a day, pick up a head, slam it, pull the core, put it down, next. You talk to your co-workers or you plot the downfall of Western civilization.  One really sweet lady had been there for 10 years. 10 years on the lettuce line. she got called into the office and was gone for about half an hour. She said &quot;I won&#39;t be here tomorrow. I got promoted!&quot; I asked what she&#39;d be doing. &quot;Cabbage!&quot;  &quot;I wished her well, dropped my shit and walked out. I feel bad about not telling anyone I was quitting, but I was young and, well, 10 years! That was 29 years ago. Had I stayed I might be up to carrots by now. I sometimes wonder how my life might be different had I stayed, and in those moments I celebrate every decision I&#39;ve ever made.&quot; 15. luxayecee was expected to work the day their father died. &quot;I worked as a tour guide at a birthing center for a couple of weeks when I first started grad school. My Dad was terminally ill at the time and I let my manager know that as soon as I was hired as I was anticipating a funeral. He passed away at 2am and I contacted my manager to let them know and to say that I wouldn&rsquo;t be working for the next week or so.&quot;  &quot;She texted me back saying &ldquo;so sorry for your loss, but I really need you to be at work today.&rdquo; I texted her back saying I wouldn&rsquo;t be there and that I was quitting as I didn&rsquo;t want to work for a company that would make someone work on the same day their parent died. No regrets.&quot; 16. definitelynotandrea was done with the harassment. &quot;I worked at a small, family-owned restaurant for over a year. All I did was wash dishes. The owner hated me and always made my shift miserable because her creepy husband loved being around me and talking to me and she accused me of hooking up with him more than once.  My last straw was her calling me a filthy whore in front of not just my coworkers, but also some customers. I was 15.&quot; 

It's cathartic to read stories of people who threw caution to the wind while flipping off their boss.