Everyone has an experience of working a job that they hated at one point or another in their life, and a lot of people really take pleasure in quitting those hated jobs.
So, below you will find a mixture of images of some of the most amazing ways that people left their jobs as well as some fantastic stories that people had to share on the Ask Reddit thread, "People that quit their job in a hilarious fashion, how did you do it?" Enjoy!
Hopefully the person who left this somewhat terse note will be able to find work at a place that appreciates them a little more. Nicky's email really must have been the straw that broke the camel's back, I'd have loved to have read it!
A former Bed, Bath & Beyond employee also added, "As a former member of Bed Bath and Beyond I assure you this is not a photoshop...the signing system is easy to manipulate. For the record I did not quit this way but now wish I had."
"1992: I was 19 and working at the most pissant radio station imaginable, 'AM Country Gold.' The notoriously cheap, abusive and dishonest owner, a fella named 'Wes,' had just screwed me out of a promised bonus. It was the latest in a long line of dishonest acts and I had had enough [...] So I engaged in a very public shouting match with Wes in the lobby, saying all the things everyone there had always wanted to say. Then I swept the contents of the front desk onto the floor and stormed out [...]
"Instead of leaving, I went around the side of the building to a pay phone and called the radio station request line. In a fake Southern accent, I said, 'Hey y'all, I just told my cheap, no good, lying piece of human garbage boss to go to hell. Play me out with, 'Take this Job and Shove It,' and dedicate it to my former boss, Wes!'
"The disc jockey had no idea what had just happened in the lobby [so] he enthusiastically played my recorded dedication and added, 'This one is for you Wes, choke on it you sack of crap!.'" — LAND0KARDASHIAN
"Worked in a video store when there was such a thing. My co-worker showed up very, very high. He was also about 6'3" and 140 pounds, so he stood out in a crowd to begin with. Anyway, he came in for a 4 hour shift, stood in the middle of our bank of checkout registers...and just ate chips. Like, 6 bags of chips back to back, and he ate them SLOW, and savored the [hell] out of each bite. The whole time he had zero facial expression, think of the dull stare of a chewing dairy cow.
"After about 3 hours he calmly turns to me and says, 'I can't do this anymore'...gently sets down his bag of chips, and walks out the door. We never saw him in the store again." — Leumas_
Something tells me that this person will not actually have to see out those two weeks. I don't know what it is that makes me think that, just call it a hunch. Although, this is a lot more formal than some ways of handing in your notice that I've seen.
"I used to work at a place that rhymes with 'Pizza Hut' and the managers there were real cheapskates. There was this nice old man that would come in every Sunday and order a triple extra cheese pizza and while they charged him for the 3x cheese, they would forbid us from ever actually putting that much cheese on a pizza because apparently cheese in the pizza selling world is akin to gold.
"So instead of 3x extra cheese he would really be getting what the instructions would qualify as barely enough for a regular cheese pizza. On the day my 2 weeks notice ended the old guy just happened to be my last order so I went into the walk-in and grabbed an entire box of cheese, proceeded to dump the entire thing onto his pizza and tossed it into oven. It was stacked so high that it couldn't even fit into it and half of it was scraped off. Anyways, the look on the old guys face when he saw me do this made it all worth it." — [Deleted]
Oh no, how ever will Burger King cope now? Also, where will people in this city go for their watery, tasteless, unpleasant burgers? Will anyone else step up to the plate and start serving the single worst fast foods available?
"Worked as a teen for McDonald's. [We] were understaffed and they usually had me working the deep sink and taking money at the drive thru. [...] There was a snowstorm this particular day and with the amount of dishes to do and the increasing frequency of running over and taking money from the window during the dinner rush my hands were beginning to hurt, then going completely numb. I let the manager know this wasn't working out today and get blown off.
"[So,] I crawl straight [out] of the money window without anyone noticing, at least no one on the staff. I get in my car and drive to the parking lot across the street and watch that dinner rush drive thru line back up out of the lot and down the street." — Seadgs
I quite like that you can still see the first sign that they put up which clearly read, "There is a delay, sorry for the inconvenience." This resignation must have been the most cathartic thing that they have ever experienced.
"There was a UPS strike in the 90s and I was employed by them in high school as a sorter. Blockbuster Video at the time had this mail order deal where you'd get a VHS tape and bags of popcorn. [These] boxes full of microwave popcorn and VHS tapes would slide down the belt and about half of the popcorn bags would explode or break. After about an hour there was popcorn dust all over. I asked my boss for a mask, and he said that they didn't have any. Some of the drivers walked by wearing masks, and I followed them and found a full cabinet full of masks. [But my Boss said,] 'the masks are for drivers, only.'
"[I] went back to the sorting area and just stopped working. I just stood there. The belts were backing up with these boxes of popcorn and they would burst and clouds of powdered popcorn butter would fill the air. I waited about 45 minutes before the belt shut off.
"I walked out through a haze of popcorn dust, with alarms blaring, people running everywhere trying to figure out what was going on." — rikers_evil_twin
"Someone at my previous workplace (a huge grocery store in a large mall) went to the PA system we use to issue [messages] to the whole mall, and said something along the lines of 'dear customers, managers and co-workers. I [expletive] quit', and then proceeded to leave." — Focie
Apparently this is a more common way of quitting than you may think, as another person responded by adding, "Someone did this at the Walmart I worked at. Customer busybodies complained because of the curse word. The manager just asked, 'What do you want me to do? He already quit.'"
One person did point out, "You might as well, since you don't get to work out a notice at banks. You turn in a two week notice, and then they tell you to pack your stuff up and are escorted out. You still get paid for the two weeks, but for security you have to go."
"When I was in high school, I worked for Best Buy as a cashier. I wasn't respected as an employee, and found a better opportunity at another company. So I went to work in my pyjamas (on Black Friday), and my boss looked at me in shock and said 'You need to change...You can't come to work looking like this...' I then told her I was leaving and only came to get my paycheck.
"I wish I can express the look on her face and everyone else that was working that day. It was such a feeling of relief. It also was funny showing up in my pyjamas haha." — TheGreekitaliano
So the person who wrote this sign's boss was meant to be relieving them after their shift ended but didn't turn up for over an hour? Well, I guess that explains why there is a "Help wanted, apply within" sign on the door.
Something tells me that the person who put this sign up will not be calling up this boss and asking them for a reference. Nothing quite like burning every single bridge with your old job when it is time for you to leave!
Wow, what a power play this is! I like that they took massive bites as well. Would you eat around the bite? The person who posted this did say, "I took my first bite over top of theirs to try and acquire just a little bit of their power."
This must have taken them a truly incredible amount of time to accomplish. Their job cannot have been too demanding if they managed to find the time to do all of this... Unless they quit first and then just stuck around doing this.
I wonder what gave them that impression? Although, someone else did suggest that actually, "The toilet’s name is Lena and she’s welcoming you to the next part of the Taco Bell experience," which is a lovely touch if you ask me!
I never thought that I would ever feel sorry for a printer, and yet here we are. Printers are humanity's sworn enemy, one of our only natural predators, and yet I am pitying it. I hope they threw it a good retirement party at least.
