11.
When I tried to talk to a coworker and the supervisor told me there will be no talking to coworkers. Walked away that easy.
12.
My previous job was at a law firm. This was one of those places that had constant turnover, mass layoffs, and eventually just stopped filling vacant positions. The type of place where management bragged about not paying out vacation and marking people as ineligible for rehire even if they put in a months notice. One day my supervisor ordered me to commit what I believed to be fraud, and told them the only way I’ll do it is if they send me an email saying so (basically I’m not committing fraud without a paper trail of my supervisor ordering it). After that point I had a target on my back.
One day, management has a meeting with me where they pretty much say they know I have a couple years on my contract, but I need to sign an updated one with effectively double my workload, for no extra pay. I refuse, either compensate me for additional duties or [forget it]. They say fine, no additional duties, but you’re being transferred to a worse department. I make it a point of not signing the new contract unless they explicitly state I won’t be responsible for duties of my former position. Well surprise surprise, they renege on that a month it.
I called my new manager out on that, and she says really condescendingly “oh, so you can’t do a single thing that’s not on your contract? Why don’t we talk to MY boss about that and you can tell her what you just told me”
At that point I reached my breaking point, didn’t tell, didn’t cuss her out, but just calmly said “talk to whoever you need to. I’m done here”. Grabbed my jacket and lunch, walked out, and found a better paying job at a much more functional company less than 2 weeks later. Not as fun as some stories, but damn it felt good.
13.
Company asked me to forge documentation so we don’t get in trouble with health and safety. They choose me cause I needed and love the job. When I said no it got worse. Other started bullying me too. I walked out not knowing how will I pay bills next month. on Thursday evening. Even though I am not religious and I haven’t been in church for decades for some reason last thing I thought was “be the stone that breaks the waves” from old testament. I am ok now. Got new job and long term contract. Half of the management got fired 6 months after that.
14.
I woke up and realised that if I had to spend one more day there, I’d probably walk into traffic. The stars aligned because I quit on the spot, found a job opportunity the next day and started my next job the following week.
15.
Well when your boss yells at you and demeans you in front of customers on your 3rd day of working, while having anxiety and not feeling good enough, that’ll do it.
16.
I was working as a janitor at a casino. Someone had clogged a toilet with feces, toilet paper, and a used tampon and my boss radioed me to leave my assigned post to go and clean it up because the person assigned to that bathroom had gone AWOL. (My bosses consistently called on me to do other people’s jobs for them) So I get in there, see the mess, and reluctantly get to work. While plunging the toilet, the automatic flusher engaged. Backsplash. I was covered face to waist with foulness. Some of it got in my mouth. I got angry. I went back to the supply closet to scrub my face and there was the person who was assigned to that bathroom, reeking of liquor. After scrubbing my face I went to the office and reported the derelict and asked if I could clock out early so that I could go home and wash off the filth. By boss looked at me like I was stupid. I bypassed pissed and went full-on insane. The very next morning I turned in my badge and uniforms and left without explanation.
17.
Got food poisoning the night before a shift at a family owned farm/farm stand/plant nursery. The protocol was to call or text the manager who was on duty the next day as early as possible so they had time to find someone to cover. Well what I got back was a tirade from said manager saying that she feels like s**t every day and that it’s no excuse for missing work, even though I was really the only one busting my ass on the daily – there at 4 am to prep for market, staying late to help fix things and care for the animals, etc. The next day I went in to pick up my last paycheck and told the owner that I would not be returning to work because her daughter was way out of line and I refused to be treated like I had been.
Apparently I wasn’t the first person to quit because of this
18.
Boss was arrested. Turns out he burnt down one of his buildings for insurance money and someone died. I had been there for only a couple of weeks, he was the most abusive person I’ve ever worked for by far. I was debating it, so when the police burst in and arrested him, I locked up and left.
19.
A BBQ joint, they moved me to dish shifts alongside a pay increase. Found out from other dishwashers they were starting them off higher than they were now paying me. Ask boss for a raise to this amount, get told no, quit.
20.
Worked at Best Buy years ago. This was my second job, that I worked at for fun and the discount. I only worked weekends because I had a full time job during the week.
Back then, when the next weeks schedule was done a manager would hand it to a person on the team and they’d put it in our little media backroom. Well, I didn’t have my schedule for next week yet and it was Saturday. There were none to be found which was odd. I asked a manager for a copy so I knew when to come in and she refused, “I’m tired of printing out new copies for people.”
Well, I can’t come in if I don’ t know when I’m supposed to be there. So, I just never showed up again. Best part was that I still got the discount for like 6 months.
