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have you ever quit a job

Sirfetch’d

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    Saturday is my last day at my current job. I decided to quit for a variety of reasons but actually doing so was pretty difficult. I hate approaching my boss normally but approaching her to give my 2 weeks was so anxiety inducing. But if felt so good afterwards. Have you ever quit a job? How did you do it
     
    To be completely honest, I've only ever voluntarily left...three jobs that I've had in the past. The rest were neither resignations or firings in particular (except one), moreso the fact that because I was a seasonal worker, I wasn't particularly needed anymore after that season was over and this was true for at least two of my jobs.

    Job #1: I was working at a call center and I decided to leave because it was nearing finals and I had not studied AT ALL. With my grades on the line, I had to make a tough decision. Either I keep my job and fail all of my classes, or quit my job and have enough time to catch up on all of my classwork that I need to do and do well on my classes for the semester. The job that I had was awesome and it felt terrible leaving, but I had to make the decision that was best for me at the end of the day. I refused to re-take all of those classes because that particular semester was just super rough so I decided to just be done with the job. To this day, I feel really sad about it because I miss so many great people that I've gotten to know there.

    My manager knew ahead of time that I was going to resign though because I already sent her a letter of resignation (through email) like... a month before I actually did. I think expressing my concerns through my supervisors definitely helped get all of the stress off my shoulders and they all agreed resigning really is what was best for me.

    Job #2: Was working "part-time" (with full-time hours) at a Mexican restaurant. I'm not going to get into the exact details here, but some dumb shit happened that caused my manager at the time to present me with a choice: I'd either have to resigned, or potentially be fired. Obviously I chose the former. I didn't like this job that much anyway except for the people so it was whatever, it wasn't a big deal to me because no one was around when I needed them and most of the time I was just by myself dealing with bullshit.

    I also used to work for another theme park that I left simply because it was a sales job and I hate sales with every fiber of my being. The only reason I even applied for it was because it was photography-related and I thought I'd be doing more photos than doing sales pitches and whatnot but no, it's wasn't that way at all. I've just had enough because trying to meet sales goals for the sake of keeping my job was anxiety inducing for me and I couldn't take it. I had an honest conversation with not just my manager but her boss as well about it because it was frustrating for me to put so much effort into an area that I wasn't comfortable in.

    So yeah, each and every single time I've ever made the decision to quit, it wasn't particularly easy at all but it was something that had to be done. I don't foresee myself quitting my current job (yet), but the thought sometimes is tempting because every time I work there's always high-school level drama happening and everything seems rather disorganized to the point where actual, good hard-working people are quitting because it's frustrating them. Because they can't take it anymore, and as a result of being shortstaffed, we're getting more work to do, and I can't be assed with that. So I'm leaving my position, but not the company as a whole because I'm being transferred to a different position entirely. And holy crap I really hope it happens soon mainly to get away from the ridiculousness of it all.
     
    i'm fucking quitting target this week. i got a new job that doesn't start until january, but i'm already good to dip out of target. my store is such bullshit and doesn't have a proper leader in place for the electronics department and our staff there is a revolving door. i started in august and there's already a completely different group in there now than there was then -- well, what remains of it, anyway. a bunch of us have just been dipping out one by one. it fucking sucks, but good riddance. for what it's worth, quitting target was an easy decision. it's bullshit there and i would have left on black friday (because they scheduled me and ONLY me to open on black fucking friday), but my bank account didn't agree. couple of pay checks later, i've got things covered until the new job kicks in so that i can leave and enjoy my holiday. easy decision.

    before this, i have only left jobs because of newer jobs with better opportunity or because i moved. this is the first time i've really hard quit, considering my new job isn't starting immediately. i could have stayed longer, but. fuck that.
     
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    yeah i had the worst anxiety about quitting my job as a bartender/waiter at this restaurant i worked at for a year, but felt great afterward.

    I felt the same way when I quit my current job, but even worse when I quit my newer job to go back to my old job. I like my current job right now and I don't see myself leaving this company.
     
    Sydian said:
    i'm fucking quitting target this week. i got a new job that doesn't start until january, but i'm already good to dip out of target. my store is such bullshit and doesn't have a proper leader in place for the electronics department and our staff there is a revolving door. i started in august and there's already a completely different group in there now than there was then -- well, what remains of it, anyway. a bunch of us have just been dipping out one by one. it fucking sucks, but good riddance. for what it's worth, quitting target was an easy decision. it's bullshit there and i would have left on black friday (because they scheduled me and ONLY me to open on black fucking friday), but my bank account didn't agree. couple of pay checks later, i've got things covered until the new job kicks in so that i can leave and enjoy my holiday. easy decision.

    before this, i have only left jobs because of newer jobs with better opportunity or because i moved. this is the first time i've really hard quit, considering my new job isn't starting immediately. i could have stayed longer, but. fuck that.
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    I work with a lot of people who worked at Target. All of them quit it without necessarily having a new job lined up immediately. It was all just that bad.
     
    The only time I quit a job is when the site we worked on was kicking the company out, but the Boss had already found a new place, and it was 28 miles away.
    Almost every other worker had cars, and could wake up 30 mins earlier, and make that distance.
    But, alas, I could not, thus handed in my resignation letter.
     
