I'm quitting my job today!

[REDVAN]

One time I quit a job after 3 days and it was a small family run business. I really hated the job and couldn't see myself doing it any longer than the 3 or 4 days I had been there.

Needless to say, the owner/boss was not happy. He tried playing the guilt trip about how he made a commitment to me and I should make one to him, and that this is really disrespectful and etc, then he started to make comments about how I wasn't raised properly and what not. When I quit it was the 4th day of the first week and I would have finished the week and even worked one more if they wanted help in the meantime to hire someone else. BUT as soon as he started saying things like I wasn't raised right and I was scum and so on I said "I would like my 3 days worth of pay to be mailed to my home."

I did, however, quit face-to-face and not via letter or over the phone. Looking back on it, that took some balls.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

One time I quit a job after 3 days and it was a small family run business. I really hated the job and couldn't see myself doing it any longer than the 3 or 4 days I had been there.

Needless to say, the owner/boss was not happy. He tried playing the guilt trip about how he made a commitment to me and I should make one to him, and that this is really disrespectful and etc, then he started to make comments about how I wasn't raised properly and what not. When I quit it was the 4th day of the first week and I would have finished the week and even worked one more if they wanted help in the meantime to hire someone else. BUT as soon as he started saying things like I wasn't raised right and I was scum and so on I said "I would like my 3 days worth of pay to be mailed to my home."

I did, however, quit face-to-face and not via letter or over the phone. Looking back on it, that took some balls.

I worked a similar job when I was in college. I worked it 2 and a half days. Half way through the third day I knew there was no way I was going to work at this place and I wasn't going to be happy. I went to the manager and told him how I felt. At first I could tell he was mad, but when I told him not to bother paying me for the training as I thought that I owed him something for hiring me....he was completly fine and thanked me when I left. I really felt that I didn't deserve the pay as the whole time was training and I didn't contribute any kind of productivity to the company.

[Scrambler]

Well geez, that was uneventful and anti-climatical. Accepted two weeks notice, last day is Aug 17, is that ok with you?; thanks for giving your notice; It's been a pleasure; etc.

Definitely not what I expected, but appreciated the response.

Downside is I don't have a good story... oh well guess I could make one up some day.

[Antithesis]

You don't have a good story because you didn't walk in to his office with hookers and blow.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Antithesis

You don't have a good story because you didn't walk in to his office with hookers and blow.

Then again, there are 2 weeks left.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Antithesis

You don't have a good story because you didn't walk in to his office with hookers and blow.

I love how almost every Off Topic thread turns into this!

Also Bobblehead is correct...you have LOTS of time to get us CPers a good story.

[vicphoenix13]

I worked the overnight shift at a well known bigbox store and couldn't wait to say goodbye. For all my hardwork, I got told by my boss that I had to work faster and get more products on the shelf. There were times when my boss overreacted to a situation and jumped to conclusions. One time I was cleaning up cat litter left underneath a display that was being moved and the boss freaked out because people were in the store. He wrongly assumed that I had just left the cat litter there for a couple hours. What really angered me is that I never was appreciated for how committed I was to this crappy job. While other people didn't show up for their shifts, I was always there on time. It was like I was just another number. Finally, I quit by going in there before my shift and submitting a resignation letter. You should have seen the look on my bosses face. It was like, what the heck do I do now without a valuable employee.

[Lucifer]

Just had some guy quit this week without giving notice. Since my supervisor is out with a bad back this week, I'm pretty much running the department. Anyways, I get in Monday morning and see a note for me. Lo and behold it's a really short (short being only like five lines) letter saying that he had quit, and this past Sunday was his last day. He was scheduled for this week, and he said he could work the rest of his shifts, so I had to try and find other people to cover his shifts.

That's better than what I did at my first job. I phoned in saying I had hurt my ankle just so I didn't have to go in to work for the week. While I was home doing nothing, I figured I'd just quit. Didn't give them notice, they phoned me and asked if I was coming back, and I said no. That was followed by a period of going between jobs.

[STeeLy]

Well... I don't really have a good quit story, I don't think its good anyway... nothing dramatic really...

I used to work at a well known coffee and donut place... there are 3 supervisors... School was over and it was the summer, the place that I volunteered with once or twice a week over the past so many years offered me a paid position. Obviously, the organization which offered me the position was better paying so... I decided to quit the coffee shop... It wasn't until I left a note on the office door, told them I'd be done in exactly 2 weeks (I'm a nice guy, so I'd give 2 weeks notice)... so I came in for my next shift, and thats when I learned, the other 2 supervisors had also quit around the same time as me. Within the same week, all 3 supervisors were gone.

The End.

[jammies]

I quit a job once before I even started - they had 3 guys come talk to me for a final interview, then at the end of the interview offer me a job. So I accepted, then on my way out one of the guys says, "Oh, by the way, the big boss disapproves of guys with earrings, so you'll have to take yours out if you work for us."I said something like, "Um, ok, I'll see what I can do about that".

Then I called them the day before I was supposed to start (a couple weeks later) and told them I had just accepted a position with another company; after I had carefully perused the contract I was given and noted that there was the dress-code section included nothing about earrings. When asked why (angrily) I was backing out, I simply said, "You've already asked me to do something not in the contract to satisfy a prejudice of the owner. I'm not interested in working somewhere where the contract limits me, but apparently not you. Thanks for wasting my time."

[Buff]

Oh yes, I forgot about quitting a job before my first shift. I had an interview got hired and came in for orientation. It was only a part time job. The next day I got an interview and was offered a full time job elsewhere. I called the 1st place back to inform them that I had a full time job offer that I was going to accept instead. Unfortunately my mouth didn't say what my brain was thinking and I said "I have a better job so I can't work for you". Not the worst thing to say but not very tactful. I could tell that the person was very upset but he was smart enough to know that hollering at me over the phone wasn't going to do any good.

[Asian Lilliputian]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I'm quitting today too, although I've served my two weeks notice. They're begging me to stay, and the guy who is buying out our company is in the office today and going to offer me a contract to stay on, but I'll have to break it to him that unless I get a huge raise and a much better job (like the one I'm starting with on Tuesday), it AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN!

I am going through the same thing. I feel like a RFA, where the company I am quitting is giving a chance to match the prospective company's offer. One way or another, I am getting a big raise. Of course, I hope I end up on a better team/company than Dustin Penner.