Anyone ever walk out on a job?

No, but I have been really close to being walked out before. Does that count?

 

I did

 

Yeah, my first ever job when I was 16. I was working at Kroger, and just walked out. I hate customer service.

 

in high school i was a bus-boy at outback steakhouse. a couple of the managers were real a-holes. 20 somethings that thought they were hot stuff. w/out going into detail, ill just say they were real jerks.

me and my buddy were bussing a table and one of the managers walks up and says "it doesnt take 2 of yall to do that - someone find something else to do."

me and my friend just looked at each other, smiled and walked out. it was saturday night and they were busy (of course). as were walking to our car we turned around and saw the manager and the gm just standing there looking out the window at us.

 

I was delivering pizza for Pizza Hut when a friend called me and told me that he had 10th row tickets to Iron Maiden for that night and nobody to drive him to the show. I told the boss that I had an emergency and that I had to go pick my father up. He said that if I left, that he would fire me. I decided that I could get a job delivering pizza anywhere, anytime (had just such a job two days later) and went to the show.

 

Do y'all remember my "giftbox delivered by a clown" story? I walked out on that job! The delivery was made a couple of months later.

 

YEp, when i worked at circuit city. bastards fired all the male managers, and hired feminazi terrorists. I had enough of them after a week.

I turned in my 2 week notice, and never looked back, oh, i didnt go into work after turning in my 2 week notice.

 

Everyone should walk out on a job at least once in their career. I've done it 2 or 3 times. It's very envigorating.

I walked out of a headhunter gig. It was one of those gigs where my training consisted of them giving me a phone, a phonebook and a script and said "start calling". I went to lunch one day and just never went back. I don't like cold calling people while they're at work.

I walked out of a rent a car job (not Enterprise) because the manager wanted to promote me to manager 3 days after my first day because she was leaving. Problem was that she left the branch so far in debt that I would have spent months paying for her mistakes...out of my paycheck. I literally just told her I'd "be right back" then walked out, got in my car, and left.

 

April 2000....

I walked out of a job selling car stereos in which I was the top salesman in the largest store of the company.

I brought down around $2400 a month pay plus benefits, and had just completed a sale that was a 10% commission job with a $19,000+ ticket...

Same sort of thing. They knew I had prior commitments that involved me being off certain days and hours, but the owner was too greedy to let me have those outside commitments... he wanted me to be there 45-50 hours per week because I was the best floor salesman he had...I was already selling upwards of 45 grand worth of product and install per month... but greed blinds people.

One day they pushed me about some repair or something that had been done while I was away, I told them I had not been there, they tried to hold me accountable for it -a situation that actually had been inherited by me through a former employee's mistake- couple that with the smut and filth and language that I couldn't stay around and very well stick with my other job (a youth pastor at the time)... and I just handed them my keys when I got back from lunch and left.

They tried to apologize and take it back, even offered me a raise... I said "nope." (Suprisingly, the whole electronics industry took a major nose dive in the last 5 years, and that chain of stores has taken a 50% reduction in number of stores... so I'm better off anyway.)

Very soon I was hired on at a better job in a different field, basically because of standing for my morals and values in the first place.

Sometimes you've just got to realize that the job you have may not be worth the harrassment and abuse you put up with, and leave... Hey, if you are bettering your education and they cannot see the value in having a more educated staff, then "goodbye" is in order... There is always someone willing to hire a person aiming higher in life.

On the other hand, for four months I was sweatin' it really bad on a few bills, but we made it through. I had a six month old son and a wife to take care of, but the "cushion" from selling some big tickets helped... that and we had good credit at the time... around the same time our identity was stolen from egghead.com, so it got rough, but again we made it through.

Fast forward to July 2005...

Now I'm basically my own boss (hence the time on this BBS ), my wife is a liscensed insurance agent and investment banker, and things are better than ever. With God's help we've turned the Titanic around.

I walked out 5 years ago... I cannot see that my family would be in as good a condition (in many ways) had I not.

The moral of the story is... sometimes you just gotta do stuff like that, just know what you're getting into as a result of getting out.... if you get my drift.

 

I walked out on a job back in the late 90's after working there for 5 years. It felt great.

 

Yea, I remember that story and I want to hear it again!

 

I hate to admit this but back in late '99, I was going through a mid-life crisis except I wasn't middle-aged but 26. Anyway, I didn't have a job and I foolishly thought I could handle being a car salesman. I lasted 2 days. The third day was my day off and I called the sales manager that day to tell him I wasn't coming back.

 

Yes I did.

I was 18 and worked at Godfather's Pizza. I worked for the biggest A-Hole there ever was and he always made me do the **** jobs. I told my girlfriend at the time that I was sick of his crap and that I was going to walk out at a most difficult time and leave him to do ALL the work.

I picked "The Big Topper" special. This was 19 years ago, mind you. I waited until there were 20 physical orders (around 40 20" pizzas) collected. He came screaming through the kitchen at me. It was his damn fault he didn't staff us well enough and someone needed to take the phone orders as well.

He said, "When do you plan on making these pizz's?"

I responded, "Never, this is your kitchen now. I quit"

He said, "You can't do this!!!"

To which I responded, "Watch me"

I left.

He later tried to hold my last check from me, until I threatened to sue him. The check then magically appeared. I found out later why he was so nervous with my threat. He was eventually fired for embezzlement. The idiot made up an employee's name and deposited the check into his bank account.

I've always believed in the saying, "Every dog has his day".

 

Let's see...

1994...Walked out just before end of first day delivering pizzas. I hate doing dishes.

Summer of 1997

Get a job as in sales but I didn't know what it was. My first day of training consisted of riding around with some jackass in some pos car w/ no ac going door-to-door selling children's books in Lake Jackson. I didn't come back for a second day.

2 weeks later I get a job selling speakers. What I didn't know what that it was out of the back of a van. We drove around all day telling the story of how we did this club installation and we had some speakers left over. My job was to sit quietly with a big smile on my face as if I was suprised. We found a sale at a Randalls in Pearland. As the guy I was with made the sale, I went inside the store to make a phone call. I get back outside and the dick was gone. This is slightly before cell phones were regular. I am from The Woodlands and have no way of getting home and have $3 to my name. No one answers at the warehouse. 6 hours later, a friend makes it down there to pick me up. I did show up the next day. I was only there long enough to pick up my truck and put a brick through the guys window.

I have also walked out from the bakery in the Huntsville WalMart and from Randalls, Krogers and Little Ceasears in the Woodlands.

I had some issues with authority. I have been at my current job 5 years as of today so I think I've worked that out.

 

Aww c'mon. For real?

 

Why not? It's the offseason. Nothin' else to talk about. (And I don't think I heard this story)




BTW - I walked out of one job. I was working my butt off in overtime - sometimes till 10 pm at night. One morning, I came in at 8:15 instead of 8 (I had worked till 10:30 the night before). My boss's dad (the big boss) came in later and held up a sheet of paper, exclaiming, "See this?!? This is an ad for your job. We're sending this out to find someone else to do your job who can be here at 8 am!" I screamed at him, "I work till 10 at night and you question my dedication to getting the job done?!?!?" Stormed out. Called back later, after cooling down to give them 2 weeks notice. They told me not to bother.
I don't regret it at all.

 

I don't think that counts as "walking out"

 

I walked outta PappaMias because my shirt didnt have a dry cleaner tag on it when I showed up to work. My boss said I was going to have wash dishes for a day as punishment. I flipped him the bird and walked out.