    Oof, hope y'all are ready for this. I've quit 3 jobs, two of which were for extremely wild reasons.

    Spoiler: Job #1
    I worked at a McDonald's one town over when I was in high school. Typically, people already don't think highly of McDonald's or their working conditions, so let me tell you upfront that this McDonald's was bad. Worse than most McDonald's. The town was, for lack of a better term, trashy. The people living there were pretty rude and many of the employees weren't much better. I could on for day about the many horror stories I've had there - the time I burnt myself and got no medical attention, the employee who quit because he didn't want to do the dishes, the customer who called one of our cashiers a bitch, the time I saw a nude woman in the drive-thru, the guy who came in and set a 24-pack of beer on the counter (most of which was already drunken) - but I think my final day there sums up exactly what working there was really like.

    I was working drive-thru order taking. Our drive-thru monitors are stationed between the McCafe machine (btw, never order McCafe, the machines are disgusting) and the handout window. Our general manager was in that day, and she was... a very intense woman. She was sort of a tornado and was trying to help the newbie in the window work faster. Well, a customer brought back a tea saying it tastes gross, and she took it and discovered it was unsweet tea. When she looked in the sweet tea container, surprise! Unsweet tea in the wrong container. She screamed, "Someone get over here and put the correct tea in this container!" and then proceeded to lift the entire container, drop it, and spill the tea everywhere. She then got angry and kicked the container across the floor, nearly taking out me and two other cashiers. At that point, my shift was over, so I changed out, dropped off my uniform, and dipped out.


    Spoiler: Job #2
    My second job was at an on-campus Chipotle knockoff. I worked there for about a year, and while it started out phenomenally, it ended up being a total nightmare a year into it. Originally, the general manager who worked there was pretty flexible and let us get away with a lot of stuff, which meant that we were able to get out of shifts if we had prior obligations. As a theatre major, this was important to me as shifts would get scheduled over-top rehearsals and I was able to get out of the shifts.

    Well, when I returned my sophomore year, he had retired and handed over control of the restaurant to his assistant manager. I wish I could say that everything was peachy, but since it's in this thread, it is most definitely not peachy. He was a lot stricter than the previous GM, so a lot of us became quickly dissatisfied with many of the changes he made. The thing that got me above all was his inability to schedule me properly. For each show I was in, we were give a rehearsal calendar. I would always give him this rehearsal calendar so he could know when not to schedule me. Many times, he would schedule me for times during my rehearsal, which he would then have to get covered.

    Well, one time I didn't get the rehearsal calendar to him before he scheduled me for a shift. Sure enough, the shifts came out and I was scheduled right in the middle of the rehearsal. He refused to let me out of it unless I got it covered (and I wasn't able to because it was such short notice), and I had to argue with him and the regional manager of the restaurant chain. They were so stubborn about letting me out of the shift that the head of my department had to call them and work out a compromise. That was definitely the end of my patience with that restaurant, and I quit a few weeks later after getting a job at the front desk.

    That wasn't even the worst thing that happened there. Prior to heading out for the summer following my freshman year, I had a situation with a girl who was allergic to peanuts. She warned me ahead of time that she had an allergy and I thought I made sure when making her order not to use our Thai Peanut sauce. I was wrong - when she asked for Teriyaki sauce, we were out, so I grabbed a bottle from over the counter. These bottles were unlabeled (used for multiple products), and the Thai Peanut and Teriyaki sauces were very similar shades of brown, so I hadn't noticed that I grabbed the Thai Peanut by mistake.

    She came back in and told me that she might have been having an allergic reaction. I ran through our emergency checklist - asked if she had an Epipen (she did), asked if she needed me to call 911 (she didn't), asked if she had someone to supervise her (she did) - and she just wanted me to remake her order. I did that and then informed the then-assistant-manager of the situation, which is again what we are supposed to do.

    Come to find out, this girl ended up going to the hospital and her mom called and chewed out our GM for several minutes. He and the then-assistant-manager had planned to fire me, but because the GM retired, no one told me I was fired and no one told me this girl went to the hospital. You know how I found out they had planned to fire me? My friend, who had already quit working there, told me he overhead that they were going to fire me. I didn't even get the whole story until I finally asked the new GM why my friend told me they had planned on firing me and why I wasn't informed until right now.

    I was not sad to leave that place.


    Quitting my 3rd job was uneventful. I only left because I lived off campus and the shifts they were asking me to do were both unreasonable and unsustainable.
     
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    I quit dollar tree several years back. There was soooo much drama. I was scheduled ridiculous hours when I worked an hour away. If I pissed off management by not kissing her ass, she would drastically cut my hours, or when I go to clock in she would tell me that I had the day off because of _____ excuse. The straw that finally broke the camels back was she told the district manager that I was sleeping with a co-worker which was 100% untrue. She would try to get males fired because she couldn't deal with them. It was a very toxic place
     
    I quit my job as Bed Master back in August. James Dean style.

    The position was Bed Master. Sounds kinky, like I wear an executioner's cowl and have a compendium of chains and ropes. No such luck. I was just in charge of when people made their beds and hopped inside them. There was no pay - just the steady high of knowing you did a job well.

    They undermined my authority and suddenly my forceful and executive ways were diluted into nothingness. I went on strike, which constitutes as quitting my position.

    Then I was like, 'fuck it! I'm the bloody Bed Master!' so I got a coat hanger and started hitting them whenever they ignored me. Did the trick, actually. So the moral of the story is this: When in doubt, use violence.

    ... I wonder how many people are going to question the genuine nature of this post.
     
    Her said:
    Is it quitting or is it being furiously pushed when you've accidentally broken the coffee machine beyond repair at two separate McDonald's locations? I'm pretty sure Ronald still wants me whacked and buried with the patties
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    You did the customers a favor. Those machines are disgusting.
     
    I quit Walmart with a proper 3 and a half week notice after I couldn't mentally stand the monotony of being a cashier anymore, and being pushed over the edge being fucked over too many times working at the self-checkout which is in reality a two person job.

    Second job working fast food chicken (which isn't fast food by the way when it takes 20 minutes to cook, but customers expect it to in 2) I gave a proper 2 week notice but didn't show up my very last two days because I had been fed up. I still get pissed thinking about the absolute dumbshit customers you get working fast food. Seriously some of the worst people on the planet.

    Third and last job, a desk job, I actually got fired from, the day I went in to put in my two weeks. I had walked in, scared and nervous as hell, to all my stuff packed up in boxes already ready for me to go. One of the best, most uplifting days of my life, honestly. Everyone I tell that to is always like "Wow! How rude!" But I just picked up my boxes and put them in my car like "Thank you for everything, BYE!" Drove away feeling absolutely fantastic.

    Now I just work for my mom on the weekends living back at her place, going to start school again. As much as I love my old hometown (not the one my family lives in, the one I chose) moving back was a good choice.
     
    I have not "quit" a job, boringly enough. I've stopped working them because contract runs out for e.g. tutoring and I end up in a different country, for example, but that's the extent.
     
    yes, several times!

    first job (cashier at a cupcake kiosk at our local mall) i quit i gave two weeks' notice, although i was seriously tempted to just stop going. unfortunately i was too much of a goody two-shoes to do that though haha, despite all the drama going on over trying to figure out where several hundred dollars disappeared to and who was stealing it....apparently there wasn't a working security camera so no one could figure things out. everyone was blaming everyone else and it was absolute madness. some people even blamed me because i was new and the money disappeared right around when i was hired, which is bull since i was working there for months at that point. also didn't help that one of my co-workers would stare and laugh at me since i was struggling with anxiety at the time and that made me behave slightly awkwardly, even though he claimed he wasn't trying to be rude. but he came off really disrespectful and snarky in general, so that was hardly believable..

    second job (receptionist at a mortgage firm) i quit because the owner/my boss was hecka abusive. =( first week on the job he called me into his office and screamed at me since i wasn't able to take down the contact information of someone who was referred to him by a former client for a mortgage quote. it was so hard to understand the person when they called, quality was very fuzzy and it seemed like his phone was on speaker, plus i was overwhelmed with the tons of other calls coming in so i forgot to write down what i could understand. he took his business so seriously that he'd flip out if i even got a potential customer's name wrong, because that made him look bad when he'd call to follow up. he'd have very happy and friendly days and then suddenly come in angry and abusive the next day. not sure how i tolerated it for near six months before taking advantage of the flu i got and making up an excuse that i had lost my voice and was advised not to strain it for at least a few weeks, lol. he had lost several employees beforehand for similar behavior. :< i should have done what some of them did and suddenly stopped showing up one day and have him be out of a receptionist.

    third job i dunno if i really quit but i was a temporary data entry worker at a records management factory. my contract through the recruiter ended and they were interested in hiring me full-time to work at the factory afterwards (boss really seemed to like me), but i had to pass since it was too long of a commute and i didn't want to be doing physical labor in frigid or hot conditions. plus it sure as heck wouldn't have been good for my lungs to be breathing the dust in that place all day. :s

    have plans to quit this job sometime in the next few months hopefully, so we'll see how that goes!
     
    The jobs I've had have only ever been abroad so linked to a pre-determined amount of time because of visa reasons. I've "quit" in that contacts have ran out and I decided not to renew. I've never abruptly quit working somewhere or quit before my contracted time ran out.
     
    I previously made a forum about this but I recently quit I job that I had in retail. It was simply because I was working 5 day weeks, while balancing school and social activities. I was concerned that my consistent work schedule would hinder my grades and so I made the decision to resign from my position as a sales associate. I simply explained my situation with my former manager and she was really understanding, although it was evident that she was disappointed with my resignation. I had mixed emotions because I found the job enjoyable, however I am certain that I made the right decision. On my last shift, my manager approached me and gave me a big hug and it was genuinely the sweetest thing. I'm glad that she wasn't bitter or resentful towards me in regard to my sudden departure.

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    Interestingly enough, 3 other girls have quit since I have. To put this into perspective, I resigned only a month ago.
     
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